===========================

> Learning to model in a new software package, Cinema 4D r10.5, which of

> course means I get to practice on one of my favorite subjects:

===========================



Absolutely superb! (and I'm intrigued by some of the things going on in The

Tunnel!)



How many hours has it taken you to get to this stage?



Good luck with it; I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops!



My best to all,



Mark.

Thanks to Mike Loewen's photos, I now have pretty serviceable SAGE pluggable

units hung from my Power Towers.  :)



Photos section, same album, PowerTowers4.



Enjoy!



--

Lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages . . .

on 2/15/09 6:37 AM, TheTimeTunnel at coderedlion@... wrote:



> Thanks to Mike Loewen's photos, I now have pretty serviceable SAGE pluggable

> units hung from my Power Towers.  :)

>

> Photos section, same album, PowerTowers4.

>

> Enjoy!



For those that want to see more:



This is a 14mb QTVR movie.  Any version of Quicktime should run it (although

Vista has problems as it seems to with a lot of stuff).



You click and drag your mouse around on the image (or use the arrow keys) to

see the towers from different viewpoints



http://files.me.com/anim8rfsk/5azqat.mov



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Lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages . . .

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, TheTimeTunnel wrote:



> Thanks to Mike Loewen's photos, I now have pretty serviceable SAGE pluggable

> units hung from my Power Towers.  :)

>

> Photos section, same album, PowerTowers4.



     Wow, great work!





Mike Loewen 		 mloewen@...

Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/

on 2/15/09 9:18 AM, Mike Loewen at mloewen@... wrote:



> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, TheTimeTunnel wrote:

>

>> Thanks to Mike Loewen's photos, I now have pretty serviceable SAGE pluggable

>> units hung from my Power Towers.  :)

>>

>> Photos section, same album, PowerTowers4.

>

> Wow, great work!



Couldn't have done it without you!



There's all KINDS of weird stuff going on in there, but I think I've got it

all correct.







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Lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages . . .

Posted 7 pics I shot of current progress of my model, all numbered with

today's date in the file name.



Enjoy!



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Lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages . . .

===================

> Posted 7 pics I shot of current progress of my model, all numbered with

> today's date in the file name.

===================



This is wonderful; thanks for sharing these.



Mark.

Brilliant work!  Absolutely FANTASTIC!  Thank you so much for sharing them, and please share more when you have the opportunity.

Might you make one or two available to use as desktop art, perhaps?  I'd love to appreciate all the effort you've gone to.

Jim wrote:
>>> Might you make one or two available to use as desktop art, perhaps? I'd love to appreciate all the effort you've gone to.
coderedlion responded:
>... Sure, do you need a specific resolution? And which view do you prefer?

================

I don't think I need a specific resolution, but my monitor is an odd size: 1440 X 900.  I like the view you have labeled  2-23-09_p1.

Thanks so much for your trouble and effort on my behalf.

Jim wrote:
>>> Might you make one or two available to use as desktop art, perhaps? I'd love to appreciate all the effort you've gone to.
coderedlion responded:
>... Sure, do you need a specific resolution? And which view do you prefer?
Jim responded:
I don't think I need a specific resolution, but my monitor is an odd size:
coderedlion offered:
No problem; see if this works for you:
==========================

That's GREAT!  Love'em!  My desktop now has a wonderful new look!

Thanks again for all your trouble--

======================

> 1187 new screen-captures from this episode have been uploaded to the

group's Photos dept. Enjoy!

======================



Superb, Janet!



You spoil us.



Is there any chance you could do a zip file as you have done with others in the

past?



If not, that's okay.



I'll download them from the site.



Thanks again,



Mark.

Hi, David.



=====================

> I have had mixed feelings about this episode.

> I have enjoyed the recycled Bernard Herrmann score

> from "Garden of Evil", the "War of the Satellites" footage

> of the starship, and the conclusion bringing another

> pair of visitors to the Tic-Toc base.  The concept of

> aliens plundering other worlds for foodstuffs is too

> implausible.

=====================



It's one that I find painful to watch, and it tends to be one that I turn to

when I've been through all my favourites...



There's nothing wrong with the central premise of an alien invasion in the past.

It's almost Eric Von Daniken territory - which I'm not a believer in, by the way

- and the scene where we see the aliens arrive at the farm is visually

interesting and gives you some idea of the potential the idea had.



The idea of a technologically advanced civilization going head-to-head with a

more primitive one is pure WAR OF THE WORLDS, after all.



There are, however, too many ludicrous elements; the stock footage (and the

Apache attack sub-plot) is very badly integrated - worst of all in the scene

where they freeze-frame the cattle running and try to claim they're suspended in

time...



The scene, too, where Tony gets jailed and then cons the deputy into thinking

he's a reporter is thoroughly unconvincing.



That said, our regular cast are as superb as ever. I just wish their talents

could have been better employed.



As I say: nothing wrong with the idea...



Best to all,



Mark.

I'd much rather that the aliens had been scouting the Earth prior to a possible

invasion rather than just looking for some tins of beans being hoarded by an old

cowboy. Other than that I must admit to being rather fond of this episode. It's

certainly head and shoulders above other 'alien' episodes such as Raiders From

Outer Space and Town of Terror. And I love Robert Colbert's turn as Evil Doug

:-)



Janet



PS Mark, I'll be uploading the pics to 4shared in the not too distant future.

Hi, all.



In regard to David and Janet's comments:



===================================

>I love Robert Colbert's turn as Evil Doug :-)

===================================

>The "Evil Doug" was indeed a good take.

===================================



Colbert is very convincing; he's a superb actor.



It's interesting how many TIME TUNNEL stories are built around the relationship

between Tony and Doug - both in terms of their loyalty to each other *AND* the

occasions where circumstances bring them into conflict.



In addition to Doug going bad in VISITORS, he is brainwashed by the Gestapo in

INVASION - and nearly kills and is almost killed by Tony...



Then, Tony loses his memory in DEATH MERCHANT and finds himself an enemy of

Doug's, ending with that big fight on the bridge - and there's another

confrontation of a kind between the look-alikes in TOWN OF TERROR...



Getting back to VISITORS, the sub-plot of the cowardly barman works, I think.



===================================

> Tony himself was willing to sacrifice Doug

> to stop the alien raiders.

===================================



You're right, that is a good moment.



In regard to David and Mary's comments:



===================================

>Actually one of the few things I like about the episode is

>Tony conning the deputy.

===================================

>There was a humor about that.

===================================



I *DO* think its a good scene. It's clever (and credible) of Tony to recognise

the deputy's love of sensational journalism and exploit his desire to be a

celebrity.



I think I found it a bit ludicrous because the sheriff has just arrested Tony as

a potential trouble maker and tells the deputy to watch him carefully - and the

guy falls for the first strategy Tony comes up with! At least the actor playing

the deputy (whose name escapes me at the moment - and it shouldn't because he's

in a couple of episodes) does try to play him as a little gullible.



I have to say the set of the alien spacecraft control room is really nice.



I just feel it's a wasted potential.



The fact the humanoids depend on the gun for everything is a little convenient:

smash the gun and you win.



It would have been better if, say, Tony and Doug had beaten the aliens using the

weapons at hand in the 1880's.



Lastly, Janet:



===================================

>I'd much rather that the aliens had been scouting the Earth prior to >a

possible invasion rather than just looking for some tins of beans >being hoarded

by an old cowboy.

===================================



I agree about the beans -- and the motivation you came up with is a good idea.

That would have been more credible...



===================================

>Other than that I must admit to being rather fond of this episode.

===================================



I remember watching this one as a child but can't recall how I felt about it,

other than (I hate to admit) I was pleased some aliens had shown up...



:-p



===================================

>It's certainly head and shoulders above other 'alien' episodes such as Raiders

From Outer Space and Town of Terror. And

===================================



Well, now, I agree about RAIDERS (awful!) but (as I've said before) I'm quite

fond of TOWN...



I know it's got the most ridiculous aliens ever in the history of aliens but...

there are some good bits in it... honest!



===================================

>PS Mark, I'll be uploading the pics to 4shared in the not too >distant future.

===================================



Fantastic! Thank you. Would it be okay to use them (and some of the others

you've done) as part of the episode guide on my site?



My best to all,



Mark.

I've had to split this into two downloads, which can be found here:



http://www.4shared.com/dir/6122337/d3572fce/THE_TIME_TUNNEL.html



Enjoy!



Janet :-)

Over the last few weeks I’ve uploaded about a billion trillion zillion* Time Tunnel pics to the photo files of our fan-fic sister group (http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/TimeTunnelFanFic if anyone’s interested). However, for the benefit of anyone here that isn’t particularly into fan-fic but would like the pictures anyway, you can now clog up your hard drive by downloading them in one stonking big folder here:
 

 
http://rapidshare.com/files/83036960/Time_Tunnel__extra_.rar.html
 

 
I’m quite happy for people to do what they like with the pics – fill up your Flickr photo albums with them, use them for your Time Tunnel websites, or even upload them to other SF or Irwin Allen groups (although, for obvious reasons, I’d quite like it if they weren’t uploaded to rival groups that have the words ‘Time’ and ‘Tunnel’ in their title, please – it’s a pointless duplication apart from anything else and robs the groups of their individuality).
 

 
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures (I know some of your girls will especially love the pics of hunky Whit Bissell and John ‘The Body’ Zaremba. In some of the pics Whit is holding a telephone so you can pretend he's phoning you and asking you out on a hot date - exciting huh! Yeah, break out the chocolates...mmmmmmmm).
 

 
Enjoy,
 

 
Janet :-)
 

 
* Wellllll, ok, I admit, several hundred is possibly nearer the mark.

Great thanx J.



--- In THETIMETUNNEL@yahoogroups.com, Janet Harrison

<uk_janet2000@...> wrote:

>

> Over the last few weeks I've uploaded about a billion trillion

zillion* Time Tunnel pics to the photo files of our fan-fic sister

group (http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/TimeTunnelFanFic if anyone's

interested). However, for the benefit of anyone here that isn't

particularly into fan-fic but would like the pictures anyway, you can

now clog up your hard drive by downloading them in one stonking big

folder here:

>

>   http://rapidshare.com/files/83036960/Time_Tunnel__extra_.rar.html

>

>   I'm quite happy for people to do what they like with the pics –

fill up your Flickr photo albums with them, use them for your Time

Tunnel websites, or even upload them to other SF or Irwin Allen

groups (although, for obvious reasons, I'd quite like it if they

weren't uploaded to rival groups that have the words `Time'

and `Tunnel' in their title, please – it's a pointless duplication

apart from anything else and robs the groups of their individuality).

>

>   Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures (I know some of your girls

will especially love the pics of hunky Whit Bissell and John `The

Body' Zaremba. In some of the pics Whit is holding a telephone so you

can pretend he's phoning you and asking you out on a hot date -

exciting huh! Yeah, break out the chocolates...mmmmmmmm).

>

>   Enjoy,

>

>   Janet :-)

>

>   * Wellllll, ok, I admit, several hundred is possibly nearer the

mark.

>

>

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