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Gone with the Wind on GO!

Attention movie buffs. Digital channels are scheduling classic movies.

Put this one down to film education for growing minds?

GO! is set to screen the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind.

The four hour film will air at 12pm Sunday June 13 (shame it isn’t on 9HD…)

It’s not the first time the youth-skewed channel has aired silver screen classics.

This Sunday at 1pm it screens the 1959 Hitchcock mystery North by Northwest with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. It has previously aired the 1963 film The Long Ships, and Blake Edwards’ 1965 The Great Race.

So should we expect more golden oldies on GO? Yesterday Nine executive Les Sampson said in part, “GO! is Australia’s most successful multi-channel because it understands and targets programming that appeals to its wide younger audience….”

Who would have thought Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh fit that brief?

GO! is also screening classic films with Westworld (1976) written by Michael Crichton,  to air 1am Sunday June 13th. Starring Yul Brynner it shows robots malfunctioning and creating havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Meanwhile this Sunday 7TWO has The Mouse that Roared (1959), Mysterious Island (1961), and airing soon are Sante Fe (1951), In a Lonely Place (1950) and The Flying Missile (1950).

Corrected.

18 Responses

  1. I don’t really see why this is such an issue considering most of the ‘youth’ aren’t even home on Sunday afternoons anyway. That being said, I know plenty of people who would stay home just so that they could watch classic movies that never get a chance on main channels.

    I have much more of a problem with the way GO! dump Gossip Girl every second week to show repeats of whatever new factuals have just started on 9 even though they get repeated 3 more times that week anyway.

  2. Gone With The Wind was filmed in 4:3, and should be shown as such. Zooming and/or cropping to 16:9 would be a travesty.

    GO! will do the right thing and air it in 4:3 (pillarboxed), the way it should be shown.

    Many older films were shot in 4:3, before Widescreen became the norm. Another one is The Wizard Of Oz, which Nine has shown in 4:3 (pillarboxed), and on the HD channel 90 too! Looked terrific!

    Craig.

  3. Anyone kow if this will it be a 16:9 version or a 4:3 made for TV edit done years ago? These classics will look great if they can be seen on modern digital TV’s in their original wide screen glory.

  4. Finally a man that understands young people have many different tastes, interests and character types and giving us a channel that appeals to a wider young audience as opposed to Channel Ten which just seems very narrow.

  5. Young people are not automatically opposed to older films, it is just poor older films that they dislike. A solid classic like North by Northwest or even Gone With the Wind does have a wider scope due to name recognition and the possibility that a generation will have heard of but not seen these films.

  6. Why bother to even tune in ? when older movies are frequently not even shown in widescreen, and are rarely in their correct aspect ratio (if 2:xx:1 used).

    I have recorded far too movies (i.e. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Spaceballs) lately, only to find pan and scan versions still been shown.

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