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August 10

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance

I reckon we, and IMDb, have the title wrong. The film was Humphrey Takes a Chance. Doug butler (talk) 06:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The American Film Institute and the Library of Congress disagree. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:56, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You sold me. Thanks. Doug butler (talk) 03:49, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why was there so much Canadian football punting in 1986-89?

List of Canadian Football League records (individual)#Punting. Part of the reason must be fewer downs than American football and (since 1986) 18-game seasons in Canada but only 16 in the NFL (17 last year) but why did 3 different guys have the 4 best punting yards seasons of all-time in 1986, 1986, 1988 and 1989 then these yardage levels never happened again? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:47, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Unsourced.) Many sports evolve over time and rules also change. Perhaps the defense came up with a strategy to counter the punting which made the offensive strategy ineffective. 41.23.55.195 (talk) 05:46, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is likely due to some particular strategy employed by said team. Different teams will sometimes employ unique strategies based on their personnel; the Blue Bombers of the 1980s had Bob Cameron on the roster, who holds multiple of those single-season records and was a key figure in several of Winnipeg's Grey Cup winning teams. I suspect that given his exceptional talent at the position, it led to the team punting more than the average team does, and it was a sort of positive feedback loop. As strategies have changed, the punt has become less of a weapon since. --Jayron 32 12:07, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jon Blair's Schindler (1983 and 2019)

I just watched a documentary called Schindler by Jon Blair narrated by Ben Kingsley. IMDB will tell you that Blair did a Schindler documentary in 1983 narrated by Dirk Bogarde. TMDB conflates both and mentions Kingsley as "Self - Narrator (2019) (voice)". After finding this slight mention in Clarín, I suspect that Blair re-released the documentary in 2019 with a new narration and aspect. I found an incomplete digitisation of a VHS of the 1983 version in the Internet Archive. I don't have the patience to watch it again in bad quality to spot any other differences other than subtitles are part of the image.

I intend to add the information of the 2019 release to Kingsley's and Blair's articles, but the Clarín reference is quite weak. Can you find me a more reliable reference for the 2019 release? Thanks. -- Error (talk) 22:28, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blair's site does not mention a 2019 re-release but has a copyright date of 2017. --Error (talk) 22:42, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]