billytea ... it's my understanding that the first "narrative film of any significant length" pre-dates that by around 10 years. Moreover, it was in "colour" no less. The Salvation Army in Australia created a movie about the bible some time in the late 1890s.
More about the Salvos' early film work here. It appears the work in question wsa
Soldiers of the Cross, first airing in 1900. However, it appears to have been more an illustrated lecture than a film; it consisted of a number of separate 90-second films augmented with slides. Still a great achievement.
Didn't Coca Cola trademark the shape of their bottle?
Honestly, green and yellow petrol company = BP to me. I can see why that's a defensible position.
Didn't Coca Cola trademark the shape of their bottle?
I'm pretty sure they did. I remember reading somewhere that the bottle was designed so that it would be recognizable even if it was broken. (It didn't explain why this was a good thing, though. Yeah, I want the kind of soda that come in that broken bottle!)
I can't be the only one who's had scenes from
Coming to America
going through my head through this whole discussion?
[Movie where one of the supporting characters is in constant legal battles with McDonalds - he runs a restaurant called McDonnell's, featuring the Big Mc.]
I want the kind of soda that come in that broken bottle!
That's when you know you should drop to the ground and drink the puddle.
Didn't Coca Cola trademark the shape of their bottle?
Better you should ask, didn't Coca Cola
forget
to renew that trademark and are now fighting to win it back from the person who inadvertantly gained the rights to it? :)
Shawn is so. goddamn. cool.
OK-- now I am just being argumentative, but isn't the primary "myth" or "trope" or what have you that Buffy sprang from NOT the vampire myth, but rather the horror movie cliche that the young pretty girl will get killed by the monster? But turned on its head? A youngish cliche to be sure, but I think the vampires were just sort of convenient.
[...]
What I find rather interesting is that the myth of vampires in the Buffyverse is the same as the real vampires in the Buffyverse. The bumpy face, etc. Until Tabula Rasa, I thought their myth would be more like our (white face, cape, turns into a bat, walk around with fangs).
I'm just wroding Sophia tonight. I know this has nothing to do with the original subject, but I think they're beautiful points.
Pull out! Pull out! You've struck cartilage!
(far side)
Nou, I think you broke me.
[something that's already been addressed but I'm saying my response anyway
because I'm just like that!:]
I guess I have a problem with a foreign company challenging the right of an actual McDonald highlander to use their clan name.
Well, dude, I think that a lot of Americans would have trouble with that too. And I also think it's an issue the Buffistas have
no
control over. Big corporations. We don't run them! And so I'm having a slight amount of trouble seeing how this has anything to do with why our having the name "UnAmericans" is bad.
I mean, I don't really like the title "Bitches", I'll admit right now. But that's my personal, private bias; and I've got no right to go tell the people who have been Bitches for years that they ought to change it because I don't like it, or because some other, new, people might be offended by it. It's just not my place at all.
Didn't Coca Cola trademark the shape of their bottle?
They also trademarked the "Dynamic Ribbon Design". Doesn't anyone else read the small print on drink containers?
I'm sure they trademarked that particular shape. One of the more ridiculous cases I ever came across was the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum trying to trademark the shape of their museum and preventing people from thereby selling pictures of the museum. I mean, it IS distinctive, but not for THAT purpose. They lost, thankfully.
Just a suggestion: I think the point about our undying love for the term "Unamericans" has been well and truly made by now.
