On 4/28/2022 7:29 PM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <t4fbn6$kot$1@dont-email.me>, Arthur Lipscomb
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> On 4/28/2022 12:35 PM, Nyssa wrote:
>>> anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>> On gaming night, I watched:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>> The worst episode yet of DA FLASH
>>>>
>>>> Written by their continuity person and completely out of
>>>> continuity with everything that has gone before
>>>>
>>>> How can they keep going lower?
>>>>
>>>> I?ll throw some Snark at it later
>>>>
>>>> A bunch of sci-fi films on TCM
>>>>
>>>> THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)
>>>> A really nice print and I spotted a couple small things I
>>>> hadn?t noticed in dozens of previous viewings
>>>>
>>>> ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN
>>>> Really nice print a bit too although I?m not sure it
>>>> deserves it
>>>>
>>>> FORBIDDEN PLANET
>>>> Another really nice print
>>>>
>>>> Recorded for later
>>>> THE FLY
>>>> THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN
>>>> THEM!
>>>> THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What? No THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN on that list?
>>>
>>> Nyssa, who saw that movie countless times in her kidlet
>>> days when she happened to live behind a drive-in
>>> theater
>>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think I've ever seen the Incredible Shrinking Man before. I
>> would have recorded it had it aired. I used to watch the Incredible
>> Shrinking Woman all the time when I was a kid. I'm sure I would have
>> paired them had they aired the first one. That might have been enough
>> to convince me to sample the Matt Damon shrinking movie again.
>
>
> In the '60s there was this thing on NYC television, Schaefer Award
> Theater. Schaefer was a brand of beer then sold only in the NYC area.
> Win Elliott, the CBS sportscaster, put on a tux and hosted. SAT was on
> every month or two. It showed good movies that had never been on TV
> before, e.g. Mister Roberts and The Incredible Shrinking Man. I was
> allowed to stay up late for these. I remember being upset that the
> family cat was being blamed for the death of Teeny Guy, and I fretted
> about what might have happened to the cat. (You never see it again.)
> I guess I didn't really give a shit about Teeny Guy.
>
> BTW in the original work the shrinking man is actually from another
> universe, and he drops through ours on his way to the next one. He
> telepathically tells his story to an Earthman on his way to the next
> universe.

Is he already small or does the physics of being in this universe cause
him to shrink?

On 4/29/2022 4:27 AM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <t4g1ue$pus$1@dont-email.me>, Arthur Lipscomb
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> On 4/28/2022 7:29 PM, A Friend wrote:
>
>>> BTW in the original work the shrinking man is actually from another
>>> universe, and he drops through ours on his way to the next one. He
>>> telepathically tells his story to an Earthman on his way to the next
>>> universe.
>>
>>
>> Is he already small or does the physics of being in this universe cause
>> him to shrink?
>
>
> He was already small and had shrunk his way through a very large number
> of universes, one after the other, on his way to ours. The story says
> his journey will never end.

Thanks. If that was (is) the plot of the old movie it would be worth
seeking out.