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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1279574" data-attributes="member: 1246">I watched The Yearling (1946) today.&nbsp; I had watched it as a kid, and I kind of got hooked and watched it again. Good movie!&nbsp;&quot;After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their son Jody is 11 years old; he gets along well with his warm and affectionate pa, but his ma is haunted by the death of her other children, so she&#039;s somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe to use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody begs to keep the doe&#039;s fawn as a pet. The parents agree, and the boy and the deer are soon inseparable. The fawn grows quickly, and as a yearling tramples tobacco shoots and eats the newly-sprouted corn. This is too much for ma, and Jody has to face harsh, adult realities.&quot; Written by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/search/title?plot_author=&lt;jhailey&gt;&amp;view=simple&amp;sort=alpha&amp;ref_=tt_stry_pl" target="_blank">&lt;jhailey@hotmail.com&gt;</a>&nbsp;What I thought about was the &quot;social media of that time.....around 1879.&nbsp; The men were gathered in town in some store or someone&#039;s house and they told stories about their adventures that week......hunting stories, jokes,&nbsp; people&#039;s health.&nbsp; Who died, who had a baby etc. &nbsp;It was much more fun to watch than someone texting today. &nbsp;It was shot in Technicolor in the everglades.&nbsp; Cameras back in 1946 were not sleek, portable things.&nbsp; It had to be hard lugging them through the swamps......quite a feat for that time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1279574, member: 1246"] I watched The Yearling (1946) today. I had watched it as a kid, and I kind of got hooked and watched it again. Good movie! "After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer farmers in Florida. Their son Jody is 11 years old; he gets along well with his warm and affectionate pa, but his ma is haunted by the death of her other children, so she's somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe to use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody begs to keep the doe's fawn as a pet. The parents agree, and the boy and the deer are soon inseparable. The fawn grows quickly, and as a yearling tramples tobacco shoots and eats the newly-sprouted corn. This is too much for ma, and Jody has to face harsh, adult realities." [I]Written by [URL='http://www.imdb.com/search/title?plot_author=<jhailey>&view=simple&sort=alpha&ref_=tt_stry_pl']<jhailey@hotmail.com>[/URL][/I] [I][COLOR=#b30000]What I thought about was the "social media of that time.....around 1879. The men were gathered in town in some store or someone's house and they told stories about their adventures that week......hunting stories, jokes, people's health. Who died, who had a baby etc. [/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=#b30000]It was much more fun to watch than someone texting today. [/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=#b30000]It was shot in Technicolor in the everglades. Cameras back in 1946 were not sleek, portable things. It had to be hard lugging them through the swamps......quite a feat for that time.[/COLOR][/I] [/QUOTE]

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