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Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD
An anonymous reader writes "The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is finally finished with the ultimate labor of mythos-love. The Call of Cthulhu is now available on DVD! For those not familiar with the long-awaited project, The Call of Cthulhu is a silent film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's famous literary masterpiece of the same name. It really looks like something that would have been shot in the 1920's silent film era. I, for one, welcome our new multi-tentacled, aquatic, ancient overlord. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn."
I ordered it the other day and got the testimonial of randolph carter as well (based on my favorite lovecraft story). and this is the message I got back.
Thanks for your order; your DVDs will ship the end of the week via US
Airmail. Be forewarned, the quality of The Call of Cthulhu is WAY better
than Randolph Carter. TTORC was shot on VHS tape and suffers from poor sound
and image quality. It's watchable but I wanted to give you fair warning.
Sean
I have no problem with that. But thought I would share.
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isn't Chtulhu a father of Flying Spaghetti Monster?
It had better feature non-euclidean geometry.
Coralized links
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http://www.cthulhulives.org.nyud.net:8090/store/s
http://www.cthulhulives.org.nyud.net:8090/toc.htm
These links do not go over standard port 80 and so may not work behind company firewalls
A silent feature of Cthulhu released on the heels of photographs of a live battling giant squid. Isn't it better to leave dreaming leviathans lie?
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make install -not war
It's been a while since I've seen a silent film. I don't think too many have been made since we've had the technology to have audio in films. Does anybody know of any?
At least this means that the movie can be multilingual with few problems.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
and woken from his slumber as a result. Shit man! A server on fire is one thing, but bringing on the end of the world as we know it ...
DON'T welcome this particular overlord!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I'm really glad to see the correct spelling of "Iä Iä". As a native Swedish speaker I use the "ä" daily as it is a common vowl in Swedish. "Iä" is pronounced quite like an English speaker would pronounce "yeah". I'm not quite sure of how Lovecraft would've pronounced it though.
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
I got all the brushing with Cthulhu I wanted from playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Click here or here.
Sheesh.
Cthulhu (alternate spellings: Tulu, Cthulu, Ktulu and many others) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.
For those of you who have no idea WTF is this, here's the original text:
_ Madness
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu
and one of my favourites, the Mountains of Madness:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of
In general, wikipedia has lots of material on Lovecraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
> Cthulhu (alternate spellings: Tulu, Cthulu, Ktulu and many others)
On Slashdot, there are alternate spellings for every word.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Another great of the field was L. Sprague De Camp
The Elric Saga by M Moorcock remains my all time favourite.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Now that phase one is complete, we can look at "fixing" the administration;
http://www.cthulhuforpresident.com/
I know how John, Paul, Ringo, and George would have said it:
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
With a lust like that, you know it's gonna be baaaad!
Apologies to the Pre Fab Four
"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
- Hello Cthulhu
Circumcision is child abuse.
of Cthulu or the Cthulu mythos?
there's a difference...
Science : Proprietary , Knowledge : Open Source
Lest we forget The Real Ghostbusters? http://archive.ghostbusters.net/episodedetail/rgh/ 28/
From TFA: "Format: NTSC, Region 0, Black & White (special features in color with sound)."
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
The DVD is region 0, which means region-free.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
Readers of Slashdot who also enjoy Lovecraftiana should check out Charles Stross who has written a few 'Lovecraft-meets-Dilbert' stories.
The Atrocity Archives comprises The Atrocity Archive & the sequel novella, The Concrete Jungle wherein the protagonist, Bob Howard, provides IT support for a fictional British Intelligence agency charged with stopping the horrors from the next dimension from encroaching into our universe.
The stories are set in a universe where the running of certain esoteric code on your PDA can inadvertently open portals into the dimensions where the horrors wait.
Not only does Bob have to keep Cthulhu etc. from encroaching into our dimension, he also has to justify his expenses to his pointy-haired manageress. The Concrete Jungle recently won a Hugo award for Best Novella.
A previous story that is available online, A Colder War, has a similar setting but is much more grim. Stross regards it as a 'dry run' for The Atrocity Archives.
Dos it have to be a print copy?
If not, try this: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, completely free (and legal!) in HTML. His works are available in a few other places online too, like here (see the copyright information at the bottom of the page-- most or all of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain), here (complete works, mostly in PDFs-- probably your best source), here (PDFs of several works), and here (a 100-page collection in a few different formats, including PDF and HTML).
Since most of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain, you can find other sources around the internet.
If you do want books, please consider buying from Arkham House, which has done a lot to promote Lovecraft's work, encourage and publish studies of it, and keep the genre alive by publishing the works of other authors. You'll find Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (the leading Lovecraft scholar), and other authors like August Derleth on the authors page. You may notice on the main page that despite Lovecraft's works being available in the public domain, books of his works are three of the top five sellers at Arkham House.
Whether you read Lovecraft in electronic format or in bound books, enjoy!
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
Not sure if they're selling it, but I have the HPLHS cast recording of A SHOGGOTH ON THE ROOF, the brilliant re-writing of A FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, orginally by Bock, Harnick and Stein. The rewrite is by He Who (For Legal Reasons) Must Not Be Named.
... It's not easy having a shapeless, malevolent monster hanging over your head like that, but there it is... A big monster like that, on such a pointy roof, you may how it stays up there? That I can tell you in one word: TENTACLES!"
Henry Armitage, opening the show:
"A Shoggoth on the Roof. Sounds crazy? No, certifiably insane!
Chorus of Old Ones and Townfolk:
"Tentacles, Tentacles! Tentacles, Tentacles!"
My favourite is "To Life, to life, I'll bring them! I'll bring all these bodies to life!" It's hilarious if you're into both FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and Cthulu, which is admittedly a select group...
Where else but on Slashdot would you find an imaginary, ancient, dead language grammar Nazi.
You need a question mark at the end of that sentence.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Bear in mind that the site is still slashdotted, so I'm essentially ordering the DVD sight-unseen, but with the Canadian dollar worth $0.85 of 1 USD, *and* the fact that I'm not supporting the MP** with this purchase, it's worth it already.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Okay, I'm confused.
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When HP Lovecraft wrote his work, IIRC, copyright was for 14 years, with a possible 14 year extension.
He died in 1937, meaning all of his work would have been public domain by 1965. Specifcally, The Reanimator in 1922 would have expired in 1950.
In 1976, the US extended copyright retroactively to the life of the artist plus 50 years. So, Lovecraft's work was then removed from public domain. All of his work would be copyrighted until 1987.
Then, in 1996 - thanks to Sonny Bono - copyright was again retroactively extended to life + 70 years. So Lovecraft's work is now copyrighted until 2007.
Even the supposed official HPL site says, "Please note that Lovecraft's fiction is still considered to be under copyright by Arkham House, and any texts presently available on the web without their consent are in violation of that copyright." ( http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/hwr.h
So, what's up with that?
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
The Reanimator is definitely in the public domain by now; any creative works produced in the United States with a publication date prior to 1923 is considered to be public domain, no matter what. Reanimator just squeaks in at 1922.
Anything published after that is iffy -- but could very well be free, depending on how careful Lovecraft or his estate holders were in renewing their copyrights after the initial period was up. This includes Call of Cthulhu, which was written in 1926, and thus I assume published sometime in the late 1920's.
For much of the 20th-century, initial copyright and renewal was for 28 years, by the way, not 14. Later on the renewal period was extended to a whopping 67 years; this includes anything published after 1922 -- which, as I mentioned above, includes a substantial portion (but by no means all) of Lovecraft's work. This doesn't change the fact that it would have to have been renewed in order for Arkham House to claim ownership.
As for the "death plus 50/70" situation, that was generally only applicable for unpublished works. So if you're digging through some murky basement, and you stumble across a pile of ichor-splattered, hand-scrawled notes of hitherto unknown Lovecraftian ghoulishness, you can publish that in 2007.
Here's a nice site with a handy-dandy chart that can help clear away some of the murk for you.
I've yet to see the film rendition of any horror story which comes even close to imparting the same feelings of dread and chills down the spine as occurs when reading the story in print. I'll probably buy the DVD but can't imagine it will do justice to Lovecraft's masterful descriptions.
Back in my college dorm days one of the guys in the next room asked to borrow the paperback copy of Lovecraft which I was just finishing. Later that night, some time after midnight, there came a blood-curdling scream from his room. It seems the borrower had become totally engrossed in the book and was at his desk long past his normal bedtime. His roommate, awakened by the light, padded barefoot over to see what was keeping him up and happened to touch him on the shoulder.
Well, I don't want anyone logged on to eDonkey or somesuch at work. And believe me, no company policy is enough to stop people from running those things on warehouse terminals having a direct connection to our ERP.
God forbid that the evil hackers work their way back up the finger connection and destroy the entire LAN!
Well, I guess you aren't familiar with this, then.
I don't get it. I'm pretty sure that IT people weren't always this clueless.
Well, you'd never get employed by me, that's for certain.
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