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September 10

How long do video game consoles like the Wii live?

Good day!

I was wondering how long video game consoles like the Wii live. By this I mean how long is the average Wii unit operational before it breaks down? I do recall having read that some cartridge based consoles are very robust and that they tend to work far longer than CD or DVD based systems. My uncle still owns his Atari 2600, which still seems to work flawlessly and my father's NES is also still running, as is my very own N64. However, the GameCube of my brother and the Playstation of my cousin ceased to work a long time ago. I can't give any precise number, but I think that my brother's GameCube lived only for about 10 years in total before the games started to get disc rot and the hardware had issues. Is it known how long a Wii can or will continue to work? I have a Wii and I have wondered how long it may function.

Thank you for your answer and have a blessed day!--85.4.154.29 (talk) 05:43, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

September 12

the case of the carnivorous videotape

Name this short movie made in 197x: An aspiring moviemaker gets a letter inviting him to meet with a producer. He finds no one in the office. He is pursued by a living (stop-motion) heap of two-inch videotape, which eats him and then types another similar letter. —Tamfang (talk) 16:38, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I wonder if you are confusing different things and/or misremembering. There is a 1975 (I think) short film officially called Recorded Live but often referred to as Flesh Eating Film Reels (or Man-Eating Film Reels) which involves [1] someone being pursued by, as you may guess from the unofficial title, film from reels. It seems it was frequently played in HBO in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a 2017 or 2018 spiritual sequel called The Return of Flesh Eating Film Reels which despite the name involves someone being pursued by tape from VHS cassettes [2] [3] [4]. The sequel putting aside the VHS cassettes is clearly set in modern times as it involves a somewhat modern looking laptop and what appears to be an e-mail. I can't find any evidence of a 1970s version that involved video tape. And I'd note that consumer video tape was still in its infancy in the early 1970s and while yes it had been used broadcast and professional recordings for a while, I'm not sure inclusion of video tape would make so much sense in a context like this for a film of that era. Nil Einne (talk) 19:20, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the title! It sure looks like tape from here. (He's not a filmmaker, and it's not a producer's office but ostensibly a TV station.) —Tamfang (talk) 00:50, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

September 14

Earl Morrall

During Earl Morrall’s NFL career, did he suffer any eyesight problems like myopia, astigmatism, or color blindness? Could brain concussions affect eyesight?Rich (talk) 08:57, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

No idea about the first question. For the second one, these links may be of interest [5] [6] [7] [8]. Our article Post-concussion syndrome#Physical also mentions issues that relate to eyesight. Nil Einne (talk) 12:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I've done a cursory google search on "Earl Morrall eyesight" and can find no information on any vision problems he had, either during his playing career or in retirement. His Dolphin's teammate, Bob Griese, had famously bad eyesight and started wearing glasses during play in the late 1970s. --Jayron32 14:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

? About Jimmy Neutron Characters

This question has been haunting my mind for a long time but the mystery is ready to be solved. Does Paul the Island Chimp count as a character in the aforementioned CGI Nickelodeon cartoon or not really because he does not appear anywhere in the series outside of the Deoxyribonucleic Acid Productions end card? Same is said about the eyepatch wearing canvas from SpongeBob not being featured in a single episodes aside from the theme song. I’m just curious.

67.81.161.226 (talk) 18:08, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Symphonic Rock page?

I remember seeing a separate page on "Symphonic Rock" sometimes in 2015 or so, but now it redirects to the page "Progressive Rock"(separate pages still exist for the Symphonic Rock Albums, S.R. Musicians and S.R. Songs, though, so my memory might not be completely off). I don't know how to check if that page did really exist, nor to see what was on it if it did. Any help would be much appreciated, writing a book on the electronics of rock, would like to reference that original page if possible, even if it is not available anymore -- kind of complicated to explain the reasons here Thanks in advance, Vladan Jovanovic

It was merged with the progressive rock page in 2016. You can see the last version of the page before the merge here. But you can't cite that page as a reference. You can only cite the sources quoted in the page. In theory at least, everything in the article (like in any Wikipedia article) should have a source. Wikipedia is not a source itself, it's a collection of previously published information. --Viennese Waltz 20:20, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Understand the point about citing the page, will work around that, but please tell me how was I supposed to find the old page that you linked in your response? Wherever I tried to search for "symphonic rock", it always redirected me to the "progressive rock" and its history

September 15

Five O'Clock World

In your entry on the song Five O'Clock World, you state: "The sound of the other members of the Vogues can be heard repeating the word "hey!"." This is a common mistake. They are actually repeating the word "up!"

This is the reference desk. The place to propose your change is the article talk page.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:40, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Sounds to me more like hep or even hip. —Tamfang (talk) 00:53, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Identify melody?

Can someone help identify the melody played at about the time-point 46:56 of the Radiolab episode Dispatches from 1918? Siri and Shazam fail to do so, perhaps because it is not a standard recording. Thanks. 2601:240:8201:C490:BD1D:E3D0:1FF2:8B84 (talk) 00:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

It's No. 1 of Erik Satie's Trois Gnossiennes. Deor (talk) 17:55, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Deor! I knew I had heard the piece and not being able to recall the what-or-where was incredibly annoying :) 2601:240:8201:C490:1D1:45CD:9921:6D91 (talk) 23:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

movies set in milwaukee, wi

Hello, I just looked under the category of movies set in Milwaukee, WI and movies set in Wisconsin and I didn't see the movie Major League Baseball with Charlie Sheen. I know this movie was set in Milwaukee because they used my uncles loft to film in for one of the scenes and he got a autographed poster from the cast. He lived on Chicago St. In downtown Milwaukee, and owns a large rental of media equipment company called Studio Gear. -- 174.88.168.23

The correct title is Major League.

You are saying that you know it was filmed (or shot) in Milwaukee. This is not the same thing as being set in Milwaukee, which means the action is supposed to be taking place there. In fact the movie was set in Cleveland. If you read the article about the movie, it mentions the difference: "Despite being set in Cleveland, the film was principally shot in Milwaukee because it was cheaper and the producers were unable to work around the schedules of the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Browns." --174.88.168.23 (talk) 08:46, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Just to clarify in case it is confusing, there are two different terms here: where a movie is set and where a movie is filmed. The setting of a movie is the in-universe location for the movie. The filming location for a movie is the physical location where the cameras were located to make the pictures you see on the screen. They do not have to be the same. For example, in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, much of the movie was set on board a space ship travelling to Jupiter. However the movie was filmed in London, England. Similarly, while the movie Major League was filmed in Milwaukee, in terms of the in universe setting, it was set in Cleveland. I hope that distinction makes sense. --Jayron32 15:56, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

• (1) Corrected the title. (2) As a further clarification, when we say "filmed in London", we normally don't include movies filmed in a studio in London, which this one was. We're normally talking about location filming, which means filming in real places (which may or may not be the places where the movie is set), as was done for Major League. --174.88.168.23 (talk) 00:02, 16 September 2020 (UTC), expanded later.

As a follow up to the clarifications posted here please note that the film is in the category Category:Films shot in Wisconsin. There are some cities that get their own category for "Films shot in" but I suspect that there are only a handful of films shot in Milwaukee and that would be a WP:SMALLCAT situation. If I'm wrong about that a new category can always be created. MarnetteD|Talk 16:18, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

September 16

Ann Martin - singer

Is the Ann Martin who sang the Kashmiri Love Song the in the "Mr Rolls and Mr Royce" episode of The Edwardians the same Ann Martin who as Bette Bright sang in Deaf School? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 16:05, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

I can't give a definitive answer, Duncan, but as one who saw Bette Bright and the Illuminations perform live, it seems to me unlikely on stylistic grounds. Also, Bright/Martin's article doesn't give her age, but Deaf School formed in late 1973 from students and staff of the Liverpool Art College – is this consistent with her appearing in a TV series aired in 1972?

On a tangential subject, it seems surprising that we apparently don't have an article on the BBC series in question, although it's mentioned in the articles of several of its actors. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.218.14.16 (talk) 22:51, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

The dilemma with TV series of that era is that there is so little WP:RSourcing to sustain an article. There will be sites like the BBC's and BFIs that note that the series was made. There are also reviews of any DVD release. Sadly, little info is available about a shows production or audience reaction. There are a batch of delights in The Edwardians including seeing a young Anthony Hopkins as LLoyd George. One of my all time favorite series is Flickers which aired in 1980. It is a nice tribute to the early days of film-making and I find the chemistry between Bob Hoskins and Frances de la Tour to be extraordinary. Fortunately, there are DVD sets and streaming services so we can share them with friends. I suppose an enterprising editor could start an article for them here at the 'pedia. It is hard to know if it would ever grow beyond a stub though. MarnetteD|Talk 23:41, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

September 17

What movie?

Sylvie Weil writes[9] about her father, the celebrated mathematician André Weil:

It is precisely André’s reputation of arrogance that makes one childhood memory so delicious: the terrifying, arrogant mathematician André Weil, a raincoat thrown over his pajamas, out in the rain, running around the dimly lit courtyard of a shabby motel somewhere in the American West, knocking at doors, desperately begging for a quarter. In our awful room with the two squeaky beds, my mother, my sister, and I had been watching a movie on the coin-operated television when we ran out of coins. André failed in his quest and we never got to know what happened to the beautiful young heroine who was going deaf.

Any idea what movie that could have been? Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D (talk) 01:11, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Well, Sylvie was born in 1942 her sister Nicolette in 1946 (see André Weil#Life). If Nicolette was old enough to watch a movie, but Sylvie was still a child, this presumably happened between about 1954 and about 1962. I wondered if the date when coin-operated TV became available would help pin it down a bit, but it doesn't. In any case we don't know how old the movie was when it was shown on TV. Presumably it was released sometime in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s, though. Now, an IMDB search for movies with the plot keyword "deafness" and the years 1930 to 1960 inclusive produces 46 titles (40 movies and 6 TV episodes). The 40 movies are:

• The Expert (1932)
• The Man Who Played God (1932)
• The Old Dark House (1932)
• Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
• Dancing Lady (1933)
• The Important Witness (1933)
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
• Alias John Law (1935)
• Man of the Moment (1935)
• Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
• The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1936)
• Stranger Than Fiction, #57 (1938)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
• Man of Conquest (1939)
• No Place to Go (1939)
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
• Alias the Deacon (1940)
• Calling All Husbands (1940)
• Edison, the Man (1940)
• Badlands of Dakota (1941)
• Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
• And Then There Were None (1945)
• Bring on the Girls (1945)
• Monsieur Vincent (1947)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Johnny Belinda (1948)
• Flesh and Fury (1952)
• Paula (1952)
• Crash of Silence (1952)
• Shield for Murder (1954)
• Thursday's Children (1954)
• Galawgaw (1954)
• The Last Mouse of Hamelin (1955)
• Barbara's New Shoes (1955)
• Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
• The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
• For the First Time (1959)
• Blessings of the Land (1959)
• El sordo (1959)
• Elmer Gantry (1960)

I've linked two from that list, where the IMDB plot summaries mention that the deaf character is a young woman. If course, if the character is only going deaf, the movie might not have the keyword "deafness" at all. And that's all I have to say. --174.88.168.23 (talk) 04:06, 17 September 2020 (UTC)