[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio show all night tonight on KNYO and KAKX!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio show all night tonight on KNYO and KAKX!

Soft deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday night's) MOTA 
show is 6pm or so. Or if that's too soon, send it later or any time 
during the week and I'll read it on the radio next time. That's all I'm 
here for, almost.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am PST on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KNYO.org. The first three hours of the 
show, meaning till midnight, are simulcast on KAKX 89.3fm Mendocino.

Plus you can always go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and hear 
last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night I'll put up the recording of 
tonight's show. You'll finds plenty of other educational amusements 
there to fiddle with

Also, 6pm this Sunday is Movie Night at KNYO. Because of KNYO's license 
to play movies, we're not allowed to use social media or newspaper or 
the transmitter to /name/ the movie, but can use email, so email 
MovieClubAtKNYO at gmail.com and get on the list to always know what movies 
will be coming.

Of the movie, Bob Young wrote: "I was a mailman and did the downtown 
walking route.  Laurel Street was pretty much the same, Laurel Deli and 
KOZT were on the south side of the street, Doug Roycroft had a tiny used 
book store wedged in there.  Across the street was the Green Parrot soda 
shop.  There was a lot of hubub in town about the movie crew, they were 
everywhere.  I was delivering Laurel St. and noticed the movie crew at 
the Green Parrot, but assumed that Lena the owner would want her mail.  
I walked into the Green Parrot which had movie gear in the back of the 
shop and young people in 40's garb in the booths.  I did not see any 
stars.  Richard Benjamin was talking to a cameraman, I walked to the 
counter, Mr. Benjamin turned around and said, "What are you doing 
here?"  I said, "I am delivering the mail," did it and walked out.  A 
good story for my wife after work."

And I can tell you that much of the movie was shot in Mendocino, and 
filming it at one point involved a crane holding a two-dimensional face 
of the full moon, a plastic map of the moon in a wood and metal frame 
full of lights, eight feet across, weighing perhaps a thousand pounds, 
sixty feet in the air over Little Lake street, to be in the sky over the 
shoulders of characters on the balcony (or roof?) of one of those houses 
in the row east of the Art Center. It just happened that, that night, 
Juanita and I had gone to a show at Crown Hall, I think it was a Hit and 
Run Theater show; we were walking hand-in-hand across town, and just as 
we stopped in the crowd in Heider Field near the old white church to 
watch the filming, men shouted, a cable came loose, and the electrical 
moon fell out of the sky and crashed in the street like a car wreck! 
That was only a little before they could just insert a realistic moon, 
or anything, wherever they wanted to in a film, for free. I mean, they 
could have done it with film techniques going back to 1910, but they 
wanted the actors to be acting with a real-looking moon right there in 
the real world in real life, and so that's what they did. They hadn't 
got their shot yet, before the disaster. They had to build another moon.

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org, https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com