Some 1950's film trailers

This post was inspired by Steven Hill's great"Movie Screens Title Page".He has asked that images not be directly linked to, but I would encourage everyone to check the images for the film title pages in this post, and other images on his site.

http://shillpages.com/movies/index2.shtml

Here are trailers for three 1950's Technicolor films.











Be sure to check out the great title page for the 1954 black and white version of "Them".

"Cattus Petasatus" Dr. Seuss goes Latin

I started out writing a post on Pig Latin, which I probably will still do, but this post is about translations of modern children's literature into Latin.

The earliest example that I know of is the 1960 translation of "Winnie the Pooh" into Latin by Alexander Lenard. "The House at Pooh Corner" was translated into Latin in 1980 by Brian Staples. I used to have a recording of excerpts from "Winnie Ille Pooh", but it's long gone. "Winnie Ille Pooh" is a lot of fun even if you don't know Latin (I don't) when you follow along with the English version.

Here's an article in the satirical linguistic journal Specgram that quotes from Winnie Ille Pooh

http://specgram.com/CXLVIII.4/04.buendia.pooh.html


Maybe someone will turn "Winnie The Pooh" into a lipogram. "Winni A Pooh". Ursus would be used for bear, and for a touch of Latin. It might be hard to come up with a name for Eeyore though.

For Dr. Seuss there's the wonderful "Cattus Petasatus".

http://www.amazon.com/Cattus-Petasatus-Cat-Hat-Latin/dp/086516472X#reader

"Green Eggs and Ham"has also been translated into Latin.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989557/posts

And of course there is Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis:

http://www.amazon.com/Harrius-Potter-Philosophi-Lapis-Philosophers/dp/1582348251#reader