What is an equary?
mm
On the Patti Duke show tonight, her father said that the prince didn't
need to touch money because he had an equary to pay his bills?
The Patti Duke show has got to be the most sophisticated sitcom ever.
They use a lot of big words, and of course big words are the best sign
of sophistication, they go into organizing a corportation, marketing,
and all kinds of commercial, geographical, political, diplomatic
issues. balance of trade, balance of payments, etc. They make
literary references I barely know at my age, let alone when it was
first on in the 60's iirc.
FWIW it's set in Brooklyn Heights and a friend lived next door to the
apartment building shown in the opening shot in the early seasons.
Later they show them in a house, and no house in Brooklyn Heights has
a front yard that big. In fact I don't think any house has a front
yard at all, just an airy-way (spelling?). It's a NY term afaik.
And OT, does anyone know how they showed two of her at the same time?
I'm watching on an 19" tv now, from one foot away, and I can't see
anything. Sometimes they just show the back of the head of a double
for the second one, but other times they show both of them. No line
shows on the screen, and I don't think they had green-screen
electronic technololgy then. Was there a physical or photographic
method of separating one moving image from its background and
superimposing it on another?
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GordonD
news:00vij658og7br1d0a...@4ax.com...
> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
Equerry. It's an officer who supports the Queen or other senior royals in
daily activities - for example paying for things, as you said.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland
"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
>And OT, does anyone know how they showed two of her at the same time?
>I'm watching on an 19" tv now, from one foot away, and I can't see
>anything. Sometimes they just show the back of the head of a double
>for the second one, but other times they show both of them. No line
>shows on the screen, and I don't think they had green-screen
>electronic technololgy then. Was there a physical or photographic
>method of separating one moving image from its background and
>superimposing it on another?
Yes. They could have used rear projection.
They would film the scene with the actress in it, then project that on a
screen and then have the actress performing in front of that and film
it.
This technique was used for all sorts of purposes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_projection_effect
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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)
mm
wrote:
>"mm" <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>news:00vij658og7br1d0a...@4ax.com...
>> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>
>
>Equerry. It's an officer who supports the Queen or other senior royals in
>daily activities - for example paying for things, as you said.
Wow, a new word. Maybe I didn't see that episode 40 years ago.
And in only 4 minutes. Who says Usenet isn't great.
Thanks.
Bill McCray
> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>
> On the Patti Duke show tonight, her father said that the prince didn't
> need to touch money because he had an equary to pay his bills?
>
> The Patti Duke show has got to be the most sophisticated sitcom ever.
>
> They use a lot of big words, and of course big words are the best sign
> of sophistication, they go into organizing a corportation, marketing,
> and all kinds of commercial, geographical, political, diplomatic
> issues. balance of trade, balance of payments, etc. They make
> literary references I barely know at my age, let alone when it was
> first on in the 60's iirc.
>
> FWIW it's set in Brooklyn Heights and a friend lived next door to the
> apartment building shown in the opening shot in the early seasons.
> Later they show them in a house, and no house in Brooklyn Heights has
> a front yard that big. In fact I don't think any house has a front
> yard at all, just an airy-way (spelling?). It's a NY term afaik.
>
> And OT, does anyone know how they showed two of her at the same time?
> I'm watching on an 19" tv now, from one foot away, and I can't see
> anything.
Perhaps you should get your eyes examined.
> Sometimes they just show the back of the head of a double
> for the second one, but other times they show both of them. No line
> shows on the screen, and I don't think they had green-screen
> electronic technololgy then. Was there a physical or photographic
> method of separating one moving image from its background and
> superimposing it on another?
Bill in Kentucky
mm
<billm...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:37:46 -0500, mm wrote:
>
>> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>>
>> On the Patti Duke show tonight, her father said that the prince didn't
>> need to touch money because he had an equary to pay his bills?
>>
>> The Patti Duke show has got to be the most sophisticated sitcom ever.
>>
>> They use a lot of big words, and of course big words are the best sign
>> of sophistication, they go into organizing a corportation, marketing,
>> and all kinds of commercial, geographical, political, diplomatic
>> issues. balance of trade, balance of payments, etc. They make
>> literary references I barely know at my age, let alone when it was
>> first on in the 60's iirc.
>>
>> FWIW it's set in Brooklyn Heights and a friend lived next door to the
>> apartment building shown in the opening shot in the early seasons.
>> Later they show them in a house, and no house in Brooklyn Heights has
>> a front yard that big. In fact I don't think any house has a front
>> yard at all, just an airy-way (spelling?). It's a NY term afaik.
>>
>> And OT, does anyone know how they showed two of her at the same time?
>> I'm watching on an 19" tv now, from one foot away, and I can't see
>> anything.
>
>Perhaps you should get your eyes examined.
I hold my hands on the tv screen so I can tell pretty much what is
happening.
>
>> Sometimes they just show the back of the head of a double
>> for the second one, but other times they show both of them. No line
>> shows on the screen, and I don't think they had green-screen
>> electronic technololgy then. Was there a physical or photographic
>> method of separating one moving image from its background and
>> superimposing it on another?
>
>Bill in Kentucky
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Athel Cornish-Bowden
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:41:43 -0000, "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "mm" <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>> news:00vij658og7br1d0a...@4ax.com...
>>> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>>
>>
>> Equerry. It's an officer who supports the Queen or other senior royals in
>> daily activities - for example paying for things, as you said.
>
> Wow, a new word. Maybe I didn't see that episode 40 years ago.
>
> And in only 4 minutes. Who says Usenet isn't great.
I don't suppose it's a word that comes up very often in Western Pa.,
Indianapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, NY, or Baltimore!
(I knew the word existed, but wouldn't have been able to tell you
exactly what it meant (though I knew it was related with Brenda in some
way) before reading Gordon's explanation).
--
athel
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
The Online Etymology Dictionary:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=equerry&searchmode=none
equerry
1590s, short for groom of the equirrie, from esquiry "stables"
(1550s), from M.Fr. escuerie (Mod.Fr. écurie), perhaps from M.L.
scuria "stable," from O.H.G. scura "barn;" or from O.Fr. escuier
"groom," from V.L. scutarius "shield-bearer." In either case,
spelling influenced by L. equus "horse," which is unrelated.
OED's longer version:
Etymology: < French écurie, earlier escurie (also escuierie, by
erroneous association with escuyer ESQUIRE n.1), medieval Latin
scu-ria stable, < Old High German scūr shed, shelter (whence sciura,
Middle High German schiure, modern German scheuer barn). The
surviving English form is due to an erroneous idea of some
connection with Latin equus horse; the accentuation on the first
syll., favoured by most Dicts. of the 19th cent., is due to the same
cause.
tony cooper
<acor...@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
>On 2011-01-21 14:04:57 +0100, mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> said:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:41:43 -0000, "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "mm" <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>>> news:00vij658og7br1d0a...@4ax.com...
>>>> What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>>>
>>>
>>> Equerry. It's an officer who supports the Queen or other senior royals in
>>> daily activities - for example paying for things, as you said.
>>
>> Wow, a new word. Maybe I didn't see that episode 40 years ago.
>>
>> And in only 4 minutes. Who says Usenet isn't great.
>
>I don't suppose it's a word that comes up very often in Western Pa.,
>Indianapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, NY, or Baltimore!
It does come up in reading, movies, and television, though. I knew
the meaning when I lived in Indianapolis and Chicago.
>(I knew the word existed, but wouldn't have been able to tell you
>exactly what it meant (though I knew it was related with Brenda in some
>way) before reading Gordon's explanation).
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Steve Hayes
>What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>
>On the Patti Duke show tonight, her father said that the prince didn't
>need to touch money because he had an equary to pay his bills?
Equerry?
>The Patti Duke show has got to be the most sophisticated sitcom ever.
Haven't seen it.
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Nick from England
> "mm" <NOPSAMmm2...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>
> news:00vij658og7br1d0a...@4ax.com...
>
> > What is an equary? Equiry? Equury?
>
> Equerry. It's an officer who supports the Queen or other senior royals in
> daily activities - for example paying for things, as you said.
> --
'Not a lot of people know that!'.
Nick from England
Glenn Knickerbocker
>Yes. They could have used rear projection.
That was the prevailing method for black-and-white film. With color film
came greenscreen's predecessor, bluescreen, which used physical mattes
created by printing with blue and yellow filters. But I thought Patty
Duke and The Parent Trap were just done with a split screen, shooting the
same shot twice with a fixed camera and splicing the film down the
middle.
ŹR "People late for work only deal with the essentials, cutting away
uneccesary tasks like Occam's Razor with no time to shave." --oTTo--Bahn
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
<No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:04:13 +0000, Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote:
>>Yes. They could have used rear projection.
>
>That was the prevailing method for black-and-white film. With color film
>came greenscreen's predecessor, bluescreen, which used physical mattes
>created by printing with blue and yellow filters. But I thought Patty
>Duke and The Parent Trap were just done with a split screen, shooting the
>same shot twice with a fixed camera and splicing the film down the
>middle.
>
Ah, yes. I'd forgotten that use of split screen.
The general point in reply to mm's query about green screen is that
there were several earlier techniques.
>ŹR "People late for work only deal with the essentials, cutting away
>uneccesary tasks like Occam's Razor with no time to shave." --oTTo--Bahn
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