Showing posts with label Peplum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peplum. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2025

AudioMo 2025 The Body Building Magazines

 AudioMo Day 13 Body Building Magazines There have been body building magazines since 1889. There are two types of publications. 

This is a look at the magazines influences that inspired Peplum movies. 




This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Thursday, June 12, 2025

AudioMo 2025 Body Building Phenomena 1950s

AudioMo Day 12 The 1950s Body Building Phenomena

There have always been body builders and physical fitness movements. This is a quick mention of some of the influences. I made a mistake in the first part. I should have said vegetarian instead of vegan. 

I'm really tired. It has been a long day.

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

#AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

AudioMo 2025 Studying the Craft

Day 11 Performing under the name of Mark Forest, this is the tale of how a Brooklyn bodybuilder used Peplum to finance his study of his passion and craft.




This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo Day 10 - The Loves of Hercules

Day 10 The Loves of Hercules Hercules does seem to have access to a lot of affection. 
In this movie, it is queen sized


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This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Monday, June 09, 2025

Day 9 What In A Name? How many names can a movie character have? 

That depends on where you live, what language you speak and did you see it on the big screen or on television.

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This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Sunday, June 08, 2025

AudioMo 2025 More About Steve Reeves

It is Day 8 of AudioMo and in this captioned audio, I talk a little bit about Steve Reeves career and his last appearance in Hercules Unchained. 

That is the U.S. title of the film. The Italian title is Ercole e la regina di Lidia  aka Hercules And The Queen Of Lidia.




This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

Friday, June 06, 2025

AudioMo 2025 Hercules Mythological True Story

The actual myth story of Hercules is more like a trashy soap opera. 

This is the speed version that has been constantly changed by Italian and Hollywood filmmakers.


   


This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Thursday, June 05, 2025

AudioMo 2025 - The Maciste Effect

The Maciste film series started in 1915 and lasted until 1926. This is a look at some of the people that might have been influenced by the character.


   

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

 For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

AudioMo 2025 Cabiria and the Birth of Maciste

The year was 1914 and the movie Cabiria is a world wide hit. 

It is an two hour adventure tale with volcanos, pirates, betrayals and introduces the grand-daddy of Peplum, a character called Maciste. There are copies of the movie on YouTube.


   

This is my open captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

AudioMo 2025 - What Are Sword and Sandal Movies

A quick explanation of Sword and Sandal movies. They are one of the reasons why Peplum movies exists.


   

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

Monday, June 02, 2025

AudioMo 2025 - What is a Peplum Movie?

Peplum movies are a sub-genre of Sword and Sandal movies.

Sword and Sandal movies can have American or British actors. 

There is a grand scale, sometimes a biblical or moralistic theme and good triumph over evil but it might take a few centuries to kick in. 

Peplum movies might have one or two Americans but mainly an Italian cast. 

At least in the early days. 


 

This is #AudioMo, a 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio/slidecast about Peplum movies, and the historical and cultural connections. 

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

Friday, May 30, 2025

AudioMo 2025 and Peplum Movies

It is that time again. A bunch of folks get together and for June 2024 create audio recordings sharing who they are, what they are hearing or what they want to talk about.

My topic this year is the Peplum movies between 1958 to 1969. 

Simply, a Peplum movie is set in old Greece or Rome, has a hero or demi-god who saves people from the bad people. But not always. There are a couple of films set in Egypt. 

There is a lot of interesting things about how that genre of movies came to be created. There are connections from multiple directions and most do not involve oil or a tunic. A very important director of Spaghettis westerns got his start in Peplum movies.

Fifteen years ago, Ernmander started AudioMo as a way to have community and conversation. This is the ultimate diversity project. Blind folks, sighted folks, storytellers and the bashful all try to have a piece of audio to share with other. Mainly participants from the UK, Europe and a handful from the U.S.

I wanted to contribute but I noticed something. Audio isn't accessible to deaf, hard of hearing or new speakers of English. 




It isn't easy to embed text into the audio unless you are using a specific service to create the SRT text file and upload for display..

And to my knowledge, there aren't audio specific embedded captioning that you can click a button and display captions. There could be, I don't know of any at this time.

Yes there are audio players that can display transcripts. But not in real time as the audio.

So what I do is use PowerPoint to hold one photo, record audio and then use video editing software to have it transcribe and display open captions on the screen. 

You can also combine the audio, video into Microsoft ClipChamp to add captions. That rascal is finicky. But it works. I then post the video on YouTube.

I can share the video via Mastodon, Bluesky and other social media portals. It use to be on Twitter. There are still a few folks that participate there but many people chose not to visit that site anymore.

Anyway, I have a few challenges this year but I hope to make it to the end of the month.

As I mentioned, Ernmander is the ringleader of this and you can check out his blog posts on it at

https://write.as/audiomo/