I was watching an episode of Victory At Sea when this screen came up. Automatically, I tried to figure out when this footage was taken.
At far left, I can read "Chester Morris", but not the name of the film or the theatre. A little to the right, there's "Special Agent" at the Central, I believe, and above that I have no doubt that "Bengal Tiger" is at the Strand.
Some minutes later, I have learned that all three films were released in mid-1936, and that the Morris film is named "Counterfeit." What's more, the three stars of "Bengal Tiger" are Barton MacLane, June Travis, and Warren Hull. The New York Times of July 29, 1936 notes that the film is scheduled to open on this day.
But information available says that "Counterfeit" was released May 25, 1936, two months earlier, and that bit about "Second Smash Week" doesn't add up. Not a big deal, though.
Now all I want to do is screenshot it, and that's where it got weird. WIN/SHIFT/S caused the YouTube screen to go black, first in Chrome, then in Edge and Firefox. Anything I'm doing wrong to cause it? Search says try double-clicking and then choosing save from the menu that comes up. Nope -- the save function is there, but it's grayed out. Then to Reddit, where they said hardware acceleration should be turned off, but that didn't change the result either.
By this time, I would have used my phone to get it over with, but I'd left it downstairs. A few more minutes, and I think I've found the answer: It's a feature, applied to copy-protect copyrighted material. OK then, I'll just bookmark it and come back tomorrow with my phone.
Which I did...
