https://www.christine-keeler.co.uk/
A website by Christine's son, Seymour.
August 31, 2021
August 20, 2021
A Soldier's Film Journal of Ceylon 1944-1945
A Soldier's Film Journal of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1944-1945
Film and Narration by Ettore Porreca (1920-2013)
Ettore Porreca was a United States Army combat cameraman in World War II. In 1944 he was attached to the British army, and he was sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for a few months in the winter of 1944-1945. While there he and his comrades practiced their motion picture skills by filming various events and places, including the beautiful Ceylonese countryside, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ceylonese workers crushing stone by hand to make gravel, a city market place, a golf match, street scenes in the city of Kandy, and a colorful Ceylonese celebration.
The 16mm film they shot was developed while they were in Ceylon so that he and the other cameramen could learn from what they had done. Since the film was not war footage destined for government archives, Ettore was able to keep the film, and he sent it home. However, Ettore never had access to a 16mm projector, so he never saw the movies after his return home after the war. He put the film away and completely forgot about it.
Then in 2010, in the course of cleaning the basement, one of Ettore's sons found the film and had it transferred to digital format. Now Ettore, at the age of 90, could watch and narrate the film that he and his buddies shot 65 years earlier.
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August 11, 2021
Gibran Redinger
Doomed Barbarian is a sword and sorcery in space. From waste land planets run by magic to over populated planets consumed in tech . Doomed Barbarian and his six eyed techie friend Tugg are galactic bounty hunters looking to find adventure and make a few Bucks along the way.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/doomed-barbarian--2#/
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/doomed-barbarian/list?title_no=226438&page=1
July 15, 2021
Amelia and the Angel (1958)
Amelia and the Angel (1958) 26 mins Directed by Ken Russell
A young angel scours London for her wings in this tender short by the young Ken Russell. Amelia is played by 9 year old Mercedes Quadros, daughter of the Uruguay Ambassador to London.
Aug. 03, 1954 - New Ambassador From Uruguay Presents Credentials: Dr. Jose Quadros the new Uruguay Ambassador to London - this morning presented his credentials to H.M. The Queen at Buckingham Palace. Photo shows Dr. Jose Quadros with his two children Ana Tues (aged 9) and Mercedes (6) when they saw him off to the Palace from their residence No.1 Campden Hill this morning
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The End Of The World by Archibald MacLeish
https://allpoetry.com/The-End-of-the-World
Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb
Quite unexpectedly to top blew off:
And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.
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June 20, 2021
SF audio drama
BBC Radio science fiction drama written by Peter Elliott Hayes and broadcast in 6 episodes in 1961. What is the mysterious cylinder unearthed on a remote Scottish island and is it connected to the radio signals emanating from deep space?
https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/orbit
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Red Moon: 6 part audio drama
When Russia put the first man on the moon... the world changed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p073cb0c
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Children of the Stones
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sy3qx/episodes/downloads
May 30, 2021
The Chalet School
The Chalet School series by Elinor Brent-Dyer
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (6 April 1894 – 20 September 1969) was an English children's author who wrote more than 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series.
The Chalet School is a series of 64 school story novels by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The fictional school was initially located in the Austrian Tyrol, before it was moved to Guernsey in 1939 following the rise to power of the Nazi Party, and again to Herefordshire following the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands. It later moved to a fictional island off the coast of Wales, and finally to Switzerland. (wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet_School
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Brent-Dyer
https://www.chaletschool.org.uk/
May 19, 2021
Operation Anthropoid
3 movies about 'Operation Anthropoid' — the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Iron_Heart_(film)
Anthropoid (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropoid_(film)
Operation: Daybreak (1975) starring Nicola Pagett
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075019/
May 5, 2021
The Mediterranean Quartet
During the 1970’s and early 1980s writer Michael J. Bird created four drama series for the BBC. Known as The Mediterranean Quartet they took place in Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes.
The Lotus Eaters (1972)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotus_Eaters_(TV_series)
Who Pays The Ferryman? (1977)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Pays_the_Ferryman%3F
The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aphrodite_Inheritance
The Dark Side of the Sun (1983)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Sun_(TV_serial)
May 1, 2021
Grumman TBF Avenger
Grumman TBF Avenger
The Grumman TBF Avenger is an American torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
The Avenger entered U.S. service in 1942, and first saw action during the Battle of Midway. Despite the loss of five of the six Avengers on its combat debut, it survived in service to become the most effective and widely-used torpedo bomber of World War II, sharing credit for sinking the super-battleships Yamato and Musashi and being credited for sinking 30 submarines. (wiki)
https://www.flight-manuals-online.com/product/grumman-tbf-avenger/
https://www.pearlharboraviationmuseum.org/aircraft/grumman-tbf-tbm-avenger/
April 18, 2021
The Osiris Chronicles (1998)
The Osiris Chronicles (1998) aka The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
A failed CBS sci-fi pilot that was retitled The Warlord: the Battle for the Galaxy and shown as a TV-movie-of-the-week. Written by Caleb Carr and directed by Joe Dante.
https://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2013/11/fws-topics-what-ever-happened-to-osiris.html
Starring J. Madison Wright (1984 – 2006). She was previously in 'Earth 2'. She died of a heart attack at the age of 21
April 15, 2021
Hammer movies
British Hammer Film Collection
British Horror Film Collection
British Sci-Fi Film Collection
British Cinematic Films (1960's)
Cinematic Film Collection - Krimi movies
British Comedy Film Collection (1950's)
British War Films Collection
Movies 1960s
1970's Movies
1980's Movies
February 14, 2021
The Dassault Mystere
The Dassault MD.452 Mystère is a 1950s French fighter-bomber. Designed by Marcel Dassault.
Israeli Mystère IVs saw action during the Arab–Israeli wars and were joined by the French Mystères for the Suez crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Myst%C3%A8re
https://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/passion/aircraft/military-dassault-aircraft/
February 12, 2021
Len - Steal My Sunshine
"Steal My Sunshine" is a song by Canadian band Len. It was released in July 1999.
February 7, 2021
Tumblr blogs
Tumblr blogs - Retro horror, SF, fantasy, weird
https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/
January 10, 2021
Long-Legged Fly
Long-Legged Fly by W.B. Yeats
That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the pony
To a distant post.
Our master Caesar is in the tent
Where the maps are spread,
His eyes fixed upon nothing,
A hand upon his head.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
That the topless towers be burnt
And men recall that face,
Move most gently if move you must
In this lonely place.
She thinks, part woman, three parts a child,
That nobody looks; her feet
Practise a tinker shuffle
Picked up on the street.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
Her mind moves upon silence.
That girls at puberty may find
The first Adam in their thought,
Shut the door of the Pope’s chapel,
Keep those children out.
There on that scaffolding reclines
Michael Angelo.
With no more sound than the mice make
His hand moves to and fro.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/long-legged-fly
Featured in the preface of the book The Queen's Gambit by Walter Trevis
January 5, 2021
Arthur Machen
Books include The Great God Pan (1894), The Three Impostors (1895), The White People (1904).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen
https://amershammuseum.org/history/people/20th-century/arthur-machen-amersham/
Downloadable books
https://freeditorial.com/en/books/filter-author/arthur-machen
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons
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December 24, 2020
Movie posters - formats & sizes
US
One Sheet : 27” X 41" — 69 X 104 cm — vertical
Half Sheet : 22” X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal
Three Sheet : 41” X 81” — 104 X 205 cm — vertical
Insert: 14" X 36" — 35 X 91 cm — vertical
Lobby Card: 11" X 14" — 28 X 10 cm — horizontal
UK
Quad: 40" X 30" — 101 X 76 cm — horizontal
One sheet: 27" x 40" — 69 X 101 cm — vertical
Half Sheet: 22" X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal
Lobby Card: 10" X 8 — horizontal
AUSTRALIA
DAYBILL: 13" x 30" — 33 X 76 cm — vertical
BELGIAN
14" x 22”. horizontal or vertical.
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https://movieposters.ha.com/poster-sizes.s
https://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cineamericanstyles.htm
https://www.mauvais-genres.com/en/content/45-movie-poster-size
https://postercollector.co.uk/articles/common-movie-poster-sizes/
November 1, 2020
Movie Watch
A few genre movies I watched recently:
It Conquered The World (1956)
Director : Roger Corman
Lee Van Cleef, Peter Graves, and Beverly Garland
Not Of This Earth (1957)
Director : Roger Corman
Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Producer : Roger Corman
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her.
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
A doctor, a sheriff and a biologist pursue a creature hanging around a lighthouse.
Tormented (1960)
When Tom's ex-lover, Vi, threatens him to breakup with his current girlfriend, she accidently slips from the lighthouse and Tom leaves her to die. Soon, Vi's spirit returns to avenge her death.
The Flesh Eaters (1964)
The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
Bela Lugosi. Based on a story by Edgar Wallace
Death Drums Along the River (1963)
Based on a story by Edgar Wallace
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river and ends up uncovering a plot involving diamond smuggling and the local indigenous tribe.
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September 12, 2020
Gert Wilden
Gert Wilden (1917 – 2015) was a German film composer. From 1956 through his retirement, he scored music for 50 feature films in numerous genres. However, he is perhaps best known for his music for erotic films in the 1970s, especially the Schoolgirl Report (Schulmädchen Report) series. (wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Wilden
Wilden's music is a wonderfully demented pastiche that takes its inspiration from all kinds of sources -- "Dirty Beat" swipes from Led Zeppelin, but chucks in bits of acid rock, crazed Farfisa organ, and drum-work that sounds like tap-dancing pile-drivers. Other cuts teeter on the edge of pure lounge -- there's bits of smoky jazz, R&B, crazily-mangled surf music, and whatever else can be jammed in and will stick. One moment it's lolling saxophone, and the next it's James Last on amphetamines. It all fits, it's often hilarious, and it is absolutely worth keeping on hand.
https://lorihajitura.com/2017/02/15/go-wild-with-gert-wilden/
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