Misty
Misty was a weekly British comic magazine for girls published by Fleetway in the late 1970s. Focusing on horror stories, it was one of the few British girls' comics that was also popular with boys. Although Misty lasted less than two years it's still remembered and admired to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(comics)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Misty
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Misty-2016
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Coronation Street, TOTP, Dr Who, Play for Today
Blakes 7
The Saint
The Champions TV Series 1968-69
Dr Who
Land of the Giants (season 1)
Lost In Space
Logan's Run
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Ad Blankestijn - A history of Japanese film by year
https://adblankestijn.blogspot.com/p/j-film.html
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Super 8 websites
BOLEX 18 - 5L Super 8mm Projector
Kodak Instamatic M80-L Super 8 and 8mm movie Projector
http://www.bolexcollector.com/projectors/185l.html
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Daigo Fukuryu Maru - Lucky Dragon No. 5
Daigo Fukuryū Maru was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1,1954. The 1954 Toho film Godzilla was inspired in part by this event.
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UK Television: Play for today, Coronation Street, TOTPs, DrWho
Meiko Kaji Japanese movies
Japanese classic movies
Odd movies
USA movies & television
The Saint TV series
The Invaders
Doctor Who
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Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)/ Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
The Mark of the Wolfman /Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Spanish title: La Marca del Hombre Lobo (1968)
The Mummy's Revenge (1975)
Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)/ El espanto surge de la tumba
Japanese Movies/Wim Wenders movies (commentary)
Mixed bag of movies
Italian movies
Rare movies 1
Rare movies 2
French movies
soft core movies
Japanese 'Kaiju' Film Collection
Japanese classic movie (English subs)
Assorted movies
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After the World Ends
Hardcover, 256 pages in colour, 19x26cm
An anthology book of aftermath cinema by Claude Gaillard. This is an English language version of a French book financed via KickStarter
In 'After the World Ends', you will be taken on a journey through post-apocalyptic cinema from its origins to its Golden Age at the VHS era. With dozens of films reviewed, hundreds of photos and posters, and the recurrent themes and tropes typical from the genre explored in detail. Packed with brand new interviews with the people who made the films including Fred Williamson, Sergio Martino, David Worth, Rae Dawn Chong, Steve De Jarnatt.
Science Fiction Italian Style: Italian Science Fiction Films from 1958-2000
Physical Info: 0.6" H x 9.69" L x 7.44" W (1.14 lbs) 288 pages
Italy is not a country generally known for its science fiction cinema. Over the years, however, a number of films belonging to the genre have been made and - while there might not be a single, defining science fiction ‘movement’ as such - they make for a curious, compellingly disparate whole. From critically acclaimed futuristic satires to cheapjack exploitation films featuring deadly extra-terrestrials; from counterculture polemics set in an imminent dystopia to post-apocalyptic action movies populated by Mohican-sporting thugs. There might be many different types of films, but they all deal with shared themes and concerns. And that’s not even mentioning the giant chickens and flesh-eating fish. This is the first English language book to deal comprehensively with the subject. Covering all Italian science fiction films made between 1958 and 2000 in detail – as well as including an overview of productions made in subsequent years – it examines a range of interconnected sub-genres, looking into how recurrent narratives came about, evolved and eventually faded. So… zip up your space suit, settle back in your anti-gravity seating device... and welcome to the wild, wild world of Science Fiction, Italian Style.
Remembering Shanghai by Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and the unpredictable nature of life against the epic backdrop of China in turmoil.
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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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
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.
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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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
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/
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/
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