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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4h

In The Good Old Days all the slasher/stalker had to do was cut the house's phone line; they could merrily murder the entire sleepover/dorm party or babysitter at their leisure.

These days they have to work out how to block an entire buildings mobile signal ; which must require much more training.

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4h

what we have now is screenwriters desperately trying to work in a plot device that explains why the central characters mobile phones won't work when they need them to.

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. Yep (of course). Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 9h

OTD in 1980. Angels, The Goodies and a new Edward Woodward sitcom (Nice Work) are on BBC1. Peter Carey is The Lad Himself on BBC2 with Starburst and Flickers on ITV.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4h

Warsaw were just about to change their name to Joy Division.
The Negatives were Paul Morley & NME photographer Kevin Cummins more or less taking the piss.

The Virgin Records 10" LP 'Short Circuit' captures some of the mayhem & chaos of the last night of The Electric Circus and is worth seeking out

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 13h

trying to drum up support from your bass.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 16h

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Classy #western Western Hombre (1967 106 mins.)
starring Paul Newman.

Skilfully directed by Martin Ritt and with terrific photography of the impressive landscape by James Wong Howe.

[ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 16.40]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

Hombre (1967)

Western starring Paul Newman as John Russell, a white man raised by Apaches. Travelling to claim an inheritance, Russell is initially shunned by his f

www.radiotimes.com

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning! from Marlene Dietrich

(South African Brunswick Records 10 track #vinyl LP compilation 1958)

youtu.be/hZAV4hsP5WU

#forties #fifties #film #stage #vocal #40smusic #50smusic

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

I may give earplugs another go next time we're travelling.

For some reason I'm fine at home but when away the slightest sound wakes me up.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the ideal solution to our conundrum.

Thanks for the information.

(I can't get on with earplugs or eye shades for sleeping, makes me very uneasy)

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Acid Jazz banger!

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 1d

I love my local offy. You already feel drunk before you even step into the premises.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Oddly enough we were discussing earlier where we could stay that was near enough to Barcelona to visit for a day without having to actually be based in the Party Capital of Europe (our last visit was ...'interesting')
I was about to suggest Sitges, then remembered your photos from earlier this week

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 1d

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Really rather brilliant crime thriller Cash on Demand (1961 80 mins.) starring Peter Cushing and Andre Morell.

Made on a tiny budget but director Quentin Lawrence keeps things moving.

[ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 15.20]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

Cash on Demand (1961)

A criminal holds a bank manager's family hostage, and forces him to help with a robbery. Crime thriller, starring Peter Cushing and Andre Morell

www.radiotimes.com

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! from Charles Trenet

Live
(UK Columbia Records 14 track #vinyl LP 1961)

youtu.be/p0KWyWwVp0E

#sixties #pop #europop #France #chanson #vocal #60smusic

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

I know the difference between 'there' and 'their'

My stupid typing fingers sometimes doesn't; for which, apologies.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

The legacy of Smash Hits is huge and it's both troubling & wonderful how there thowaway 'gags' stick in the mind.

Only very recently I referred to the drummer in Big Country as 'Mark Unpronounceablename' to a bloke who was a huge fan and knew *exactly* how to pronounce Mark's surname.

#SmashHits

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

If you're ever in a Charity Shop and you see an LP by Jack Parnell & His Orchestra : grab it!

Jack was the drumming 'voice' of Animal in the ATV-made Muppet Show series' and his work on these records is just as exciting.

#DrumAlongWithJack

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

That's what I was afraued of.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

the line deleted from Joel Grey's "willkommen" speech in Fosse's Cabaret.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I read a review of the #film Comanche (1956) which said "Dana Andrews, past his prime, grim faced and struggling to remember his lines"

And yet, a year later, the same Andrews was tearing up the screen in Tourneur's Night Of The Demon.

One of us doesn't know what they are talking about

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

You're here. All weak.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

@handle.invalid

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 2d

A bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a wheelchair accessible photography studio for hire in London? I'm trying to plan a couple of studio shoots but finding it hard finding anywhere to shoot

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 2d

The Painted Smile (1962) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this afternoon, 3:10PM. Directed by Lance Comfort and starring Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds and Tony Wickert.

Worth checking out; Comfort is a much underrated British director. #BritNoir #FilmNoir

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning! from Liberace

The Glittering Liberace
(UK MFP Records 9 track compilation #vinyl LP 1969)

youtu.be/q9nO9Ro_kd4

(appears to use the same interior decorator as Tr*mp!)

#sixties #cabaret #insrumentals #piano #60smusic

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