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@AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic) art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 1d

V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution

... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c

a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

ALT: a man sitting in a chair with a hulu logo on the bottom

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Janet Lynn 🐕 @fuunsaiki.bsky.social · 14h

Find someone who looks at you the way Nick Mohammed looks at Celia Imrie

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 18h

Peter Serafinowicz just asked if there's a cash alternative for the prizes as he doesn't like any of them

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 18h

I just tuned in to House of Games and Peter Serafinowicz and Vicki Michelle are contestants!
With this and celeb Traitors tonight, celebrities are back bébé!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 18h

I was always jealous of the incredibly long phone cords they seemed to have on US TV.
Imagine - not having to stand at the bottom of the stairs if you wanted to talk on the phone

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 21h

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 20h

A pleasure - Ioved your article - especially the bit on Mabel Grey.
The only other thing to offer is the FPG in the credit might (I'm guessing) be the Freelance Photographers Guild. Getty might know more.

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 20h

Found the Rhea Perlman legs at a bar image on Getty. Not much more info in the listing, but it's nice to see more detail in the pic anyway!
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo...

People standing at bar, low section

People standing at bar, low section

www.gettyimages.co.uk

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 22h

Lot of fancy Hollywood stars had servants to get them ready in the mornings, but Paul Newman did his own dressing

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 23h

A film about the terrifying saga of me trying to get my pic accepted by the passport office in 2019

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 23h

Based on a story by #FrancisDurbridge

🖼️ PORTRAIT OF ALISON (1955) 3:25pm #RobertBeatty #TerryMoore #WilliamSylvester drama #TPTVsubtitles

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Checks out!

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

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About Us - What is StreetLink?

StreetLink connects people sleeping rough in England & Wales to local support via alerts submitted by the public and people sleeping rough. Learn how it works.

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

I think in the All Creatures Great and Small books there's a bit where James sees Helen and she's the first woman he's seen wearing "slacks." What was it about the interwar years that caused such massive leaps in fashion

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

About 100 years ago your great great grandrelative became the first person in your family in thousands of years to see a fully dressed woman's knees in public. I would love to know how they reacted

Colleen Moore wearing a flapper style dress in the 20s

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Questionable ornaments but can't help but respect that it seems to be mainly CDs on the shelves. There's loads in the gym too - impressive collection

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Need them to put a circle and a line through it like Ghostbusters

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god the location. The views from the windows are the sort of thing you'd see photoshopped in in a dodgy holiday let listing, but they're real

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

I actually have no idea what the answer was on the show because I got distracted looking for the Seinfeld ep on Netflix to take a pic of the TV, and now I'm watching the rest of the ep

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

#callmybluff
"What's a bubble boy?"

The bit in Seinfeld when Susan says "what's a bubble boy?" And Seinfeld replies "he lives in a bubble"

Pic of tonight's vintage ep of Call My Bluff on BBC4. The word to be defined above Robert Robinson's head is "Bubble-boy"

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 4d

#silentfilm #silents #filmsky #moviesky #Damfino

The most brilliant physical comedian and filmmaker in history (imo)

Buster Keaton #BOTD

Filmmaker and comedian, Buster Keaton standing in front of the train car

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 2d

Received it on two separate mixtapes* (brag)

*MixCDRWs

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Richard Brooks @thebrookso.bsky.social · 3d

That’s not the only ITN theme to be used elsewhere, either:

youtu.be/ePlyWlhobDU?...

Pale Rider trailer

YouTube video by Mark Lamendola

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 3d

British people over 40 watching this:

Awwwww Vincent is such a wholesome horror uncle, we love him, he's such a bi icon

*video hits 50 seconds *

... WHAT THE FUCK???!!!

*everyone British and over 40 collapses in hysterics *

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3d

Special bonus feature:

"America Screams" with Vincent Price (1981)

YouTube video by Mondo A-Go-Go Video

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect. I'll give you a credit

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

When I make an action rom-dram set in Victorian times, it will NOT all be in shades of sepia/ in the dark with people mumbling. Full colour loud voices or gtfo

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) David Niven in a bright red dressing gown in a well lit room. It's a photo but you can tell he's enunciating properly

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Noël Coward in a bright blue jacket abf red cravat, speaking very clearly to John Gielgud. The walls are lilac because colours existed

Around the World in 80 Days (1956). A bright London street. Horse drawn carriages in bright, different colours. Colourful bunting. A man in a bright red uniform. It's full daylight. Passepartout is about to cycle down it on a penny farthing, but I couldn't find a good pic of that

Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 3d

Also "Snowfall" - Victorian epidemiologist John Snow solves the Soho cholera epidemic but then also solves crimes by similar use of statistical analysis. Roles for John Snow (newsreader), Jon Snow from GOT, Dan & Peter Snow
"Very dry" - Radio Times