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Ballooon Mein Herr?
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Film and other tricks of the light.
Also wolves.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #Animals #Dogs
Black and white photograph from the First World War. A close-up of a soldier in combat uniform and a steel helmet attaching a message to the collar of a messenger dog. They are seen in profile, the dog on the left, the soldier on the right. The dog is in a 'sit' position on the edge of a trench, the soldier is standing in the trench so his head is slightly lower than the dog's. The soldier is looking into the dog's face and the dog has their head turned slightly in the direction of the camera so as to be looking over the soldier's left shoulder.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Time they were back on the coins
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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LAST TANGO IN SAN SEBASTIAN
Film sound, Louise Brooks, and Augusto Genina’s 'Prix de Beauté'

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October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Conrad Veidt, determined not to break the fourth wall.

Portrait by Curt Mayer, Berlin. Verlag "Ross" real photo postcard, probably 1925 or earlier.
Sepia photo postcard. Head and shoulders portrait photo of Conrad Veidt. He's posed on a slight angle to the camera with his left shoulder nearest the camara and his head inclined to his left, resulting in a full face view. His eyes are wide and looking decisively leftwards and upwards. He wears a dark suit jacket with a white shirt and a dark patterned tie in a small knot.
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A toy lantern slide strip showing a succession of (presumably) artistic types.
The slide would have been pushed through the gate of a small tin projector illuminated by a paraffin lamp, so projecting each image in turn onto a white wall or sheet
October 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A toy lantern slide strip showing a succession of different class types. The slide would have been pushed through the gate of a small tin projector illuminated by a paraffin lamp, so projecting each image in turn onto a white wall or sheet
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Fox get their own portrait on the Hounds of Hackney Downs mosaic wall. At ground level, of course, so they don't have to stand on tiptoe to look at it.
#FoxOfTheDay
Mosaics by Tessa Hunkin and Hackney Mosaic Project
View of part of a wall at Hackney Downs, East London, mounted on which are numerous square mosaic panels depicting dogs of various types and sizes that have been regulars at the park, each one a portrait head set in a white circle with her or his name around the top. The wall itself is painted pink and trees can be seen beyond it and grass and fallen leaves at its base. In the foreground on the left of the photo is a section of the wall which is black, not pink, and largely overgrown with ivy, except for a part at the bottom which holds a mosaic panel showing a fox's face depicted in same style as the dogs above. with the word 'FOX' between its ears.
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Lon Chaney has landed.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Zebra and Parachute. Christopher Wood (1930)
#Animals #Modernism
A painting showing, in the foreground, the side view of a zebra facing to the viewer's right, its head slightly tilted towards us. The background is a series of white modernist architectural shapes, framed against a pale blue sky with light clouds. In the top right of the sky, on a vertical line slightly in front of the zebra's head, a distant yellow and red parachute is decending, carrying an indeterminate human figure. The scene appears to be lit by bright daylight.
September 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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#TrumpStateVisit #Trump #KingCharles #WindsorCastle #Epstein #Mandelson #PrinceAndrew
September 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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That's nothing, they can be this stupid:
September 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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LITTLE DORRIT AND NO TATTYCORAM
"With Charles Dickens you are never far away from a haunting."
Dickens' satirical masterpiece on film, focussing on Christine Edzard's six hour 1987 film and the BBC TV 2008 adaptation.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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So there!
August 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The first (1934) version of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superb. Particularly the villains - Peter Lorre, in his first English language film, and the terrific but much less well-known known Cicely Oates, whose last film it was before her early death in her mid-40s.
From the film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934). Black and white image. Medium close up of Peter Lorre and Cicely Oates as the villainous pair at the centre of a ring of European anarchists. Both have apprehensive expressions.
August 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Bit gratuitous, this.
Plimsoll invented the Plimsoll Line, not topless pole dancing.
August 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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It can be a bit personal though. There's really no need to be rude about people.
July 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Kino Babylon, Rosa Luxemburg Straße, Berlin. Built 1929, designed by the architect and set designer Hans Poelzig (photo from 2000 - the building has since been restored).
July 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Käthe von Nagy holding a candlestick and looking concerned.
Ross Verlag postcard, about 1931/2
#film #ufa #Germany
The Hungarian actress Käthe von Nagy seen on a fan postcard. The image is sepia on cream coloured card. She wears full length white dress, fitted tightly at the waist and hips. Her body is in profile, facing camera left,but her head is turned to camera. Her right hand is held out in front of her at 90 degrees to her body, the fingers splayed. Her left hand holds a candlestick, probably brass, containing a lighted candle, slightly towards the camera, the candle itself at her eye level. Her eyes are wide and her expression suggests apprehension at what she may be seeing in the viewer's position. The image contains a small UFA logo in the bottom right and ther publisher's series number bottom left. Outside the image and below it are printed her name and that of the publisher and the German words for 'Reproduction forbidden'.
July 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Anyone, trying to remember the keyboard shortcut for upper case Ü umlaut.
Photo: Norbert Leonard, Berlin 1953 Monochrome photo of a slim woman standing at a plain white desk in front of a plain white background. A lever arch file with the trademark ‘Leitz’ printed on its spine stands upright on the desk to her left. She wears a smart, belted mid-tone day dress with three quarter sleeves. On the desk is a manual typewriter with paper inserted. Because she is standing, this machine sits at about her thigh height. She is looking indifferently downward towards the typewriter keyboard, her head inclined slightly to her right, her lips slightly parted. With her right forefinger she is pressing one typewriter key. Her left hand is held up and out to her side with the palm upward and the forefinger pointing outwards and the other digits slightly bent, as if her shoulder and arm is relaxing after a diffident shrug.
June 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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'The greatest curse brought down on us by technology is that it prevents us from escaping the present even for a brief time.'

Stefan Zweig, 1942
June 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Gerda Maurus (1903-1968) as Sonja in Fritz Lang's 'SPIONE' ('Spies', 1928), and in a Ross Verlag star postcard.
June 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Stefan Zweig, in his memoir "The World of Yesterday", describes seeing these dogs in Ostend in 1914 .
Glass lantern slide from the collection of the National Army Museum.
Square format glass lantern slide. Black and white image framed by black tape. Belgian Carabiniers in 1914 with a dog drawn machine gun cart, 20 August 1914. The photo is taken from a low angle and shows from behind a group of 3 uniformed soldiers accompanying a machine gun mounted on a low cart drawn by 2 large dogs. They have entered the frame from the right and are retreating away from the camera position along a straight tree-lined road. In the background across the road a long line of other similar units stretch into the distance. National Army Museum, Object URL: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-19-29
May 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM