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Do they still make Woodbines? Very much out of the brands of fags loop these days.

Yes! Same here.

Greatly saddened by this. Here is a glimpse of John Woodbine, excellent as always, as the sinister leader of the Knights of God.

youtu.be/7lMkNsIiCsI

He was a Gateshead lad wasn't he? 96 is a grand age to get to as well.

I know... Bloody spell check!

Woodvine! Woodvine! Not Woodbine. Sodding spell check strikes again!

Farewell to the actor John Woodbine who died today. He was ubiquitous in the film and TV of my childhood appearing in everything from Z Cars, Dr Who and the films The Devils and An American Werewolf in London.

A lovely and heart warming thread for Sunday evening...

Double exposure Polaroid. In the lower half sits Castlerigg stone circle with the lake district fells behind. Overlaying the sky is an upside down close up shot of the tip of one of the stones.

Here's a double exposure Polaroid I captured last year at Castlerigg stone circle. The looming spirit of the stone..!
#StandingStoneSunday

Ah bugger! Back to the drawing board then...

Richard Rankin... It could be?

Rebus?

WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email sean@colemandesign.co.uk & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.

Tonight's film is Hannibal Brooks (1969) directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard. A childhood favourite I've not seen for decades...

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology. First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology. First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

2 October 1925

John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology.

First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

Some fab behind the scenes shots and production documents in this article.

Hellebore - cover of The Mirror Issue

Sam George THE VAMPIRE'S LOST REFLECTION In 1890, Sir James Frazer recorded in The Golden Bough the belief across many cultures that reflections, portraits and shadows were thought to contain part of a person's soul. These folkloric notions influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century: Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most enduring of all fictional vampires, is a creature with virtually no representation: he doesn't have a reflection, his likeness cannot be painted, and he cannot be photographed. Some modern vampires do have a reflection, but Dracula's lack of representation makes him a profoundly unsettling figure. Linked with the realm of shadows, he remains the embodiment of an ancient evil who cannot be comprehended nor captured

The folkloric belief that reflections, portraits and shadows contain part of a person’s soul influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century.

Read more in @coffinboffin.bsky.social ‘s piece for The Mirror Issue. Pre-order on helleborezine.com

The new episode of this brilliant hauntological sketch comedy podcast features Keith (Stig of the Dump, Murphy's Mob) Jayne as 'Stuart of the Chalk Recycling Centre'!

Great! We must catch up!

Vale the great Italian poster artist Renato Casaro. Chances are you don’t know his name but if you are in any way into aesthetics of genre cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s, you sure as hell would have known his work.

Great alt text caption!

Cheers Will!

So 58 revolutions of the sun completed today. Happy birthday to me!

US poster for Flesh and Fantasy.

Betty Field as Henrietta donning a mask to hide her ugliness in the first segment of Flesh and Fantasy (1943).

The Sunday afternoon matinee is Flesh and Fantasy (1943). A trio of supernatural tales directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Edward G Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck. Superbly crafted and evocatively dreamlike.