urchins
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Saturday, 15 June 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
A still image later found on a Smiths release.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
^ nice one
this applies to almost all films made after 1953, whether from the UK or elsewhere, and also to the opening credits, and the rest of the film
(actually I think Academy ratio was far more prevalent in the UK than the US for a decade or so afterwards?)
saw the BFI print of Never Let Go (1960) at SFF yesterday - they pulled the curtains across to close off the frame, but imdb says 1.66:1 -- however the closing titles have a big thick margin on either side. /toomuchtimeonilx
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Sunday, 16 June 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
"Why how perfectly beastly of them, darling."
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
"Perishing cold, it is".
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Future cast members of the Carry On franchise turning up in peripheral roles
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
Empty London streets save for a lorry with Smith & Sons Lincoln 347 written on side.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 17 May 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
Backfiring Morris Minors or Ford Anglia/Cortinas.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Awkwardly shoehorned-in appearances by Trad Jazz combos and/or beat groups.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Mona Washbourne
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
"It's queer I tell you, downright queer, the goings on up at the old manor."
There were a lot of 'queers' in the Ralph Richardson film that was on today.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Music Composed by WILLIAM ALWYNPlayed by THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by MUIR MATHIESON
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:30 (six months ago) link
"'En it marvellous?"
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 23:21 (three months ago) link
Bucolic countryside with a vicar cycling down a country lane.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 00:13 (three months ago) link
Terry-Thomas
― henry s, Saturday, 2 March 2024 01:11 (three months ago) link
Xp Also "bleedin' marvellous innit"
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 2 March 2024 02:28 (three months ago) link
"Hard cheese old man"
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 2 March 2024 09:11 (three months ago) link
“Coming soon on Talking Pictures TV…”
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 10:36 (three months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Maddern#Partial_filmography
I was reading this list of roles played by Victor Maddern and more or less every one is distinctly 'old British movie', eitherf just job titles like 'British N.C.O.', 'First Tram Conductor', 'Shop Steward', or people named stuff like 'Joe Biggs'. My choice for the two most evocative of old British movies - 'Grouchy Soldier Clearing Rocks' and 'Sailor fishing for bike'
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:22 (three months ago) link
Always looked about 55, even in his 20s.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:27 (three months ago) link
but simultaneously always looked somehow boyish even when he was in his 50s
https://downstairslounge.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/maddern.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:35 (three months ago) link
https://scontent.fman4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/89861621_3014621605258794_3114549483778605056_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd63ad&_nc_ohc=BLwOCc7loD8AX_U9Av8&_nc_ht=scontent.fman4-1.fna&oh=00_AfDIwkgeQzo4JVJmA4_BxnSnacF7Kcky6EyhlIfJWnPWrA&oe=660AA620
I feel like you don't get guys with faces like this anymore
always handy to be good friends with a pianist
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:37 (three months ago) link
Xp D&B bloke DJ Voltage would look like that without the beard imo
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:42 (three months ago) link
Groups of grubby kids playing on crater scarred wasteland and bombed out buildings.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:39 (three months ago) link
xps improved childhood treatment of adenoids?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:42 (three months ago) link
https://focus.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/thumbor/HIHF1zTTvVO1uTRXgnqbB67Q0Lw=/0x0:1500x828/1280x853/prod-mh-ireland/c00903c8-951d-11ed-91ed-0210609a3fe2.JPG
Sam Kydd
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:07 (three months ago) link
Drawing rooms
― airport convention (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:17 (three months ago) link
Cigarettes in a cigarette case
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:25 (three months ago) link
This sound perfectly heard from inside a house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtkXC6R20vY
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:30 (three months ago) link
Including my mother, who was an extra in The Blue Lamp. She was supposed to have the only line ("ere, look what Queenie's found!"), but because she turned out to be a) too quiet and b) too posh, they gave it to one of her classmates instead.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:37 (three months ago) link
I watched The Uncle on Talking Pictures TV the other day and it reminded me of something I associate with old British movies which is a particular way that adults talk to children, this mixture of kindly, amused and ironic. I feel like you don't see adults talk to kids this way often in modern movies or tv (or possibly real life? idk, I don't encounter children very often these days) - there seem to be fewer conversations between adults and children in movies generally (maybe there are fewer child actors these days, or at least more restrictions involved in using them?), but when they do appear the adults are more likely to be either trying to address the kid 'on their level', or in a polite but disinterested way, either way it lacks this slightly elliptical, mocking quality. I feel like I remember from my own childhood that adults would talk to you in this way that you see in old movies, this sense that they were all in on some private joke that seemed obscure to you?
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
Now picturing various scenes in Great Expectations.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:05 (three months ago) link
(xp) Good one
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:59 (three months ago) link
“run along now”
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:37 (three months ago) link
🖼I feel like you don't get guys with faces like this anymore
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:44 (three months ago) link
a chance encounter with a stranger in the compartment of a corridor coach train
― felicity, Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:26 (four weeks ago) link
housekeeper shaking her head and tut-tutting: "If I may be so bold, sire.. nothing good can come of this, mind you... nothing good at all"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:56 (four weeks ago) link
In a similar style: Angry, slightly crazy landlady reprimanding the lead character for coming in after midnight
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:58 (four weeks ago) link