(1822) Evening all.
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17. Surfeit of bins
16. Orla
15. Sidelights on AI
14. Overbuilding in conservative areas
13. NHS Palantir
12. Arbitrary sectioning of dissidents
11. Steve at 1321
Hearts of Oak: Jerod Ochsendorf – Faith, Freedom & Informed Choices: Inside the 2026 Health Freedom Summit
There are quite a few readers who do not like reaction vids … mainly because they’ve had bad experiences. The worst types of reactors are those who’ve done no homework, plus they’re pig ignorant, plus they’re sooooo into themselves … which manifests in constant interruptions in the wrong places, plus the screen layout is bad.
There’s also having no empathy/sympathy for the genre or they’re so woefully young and ignorant (meaning not even interested) or they get fixated on one irrelevant point. So I’ve been through dozens of reaction vids and have ended up with maybe eight presenters, total, who enhance rather than detract from the experience … this continues below the first video:
… continued. Now the good side … those who are knowledgeable in general, have a good attitude, plus the screen layout for us is good, the sound is equalised, they’re almost apologetic that they need to interrupt, they clearly enjoy the genre/artist … either they’re cool dudes or are young people learning … or they’re honeys to have beside us …
Actually, I’m so excited by this Friday the 13th, I’m going to run a fave song later … so that’s one to avoid … later.
Now, if you haven’t been over to AKH today yet, may I suggest you get a move on!
“”The Death Kiss” (1933) should be a nice surprise for those who like traditional murder mysteries. It’s a movie within a movie and both have the same title, which refers to the on- screen murder of movie star Myles Brent during the filming of the last scene of a film called the “The Death Kiss”. He is shot while playing a scene in which he is shot, a development that was about to be written off by the police as a prop man’s accident until they discovered that the bullet was a different caliber than the guns being used in the production.
The police then turn their attentions to his co-star and ex-wife Marsha Lane (Andienne Ames) which inspires her boyfriend (David Manners) to do some amateur sleuthing to track down the real murderer.
“The Death Kiss” could qualify as the first buddy picture as he is closely assisted by his friend Officer ‘Gully’ Gulliver (Vince Barnett), a bumbling studio security guard who provides the film’s comic relief. The mix of serious murder mystery and comedy is in perfect proportion and Barnett gives a truly exceptional performance. Much of the humor comes from the pair’s ability to stay just ahead of the police, much to the irritation of the detectives doing the investigation and to the crowing delight of Gully.
There are an array of suspects (Brent would not have won a popularity contest) besides Miss Lane including studio executives Joseph Steiner (Bela Lugosi), Leon Grossman (Alexander Carr) and Tom Avery (Edward Van Sloan). Lugosi’s name and likeness headline the DVD package and while his part is substantial, it is still just that of a supporting character.
There are enough red herrings to keep the viewer guessing and the pacing is quite fast even with limited action sequences. There are significant advantages associated with setting a screenplay in a movie studio. The cost savings in set design, the appeal of the movie industry to viewers, and the fact that the writer can draw upon occupations with which he is familiar to give the script convincing authenticity.
One thing to watch for is the use of color in a few sequences in this otherwise black and white film. When there is a fire in the projection booth and later a chase scene with flashlights, the producers enhanced the effect with an amber tint. This was applied to the prints (at least some of them) by stencils, which masked the majority of the frame so artists could color in the portion that was to be amber.
Since there are 24 frames per second it was only necessary to apply this process to every other or every third frame to get the effect, but it was still an extremely labor-intensive process. “The Death Kiss” was not the first time this was done but it was the most effective because the cinematography made excellent use of light and shadow, with the contrast nicely enhancing the effect of the amber frames. Technically this gimmick was a forerunner of stuff like “Smell-o-vision”, “Emergo”, “Illusion- o”, and “Sensurround”.
The DVD and TMC prints are serviceable but obviously worse for the wear. There are a number of audio and video dropouts but the story seems to be complete.
Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.”
Yes, we had this one not so long ago … I see one of my own comments beside the YT three months back. Never mind, I like how the villain is felled at the end.
(0832) The morning rolls on. (1019)
10. Moo corner
9. Bank note suggestions
8. Are these ladies too hasty?
Are they too hasty or do they have it right? I saw the latest where she was propped up by Sarah Huckabee … it was photo op by numbers … 1. Smile 2. Show emotion 3. Talk merch 4. Strike a humble pose.
Maybe she’s innocent, just no social awareness, unfortunate shape and movement, way of speaking … but there’s a mass of material before even getting to the CK killing and aftermath. I keep coming back to her dealings with Epcompany and there being something “not right” about her.
7. Stupidity or just unaware yet?
Through my teaching years, did I see the chn as “dumb”? Of course not … they were at a certain cognitive age, with certain background knowledge by that stage. We all learn, or should learn, all our lives.
There’s a good argument that “dumb” does not mean errors, it means learning nothing from them.
Yes, that one has legs but what if the average normie is prevented from gaining knowledge? In fact, official subterfuge is used to ensure that wrong, ideological non-realities flood the cognitive of space, e.g. through tele … here’s an example:
That’s fine, Sadie, as long as the 85% are even aware of our 15% in a non-hostile, non weasel word way, plus maybe 37% “out of” that 85% are already disgruntled about things = 52%, which was the winning percentage in the 2016 Referendum. Reform are within that 37%, many saying they’d never voted before.
Restore are therefore dangerous to the PTB if that 37% can get hold of genuine info. Which is where Elon and X come in for a start, Rumble too, Gab to a point. Then it becomes word of mouth.
6. The Daily Sceptic corner
Will Jones on the new Khomanei clown:
Firstly, he seems to have misplaced a leg and is in a coma. Then this:
“Worth reading in full:
This is the problem with Islamist fanatics like those in charge in Iran. They aren’t rational like most leaders, who would recognise when they are beaten and seek the best peace terms they can. They believe they are on a divine mission – to wipe out Israel, among other things – so would rather their entire country was laid waste and its people slaughtered than surrender. With no sign of the emergence of an internal armed resistance to the Iranian regime, it’s hard to see how anything short of a ground invasion could topple the zealots – and Iraq shows us how that kind of operation can end up: stuck for decades in a bloody and costly nation-building enterprise.”
I’d broaden that to any kind of fanatic over anything, e.g. Milliband or Starmer. One aspect is how it came about in the first place. Was it a Damascene moment or lifelong upbringing?
Every culture on earth has children growing up with its society’s values … the issue is whether those values require you to maim or kill other societal groups or not. The Christian, as in biblical, as in New Testament, clearly does not get us to kill Mussies or Jews … unless they threaten our own families of course. Tolerance of them doing that is not just insanity, a lack of logic … it’s evil, sick.
(0654) Morning all … light wall to wall cloud cover out there. (0811)
5. Food issues
4. The bank security failure yesterday … again
3. Steve at 1320
That’s something I cannot get through to MMutR who’s forever extolling the virtues of all the ones he’s met, ignoring the reports and foitage worldwide. When push comes to shove, when Dar es Salaam changes over to Dar al Harb … there is only one result … has he not heard of taqqiya?)
2. Interfaith goodwill?
Shall I tell you about interbloodyfaith goodwill?
Blasphemy laws, eh? Precisely what these clowns are doing inside a church, which shifts the focus to whoever authorised the outrage to occur. They’re the ones headed for hell most like.
1. DAD at 1320
a) From Aurelio Porfiri, Italian Catholic publisher and writer, for Le Salon Beige: What is the meaning of music? I must say that this question has accompanied me practically all my life. From my earliest childhood, I devoted myself to music….
b) An open letter from ‘SOS Calvaries’ which is a group dedicated to restore Roadside Calveries and other Christian monuments.
“To the Mayors of France: Calvaries: This Forgotten Christian Heritage for Which Mayors Are Responsible. There, at the crossroads, in the shade of a large oak tree, stands a stone cross. Time has weathered the sandstone, the inscriptions have faded, but the silhouette remains….”
(JH: This is where I’m thinking it requires more than a quick glance. Translating takes work, it deserves more than just a cursory glance, I for one appreciate the effort, DAD.)
(1742) Evening all. Raining here.
21. DAD with Sam at 1320
Shhhhhhh, don’t tell anyone.
20. Wildlife report
19. Moo corner
18. They’ve done it already
17. Sound advice
16. Sense of hope
15. What’s in a number?
14. Steve
Seems Charlie Peters reporting for GB News is the only one (I’ve looked) covering the activity at RAF Mildenhall. In brief nine MC-130J’s of the US Special Operations Forces have left the airfield in Suffolk this morning. They’ve been flying in from the States over the last two weeks. Special indeed they can fly nap-of-the-earth at 100ft to infiltrate enemy territory using a radar called Silent Knight. Been their myself back in the 80’s, UK Special Forces air assets are based there as well. A photo taken this morning:
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13. Remove Thune
12. Starmer
11. So little posted today
… so much to post:
Right, we have Call Northside, the 1934 Lord Edgeware, The Card and Qatermass 2. Which today, Fri, Sat, Sun? Suggestions welcomed. Plus a few Ronald Howards.
I’m thinking the 1934 Edgeware today … has a look, not a great copy, showing signs of age.
The reviews overall seem a tad unfair in my eyes. This was 1934 and the filmmakers were fitting it all into a B movie format and runtime. This review seemed fair:
“I was pleased to catch up with this early adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1933 Poirot story because of the authentic period feel. They were quick to film this only a year after the story’s original publication so the contemporary 1930s situation involved is hot off the press so to speak. What was a culture shock for me was the somewhat switcheroo of the Poirot and Hastings I’m used to seeing in the David Suchet TV series. In this film Poirot is tall while Hastings is the short and fussy one which is a most direct contrast to how the characters are seen in Suchet style. The Suchet version being more faithful to Agatha Christie’s creations in that respect.
Lady Edgware approaches Poirot to persuade her husband to grant her a divorce only for Poirot to find Lord Edgware had already granted it via a letter which must have been intercepted. Lord Edgware is murdered in his library quickly followed by the death of another character which would appear to be suicide. Lady Edgware has an alibi as she has been witnessed at a dinner in Chiswick at the time of the murder. But staff at Lord Edgware’s mansion say they saw her there at that time and so Poirot has to discover which of these set of witnesses are correct.
Even though this film has to lose a lot of Christie’s original plot elaborations to fit a B-mystery running time I think the film tells the story well. The vanity of Lady Edgware’s American actress character is so good to see and she has some great lines to deliver. She complains that she could have had her husband bumped off much more easily if she had been back home in Chicago. And she takes to wearing black because it was so fetching at her husband’s funeral saying “black is very effective against white marble.” I would say this is an enjoyable adaptation for fans of murder mysteries of the cozy English variety.”
(1146) Near the end of elevenses, approaching noon. (1303)
10. Moo corner
9. Escaping the box
8. Just repeating … here we are indeed
7. Anti-British hatred
6. NOWP 1320
If you glance over there, you’ll see 7 items up already today and each one takes a fair amount of reading or watching. Put those with 1319, plus HQ comments thread, plus our own wider blogrounds we do, plus the X reports … I’d say we have more than enough online reading/watching for a day, particular as the MSM is scanned by you along the way.
Moving onto our “patron “droppers” of reports, there’s an unwritten social contract ongoing, a fair amount of quid pro quo. Quite apart from the drops being interesting for readers/watchers, there is this “thing” that each “dropper” needs to feel he/she is getting a fair run at his content being seen by readers.
And that’s where we are. Nothing is formalised, nothing is signed on the dotted line, except by me for the use of the platform. There it is … the potential to actually stumble upon the truth is pretty formidable.