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#561 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:22 pm

More documentaries like this....





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#562 Post by Karearea » Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:22 pm

The Early 20th Century Seen in Real Color [15:17]
Color photography began to be widely popularized during the 1960s and 70s, and we're used to seeing history before that point in black and white. But color has been reproduced for much longer than that. Early experiments were made shortly after the invention of photography itself in the early 1800s, and one of the most successful and beautiful methods, the autochrome, was launched on the market in 1907. In this video I tell the stories of people and places that appear on some of these autochromes.
And with the morn, those angel faces smile...

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#563 Post by Karearea » Mon Nov 14, 2022 5:47 am

1980s Ansett NZ 'Keys' TV commercial [1:00]

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#564 Post by TheGreenAnger » Mon Nov 14, 2022 5:51 am

Karearea wrote:
Mon Nov 14, 2022 5:47 am
1980s Ansett NZ 'Keys' TV commercial [1:00]

"Oh dear!"

That's a good ad, not seen by me before, made better by Joss Ackland's mellifluous voice! ;)))
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#565 Post by Woody » Mon Nov 14, 2022 10:41 pm

When all else fails, read the instructions.

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#566 Post by ribrash » Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:33 am

As kids we got the No 500 bus from Kirkby to Speke Airport to watch the planes. :-bd

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#567 Post by TheGreenAnger » Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:53 pm

ribrash wrote:
Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:33 am
As kids we got the No 500 bus from Kirkby to Speke Airport to watch the planes. :-bd
Not to forget the ghost of Tom Campbell Black that used to haunt the old Control Tower!

https://www.a-e-g.org.uk/the-ghost-of-speke.html

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#568 Post by TheGreenAnger » Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:00 pm

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#569 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:52 am

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A superb film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wipers_Times
We need more men like Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederick John Roberts, MC, and the sub-editor who was Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John Hesketh ("Jack") Pearson, DSO, MC., the two men who were primarily responsible for the Wipers Times.

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https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org ... unity/2878
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#570 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:20 am

D#1 decorating for Christmas at flight school.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&i ... b746e4c871

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#571 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:39 am

PHXPhlyer wrote:
Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:20 am
D#1 decorating for Christmas at flight school.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&i ... b746e4c871

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#572 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:17 pm

Pepsi, or rather, more documentaries like this one...

Incredible story, much more interesting than one might have thought..., even if we do know it, or rather, think we know it!

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ ... -cast-news




Highly recommended.
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#573 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:54 am

Patrick Stewart humour!


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#574 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:11 pm

Films like Le Mans 66.

I finally got to watch the film again last night and really enjoyed it, far more than the first viewing. Despite the liberties taken with the true story, it was sufficiently close to the historical record not to make it altogether unbelievable.

The Ken Miles story is a fascinating one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Miles

If you haven't seen the film don't watch this video.



Nor read this...

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reel ... v-ferrari/
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#575 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:00 am

Just about to reread Ernest K Gann's masterpiece and was sent this podcast about the book by a friend.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23/clip/15951329
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#576 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Tue Nov 29, 2022 5:29 am

Great book, still have my copy, but haven't touched it for many a year.

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#578 Post by Rossian » Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:13 pm

Which phase do you think you are in Plum? I sincerely hope that this is not your swansong in this site. You are clearly an intelligent human being who has had an interesting and varied life work with a wealth of experience to draw on from which we would all be the beneficiaries. Please don't flounce away in a fit (or maybe more than one fit) of pique. I'm not the only one, I suspect, who would miss your presence.

I remember once after a very frustrating flight sending a "serious" snottograme to the ship we'd been working with. Next morning I get summoned to W/C Ops office who said, more or less "WTF over" had I really sent it? I was informed that a Seaking was coming ashore to take me out interview the Admiral. I did and he gave me good lesson in that, if you feel that strongly about it, don't press transmit until next morning after you've re-read the message and imagined the recipients likely reaction. It was a very instructive day and he was very gentlemanly about my callowness and we parted on good terms.

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#579 Post by Rossian » Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:16 pm

Which phase do you think you are in Plum? I sincerely hope that this is not your swansong in this site. You are clearly an intelligent human being who has had an interesting and varied life work with a wealth of experience to draw on from which we would all be the beneficiaries. Please don't flounce away in a fit (or maybe more than one fit) of pique. I'm not the only one, I suspect, who would miss your presence.
I remember once after a very frustrating flight sending a "serious" snottograme to the ship we'd been working with. Next morning I get summoned to W/C Ops office who said, more or less "WTF over" had I really sent it? I was informed that a Seaking was coming ashore to take me out interview the Admiral. I did and he gave me good lesson in that, if you feel that strongly about it, don't press transmit until next morning after you've re-read the message and imagined the recipients likely reaction. It was a very instructive day and he was very gentlemanly about my callowness and we parted on good terms.

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#580 Post by tango15 » Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:41 pm

Re Tom Campbell-Black:
Taken by me at Speke ca. 1959. No-one has been able to identify the figure in the photo as a member of staff.
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