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5 April 2025 06:46Not feeling too well (yay), but every once in a while I remember William Russell's Ben Hur screen test. It's funny how the man who didn't want to go to Hollywood kept finding himself brushing with it.
It's Russ!
16 March 2025 16:12Here's one of the surviving episodes of the show Moonstrike, featuring William Russell!
Some time ago, the channel that had one clip of this up (and tried to sell off the eps, scummy shit) was deleted.
And then this shows up! History has been preserved!
Now to archive this gem of the Internet Archive :D
Some time ago, the channel that had one clip of this up (and tried to sell off the eps, scummy shit) was deleted.
And then this shows up! History has been preserved!
Now to archive this gem of the Internet Archive :D
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10 December 2024 19:24As always, very tired and down. I am, however, in tears, because Fátima Opera Rock. Just... Wow...
I'm just surprised it's a thing. Portugal is extremely catholic, I wonder what the reception will be. (My mother thought Jesus Christ Superstar was blasphemy o_o)
Forgot to share. For the occasion of William Russell's 100th birthday!
Because he did play Mr. Rochester in a stage production of Jane Eyre! All the pics suck, so artistic liberties were taken.
I miss him.
I haven't progressed in the Veidtwatch much. Not because I'm tired of him (oh never; if that happens, consider that my evil mirror self has killed me and took my place). It's just... people... they drain me...
Screw that, look at this! Gigantic Conrad Veidt film cycle! In 2018. Sigh.
It's 30+ films that range from easy to find to "you have to ask the right people to get it" (alas, Dida Ibsen and Christian Wahnschaffe are stuck in archive hell, and therefore unavailable to us mere mortals). The first film shown was Ich und die Kaiserin even!
You bet I would skip all my examsand rob a bank haha just kidding to be there. If I knew about it. No wonder no one told me, I would've been even more insufferable lol
Didn't do very well, apparently, that's a shame.
Here's the programme in PDF. Warning: Veidt Stare (TM).
Another thing to turn me into an insufferable bastard that makes people complain when I'm not looking probs.
HD digitalisations! So shiny and HD! Sadly, we only get clips...
Films that tickle my fancy for obvious reasons:
There's also clips for Alraune and Ariane, which also caught my eye.
EDIT: Dürfen wir schweigen? (1926) and Die Letzte Kompagnie (1930) have also been digitised. And what in the world is Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari??
For the past two weeks I've been writing, in a fugue state, what can only be described as "weird Oberaertz thing". Very self-indulgent. Also almost 2k words long and I'm still in the beginning. If people are allowed write their self-indulgences, so can I!
I'm just surprised it's a thing. Portugal is extremely catholic, I wonder what the reception will be. (My mother thought Jesus Christ Superstar was blasphemy o_o)
Forgot to share. For the occasion of William Russell's 100th birthday!
Because he did play Mr. Rochester in a stage production of Jane Eyre! All the pics suck, so artistic liberties were taken.
I miss him.
I haven't progressed in the Veidtwatch much. Not because I'm tired of him (oh never; if that happens, consider that my evil mirror self has killed me and took my place). It's just... people... they drain me...
Screw that, look at this! Gigantic Conrad Veidt film cycle! In 2018. Sigh.
It's 30+ films that range from easy to find to "you have to ask the right people to get it" (alas, Dida Ibsen and Christian Wahnschaffe are stuck in archive hell, and therefore unavailable to us mere mortals). The first film shown was Ich und die Kaiserin even!
You bet I would skip all my exams
Didn't do very well, apparently, that's a shame.
Here's the programme in PDF. Warning: Veidt Stare (TM).
Since 1 January 2019, the Film Heritage Funding Programme (FFE) of the BKM, the federal states and the FFA has been providing up to 10 million euros annually for the digitisation of cinema films for a period of ten years.
For the feature-length fiction and documentary films in this funding programme, filmportal.de is providing the respective film beginnings. An overview of all funded films on filmportal.de can be found here.
Further information can be found at www.ffa.de
Another thing to turn me into an insufferable bastard that makes people complain when I'm not looking probs.
HD digitalisations! So shiny and HD! Sadly, we only get clips...
Films that tickle my fancy for obvious reasons:
- Der Reigen (1920) starring the great Asta Nielsen! There are thirty minutes of the film on YouTube in very nice quality (conpared to the Internet Archive one; it's a full copy, but it's smudged).
- Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931), which I haven't seen yet (saving it for the end). It's night and day. Or it would be if...
- Der Schwarze Husar (1932) wasn't digitised. Holy.
- Ich und die Kaiserin (1933) also got the same treatmemt. Please Murnau Institute, give us the Blu-Ray!
There's also clips for Alraune and Ariane, which also caught my eye.
EDIT: Dürfen wir schweigen? (1926) and Die Letzte Kompagnie (1930) have also been digitised. And what in the world is Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari??
For the past two weeks I've been writing, in a fugue state, what can only be described as "weird Oberaertz thing". Very self-indulgent. Also almost 2k words long and I'm still in the beginning. If people are allowed write their self-indulgences, so can I!
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5 June 2024 10:58William Russell passed away. He was 99 years old.
I'm glad he existed, spent his entire life doing what he loved, and brought smiles to so many people.
I'm glad he existed, spent his entire life doing what he loved, and brought smiles to so many people.
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18 February 2024 17:32My Connie pics folders have reached a thousand pictures. This is more than my Jackie folder and my Russell folder.
I assume it is due to his popularity (and the popularity of his films) so there's a lot more production pictures, documentation and even candid photos. Even if he's "niche" when it comes to other 20th century actors, he's still more well-known than "Barbara DrWho" and has more impact in today's culture than "Sir Ted Chesterton". And I'm not even saving gifs and screencaps, or else it would be double the size.
My Russell folder, for instance, has little over 500, with screencaps, gifs and everything.
Lordy.
I assume it is due to his popularity (and the popularity of his films) so there's a lot more production pictures, documentation and even candid photos. Even if he's "niche" when it comes to other 20th century actors, he's still more well-known than "Barbara DrWho" and has more impact in today's culture than "Sir Ted Chesterton". And I'm not even saving gifs and screencaps, or else it would be double the size.
My Russell folder, for instance, has little over 500, with screencaps, gifs and everything.
Lordy.
Someone uploaded all of Jane Eyre 1963! Well, the episodes that exist anyway.
You know what that means...
Let's go! He's great in this! He would be a great Rochester for sure.
Back in April, the BFI held a screening of Intimate Relations (1953), an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles (?) that was critically panned at the time. It was the first big screen role with William Russell and had the tagline of "The Most Provocative Film Of The Year". Whoever had the chance to see it is lucky, there's no home release of it.
Anyways, here's the page of the screening. That publicity picture, never seen it before, but it was used as a base for some posters on some newspapers.
Russell was very disappointed, he thought "this is it, my time to shine!" and the movie did awful lol. Want to see it either way. He's got amazing hair.
Oh and I came across this not too long ago. The publicity picture is well-known (in the Russell fans' circle, that is), but this scan is soooo good. I can see the bloody pores on their skin! And his... acne scars? Can relate, if true.
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Forgot to post this at the time, because it was my birthday and Eurovision day, but Tragical History Tour updated their William Russell page with some Lancelot publicity pics (with no watermarks!) and some The Man Who Never Was and Adventure Story ones I haven't seen before. Best. Birthday gift. Ever (unless the Beeb wants to release The Chopping Block on my birthday, pretty please?)
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This publicity picture for the TV play The Patch Card, that I only saw in bad newspaper prints. Messed around in TinEye to get it. Apparently from a deleted Tumblr blog?
Anyways, here's the page of the screening. That publicity picture, never seen it before, but it was used as a base for some posters on some newspapers.
Russell was very disappointed, he thought "this is it, my time to shine!" and the movie did awful lol. Want to see it either way. He's got amazing hair.
Oh and I came across this not too long ago. The publicity picture is well-known (in the Russell fans' circle, that is), but this scan is soooo good. I can see the bloody pores on their skin! And his... acne scars? Can relate, if true.
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Forgot to post this at the time, because it was my birthday and Eurovision day, but Tragical History Tour updated their William Russell page with some Lancelot publicity pics (with no watermarks!) and some The Man Who Never Was and Adventure Story ones I haven't seen before. Best. Birthday gift. Ever (unless the Beeb wants to release The Chopping Block on my birthday, pretty please?)
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This publicity picture for the TV play The Patch Card, that I only saw in bad newspaper prints. Messed around in TinEye to get it. Apparently from a deleted Tumblr blog?
Because Van Gogh will always be no. 1, and I respect Jacqueline Hill too much to call her a "blorbo" :P
( News Ahead )
( News Ahead )
As previously mentioned, I mucked around a British newspaper archive (and occasionally Google News), finding stuff about you-know-who. Here's a clipping I found nice (and upsetting)
( Back to Basics - Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 06 March 1978 )
( Back to Basics - Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 06 March 1978 )
