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Scampy
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Diurnal scribbler, rat fancier, kitsch aficionado. Mollusc who never found my rock. Some would call me a hipster. Team Jacques. 🎳🐀 https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
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Home through the rain (1969)
Artist: John Berry
I remember being flummoxed by it as a kid, since I didn't get why the aliens would only show up at the end and then immediately leave. But now I think the aliens are the least important thing about it. It's all about the build-up and anticipation, which is beautiful.
This year we’re going ghost with our pumpkins.🎃
#dogsofbluesky
The strangest thing in this lot so far is a short reel that's literally just a black and white stop sign zooming at the camera. I've no context for that one.
Update: It's not the rain on Oxfordshire ad, although it does open with someone carrying an umbrella. From the opening frames I'm having trouble identifying it; I'll give it a more thorough inspection later.
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1989: Bedrooms from Habitat

(+Bibury limed oak bedroom)
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“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
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"You're still not in your own world, Homer.
I can get you home, but you have to do exactly as..."

"This is indeed a disturbing universe."
From the looks of it, it's too short to be the one where a man takes an axe to the leg, besides which I think I can make out a Universal rating, so that narrows it down a bit. Dare I hope for the one about acid rain on Oxfordshire? That is peak cinema advertising.
I recently acquired a lot of 35mm cinema ads, the absolute jewel of which is THIS. All of Friends of The Earth’s cinema ads were classics. I cannot wait to open it and discover which one I have.
Here's my contribution to the Secret Places and Trippy Houses blogathon hosted by @takinguproom.bsky.social

I cover the 2022 horror "Skinamarink", which in my books is an instant classic. Analog crackle, trippy old school animation, extended shots of ill-lit hallways. Seriously, am I in Heaven?
Skinamarink (aka Can We Sleep Downstairs Tonight?)
The thing that hurt me the most about Kyle Edward Ball's Skinamarink (2022) was how young its central characters were. Going in, this was s...
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the Rat way sanctuary that provides care for rats and that was feature in squeakross needs help!

If you can support them, please consider donating!!

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New to the BLACK LABEL this December, the gloriously camp comedy horror Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988).
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“By the lakeside”
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
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"Stuck-up Riverdale punks... Think they're too good for me."
Also, Detective Dog's girlfriend is clearly a collie. Back then I could have sworn she was a fox. I've been living a lie all these years.
The detail I had completely forgotten about and was taken by surprise by was Deal's eleventh-hour expression of remorse. Only a couple of episodes ago he was cackling at the thought of those kids being left to die in that shed.
Badger Girl as a whole might not be as iconic as Geordie Racer, but Mick ultimately is a legend...despite eight episodes' worth of evidence to the contrary.

(I wonder what happened to Mick anyway? They sort of brush over his fate at the end.)
Revisited "Look and Read: Badger Girl" and spent much of it awkwardly struggling to justify my childhood infatuation with Mick. I mean he's both a git AND an idiot. Then at the end he rides his motorcycle like a boss and saves the kids from going over the dam and it all came flooding back to me.
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Oct 1989: Ad for The Witches of Eastwick and Moonstruck

«TWO CHANCES TO GET HOLD OF CHER.»
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Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.