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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 7h

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 9h

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Really rather brilliant crime thriller Cash on Demand (1961 80 mins.) starring Peter Cushing and Andre Morell.

Made on a tiny budget but director Quentin Lawrence keeps things moving.

[ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 15.20]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

Cash on Demand (1961)

A criminal holds a bank manager's family hostage, and forces him to help with a robbery. Crime thriller, starring Peter Cushing and Andre Morell

www.radiotimes.com

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning! from Charles Trenet

Live
(UK Columbia Records 14 track #vinyl LP 1961)

youtu.be/p0KWyWwVp0E

#sixties #pop #europop #France #chanson #vocal #60smusic

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 21h

I know the difference between 'there' and 'their'

My stupid typing fingers sometimes doesn't; for which, apologies.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 21h

The legacy of Smash Hits is huge and it's both troubling & wonderful how there thowaway 'gags' stick in the mind.

Only very recently I referred to the drummer in Big Country as 'Mark Unpronounceablename' to a bloke who was a huge fan and knew *exactly* how to pronounce Mark's surname.

#SmashHits

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 21h

If you're ever in a Charity Shop and you see an LP by Jack Parnell & His Orchestra : grab it!

Jack was the drumming 'voice' of Animal in the ATV-made Muppet Show series' and his work on these records is just as exciting.

#DrumAlongWithJack

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 21h

That's what I was afraued of.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 21h

the line deleted from Joel Grey's "willkommen" speech in Fosse's Cabaret.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday I read a review of the #film Comanche (1956) which said "Dana Andrews, past his prime, grim faced and struggling to remember his lines"

And yet, a year later, the same Andrews was tearing up the screen in Tourneur's Night Of The Demon.

One of us doesn't know what they are talking about

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 22h

You're here. All weak.

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

@handle.invalid

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 1d

A bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a wheelchair accessible photography studio for hire in London? I'm trying to plan a couple of studio shoots but finding it hard finding anywhere to shoot

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 1d

The Painted Smile (1962) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this afternoon, 3:10PM. Directed by Lance Comfort and starring Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds and Tony Wickert.

Worth checking out; Comfort is a much underrated British director. #BritNoir #FilmNoir

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! from Liberace

The Glittering Liberace
(UK MFP Records 9 track compilation #vinyl LP 1969)

youtu.be/q9nO9Ro_kd4

(appears to use the same interior decorator as Tr*mp!)

#sixties #cabaret #insrumentals #piano #60smusic

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 2d

Last nights first watch #film was the smart #noir crime thriller Shield For Murder (US, 1954)

starring and co-directed by Edmond O'Brien; with good support from Marla English & John Agar

letterboxd.com/film/shield-...

#50sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #FiftiesCinema #MidCenturyCinema

Shield for Murder (1954)

A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.

letterboxd.com

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 3d

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Taylor Sheridan's excellent crime drama Wind River (2017 107mins.)
starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen.

[5 Star 21.00 &+1]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

Wind River (2017)

Crime thriller starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. FBI Special Agent Jane Banner arrives at a Wyoming Native American reservation where local

www.radiotimes.com

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Gripping thriller The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974 102mins.)
with Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw & Martin Balsam
Directed by Joseph Sargent and superbly edited by Gerald Greenberg and Robert Q Lovett.

[5 Action 21.00]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

A ruthless criminal and his gang hijack a crowded New York subway train and demand a $1million ransom, threatening to shoot a passenger every minute a

www.radiotimes.com

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

Is this a service you're offering to the public?

Are you a registered health care professional?

#JustALittlePrick

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

#Hansi

Steve Gray @kaptkopter.bsky.social · 4d

A running flush of NSD

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering Nicholas Parsons, born this day in 1923.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck to everyone trying to get tickets today. The eternal paradox of asking this question to Kraftwerk fans...

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning! from Smiler (

Sincerely Yours
(UK KB Records 12 track #vinyl LP 1982)

fully signed on rear sleeve!

#eighties #pop #covers #cabaret #vocal #80smusic

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

I'm guessing his passport had "I'm an actor, dear boy" in the occupation box?

Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 4d

Saw them supporting Kid Creole earlier this year.

Made me think of a less whimsical version of The Monochrome Set.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 5d

Peter Saville's birthday. View his astonishing archive here - petersaville.info/sleeves/

Peter Saville Sleeve Design | Sleeves

Peter Saville Sleeve Design: Main Content: Illustrated discography.

petersaville.info

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Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.social · 5d

Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Guillermo del Toro's award winning fantasy The Shape Of Water (2017 118mins.)
starring Sally Hawkins and Michael Shannon with Octavia Spencer and Doug Jones.

Utterly wonderful (in both senses of the word)

[More 4 22.00 &+1]

www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...

The Shape of Water (2017)

Romantic fantasy drama starring Sally Hawkins and Michael Shannon. Elisa, a non-speaking woman, works as a cleaner in a top-secret US government facil

www.radiotimes.com

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