You're moving forward in a figure eight

[sovay]

Happy autumn! After some last-minute, early-morning runaround, I finally got to see a physical therapist about my back. In the evening, I baked things with apples in the toaster oven and watched several episodes of Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85) with my mother who has nostalgic feelings about the Thames ident with the river-mirrored skyline. The night is suddenly Arctic, full of the sharp colors of stars. I am hoping to have access to a telescope in time for Jupiter's closest approach since 1963, but if not, there's always binoculars. Have a couple of links.

1. I had not heard the contretemps about the origins of Betty Boop, but I appreciate PBS acknowledging that its failure to fact-check generated now-popular misinformation, which is of course harder to recall than the more complicated reality. "We could have thus avoided this teachable moment."

2. Courtesy of thisbluespirit: a gifset of Martin Jarvis in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), which I suspect I may end up watching just to have an opinion about what happens to him after the end of it, as the film apparently does not.

3. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: a manuscript scourge, which is exactly what it sounds like, except it sounded like something different to me.

I watched a bunch of movies in the spring before we had to move and intended to write about several of them and did not manage it in time and it is true that I do not have a ready means of rewatching any of them at the moment, but they still feel oddly, mentally inaccessible to me and I am trying to sort out why. It frustrates me to feel so wiped out.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I just keep hoping that someone's private archive will turn up all of these lost shows, however unlikely. Silent films keep surfacing, so one hopes.

And I mean, last year, Talking Pictures suddenly came up with four episodes of The Hidden Truth, which was even more unlikely than Haunted. Oh, I would love to see that one!

And, amazing, a person who knows Undermind! It was how I wound up getting into Department S, because I was a bit fed up with ITC serials which aren't my bag, but Rosemary Nicols really impressed me as one of the two leads in Undermind (and then also because swordznsorcery did some more of their very kind dangerous enabling).