Richard Farmer

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Richard Farmer

Richard Farmer

@rg_farmer

Film historian, tea drinker, archive fetishist

Katılım Eylül 2019
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Richard Farmer
Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
Sound the new article klaxon again! My @studiotec_proj piece on the death and afterlife of Denham film studios is now available for FREE in Industrial Archaeology Review. Features a wonderful picture of a pig in a mail coach and my usual erudite musings. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Melanie Williams
Melanie Williams@BritFilmMelanie·
A new article! (not open access but if you can't get it through your library, let me know) 'Reflections in a Golden Eye: Exploring the Photographic Art of Margaret Nolan and Shirley Eaton' 🌟🌟🌟 Really pleased to be part of this great Bond special issue euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
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Josephine Botting@ReelJoBotting·
Hard to believe these guys are both about to head off to university (no. 1 son took a couple of years out of education). Where did the years go?
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
The new Charles III coins remind me of the Edward VIII 'royal animals' designs proposed to the Mint by Harold Wilson Parker. These were to include stags, swans and sturgeons - all animals associated with the Crown. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
The only one of the 'royal animals' design to make it into circulation was the ‘attractive and pert’ wren, which appeared for decades on the farthing.
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
Some of the designs were eventually rejected as insufficiently British (the eagle was associated with the USA and only the red grouse was unique to Britain), or too political (the dove had strong pacifist connotations).
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
@robinalexbaker I read Krumnagel years and years ago. I remember enjoying it at the time, not that I've ever been noted for my literary taste!
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
@robinalexbaker Oh, and you might also want to have a look at Peter Ustinov's bibliography - I'm pretty sure he wrote a novel or two in his time.
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
@robinalexbaker You're very welcome. Murder in Make-Up (which I've only been able to access in a library, sadly) is one of a number of 1930s studio-set murder mysteries that I'll be discussing in a forthcoming article. Don't think any of the others were written by former actors though.
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
@robinalexbaker Charles Ashton was a silent-era actor (tinyurl.com/2p9c3p9t) who knocked out a number of crime novels in the 1930s and 40s, the first of which, the very enjoyable Murder in Make-Up, was set in a film studio.
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Richard Farmer@rg_farmer·
This sequence from the 1943 film Thursday's Child was shot in the canteen at Welwyn Studios. Might be of interest to @ReelStreets
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