I recognized it, and Michael York…. But had to look up the movie for her name… Jenny Agutter. I remember her as a child star… I think she was in the Railway Children.
I liked Michael York so much I’ve discovered that I remember him in a couple of movies that he wasn’t in.🙄
My mistress always dresses me up in these ridiculous costumes at Halloween. It’s a good thing that I love her, or I’d bite her ankles every time she comes near me with this garbage.
Walt Disney didn’t know how to make cartoons?
OMG!
Walt Disney was a genius…
even if some of his talent lay in attracting other cartoonists and animators, generally the best in the business, to his studio… including his loyal friend and fellow genius Ub Iwerks.
Disney taught the whole world how to make cartoons!
His standards were exacting, and I hear he wasn’t always easy to work with because of it…. but he established a huge percentage of the plots and tropes we take for granted, even if others later tweaked them in ways you apparently prefer.
He was producing animated cartoons in 1921, and later produced some of the first ones with synchronized sound. This one is from 1935.
Find anything someone else did better in a cartoon before he did it!
Back when I could wear high heels… longer ago than I care to admit… each different pair took a little getting used to, but as long as they were flexible, had rounded toes, and the heels weren’t too high and thin, like late 1960s stilettos, they just became shoes.
The shoes in that clip, like most before the 60s, were fairly sturdy, and not pointy, with flexible arches, and enough of a flat tip on the heel for decent balance.
….
I wore vintage ones, myself, because I sold vintage clothes. Not high heels for every day, but enough that I got used to them..
Not good for actual running, because it throws off a heel and toe gait, or for, say, climbing ladders… But walking and dancing didn’t feel that different from my regular shoes.
What I couldn’t dance in, and felt awkward and off balance wearing, were those later stilettos, and anything with a solid, non bending sole, like clogs. I fell down a long set of outdoor stairs in hard rubber clogs, and never again wore a shoe that doesn’t bend.
…
Of course, by now I’ll never again wear high heels… and I think they’re horrible for feet, and maybe led to some problems I still have. I’d advise young women never to wear them, if they’d listen.
Hey, if it made the guys look at your legs, they were worth it, right? It’s like show business, and you’re competing against lots of other young girls. The show business good luck saying, “Break a leg”, takes on a whole new meaning!
I don’t think I thought of it that way… Occasionally, maybe, but I never wore heels with miniskirts. I considered it tacky.
I mostly wore them with long dresses from the 30s or 40s, to dress up. Never, say, for going alone to a bar, which I’ve never done anyway.
I was in my late 20s, and miniskirts were over, in my high heel days. The vintage store crowd loved parties and glamour…I was definitely not glamorous enough to keep up, but… sigh…. sometimes I did my.best.
I would say 75 or 80% of the crowd was gay, of all genders. San Francisco was not really the best place to get straight guys to look at your legs. But there were some… and it was really fun regardless.
I lived, OTOH, in a hippie-ish houseboat community… Totally different story on that side of the bridge…
But no high heels on the raggedy docks.
Still fun to read, if you suspend a bit of belief due to modern equipment. It’s still understanding very much about what makes the world around you tick and paying attention to the slightest clues. Things like the angle of the sun in the morning illuminating your mirror as you shave.
I have read every Sherlock Holmes story in existence more times than I can remember..
I always enjoy them.
Here is the Wikipedia article on 221B BAKER STREET (actually written as 221b).I’ve read many of the things stated it the article from other sources, so I’m going to call it all accurate.
As far as I know, we don’t have any horror movie fans other than me here, but if you are one or know one stay away, or warn them to stay away, from that new Demi Moore abomination “The Substance.”
It’s so bad that at around the 20 minute I began skipping at random, and nothing showed up that interested me. I then went to the end scene, and what a waste of recording electrons (or film if that is still used these days) that was.
Even the cliché characters were so poorly acted they made me say “UGH ! !”
Oh – I do like (and know) the old ones.
But this one? The description of the plot was enough to tell me not to watch it.
Thank you for the thumbs down!
Yesterday was quite the ordeal. Never again. Not without lumpers.
I developed a new pain. My right knee. And not just getting up pain, walking pain. This morning not much will get done. I’ll keep moving just to keep from stiffing up.
I am still going to move quite a bit by hand, but not with a big truck. What is left for me wont be that heavy. Just boxes.
We have two guys here that own their own box truck and do the Two Guys and a Truck thing.
as Stel used to do
.
Walking back to the car because you forgot your; mask, pass/card key, paper on the trojan wars, …
I know him…
Boy! I say boy! You’re about to exceed the limits of my medication!
Here I am, ready to take off, and she has to visit the bathroom Just one more time!
Hedwig still has to deliver some mail.
Stay patient; she’s worth it.
..
name that movie
I’m still trying to remember their names!
I recognized it, and Michael York…. But had to look up the movie for her name… Jenny Agutter. I remember her as a child star… I think she was in the Railway Children.
I liked Michael York so much I’ve discovered that I remember him in a couple of movies that he wasn’t in.🙄
She is English and starred in Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg.
Twinsies!!!
Jenny Agutter is one of the leads in Call The Midwife! I watched Logan’s Run this year for the 1st time. SHE was the reason I wanted to see it.
.,
She was so scared, she did a cartoon run right over that hole.
And that poor “monster” was just trying to warn her away from it so that she didn’t fall down. Perceptions, perceptions!
…
Cats would love sleeping in this window at certain times of the day. Maybe bassets, too, if they could climb up on the seats.
Detroit ,1907
The street seemed nice and wide at the time. Add a few years and some automobiles, and it might be just a “little” bit more crowded.
….
Somebody got into the catnip!
Talk about your “mixed breeds!”
My mistress always dresses me up in these ridiculous costumes at Halloween. It’s a good thing that I love her, or I’d bite her ankles every time she comes near me with this garbage.
find a spider and find a card corn
if you dare!
Even blown up, nope.
So a “card corn” isn’t a candy corn?
If I put my cursor over the picture, a box stating “spidercandycorn” appears. I haven’t found a spider, but I did find a candy corn.
I just found the spider.
oops!—spell-check got me again—yes indeedy: “candy corn”
I found them both.
Yuck.
Bad enough to find a spider in the candy.
A spider that blends in well enough to hide is …eeeww.
Not spoilerish enough to hide….. There are lots of things that look like candy corn to me, but only one is the real deal.
….
The full cartoon.
Walt Disney knew how to make movies (animated and live), but cartoons?… not so much.
Walt Disney didn’t know how to make cartoons?
OMG!
Walt Disney was a genius…
even if some of his talent lay in attracting other cartoonists and animators, generally the best in the business, to his studio… including his loyal friend and fellow genius Ub Iwerks.
Disney taught the whole world how to make cartoons!
His standards were exacting, and I hear he wasn’t always easy to work with because of it…. but he established a huge percentage of the plots and tropes we take for granted, even if others later tweaked them in ways you apparently prefer.
He was producing animated cartoons in 1921, and later produced some of the first ones with synchronized sound. This one is from 1935.
Find anything someone else did better in a cartoon before he did it!
Alexi, I have to agree with Susan on this one. I loved Disney cartoons as I was growing up!
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Damn dog! Always has to “go” in the middle of the night!
How these women can dance like that while wearing high heels is a mystery. True of yesterday’s video, with Fred Astaire, too.
I hadn’t noticed. He was wearing high heels too??? {^¿*}
Back when I could wear high heels… longer ago than I care to admit… each different pair took a little getting used to, but as long as they were flexible, had rounded toes, and the heels weren’t too high and thin, like late 1960s stilettos, they just became shoes.
The shoes in that clip, like most before the 60s, were fairly sturdy, and not pointy, with flexible arches, and enough of a flat tip on the heel for decent balance.
….
I wore vintage ones, myself, because I sold vintage clothes. Not high heels for every day, but enough that I got used to them..
Not good for actual running, because it throws off a heel and toe gait, or for, say, climbing ladders… But walking and dancing didn’t feel that different from my regular shoes.
What I couldn’t dance in, and felt awkward and off balance wearing, were those later stilettos, and anything with a solid, non bending sole, like clogs. I fell down a long set of outdoor stairs in hard rubber clogs, and never again wore a shoe that doesn’t bend.
…
Of course, by now I’ll never again wear high heels… and I think they’re horrible for feet, and maybe led to some problems I still have. I’d advise young women never to wear them, if they’d listen.
But I have to say they were fun for a while!
Hey, if it made the guys look at your legs, they were worth it, right? It’s like show business, and you’re competing against lots of other young girls. The show business good luck saying, “Break a leg”, takes on a whole new meaning!
I don’t think I thought of it that way… Occasionally, maybe, but I never wore heels with miniskirts. I considered it tacky.
I mostly wore them with long dresses from the 30s or 40s, to dress up. Never, say, for going alone to a bar, which I’ve never done anyway.
I was in my late 20s, and miniskirts were over, in my high heel days. The vintage store crowd loved parties and glamour…I was definitely not glamorous enough to keep up, but… sigh…. sometimes I did my.best.
I would say 75 or 80% of the crowd was gay, of all genders. San Francisco was not really the best place to get straight guys to look at your legs. But there were some… and it was really fun regardless.
I lived, OTOH, in a hippie-ish houseboat community… Totally different story on that side of the bridge…
But no high heels on the raggedy docks.
On 14th October 1892, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published.
Still fun to read, if you suspend a bit of belief due to modern equipment. It’s still understanding very much about what makes the world around you tick and paying attention to the slightest clues. Things like the angle of the sun in the morning illuminating your mirror as you shave.
Paying attention to details makes me think of Marisa Tomei playing Mona Lisa Vito in “My Cousin Vinny”.
I fell in love with Marisa Tomei for playing that part.
I have read every Sherlock Holmes story in existence more times than I can remember..
I always enjoy them.
Here is the Wikipedia article on 221B BAKER STREET (actually written as 221b).I’ve read many of the things stated it the article from other sources, so I’m going to call it all accurate.
The stories had already been published in serial form starting in 1887.
There’s a lot of books that started that way. Quite often under the title of “The collected stories of….”
As far as I know, we don’t have any horror movie fans other than me here, but if you are one or know one stay away, or warn them to stay away, from that new Demi Moore abomination “The Substance.”
It’s so bad that at around the 20 minute I began skipping at random, and nothing showed up that interested me. I then went to the end scene, and what a waste of recording electrons (or film if that is still used these days) that was.
Even the cliché characters were so poorly acted they made me say “UGH ! !”
Oh – I do like (and know) the old ones.
But this one? The description of the plot was enough to tell me not to watch it.
Thank you for the thumbs down!
Yesterday was quite the ordeal. Never again. Not without lumpers.
I developed a new pain. My right knee. And not just getting up pain, walking pain. This morning not much will get done. I’ll keep moving just to keep from stiffing up.
I am still going to move quite a bit by hand, but not with a big truck. What is left for me wont be that heavy. Just boxes.
We have two guys here that own their own box truck and do the Two Guys and a Truck thing.
Take care of yourself. If you had moved any closer, I’d have to call you neighbor.
Now, where’s that smile emoji?