tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62933730545440772382011-04-21T12:05:46.592-07:00From April 2007, journeys into the world of early cinema and beyond...Marjorie Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12637066225567407262noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293373054544077238.post-89929723127025266372007-04-05T03:00:00.000-07:002007-04-05T07:47:11.674-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhUEtUDF5XI/AAAAAAAAAA0/YIJuXLTaOYo/s1600-h/turkish+baths.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhUEtUDF5XI/AAAAAAAAAA0/YIJuXLTaOYo/s200/turkish+baths.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049947733688182130" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhUEhUDF5WI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J_ONlMYxt7A/s1600-h/ratpit.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhUEhUDF5WI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J_ONlMYxt7A/s200/ratpit.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049947527529751906" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhTqskDF5TI/AAAAAAAAAAU/KYC5YO7H_Lc/s1600-h/cominthrotherye.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_cL-Lo5DYITg/RhTqskDF5TI/AAAAAAAAAAU/KYC5YO7H_Lc/s200/cominthrotherye.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049919133500958002" /></a><br />Finally <span style="font-style: italic;">Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930</span> has arrived. It's been a long time since the first drafts were submitted, due to a problem with the publisher, but it's here at last, thanks so much to Laraine and Bryony. The front cover has a lovely picture of Alma Taylor in <span style="font-style: italic;">Comin' thro' the Rye </span>(1923). My article '"The Plucky Girl" and the "Pigeon to Pluck"' is on past entertainment in London and how that was presented in a film by W.G. Barker <span style="font-style: italic;">Rogues of London</span> (1915). <br /><br />Here are some pictures of entertainments from ye olde London town, taken from Barker's film <br />- the Turkish Baths where the villain Ralph Munt (played by the wonderful Fred Paul) finds his pigeon to pluck <br />- the Rat Pit, one of the immoral sports through which Ralph attempts to lure our hero Dick into London's underworld<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6293373054544077238-8992972312702526637?l=marjoriedaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Marjorie Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12637066225567407262noreply@blogger.com1