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Hello. Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I prefer to be called. I chose it in honour of Beau Brummell. I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.
Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • •Wow. what a film! That was unusual, to say the least. But there are reasons for the bediting, etc.
"With a few exceptions, the Twickenham films are very hard to see today; sadly, some of them no longer exist at all.
... Show more...The 1932 re-make of The Lodger is a surviving Twickenham film, but only by a hair’s-breadth. It survives not because of any efforts in its home country, but because in 1935 the film secured distribution in America, under the more lurid title The Phantom Fiend; a title presumably intended to draw in the pre-existing audience for horror films. Unfortunately, although we must be grateful for the circumstances that preserved the film at all, that preservation came at a price. Prior to its release in America, The Lodger was severely cut, its eighty-five minute running-time reduced to only sixty-five; only these truncated prints seem to be available today.
Furthermore, the basic issue of the cutting is exacerbated by how clumsily it was done: many scenes are terminated in mid-conversation. The print quality is poor, and so, even more detrimentally, is the s
Wow. what a film! That was unusual, to say the least. But there are reasons for the bediting, etc.
"With a few exceptions, the Twickenham films are very hard to see today; sadly, some of them no longer exist at all.
The 1932 re-make of The Lodger is a surviving Twickenham film, but only by a hair’s-breadth. It survives not because of any efforts in its home country, but because in 1935 the film secured distribution in America, under the more lurid title The Phantom Fiend; a title presumably intended to draw in the pre-existing audience for horror films. Unfortunately, although we must be grateful for the circumstances that preserved the film at all, that preservation came at a price. Prior to its release in America, The Lodger was severely cut, its eighty-five minute running-time reduced to only sixty-five; only these truncated prints seem to be available today.
Furthermore, the basic issue of the cutting is exacerbated by how clumsily it was done: many scenes are terminated in mid-conversation. The print quality is poor, and so, even more detrimentally, is the sound. This latter may be a preservation issue, or it may be a relic of the difficulties inherent in the conversion to sound film-making, which was still an issue when the film was made."
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But there is another reason to cherrish this film. Very few things with Ivor Novello in them still exist. I say this because I am referring not only to the few talking films he made (thesilent ones exist, but I'm blind and can't watch them), but even to his radio shows, of which he made many! When I went to the BBC's page with the archives of the Radio Times, I literally cried. Not only was Ivor himself capturhed, but even his mother, ClaranOvello Davies, and her choir, and Olive Gilbert, from her early days before working with Ivor. I know that at least one show they don't have to stream there does exist, and that is the 1979 tribute called The Romantic World of Ivor Novello. I found it on Youtube and downloaded it. I am hoping that maybe, some of the other exist and just haven't been uploaded or digitised yet. But I'm afraid to even ask the BBC, lest they crush any dreams I may have. It's so, so frustrating!