Gile Gilbert Scott, the English architect who designed the red telephone box, was born on the 9th November 1880. Google celebrated this with a fancy remake of its own icon.
Category Archives: Media
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Archer 
Archer
Line of Dury 
Line of Duty
Waking the Dead
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Agatha Raisin (S3) 
Archer 
Predestination 
Orange is the New Black (S5)
The Umbrella Academy 
Archer
A couple of more interesting elements were introduced in ‘Waking the Dead’ episode, in one episode (S6) a character is assulted in a phone box with a psychedelic compound made with woad and another (S5) where a man is murdered while making a call…
And in ‘Upload’, the design for the digitial after life still includes a phone booth…
Face the Music
‘Bill and Ted: Face the Music’ opened recently and the phone booth still plays a vital role as a time machine, in the quest to save the universe. (An updated time machine, now in the shape of a cocoon, is utilised by daughters, Thea and Billie.)
Screenshots: Lockdown viewing
(good Aussie comedy/drama, making me a little homesick)
Art connections
Screenshots: Covid 19 viewing
More screen time is ahead of me in the coming months. I’m normally don’t sit in front of the TV for too long but as I’m trying to do my civic duty and not leave the house, this will be difficult. Here’s a few to start the next phase with:
Anna 
Buffy 
Dr Who 
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia
Waking the Dead (pilot) 
Flight of the Conchords 
Supergirl
I like that in Supergirl we see a photo of a couple on someones phone with the indication that the photo was taken in the UK, thanks to the iconic, red phone box in the background.
Screenshots: Rewatching a favourite
With a new Wes Anderson movie coming out*, The French Dispatch, I thought I’d re-watch a favourite, The Royal Tenenbaums. There are quite of few scenes with telephones:
* Written Feb 2020, before Covid 19 ravaged the globe. And I thought I was about to see ‘The French Dispatch’. It still hasn’t come out (Oct 2020) although I did see a short for it at the cinema a week or so ago. It looks fabulous and I want to see it now!
Screenshots: Superheroes
From the recent movie Captain Marvel and the tv series Watchmen (a phone booth used to talk to a blue god) to an iconic favourite – Buffy.
Recent viewing
‘Good Omens’ 
‘Good Omens’
