Category Archives: Media
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Real crime
We’ve started watching ‘Mindhunter’, set in the USA in the 1970s. There was mention of a serial killer who, when expecting to be hunted by police and finding he was not, rang in from a phone booth to confess. Here’s a screen shot from Wikipedia:
Lockdown viewing
Part of my Lockdown viewing has included all the repeats of ‘Agatha Christie’s Marple‘ and other Christie versions.
4:50 from Paddington 
4:50 from Paddington
Then I moved onto Poirot and in the image below we have a murder IN the phone box:
Then there’s all the other TV I’ve watched, including:
Arlington Road 
Arlington Road
Dredd 
Greenland
The Girl with all the Gifts 
Gantz
Posting these I realise how bleak my viewing has been, so here’s something a little brighter:
House of Games 
House of Games
Kim’s Convenience 
Have I Got News for You
Your Honor
We just started watching ‘Your Honor‘ and this shot appears in the first 10 minutes or so. I love the way it’s constructed, with balance and form and colour.
Google honours the icon
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.
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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)