Category Archives: Media

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Starts with a call

Phone boxes still get a mention in one way or another in the press. Here is a lovely example of a love story that started with a call from a public phone.

from the Guardian

TV moments

The box in the arts

Source: Guardian

More of the same

Yes more phone boxes on tv. This first one is America’s Game…The Wheel of Fortune. We’ve just started watching this and there was no explanation of the set. I’m not sure if it’s a regular thing but on this episode they appear to being trying to set an English scene. There is naturally a phone box but what’s this about the word ‘Metro’ being imposed on an Underground logo? A little reserach on the topic wouldn’t go amiss 🙂

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Exactly this

Brokenwood

Vivian Maier

Yesterday I watched a facinating documentary on the photographer Vivian Mair. I love what I saw of her work. As an archivist the whole story is also intriguing. Here is one of her pieces. Look closely at the gentleman on the phone. From what the documentary shows, Maier wasn’t afraid of showing aspects of the human condition that others turn away from.

Finding Vivian Maier

Toast of Tinseltown

Love Toast and there is a new series on BBC Two. (Everyone needs more comedy in these dark times.) The intro features a great piece of phone box artwork and this gets a bit more of an explantion in one of the episodes:

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