A little bit of travel
Lots of tv viewing lately
Talamasca surprised me with the use of a phone box as part of the communication regarding a dead drop – nice one; This is not a murder mystery has a fabulous arty phone ‘box/shield’; and I’m rewatching The X-Files …
More than a phone box
I’ve watched season 1 of the tv series Anne Rice’s Talamasca’ and the iconic red UK phone box plays a big role as part of the drop box system:
Telephones of the World
I picked up this volume recently:
And this creation is very appealing – caffeine and dial:
Out and about
I haven’t come across many phone boxes lately so just two locations this time.
I spent a few days in Helsinki and Tallinn and this was the only phone box I came across. Both countries are strongly digitial orientated so that may explain it. This UNESCO island is a sea fort and the phone box was last used in the 1970s (I think).
This is me, with my dog Biscuit, at the Rochester Sweeps Festival a few weeks ago.
A bit of variety
Some more tv scenes
You can rely on an Agatha Christie production to have a telephone scene.
Yes, it’s wrong to vandalise a phone box but…
I found an short folk horror film from 1978 on You Tube called ‘Tarry Dan Tarry Dan’ (Scarey Old Spooky Man). It focuses on a small group of mid-teen boys who at one point are discussing the elderly tramp who is well know in the village. At 29 minutes in, they say the following, with the second boy making fun of the first…
“There’s something evil about that old guy. I can feel it. Sense it somehow”
“Yeah, yeah, he vandalises phone boxes didn’t you know”
The 1970s was definately a more innocent time…in some ways. The story is really quite disturbing and I doubt it would be seen fit for children these days.
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FB content
Seems like I get a lot of content from FB these days. Here’s some more screen shots:
