Our eldest is at Disneyland at the moment so that has inspired this thread.
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Monday, September 14, 2026
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier 1980
One of my friends went to a book event for Marco Pirroni's new autobiography and enjoyed it a lot. I have the book ordered from the Library (did I tell you I love libraries). I wasn't that keen on this period Ants - not that I said so to them. We had a letter from Adam when they were recording this at Rockfield.
Brigitte
When we first got married not only did we have 2 pinballs we also had Brigitte an African clawed toad (Xenopus). We had her in a large tank. She eventually went to Rode Bird Gardens in their reptile section.
The Land Remains Official Trailer 2026
On Radio Somerset. The Land Remains Screening Tour — Stone Club
The official trailer for The Land Remains by Boris Thompson-Roylance.
The Land Remains places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today. Across a year, director, @deadbeatboris spent a year filming pre-christian traditions and sacred sites across the country. Pagan practices, aligned with the calendar wheel, structured around the solstices, equinoxes, and seasonal thresholds. Alongside this, Boris spent a year documenting the Bibby Stockholm Barge in Portland, Dorset, which housed hundreds of male asylum seekers. The filmmaker saw the Barge as a symbol of the previous Governments hostile environment. The Land Remains examines how folklore and the rising tide of nationalism collide within a divided nation, revealing how belonging continues to shape national identity today. A powerful convergence of two themes - migration, and connection to the land - with a powerful manifesto for divided times "we are a migrant nation". The film features many prominent voices in the folk community, including folk singer and song collector Sam Lee and alchemist and apothecarist Charlotte Pulver.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Rooty Toot Toot ~ John Hubley ~ UPA ~ 1951 ~ nice copy
Rooty Toot Toot (1951) stands as one of the high points of UPA's output and as one of the most highly-praised seven-minute cartoons ever made. It is in no way a children's film; it deals with strictly adult characters and situations. Gerald McBoing Boing and The Ragtime Bear had performed very well at the box office, so Columbia approved a larger budget for UPA cartoons--they would now be budgeted at nearly $35,000 each. Meanwhile, John Hubley was anxious to make his own definitive statement at UPA (he directed the first Magoo cartoon but would soon hand the character over to others). Hubley took the new budget allowance and ran with it, pulling out all the stops to make a thoroughly Modern and graphically exciting update on the old "Frankie and Johnny" story of jealousy and murder. Rooty Toot Toot would go over schedule and budget, but it earned nearly as much critical and press attention as Gerald.
Hubley brought in a number of interesting collaborators on Rooty Toot Toot. Dancer Olga Lunick was hired to choreograph the ballet-style dance moves. There was no rotoscoping involved; her moves were only referenced by the artists and animators, not slavishly traced. Paul Julian designed the backgrounds and utilized some non-typical techniques; in his essential history of UPA, When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA (Wesleyan, 2012), Adam Abraham quotes Julian on one of them: "'I found a kind of oddly corroded gelatin roller - an ordinary print roller that had been pitted and pocked in some way, chemically.' With this device, he produced distressed-looking backgrounds that suited the sordid tale." In addition, Hubley and the studio brought on jazz musician Phil Moore to write the score. Moore had done orchestrations for many MGM musicals in the 1940s, but uncredited--this would be a rare on-screen credit for the black musician. Legendary animator Grim Natwick also joined the crew. Natwick had been active since the silent era and had designed and animated Betty Boop for the Fleischer Studios. He went on to work on such key films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Gulliver's Travels (1939). For Rooty Toot Toot Natwick animated the memorable shots of Nellie Bly on the witness stand. Producer: John Hubley Director: John Hubley
Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA (2027) - Trailer
"Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA" shows the origins, rise, fall, and legacy of an innovative and iconoclastic animation studio. Through revealing interviews and stylishly animated reenactments of key moments in Hollywood history, this feature-length animated documentary hybrid illuminates a vital, untold chronicle of cinema and the real-life personalities behind it.
Premiering at film festivals in 2027.
Susie, The Little Blue Coupe (1952)
Susie the Little Blue Coupe is a 1952 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 6, 1952.
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground & Nico Live 1966
Primary footage is from Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, May, 1966. Secondary footage is from various Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows. Audio is from Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966.
Philippe Garrel - Le Coffret Nico boxset trailer
Our trailer for Le Coffret Nico, our blu-ray boxset with 5 films by Philippe Garrel featuring the singer/songwriter/actress/poet and Garrel's muse Nico. The majority of these films have been newly restored with close cooperation with our production team and the filmmaker himself, many benefiting from new scanss of the films.
Available here : https://re-voir.com/shop/en/philippe-garre... FILMS LA CICATRICE INTÉRIEURE (1970, 35mm, color, 60 mins) with: Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel, Ari, Balthazar Clémenti, Daniel Pommereulle (English, French, Japanese, Korean subtitles) LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL (1975, 35mm, color, mono, 72 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Frédéric Pardo, Margareth Clémenti, Anita Pallenberg, Dominique Sanda, Philippe Garrel (English dialogue with French and Japanese subtitles) UN ANGE PASSE (1975, 35mm, B/W, mono, 82 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Garrel, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier (French, English, Japanese subtitles) ATHANOR (1972, 35mm, color, silent, 20 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Musky (silent film) LE BLEU DES ORIGINES (1977, 35mm, B/W, silent, 12 mins, 2025 restoration/re-edit) with: Nico, Zouzou (silent film) BONUS: LES HAUTES SOLITUDES (5 mins excerpt, 1974). (silent film) Includes 48-page EN/FR Booklet
Nico – No One Is There (Live, 1970)
Rare performance of Nico in 1970 with John Cale on viola. Track taken from “Walpurgisnacht - Raritäten Und Konzerte - Teil II”
Tasmanian Tiger 90 years extinct
Thylacine - Wikipedia
See all available footage All Tasmanian Tiger Footage Ever Filmed - YouTube
I have to add some people including Susan think there are still some out there.
The Peter Potamus Show Intro
The Peter Potamus Show - Wikipedia I don't remember this maybe they didn't show it over here.
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