pferguson | April 18, 2021
Radium – Light the catalyst… She’s wonderful isn’t she…her dance…her name is Loie Fuller [pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting] if you wish to see her again…she calls it… this dance…her fire dance…[Why?]…I believe its because she’s interested in the way flames move. Henri Curie speaking to Marie Skłodowska from Radioactive. Screenplay by Jack […]
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Tags: Bibliothèque nationale France, Chilliwack, Film History, Great War, Henri Curie, Jack Thorne, Loie Fuller, Malta, Marie Curie, Marjane Satrapi, Nobel Prize, Petite Curie, Radioactive, Radium. Polonium, X-ray
pferguson | July 26, 2020
Complications and Anticipations A chance encounter with the unfamiliar…a Sheffield Billiken lends itself for today’s discussion of the film series Parade’s End. Based on four books written by Ford Madox Ford the novels are: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928). The tetralogy visits […]
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Tags: Artillery, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billiken, Bliss Carman, Film History, Florence Pretz, Ford Madox Ford, Fumsup, Groby Tree, Lincolnshire Imp, Parade's End, St. Anthony
pferguson | May 23, 2020
Three People Never Having Met Beneath the sky, the moon – the sun – this ground, this coast, valley, or ridge. Along the long, long trail that is our path through Gully Ravine – or our crest at Lone Pine. I return this day to wanderings across places of conflict and to now distant interests. […]
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Tags: Australia, Border Regiment, Charles Davies Vaughan DSO, Conflict, Dreamtime, Film History, Follow the Sun, Galipoli, Gully Ravine, Inscription, Lyrics, Nottinghamshire, Peter Hart Battlefield Tours, Peter Weir, Pink Farm Cemetery, Rainbows, Russell Crowe, Soundtracks, The Water Diviner, W Beach, Water, Xavier Rudd
pferguson | May 6, 2020
The Sweet Sound that Calls Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a […]
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Tags: Alonenessness, Connection, COVID-19, Dark, Dreamers, Family, Film History, Light, Lovers, Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, Shade, Soundtracks, Storytelling, The Muppet Movie
pferguson | April 24, 2020
All the Following Days The tale of two soldiers…both runners (messengers) with the 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada). Some days prior to the famed attack, whilst in the line near Vimy Ridge, Privates Alexander Broadfoot (130245) and James Mucklow (160827) stood near. Private Mucklow was on duty this day, 1 April 1917, […]
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Tags: 1 April 1917, 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron, 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, 82nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Alexander Broadbent, American Army, Asthma, Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery (Netherlands), Bronchitis, Burnsland Cemetery (Calgary), Camp Funston (Kansas), Chat Hunting, Chats, Chatting, COVID-19, Eric Kennington, Etaples Military Cemetery, Film History, Gallipoli, Hastings Park, Hotel Lotus, Influenza, James Mucklow, James Mucklow Jr., John Mucklow, Joseph Acheson, László Mednyánszky, Lice, Married Man, Measles, Military Medal, Mucklow Family, No. 56 General Hospital, Passchendaele, Peter Weir, Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.), Rose Mucklow, Roy Mucklow, Royal Canadian Air Force, Runner (Messenger), Soldiers Hunting for Lice, Souchez, Trench Fever
