too_much_in_the_sun

 Apologies for being absent lately; this is my very last week of college and I've been... busy. 

You get two posts today, as an apology for none yesterday! Here's the first; the second a little later today.

( Watching Journey's End )

So if you miss watching videos in 480p, you're in the right place.

I’m working on a long piece about Journey’s End, a 1928 stage play set in a British trench during WWI, which was Colin Clive’s first big role. Here’s a short excerpt about his casting in the second run of the play.

This comes from James Curtis’s fine biography of James Whale – I am working from the 1982 edition from the Scarecrow Press, but there’s also a revised edition from 1998. Scroll down for the transcript; each image is clickable to view at full size.

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It's been a very long time since I composed a post like this; please let me know if there are any formatting issues

 

I've been virtually tumblr-exclusive for so long I've forgotten how everything else works. Yeesh. So pardon the mess while I figure things out.

Hi yes hello I'm one of nine thousand people fleeing here because tumblr is self-destructing at the moment. 

My name is Jack, and I'm a 25-year-old trans man living in the American Southwest / Mountain West.

I enjoy posting about a lot of things, including: anything Frankenstein, most things Lovecraft, the Re-Animator movies, the actors Jeffrey Combs and Colin Clive, Pacific Rim, the Maximum Ride books, mad science, and medical history. 

Also I'm about to graduate with a degree in history, so I'll be busy for the next two weeks.

On tumblr my URL is cryingalonewithfrankenstein; on AO3 I'm too_much_in_the_sun.