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This post is a supplement to "what thou seest"; it is a brief list of resources I consulted or books I enjoyed while writing that story. I've sorted these into four loose categories. Many of these materials are freely available online.

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One thing that R. C. Sherriff discusses in his autobiography, No Leading Lady, is the process of writing Journey's End. I found this passage fascinating, but it's relatively long, so it took me a good deal of time to transcribe. That transcription follows the LJ-cut, and is itself followed by my commentary.

imgur album of the scanned pages.

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Here's an excerpt from the 20 February 1929 edition of Variety; this is from Hannen Swaffer's column "London As It Looks". Mostly I found this of interest because it's a relatively early review of Journey's End, appearing in an American publication as part of their regular feature on recent happenings in London.

Also he says nice things about Colin Clive, so I couldn't not post this.

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Notes:

Swaffer made a couple of obvious mistakes - the play is set in March, not May; Sherriff is spelled with two Rs - and drops a couple references that have become a little esoteric. (Translation: I had to go Google some of this.)

"Tallulah bedroom scene" - Tallulah Bankhead was then working in the theatre in London, and was well-known for her larger-than-life personality.

Jed Harris, Arthur Hopkins, and [David] Belasco were all American theatre producers. Harris and Hopkins were still relatively early in their careers; Belasco was nearly at the end of his.

I kept telling myself to wait before I posted this, but my nitpicking was beginning to reach critical levels, so without further preamble, here it is, the first half of the Journey's End fic I've been mentioning.

title: what thou seest

fandom: Journey's End + H. P. Lovecraft (Randolph Carter stories)

wordcount: 8.9k

rating: T

summary: Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. Dennis Stanhope survives the war, quits drinking, and makes some new friends - with a few detours along the way.

excerpt: At some point he falls asleep. There are no dreams that he can remember, but he wakes up – sometime in the early evening, judging from the quality of the light – with his heart pounding. His thoughts are in disorder.

I’ve been here before, he thinks. I’ve been here before.

Many thanks are due to

missanthropicprinciple for chatting with me about this play/movie.

The second half is still in progress. Once it's done I'm going to put together a post with some recommended further reading, because I've gone through an alarming amount of material while writing this.

In non-fic news: transcribing an excerpt from R. C. Sherriff's autobiography No Leading Lady about the process of writing Journey's End. It's a lengthy excerpt to retype, but my scans of the relevant pages didn't turn out very well, and I think his description of the writing process is worth discussing.

W. Scott Poole's book Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror has only been out a couple months, but I feel comfortable saying it's a good survey of how the experience of WWI shaped horror fiction in the decades immediately following.

( Read more... )Overall I'd recommend buying this book, though I have a couple small qualms*. Here's a link to the publisher's website, which offers a couple ways to get your hands on a copy.

* Namely, I wish there were an index, and I mildly disagree with his assessment that At the Mountains of Madness was Lovecraft's only novel. However, Poole has written and published a biography of Lovecraft, and I, uh, have a blog, so...

I'm still working on transcribing a couple articles, so here are a couple more pictures for you.

Transcripts follow each image.

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In August 1929, Tiffany-Stahl Productions ran a long-ish ad about their upcoming releases in a number of trade magazines for theater owners. The ad started with a spread dedicated to Journey's End, which Tiffany-Stahl were very proud to have acquired. Here's a copy of that spread.

Transcripts of the text follow the images. Click to view at a larger size.

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Image source: Motion Picture News, 10 August 1929.

This ad also ran in other magazines that month, such as the 17 August edition of Exhibitor's Herald World, and a black-and-white version in Variety on 7 August.

Two images showing the filming of some of the battle scenes in Journey's End. Click the pictures to view them at a larger size. The source links are to archived versions of each magazine.

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This post would not exist without the Media History Project.

I'm going to write more in the future about the articles these photos come from, but I figured this blog could use a few more images.

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.

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

This is a brief excerpt from R. C. Sherriff's 1968 autobiography, No Leading Lady. I have a lot more to say about this book, but I just couldn't wait to post this. There is a transcript following the image~~, and when I'm not posting from my phone, I'll go back and correct formatting errors~~.

This falls on page 97. Journey's End has started its second run, to rave reviews. Sherriff goes to talk with his young lead actor, Colin Clive.

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10 December edit: holy moly that image turned out huge! Downsized it, added lj-cut as well, please forgive me for wrecking your flist.

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

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