Alice Carradice
@aliceca83.bsky.social
Lover of silent film and nearly all types of cheese. Proud auntie of five. Postgraduate Scholarships Administrator at University of St Andrews.
This is a fantastic listen! An in-depth look at (and recreation of) the first known "radio scare", courtesy of the 1920s BBC. And my goodness, the stunt was so *very* British...
NEW PODCAST KLAXON! And it's a beauty.
100 years ago today, the first radio scare!
On the BBC: "The crowd is preparing to demolish the Houses of Parliament - with trench mortars..."
We re-enact Father Ronald Knox's Broadcasting the Barricades, + fab guest @abradschwartz.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/379c24
100 years ago today, the first radio scare!
On the BBC: "The crowd is preparing to demolish the Houses of Parliament - with trench mortars..."
We re-enact Father Ronald Knox's Broadcasting the Barricades, + fab guest @abradschwartz.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/379c24
The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa: #112 The First Radio Hoax: Broadcasting the Barricades - A Centenary Re-enactment
100 years ago from this podcast's release, the BBC broadcast the first known radio scare - 12 years before Orson Welles's famous War of the Worlds, and possibly inspiring it.It was hoax - although ...
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January 25, 2026 at 11:54 AM
This is a fantastic listen! An in-depth look at (and recreation of) the first known "radio scare", courtesy of the 1920s BBC. And my goodness, the stunt was so *very* British...
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
This 100%... and just to add, it works if you live alone too. 🤩
The sheer joy of Christmas TV for me is that we’ve all relaxed and agreed that, yeah, curated content is better than a huge unmanageable library. And that lots of old, great stuff is good fun to all watch together.
It’s such a relief to be relieved of choice. To watch communally again.
It’s such a relief to be relieved of choice. To watch communally again.
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This 100%... and just to add, it works if you live alone too. 🤩
One of my favourite things about xmas these days is the seasonal specials of all my favourite podcasts. @househammerpod.bsky.social up next! 🎄🧛♂️🍻
December 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
One of my favourite things about xmas these days is the seasonal specials of all my favourite podcasts. @househammerpod.bsky.social up next! 🎄🧛♂️🍻
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Your Netflix package is about to cost more, and your cinemas will have fewer movies to show, but *jazz hands* Thaaaaat’s Capitalism, Baaaaaby!
Breaking news: Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of the studios and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery, in a deal set to reshape Hollywood and create a new global entertainment powerhouse. on.ft.com/3MGC59K
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Your Netflix package is about to cost more, and your cinemas will have fewer movies to show, but *jazz hands* Thaaaaat’s Capitalism, Baaaaaby!
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Channel 4 are now showing about 26 episodes of *Frasier* a week, meaning that the Frasier year is now just over ten weeks long. That’s even shorter than a year on Mercury.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Channel 4 are now showing about 26 episodes of *Frasier* a week, meaning that the Frasier year is now just over ten weeks long. That’s even shorter than a year on Mercury.
Stone cold classic! 👢🏹 #Talkingpicturestv
The villagers have a new secret for leather making and the Sheriff wants it... and new boots!
🏹 ROBIN HOOD (1956) 11:30am with #RichardGreene in 'The Sheriff's Boots' #TPTVsubtitles
🏹 ROBIN HOOD (1956) 11:30am with #RichardGreene in 'The Sheriff's Boots' #TPTVsubtitles
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Stone cold classic! 👢🏹 #Talkingpicturestv
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When talkies took over, silent movies were instantly out of style. (Well, over the course of 2-3 years, almost instantly)
Studios quickly remade their silent hits, silent films were recut for dubious comedy. Talkie stars denied ever being in them.
Studios quickly remade their silent hits, silent films were recut for dubious comedy. Talkie stars denied ever being in them.
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When talkies took over, silent movies were instantly out of style. (Well, over the course of 2-3 years, almost instantly)
Studios quickly remade their silent hits, silent films were recut for dubious comedy. Talkie stars denied ever being in them.
Studios quickly remade their silent hits, silent films were recut for dubious comedy. Talkie stars denied ever being in them.
Thanks to the #Pordenone Silent Film Festival's 2025 online output, last night I was able to see what @moviessilently.bsky.social was raving about in her review of The Blood Ship. It's marvellous! And a great 1st opportunity for many silent film fans as I think the 2024 Bluray is Region A only.
This week's review covers THE BLOOD SHIP (1927), a nasty nautical revenge picture starring the king of the genre, Hobart Bosworth.
The film put Columbia on the map as a studio and it was a big hit but reviewers warned that it was simply too gruesome for women.
moviessilently.com/2025/07/06/t...
The film put Columbia on the map as a studio and it was a big hit but reviewers warned that it was simply too gruesome for women.
moviessilently.com/2025/07/06/t...
The Blood Ship (1927) A Silent Film Review
This film was labeled “too gruesome for real enjoyment” by one reviewer when it was released. Not for ladies. Just too much. Sounds great! It’s a bloody Hobart Bosworth ship melodrama with death an…
moviessilently.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thanks to the #Pordenone Silent Film Festival's 2025 online output, last night I was able to see what @moviessilently.bsky.social was raving about in her review of The Blood Ship. It's marvellous! And a great 1st opportunity for many silent film fans as I think the 2024 Bluray is Region A only.
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This is why I am so fussy about silent film restorations, computer colorization and AI.
It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.
You never know what is going to survive.
It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.
You never know what is going to survive.
A fool on a horse smoking a pipe, one of many performers in the procession of Joanna of Castile's entry into Brussels, 1496.
Wait... a pipe?
In 1496?
Yes sometimes real history is also fake.
An 17th century doodler added the pipe.
I'm still angry.
Wait... a pipe?
In 1496?
Yes sometimes real history is also fake.
An 17th century doodler added the pipe.
I'm still angry.
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is why I am so fussy about silent film restorations, computer colorization and AI.
It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.
You never know what is going to survive.
It took us DECADES to degunk CALIGARI because some mid-century fool changed the aspect ratio.
You never know what is going to survive.
Oh, Doctor! (1925) has given me my new favourite intertitle. (The context being a very cute scene between Reg Denny and Mary Astor) #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Oh, Doctor! (1925) has given me my new favourite intertitle. (The context being a very cute scene between Reg Denny and Mary Astor) #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm
The DCA is putting on so many silent film screenings this year and I LOVE IT. 😍 Keep it up @dcadundee.bsky.social ! #silentfilm #dundee
We're thrilled to share that Dundead will be taking 1925's The Phantom of the Opera on tour.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this early horror masterpiece, we've commissioned a brand-new live score by acclaimed Scottish musicians Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman.
tinyurl.com/2dzywh4b
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this early horror masterpiece, we've commissioned a brand-new live score by acclaimed Scottish musicians Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman.
tinyurl.com/2dzywh4b
August 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The DCA is putting on so many silent film screenings this year and I LOVE IT. 😍 Keep it up @dcadundee.bsky.social ! #silentfilm #dundee
Sometimes you just feel like watching films from 1925 about rats. #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm
August 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sometimes you just feel like watching films from 1925 about rats. #100yearoldfilms #silentfilm
BBC Four tonight! 🚨
Thanks to @xanderl.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. Joan Crawford narrates a special 1969 programme on Greta Garbo, on BBC Four on 14 August (following a screening of GRAND HOTEL) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford narrates a film that looks at Greta Garbo's art and life through her movies.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
BBC Four tonight! 🚨
This is an important read, #silentfilm fans! 🩶
Long live Queen Kelly!!! 🎞️👑 Kicking off my (19th consecutive 23rd) bday on a high note with @pamhutch.bsky.social's brilliant piece on @milestonefilms.bsky.social's new restoration of QUEEN KELLY (1929), which will have its big premiere in Venice next month!!! 🎊🤩
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished
The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film fest...
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an important read, #silentfilm fans! 🩶
Nice thread on The Beloved Rogue (1927), which I am surprised isn't better known given that it has John Barrymore AND Conrad Veidt both being ridiculous together. Also, how I long for a European blu-ray release...
Lobby cards for THE BELOVED ROGUE. I enjoy the way dramatic movie scenes of torture are framed in a border with 80s sugary cereal vibes.
August 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Nice thread on The Beloved Rogue (1927), which I am surprised isn't better known given that it has John Barrymore AND Conrad Veidt both being ridiculous together. Also, how I long for a European blu-ray release...
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What kind of age check is this? It shouted "Papa!" and I shouted "Nicole!" and it said I was old enough
July 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What kind of age check is this? It shouted "Papa!" and I shouted "Nicole!" and it said I was old enough
My obsession with the Fred and Ginger RKO movies, which helped foster an interest in 1930s Hollywood more generally, started when I happened to catch some of The Gay Divorcee during a gym session. Like so many of my favourite things, I discovered it by chance thanks to linear broadcasting.
The BBC has RKO. These are the two great secrets of British free telly.
July 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My obsession with the Fred and Ginger RKO movies, which helped foster an interest in 1930s Hollywood more generally, started when I happened to catch some of The Gay Divorcee during a gym session. Like so many of my favourite things, I discovered it by chance thanks to linear broadcasting.
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"I'll automate my first draft with AI and then add the human stuff" is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life and, in itself, an argument against using AI to draft anything if that's an example of same.
June 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"I'll automate my first draft with AI and then add the human stuff" is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life and, in itself, an argument against using AI to draft anything if that's an example of same.
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Have decided that any time a tech bro says they have invented a new machine that will help, we should post this image, and then kick them firmly up the arse.
June 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Have decided that any time a tech bro says they have invented a new machine that will help, we should post this image, and then kick them firmly up the arse.
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I know this isn't the point. But Liverpool has great museums and galleries, superb nightlife for all tastes, two awesome cathedrals, an attractive docklands, rich musical and footballing heritage, and a boycott of the Sun. If you believe it's a shithole, you're both intellectually lazy and wrong.
May 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I know this isn't the point. But Liverpool has great museums and galleries, superb nightlife for all tastes, two awesome cathedrals, an attractive docklands, rich musical and footballing heritage, and a boycott of the Sun. If you believe it's a shithole, you're both intellectually lazy and wrong.
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Marvel: 'Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history'
ITV:
ITV:
May 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Marvel: 'Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history'
ITV:
ITV:
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Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen in Wings (1927)
May 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen in Wings (1927)
@neilkbrand.bsky.social I'll be at the DCA tonight - looking forward to it! *high sign gesture*
May 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@neilkbrand.bsky.social I'll be at the DCA tonight - looking forward to it! *high sign gesture*