formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film about two women plotting murder is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired Hitchcock’s classic among others. Source: ‘The epitome of what the horror film should be’: How 1950s French horror … Continued
In April 1983, a German magazine, Stern, and a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to have made one of the century’s most extraordinary historical discoveries. In fact, it was one of the century’s most extraordinary hoaxes – and the … Continued
Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. Source: Tony Harrison’s V: Why a poem outraged … Continued
Powered chiefly by enthusiasm and primitive publishing tech, these publications shaped the future of video games media. Source: Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s | Games | … Continued
The building of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. But when BBC Tonight visited the construction site in 1965, it was plagued by technical problems, soaring costs, vacillating public opinion and political infighting. Source: ‘It stirred the … Continued
In 1966, the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World visited a party in New York organised by the electronic dating service Tact, or Technical Automated Compatibility Testing. Around 2,000 singles were invited to Manhattan to try out this modern method of matchmaking. Source: … Continued