#Carry on Screaming

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Carry On Screaming! (1966) dir. Gerald Thomas

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Carry on Screaming | 1966

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The secret of the screaming mummy – has been solved! At least, in theory! (Not everyone is convinced). The ancient Egyptian woman (whose identity is lost in the mists of time!) was buried an estimated 3,500 years ago, disinterred by archaeologists in 1935 near Luxor – and her tortured expression has baffled experts ever since. (Doesn’t she look like Catherine Deneuve at the end of The Hunger?). As The Guardian explains, received wisdom has been that her eternal silent scream was simply “down to shoddy mummification.” Now, though, new researchers conclude that “the woman’s expression may be down to a rare, immediate form of rigor mortis” called “cadaveric spasm” (which would make a great name for a death metal band). Or, to put it more vividly, “the woman died crying out in agony.” Yikes! Fascinatingly, “the team say the mummy was well preserved, estimating the woman would have stood about 1.55 metres (just over 5ft) tall when alive. The CT scans offered further insights, revealing she died around 48 years old and had mild arthritis – including in her spine.” Her striking mane of long jet-black “hair” was a wig “made from braided date palm fibres and showed traces of juniper and frankincense as well as various minerals – possibly … to stiffen the fibres and give them a youthful black colour.” How stylish! Carry on screaming, lady. Scream and scream again! Pic by Sahar Saleem.

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16mm film

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My Dear Monstrosities...

If you are venturing forth into the night, in your brightly coloured masks and spider-web veils, please remember to stay safe and most of all, stay spooky!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

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Fenella Fielding in Carry on Screaming! (1966)

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Happy Valentine's day!

Because I absolutely love Jon Pertwee, I thought it was better to choose this day to show you six more of his roles besides the Third Doctor. That is not all, I've even included him from the album Jon Pertwee sings song for vulgar boatmen. Not only he's an amazing actor and Doctor Who incarnation, he's got a heavenly voice as well 🎵 Please, I'm begging you, listen to My grandfather's clock in the Children's favourites album from 1966...you won't get his precious vocal chords out of your head.

Looks like I'm going to fanart him to death this year...I'm so sorry, Gomez.

Hope you like it!

Artwork (c) @CreativeCuquiLu Worzel Gummidge (c) Southern TV The House that Dripped Blood (c) Amicus Productions Carry on Screaming! (c) The Rank Organisation Will Any Gentleman...? (c) Associated British Picture Corporation (this movie also features William Hartnell 👴🏻) Jon Pertwee sings song for vulgar boatmen (c) Phillips Records Children's favourites (c) Music for Pleasure

WATCH IT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIV39VMBwiU

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Happy Xmas to all who celebrate. I've been MIA for what feels like a long time, finishing my mum's Xmas present:

Feels weird to work on something that isn't Good Omens. I miss our boys. But also I have hand cramp from the 5x pencil drawings.

These are some of the refs for them:

If you haven't seen any of the Carry On films, watch some over the holidays. They're just so easy to watch 🙂

Hope wherever you are, you're happy and enjoy the winter holidays

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hot goth woman and her dead gay brother is an underrated dynamic

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Carry on Screaming (1966) Anglo-Amalgamated Dir. Gerald Thomas

Peter Butterworth as Detective Constable Slobotham Charles Hawtrey as Dan Dann

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Movie Poster for Carry On Screaming, 1966

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Carry on Screaming | 1966

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“There was always something exotic and possibly louche about Fielding. You never felt that she had skimped on mascara, eye-shadow or lipstick, or that her hair was necessarily all her own in its chaotic and often strangely unkempt manifestation … she was not immune to the appeal of drink, drugs and psychotherapy, but survived all these brushes to come out fighting, and as huskily cheerful and optimistic as ever.”

From The Guardian’s obituary for eccentric stage, television and screen actress, possessor of the campiest, poshest crushed-velvet voice of all time and "England's first lady of the double entendre", the truly singular Miss Fenella Fielding OBE (17 November 1927 – 11 September 2018) who died on this day six years ago aged 90. Completely illustrative of her wayward career: Italian art cinema visionary Federico Fellini desperately wanted her for one of his movies – and Fielding turned him down because she was committed to doing a play in Chichester! Fielding spent years perfecting her craft and performed the works of Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde onstage, and yet in the popular imagination she’s best remembered for portraying the slinky Morticia Addams-like Valeria Watt in smutty low-brow British comedy Carry on Screaming (1966). Ah, the vagaries of fame! However you cut it, Fenella Fielding is the United Kingdom’s closest equivalent to Tallulah Bankhead. (One persistent myth to dispel: Fielding didn’t dub the voice for Anita Pallenberg’s performance as The Black Queen in Barbarella (1968) – that was her peer Joan Greenwood).

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it's Christmas Eve and one little angel is lost and far from home...

Angel Bright. signed books and 2 disc cd set narrated by cult British actress Fenella Fielding available from angelbright.org, also available on Kindle.