#granada behind the scenes

[sherlockianscholar]

gasp! jeremy brett, our champion of the canon, committed an anachronism! presumably from smoking between takes, he left a modern, filtered cigarette in the ashtray. tut, tut, jeremy.

[kimgmac63]

[pepaldi]

Natasha, another one who died too soon. She was only 45.

[teaspoonnebula]

[yamy-brett]

On tour with “The Secret” in 1989, Jeremy and Edward took care of their own make-up and hair. Edward actually hated the hairpiece and left it ’til the very last minute. Jeremy obviously had a very thick head of hair and when we had tea in his dressing room there was a huge pot of hair gel on the dresser.

He was dressed in costume (except for the frock coat) and the watch and chain were on his waistcoat. “SHE gave me that you know” he said slipping into character for a split second. (But his hair was still unslicked – Spooky )

We got to talking about favourite Holmes portrayals and he remembered that when he was young, he fancied himself as Basil Rathbone. Pulling his hair back tight he said he’d sit like that in front of a mirror and imagine himself as Holmes. He had no idea then, that his performance would eclipse that of Rathbone in the public eye.

Interestingly, Edward Hardwicke spent his childhood in Hollywood where his parents entertained all the big names of the day. Jeremy said he was very jealous that Edward had got to meet, Rathbone and Bruce at the beginning of their association.

[missanthropicprinciple]

Behind the scenes: The Empty House. This closeup of a grainy print is from The Television Sherlock Holmes by Peter Haining.

ISBN: 0 86369 793 3

[fruitviking]

This is a barbershop quartet

Behind-the-scenes photos posted on Facebook by Alan Fraser, camera operator for the Granada Sherlock Holmes series.

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[fromchaostocosmos]

Why Are Goyim Obsessed With Bad People Being The Fault of The Jews?

How many times have we seen the speculation that certain truly horrific historical people must Jewish based the stringing of threads. Or the that said horrific people are horrific because of the Jews.

How many times have seen Hitler was actually a Jew conspiracy or that Hitler only became the way he did because he denied entry to art school by Jews conspiracy?

Not just with historical figures we all have seen how often it gets mentioned that Roy Cohen, Jew, and they sure do make a point to highlight that Jew part was behind Donald Trump being who he is.

Think about Henry Kissinger and how much him Jewish gets highlighted when talking his influence on Presidents Ford and Nixon, even though he hated being Jewish.

And of course we can not forget the all time go to Christopher Columbus as the secret Jew.

And now that is being reported to be in fact true. Just look at how everyone is reporting it.

Only that is not the case.

The documentary Columbus DNA. His True Origin, broadcast on Spain’s National Holiday suggests that the explorer was not Genoese and Christian but Spanish and Jewish. The absolute protagonist of the documentary, forensic scientist José Antonio Lorente, has not yet published any scientific study to back his claims. The documentary is presented in the style of a reality show in which Lorente systematically discounts other theories, including that Columbus was Castilian, Portuguese, Galician, Mallorcan or a Cagot. It culminates with a scene in which only one possibility remains, the one put forward by architect Francesc Albardaner, author of the book La catalanitat de Colom (or, The Catalonian Origins of Columbus).

But geneticist Antonio Alonso, former chief of the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, is not convinced: “Unfortunately, from the scientific point of view, no assessment can be made after watching the documentary, since it does not provide any data on what has been analyzed. My conclusion is that the documentary Columbus DNA does not show the DNA of Columbus at any given moment and scientists do not know what analysis has been undertaken.”

Forensic anthropologist Miguel Botella, also from the University of Granada, remembers that day in 2003 when he waited for the box containing the supposed bones of Christopher Columbus to be opened. “Everyone expected to be greeted by an intact Columbus, but there were only 150 grams of bone fragments,” he says with a smile. The largest would have been about four centimeters in length.

Lorente then said that he was going to analyze the DNA of the three alleged members of the Columbus family with the help of prestigious geneticists, such as Ángel Carracedo from the University of Santiago de Compostela; and Mark Stoneking, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, one of the world’s most prestigious centers for the analysis of ancient DNA. Carracedo recalls that the DNA that reached him was tremendously degraded, and he too distanced himself from the project. Moreover, he refuses to comment on Lorente’s new results until there is a serious scientific study published in a specialized journal. The response of the Max Planck Institute geneticist to questions from EL PAÍS were similar: “I am sorry, my group stopped working on this in 2005 and I have not heard anything about the most recent results,” said Stoneking.

According to geneticist Antonio Alonso, “It is not the done thing for data that the scientific community has not yet endorsed to be presented to society, as it puts the data itself at risk as well as the proposed theory.” Alonso is also surprised by the absence of experts from the U.S. and Australia in the film whose contribution Lorente describes as essential. “Here there is too much protagonism from only one scientist. Neither the Granada team nor the collaborating ancient DNA laboratories in California and Adelaide, which are said to be of great importance in the success of the analyses, appear in the film,” he points out. Recently retired, Alonso is one of Spain’s leading experts in forensic genetics. He worked on the identification of the victims of Madrid’s 11-M terror attacks; on the investigation of dozens of reports of alleged baby thefts; on the recognition of Spanish Civil War victims and even on the attempts to find the remains of the writer Miguel de Cervantes. He claims that the documentary Columbus DNA does not speak to him as a scientist. “We do not know which DNA regions were analyzed, nor the technology used in the analysis, nor the results obtained, which makes it impossible to make a correct assessment of the findings,” he says.

Alonso explains that there are clusters of genetic variants called haplotypes or haplogroups that tend to be inherited together and may be characteristic of certain family lineages, but he adds that they often coincide with those of other groups in historically Jewish or non-Jewish populations. “In any case, having a genealogy, a haplogroup or a haplotype of Jewish or Sephardic ancestry does not call into question Columbus’ birthplace in Genoa as stated by historical sources, nor does it tell us anything about the religious beliefs professed by the generations of relatives close to Columbus,” he says.

Rodrigo Barquera is a Mexican expert in archeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Barquera has conducted DNA studies of human remains prior to the arrival of Europeans in America, such as those of children sacrificed by the Maya at Chichén-Itzá in Mexico. The researcher is very critical of the fact the data have been presented via a documentary, and without the backing of a serious scientific article reviewed by independent experts, especially given the enormous interest in the figure of Christopher Columbus and his origins. “Normally, the article is sent to a scientific journal,” he says. “The journal assigns an editor and at least three independent reviewers who rate the paper and decide if it is scientifically valid. If it is, it is published, and then the rest of the scientific community can say whether they agree or not. Putting it on a screen, removed from this process and with all the media focus on it, makes it difficult for the scientific community to say anything about it.”

Antonio Salas heads the Population Genetics in Biomedicine team at Santiago de Compostela’s Health Investigation Institute. “The documentary promised to focus on DNA analysis, as suggested by its title Columbus DNA: His True Origins,” he says. “However, the genetic information it offers is very limited. Only at the end is it mentioned that the only thing that was recovered from the presumed remains of Christopher Columbus was a partial profile of the Y chromosome. The problem is that the Y chromosome represents only a tiny fraction of our DNA and our ancestry.” “The documentary rushes to a conclusion that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew originally from the Spanish Levant. This hypothesis is, to say the least, surprising: there is no Y chromosome that can be uniquely defined as Sephardic-Jewish,” argues Salas. “Even if all of an individual’s DNA were recovered, it would still be impossible to reach definitive conclusions about his or her exact geographic origin.

So when science seems to much more aligned with Columbus not being why then is everyone reporting him as Jewish. And why do goyim keep blaming every evil deed, every action, every evil choice and every evil person on Jews?

[undying-love]

Datalounge comments compilation

Remember to take everything here with a grain of salt:

“Ok guys someone told me about this site and i have been loving it so far. Anyway my great uncle who lived in Liverpool told me a story some years ago. He told me that John and Paul actually were living together at some point during the sixties (John even stated it in a 70’s interview) and he is invited by a friend of his to a party that John and Paul are having at their house. He said as he walked in he saw Paul, who was walking around in nothing but a white shorts and John some feet away playing pool. He said throughout the day John and Paul is behaving like a regular couple and he is shocked since so many other ppl are there. Later in the evening as he is getting ready to leave Paul casually walks over to him and thanks him for coming and he leaves. He told me this some years after John’s death because he was sure Paul would have admitted they were a couple, well it has not happened and I don’t think he ever will. I really don’t know what to make of this story since he was the first person I ever heard claiming John and Paul to be a couple but apparently he is not the only one! ”

“Since everyone is anonymous here, I guess I can give a bit of info I got from a female friend of mine who at one time was Paul worked as one of Paul’s assistants. According to her Macca is a bisexual, who makes no secret of this when he is around his inner circle. She does not know for certain if John and Paul were involved but she suspects it since to this day whenever John’s name is brought up he acts in her words ‘like a widow’ and he also addresses John in present tense. He would say things like, ‘John thinks that the music should be like this,’ and during his bitter divorce from Heather he was saying, ‘John says that this is getting nasty.’ Kind of creepy."

“Isn't it well known that Starting Over was written about Paul? At least I heard someone in the music industry mention it, and that Paul knows it. Also, it was reported that Paul locked himself in his music studio and listened to the song repeatedly after John died.”

“I worked in the music industry briefly from 67-70 and I have seen for myself some very revealing things but I don't find it appropriate to dish it out here. One day it will be revealed, definitely not while Paul or Yoko is alive maybe soon after. I'll return here to read all the threads. The most I can say for now, is Yoko gave a very watered down version of the names the Apples' staff gave to Paul, though they also gave a very derogatory name for John as well.”

“Actually the John and Paul rumours did not only emerge in our time. As early as the middle sixties rumours were beginning to spread in the music industry about what exactly the J/P relationship was involved. My grandfather was a entertainment journalist in the 60's and he stated that people were becoming suspicious about John and Paul as early as 1964. He also said that someone had made a comment about seeing John and Paul holding hands backstage during the music Lennon and McCartney tv special, though no one believed the person at the time. According to him the Beatles' camp began to go into panic mode and even went so far as to demand John and Paul no longer sit together in interviews. So believe me this John and Paul thing is nothing new. People have been creating stories about people's 'gayness' for years.”

“This John and Paul thing is so dated. I am from Liverpool and since the 60's rumours were swirling about John and Paul possibly being 'queers.' At the time I didn't think much of it, since it was guys who fought with them as kids who were spreading the rumours and so I assumed it was jealousy that fueled the rumours.”

“My uncle was a sound engineer for Granada tv studios in 60's and actually met the Beatles because he worked on 'the Music of Lennon and McCartney' special. He actually chatted with Ringo behind the scenes briefly but didn't speak with the others. I remember him telling me years ago that he was surprised by Paul's mannerisms because as he put it, it was overly 'swishy.' He also stated that John and Paul acted very strange throughout the evening. According to him they followed each other continuously even when it was not required, as one got up so did the other, as one sat so did the other, they would finish each sentences, and they were often seen staring at each other for excruciating periods of time (his exact words) he said behind the scenes people were joking about them being a couple because they seemed so close. My uncle told me this years ago but I always summed it up to their brotherly relationship. I am now reconsidering my position.”

"The one time I was ever actually in a room with Paul, zillion people between me and him (and no way I'm gonna bother him, all of us who travel in celeb circles have people we're fans of and all of us inexplicably try to hide it to seem "cooler"), he was hitting whiskey a little hard, and apparently it makes him confessional because he started talking loudly about himself and John, and how hard it was not to have him there. (Of course I paid attention and scooted a little closer; when a Beatle speaks about a Beatle, and you've heard rumors about both of them, you want the tea.) I remember him saying something along the lines of not a day passing that John's not still in it with him, but it's not like he can pick up a phone and say, "Hey, just needed to hear your voice today," and even when he got craggy responses, he still missed them. He misses it all, and it's bothering to him that he misses him more as time goes on -- it doesn't heal, he just learns new ways to bandage the wound. Went on and on, and stopped just short of saying too much. He was waxing rhapsodic about John's hands, and finally I think the people he was with noticed interlopers paying attention, and changed the topic".

“Saw this thread and decided I should post what I have heard. I can tell you that John and Paul never hid the fact that they were together in the 60's and they were referred to as music’s 'first official same sex couple' by those in their close music circles. I found this out from my mother who was a 'go for' for a music director in the 60's. She worked behind the scenes for the 'Help!' music video. She has seen John and Paul backstage and always refers to their behaviour around each other as cute, and claims after spending a few minutes with them it was obvious they were deeply in love. She said that George and Ringo would always excuse themselves whenever John and Paul began chatting up each other.”

[sarnie-for-varney]

Holmes being moved to tears by the opera:

I like that Granada Holmes not only portrays Holmes as a real person with real feelings, but it also shows how he hides those feelings. He's stood behind in this scene, not letting anyone see him cry.

I love, too, that we see multiple instances in Granada Holmes of Holmes' love of the arts.

[sherlockianscholar]

the intro for the baker street file contains several quotes that feel like they're directed entirely at jeremy (which he definitely did not listen to at all):

"although this series is intended to be a straight and faithful adaptation of the sherlock holmes stories conan doyle's writings cannot obviously be regarded as holy writ; neither can this list be thought of as a set of absolute instructions."

"it is pointless to adhere slavishly on film to every word that doyle wrote."

"however it is important to know when (and why) we intentionally disregard what doyle writes."

[kimgmac63]

[noa-nightingale]

Last post for today but I’ve started watching Sherlock Holmes (1984, Granada Holmes) and I need to scream about it!!!

I am still in season 1 but so far it is an absolutely fantastic adaptation and ADORE how Jeremy Brett plays Holmes. The intensity. But also the warmth and the humor. He is captivating. I am having an existential crisis two to three times per episode; he is such a fucking great Holmes! (Also, I just have to add, the man is sexy as hell in the role. Hot damn.)

I need to watch more and I need to learn more about the Behind the Scenes and the actors and especially Jeremy Brett.

Meanwhile, I am still reading my way through the Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and I friggin’ love Holmes and Watson together. They are truly special.

I am having so many THOUGHTS and I am so HAPPY.

[yamy-brett]

[thefisherqueen]

The doctor knelt beside him and held down the hand lamp which had stood on the table. One glance at the victim was enough to show the healer that his presence could be dispensed with. The man had been horribly injured. Lying across his chest was a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the triggers. It was clear that this had been fired at close range and that he had received the whole charge in the face, blowing his head almost to pieces

Rather graphic description of the murdered victim here in The valley of fear, which reminds me how, in the whole of the Sherlock Holmes canon, that is actually quite rare. Plenty of deaths of course, yet despite this being crime fiction the level of graphic detail is often quite low, hidden behind more vague descriptions like 'horrible death' and 'terrible sight'.

What we deem appropriate to watch/read at what age comes largely down to the graphicness of a piece of media, assuming that explicitness = potential harm, something which I find somewhat odd. The graphicness of a work is a poor predictor of its emotional impact, after all. I'm currently still haunted by several children's books I read more than two decades ago, while (though I don't like scare effects) horror movies have never once given me nightmares. The minor sound effect of the creaking of the rope in the Granada Holmes The resident patient episode gave me way more creeps than the sight of the hanged corpse. The scene in Dracula wherein Dracula attacks Mina Harker, subdued as it is with its use of metaphor and 19th-century long sentences, unnerved me so much it made me feel physically ill for hours after. It guess what moves us comes down to a complex mix of our personal triggers, vividness, culturally inspired fears and the amount of emotional connection we feel towards the characters subjected to the horrors.

Choosing the amount of graphicness for a work as a creator is not just a creative choice, it is impacted by all kind of considerations. Shielding audience from graphic horrors, or 'prettifying' them, can feel insincere - isn't life itself filled with horror? Yet an abundance of detail also has the potential to distract from emotional arcs within a narrative, turning moving stories into surface spectacle played for shock value. Though, sometimes, shocking is the very point - no better way to adress social taboos than to be right-in-the-face with them. Graphicness can also open a work to censure and limit its audience.

Arthur Conan Doyle's writing carreer allowed him to give up his doctor's practise. From what I read so far about his life I gather that he was happier as a writer than as a doctor, and he clearly poured a lot of love and his own thoughts and experiences into these detective stories, but it did mean he had to write for money. His very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A study in scarlet, was written as a commision. It meant his stories should appeal to a wide audience. I think it's reasonable to assume that Doyle couldn't allow to shock his readers too much and therefore held back on graphic detail.

[gentleman-detective]

Behind-the-scenes photos posted by Alan Fraser, camera operator for the Granada Sherlock Holmes series.

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Tumblr isn’t letting me include the link for some reason, but the FB group is called Granada Sherlock Holmes TV series.