#lm 1935

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So people even cried over the 1935 movie, hmm?

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O___o more Victor Hugo Cinematic Universe Lore, I love the side by side picture.

Here is an interview with Krauss where he talks about playing both roles.

Someone should edit this photo to make him sit across from himself lol. I don't know if it's Krauss in 1905 in Le Chemineau.

I realized today when I was looking at some adaptations that there are actors who played both Bishop Myriel and Claude Frollo and this made me like hmmmmmm…

"Cedric Hardwicke" who played the serious Myriel in Les Misérables film (1935)

He later played Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame film (1939)

But the surprise for me was..

this baby girl Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame film (1982) played by "Derek Jacobi"

Is the same actor who played Myriel in Les Misérables BBC series (2018-2019)

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Prudence Counselled to Wisdom, LM 1.2.2 (Les Miserables 1935)

“We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying ‘come in’; and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no need to ask permission.” At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. “Come in,” said the Bishop.

[granhairdo]

eponine was fine until the americans took her

[pilferingapples]

Thank you!

The other illustrations, and the "Universal Library" imprint, confirm my theory: this is a movie tie-in to the 1935 Les Mis film, starring Frederic March and Charles Laughton as Javert, and Cedric Hardwicke as Bishop Myriel!

Here, you can see the artist really has a good handle on the actors' appearance, look:

Hardwicke's Myriel and March's Valjean, in the movie:

and in illustration:

Here's a shot of Frederick March as Valjean in his Madeleine days with Charles Laughton's Javert:

and the two of them in the illustration; you can see Laughton's very distinctive profile!:

The scene with the woman and child that first caught your eye is based on this moment, from Valjean's trial, when he's sentenced and taken away; that's his sister and one of her kids, not Fantine and Cosette:

This is obviously a movie tie-in, but printing photos must still have been cost -prohibitive, so they hired this illustrator. I really like that! It's neat seeing the illustrator reinterpret the movie scenes to an effective single composition.

..as for the movie's interpretation of the book, well, this is what the movie turns the preface into:

"so long as there exists in this world that we call civilized, a system whereby men and women, even after they have paid the penalty of the law and expiated their offenses in full, are hounded and persecuted wherever they go--this story will not have been told in vain."- preface to Les Miserables , according to the 1935 movie

Yeah! That's not at all what Hugo said, even though the movie attributes it to him. But the actors do a great job and so did this illustrator! Thank you for sharing this cool little find!

What?

Behold, an image from an old edition of Les Misérables has an illustration that is IDENTICAL to Benedict cumberbatch!!

Or is it just me?

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Freedom is Originality

What does freedom mean to you? The spirit of KALAGA “Freedom is Victory and Victory is Freedom. You just can’t have one without the other.” KALAGA LM JAYARAJ Freedom is the state of mind that entails a high degree of being original to yourself, to society and to the very essence of existence. Freedom is the power to manifest creativity and innovation in your actions. ” One is blessed with…

[hazel-of-sodor]

Imagine being an LMS express engine, back in the thirties, arguing with Gordon at Barrow, you blow your deep LMS whistle to try and assert dominance, but instead of the Gresley blowing his shrill inferior whistle in retaliation, he replies with a HOOTER of all things, defaming the stations. The rumor was true, the Gresley has a whistle that can out do even the deepest of deep-toned whistles. Never shoulda got transferred.

Well looks crack this one open shall we?

Lets get into the social dynamics and politics of the LMS, Barrow, and NWR.

So Gordon is top dog in Barrow, end of the story. While Barrow yard is far larger in this world than ours due to the existance of Sodor, its Industries, Harbors, and People, the largest Express Engines allocated there are usually 4-6-0s. Pacifics do venture down to Barrow, but heres the thing, hes their Elder.

Ask any Engine in Britian who the first (British) pacific was, they will invariably say Gordon (Neither The Great Bear nor Henry were largely successfull as 4-6-2s, and are seen as having found their true forms as 4-6-0s). Invariably class protoypes (successfull ones at least) are held in higher regard, but Gordon pionered the type. No matter He is former GNR/LNER and current NWR, Gordon is the first and is therefore the eldest. One could be forgiven for thinking that Gordon could have lost this respect in his younger years, but decourm in stations is the law for express engines (whisting in stations isn't wrong, but we just don't do it). Flagship express engines are the image of their railway, and are expected to uphold said image while in station. On the rare occasion LMS Pacifics did stay in Barrow longer than it took to refuel and prepare for their next run, they found Gordon a proud but gracious host, as was proper. (it helded that their opinion of him matched his own.)

The 4-6-0s, however were another matter. The Stanier 4-6-0s were content to tease their larger cousins about their hero worship, and keep a cordial relationship with North Western No.4. The Fowler's, however were...divided. The Patriots and Royal Scot's were aware of the threat of standardization. Stanier was not known to be sentimental man, and there were fears among some of the classes that they would be scrapped in favor of Stanier's standard engines (in reality a number of both class would be rebuilt to use Stanier Boilers.)

Some of these engines decided to deal with these fears by competeing feircly with their Stanier contemporaries, and for some this was not a friendly competition. These engines saw Gordon not as an honored elder or a respected collegue, but a part of the enemy. The incident this ask refers to occured in 1935, when a young Patriot class, newly assigned to Barrow decided to try and get a rise out of the Pacific. Gordon treated the younger express engine with all the restrained derision and posh superiority he felt the situation called for. Needless to say the Patriot only got angrier and angrier, leading to him trying to silence the North Western Engine with a long, rude, blast of their whistle, a dire breach of station etiquette.

Gordon intially waited impatiently for the whistle to stop, but when the 20 second mark was passed, he responded in kind. While Gordon only gave a short blast, the Patriot fell silent in shock as a Gordon's Pennslyvannia Railroad whistle thundered out. In the ringing silence afterwards, Gordon explained in manner simular to an exasperated parent correcting a toddler that one did not raise their whistle in stations unless they were departing or arriving, and they most certainly did not hold their whistle.

The LMS, throughly embarressed by their engines behavior, quickly reallocated the patriot to the other side of their territory (although they would return during the war.)

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More Henry propaganda:

(TL;DR at end)

the reason why Henry is here in the first place is because of his small firebox, which gives heat to boil the water to make him move, and when given bad coal(coal that burns less well or is just not good) he starts having trouble,

from 1919 to 1935 he's had this design fault due to being stolen and rejected plans from the real life engineer, sir Nigel gresley, the guy who was building him found out about these faults to late and Henry was complete, and the NWR (the railway he works on now) was going through a engine crisis since it was still begining, and Henry was unknowingly part of a ploy to get him off his builders hands, and sir topham hatt canonically cursed "that ____ _____,____ sent me this"(we don't get to see what he said really)

Even with all the replacement parts, Henry still was sick, and Sometime, topham climbed on with his crew, and wanted to see what happened with him, his crew said that they needed special coal (Welsh coal in the books) to operate with a fair chance, it was expensive, but topham got it for Henry, and of he went as a rocket, energetic as ever

But then in 1935, he was sent to take a fish train named the flying kipper, he did it all, and set off at 5 o clock, but unfortunately ice and snow forced signals to show green, but it was actually red, and the switches were frozen and Henry was sent into a goods train at full speed(in the show it was James's train, but the illustrations in the book don't show), crashing, and after that he was sent to Crewe, a real life workshop which made him into a LMS stanier black 5, a real life Locomotive, now without the need of Welsh coal, but in the show it's not so good, as he was flanderized down to only that in the HiT era, even though he was fixed, and in season 2 of the show he gained back his wheel arches, indirectly making him a Stanier jubilee, a very similar class made by the same guy, just for passenger work

TLDR Henry has small firebox and can't do with bad coal, so better coal is gotten for him, crash in 1935, rebuilt into another engine without the fault, the LMS black 5, or the LMS jubilee post season 2

jesus 💀

[cerenemuxse]

The engines as different basis (EoSR but built different) - 1

(Tender engines as tank engines, vice versa)

From No. 1 - 6 (Thomas, Edward, Emily, Henry, Gordon, James)

NWR 1 Thomas (formerly LBSCR 307, SR 2307)

Class: London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) Class C3 Horsham Goods

Previous Owners: London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway; Southern Railway; British Railways (Southern Region)

Built: August 1906

Real-life Withdrawal: May 1949 (never received a BR number)

Designer: Douglas Earle Marsh

Builder: Brighton Works

Bio:

Thomas is the first tender engine purchased by the NWR, after the withdrawals of the original NWR 1 - 6 (the last one being in 1925). The NWR had believed that they wouldn't need any tender engine power until the withdrawal of NWR 1 in 1925.

NWR 2 Edward (formerly W&SR 5)

Class: Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) 52 class; North Western Railway (NWR) Class S-W52

Previous Owners: Wellsworth & Suddery Railway

Built: 1893

Real-life Withdrawal: n/a

Designer: William Wakefield

Builder: Sharp, Stewart and Company (Glasgow, Scotland)

Bio:

Edward was commissioned by the Wellsworth and Suddery Railway. His design was altered so that he could run on standard gauge rails. When the merger occured, he was passed down to the NWR, along with Emily, and the NWR attempted to rebuild him so he could handle the new jobs. This did not work out, resulting in Edward having poor steaming issues. He was swapped with Emily, working lighter and fewer jobs.

NWR 3 Emily (formerly GNR 1009 and W&SR 6)

Class: Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class H1 Stirling Tank; North Western Railway (NWR) Class S-S1 Stirling Tank

Basis (Inspiration): GNR Stirling Single A3, GNR G1, and B&ER 4-2-4 tank engines

Previous Owners: Great Northern Railway; Wellsworth and Suddery Railway

Built: 1882

Real-life Withdrawal: n/a

Designer: Patrick Stirling

Builder: Doncaster Works

Bio:

Emily is an experimental tank engine version of the GNR A1, A2, and A3 Stirling Singles, with a wheel config of 4-2-4T. While she did perform decently, she did not perform as they expected so she was withdrawn. The Wellsworth and Suddery Railway took interest in Emily. They purchased her from the GNR before she could be sold to a scrapyard. She worked welled on the W&SR, able to be passed down to the NWR in 1915, along with Edward. She ended up replacing Edward on the express passenger service when the latter's rebuilds proved to worsen his performance.

NWR 4 Henry

Class: North Eastern Railway (NER) Class F; North Western Railway (NWR) Class S-S5 (4-6-4T) Black Five Tank

Basis (Inspiration): NER Class D (pre-1935); LNER Class A2 (pre-1935); LMS Class 5MT Black Fives (post-1935); LMS 4MT 2-6-4T (two-cylinder) (post-1935)

Previous Owners: Unknown

Built: 1920

Real-life Withdrawal: n/a

Designer: Vincent Raven; Henry Stanier

Builder: Unknown

Bio:

Henry was built from stolen duplicates of Vincent Raven's plans of a 4-6-2T, which were derived from the NER Class D (4-4-4T). Unfortunately, these duplicate plans were the discarded designs due to uneven weights on the chassis and the use of a Schmidt boiler. He was under-powered and a hazard to operate. Sir Louis Topham Hatt I was swindled to buy Henry in 1922 when promised that Henry would be the next best thing for railways. This was when the NWR believed that they wouldn't need tender engines to run the railway. After the Flying Kipper crash, Henry was rebuilt into a new class of his own, the LMS Class 5MT Black Five Tank.

NWR 5 Gordon

Class: Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class B1; North Western Railway (NWR) Class S-G1

Basis (Inspiration): GNR Gresley Class A1, GNR Gresley Class A3, and GNR Gresley Class N2

Previous Owners: Great Northern Railway

Built: 1920 - 1923

Real-life Withdrawal: n/a

Designer: Nigel Gresley

Builder: Doncaster Works

Bio:

Gordon is an experimental tank version of the GNR Gresley A1s, in hopes of surpassing the capabilities of the Gresley N2s. This did not work out but served as a basis for the LNER V1s. He was sold off to the NWR, replacing Emily on heavy passenger duty, which was the express service for the NWR.

NWR 6 James (formerly L&YR 506, LMS 11546)

Class: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 24; NWR Class S-A25

Previous Owners: L&YR, LNWR, LMS

Built: 1919

Real-life Withdrawal: 1959 (BR number would've been 51546)

Designer: John Audley Frederick Aspinall

Builder: Horwich Works

Bio:

James was bought as he was originally built in 1925. However, Sir Bertram Topham Hatt II ordered for James to be rebuilt into a 2-6-2T. This took well over a few months until they finally came up with a decent design. Unfortunately, James' great performance came at the cost of James' loosing his memories.

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This week's locomotive of the week is LMS No.5110. 5110 was built in 1935 by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire for the LMS one of Sir William Stanier's "Black 5" class mixed-traffic 4-6-0s. She was taken in to BR stock at nationalisation in 1948 and renumbered to 45110 on the 9th of April 1949. Originally allocated to Holyhead, she bounced between sheds in the late 1960s ending up at Stafford, Bolton and finally Lostock Hall. On August 11th 1968, 45110 made history by becoming one of three Black 5s to haul the Fifteen Guinea Special, the last steam-hauled passenger service on British Railways. After the run the engine was bought by Mr. David Porter, who christened it "R.A.F. Biggin Hill", after which it was sent to it's new home at the Severn Valley Railway where it ran, having a few breif returns to the mainline before being withdrawn with some severe mechanical issues. The engine now resides at Carnforth with plans to be given a full mainline-grade overhaul in time for the 60th anniversary of the Fifteen Guinea Special in 2028.

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Insight from Charles Laughton into his portrayal of Javert in the 1935 movie:

Javert in 'Les Miserables' is a bronze monument to the stupidity of humanity. I tried to make him a man of bronze, even to suggest the bronze in my make-up, particularly about the eyes and forehead.

Sorry there isn't more to the quote, I just wanted to add this bonus picture of Laughton in another role that was giving Javert vibes more than the movie does...

Source btw

[for-the-love-of-javert]

Watching more Shoujo Cosette tonight

Going to try and get the series finished this weekend then next week I will watch a different adaptation.

I have now watched Les Mis

1925

1935

1978

1982

1998

Shoujo Cosette (to be finished soon)

I know there is another anime adaptation which I may watch if I can find it online. If not I'll watch a different one, which one should I watch next? (leave recommendations in comments)

Please keep in mind that I have seen the 2012 film adaptation of the musical a few times already though not recently and I'm not ready to watch it again yet even if it's just for screenshots and reviewing.

In case you were wondering LM 1925 is still my favourite adaptation closely followed by Shoujo Cosette and then LM 1982. I now somw people may prefer 1978 or 1998 and even 2012 adaptations but I have to respectfully disagree. Also as a 48 (nearly 49 year old I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed Shoujo Cosette which is really aimed at young people/teenagers. I don't know if that means I'm regressing or if I'm losing the plot but it really is a wonderful series.

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Authority Reasserts Its Rights, LM 1.8.4 (Les Miserables 1935)

Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:—

“You have murdered that woman.”

[lnwrcauli]

The Sudrian Halls (and the tiniest bit about Duck and Casey) [NWR AU]

History

In 1935, the NWR entered into a locomotive loan contract with the Great Western in exchange for the sole right to supply coal to the railway for ten years. The locomotives sent to the North Western under this agreement were No. 4907 "Broughton Hall", No. 4915 "Condover Hall", No. 4911 "Bowden Hall" and No. 5948 "Siddington Hall". Also included in this deal was 5700 No. 5741, who would later become known as Duck.

The five GWR engines were stabled at Vicarstown Sheds with the LMS and ex-Furness residents, often having very loud arguments that kept the town awake. The four Halls were put to work on mixed-traffic and thunderbird duties while Duck was assigned to pilot duties, working tirelessly through the war. During 1941, Bowden Hall was recalled to the GWR to assist with the workload. Unfortunately however, he was struck by a bomb at Keyham and disposed of at Swindon Works.

After the war, the now trio of Halls were supplemented with Stanier Class 5 No. 5113, known as Casey. They continued to work diligently until 1963, when word started to spread of the Western Region recalling locomotives to Swindon Works for scrap. Not too keen on letting this happen to engines he considered part of his railway, Sir Charles Topham Hatt II purchased Condover, Siddington and Broughton, along with Casey too. The four were sent to Crovan's Gate to be repainted and lightly overhauled ready for service. While there however, the three 4900s decided they wanted to start anew. After all, they were NWR engines now. It was Condover Hall who asked Sir Topham if the trio could change their names, and he fully obliged. Condover Hall became Vicarstown Hall, Broughton Hall became Knapford Hall and Siddington Hall became Tidmouth Hall. Under these new names, the three re-entered service in 1964 and have served without fault ever since

Personalities

Vicarstown Hall is an amiable, friendly and cheeky chap who likes to have a laugh. He gets on very well with younger or sillier engines like Bill, Ben, Percy or Thomas, but is rarely allowed to interact with them due to the chaos that usually ensues. He works as hard as he plays, being a mainstay of the island's passenger and goods services.

Quite the opposite to her brother, Knapford Hall is an uptight, strict and by-the-book sort, not tolerating other engines stepping out of line even by an inch. This often puts her at odds with Vicarstown Hall, who thinks she's something of a stick-in-the-mud. Her work ethic is as strong as her anger for those who don't follow every single rule in the book, and trust me, she knows them all.

Rounding out the trio is Tidmouth Hall, one of the railway's designated thunderbird engines. Being a thunderbird engine is something he takes incredibly seriously, not having much patience for those who belittle or mock his work. Other than this, he's very friendly, caring, compassionate and trusting, though his trust and compassion can sometimes get him hurt.

All in all, the trio are a big cog in the clockwork mechanism of Sodor's railway system, doing whatever is assigned to them (for the most part) without fuss.

Thank you for reading, I'll see you in the next one.

Cheerio!

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Rock of Cashel

LMS

~ Norman Wilkinson (British, 1878-1971), circa 1935

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Let Me Down Easy (Crewe 1935, excerpt) CW: coarse language

“There’s a better time waiting for me...”

Firing time, this will show if the old demons have been exorcised.

“Ready, boy?”

“Yes”

Fire lit, coal arranged. A hissing emanates from within the entirety of Henry’s new shape. The thin little needle on the pressure gauge steadily rises. The fire roars hot and hungry within the firebox, a living thing in and of itself. Hello friend, it seems to say. Let me burn bright for you... The injection pump awakened by steam brings clean fresh water flowing to his boiler. Circulation pump brings hot to cold. Water drips from the drainage cocks. Steam builds flowing through the super-heater tubes as the water seethes. It feels nothing less than fantastic, like that first taste of Welsh Coal. If I could arch my back and howl triumphantly, I would.

sssssssssssssssssssssssssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yes, yes yes yes yes, YES!

Fucking YES!

FUCKING YES!

I feel so fucking alive right now.

“Pressure is going very well, boy! You might have to calm down a scotch else we are going to have to vent out a bit and drench everyone in steam…”

“Everything seems to be in order…”

All over, within and without, the workers check for leaks; gently tap his wheels, oil up his axels, check this or that bit of equipment. Everything feels weird and sensitive for being so new. Even with the special coal, he didn’t feel as raw as he does now, and not so powerful. Even twiddling the knobs in the cab feels slightly painful… and pleasantly so.

He was numb, even on good days in his old shape. The consequences of endless fuckery in the old chop-shop left him benumbed physically. The fact he could muster only a little steam contributed to this feeling of numb emptiness.

But now, having been not just rebuilt, but healed, in a true sense meant the world had really come alive for him. The sensation of oiled axels and motion, the steam flowing through his cylinders, the fire that united with him in his lovely new firebox.

I won't ever take for granted any of this, ever again.

“My body slips away, into weightlessness...”

“You can come out now, Henry!”

With a triumphant blast of the whistle and wreathed in white clouds of pure steam, Henry moved out of the workshop, wheel-slipping a bit as he does in excitement. Time was that even lifting his own motion was too hard, but now it was weightless. All of this strength, all of this power at hand that he could now access.

(Inspired by this video of the beautiful LMS 5MT 5025 and some of the commentary).