iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 15h

I guess it would be ironic if he murdered these 3 jerks and used them as compost to stop the biosphere pods from being destroyed. #SilentRunning #TCMParty

050

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 17h

I know everyone finally got to enjoy being able to wear their menswear looser after the war, but all of Don Castle's jackets/coats seem to be another size bigger than appropriately oversized. Could he have borrowed/recycled Raymond Burr's costumes from something else? #TheGuilty #TheNoirCollective

0130

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 17h

I really like the actor who plays the twin' father, John Litel I think? #TheGuilty #TheNoirCollective

1100

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 19h

Bess: "Edward! Is that you?" Edward: "Who else? Didn't you hear the idiot yelling?" That little guy's delivery was great 😆 (Rex Thompson) #YoungBess #TCMParty

010

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 20h

I haven't seen #YoungBess in so long I can't remember if there's any swashbuckling or the like. (Please let there be Granger-style swashbuckling type stuff.) #TCMParty

010

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 21h

Randomly selecting a portrait of Chester Morris, I fell down a rabbit hole. It's stamped "Freulich" but there were 2, and their work gets mixed up. Jack started the Universal stills dept, eventually hiring his brother Roman. I may have to learn their styles to tell them apart! (PS. fake signature!)

A "featured player in Universal Pictures" studio portrait of Chester Morris from between 1933-34, likely taken by Jack Freulich.
The background is abstractly Art Deco and a combination of light and dark. Chester is wearing a light coloured knit top with short sleeves, a v-neck, and a collar, which is displaying his collarbones nicely. This lightweight t-shirt style sweater is tucked into mid-toned, high waisted, pleated front trousers, with a subtly cool mid-toned, slim leather belt that seems to be buckle-less. I love the fine wool texture and looseness of these trousers. He's simultaneously leaning his shoulders forward and almost sitting back slightly against something, in a more casual pose than we typically see, with his hands in his trouser pockets. He is looking slightly upward and off camera to his left, with almost the start of a smile on his face.

2180

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 21h

Even when I don't want to watch #ShowBoat, I always want to watch/hear Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel's version of Make Believe. I think it's just beautiful. #TCMParty

020

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my, having Loretta Young undressing in her hotel room in front of Clark Gable talking on a tv that's sitting at almost chest height! Not part of the movies I've seen in 1950! #KeyToTheCity #TCMParty

250

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here for Clark Gable and Loretta Young! (awkward) Haven't seen #KeyToTheCity (1950) yet. #TCMParty

Lobbycard for Key to the City (1950) where Clark Gable is holding Loretta Young's hand in both of his and looking into her eyes while she looks like she was not expecting that.

140

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So far #Scaramouche may be Ramón Novarro's best performance, IMO... I mean, we'll see, but I wasn't expecting that. #TCMParty

030

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I LOVE A CINEMATOGRAPHER UNAFRAID OF SHOOTING IN FULL SUN!!! I bow to the genius of John F. Seitz. This is too beautiful not to have a better restoration of... it needs so much cleanup still. 😭 #Scaramouche #TCMParty

050

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been looking forward to this photography for weeks. I only saw some early scenes from #Scaramouche (1923) and never forgot how stunning I thought they were. #TCMParty

020

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Barrymore is supposed to be 25 and is actually 45 but for someone who's apparently been struggling with alcohol for 31 years he looks awwwfully good. #TheBelovedRogue #TCMParty

040

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Sea Hawk II: Lionel Avenges Being Revenged! ... Oh wait, no, ok redemption is good too. #TheSeaHawk #TCMParty

120

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I just spent 20 seconds yelling to block out Alicia spending too much time telling us what's going to happen. I wasn't near the remote and it drives me nuts when they do that to fill up intro time. I'm already here to try to enjoy it, leave me some twists and turns. #TheSeaHawk #TCMParty

010

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whoa old man Paul Lukas acting everyone in that boardroom less than half his age off the damn screen! 😮 #SolMadrid #TCMParty

160

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love this letter from Ricardo Montalbán to a reviewer of the film. You can feel why this movie mattered to him so much. #StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan #TCMParty

July 7. 1982
Dear Miss Kael:
The joy and encouragement I derived from your review of "Star Trek II" has to be one of the highlights of my life as an actor.
You have provided me with a renewed enthusiasm and optimism much needed at this advanced stage of my career, which has had it's share of frustration.
I am well aware that a critic of your stature should not be thanked for a favorable review anymore then be resented for an unfavorable one; it is simply that because of you I am filled with joy, and I wanted to express this feeling.
Respectfully,
Ricardo Montalbán

3496

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The New Yorker on Ricardo Montalbán, June 1982: " #StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan is the only validation he has ever had of his power to command the big screen. Montalban is unquestionably a star in The Wrath of Khan (and his grand manner seems to send a little electric charge through Shatner)." #TCMParty

2110

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Realistic or not, my favourite part of this movie will always be how the European aristocrats take to–and outright adore–the Browns. #TheUnsinkableMollyBrown #TCMParty

030

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why did that feel slow in parts but also like it went by too fast? #FlowerDrumSong #TCMParty

030

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm distracted by wishing they still offered refrigerators in turquoise... (GE ad, 1961—and hey they used to have the freezer as a drawer on the bottom!) #FlowerDrumSong #TCMParty

2160

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This poor girl, she has to be stressed by being bounced around all over the place, but she's too sweet to show it. #FlowerDrumSong #TCMParty

040

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not to state the obvious but wow is it nice to see Asian persons played by Asian persons in an old Hollywood movie. And to see a mix of generations, especially those who clearly only know America as their country. Obviously it's not perfect but I'm still happy. #FlowerDrumSong #TCMParty

1140

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IIRC we're about to get a quick glimpse at a lot of celebs, including a few seconds of Chester Morris. #TCMParty

220

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've never found that line to be very believable. If her brother had thought he'd heard a scream in the night he would have investigated it too. #KingSolomonsMines #TCMParty

000

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was that a lion they just had a run in with? My kitten is suddenly riveted to the tv. #KingSolomonsMines #TCMParty

000

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That face-off was awesome! Only the funky music was distracting. Serious shout out to whoever styled both men but—WOW Peter Cushing's style transcended the time period—you'd be cool AF if you could pull off his layered menswear pieces NOW. And his hair! Everything was 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #DraculaAD72 #TCMParty

130

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Professor Van Helsing, sir, you can call a cab. You don't have to run until you nearly collapse. You live in London sir, there are a lot of cabs. #DraculaAD72 #TCMParty

010

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They ask Van Helsing for his expertise, convince him it really applies here when he thinks it doesn't, and then when he's convinced and gives them his opinion they reply, "Are you joking?" ...🙃 #DraculaAD1972 #TCMParty

010

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You gotta feel for poor Dracula. Never knowing what weird loser you'll be face-to-face with every time you're brought back to life. Someone there to serve you but feels you owe them, who'll be staring at you every second, calling you master and hanging on your every word...🙄 #DraculaAD1972 #TCMParty

220

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If my great grandfather was buried outside the door—F*** these guys and their stupid overdramatic amateur ceremony! And I'd head straight home to grandfather asking if we know what's going to happen to his resting place with this church decommissioned. I'm a nerd like that. #DraculaAD1972 #TCMParty

000

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Aww man. If Peter Cushing was MY grandfather, I'd hang out with him all the time! People don't even know when they have nice things. #DraculaAD1972 #TCMParty

030

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my imagination Dracula shows up in 1972 and a cult of idiots follow him around begging him to bite them and "hang out" and he's trying to lose them and figure out how to go back to his grave for another 90 years and see if things are cooler when or if he wakes up again. #DraculaAD1972 #TCMParty

030