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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great to see/hear (on YouTube or audio only) @markoconnell.bsky.social on this excellent podcast. He elaborates on his richly informative and fabulous new James Bond 007 related book:

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is such a good BOND, QUEER BOND chat!

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe it inspired the giant snake in Kong '76?

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In addition to her great performances, Eva Marie Saint's name was lovingly referenced in Gremlins 2, as New York's "The Cathedral of St. Eva Marie". The location, of course, doesn't exist, and was a composite of matte paintings and LA location/studio backlot work.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RIP composer George Fenton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... He made so much great music across his career, but this might be my personal favourite of his tunes:

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

40 years ago today, Top Gun was released in UK cinemas! For those who didn't catch my deep-dive into the striking visual look that Tony Scott gave the film, and the state of the art tech used to realise it, both above and below the clouds:

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a fun poster. I have fond memories of those needlessly enormous North American clamshell VHS cases.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aside from all of the chemicals, dust and smoke being inhaled.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amusingly, I think this image is the closest from the real world to resemble the trend of sloppy, fake behind the scenes miniatures shoots shared across social media. Grown adults enjoying real-time make-believe with a toy sized world. It looks like it would be so much fun to be there.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In relation to my next video, I have been listening a lot to Chaka Khan's I Feel For You album, from 1984. It is one of the best and probably one of the most influential albums of the 1980s. New York electro soul, hip-hop & freestyle sounds put into pop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIei...

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Chaka Khan - I Feel For You (Full Album Video)

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very sad to read this. I wanted to speak to John Grover for my new video. He was an incredibly skilled editor & ludicrously underused. Labyrinth & Lifeforce both benefit so much from the pacy rhythms of a 007 editor, rather than the ponderous style associated with the fantasy genre of that time.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three Days of The Condor (1975) GoldenEye (1995) The scene of innocent office workers being mowed down in the former feels to me like a strong inspiration for the scene in the latter. Both have a surviving main character on break & lots of effective close ups of guns firing.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tim Burton's memory of fan behaviour at a sneak peak of Superman in 1978 (from Cinefex):

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's cool how it looks like the camera is first handheld/on steadicam, with the operator straddling, walking across the back of the plane & zip-panning, even though it's moving hundreds of miles an hour. When the other jet spins in, the operator seems to then jump off and fly, like Superman!

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the filmmaking nerds: I appreciate how Gizmo (but not the bag) is made to look like he's been shot at a frame number lower than 24fps.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I get the impression they were trying to channel the energetic and dynamic feeling of the classic Thundercats opening. These intros are works of art, even if largely, totally unrepresentative of the episode animation. Imagine if entire episodes looked and moved like this? bsky.app/profile/ultr...

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I still love the moody atmosphere of this show, or at least this intro. Everything happens at dusk, plus moody synthesisers and westerns just work so well together. I love the music especially at 00:16-27:00 and the sound effects of the aircraft at 00:22 are burned into my mind.

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Oliver Harper @oliverharper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW VIDEO - My latest Retrospective/Review on The Neverending Story II is now live on YouTube! youtu.be/QHjWW6PF9oY

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The Neverending Story II (1990) Retrospective/Review

YouTube video by Oliver Harper

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's #BatmanDay Another opportunity to plug this, for anyone who wants to know far too much about Batman Forever and why exactly it is what it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xA4...

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Batman Forever (1995) Has Two Faces

YouTube video by Tim Partridge

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Darkwing Duck Episode: Clash Reunion (1992) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Beauty and the Beast is another. As an aside: It’s interesting to see examples here that resist building to inevitable thunder and/or lightning storms.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It took me a while to get into the Ghostbuster films, having been so attached to the show. The tone of the movies was so different, & why was so much time spent with this "new" character, Dana? I love this Princely, Minneapolis flavoured original song from the show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwS5...

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The Real Ghostbusters Soundtrack - Boogieman

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Real Ghostbusters turns 40 today! I watched this show when it first aired in the UK without knowing there was a Ghostbusters movie. When the film eventually played on UK TV in 1988, I assumed it was a spin off of the animated series! Great memories of this beautiful artwork on merchandise.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't know why, but Westerns with moody synthesised scores always work for me.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shocked to discover this is from 1991. The music is really great, though!

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

RIP producer Jeremy Thomas, 77. Credits include The Last Emperor, Only Lovers Left Alive, Dom Hemingway, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Shout, Bad Timing, The Good Boy, 13 Assassins (2010), The Dreamers, Young Adam, High-Rise, A Dangerous Method, Crash (1996), Little Buddha, Sexy Beast, and more.

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A collection of posters from GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE (2024) Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A selection of posters for KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It also has really nice and atmospheric new age style cues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rLJ...

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George S. Clinton - Kahn And Shinnok

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The score to Mortal Kombat Annihilation was ahead of its time. Nowadays it sounds like a retro techno/orchestral hybrid from something like the recent Masters of the Universe. I also think the MK films got the ball rolling for action music heard in The Matrix movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGS...

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George S. Clinton - Into Outworld

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Darkwing Duck was a nominee for Outstanding Children's Program at the 19th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 1992. The show was up against: Winnie The Pooh Tiny Toons Rugrats Doug youtu.be/bg40iz7K298?...

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19th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - June 23, 1992

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Darkwing Duck was a nominee for Outstanding Children's Program at the 20th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 1993. The category was presented by no less than Barney the Dinosaur! The show was up against: Batman The Animated Series Tiny Toons Rugrats Doug www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcF...

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1993 Daytime Emmy Awards (KAPP Yakima) WOC

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Darkwing Duck is often assumed to be influenced & inspired by Batman the Animated Series. Darkwing actually came into syndication on 6 September, 1991, while Batman came out on 5 September, 1992! bsky.app/profile/timp...

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy 35th syndicated Birthday to Darkwing Duck! Five years ago I made the biggest deep-dive retrospective of the show available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCB...

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Darkwing Duck (1991-1992) Retrospective / Review

YouTube video by Oliver Harper

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I believe the opening title sequence of Out of Africa (1985) was the first non-genre/special effects movie that Industrial Light and Magic worked on. A miniature train was filmed against a bluescreen and composited over background plates of Kenya (that look like stills).

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I found this scene unnerving in MGONY.

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More KK 2005 posters Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Afterwards you can show them Janet Jackson dancing around the leftover street soundstage set from the film. youtu.be/EaleKN9GQ54?...

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Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More posters for KK 2005. Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Holiday on the Buses (1973) Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987) Both of these scenes were filmed at Elstree Studios, in the exact same area outside of (the now demolished) Stage 5, which was dressed to look like both a suburban London bus station and the bottom of a Metropolis Skyscraper.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also a great meeting place of old and new visual effects: Optically composited, hand painted matte paintings and real-time motion control used to film digitally composited split screen.

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There were many posters for Peter Jackson's 2005 KING KONG. This is my favorite. Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Revisiting David Bowie's early albums. So much breathtaking work and many seamless reinventions.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The first two are the same but resized and flipped!

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Ray Morton @raymorton1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Final KKL posters. Who'd a thought there could be so many? Read more in my book KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON -- REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, available now

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