On this day in 1940, Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood” reaches #1 in the US pop charts.

What's so notable about this clip is that this is primetime kids tv and it's a 5 minute scene of talk free, effects free, distraction free construction of a piece of art to a classical music soundtrack. This is what kids TV was. It's like viewing a lost world.

Yeats perfectly expresses why AI can never replace artists, novelists, or poets. Read "Where My Books go," and you'll understand that the human author crafts every word for you, to find you, to "sing" to you. It's a message from one living soul to another.

The moment THE WIZARD OF OZ becomes Technicolor was all done in camera. The set was painted sepia and Judy Garland's stand in wore sepia clothes.

It’s 2008 for me.

My old pal Morten Morland has captured my 15th anniversary in Downing Street perfectly

Remembering Vera-Ellen on her Birthday Born | February 16, 1921 in Norwood, Ohio, USA Video | Vera-Ellen performing nerve taps that revolutionised the world in the 1954 film “White Christmas.” Never has this been replicated by any other dancer, nor has anyone been recorded

Fabulous book, excellent film.

Forward to me by a good friend. Made me laugh ... 😂

“And I Love Her” - The Beatles (1964)

Happy International Women's Day!

It’s international women’s day. For all the good it does us.

Happy International Women’s Day

Oh the best.

Packing the family Mini Minor for a little holiday in 1961. Suitcases, chairs, a radio, books, mum’s hatbox, and handbag. It’s surprising how much fitted into this tiny car!

Happy #caturday from Bunty and Flynn.

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The Cat has spoken.