A post of various things, but mostly old telly giffage

[thisbluespirit]

Life continues to be scary, so I am doing what surely any rational person would do and hiding away here, writing my hurtcomfortex letter (so many freeforms!) and making James Maxwell gifs.

I am trying to improve my gifmaking skills on the website, but all I learn is the website makes its own rules and will do completely different things with each different gif, although I am definitely getting a little bit better at knowing how many pics/what speed to do the ones from screencaps). It is frustrating, though - if I could do it on my editing programme, I could make them so much prettier!

Also you know that Obi-Wan/Padme gif I made from the RotS extras, that wasn't even that good? I posted them on tumblr as well, because I thought I might as well, and now it's at 2000+ notes and hasn't stopped yet. It's very weird. If I had 2000+ repsonses to a Dreamwidth post I'd be collapsed somewhere, but on tumblr, it's all very impersonal and has nothing to do with me whatsoever. It just sort of... goes on regardless, and indeed, would if I wasn't even there any more. (Up till now the best I had was Peter Cushing gifs which picked up c. 200-300 notes.) Anyway, so if you post any old Obidala gif, tumblr likes it. Or possibly just if you get the ones off the extra bit off the DVD.

Oh, and, in cheerful things - I have a space_swap gift already! I feel like I'm slacking now, although mine has progressed to a mental plan and notes and rewatching and I mean to get actual words down tomorrow.


Anyway, have an incomplete gifology of 1960s James Maxwell, plus one Suzanne Neve, because it included Portrait of a Lady and I couldn't not.



Girl on Approval (1961) A miracle - a reasonably good quality, wee, non-fake-hair-attached, non-evil JM!


Private Potter (1962; originally a TV one-off play, 1961) Fake eyebrows are important to national security.


The Traitors (1962) This is the quality of the DVD. *weeps*


Espionage "Final Decision" (1962)


Dangerman "A Date With Doris" (1964) a fainty friend of Drake's called Peter


Dangerman "Fair Exchange" (1964) a different friend of Drake's called Pieter; less fainty, into undercover dusting


The Power Game S1 (1965)


Out of the Unknown "The Dead Past" (1965)


Mystery & Imagination "Dracula" (1968) (This bit is right at the start and it's already too much for him. He did not ask for vampires!)


The Tower of London: The Innocent (1969) (aka The Shadow of the Tower the audition, or his first attempt at Henry VII)

Also in COLOUR:

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964; this was a smaller part than the rest, but there's less colour JM out there)


The Portrait of a Lady (1968) Gilbert Osmond, the worst, also worst facial hair but bonus: married to Suzanne Neve and nice bow ties. :-/


Otley (1969) Here without barometer, but is still a chief red herring


The Champions "The Silent Enemy." ITC have their uses.

I didn't do: cameos, things I didn't keep/never had except via YouTube, things I gave back to my Mum, burninated TV nobody has, The Avengers (2 eps, but if I put them on tumblr the Avengers person will turn up like a bad fairy and reblog them with hate. They hate JM for what his characters did to Steed, Cathy and Mrs Peel. They hate Anneke Wills and other people for similar reasons too). So, basically, this is not a fair representation of all the terrible fake hair I have endured to look at his face under it. Also he's way more evil and random in colour, but at least you can tell what colour his eyes are. Some of what is here only is because of the amazing kindness of liadbunny and swordznsorcery who are both have been known to send me piratical things in the post. (At least once it was literally piratical as it was Treasure Island with Alfred Burke in it.)


Anyway, also Suzanne Neve. Probably also with fake hair, but not on her face, which is, I feel, the important thing when it comes to fake hair. (Well. Some wigs are very, very bad, I admit. But most of the time, ANYTHING BUT THE MOUSTACHE.)


As Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady. I love her, too. I should make more gifs.

Comments

[corvidology]

Good luck with the letter writing. Right now not wanting to write a letter is the one thing standing between me and signing up for the exchange.

[thisbluespirit]

It is a fiddly one, although the actual letter writing bit is easier, because I can just say: these here freeforms are my prompts, have fun injuring people!!

And you don't have to write a letter, after all. You can just sign-up on AO3 and list yr DNW and general likes and live dangerously. *eggs you on*

[corvidology]

I always feel honour bound to write something that at least passes for a letter because of being thrown by recipients who only have DNWs and general likes.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, the freeforms do make the letter writing easier! ;-p

(I'm taking no excuses. Unless you want me to. ♥)

[corvidology]

Thanks for the nudge... into doing something I want to do anyway. :D

I'm going to look it over and see if there's anything I could write for.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Very nice gifs, as usual.

And yes, hiding here on DW is the sensible thing to do.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks!

[sovay]

Anyway, have an incomplete gifology of 1960s James Maxwell

Nice face; thank you. I like his glasses in Otley.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! I've always assumed the glasses were his (they occur in quite a few things, including Espionage here), but I don't know if that's true. (I think by the time I was halfway through SotT the first time I'd assumed he was short-sighted, but, lol, I don't know if that's true either.)

[paynesgrey]

Really good gifs! I wasn't able to find your Obidala ones though... I'd love to see those.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! The Obi-Wan/Padme ones are here

ETA: Oh, if you want the tumblr post it's here

[paynesgrey]

Thanks!

[liadt]

Those are definitely good gifs for seeing JM's eye colour. 1970's TV video tape makes everyone's eyes look the colour of murk, if only everything had the shine of ITC. Good horror expression for Frankenstein!

You could put Avengers gifs on here. At least we're not evil ... except on Tuesdays and Thursdays;p

[thisbluespirit]

I could put the Avengers gifs here, but then I'd have to make them, and the Cathy one involves a really terrible moustache! I'll save it for the Moustache Gallery of Doom maybe. :-D

At least we're not evil ... except on Tuesdays and Thursdays;

XD I suppose that gives me some leeway!

1970's TV video tape makes everyone's eyes look the colour of murk, if only everything had the shine of ITC.

The 1970s still has some ITC! *looks at Thriller*

Also me, making this and discovering that I can make perfectly good gifs of things sent to me on home-made DVDs was a revelation because you tend to send me stuff at my worst when my brain is foggy, so I don't remember it all and I spent a lot of time last week going, "Wow, Liadt sent me this as well? Where did this come from?"

[liadt]

Moustache Gallery of Doom should be a bingo square!

The 70's was so grubby even 'Thriller' wasn't up to ITC's usual standards of shininess. Mind you, I suppose it would have been wrong to make a show that routinely killed off visiting Americans look flashy;p

Aw, best not to ask where stuff comes from ... (NB I had a look and the internet doesn't think Suzanne Neve has been in 'Dangerman')

[thisbluespirit]

Thriller is definitely comparatively pretty, though! Certainly you can determine eye colour and so on. :-D

Oh, for some reason I thought SN had done Dangerman as well, but it must just have been a couple of eps of The Saint or something.

[elen_nare]

Very nice gifs :) I'm amused by Peter/Pieter - seems like the director/writer just felt he looked like a P(i)eter!

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, I don't know what's with the P(i)eter thing! Even more amusing, when I watched The Prisoner which may or may not be a sequel, Patrick McGoohan (Drake) doesn't ever give a name, except once when he claims to be Peter. (I like to think he's just missing all his James Maxwell lookalikes!)