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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 aspace_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 ofliadbunny 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.
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.
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Date: 13 Mar 2020 08:34 pm (UTC)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?"
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Date: 14 Mar 2020 03:26 pm (UTC)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')
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Date: 14 Mar 2020 05:29 pm (UTC)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.