#Jenny Hammerton

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Hippfest 2024: seduced by silents

The fashionable set is always the first to know. So if you know you know, but if you don’t know you need to know that 2024 is the year of Coquette Core, a prettified aesthetic that can be boiled down to: put a bow on it. That’s technically a beribboned bow with a lower-case b, not a Clara Capital-B-Bow, but the difference is only nominal. At this year’s Hippodrome Silent Film Festival we…

[petersfalk]

new clumpo books ❤️ shoutout to the people who make these books independently. the cookbook is by jenny hammerton! go buy them

[columboscreens]

have you heard of or read the cooking with columbo book by jenny hammerton?

i have! here's a sneak peek of it:

unfortunately i don't own it, i already have so many cookbooks, but i certainly wouldn't mind if it came into my possession. you can find the full list and more here.

[mariacallous]

I suddenly need this cookbook

[garymey]

COOKING WITH JOAN CRAWFORD

By Jenny Hammerton (October 8, 2023) Are you ready to sprinkle some stardust around your kitchen? From the earliest days of Hollywood, movie stars shared their favourite dishes with fan magazines, syndicated newspapers and cookbook compilers. I’ve been collecting these film star recipes for around 25 years, and my stash now numbers over 8,000. I’m gradually cooking my way through them. Some of…

[woknbook]

Murder, She Cooked: A Cabot Cove Cookbook - Jenny Hammerton

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Murder With Too Many Notes (March 12, 2001) Columbo: Season 13, Episode 4

There are many questions which beg for answering in this episode. Luckily, the answer also happened to be the director ... Patrick McGoohan’s sensibilities show up throughout “Murder With Too Many Notes” like fingerprints on a smartphone screen. (As a matter of fact, it only occurs to me while writing this that the scene in which the witnesses to David’s post-mortal plummet burst into the soundstage on which Finlay was conducting was a trademark McGoohan angle, head to toe, and was just one among many)

More than merely that camera angle, shot from the rafters, signified McGoohan’s presence. His sense of humor reared its exceptionally dry head now and again. A protracted chase scene (of sorts) to the score of a sonorous lullabye, punctuated by the passing “old man on a bike” gag -- the sudden insertion of slapstick surrealism in the middle of a mysterious murder -- was probably serenaded by McGoohan’s soft chuckling from behind the cameras...

For my personal tastes, I find Connolly too avuncular and charming to consider menacing. I enjoyed the same problem in Boondock Saints, in which his character seemed no more threatening to me than Fred Rogers. It affected my suspension of disbelief, but not my enjoyment of Connolly’s presence. 

Performances are the make-or-break factor of this episode, knowing that McGoohan has complicated matters with his usual flair (for instance, by adding a musical clue which would have been opaque to tin-eared viewers -- such as myself). You have to just ride it out when you’re in something McGoohan has directed. You have to accept that he’s going to make part of the story at least partly impenetrable, as a challenge to the audience.  He brings The Prisoner wherever he goes... 

Listen to us discuss this episode with our guest Jenny Hammerton.

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W.H Walmsley 

History

The term photo-macrograph was proposed in 1899 by W. H. Walmsley for close-up images with less than 10 diameters magnification, to distinguish from true photo-micrographs.

Walmsley was also quite a good microscopist, respected in this field and also in photography, especially photomicrography. He was active in mycology and authored several articles, and a book about photomicrography, 'The A.B.C. of Micrography' in 1902. He died in October of 1905. He was a founding member of the American Microscopical Society, and was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of many other learned societies, including the Royal Microscopical Society. One of the earliest pioneers of macro photography was Percy Smith, born in 1880. He was a British nature documentary filmmaker and was known for his close-up photographs. Percy smith The son of Francis David Smith (1854-1918) and Ada (née Blaker - born 1856), known as Percy Smith. He married Kate Louise Ustonson in 1907. While working as a clerk for the British Board of Education, he began to photograph the natural world around him, but found his desire to exploit the educational possibilities of film stifled. That was until his close-up photograph of a bluebottle's tongue caught the attention of film producer Charles Urban. Before joining the Charles Urban Trading Company full time, Smith subsequently produced To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909) and The Acrobatic Fly (1910). To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly is a 1909 British short silent animated documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring a close-up of an animated model spider throwing its silken thread to take to the air. The film features, "the first of several animated creatures to appear in Smith's films," and according to Jenny Hammerton of BFI Screen online was made in the belief, "that he could cure people of their fear of spiders by showing them blown up images of their eight-legged foes on the cinema screen."

[aparchives]

This week’s Archivist Presents clip features another Objectivity video with AP Archive’s very own Jenny Hammerton! This film explores self-driving cars.

Here is the original British Movietone newsreel.

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Cooking with Columbo

While our best selling book , Beyond Columbo: The Life and Times of Peter Falk (sold everywhere in book or Ebook) is a comprehensive biography of Peter Falk, comes this book in the U. K. From writer Jenny Hammerton called ” Cooking with Columbo'” Columbo and Peter Falk remains an international treasured character and actor, respectively. Get cooking with Columbo at the Forum- By Emma PalmerJust…

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Contemporary Art for Christmas 2012

Award to one artist of £250 as voted by the public

10th November - 14 December

[garymey]

MURDER, SHE COOKED- A Farewell to Angela Lansbury

MURDER, SHE COOKED- A Farewell to Angela Lansbury

By Jenny Hammerton When Dame Angela Lansbury travelled up to that Hollywood in the sky, the outpouring of love and respect for her terrific talent and tremendous career was palpable. She was beloved by many theatre, film and television fans and will be very much missed.             (more…)

[jomtpodcast]

A journey through an impractical soundstage elevator with Lt.Columbo -- it sounds like the world’s greatest dark ride. Get Disneyland on the phone! (from “Murder With Too Many Notes”)

Listen to us discuss this episode with our guest Jenny Hammerton.

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What do you know? The second-to-last Columbo episode ever is the second-to-last one we’re covering! In “Murder with Too Many Notes,” Billy Connolly plays a past-his-prime film score composer whose protégé has secretly been the one producing the maestro’s best work lately. When the kid starts demanding some credit for his work, the composer sees no way out than to stage an untimely death for the wannabe John Williams. Author and film archivist Jenny Hammerton (Cooking with Columbo) joins us to discuss the episode, weather on our respective continents, what Columbo souvenir you’d want in your house, and so much more. Also- a contest to win Jenny’s book! Details in the episode.

Listen to us discuss this episode with our guest Jenny Hammerton.

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Billy Connolly! Film scoring action! A rusty elevator! Tuxedo rental clues! We’re getting close to the end, with Season Ten’s McGoohan-directed “Murder with Too Many Notes.” Joining in will be author and film archivist Jenny Hammerton (Cooking with Columbo).

Listen to the episode preview here

[aparchives]

This week check out AP Archive’s very own Jenny Hammerton featured on Objectivity’s latest video as she delves into the oldest film in the British Movietone collection!