#playhouse video

[animationproclamations]

Magazine ad for the VHS/Beta release of Ralph Bakshi's WIZARDS (1977).

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #401

Kermit's middle name is "the."

Source:

The Kermit and Piggy Story. Inside cover. Playhouse Video. 1985.

[gagedraws]

We were fed a lot of HORROR games this year, huh?

[plush4bunny]

I love your Alfred Molina characters art so much 😭💗💖

bless you anon, i'm very humbled 🙇🙇🙇 have some henry drummond sketch

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - February 28th, 1986 - Queen Story!

Queen shoots promo video for "A Kind Of Magic" (from 'A Kind Of Magic' album)

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Filming Location: Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, London, UK

Filmed in the disused Playhouse Theatre in London's Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross, the video was Queen's first to include animation since Save Me, with computer graphics bringing the characters from the cover of the new album to dazzling life as, among other things, the band's backing singers.

The theatre was once used by the BBC to record programming for radio, and this was the inspiration for the video itself - Freddie is the magician who returns to the abandoned theatre where he was once a star and turns three down-and-out squatters (Brian, Roger and John) into his band. The shoot itself was somewhat less magical - the theatre lacked central heating and was very cold, much to the discomfort of the band and the crew.

(➡️ source: queenpedia.com website)

📸 Pic: 1986 - Quee with Russell Mulcahy (director)

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[squiddcakes]

You ever watch a Sam and Max video essay in the middle of your college cafeteria thinking it be something nice and short and end up bawling your eyes out in front of five people. Can someone please relate.

[sweetpeauserboxes]

[id: a black userbox with a cyan border and cyan text that reads “this user is going insane while waiting for the devil's playhouse remaster”. on the left is an image of the sam and max: the devils playhouse logo. /end id]

[felizusnavidad]

ttpd this, ttpd that, fuck it, i just finished watching preludes & i can't stop crying

[thepenalzone]

foreshadowing with clips 👍

[sleuth-hounds]

Sam chewing on peanut butter amidst the ongoing chaos is too wholesome for me

[shilohsylvanian]

Gingerbread playhouse unboxing 💕

[gagedraws]

Even Bad Bunnies need a break. 🐰

[plush4bunny]

ohmygod?!?!?! are they for real???

ohmygod they are for real 😭😭😭😭

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

“I had no idea I was going to shoot Queen as the record company just told me to turn up outside The Playhouse Theatre on The Embakment. I was told Freddie wasn’t very well and he only appeared to perform and then went back to rest. He did perform and looked great as the ‘dark magician’ character"

- MacKenzie Matthews photographer

👉Late February 1986 - Freddie Mercury on the set of promotional video ' A Kind Of Magic'.

Director Russell Mulcahy; Filmed in the disused Playhouse Theatre in London's Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross, London, UK

📸 Photo Credit Photographer Neil MacKenzie Matthews

👉 Source: "SNAP! Music Photography Vol. 1" book

👉👉 March 17th, 1986 - Queen Story!

'A Kind Of Magic' / 'A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling' released in the UK

👉 Taken 'A Kind Of Magic' album; Reached No 3 in UK charts

👉 'A Kind Of Magic' written by Roger Taylor but...

🔸"We all have our own ideas of how song should be, because I mean a song can be done in so many different ways, depending on of who is doing it.

But sometimes I just feel that it's not right and like in case of Roger's track, which is Magic, I mean, he did it in totally different way, which is quite good, but I just felt that it was another commercial streak, and I just realized that he was going away to LA, and I just got hold of it. I just changed the arrangement completely. And when he came back, I said, 'What do you think?', and he said 'Oh, I like it!'.

It was a completely different song, but you know, it's something, sometimes you can see something else in other people's songs"

- Freddie Mercury

Interview 1986

👉 Roger's version is at the end of the film; Freddie's version is on the album