Going to the Cinema
This photo is irrelevant really, but the gate (of the Central Public Library) is rather splendid, so I wanted to include it. This means Alice has to be allowed a little rant about how wonderful the library sytem is. Oh, all right. She says you can go online, search for a book, and if it's in any of the city's 30 branches, you can reserve it and when it's free they'll send it to your local one to collect! And no charge. Pretty smooth - OK?
Actually we were going across the road to the (not so inspiring)
entrance of the Scottish National Library, to see an exhibition about
Scotland at the cinema. They had Scottified (so what else can I call it?) some famous film quotes to publicise it.
There was lots of stuff: old posters; movie mags; an antique cine camera (a bit like this one); lantern slides of ads; and screens showing clips from old silent films and early talkies.
There's a good video about it all by Summerhall, and an interesting review at beautybombshells with details and pictures. Exactly why the word "bombshells" in this contex? You may indeed ask. Alice Googled and Googled away, eventually found a picture here, which can't be right, and a more suggestively helpful definition at an online Dictionary.
You humans do love to make a word work hard. I hope you pay them more, like Humpty Dumpty.
NEXT TIME we'll tell you about films we've been seeing - plus some we're really looking forward to.
