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citizenscreen

#BBC Sound Effects department, 1927

philtardis

Noise Night with the boys

sistertaxon

love the guy just straight up holding a gun

bidoof

he’s there to kill anyone who tries making any of the forbidden sound effects

lawrence88

LOVE IT 😂 funny how so many things actually looked and sounded waaay more real (if you disagree, look up Buster Keaton) than the fake special effects of today!

ouphrontis

“The streets were narrow alleys, wood roofed in the main bazaar but elsewhere open to the sky for the little gap between the tops of the lofty white-walled houses. They were built, for or five storeys high, of coral rag, tied with wooden beams, and decorated with great bow-windows running from ground to roof in grey wooden panels. The style of architecture was like Elizabethan half-timber work, in the elaborate Chesire fashion, but gone gimrack to an incredible degree. House fronts were fretted and pierced and pargetted til they looked as though cut out of cardboard for a romantic stage-setting. Every storey jutted, every window leaned one way or other, often the very walls sloped back and forward."

T.E. Lawrence describing Jidda in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Photos by him, from The Imperial War Museum.

telawrence

“Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. A dry irony is the most useful type, and repartee of a personal and not too broad character will double your influence with the chiefs. Reproof, if wrapped up in some smiling form, will carry further and last longer than the most violent speech. The power of mimicry or parody is valuable, but use it sparingly, for wit is more dignified than humour. Do not cause a laugh at a Sherif except amongst Sherifs.”

— T.E. Lawrence in his “Twenty-seven Articles,” 1917

lawrence88

❤️

ouphrontis

Now all the pictures of T.E. Lawrence in his lovely R.A.F. cap are in one place.

lawrence88

So handsome!

telawrence

T. E. Shaw, Admiral Sir Eric Fullerton, Hubert Scott-Paine, 1934 via the T.E. Lawrence Society.

ouphrontis

“I was about to take my leave when Suleiman the guest-master hurried in and whispered to Feisal, who turned to me with shining eyes, trying to be calm, and said, ‘Auda is here.’ I shouted, ‘Auda Abu Tayi’, and at that moment the tent flap was drawn back and a deep voice boomed salutations to our lord, the Commander of the Faithful: and there entered a tall strong figure with a haggard face, passionate and tragic. This was Auda, and with him his young son, Mohammed, a child of eleven years old.

He had married twenty-eight times, had been wounded thirteen times, and in the battles he provoked had seen all his tribesmen hurt, and most of his relation slain. He himself had killed seventy-five men, all Arabs, by his own hand in battle.

His face was magnificent, even to its lines and hollows, and showed how true it was that the death of Annad, his favourite son, had cast sorrow over all his life. He had large eloquent eyes like black velvet in richness. His forehead was low and broad, his nose very high and sharp, powerfully hooked: his mouth rather large, and his beard and moustaches trimmed to a point, in the Howeitat style.

He saw life as a saga, and all events in it were significant, and all personages in contact with him heroic. His mind was stored with tales of old raids, and epic poems of fights. He had no control over his lips, and was therefore terrible to his own interest, and hurt his friends continually. He spoke of himself in the third person and was so sure of his fame that he loved to shout out stories against himself. At times he seemed taken by a demon of mischief: and yet with all this he was really modest, as simkple as a child, direct, honest, kind-hearted, and warmly loved even by those to whom he was most embarrassing - his friends.” - Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

Photo shows T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi, the inspiration for the character of the same name in Lawrence of Arabia (IWM)

lawrence88

Another photo I’d never seen till now 😍

telawrence

T.E. Lawrence in Wadi Rum, 1917. Auda Abu Tayi is seen in the background.

lawrence88

I’ve never seen this photo before 😍

ouphrontis

“ […] Sakhara, which stood a little apart, was the bubble-rock that had most roused my curiosity. Seen from nearby, it more resembled a huge football half-buried in the ground. It too was brown in colour: the south and east faces were quite smooth and unbroken, and its regular domed head was polished and shining and had fine cracks running up and over it like stitched seams: - altogether one of the strangest hills in Hejaz, a country of strange hills.”

Passage from Seven Pillars of Wisdom with the accompanying photos of Sakhara, a hill of Jebel el Sukhur, photographed by T.E. Lawrence, March 1917. (IWM)

lawrence88

I would love a book to be published with the complete works of Lawrence’s photography and sketches!

myfavoritepeterotoole

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif dancing at the party after the London Premiere of Lawrence of Arabia in 1962

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Peter O'Toole photo by Bert Stern (Vogue December 1962)

Rib-thin, tall, with worn young face and a Dubliner’s pliant voice, Peter O'Toole (above), after three months of hard sell here will be seen as that small, enigmatic man, T. E. Lawrence, in the new movie Lawrence of Arabia. Because the great wangle of Lawrence’s life came during World War Ⅰ when he induced the Arabs to come in on the Allied side, the film is based primarily on the Lawrence book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, (One of the most assiduous archaeological diggings of recent times is the digging into the truth of Lawrence’s life by a multitude of biographers.) For the film O'Toole, wrapping himself in a white djellaba, his kaffiah flying in the wind, mounted a camel and swept with the Camel Corps into superb reconstructions, notably that of the battle of Wadi Musa at Petra when Lawrence’s Arab forces defeated the Turks in 1918. As training O'Toole tented with the Bedouins for three months to learn some Arabic, found out about the art of camel racing at a desert fortress: “After a few nasty spills, you just don’t tumble off a nine-foot beast at thirty miles an hour.” Now twenty-nine, O'Toole has a pocketful of ripe movie roles in his future. He said: “I like nice indoor, smoke-filled rooms, and no sports at all.”

catandguitarsnugglingonthecouch

Remembering Lawrence by his Friends

A group of very interesting people, whose names should ring a bell, have something to say about TE as they knew him. There are: Celine Kennington, Fareedeh el Akle, Siegfried Sassoon, Clare Sydney Smith, Sydney Smith

A video shared over the Facebook group “TE Lawrence in the News” from Administrator Phyllis Whowell. A screen recording from an undated and unnamed documentary she bought off somebody in the 90s for 1£.

I am not sure who the first person is on the video footage, perhaps you do?

Sydney Smith made me laugh with his comment. Very down-to-earth!

arefriendsdetectives

Fascinating! I’ve heard some of this audio before but I’d never seen the footage. Fareedeh was so in love with him. He must have been an extraordinary person to know. If time travel were possible, T.E. Lawrence would be the first historical figure I’d want to meet. Or just hang about and observe from a distance while being weird and awkward, which is what I tend to do with living famous people.

I would love to see the rest of this documentary.

woodsydynamite-deactivated20230

I’d love to hang out with Ned via time travel. He’d be the coolest dude to play annoying pranks with.

lawrence88

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing [better than every other person in the world].” ~ (not really but really) Ned

Arnie Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence’s youngest brother. Poor guy at the inquest after the accident. I see the resemblance...anyone have any more “young adult Arnie” photos? Would appreciate!!

#Arnold Lawrence #A. W. Lawrence #lawrence of arabia #te shaw #te lawrence ned #youngest #funeral #t.e. lawrence #te lawrence #t. e. lawrence

Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, 7th Baronet...aka Thomas Robert Lawrence, father of T. E. Lawrence. First time I’ve ever seen a picture of him!! Shout out to @nerdypipsqueak for help!

Found, in addition to pictures of his dad’s wife, his aunts, uncles, half-sisters, grandparents. From “The Boy in the Mask” by Dock Benson-Gyles (get it! I’m just starting but it’s wonderful).

However...how on EARTH is this boy 18?? Typo?

#t. e. lawrence #te lawrence ned #lawrence of arabia #te lawrence #t.e. lawrence #te shaw #Chapman #sir Thomas Chapman #7thbaronet

nerdypipsqueak

Okay, so MyHeritage has this thing called Deep Nostalgia which animates photos and gives you these lovely little clips.

I am totally not crying over this. Totally not.

woodsydynamite-deactivated20230

I really see Arnie in this. It's kinda disturbing

lawrence88

Not perfect...but incredible.

These are both Janet Laurie, T.E. Lawrence’s childhood friend and crush, or am I utterly mistaken? Once again I do not know the source of the second photo 🤔 would like to see more pics of her

EDIT: silly me. The bottom photo is of LADY ASTOR, NOT Janet.

#te lawrence #te lawrence ned #te shaw #lawrence of arabia #t.e. lawrence