Wednesday 28 August 2019

The shape of things to come... Pathe News

General Rosti and his staff from Thun are seeing the future of army communications demonstrated. This splendid early warning system is to be established across Helvetica. Mr  Rivella , with his charming wife looking on,demonstrates tomorrow’s cutting edge technology for the 1920s . It is fun,folklore and the future rolled into one...what say you daisy the cow?

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  1. What's the origin of the civilians?

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  2. Swiss wooden carvings bought by my father in Switzerland in the late 1940s when he was on holiday there.

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  3. Quite an evocative scene! Interestingly(?) I ran a campaign set in my own Helvetica, an island in the Sans Serif chain. It pitted the forces of Sauvignon Blanc against those of Riesling, with both featuring contingents of native lizard men (such are the vagaries of lost world islands).

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