Smoking in films and TV programmes .

When I was in Oz and NZ, the lunch room was called the “smoko” room. Luckily, I quite enjoy passive smoking.

They don’t smoke in soaps no more

That there blokes mother still has a tab in Eastenderers on screen

They don’t smoke in soaps no more

Yeah, but if soaps were true to life, the entire Eastenders cast would consist entirely of trustafarian vloggers in skinny jeans, with beards, and the Queen Vic would be a vegan coffee bar

Smoko breaks at sea are still the done thing.

Watching the Man in the High Castle the other day we noticed whilst many of the characters smoke a lot, some of the actors are actually smoking and some are not, and the smoke and red glow are CGed in afterwards. The guy who plays Joe is clearly not smoking.

We’ve now moved on enough that the cigarette use is actually quite a powerful visual point in that series, serving to highlight that it is a different era. And the cigarettes serve a point to demonstrate what’s going on, as MCK says. People have drinks in the same way in modern telly still.

Still a lot of smoking in German workplaces ime.

watched this last week

Why were there so many bikes in it? I mean, it’s personal choice, but I don’t need them rammed down my throat. Everyone takes a shit, but they didn’t show one person riding a bog in that entire thing

People have drinks in the same way in modern telly still.

Much to the art department’s annoyance. Continuity nightmare.

It was quite a striking thing about that Ethel and Ernest, the Raymond Briggs’ animation about his childhood and his parents that was on over Christmas, that his dad always had a fag dangling out the side of his mouth.

Kind of brought home the extent to which smoking is a thing people – as in, near enough everybody – used to do.

Continuity nightmare

Lol yes I bet.

I love these insights into TV production btw – more fascinating than it ought to be 🙂