The First “STILL” — one of a series of photographs made at Edison’s little New York studio in the Chelsea district about 1901, to illustrate a German newspaper correspondent’s feature story about the “new American art.” The production appears to have been a comedy.
A History of Narrative Film. David A. Cook. 1979.
An important artifact: This is the book that I found in my parents’ attic as a kid that led me to get interested in old movies.
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Jane Birkin commandeers some of the paparazzi’s equipment at Cannes. 1975.
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Al Jolson and Harry Langdon in Hallelujah, I’m a Bum or as it was called in the UK, Halleujah, I’m a Tramp. Lewis Milestone. 1933.
Orson and Angela Lansbury in The Long, Hot Summer. 1958.
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Robert Altmanand crew on the set of Brewster McCloud, which happened to be the Houston Astrodome, as Bud Cort hangs in the bird machine. 1970.
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Lee Tracy — who ran into career trouble in late November 1933 when he supposedly pissed on a parade of military types while filming on location in Mexico City — in Advice to the Lovelorn. Alfred L. Werker. 1933.
chained and perfumed 