Category Archives: context

apple boutique

On this day in 1968 the fabs “tired of being shopkeepers” and closed their Apple Boutique in London after 7 months that cost them £240,000. The store’s remaining stock was given away to the fans queuing here.

mad world

Films and Filming. February 1963.

cute couple alert

Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt, who died yesterday at age 72 (,and Ryan O’Neal). 1971.

record labels

This Is Hardcore. Pulp. 1998.

on your sleeve

Original soundtrack to Jacques Tati‘s Trafic. Charles Dumont. 1971.

midnight cowboy

Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy. John Schlesinger. 1969.

festival time!

Louis Malle and Jeanne Moreau at Cannes. 1958.

life or death

Life mask of Ringo Starr made during the production of Caveman. Carl Gottlieb. 1981.

f for orson

Akim Tamiroff and Robert Arden in Mr. Arkadin. 1955.

unfaithfully yours

Lionel Stander, Robert Greig, Rudy Vallee and Barbara Lawrence.

Kurt Kreuger, Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison.

Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours. Sturges. 1948.