Category Archives: context

on your sleeve

Posted on June 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Foundations‘ Build Me Up Buttercup in a generic Uni Records sleeve. 1968.

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cute couple alert

Posted on June 27, 2010 | 2 comments

Chaplin and Peggy Hopkins Joyce chilling on a yacht off Santa Catalina Island in the summer of 1922.

I’ve heard that this is the woman whose string of marriages to millionaires inspired the term gold digger. I’m not sure if that’s true, but whether it is or not, look out Chas!

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gold diggers of 1933

Posted on June 26, 2010 | 1 comment

We’re in the Money. Mervyn LeRoy. 1933.

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the jerusalem file

Posted on June 24, 2010 | 2 comments

Fantastic news. I found a few more images of that other flick that Daria Halprin was in.

Daria Halprin and Bruce Davison in The Jerusalem File. John Flynn. 1972.

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Posted in cinema, context, haven't seen it, zabriskie point

lloyd and the circus

Posted on June 23, 2010 | 2 comments

8 foot 7-inch-tall George Auger, 29-inch-tall Princess Wee Wee and three-legged Frank Lentini, all of the Ringling Brothers Circus, pose with 5 foot 9-inch-tall Harold Lloyd on the set of Safety Last. Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer. 1923.

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smooth criminal

Posted on June 22, 2010 | Leave a comment

A burglar at age 17. Arrested February 21, 1938.

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on your sleeve

Posted on June 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

Jan and Dean Meet Batman. 1966.

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the decorative sex

Posted on June 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free. Milton Katselas. 1972.

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to catch a thief

Posted on June 19, 2010 | Leave a comment

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock. 1955.

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the stickers on records

Posted on June 18, 2010 | 2 comments

Price tag seal on John Ono Lennon‘s Instant Karma! 45. 1970.

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Posted in apple records, context, music, on your sleeve, stickers on records, years after the event