Category Archives: context

festival time!

Posted on March 31, 2014 | 1 comment

Jane Birkin commandeers some of the paparazzi’s equipment at Cannes. 1975.

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on your sleeve

Posted on March 29, 2014 | Leave a comment

Twelve Thirty Italy

Italian picture sleeve of Twelve Thirty. The Mamas & the Papas. 1967.

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hallelujah, i’m a bum

Posted on March 28, 2014 | Leave a comment

Hallelijah I'm a Bum

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.

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f for orson

Posted on March 27, 2014 | Leave a comment

Orson and Angela Lansbury in The Long, Hot Summer. 1958.

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losey directs

Posted on March 26, 2014 | Leave a comment

Don Giovanni

Joseph Losey directs Don Giovanni. 1979.

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on the set of

Posted on March 25, 2014 | 2 comments

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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advice to the lovelorn

Posted on March 24, 2014 | 2 comments

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.

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advertising

Posted on March 23, 2014 | Leave a comment

Stepford Wives

1975.

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times cinema

Posted on March 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

Times Cinema Baker Street London

Times Cinema on Baker Street in London showing a double bill revival of Un Chien Andalou and Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages. Circa 1968.

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tower cinema

Posted on March 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

Tower Cinema, Hull

Marquee of yore #1: The D.W. Griffith-directed, Adolphe Menjou-starring film The Sorrows of Satan playing at Tower Cinema in Hull, England. Circa 1926.

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