brats

Laurel and Hardy in Brats. James Parrott. 1930.

on your sleeve

Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls. Queen. 1978.

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godard directs

Jean-Luc Godard directs Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy in Une Femme est une femme. 1961.

freak out

Films and Filming. January 1971.

virgin suicides

Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides. Sofia Coppola. 1999.

a book by its cover

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale. Maurice Sendak (who died Monday morning at age 83). 1962.

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way back

Thomas L Talley‘s phonograph and picture parlor in Los Angeles, 1897-8— At left the Edison peep-show Kinetoscopes, in the center Mutoscopes, at the extreme rear, center, are the eyeholes through which patrons, timid of the darkness of the projection room, could view a picture thrown on a screen, eartube phonograph customers at right.

cute band alert

3/5s of The Traveling Wilburys. 1988.

The Silver Wilburys. May 1963.

f for fields

Claude and Susan Miller (as a young woman who has never seen a man before) in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Edward F. Cline. 1941.