the sennett days

Hot Cakes For Two

Alice Day, Barney Hellum, Danny O’Shea and Irving Bacon in Hot Cakes for Two. Alf Goulding. 1926.

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Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman directs Ewa Fröling, Allan Edwall and Gunn Wållgren in Fanny and Alexander. 1982.

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So Addictive

Miss E… So Addictive. Missy Elliott. 2001.

cute band alert

Beach Boys 1

The 1972 line-up of The Beach Boys, which absorbed Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar from a South African act called The Flames.

Beach Boys 2

Above is the photo that Brian was clipped out of to be inserted into the group shot (with Fataar and Chaplin) in the gatefold of the Carl and The Passions LP. And say what you will about Mike Love, but he’s got a hell of a look going on in those days.

Beach Boys 3

Beach Boys 4

Beach Boys 5

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TRL Tour

TRL Tour shirt. 2001.

TRL tour detail

TRL Tour back detail

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Summer 81

Memoirs of a Survivor. David Gladwell. 1981.

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Tintype Claude

Today is the 135th anniversary of Claude’s birth. Above is a tintype from when he was around 20 years. Circa 1900.

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Nuremberg

Leni Riefenstahl directs a brownshirt cameraman at Nuremberg. 1934.

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Kagemusha

1980.

on the set of

Kubrick on set

Stanley Kubrick looks through a lens on the set of The Shining. 1980.