the sign of the cross

Posted on March 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

Claudette Colbert and Charles Laughton in The Sign of the Cross. DeMille. 1932.

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hollywood “international principality of motion picture art” or hooray for hollywood by f.w. murnau

Posted on March 14, 2013 | 2 comments

F.W. Murnau

Published in The Motion Picture. 1927.

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cute band alert

Posted on March 13, 2013 | Leave a comment

superchunk

Superchunk.

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record labels

Posted on March 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

beat on the brat

Master-Dik. Sonic Youth. 1988.

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pen to paper

Posted on March 11, 2013 | 2 comments

Paul is Dead

Readers of Life Magazine react to this cover story on Paul McCartney still being alive. November 28, 1969.

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Posted in context, Macca, mail bag, music, old magazines, years after the event

a book by its cover

Posted on March 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

joanna

1969.

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advertising

Posted on March 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

1969.

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way back

Posted on March 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

How Koster and Bial’s program for the week of April 20, 1896, announced the Broadway opening of the motion picture, projected on the screen by the Vitascope, as the eighth and final number on the variety bill.

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the decorative sex

Posted on March 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

Barbara Bouchet in Agent for H.A.R.M. aka The H.A.R.M. Machine.

With Rafael Campos in Agent for H.A.R.M. Gerd Oswald. 1966.

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easy rider

Posted on March 6, 2013 | Leave a comment

Spoiler alert!

Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. Hopper. 1969.

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