February 28, 2007
February 27, 2007
Nostalgia: Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear - "likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble."
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Poster Art: Hammer Film
"Hammer Film Productions is a film production company in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s." (more from Wikipedia)
The Hammer Collection De Daniel Frenette, is a French website dedicated to this film company. If you don't master the French lingo why don't you brows through the large collection of posters and cinema cards.
Via Bibi's Box
Another nice Hammer Film site is Dictionary of Hammer Horror. It contains lots of information and nice screen shots like this one:
"Original trailer for "The Vampire Lovers" a 1970 British Hammer Horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Peter Cushing, Polish actress Ingrid Pitt and Kate O'Mara. It is based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is part of the so-called Karnstein Trilogy of films. Other films in the trilogy are Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1972). The three films were somewhat daring for the time in explicitly depicting lesbian themes." (Uploaded by Desconocida )
Illustration: Animal orchestra
If you are a lover of great illustrations and children's books you have to see this picture in its entirety. I guess it's another illustration of The musicians of Bremen. Click the image!
Found in Children's illustrations
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February 26, 2007
Music: Herbie Goins and The Nightimers
Herbie Goins and The Nightimers - Number One in Your Heart
You needn't watch this on a bigger screen! There's just a still image shown anyway. Just listen to this super groovy song!
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Nostalgia: The Persuaders!
The car race between Moore and Curtis in the first episode. This is how they meet. After this clip they will start a fight over how many olives goes into a Dry Martini. (Uploaded by Dansmoncafe)
"The Persuaders! is a British television series, which first aired in 1971 and 1972 in Britain's ITV and on the ABC Network in the United States. The series starred Tony Curtis, as Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore, as Lord Brett Sinclair, both millionaire international playboys, but from very different American and British backgrounds." (more from Wikipedia)
The show was a big fiasco in the States (they only showed 20 out of the 24 episodes) but it was a big success in many European countries. Moore had only signed up for one season so he could easily sneak off to doing Bond and Curtis, well honestly, his good days had already ended some time ago, hadn't they?
Maybe the fact that only one season was done the show managed to keep a high standard and thus in time creating the cult status which it holds for many. But of course then there was the fast cars, the glamorous chicks, the flashy settings, the witty dialogue, John Barry's outstanding theme music...
- The title sequence (YouTube)
- The intro scene from the first episode plus the title sequence (YouTube)
- About The Persuaders! on the Morning after website
- The show was called Snobbar som jobbar in Sweden (which means Snobs on the job or something like that), France: Amicalement votre, Denmark: De uheldige helte (meaning The Unlucky Heroes according to Dans Mon Café), Germany: Die 2, The Netherlands: De Versierders, Italy: Attenti a quei due
- A motion picture remake starring Steve Coogan and Ben Stiller is currently in the works.
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Illustration: Subway advertisement cards
It might not be a 23 minute trip-tease but there are 13 of these subway advertisement cards to enjoy -
"Flickr: scrubbles' photos tagged with subway"
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February 25, 2007
Ephemera: Volvo P1800 and other cars
Maybe you don't know who The Saint was and maybe you don't know that the car he drove, when he was played by Roger Moore in the TV show (1962-69), was a super-cool white Volvo P1800 (with licence plate ST1). You might not even know that PCL LinkDump has a number of nice links for photos, ephemera and brochures of Volvo P180o and other cars from around the world. But he does!
- In this episode trailer you'll briefly see the P1800 in action.
- Opening and closing title sequences for three different seasons of The Saint.
Quiz: What pop group am I thinking of?
Hints: It helps if you are from Scandinavia or Eastern Europe; that's where they have been most successful so far. For the usual photo line-up the guy on the right should stand in the middle.
The image (has been cut) is made by comics artist Jack Kirby
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Update!: Mr Stationsvakt obviously didn't think this was a hard one to crack! Bravo! Here are a few links to follow if you want the answer: Wikipedia link Eng, Swe, Search on YouTube, Official web site, Authorised fan site, Other fan site, Photo #1, Photo #2,Photo #3, Photo #4
My photo montage.
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February 24, 2007
Comics: Detective Comics covers
"Detective Comics is a comic book published by DC Comics since 1937."/"Originally an anthology-style comic, featuring stories in the "hard-boiled detective" genre popular at the time..."/"However, the fame of Detective Comics was assured by issue #27 (May 1939), which featured the first appearance of Batman (as "The Bat-Man")." (Wikipedia: Detective Comics)
More covers of Detective Comics or go here for 421 other titles.
Via Look at this!
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Music Video: "J'Attendrai"
Uploaded to YouTube by twangmon
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli forms with three more strings the quintet the Hot Club of France here playing "J'Attendrai".
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February 23, 2007
Blog: Videos with Bibi
Now it is official - Bibi has started a video blog obviously called Videos with Bibi! For many of us it is no secret that Bibi of Bibi's Box has uploaded loads of films to Google Video. We are talking classic quality film, classic cult movies, historic silent films, old cartoons, artsy experimental shorts and films that quite simply are in public domain. So far, on the blog, we can watch for example: Kurosawa's Rashomon, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Fritz Lang's M, Murnau's Nosferatu, Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The man Who Knew to Much by Hitchcock. How's that for a lesson in cinematographic history? It doesn't stop there. We get to watch animated Gulliver's Travels by Dave Fleisher, early 20th century funny trick filming, semi-documentary German films from the 20s and WWII stories by John Ford and John Huston. And more. You can't expect me to tell you everything, can you? Look for yourself!
Videos with Bibi
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Music: Wir wünchen Euch ein schönes Wochenende!
(Die Drei Peheiros)
Wir wünchen Euch ein schönes Wochenende!
Trevlig helg!
Have a nice weekend!
Bom fim de semana!
Bon weekend!
We are thinking especially of Mr Gyllenstråhle!
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Commercials: by Ingmar Bergman
8 commercials by Ingmar Bergman, made for the soap Bris. Click here or on the image. Thanks Mr J, nice work!
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Posters: Bergman
"A nice collection of Swedish posters for Bergman movies."
Movies: Ingmar Bergman - Now in English!
"The great Ingmar Bergman site Face to Face - now in English."
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Videos: Pippi Långstrump
The original Swedish Pippi Longstocking theme song on YouTube and here is one in English if that's your cup of tea. And in French(!) with charming illustrations! Three more original Pippi songs. Pippi, Tommy, Annika and Astrid Lindgren on Hylands Hörna in 1970. Pippi in a sword fight with Lennart Hyland (He was Sweden's Johnny Carson - kind of.) A longer clip from an episode where Pippi's father - Beppe Wolgers - appears (in Swedish of course).
Found through Stationsvakt (image)
Related:
Beppes Godnattstund (YouTube) - an other Swedish children's TV show very well-known to my generation, featuring Beppe Wolgers.
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February 22, 2007
February 21, 2007
Poster Art: Japanese Labor and Social Movement
Images of Japanese Labor and Social Movement in the Post-1945 Japan.
"Ohara Institute for Social Research owns about 1400 posters of labor and social movements in the post-1945 period."Via Designerblog.it
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Illustration: The Last & Greatest Acrobatics
Dissection Beauties, Ball Girls and Bottled Girl
The Last & Greatest Acrobatics is just one of Japanese Mizna Wada's illustration series' that you can find on her web site - Mizna Lens. At first I didn't think that her style was anything I'd like but I surrendered to her personal mix of disturbed cuteness and morbid humour. She tops it all of by executing her works with an impressive accuracy.
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February 20, 2007
Animation: Mega Robot Returns!
A short and funny animation made by the Swedish film company Kaktus Film, specialized in motion design, digital effects and 3D animation. You can get this film in higher resolution here, here and here and read more about it here.
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February 19, 2007
Cartoon: Balthazar before and after
Predrag at DVDlab sent me a couple of images from their restoration of the cartoon Professor Bathazar (1969-1971).
(Click images to enlargen)
Quite a difference isn't it? They hope to finish all the episodes this spring. However these are so far only for the Italian/Spanish versions. Let's hope not for long!
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February 18, 2007
Music: What is this?
Help me organize my music library. I've got one folder called "Mel en Sol May 1" and I have no idea what that is. Well it could be some great library music. It all sounds something like this:
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February 17, 2007
Illustration: Golden Age Comic Book Cover Gallery
I thought this was going to be a repost but going through the archives I can't find it. So, for the first time in this blog:
Ben Samuels' Classic Golden Age Comic Book Cover Gallery
Via Fokital (NSFW)
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