Design: Disappearing art of handpainted signs
Surisigns.org - The disappearing art of handpainted signs in Surinam
Via Josephzohn
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Music: Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys
Twilightzone! presents Takeshi "Terry" Terauchi and the Bunnys' record "Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi" from 1967. Think Ventures-style Japanese folksongs. How about that?
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Documentary: Cinema Europe
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Article in Wikipedia
The first three episodes of this 1996 six-part documentary about the birth of cinema and the development of European cinema up to the time of the surge of the Nazis. This wonderful ducumentary is presented in the blog Videos with Bibi.
Episode 1: Where It All Began, Episode 2: Art's Promised Land, Episode 3: The Unchained camera
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Link Dump: Film Noir, Kapow!!, Russian Posters & Stewardesses
Josephzohn presents a couple of nice film noir links. First check out a site about French posters for American film noir and then click for a blog about film noir suitably called "Noir of the Week" and its archive.
Bibi comes up with this suggestion: "Museum of Russian Posters". It is more or less a repost at Martin Klasch - in June we publishes a post for this Flickr set containing all (?) of the posters from the mentioned site - so if you'd rather watch it at Flickr...
Mr Dante wants us to look at some cool screenshots from Batman: The Movie (1966).WHAP! KAPOW! THWACK!
Kane (The World Of...) has served us with a number of cool posts the last couple of weeks. He pays attention to designers, photographers, illustrators etc: Irving Harper. Alvin Lustig. Paul Rand. Frank Habicht. He also takes us on a trip with airline stewardesses, airline design and identity and Braniff ads.
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Animation: River of Freedom
River of Freedom. Political short from 1971 produced by animator Stephen Bosustow and narrated by Orson Welles.
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Poster Art: Monster Movie Posters
Monster Movie Posters
Via El Burlador
"By the way. We'll be switching over to "new Blogger". Why? I don't know. Forces I can't control are compelling me. The power of Blogger compels me! The power of Blogger compels me! Anyway, the blog is going to look awful for some time and it will never look the same again. Wish me luck as I know nothing about coding and things like that!" /P-E Fronning
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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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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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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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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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