I happened to stumble upon a bunch of blogs about thrift store findings. Probably a semi-conscious stumble as this, to some degree, is a hobby of my own. The blog called The Art of Finding made by "an artist and a mother and a professional level thrift shopper" was one of the better. For instance, in one post she writes about finding a bunch of binders - one for each year, 1961 and throughout the eighties - and how you can see the design change with time. The photo is from one of the binders. What year? Around 1970 I guess.
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, 1963 vs 1991 editions (with revisions). The 1963 edition is my own, bought for me in the late 60's when I was a toddler, and read to tatters. The 1991 edition belongs to my kids today. I was so familiar with the older one that I immediately started noticing a few differences, and so have catalogued 10 of the more interesting differences here in this collection." writes Flickr signaturekokogiak
The idea for this very suitable post on International Women's Day (link) came from Julie and Children's Illustration. Visit her post for a couple more related images.
These nice magazine covers and much much more are to be found at this index of over 6,000 fiction magazines. How about that barely clothed pancake slinging lady for International Women's Day?? Are they still out there or have our societies moved on?
Twilightzone! presents Takeshi "Terry" Terauchi and the Bunnys' record "Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi" from 1967. Think Ventures-style Japanese folksongs. How about that?
Congratulations to Twilightzone! and its creator RYP who has shared odd and hard to find music for a whole year now. Keep it up!
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
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!
"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
"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)
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 byDesconocida ) Original trailer for "The Vampire Lov...
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
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...
Trivia: - 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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