YouTube: "Your account has been permanently disabled."

"Dear Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by XX claiming that this material is infringing:

(link)

Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account."

I didn't mind this, Dear YouTube,
but I did mind that you suddenly closed the account down a few days after this message. What's the logic behind handing out a warning notice one day and closing down the next? I mean, why the warning? Not cool!

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Design: Soviet Cigarette Packs

A collection of Cigarette packs from the USSR.
Via Look At This...


Earlier tobacco related posts

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Movies: Secret Of The Incas

'Secret Of The Incas', 1954, poster

"An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew when the treasure is returned. The natives want it but so does Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an American adventurer of slightly-shady ways who wants it for personal gain, as does his adversary (Thomas Mitchell), a grizzled old man even more into skullduggery than Steele. The latter teams up with Elena Antonescu (Nicole Maurey), an Iron Curtain refugee fleeing from the MKVD. She can help him get a plane and he can help her escape Peru for the relative safety of Mexico.Is there a chance they will end up in a bickering love-hate relationship?...Is there a chance an American archaelogist, Dr. Stanley Moorehead (Robert Young), will come along as one corner of a romantic triangle?...Is there a chance that Yma Sumac (billed third on the posters and ads and special billed in the film), who can't act but can sing, will sing a few songs?...Is there a chance that these trite-sounding questions will develop into a film that is far from trite and vastly entertaining? Dang right, there is. Check it out" (Quoted from IMDb entry)

Clip 1. - (Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) and Elena (Nicole Maurey) walk up from the Urabamba river and refer to Machu Picchu being a place nobody comes up to)
Clip 2. - (In this scene which reminds me very much of the "Map Room" scene in Raiders of the Lost ark, where light diversion is used to locate secret locations. I've brightened up a few scenes so you can see what is happening.)
Clip 3. - (In this closing scene with Yma Sumac singing, it appears like the local Quechua people of Peru were used as extras and some of the scene was filmed in Machu Picchu itself.)

Clips and comments above were supplied by YouTube user Ossadawn.

Here is a spectacular scene with Miss Sumac performing "Taita Inti". Watch out for the high notes!

Clip added by visualguidance

YouTube: Women In Film

Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

From: eggman913

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Album Covers: More catastrophic ones...

Do you ever get tired of catastrophic album covers? I know I don't - especially not the crazy ones for Swedish dance bands of the 70s with their super-crazy-ugly-ass costumes. So here's another Swedish blog dedicated to the subject: Katastrofala omslag (yes, you guessed it: Catastrophic Covers). It's in Swedish but it's still the pictures that counts. Enjoy!

Via PCL Link Dump

By the way, I heard one (part) explanation to why the costumes got to be so outrageous. It had to do with tax reduction for working clothes/uniforms. If they could be worn outside of work reduction was invalid. I guess there is some truth to it, but it can not account for all of the craziness! Be that how it may; let's give our thanks to the Swedish IRS!

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Web Toy: FeedTheHead

Just a little web toy to keep you occupied for a few minutes - FeedTheHead.


From the same maker:
VectorPark
Levers
AcroBots

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Poster Art: Polish Movie Posters

Honoring the two recently deceased masters of film here is one Polish poster for Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up" (artist: Waldemar Swierzy) and one for Ingmar Bergman's "Summer with Monika" (artist: Wojciech Zamecznik). Both posters are taken from the excellent site Classic polish Posters.

Michelangelo Antonioni: Lobby cards

The legendary Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) - as you may know - passed away a few days ago. Two of his most famous movies were Blow Up and Zabriski Point and here you will find a bunch of nice looking lobby cards for those movies.

Via Bedazzled!


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Ingmar Bergman: Persona posters

Posters from Ingmar Bergmans movie "Persona" (1966).

Via Bedazzled!


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Lee Hazlewood: The jingling of silver spurrs has subsided

The American country/pop singer, songwriter, and record producer Lee Hazlewood died on the 4th of August. He passed away in his home in Las Vegas after a long battle with renal (kidney) cancer.
He had expressed his wish to be cremated and have his ashes "strewn on a Swedish island where he composed some of his favorite songs." According to Swedish newspaper SvD this would be the island of Gotland. If his wish is fulfilled he will, by the way, be resting close to Ingmar Bergman...


Lee Hazlewood and Siw Malmkvist singing "Summer Wine" in a Swedish TV special "Love and other Crimes" from 1968.

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Ingmar Bergman: Persona - the Prolog

uploaded to YouTube by ropbo

Of the much fêted opening scenes in the film, Bergman has said that he wanted to make a poem in images: "I reflected on what was important, and began with the projector and my desire to set it in motion. But when the projector was running, nothing came out of it but old ideas, the spider, God's lamb, all that dull stuff. My life then consisted of dead people, brick walls, and a few dismal trees out in the park."

from Ingmar Bergman Face to Face

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Ingmar Bergman: Posters

The original Swedish movie posters for Bergman's films. The images are pretty small but nevertheless nice. (This is a repost)

Once again Mr Josephzohn found this!

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Ingmar Bergman: Goes commercial

A series of Swedish soap commercials made by Ingmar Bergman in 1951. (This is a repost)

Via the one and only Mr Josephzohn (not Erland)


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Ingmar Bergman: Demonology

Demonology. There has over the years been a lot of talk about demons in connexion with Bergman. In early days it was mostly because of his great demands on actors and other personnel that he was named a "Demon director". Later on it was his own demons - his fears - that he showed on the screen and sometimes talked about.

The little drawn devil that Bergman used to "brand" documents with.


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Ingmar Bergman: Playing chess with death

A church painting from late 15th century depicting a man playing chess with death. The painting which is found in Täby church in Sweden was made by a painter or rather a painting company lead by a man they called Albertus Pictor.

This was of course one of the major sources of inspiration for Bergman's world famous image of Death.

An old post, another parody.

Ingmar Bergman: Chessmate

Foto: Louis Huch © AB Svensk Filmindustri

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
died this morning.

"ANTONIUS BLOCK
Nothing escapes you -- or does it?

DEATH
Nothing escapes me. No one escapes from me." 

Ingmar Bergman Face to Face

Also, to brighten up this sad day watch this funny Bergman parody called De Düva.

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Poster Art: Vintage Spanish Movie Posters

71 scanned images of Spanish movie posters.
Via Bibis Box

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Blogger: Hey! I've got a cloud!

Do you also think that the list of labels that Blogger offers is boring? And have you also jealously been admiring some of those neat tag clouds out there? Do you also consider yourself as, more or less, ignorant when it comes to changing codes to make your blog look nice? Don't worry. I managed to create a tag cloud and so can you. Just take some time (maybe an hour or so), copy your blog code for backup and follow the instructions carefully.

Oh and yes, I will place the cloud at the bottom of the blog as soon as I have shown it off a bit (it's there now) ;)

Thanks to Bibi for boosting my confidence!

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Music Videos: Before they were Bjorn!

Ephemera: Volvo booklet

The other day I found a nice vintage Volvo promotional booklet in a thrift store/nostalgia store. The booklet is from the late 50s and written in English. It definitely is promotional material targeting the American market. We follow the American couple Philip and Janis Benson on their trip to "Volvoland" - Sweden.

"They love their Volvo. Every day they get a thrill out of its wonderful driving characteristics - its roadability, convenience, comfort, pick-up, the way it "parks on a dime," and above all, the honest quality built into every inch. They often wondered, "How can a car be this good?" When Phil Benson, instructor at the University of Minnesota, received a year's fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to study theater in Sweden, he and Janis thought, "Aha! Sweden - now we can drop in and find out what's behind VOLVO QUALITY"

I have made a pdf document (58,9 Mb) out of the whole booklet. You'll find it here (MegaUpload), here (DivShare) or here (Files-Upload)
The file is in rar format and the password is: martinklasch

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