Music: Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell (1936- ) The first video in this Glen Campbell playlist don't have very much of Glen in it as it is a medley of songs sung by a bunch of artists; The Ronettes, Sonny and Cher, Darlene Love and the Blossoms, Bobby Goldsboro, Donna Loren, Billy Preston, The Shindogs, The Righteous Brothers and... Glen Campbell. I just thought it was such a great TV production, this 1965 Shindig show, that I could not not have it in the jukebox. Thank you Polaroid and Dippity-Do!! If you want to watch it in a larger screen just push ZOOM at the bottom of the player.



Thanks to all the uploaders like mrdantefontana and nicetrip...

PS. Did you know he was a member of the Beach Boys in the mid 60s?
OK, here's the famous mugshot too.

Sometimes two great minds get similar ideas at the same time: The World Of Kane.: Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman


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Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937

An interesting postcard from the world exposition - Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne - in Paris 1937. The Nazi-German pavilion on the left placed directly across the Stalin-Soviet pavilion on the right. Talk about premonition of things to come.




Uploaded to Vintage photographs by h rust

The German pavilion was designed by Albert Speer (and sculptor Josef Thorak) and the Soviet pavilion by Boris Mihailovich Iofan (and sculptor Vera Mukhina). Need I say they both were awarded the gold medal?

Please go here for more postcards and photos from the exposition!


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Movie Posters: Submarine Theme

There's something special about submarine movies isn't there? Which is your favorite in this genre? For me the winner is Das Boot, hands down or should I say periscope down...

Click the posters for larger images. Do you want me to add a poster? Send it over!








































Photo: Vintage

A great old photo uploaded to Vintage Photographs by nocturne333

Homage to MrJ.


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Illustration: A B C book

A B C book designed and cut on wood by C. B. Falls, printed in 1923.

Via Canta Piriquito Canta via RaShOmoN

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Fetish: Librophilia


"Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it's castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it's abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library."
"...Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world's most beautiful libraries for you..."

Via Canta Piriquito Canta


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Highly related earlier post
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Ephemera: Photo, Film & Sound


Photo, Film & Sound Ephemera by Maraid on Flickr

Also check out the other great sets by Maraid - like the matchbox labels which I've posted about earlier and the newly added abandoned paper mill photos...

There is a blog too.


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Poster Art: German Movie Posters

Sturm über Asien, 1961, Hillmann and Das verflixte 7. Jahr, 1966, Fischer-Nosbisch
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Brilliant German movie posters from the 60s. (that is three links)

There is also a link to downloading German Ingmar Bergman movie posters.

Via El Burlador and Canta Piriquito


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Design: Vintage packaging

Visit Roadesidepicture's great photo collection of vintage consumer goods packages called Advertising.

Via the ever attentive Alessandro D'Agnano of FreeDance. Mille Grazie!

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Design: Feel like a shower? Do you?!!

To buy it.

Via Geisha Asobi

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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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