1970s
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Perhaps these clips will give you some small taste of my weird viewing experience last night: Werner Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small.First, the movie's "theme song," heard at intervals throughout.
Next, a scene from the middle, where sighted dwarves torment blind ones.
Finally, the closing scene.
Rent this immediately, to cement your standing as a true WU-vie!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 09, 2011 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Horror, Movies, Surrealism, 1970s
Herb Bartlett
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Let us all hail the great American tradition of amateur inventors, personified today by the forgotten Herb Bartlett, whose love for hovercraft extended to making his plans available to the youth of the USA, contacted through his ad in Boys' Life magazine
Original ad here. (Scroll down a bit.)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 07, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Engineering and Construction, Inventions, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Motor Vehicles, 1960s, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #168
"Why, yes, sir, I was just about to xerox my butt!"
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 06, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, Sex Symbols, 1970s
Men’s Adventure Magazines
Here is a site guaranteed to chew up hours of your idle time.
My pal, Phil Stephensen-Payne, runs a page dedicated to the history of magazines. He recently put together a wing dedicated to the "true story" men's mags.
If you follow this link, you come to a page containing the names of over 150 such zines. Click on any title and be presented with a gallery of cover images like the one above.
Happy viewing!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 28, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Destruction, Magazines, Sexuality, Sports, Stereotypes and Cliches, War, Foreign Customs, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Men, Fictional Monsters, Graphics
The Ecstasy Girls
What Patty wants, Patty gets!
Generally safe for work, except for suggestive dialog and Big-O faces and rubbings and squirmings.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 27, 2011 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Sexuality, 1970s
Sexy Thing
Goldman Rockstar King - "Sexy Thing" from MusicDishTV on Vimeo.
"I believe in mackerels."
Singer's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 27, 2011 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Sex Symbols, 1970s
Odd Pastimes of the Rotarians
Curling? Curling!?! Was this really a prime activity of the Rotary Club, even--or especially--back in 1973?
Interstate curling leagues and tournaments? Charity curling events, attended by beaming wives and kids?
Somebody please inform us if they ever heard of a connection before, between Rotarians and curling.
"Taping," by the way, for all you youngsters out there, does not refer to crafting items from duct tape or preparing one's hands for a mixed martial arts bout, but to capturing sounds with one's reel-to-reel magnetic tape recorder.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 22, 2011 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Hobbies and DIY, Sports, 1970s
Peg Leg Sam
A nice little documentary in two parts about a true eccentric for your weekend viewing!
The hard facts here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 11, 2011 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Eccentrics, Elderly and Seniors, Music, Regionalism, Documentaries, 1970s
The Sand Castle
Drugs were stronger in the 70s.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 08, 2011 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Stop-motion Animation, 1970s, Fictional Monsters
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
All you need to know here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 01, 2011 -
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Category: Television, Comics, 1970s, Parody
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