Movies
Magneto and Titanium Man
So far as my researches at ISFDB reveal, Marvel Comics has inexplicably never used this song in a film. WU hereby offers it, gratis, for the relaunch of the X-Men.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 21, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Comics, 1970s
One Crazy Summer: The Animated Bits
The movie's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 26, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Movies, Cartoons, 1980s
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled "COCAINE" on his desk.
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 24, 2020 -
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Category: Addictions, Detectives, Private Eyes and Other Investigators, Drugs, Humor, Parody, Movies, 1910s
Mystery Illustration 93
This man is the son of one of the superstar actors of the twentieth century. Without googling, just by resemblance, can you say who the father was?Answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 26, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Children, Parents, Twentieth Century
Lew Lehr’s Inventions
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 09, 2020 -
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Category: Inventions, Chindogu, Movies, Twentieth Century
The Universal Beauty Trip
There's a great novel or film lurking in this historical incident.In the summer of 1915, in large part in order to advertise the existence of his newly-established Universal City Studios, Universal Moving Pictures President Carl Laemelle organized a cross-country procession that would culminate in a beauty pageant at Universal City, California (which, like Universal Studios, Laemelle had only founded in March of that year). Comprising "America's Most Beautiful Girls" from each of the forty-eight states, as well as studio representatives including Laemelle himself, the Universal Beauty Trip proceeded by automobile and rail from the East Coast to California, stopping at major cities along the way and at important tourist sites like the Grand Canyon
Read entire article here.
Foto source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 07, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, 1910s
The Artist’s Dilemma
This pretty much encapsulates my average workday.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 04, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Movies, Special Effects, 1900s
Mystery Illustration 90
Still from a sci-fi flick, or real outfit?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 30, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, 1940s
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Whole movie in second screen, with English subtitles.Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 29, 2019 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Death, Dreams and Nightmares, Horror, Movies, Surrealism, 1970s
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Apparently, someone said, "What if we remade Harvey, but with a kid in the Jimmy Stewart role?"Full movie in seven parts on YouTube.
IMDB entry.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 27, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Movies, Surrealism, Children, 1970s, Fictional Monsters
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