Sex Education #81
Natalie Wood
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Sex Education
June 30, 2007
Artists in Action #208
Louis Armstrong wonders what's up with the cat sitting to his left
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Artists in Action
They Were Collaborators #321
Anthony Quinn and Anna Karina
(immense thanks to Kimberly Lindbergs of Cinebeats for this image!)
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They Were Collaborators
June 28, 2007
Artists in Action #207
Scott Walker performs 'Rosary' from 'Tilt' on BBC2's Later with Jools Holland in 1995.
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Artists in Action
When Legends Gather #258
Eleanor Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra (holding an FDR action figure)
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When Legends Gather
Seminal Image #671
La Nuit fantastique
(Fantastic Night)
(Marcel L'Herbier; 1942)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Friends and Family #7
Meyer Lansky gets pinched for vagrancy . . . of all things
for the series:
Friends and Family
June 25, 2007
Artists in Action #205
R. Buckminster Fuller sits down and looks up
(big time thanks to Jeff Duncanson for this image!)
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Artists in Action
Seminal Image #670
Le Silence de la mer
(The Silence of the Sea)
(Jean-Pierre Melville; 1949)
for the series:
Seminal Images
June 24, 2007
The Friends of Milt Hinton #1
Mona Hinton, Ike Quebec, Doc Cheatham, Mario Bauza and Shad Collins, on tour in Alabama in 1949.
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The Friends of Milt Hinton
El Cine del Oro #34
El Santo Contras las Mujeres Vampiro (Santo Vs. the Vampire Women)
(Alfonso Coronoa Blake; 1962)
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El Cine Del Oro
Renaissance Roundup #1
Portrait of a Man with an Apple
(Raffaello Sanzi; 1504)
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Renaissance Roundup
When Legends Gather #257
Peter Orlovsky, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
(photo by Allen Ginsberg)
(thanks and thanks again to Hannah for this image)
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When Legends Gather
They Were Collaborators #320
The Walker Brothers, photographed shortly after their arrival from California, during winter in London.
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They Were Collaborators
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 #4
For the Southern [region], meeting this demand requires a total of 7,000 trains a day running 60,000,000 miles a year. More than a quarter of these trains run in the two short peak periods of each day. A bird's eye view of the south east in the rush hour would show a fascinating picture of green streaks seperated by less than a mile all moving, as if drawn by a magnet, towards the centre.
Between 08.10 and 08.20 no fewer than 37 trains every minute are converging on London, most of them running on a two-minute gap between trains and their timetables worked out to the second - 20 seconds is, in fact, the waiting time allowed at most stations.
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From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66
June 23, 2007
They Were Collaborators #319
Director Tod Browning and the cast of Freaks.
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They Were Collaborators
June 22, 2007
Artists in Action # 202
Scott Walker performs his version of Jacques Brel's 'Jackie' on The Frankie Howerd Show in 1968.
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Artists in Action
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #10
The picked hops were collected in a large sack attached beneath a wooden tripod which held the mouth of the sack open
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Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
Art of the London Underground # 22
By Fred Taylor; 1908
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Art of the London Underground
From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood # 17
The power of the dog
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From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood
June 21, 2007
Seminal Image #667
Hannie Caulder
(Burt Kennedy; 1971)
(copious thanks to Nate Bundy for this image!)
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Seminal Images
G is for Gedney #9
Summer Stock: Person sitting down in light backstage (1955)
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G is for Gedney
June 19, 2007
Seminal Image #666
The Devil and Daniel Webster
(William Dieterle; 1941)
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Seminal Images
Relevant Quote #90
An interview with The Walker Brothers signals potential differences.
Gary Walker: "Pop backwards spells MONEY."
John Walker: "Pop backwards spells POP."
Scott Walker: "I'm in it [the pop music business] for different things. I'm really not in it for the money, I don't care about money, which sounds ridiculous but actually I don't.
I'm in it from a strictly creative point of view. If I can do records and...erm...produce records, write music...".
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Relevant Quotes
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 #3
Hard as it must be for the rush-hour commuter, jammed in the corridor, to believe it but he is not even a particularly profitable customer. The reason is that satisfying the needs of hundreds of thousands of commuters simultaneously means providing carriages, track and staff that either stand idle or are under used for the rest of the day.
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From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66
Collect 'Em All #31
Richard Dix
No. 16 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
"Christened Ernest Carlton Brimmer, Richard Dix was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 18th, 1894. His father wished him to become a doctor, like his brother, but Richard, upon graduating from college, decided upon a stage career. He scored a success, and then turned his attention to films, his first being Not Guilty. He was a popular star in silent pictures, and his popularity has not been diminished by the talkies. Among his recent successes are Ace of Aces, Day of Reckoning, Stingaree and His Greatest Gamble. He has been married twice, his second wife being Virginia Webster, his former Secretary."
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Collect 'em All
They Were Collaborators # 318
The parents of Charlotte Gainsbourg
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They Were Collaborators
June 17, 2007
Artists in Action #200
Joan Crawford guzzles Pepsi with fellow members of the cast of Trog
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Artists in Action
C is for Cunningham #6
San Francisco Evangelist Gathering the Crowd (1946)
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C is for Cunningham
June 15, 2007
Artists in Action # 199
Gerhard Richter photographed by Angelika Platen.
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Artists in Action
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 #1
Commuters
Commuting is disagreeable. Wasteful of time, money and energy - but also, it seems, an inevitable consequence of material prosperity.
Indeed, the more prosperous we become, the worse it gets. There are more cars on the roads, more people working shorter hours - and better able to afford the advantage of living well out of London - and even more crowding into the trains.
Possibly the ban on office building in central London will help; it is even possible, though unlikely, that office hours will be staggered one day.
By Ian Waller.
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From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 - Introduction
Introduction
I hope that this handbook will interest our customers and provide useful information as well on the services which British Railways in general, and the Southern Region in particular, can now offer.
We are naturally taking this opportunity to explain some of our problems and to publicise many of our achievements. But our prime purpose has been to produce a book of general value to all who live in the South.
We shall be revising and re-issuing this handbook each year and recovering most of its cost from advertisements and the revenue from sales.
I hope that when you have read it you will feel that we have achieved most of what we set out to do - and that you will look forward with pleasure to the next edition.
D. McKenna, General Manager, Southern Region
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From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66
Art of Cinema # 225
Notorious
(Alfred Hitchcock; 1946)
My thanks to Glyph Jockey.
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Art of Cinema
June 14, 2007
Unwanted Image #11
An excised scene from Mr. Arkadin
(Orson Welles; 1954)
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Unwanted Images
Great Moments in Moxie #13
Theodore Roosevelt apparently had Moxie.
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Great Moments in Moxie
Seminal Image #664
Asylum
(Peter Robinson; 1972)
(tremendous thanks to Jason Comerford of One Letter at a Time for this here image)
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Seminal Images
The Present Day Composer #45
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
for the series:
The Present Day Composer
June 13, 2007
El Cine del Oro #34
Subida al cielo (a.k.a. Ascent to Heaven, or Mexican Bus Ride)
(Luis Bunuel; 1952)
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El Cine Del Oro
They Were Collaborators #316
Clara Rockmore and Leon Theremin
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They Were Collaborators
June 12, 2007
American Dry Spell #7
Spiritous liquors are dispensed with (1920)
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American Dry Spell
Artists in Action #197
Lindy Hoppers at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom cut a rug where there is none
(extravagant thanks to the great Jeff Duncanson for this image)
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Artists in Action
They Were Collaborators #315
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
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They Were Collaborators
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis #6
Apache Brave (1906)
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The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis
June 10, 2007
Artists in Action #196
Bobbie Gentry displays her largeness of spirit
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Artists in Action
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #9
Women from London's East End having a 'holiday with pay!' working in the hop feilds of Kent. The tradition of working-class Londoners going hop-picking goes back at least to the eighteenth century.
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Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
Art of the London Underground #21
Untitled by Spencer Pryse; 1913
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Art of the London Underground
From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood #16
An artful dodger or sport in prehistoric times
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From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood
When Legends Gather #255
Charles Chaplin, Daryl F. Zanuck, Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Joseph Schenck
and Douglas Fairbanks
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When Legends Gather
June 08, 2007
They Were Collaborators #313
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson get Hellzapoppin' with Martha Raye.
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They Were Collaborators
Artists in Action #194
Judy Holliday spins some discs.
(Presumably there's some Gerry Mulligan in there somewhere.)
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Artists in Action
June 07, 2007
When Legends Gather #254
Eddie Anderson, Red Skelton and Duke Ellington
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When Legends Gather
Fun at Bohemian Grove #22
A Bohemian looks out of a tent (1904)
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Fun at Bohemian Grove
June 05, 2007
El Cine del Oro #32
El Chismoso de la Ventana (The Gossiper at the Window)
(Gilberto Martinez Solares; 1956)
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El Cine Del Oro
Newspapermen #16
When Legends Gather #253
Barbara Payton, Earl Wilson and Tom Neal
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When Legends Gather
The Art of American Amusement #8
Wonderland Park Boardwalk
(Revere Beach, Mass.)
(1917)
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Art of American Amusement
June 04, 2007
Great Canadians of the 20th Century #7
Glenn Gould
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Great Canadians of the 20th Century
June 03, 2007
June 02, 2007
They Were Collaborators #312
Louis Armstrong, Barbara Streisand and Gene Kelly
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They Were Collaborators
Broadcasters #20
When Legends Gather #252
Jack Eigen, Joe E. Lewis and Milton Berle
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Broadcasters,
When Legends Gather
Seminal Image #661
L'Armée des ombres
(Army of Shadows)
(Jean-Pierre Melville; 1969)
(big-time thanks to Nate Bundy of Real Political Face Talk for this image)
for the series:
Seminal Images
June 01, 2007
Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff #8
Sailing barges and wharfside cranes at Wapping
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Through the Lens of Cyril Arapoff
Art of the London Underground #20
By Fred Taylor; 1914
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Art of the London Underground
from the sketch book of lawson wood # 15
A vagrant
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From the Sketch Book of Lawson Wood
They Were Collaborators #311
Maria Callas and Luchino Visconti
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They Were Collaborators
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