Seminal Image Friday #1:Frames Within the Frame (Part One)

Gold Diggers of 1933
(Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley; 1933)


Help!
(Richard Lester; 1965)


Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?
(Who Are You, Polly Magoo?)
(William Klein; 1966)


Stakeout on Dope Street
(Irvin Kershner; 1958)


Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
(Hollis Frampton; 1971)


Alice in Wonderland
(Jonathan Miller; 1966)


Playtime
(Jacques Tati; 1967)


Catch-22
(Mike Nichols; 1970)


Un Bounty killer a Trinità
(A Bounty Killer for Trinity)
(Oscar Santiello, Joe D'Amato; 1972)


The Sand Pebbles
(Robert Wise; 1966)


La môme
(The Little Girl)
(Olivier Dahan; 2007)


Yukinojo henge
(An Actor's Revenge)
(Kon Ichikawa; 1963)


This is England
(Shane Meadows; 2006)


Whity
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1971)


Days of Heaven
(Terence Malick; 1978)


Control
(Anton Corbijn; 2007)


Dog Day Afternoon
(Sidney Lumet; 1975)


Body Snatchers
(Abel Ferrara; 1993)


Nel nome del padre
(In the Name of the Father)
(Marco Bellocchio; 1972)


Brazil
(Terry Gilliam; 1985)


Bonnie and Clyde
(Arthur Penn; 1967)


L'oeil du malin
(The Third Lover)
(Claude Chabrol; 1962)


Blow Up
(Michelangelo Antonioni; 1966)


Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(Don Siegel; 1956)


Les fruits de la passion
(Fruits of Passion)
(Shuji Terayama; 1981)

Annals of Crime #76

Original Caption:

San Francisco -- Rebecca Moscone, 18, is consoled by friends at the Moscone home here, after learning that her father, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and Supervisor Harvey Milk had been shot and killed at City Hall (1978)

This Week's Sargent #13

Venetian Glass Workers (1880)

S is for Steichen #14

Walt Disney

The Art of the Panel: Marvel #13

from How Can I Love a Member of the Establishment?
(by Stan Lee, Don Heck and John Verpoorten)
(My Love #5; May, 1970)

When Legends Gather #539

Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini

The Art of Cinema #406

The Boy with Green Hair
(Joseph Losey; 1948)

Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning #8

University Club (1960)

Mop Tops in Action #15

The Mop Tops foreshadow

Seminal Image #952

Le scarabée d'or
(The Golden Beetle)
(Segundo de Chomón; 1907)

The Art of the Panel: DC #16

from Ordeal By Fire
(by Jack Miller and Joe Certa)
(Detective Comics #239; January, 1957)

The Art of the Centerfold #51

Dinah Willis (Miss December, 1965)

Signs and Meaning in Cinema #31

Signs: The Cat Burglar
(William Witney; 1961)

Shutterbugs #6

Tazio Secchiaroli

They Were Collaborators #584

Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder

The Fair: Peace Through Understanding #5

Original Caption:

New York -- Members of the Russian Moisevev Ballet Company perform one of their vigorous numbers high above the New York World's Fair, during their visit to the New York State Tower. Vasili Savin tries a few steps on the railing, while Nina Mikhailova and Natolia Bobeova prefer to play it safe below him. The 110-member Moisyev Company returns to Moscow at the conclusion of the current engagement at Madison Square Garden. (1965)

What's Up With the Updates?

Frequent, long term visitors to this blog no doubt have noticed that we here at Gunslinger endeavor to update this blog every day. Granted, there is no mandate to do so; no requirement from without; and I'm certain a vast number of people would prefer that it not be updated at all. But since I have nothing more . . . substantive to offer our visitors in its stead, the inner compulsion to accumulate entries is perhaps greater than it otherwise would be.

This, in case you were wondering, is my roundabout way of apologizing for the absence of new content; particularly in the last two days. I wish I could tell you that my hands had been smashed to oatmeal, thus hampering me physically. In truth, I can only say that events in the last few days have conspired to incinerate both my will and my energy. It is the only excuse I have, but it has the added benefit of being true. Call it burnout; call it what you will. I just ain't got it in me at the moment; though I'm sure before long I'll snap back into the delusional mindset that, despite everything, keeps me running this thing like five-handed clockwork.

That is all

Men of the West #37

Andy Devine

Seminal Image #951

The Trigger Effect
(David Koepp; 1996)

This Week's Weegee #63

The Art of Jazz #98

Vince Guaraldi Trio
(Fantasy Records; 1956)

Artists in Action #515

Fred Allen wrestles with technology

The Present Day Composer #79

Bob Marley (1945-1981)

The Gunslinger Guide to Julie Christie #6

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #86

Reliving the glory days of the Hiss Case, Tricky examines imaginary
microfilm in public (1958)

The Art of Cinema #405

Watermelon Man
(Melvin Van Peebles; 1970)

Ziegfeld Girls #16

Original Caption:

Heat Drives Follies Girls to Roof for Rehearsals.

New York -- Pearl Eaton, Marie Wallace and Leonore Baron, members of the Ziegfeld Follies Company, give pedestrians on the streets below a couple of eyes-full while they go through their daily rehearsals on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theater. The extreme heat made it necessary for the girls to be put through their paces in the open. (1922)

The Golden Age of Prurience #59

Untamed Women
(W. Merle Connell; 1952)

The Art of the Panel: Marvel #12

from I Loved You Once -- Remember?
(by Stan Lee, Gene Colan and Dick Ayers)
(My Love #9; January, 1971)

Annals of Crime #75

Original Caption:

Washington -- Griselio Torresola, the would-be assassin of President Truman, lies dead on a slab in a local police morgue, shot to death by White House Guards. His accomplice, Oscar Collazo, was seriously wounded. Collazo told police that he and Torresola had cooked up their plot two weeks ago when they decided that drastic action was necessary if Puerto Rico was to gain its independence. Both men were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist party. (1950)

Mop Tops in Action #14

Ringo test drives some new threads

Hugh Millais dies, aged 79

Hugh Millias and Susanna York in 'Images' (Robert Altman, 1972). However acting was only part of his life.

Very interesting obituary in yesterday's Times, here and article from The Independent on when John Hurt met him here.

Artists in Action #514

Dean Stockwell, here photographed by Dennis Hopper.

They Were an Item #82

Michelle Phillips and Jack Nicholson

The Art of the Panel: Archie #4

from Basket Party
(Artists Unknown)
(Laugh #150; September, 1963)

B is for Beaton #25

Fred and Adele Astaire

The City: Oakland #3

Original Caption:

Oakland -- Black Panther Bobby Seale and his son Malik Nkrumahy Stagolee, relax by playing drums here, after a political campaign in which Seale challenged the incumbent mayor in California's 5th largest city. A heavy voter turnout in the municipal elections was expected. (1973)

Marilyn in Action #29

Marilyn dries

They Were Collaborators #583

Johnny Cash and Rev. Billy Graham

When Legends Gather #538

Jerzy Kosinski, Nikki Giovanni and Kurt Vonnegut

Signs and Meaning in Cinema #30

Signs: Street of No Return
(Samuel Fuller; 1989)

Twilight of the Dreamboats #14

Fresno, CA (1962)

The Art of Jazz #97

Jimmy Smith Plays Pretty Just for You
(Blue Note Records; 1957)

Bergman kvinnan #2

Eva Dahlbeck

Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning #7

Daydreaming Bookkeeper (1924)

The Gunslinger Guide to Julie Christie #5

Great War Art #14

Annals of Crime #74

Original Caption:

Chicago -- A manacled Leslie 'Mad Dog' Irvin, surrounded by heavy guard of Chicago and Indiana police, is led from Union Station here for transfer to the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, Indiana. (1956)

Seminal Image #950

What a Way to Go!
(J. Lee Thompson; 1964)

The Art of the Panel: DC #15

from Open the Door, Earthman!
(by Otto Binder, Carmine Infantino and Bernard Sachs)
(Mystery in Space #34; Oct-Nov, 1956)

When Legends Gather #537

W.H. Auden and John F. Kennedy

The Art of Pop #44

Swingin' Down Yonder
(Dean Martin)
(Capitol Records; 1955)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #86

Ian Whitcomb

Tiny Giants and Tiny Mummies #11

Mary McCarthy

The Cool Hall of Fame #174

Flannery O'Connor

The Art of American Fantasy #36

Soul Stirrers #13

Al Green

In the Studio #33

Glenn Campbell

Seminal Image #949

Men Must Fight
(Edgar Selwyn; 1932)

G is for Gedney #24

Living room (1972)

Visionary Film #23

Female Jungle
(Bruno VeSota; 1955)

This Week's Weegee #62

The Art of Jazz #96

Smokin' with The Chet Baker Quintet
(Prestige Records; 1965)

Artists and Animals #27

Jacqueline Susann strolls through Central Park with her bodyguard.

The Art of the Big Top #23

Sex Education #137

Stella Stevens

The Art of Cinema #404

Gli invasori
(Erik the Conqueror)
(Mario Bava; 1961)

Bandleaders #5

Leonard Bernstein

The Art of Travel #26

Marilyn in Action #28

Marilyn deflates

When Legends Gather #536

Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters and Irving Berlin

Welcome to Show Business! #26

Original Caption:

New York -- Mary Wilson, 35, has dropped the "Supremes image" as she calls it, and made her debut as a soloist at the new showroom of the New York-New York Discotheque. It has been a dozen years since the most popular female singing group of the 1960s, The Supremes, broke up. It was never the same for Mary, one of the three original singers. She has appeared over the last few years under the original name--but it no longer had the old magic. Her old friend Diana Ross, the lead singer of The Supremes was there to cheer Mary on. (1979)

Self Portrait #8

Diane Arbus

The Art of the Panel: Marvel #11

from Commission in Korea!
(by Stan Lee, Dick Ayers, Frank Giacoia and Artie Simek)
(Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos Annual #1; 1965)

Seminal Image #948

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
(Freddie Francis; 1968)

W is for Winogrand #16

New Mexico (1957)

Shutterbugs #5

Dorothea Lange

Annals of Crime #73

Original Caption:

Compton -- Admissions by Lois Margaret Carter, 20, that she beat her 3 year old daughter to death in "symbolic revenge" against her own mother were disclosed by Compton police yesterday. "It seemed as if every time I hit the baby I was striking Mama a whack for me," detectives quoted Mrs. Carter as saying. Photo shows Mrs. Carter after her arrest last night. (1954)

The Art of British Rail #10

Jazz Messengers #4

Clifford Brown

P is for Pulp #43

The Black Mask (November 1, 1923)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #85

Tommy Steele

The Art of the Girlie Mag #11

Gaze
(August, 1959)

Artists and Animals #26

Gary Cooper keeps a barrier between himself and two over-eager fans

The Art of the Panel: DC #14

from In Each Man There is a Demon
(by Denny O'Neil, Dick Dillin and Joe Giella)
(Justice League of America #75; November, 1969)

Fun at Bohemian Grove #42

Bohemians do Shakespeare (1909)

The Gunslinger Guide to Julie Christie #4

Aftermath: Japan #9

Original Caption:

The Edge is Off

Tokyo -- Soldiers in Japan's new defense army participates in bayonet exercises, sans bayonets, at Nerima Infantry Camp on the outskirts of Tokyo. The Japanese GIs are dressed in U.S. Army style fatigues and are equipped with American made M-1 rifles. While there trainers look war like enough, they apparently lack a fighting spirit in peacetime. Says the infantry camp commander: "We have taken the outside of the U.S. Army, but we don't have the inside morale." (1955)

The Life and Times of the American Motel #11

Hialeah Night Garden Motel (Wildwood, NJ)

Mop Tops in Action #13

Ringo threatens to censure Paul mightily for giving expression to heretical thoughts

Signs and Meaning in Cinema #29

Signs: Convicts 4
(Millard Kaufman; 1962)

This Week's Weegee #61

The Art of Jazz #95

Good Gracious
(Lou Donaldson)
(Blue Note Records; 1963)

Players #3

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Bergman kvinnan #1

Harriet Andersson

(massive thanks to Ray Young of the majestic Flickhead for the idea
behind this series)

The Present Day Composer #78

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Artists in Action #513

Groucho Marx has got a little list

Tiny Giants and Tiny Mummies #11

John O'Hara

When Legends Gather #535

Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland

The Art of War #56

The Cool Hall of Fame #173

Hans Conreid

The Golden Age of Prurience #58

Tystnaden
(The Silence)
(Ingmar Bergman; 1963)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #84

Susan Tyrrell

The Art of Cinema #403

Some Came Running
(Vincente Minnelli; 1958)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #85

Tricky keeps his fingers crossed (1962)

Jesters of the Republic #35

Joe E. Lewis

The Golden Age of Publicity #25

William Powell examines the body of Louise Brooks in this publicity still from the 1929 Paramount release, The Canary Murder Case

Annals of Crime #72

Original Caption:

New York -- Herman Scholz, 50-year-old chauffeur, escorted by a member of the Queens District Attorney's staff as he was brought in for questioning in the Serge Rubinstein murder case. Police, who had trailed him for several days, charged that Scholz had been involved in a previous plot on the financier's life. Authorities said the chauffeur told them he possessed venetian blind cord, surgical tape and a number of weapons. Rubinstein was found bound with venetian blind cord and gagged with adhesive tape on the floor of his bedroom in his Fifth Avenue mansion January 27. He had been strangled. The investigation was made difficult by the fact that Rubinstein had many enemies. (1955)

Marilyn in Action #27

Marilyn glances