Guglielmo Marconi
The Art of the Opening Credit #3
Seconds (1966) directed by John Frankenheimer - Saul Bass title sequence, OST Jerry Goldsmith
The titles were designed by Saul Bass and shot entirely with reflective mylar.
The Golden Age of the Anti-Masterpiece #3
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Tabonga the Walking Tree gives a wooden performance in From Hell It Came (Dan Milner, 1957)
The Art of the Opening Credit #2
Crime Without Passion (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, 1934), montage designed by Slavko Vorkapich
The Art of the Opening Credit #1
99 44/100% Dead (John Frankenheimer, 1974); titles by Phill Norman, music by Henry Mancini
Mop Tops in Action #49
Paul McCartney fiddles around with an ancestor of the keytar, The Tubon, backstage at a gig in Germany.
For the curious, here's a clip of the Swedish-built instrument in action, used by Scandinavian musical comedy act Hasse & Tage, on the song What the Hell Are They Doing in the Bank After Three O'Clock?
The Friends of Flagg #5
Woodrow Wilson
"Colonel House got me a seat in a theatre, from which I could make this caricature of Wilson, which I labelled 'teacher'. I got outraged letters from devotees of the President. One in Texas called me a murderer!"
The Golden Age of the Anti-Masterpiece #2
Mimsy Farmer freaks out on acid (or over that populuxe décor) in Riot on Sunset Strip (Arthur Dreifuss, 1967)
A Kovacs Moment #7
To celebrate Ernie Kovacs' 93rd birthday today, here's a rare example of his unique brand of absurdity appearing on the big screen in the trailer for Richard Quine's 1957 service comedy Operation Mad Ball.
Adventures in American Filmmaking #148
Julie Adams watches Budd Boetticher direct a punch at a stuntman while filming The Man from the Alamo (1953).
When Legends Gather #636Jokers, Smokers and Midnight Tokers #5
Keith Richards and Levon Helm (photo by Jim Herrington)
Elisha Cook Jr. Gets the Shaft Again #2
Fed to the lions by Michael Gough in Black Zoo
(Robert Gordon; 1963)
Faces of Science #41
Glenn T. Seaborg
Original Caption:
Prof. Seaborg, co-discoverer of plutonium, shows a container that holds samples of the radioactive, artificially produced elements 94 through 102.
This Sporting Life #34
Original Caption:
June 20, 1963. Pretty As A Pitcher. A figure familiar to basketball fans, Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, stoops to conquer as he prepares to display his skill on the baseball diamond. The pitcher, whose long, lovely legs frame the hoop star, is Carol Hodecker. The cute blonde catcher is Charlotte Kirsten, who came to the U. S., from West Berlin six years ago. Both gals are "Bunnies" (hostesses) from the Playboy Club. Wilt met them as they were warming up in a Central Park field for a game with show girls from a Broadway musical in the Broadway Show League series. Wilt never had such glamorous opponents on the basketball court! He now plays with the San Francisco Warriors.
Elisha Cook Jr. Gets the Shaft Again #1
Wrongly convicted of murder in Stranger On The Third Floor
(Boris Ingster; 1940)
Adventures in the National Pastime #14
Twenty-six-year-old Eddie Gaedel at bat (for the first and only time) for the St. Louis Browns on August 19, 1951. A dwarf/little person standing 3’ 7”, he wore the number “⅛” on his jersey.
Son of a Preacherman #6
Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University and later President of the United States of America
Artists and Animals #82
Barbara Stanwyck, astride one lucky horsey, near her home in Hollywood in 1938.
The Art of the Cinema #478
In his autobiography, Luis Buñuel singled out the obscure Polish film, Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript, 1965) as a personal favorite, one of the few pictures he saw more than once (three times, in fact). It was an adaptation of a novel by Polish author Jan Potocki, who left behind the incomplete work upon his suicide in 1815. Directed by Wojciech Has, the 182-minute epic surrealist film was severely edited (up to an hour) and fell out of circulation for decades. An uncut print eventually surfaced in 1999, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola, who were following the lead of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, the initial instigator and partial financier of its restoration. (The musician died in 1995, before he could see his favorite movie back in its original condition.) For assistance in solving some of The Saragossa Manuscript’s mysteries, go here.
Unwanted Image #17
Tom Wright painting from an unproduced segment of Night Gallery, possibly "Daughter of Darkness."
The Art of Cinema #477Great Canadians of the 20th Century #18
This 1978 concert film (to date the only picture shot in Rust-O-Vision™) was directed by the legendary Bernard Shakey.
The Lunatic Fringe #7
Self Portrait #19
To celebrate Friday the 13th, not so fringe Aleister Crowley, self-portrait.
The Friends of Flagg #4
Anna Pavlova
" 'It' girl from the days when ballet was merely an interlude in an opera to give people — especially the sopranos — a chance to catch their breath. I can't imagine today's cult of ballet fans wanting to sit through a whole evening of it!"
Community Auditions #2
The spirit of Elliott Smith is alive and . . . uhhhh . . . as well as can be expected in a song that appears to be the singer's own, pretty damned good composition.
The Art of Cinema #476
Ronald Reagan’s only acting gig alongside future wife Nancy Davis, Nathan Juran’s Hellcats of the Navy (1957).
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