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BECKETT: The Opening Credits To An Imaginary 1972 Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

BECKETT: The Opening Credits To An Imaginary 1972 Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) once worked as a 1970s ...
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Grocery Shopping Yesteryear: An Eclectic Look Back Down the Aisles

Grocery Shopping Yesteryear: An Eclectic Look Back Down the Aisles

I love looking at old pictures of grocery stores.  Getting a glimpse of the old ...
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Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

Rainbow Dance: Len Lye’s 1930s Fabulous Short Films For The Post Office

  Public information films rarely looked better than New Zealand film artist Len Lye's 1930s ...
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Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

Crowds And Queens Celebrate The Crowley, Louisiana, Rice Festival (October 4, 1938)

On October 4, 1938 Crowley, Louisiana, celebrated the town's golden jubilee with a Rice Festival. Dreamt up ...
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First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

First Time on Television! 1970s Movies Make Their TV Debut

Before Netflix, before DVD and VHS, before even HBO, once a movie left the theater, ...
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George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

George Orwell Explains Why He Had To Write 1984 In This 1944 Letter

  On May 18 1944 George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair; 25 June 1903 – 21 ...
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Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

Platforms: The Official Footwear of the ’70s

If you think of iconic 1970s fashion, you think of bell-bottoms, wide collars, and the shoes ...
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WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer: A Mesmerising Stop-Motion Film Of A Tree’s Story Made By Cutting Through Wood

WoodSwimmer is a look at wood. It's a film made by the creators painstakingly cutting through bits ...
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Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

Valerie and Colin’s Wedding Reception – Southampton, 1972

In 1972, Wedding of Colin R Vokes and Valerie G Cousens married at Southampton's Church ...
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The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts

"This is the city and I am one of the citizens, Whatever interests the rest ...
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Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

Trucker Magazine Calendar Girls of the 1970s

We recently took a tour through the 1972-1973 issues of that glorious trucker magazine, Overdrive. ...
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Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

Retro Rockabilly Gangs Of 1980s France

  It's Normandy, France, 1982. Gil Rigoulet is taking intimate, fly-on-the-wall photographs of youths reigniting louche Rockabilly ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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