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Freedom River: Orson Welles Narrates A 1971 Animated Parable For Our Times

Freedom River: Orson Welles Narrates A 1971 Animated Parable For Our Times

In 1971, Orson Welles added his voice to Sam Weiss' animation for Freedom River, a modern day parable ...
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Action Packs that Really Work! Remembering the SuperJoe Adventure Team (1977)

Action Packs that Really Work! Remembering the SuperJoe Adventure Team (1977)

  Growing up in the seventies, I absolutely loved the large scale G.I. Joe figures ...
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Picasso’s Tailor: Michele Sapone The Artist Of Fashion

Picasso’s Tailor: Michele Sapone The Artist Of Fashion

  In her review of TJ Clark’s new book Picasso And Truth: From Cubism To ...
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Life in The Florida Keys During The 1970s

Life in The Florida Keys During The 1970s

Flip Schulke (June 24, 1930, Cornish, New Hampshire; died: May 15, 2008, West Palm Beach, ...
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Kraftwerk: The Spineless, Emotionless Sounds That Changed Pop Culture

Kraftwerk: The Spineless, Emotionless Sounds That Changed Pop Culture

German electronica pioneers and innovators Kraftwerk were among the first users of technology to produce ...
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The Tudor Pattern Book (1520)

The Tudor Pattern Book (1520)

The Tudor Pattern Book, a study of plants,a few animals and graphics was produced in East ...
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Post-Punk Pirates, Princess Diana And Bow Wow Wow At World’s End

Post-Punk Pirates, Princess Diana And Bow Wow Wow At World’s End

  "The skull and crossbones was too much of a cliche. In a book from ...
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Remembering “Sensurround,” a startling “new multi-dimension” of “super reality”

Remembering “Sensurround,” a startling “new multi-dimension” of “super reality”

In the mid-1970s, Universal Studios launched a new gimmick to lure viewers away from their ...
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Bob Hope’s Two Suitcases Packing List (1969)

Bob Hope’s Two Suitcases Packing List (1969)

When he wasn't on the Road To... Morocco / Singapore / Rio / Zanzibar / ...
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Who Remembers Coleco’s Quiz Wiz?

Who Remembers Coleco’s Quiz Wiz?

In 1979, Coleco introduced to the world a small computerized toy called “The Quiz Wiz”, ...
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‘Wash Teeth If Any’ And Woody Guthrie’s 32 Other New Year’s Resolutions (1943)

‘Wash Teeth If Any’ And Woody Guthrie’s 32 Other New Year’s Resolutions (1943)

On January 1, 1943, American folk singer Woody Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, ...
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The Face May 1992: The Epic Love Sees No Colour Issue

The Face May 1992: The Epic Love Sees No Colour Issue

  From time to time I’m going to be turning over information and images here ...
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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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