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Shafted!  5 Reasons Blaxploitation Cinema Shouldn’t Have Been Blackballed

Shafted!  5 Reasons Blaxploitation Cinema Shouldn’t Have Been Blackballed

Throughout most of the Seventies, African-American directors, actors, writers, and musicians were given an awesome ...
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Grimm Times: 1970s Fairy Tale Sex Movie Posters

Grimm Times: 1970s Fairy Tale Sex Movie Posters

The porn world has always appropriated successful movies and franchises. Well-known porn parodies include: Whore ...
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The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s

The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s

Anyone would agree, Archie comics are a fairly wholesome, squeaky clean read.  They’re fun for ...
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Five Scenes from the Post-Star Wars Film Craze That Unexpectedly Terrorized a Generation of Kids

Five Scenes from the Post-Star Wars Film Craze That Unexpectedly Terrorized a Generation of Kids

  Back in 1979, Kenner Toys marketed products from Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) to kids ...
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Hail To The Gatefold: 9 Stoned, Sexy, Pretentious, And Evil Varieties

Hail To The Gatefold: 9 Stoned, Sexy, Pretentious, And Evil Varieties

The album cover was a wonderful avenue of expression for a musician to represent their ...
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“Not Sensuous. Just Natural” – The International Naturist Federation World Congress Comes to Orpington in 1970.

“Not Sensuous. Just Natural” – The International Naturist Federation World Congress Comes to Orpington in 1970.

The International Naturist Federation’s 12th World Congress was held at the North Kent Sun Club ...
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Mini Skirt Monday #2: Mini Skirt Over-Exposure Syndrome

Mini Skirt Monday #2: Mini Skirt Over-Exposure Syndrome

The early Seventies were overflowing with high hemlines.  On the surface, this would seem to ...
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Coagulated Cookery: The Midcentury Gelatinized Dinner Table

Coagulated Cookery: The Midcentury Gelatinized Dinner Table

  Early on in the 20th century, homemakers turned to gelatin to save money by ...
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Sashes And Tashes: Mr Glory Hole Is Crowned

Sashes And Tashes: Mr Glory Hole Is Crowned

FLASHBAK to the 1980s, when Mr Glory Hole was proud to wear the sash and ...
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More Awkward Band Publicity Photos

More Awkward Band Publicity Photos

We just couldn’t leave well enough alone.  There are so many wonderfully awful publicity photographs ...
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Road Rage: The 5 Most Evil Vehicles in Movie History

Road Rage: The 5 Most Evil Vehicles in Movie History

      In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote that the modern automobile has become ...
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8 Highly Suggestive Vintage Ads

8 Highly Suggestive Vintage Ads

  "Skip the booze, the grass, the soft music..." In other words - you no ...
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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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