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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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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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