Cover by Allen Anderson
Month: April 2021
Trendle & Dosier
(L-R) Gene Trendle, creator of the Green Hornet character, poses with William Dozier, executive producer of The Green Hornet series, from 20th Century-Fox Television.
Clues, July, 1941
The Motion Picture and all its World
The motion picture and all its world, pictorially in a nut-shell! One is not sure whether the nut is Mr. George Schutz, editor of Better Theaters, who thought of it, or Mr. Irving Browning, photographer extraordinary and master of montage, who committed it. Mr. Schutz thinks like that, and Mr. Browning sees like that.
King of the Jungle, 1933
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus. (IMDb)
How Would You Draw the Invisible Man?
A contest for “Theater Artists” to help Universal pictures come up with a way to promote the invisible man in print.
The winner would receive $100.00! Continue reading “How Would You Draw the Invisible Man?”
So Typical of our Officers
Personnel of the 667th Bombardment Squadron, training at Gainesville, Fla., have adopted this scene from the MGM cartoon, “Red Hot Riding Hood,” as their squadron insignia, The “Wolfe” – in his white tie and tails – appears on all their planes. In writing Fred Quimby, in charge of cartoon production at the MGM studios, the commandant stated they wanted the drawings because “the modernized wolf is so typical of many of our officers here….”
Puck Easter, 1900
Puck Easter, 1900
A NYC Easter, 1956
“Huge crosses, formed by lighted windows, blaze above New York’s skyline as part of an Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This scene, photographed from the roof of the Municipal Building, features 150-foot-high crosses in the City Services Co., City Bank Farmers Trust Co., and the Forty Wall Street Corp. buildings.” – Oxnard Press-Courier, March 31, 1956.
The Ghost of Easter Past
I could find no reference on this other than it was a Victorian era postcard, so we ill go with that…
