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  • 14Dec

    Double-O Hoagy?

    A little something I came across a couple of days ago, though truth be told I don’t remember what led me there.  Anyway, get a load of this bit of James Bond trivia: Fleming decided Bond should look a little

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  • 22Jun

    The Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship

    My previous post about early color films reminded me of this little jewel I came across some time ago.  Unlike the Technicolor wonders that would come decades later, this Georges Méliès film from 1905 achieved its color the old-fashioned way; they

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  • 20Jun

    Early Color Film

    Shot in 1922, a full 13 years before the first color feature film, here’s a restored test of  Kodachrome color motion picture film. In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey,

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  • 28Jun

    Swing High, Swing Low

    A movie starring Carole Lombard?  Sign me up.  Oh, it’s free?  Even better.  I stumbled across this one at the archive, and yes it’s a chick flick I admit, but I liked it.  There is something about Lombard that I

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