Tag Archive for '1920s'

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Vintage Photo Album: Here is Your Disguise

Golden Ladies 1936

This is your disguise for an adventure on The Planet of the Deadly Golden Amazons. (Auction Here – Ends 12/7)

This is your disguise for your trip to the land of vampiric velvet furniture. (Auction Here – Ends 11/26)

Here is your disguise for the Russian leg of your race around the world in eighty days, circa 1890. (Auction Here – Ends 12/2)

Here is your disguise for infiltrating the warren of the Spoon Brides. Beware! (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

This is your disguise and only hope for survival on the island of singing bellhops. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is your disguise for living among the polar werebears of Manchuria. Don’t forget to smear your face with seal blubber before disembarking. (Auction Here – Ends 12/6)

This is Valeska Suratt. Valeska Suratt! Please examine the furniture and don’t miss the busts and figures in the background. (Auction Here – Ends 12/4)

Propnomicon Gear

Regular readers will no doubt be familiar with the amazing Cthulhu mythos prop site Propnomicon, and if you’re not, now is the perfect day to acquaint yourself. In the past I’ve provided information about Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects.

Recently, Propnomicon posted photos of a frankly shocking and ghastly parasitic worm specimen in a jar that they are selling on eBay. Click here for the post on Propnomicon. For the curious, more pictures and a short back-story can be seen here on eBay. I clicked the link and discovered that along with the parasitic worm prop they are also selling some of the cool badges and gear from past projects. So if you missed getting in on any of Propnomicon’s Kickstarter projects, it’s not too late to score some gear. My favorites are the Antarctic and Australian expedition patches. This is, by the way, a great way to support sites that are doing this very important work for the benefit of humankind. Check out Propnomicon’s stuff on eBay.

P.S. All photos here are by Propnomicon, who I hope won’t mind my including them here.

F.W. Murnau’s Faust

Just a very fast and dreadfully tardy public service announcement to any readers in Portland, Oregon that tonight at the Hollywood Theater there will be a showing of F.W. Murnau’s classic silent movie Faust (1926). In addition, the film will be accompanied by a live ensemble. Details are here.

“Yes. Yes.” You may say. “But silent films are such a bore.” Let me support you, dear reader, in that statement. Your humble servant has sat through more than a few awful silent films in his unnaturally long span on this planet. I’ve never seen Faust, but I did have the opportunity to see Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) on the big screen long, long ago. I can still remember where I was when I saw it, it made such an impression on me. Let me also add that Faust is rated number 6 greatest horror film of all time on IMDB, just below John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and right above the aforementioned Nosferatu and William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).

Here is a chance to see it on a big screen! With a live ensemble! I will be there.

Vintage Photo Album: The Candelabra

This week I’ve got a concentrated concoction of vintage photo goodness for everyone here. I should mention, very quickly, that I’ve fallen in love with a mysterious dancer from this period, Desiree Lubovska, and have started a sub-blog right here to chronicle things I’ve found about her. It’s been slow going because October is coming, but I’m working on it!

First up are Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt from the great 1921 film by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (IMDB entry here), which remains one of my favorite films of all time. I love this movie! It can be viewed in full, here. As with other great silent films, memorabilia from this movie is not cheap. – Auction Here – Ends 9/29

I don’t know what it is, but these two tintypes remind me of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Auction Here Ends 9/29

1920s Leda and the Swan

A modernist Leda knits a swan while listening to the radio. If that’s not a swan she knitting, I want to know what it is. Such a kooky photo. No auction here.

Martha Pierre as Candlelight by Alfred Cheney Johnston, dated 1921. I refuse to believe that anyone can be named Martha Pierre. That’s like being named Meg Ian or Enid Mohammed. Harriet Oskar. Irene Hans. Beatrice Giuseppe. Mabel Ivan. Mmmmm. Tasty dissonance. What was I talking about? This photo is the very zenith. Auction Here Ends 10/5

Vintage Photo Album: Expert Demonstrations

The theme for this week’s Vintage Photo Album is “Expert Demonstrations and Sometimes Inexpert Demonstrations“.

Mom always told me to lead with my strengths. She would say, “Little monster sour ball, hark: It is proper, when interacting with the outside world, to lead with your strengths.” So it is with that thought in the space that my heart would normally be found, that I present to you the most amazing duo of photos I have located on the Internets as of this day. Behold:

Here we have a girdle and a rubber inner tube.

Here is something we can do with them today.

Hmmm. This seems most inexpert to me. I would conjecture that the man may have the wrong idea. The lady has clearly lost interest. Worse, his struggles have unseated his hat. Gentlemen! There are books to help with your eduction in these matters. Read them! Auctions hereand here. Expire when they expire.

Lovely!

Another lovely snake charmer showing how it is done. I really adore snake charmers. Auction here – Expires 9/19

The Only Way to Subdue a Giant Flying Monkey

Obviously demonstrated with a much less dangerous tame giant flying monkey, we see here how to subdue one of these normally unpredictable and often dangerous creatures. Yes, a lady is usually necessary for success. auction here – Expires 9/19.

Another Expert Demonstration

Another expert demonstration for your education. Auction here. – Expires 9/19

Expert Opinion

After the professor, the doctor, the military, and the mysterious foreigner in the fez thoroughly inspected the subject, they agreed: It’s Myrna Loy! MMMMMMMMMMMMyrna Loy. They should have used a Geiger counter. – Auction here – Expires when it expires.

Expert Demonstration

An excellent demonstration of proper comportment in this particular eventuality. Note the precise posture utilized by our obviously well-educated subject. Applause! Auction already ended, but those curious for more information on this gem should click here.

Lucille Ball Shows Us How It's Done

A sight for sore eyes. Auction here – ends 10/2.

The flying monkeys let our technician out for a minute and he snuck away into the light of day. Thanks for your patience during this difficult transition.
I ated Tinkerbell.

Fhtagn Spoken Here.

... the attic, a vast raftered length lighted only by small blinking windows in the gable ends, and filled with a massed wreckage of chests, chairs, and spinning-wheels which infinite years of deposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes.
The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft




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