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1970s, 1980s, Film •
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Comments Off on View-Master – Keeping it Unreel
If you were a proud owner of a View-Master stereoscope as a child of the seventies or eighties, you may be pondering how you missed out on such reels as Star Wars, Death Race 2000, Blood Beach and Adult cartoon favourite Fritz the Cat. Don’t worry,...
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1970s, Film •
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Comments Off on Woody Allen and Tamara Dobson
It seems to be quite the fashion in media circles these days to wage war on Woody Allen and criticise him at every turn. Whilst we’d be the first to admit not all his films over the years have reached the heights of Annie Hall we would also defend him, his...
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1970s, Art, Film, Poster •
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Comments Off on George Akimoto – Film Poster Guru
George Akimoto made his name as a film poster and aviation artist but not without first experiencing a period of internment at the hands of his own American government, following the Pearl Harbour attacks of 1941, when he was effectively imprisoned because of...
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1960s, 1970s, Film, Television •
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Comments Off on Actor Roddy McDowall Goes Ape
Roddy McDowall was often known as one of the nicest men in Hollywood. When asked about the actor’s popularity, fellow film star Ruth Gordon said “He has more friends than anyone I know” If you’ve seen any of Roddy’s Home Movies...
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1950s, Film, Transport •
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Comments Off on Ben Hur – The Scooter Years
During the 1959 filming of Ben Hur, when he wasn’t hurtling round Rome in a chariot Charlton Heston used a more modern and arguably far more elegant mode of transport as can be seen from these photos we’ve dug out from the dusty vaults of the Internet....
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1960s, Film •
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Comments Off on Sixties Film – What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? is the everyday tale of a former advertising executive Pete (George Peppard) who lives within a Beatnik community in a loft in New York, a stow-away Toucan which carries a happiness virus that spreads through the Big...
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1970s, Film •
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Comments Off on Dirty Harry Meets Shaft in Thailand (Sort of)
Our first encounter with this seventies Thai film was on you tube.The clip was described as Dirty Harry Meets Shaft in Thailand by French cult movie website Foxy Bronx, but unfortunately they didn’t have a translated title for the film in French or...
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1960s, Film, Hanging Out, Magazine •
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Comments Off on Hanging Out with Michael Caine in Los Angeles
Unless you’ve been living on another planet, we guess you’re aware of the work of actor Michael Caine and his distinctive trademark cockney accent.So we won’t bore you with a long biography and list of all his great films like Get Carter...
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1960s, Film •
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Comments Off on Batman Fights Dracula 1967 Film
Don’t worry Hollywood hasn’t run out of ideas (yet) Batman fights Dracula isn’t the latest film in the Dark Knight series. Also it’s not an unreleased episode from the sixties Adam West TV series that’s been laying on the cutting...
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Comments Off on Queen of The Galaxy – Ten Barbarella Posters
If you’ve never heard of the 1968 French-Italian sci-fi film Barbarella and you’re feeling a little inquisitive then we suggest you check it out – it’s fairly easy to get hold of these days. As with a lot of cult films it bombed on its initial...
