chicago, illinois
1959

tugboats, port of chicago

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#photography #film #blackandwhite #inversion #chicago #illinois #river #port #bridge #tug #tugboat #1950s

EMMARAC as ChatGPT: Desk Set 1957 https://vimeo.com/861065034/67c97f1379 (just for fun I annotated this clip) #AI #ChatGPT #1950s #humor

chicago, illinois
august 1959

the chicago river

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#photography #film #blackandwhite #chicago #illinois #river #chicagoriver #bridge #buildings #city #night #lights #1950s

On September 7, 1958, Queen of Outer Space debuted in the United States. Here’s some Zsa Zsa Gabor art!
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#QueenOfOuterSpace #EdwardBernds #ZsaZsaGabor #SpaceAdventureFIlm #ScienceFiction #SciFiMovie #1950s #Venus #Retrofuturism #NotebookSketch #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory

wiscasset, maine
may 1958

the luther little

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#photography #film #blackandwhite #maine #wiscasset #sheepscotriver #ship #schooner #lutherlittle #1950s

What Was Wonderful About The 60’s Depends On How You Felt About The 50’s

https://youtu.be/yaZzwS-LLho?si=zhsEr4tNtrYH-zlD

#1960s #1950s #History

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Mars Attacks (1998)

This one’s really weird. It makes fun of all those 1950s science fiction films, showing many of the common tropes and stock characters, but turning them into gags. There's a lot of graphic violence portrayed in a comedic style in this movie which was kind of a new phenomenon at the time it came out, at least for a major Hollywood scifi.

*****SPOILERS: The attached unauthorized trailer contains spoilers and graphic violence.*****

The gags in this film will make you laugh, but they’ll also erode your empathy and moral compass, so watch at your own risk.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #space #spaceship #UFO #UAP #1950s #Helicopters #military #hair #1990s #hand #dog

accessible description:

Video opens with a new-age woman holding a crystal sitting on top of a car wearing new-age attire, and overlooking a huge crowd of people off in the distance who are gathered around a landing pad out in the middle of the desert. A sign says Welcome To Earth, there are a couple of news reporters giving on-the-spot news reports. The woman reporter is carrying a little chihuahua, a flying saucer comes down, it's landing gear extends and it sets down, then a big long ramp unrolls, there's a red carpet waiting for the aliens to come out, then cut to the president looking at his TV Set as an alien comes out of the spaceship, the alien talks in an alien language and a geeky guy translates it with some goofy machine, everybody smiles when the translation says “We Come in Peace”, then a hippie releases a dove and the dove flies overhead and the alien shoots down the dove with a laser, frying it to a crisp. Then the aliens start shooting all of the people and the soldiers who are in 1950s style jeeps and tanks. Quick cut to a guy in a Las Vegas casino who says “whoa”, one of the soldiers runs towards the alien carrying a gun and yelling, one of the reporters runs across and falls on the ground, crawls over to the other reporter, and they reach out to grab each other's hands, the camera shows the woman reaching and grabbing the guy's hand, then an alien fires a laser and cut back to the woman with the guy’s hand but the rest of the reporter is missing, it's just his hand cut off at the wrist. the woman drops the hand in shock then the little chihuahua quickly walks up and grabs the hand by a finger and drags it away, and only a skeleton of the reporter remains because he got shot by the alien. The aliens gather up some things and fly away and the new-age woman sits on top of her car in shock overlooking a scorched empty desert with no people left.

***** THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE *****

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Mars Attacks (1998)

This one’s really weird. It makes fun of all those 1950s science fiction films, showing many of the common tropes and stock characters, but turning them into gags. There's a lot of graphic violence portrayed in a comedic style in this movie which was kind of a new phenomenon at the time it came out, at least for a major Hollywood scifi.

The gags in this film will make you laugh, but they’ll also erode your empathy and moral compass, so watch at your own risk.

SPOILERS: The attached unauthorized trailer contains spoilers.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #space #spaceship #UFO #UAP #1950s #Helicopters #military #hair #1990s #hand #dog

accessible description:

Video opens with a new-age woman holding a crystal sitting on top of a car wearing new-age attire, and overlooking a huge crowd of people off in the distance who are gathered around a landing pad out in the middle of the desert. A sign says Welcome To Earth, there are a couple of news reporters giving on-the-spot news reports. The woman reporter is carrying a little chihuahua, a flying saucer comes down, it's landing gear extends and it sets down, then a big long ramp unrolls, there's a red carpet waiting for the aliens to come out, then cut to the president looking at his TV Set as an alien comes out of the spaceship, the alien talks in an alien language and a geeky guy translates it with some goofy machine, everybody smiles when the translation says “We Come in Peace”, then a hippie releases a dove and the dove flies overhead and the alien shoots down the dove with a laser, frying it to a crisp. Then the aliens start shooting all of the people and the soldiers who are in 1950s style jeeps and tanks. Quick cut to a guy in a Las Vegas casino who says “whoa”, one of the soldiers runs towards the alien carrying a gun and yelling, one of the reporters runs across and falls on the ground, crawls over to the other reporter, and they reach out to grab each other's hands, the camera shows the woman reaching and grabbing the guy's hand, then an alien fires a laser and cut back to the woman with the guy’s hand but the rest of the reporter is missing, it's just his hand cut off at the wrist. the woman drops the hand in shock then the little chihuahua quickly walks up and grabs the hand by a finger and drags it away, and only a skeleton of the reporter remains because he got shot by the alien. The aliens gather up some things and fly away and the new-age woman sits on top of her car in shock overlooking a scorched empty desert with no people left.

***** THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE *****

On August 24, 1950, Caged debuted in London, England. Here’s some Eleanor Parker fan art!
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#Caged #JohnCromwell #EleanorParker #PrisonDramaFilm #FilmNoir #BlackAndWhiteFIlm #1950s #50sMovies #DramaFilm #WomenInPrisonFilm #TCMUnderground #Art #PopArt #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Another image using the "step" term I mentioned yesterday, in this case its title being "2-Step Space Station Rocket" from 1952. It's an illustration by Jack Coggins for a book co-written with Fletcher Pratt. Both straddled the line between illustrating/writing for science and science fiction. Coggins in particular did covers for Galaxy, F&SF, and Thrilling Wonder.

He was also into other bleeding-edge forms of transportation, as shown in the second pic.

#rocket #1950s #submarine #atompunk

One of the best early rock songs. Ruth Brown has such a unique voice.
#RuthBrown #rhythmandblues #rockandroll #1950s

https://youtu.be/BqmGZRGvKC8

Top 10 Golf Clubs From The 1950’s – The Vintage Golfer https://www.fogolf.com/569467/top-10-golf-clubs-from-the-1950s-the-vintage-golfer/

#1950s #clubs #Golf #GolfClubs #golfclubsvideos #golfclubsvlog #golfclubsYouTube #GolfEquipment #golfequipmentvideos #golfequipmentvlog #golfequipmentYouTube #golfer #top #vintage

Coney Island. 1950. Gordon Parks #1950s #bwphoto

Vintage folding camera Agfa Apotar

YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/historical-folding-camera-agfa-apotar-patricia-hofmeester.html

By https://buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #WallArt #homedecor #fineart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BuyArtNotCandy #photography @PatriciaPhotos #camera #photocamera #Agfa #1950s #folding #vintage #retro

By which I presume they mean "and it's not this way". From 1958.

#retrofuturism #spaceflight #1950s #atompunk

An actor floats in space during the filming of Destination Moon (1950). The movie took two years to make, and predicted that private enterprise would finance space travel. And that a billionaire would destroy a social media platform (I might have made that bit up).

#Movies #Hollywood #Cinema #Film #Cinemastodon #1950s #scifi #Space

Kenneth Gatland (later president of the British Interplanetary Society) on the BBC's Panorama program in January 1959. He's showing off a model of Project MIGRANT (Moon Instrumented Guided Rocket and Notifying Transmitter), an automated soft lander mooted for a Moon mission.

#space #1950s #moon

The William O. Jenkins House, Norma Desmond’s house in Sunset Boulevard (1950). At the time of filming, the house was occupied by one of J. Paul Getty’s (five) former wives. As a condition of rental, she requested that Paramount Studios build her a new swimming pool, which they did, and promptly dropped William Holden's “corpse” into it.

#Movies #Hollywood #Cinema #Film #Cinemastodon #1950s #Architecture

#GreatAlbums1950s

I'm starting a new series of #1950s albums with a list of sixty classics cued up to go. As always, I'm open to suggestions from the worlds of #RockAndRoll #Jazz #CountryAndWestern #Folk #RhythmAndBlues #TraditionalPop , etc.

Post your faves in the comments. Cheers.

#MusicReviews #50sMusic #Albums #LP

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jqe4W08124M&feature=share #SmallTown #AmericanLife #1950s