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July 31, 2012

Some Behind the Scenes Photos of Making the Film “Batman” in 1966

Batman, often promoted as Batman: The Movie, is a 1966 film based on the Batman television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. Below is a small collection photos of behind the scenes of making the film in 1966.








July 30, 2012

Victorian Burlesque Dancers: 30 Incredible Vintage Portraits of ‘Exotic’ Dancers From the 1890s

Most people think that "burlesque" means female strippers walking a runway to a bump and grind beat. But that only fits the form in its declining years. At its best, burlesque was a rich source of music and comedy that kept America, audiences laughing from 1840 through the 1960s.


Some sources try to wrap burlesque in a mantle of pseudo-intellectual respectability. Yes, it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex... in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women. Although many dismissed burlesque as the tail-end of show business, its influence reaches through the development of popular entertainment into the present.

In the 19th century, the term "burlesque" was applied to a wide range of comic plays, including non-musicals. Beginning in the 1840s, these works entertained the lower and middle classes in Great Britain and the United States by making fun of (or "burlesquing") the operas, plays and social habits of the upper classes. These shows used comedy and music to challenge the established way of looking at things.






July 27, 2012

Adorable Vintage Photos Captured the "World of Children" in the 1940s and 1950s

Esther Bubley (1921–1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. Her career in documentary photography and photojournalism was launched in 1942 when Roy Stryker hired her to work in his dark room at the Office of War Information (OWI), where his famed Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic project had recently been transferred. In 1944, Bubley followed Stryker to Standard Oil (New Jersey)(SONJ) where he was charged with compiling a photographic library. Bubley was a freelancer for Standard Oil for the rest of the 1940s and 1950s.


These pictures were made for a various reasons: magazine assignments, documentary projects, advertisements, and family albums. “I have known some of these children over long periods of time, others for only a few minutes,” she said.

“Regardless of how long I have known them, my way of photographing children (and other people) usually follows a certain pattern. All children like to have their pictures taken. Even tiny babies are fascinated with shiny lenses and flashing lights. Older children, while they enjoy posing, have unfortunately often been conditioned to stand still before a camera and smile into the lens. Thus, posing children is not a problem; getting them not to pose is.”






July 26, 2012

July 25, 2012

27 Rare and Fascinating Behind the Scenes Photos From the Making of the First 'Godzilla' Movie

Godzilla first hit the screens in 1954. The iconic towering kaiju was created by Japanese film producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda and special effects artist Eiji Tsuburaya. Tanaka wanted to create a monster that represented natures revenge on mankind for the horrors of nuclear war, to symbolize the abject terror that the Japanese people felt after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although in some later films Godzilla became the eponymous hero, saving humanity from a greater threat than himself.

Godzilla is often referred to as the “King of the Monsters”, a phrase derived from the full American title Godzilla, King of the Monsters! And as far as film monsters go, the huge dinosaur like reptilian has truly gone down in cult cinema history as one of the most iconic monsters of all time. Actor Haruo Nakajima, was the original man in the giant rubber costume. He played Godzilla from the 1950s in the early 1970s. Stomping around miniature sets, crushing all in his path.

A peak behind the scenes shows us the fun the film-makers had while making the Godzilla series of films. And how the Japanese quickly took Godzilla to their hearts. Here is presented a montage album of candid photographs, showing the fun-side of the mega monster. From hanging out on set, to playing guitar at a (Japanese) Hawaiian luau, and handing out Christmas gifts to Japanese school children.






July 24, 2012

Albert Einstein Was Also One Cool Dude, Here Are 18 Photos of Your Favorite Theoretical Physicist Being Chill

Albert Einstein was born on this date in 1879. The German-born Nobel Prize winner possessed a quick, sharp wit along with his enviable IQ, and his tendency to offset the very serious matter of general relativity with a little lighthearted humor is evident in this series of photos.

1. Tannin'



2. Relaxin'



3. Layin'



4. Bikin'



5. Smirkin'


July 23, 2012

Rare Photos and the Story of Annie Jones, the Most Celebrated Bearded Lady of the Victorian Era

Shortly after she was born in Virginia on July 14, 1865, the hirsute Annie Jones began her career in exhibition. Purportedly born with a chin covered in fine hair, Annie’s average parents were originally horrified by her appearance. It wasn’t long, however, before the monetary benefits of their prodigious daughter dawn on the Jones family and word of her unique appearance came to the attention of elite showman P. T. Barnum.


When she was little more than a year in age, Annie was brought to New York City to be featured in Barnum’s museum as ‘The Infant Esau’. The name ‘Esau’ was often applied to hirsute wonders and was in reference to the biblical grandson of Abraham, brother of Jacob. Esau’s name in Hebrew means ‘hairy’, and, according to Genesis 25:25, it is a reference to his hairiness at birth.

After an initial short but highly successful run, Barnum offered Annie’s mother a three year contract, allotting Annie a weekly salary of $150 a week. Mrs. Jones accepted the offer, which was exorbitant for the era, and took up permanent residence with her daughter in New York. However, within the first year of the contract, a family emergency called Mrs. Jones back to Virginia and she left Annie in the care of a Barnum appointed Nanny. During this time, Annie was kidnapped by a local phrenologist who attempted to exhibit Anne privately. Luckily Annie was soon located in upstate New York, the kidnapper dealt with and Annie was quickly back in the custody of Mrs. Jones – who forevermore stayed in close proximity to her daughter during her career.

Annie’s career spanned thirty-six years.

During her long career Jones traveled not only with Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth, but also worked numerous dime museums. Annie’s stage name changed to reflect her age during her career. She was known as the Esau Child and later the Esau Lady and visually not only did Annie sport a full and long beard, she also grew out the hair on her head to over six feet in length. Annie also expanded her talents as well, as she was not content to simply be stared at. She came to be known for her musical skills and gracious etiquette as much as her facial hair.

At sixteen, Jones married Richard Elliot – a professional sideshow bally talker. The marriage lasted fifteen years before the couple divorced. Jones then married another talker, William Donovan. Together, the newlyweds struck out on their own and toured Europe with Annie as an independent feature attraction and William as a vocal agent. Unfortunately the marriage was short as William died without warning. Annie, not knowing what else to do, quickly rejoined Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth.

In 1902, Annie fell ill and while visiting her mother in Brooklyn and on October 22 she passed away at age thirty-seven.

Annie Jones was the most celebrated Bearded Lady of her era.






July 21, 2012

Rare and Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos From the Set of 'Batman' TV Show in 1966

The 1966 Batman series is a high point in television, a gloriously self-aware piece of multicolored, campy silliness, a cartoon made 3D, complete with an admirably laissez-faire attitude towards leotarded beer-bellies and a bizarre commitment to the phrase “youthful ward”.

It had, and continues to have, its detractors, and is arguably one of the factors in comics continuing to not be taken as seriously as a medium as they should be. Every six months, a newspaper will publish a piece with a title like “Biff! Pow! Whoosh! How Comics Are Growing Up”, using sound effects from a TV show broadcast fifty years ago to poorly make a point about comics being published now.

But it’s a glorious show, one that children can enjoy completely at face value and adults can appreciate the ridiculous tongue-in-cheek nature of. It presents a world where machines have enormous labels on the side of them detailing their purposes, where nobody ever murders anyone if they can put them in a big stupid f*cking trap then go off and run an errand assuming everything will pan out instead, where a baddie with a name like Egghead can turn up, speak entirely in egg puns, have henchmen named after different ways of serving eggs, and everyone is totally blase about it, like “Yeah, let’s stop him, let’s stop Egghead” instead of “Whoa, hang on, he’s… he’s egg-themed? He’s an egg-themed villain? That doesn’t make any sense.”

Here, a series of photos from the set of the classic old show:

On the set of Batman, 1966.

Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) on the set of Batman, 1966.

Adam West on the set of Batman, 1966.

Adam West on the set of Batman, 1966.

Adam West on the set of Batman, 1966.




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