HUMANOID HISTORY

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From the 1974 filmstrip How To Get Syphillis.

(Pop Culture Precursors)

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Gene Tierney in a publicity shot for Leave Her to Heaven, 1945. Photographed by Philippe Halsman. (I found this while looking for images to promote an August 5th screening in Fort Worth. FYI, FWIW.)

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A Soviet sailor learns to play Kageki in a San Diego arcade, July 1990. The USSR's Pacific Fleet dropped anchor for a 5-day goodwill visit.

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From the film 1974 filmstrip How to Get Gonorrhea.

(Pop Culture Precursors)

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Hungarian police at a shooting range in Budapest, 1967.

(Fortepan)

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Not quite the heist of the century.

(Humanoid History)

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The Man with the Golden Gun poster from Turkey. Artwork by Robert McGinnis.

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From the film strip Drug Abuse: Glue-Sniffing and Pills, 1968.

(Pop Culture Precursors)

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Edward Gorey's illustration for novella "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf, and cover for Nineteenth Century German Tales, 1959

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Children's parade in Den Bosch, Netherlands, 1961.

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Dresden's Junge Pioniere celebrating "Sputnikfest" in 1959.

(Europeana)

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Clash of the Titans poster from Japan, 1981. Art by the Brothers Hildebrandt.

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Berufsschule für Detailhandel und Pharmazie, Zürich. Architects: Esther und Rudolf Guyer. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

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The Wilson County Bookmobile parked at the Martha Eschenberg Public Library in Floresville, Texas, undated.

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(Pop Culture Precursors)

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Jason and the Argonauts poster from France, 1963. Artwork by Charles Rau. 

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Leonard's Department Store at the Forum 303 Mall in Arlington, Texas, 1974.