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Something behind the visible... What to expect here: Vintage photography, sometimes movie stars of the past, a little bit of history, some weird things found elsewhere. No warranty for coherence.

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A sign of our times: The phone barbarian (someone who is enraged about the shortest delay).

Newspaper illustration (Germany, 1928)

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A young and tiny anaconda of the Amazonas region (source: Thomas Fischermann/ZEIT).

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In Odessa they transformed a Lenin statue into a Darth Vader monument.

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The Man who was Death! by Russ Heath (from the comic Adventures into Terror, 5/1951)

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Poster for the movie picture To Hell with the Kaiser! (USA, 1918, 7 reels long, around 70 minutes), see, for e.g. IMDB. Its contents was:

“Following the death of his father, Frederick III of Germany, Wilhelm Hohenzollern becomes the German Kaiser and forms a pact with the devil whereby he will conquer the globe in exchange for his soul. During the Kaiser's invasion of Belgium, the Crown Prince enters a church and rapes Ruth Monroe, the daughter of an American inventor who has perfected a noiseless communications device. When the professor denounces the Crown Prince, he immediately is shot, whereupon his other daughter Alice vows to obtain revenge. While Alice's sweetheart, Winslow Dodge, fights with the Americans as an aviator, she arranges to meet the Crown Prince through her friend Robert Graubel, an actor who impersonates the Kaiser at public functions. With her father's wireless, Alice informs Winslow of the Kaiser's whereabouts, and as he captures the German emperor, she kills the Crown Prince. Now a prisoner, the Kaiser drowns himself and wakes up in hell, where Satan abdicates in his favor, saying that the Kaiser's tortures are more fiendish than any he has devised.” [AFI]

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Death wears an overcoat.  Modern Sketch 8. August 1934. 

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“A Bird That Lays Such Rotten Eggs Is Long Overdue For Extinction” United-States c. 1910

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Snippet from a Soviet animated cartoon (Black and White, by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Leonid Amalrik, 1932), as found in the documentary The Jazz Ambassadors (USA/GB, 2018). The soundtrack is the spiritual entitled “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child”.

The full cartoon available on Youtube.

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L'Heure de la vérité | Spielfilm, Frankreich / Israel, 1965 | Regie: Henri Calef

Touristen-Weisheiten über Israel.

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Yeti sightings in Siberia.

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Buster Keaton and his gags.

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Where are they now?

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British soldier rides a horse in zebra camouflage. German East Africa, WW1.

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Night life in Berlin, 1945 (after the war, I guess)

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“Washington, a year after.” Title page illustration of the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Nov. 4, 2017.

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Smoke at your own risk. Taken from Die toten Augen von London (Germany, 1961)

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Die toten Augen von London | BRD 1961 | Regie: Alfred Vohrer

Auf dem Schreibtisch des Mr. Judd (Wolfgang Lukschy) steht ein Zigarettenspender in Form eines Totenkopfs.

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From the German adaptation of the Edgar Wallace novel Dark Eyes of London, 1961. Mr. Judd has a fancy cigarette dispenser in shape of a skull.

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The Human Monster (1939)

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Amerikanisches Filmplakat für den Vertrieb von Monogram. Dark Eyes of London (aka The Human Monster, 1939).