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April 19th 1924

Best time yet. Dick seemed to enjoy himself.

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Swoon movie poster I haven’t seen before. From what I gather, this was probably for the 1993 release in Spain. I couldn’t find the name of the artist anywhere but this is a rather unique take on the film…

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Nathan Leopold in The Kirtland Warbler In Its Summer Home

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“How’s your leg?” “Hurts a little.” “And your stomach?” “Empty as a football.” “And your love life?” –Rear Window (1954) / Swoon (1992)

Okay, was anyone gonna tell me they recreated a Hitchcock scene in Swoon, or did I have to find out from imdb?

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THE CRITERION CHALLENGE 2023 — WEEK 13: SUNDANCE HITS

SWOON (dir. Tom Kalin, 1992)

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Geneviève Thénier in L'amour à la mer (Guy Gilles, 1964)

Cover and back cover of Films Selectos (Selected Films), a weekly illustrated magazine focused on films and filmmaking. It was published from 1930 to 1938 in Barcelona, collecting up to 328 numbers. This one is the 104th issue, dated October 8, 1932.

"Spanky" McFarland is the star of this cover, from Our Gang (1922-1938), aka The Little Rascals. In the back Greta Nissen is announced to be in the 1932's productions The Silent Witness and Rackety Rax.

From my personal collection.

#films selectos #selected films #vintage #1930s #1930s film #1932 #circa 1930 #history #cinema history #Greta Nissen #Fox #The silent witness #rackety rax #spanky #spanky mcfarland #the little rascals

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Some more antique book covers for your feed.

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The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 24, 1925

Highlights from Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe, 1888-1910

Another of my expeditions through the archives. This time I came across this beautiful botanical sketchbook from the late XIXc. I really love the detail of the drawings and the fact that the leaves are not coloured. The beautiful handwrite says some properties of the flowers and their names. In the description it is said:

Eighteen albums of water-color sketches by Helen Sharp of flowering plants and shrubs common to the United States, especially New England, as well as to Bermuda and parts of Europe, dated between June 1888 and Sept. 1910.

#BOTHANICAL #SKETCHBOOK #xix century #STUDIES #DRAWING #artbook #botanical #plants #north america #europe #poppy

God's bride, circa unknown.

13,5 x 8,8 cm.

Months ago I went to a local antique flea market and, of course, I brought home with me some old photos. Most of them were war themed, but this one caught my atention just on my way out the stand.

There is no date nor place written back, but the studio that sold the piece is from Germany as "Sepp Hartmann's Lichtbildwerkstätten" is indeed written, owned by Beta Hartmann.

This photo is so beautiful. You can see from their faces the simple and grateful the nuns are. One of them, though, stands out as she is wearing a white flower crown and has pinned a white cloth in the heart. To explain this, I only found informationn in The Nun’s Crown by Julie Hotchin (2004). She says:

Each woman received her crown in a ceremony of consecration, or coronation, in which her virginity was dedicated to Christ. This distinctive headdress symbolized—more so than the veil and ring—her privileged status as a Bride of Christ.

Although in this article she talks in general terms about the practices in the Medieval Ages, this tradition could have been kept to that day. White is still the purest color and a crown is still a symbol of uniqueness and privilege or status, so it is not unreasonable to think that this usage applies to this nun. But what I did not found info about is for the pinned cloth in the heart. Is it related? Personally, I guess so.

#religious #nun #vintage photography #germany #1950 #1960 #flower crown #catholic #antique

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Anders als die Andern is a German silent film released in 1919. It is the very first film to show homosexuality in a sympathetic light. It portrays the suffering that gays endured during the time in Germany when homosexuality was outlawed. It is notable for including photos of real lesbians, transgender men and women, and gay men from that time period, as well as showing real gay couples dancing in a bar scene. Nazis attempted to destroy all copies of the film in the 1930s, so much of it is lost, but what remains can be viewed online, with the plot summarized.