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Lecture 15: “Boogie Wonderland” (1979) - Earth Wind and Fire: Founded by the multi-talented Maurice White (1941-2016), the immensely successful Earth Wind and Fire was a genre-defying band, mixing jazz, R&B, soul, funk, jazz and pop. In the late 1970s forayed into the realm disco with their 1979 album I Am and their hit song “Boogie Wonderland” which charted at #6 in the Billboard Hot 100. Sadly, Maurice White passed away on February 4, 2016 at the age of 74 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.

Posters for Juvenile Delinquency Scare Movies, 1950s

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Lecture 8: HISTORY IS MADE: The Beatles, from Liverpool, UK, appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964. Here is the entire episode of their first televised performance on Ed Sullivan, which is often regarded as a tie with Elvis Presley’s appearance on The Milton Berle Show as the most important landmark television event in the history of rock music.

From the "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown" File: Dig this beautiful photograph of L.A.'s Chinatown, one year after Evelyn Cross Mulwray was gunned down there. She was a real person, wasn't she? Wasn't she?

#Chinatown #Los Angeles #1938 #1930s #Great Depression

From the City of Angels File: Los Angeles, 1953.

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From the Greatest Scary Logo of All Time File: Rankin-Bass logos from the 1960s and early 1970s are one of my greatest sources of nostalgia. I cherish them.

#Rankin-Bass #1960s #1970s #Rankin-Bass Logo

From the Scary Logo File: Screen Gems, mid-1960s. I recall this sucker coming on at the end of I Dream of Jeannie.

#Screen Gems #Scary Logos #1960s

From the "It Really Improves Your Looks" File: Dig these masks - Zombie and Frankenstein - circa 1960s, when Halloween masks were truly gruesome.

#zombie #Frankenstein #comic book ads #1960s

From the "Keep 'Em Flying" File: Fly American! (1933) is a promotional film for American Airways, a fascinating glimpse at flying and airports during the depths of the Great Depression (best line: "It is a depot, granddad! An air depot!"). Also, the footage from different parts of the country (Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Memphis, the beaches of Florida, Chicago). Watch out for the racist reference to "darkies loadin' cotton" in Memphis, though. Despite offensive moments, this film is compelling and - at 11 minutes - well worth your time.

#American Airways #1933 #promotional films #Great Depression

Preview's of Coming Attractions: Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985) was a science fiction epic these space vampires that come to earth and battle humanity. Ultimately, it's a pretty forgettable film, although it stars one of the most enchanting and breathtaking women ever captured on film, French actress Mathilda May, who walks around much of the film nude and has a mind-bogglingly beautiful body. May, more than the shocking zombie-esque special effects, kept me in a trance.

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