Stuff and Moonshine

Book-themed travel posters can be downloaded from PBS’ Great American Read website:  http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/resources/downloads/

The one for Air Strip One is probably the best: “DOUBLEPLUSGOOD DISCOUNT: 20% OFF HOTEL + 20% OFF AIR TRAVEL = 50% TOTAL DISCOUNT”


 

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This blog, rather than looking at feature films, posts old tv commercials, cinema newsreels, outtakes etc. If you want to watch Fox Movietone footage of bigwigs you never heard of attending a 1930s gala, or a few silent seconds, in two-strip Technicolor, of the Marx Brothers rehearsing on the set of Animal Crackers*, this is the place to go.

*The blogger speculates that someone at Paramount may have been working with Technicolor and just randomly went over to one of the soundstages to shoot some test footage. It’s clearly a rehearsal and not the actual filming – Harpo is wearing a bathrobe and without his wig.