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[VIDEO] Casablanca Premieres in New York City 75 Years Ago Today: Analysis of Casablanca’s ‘La Marseillaise’ Scene

Nov. 26, 1942, 75 years ago Casablanca premieres in New York City. David Youngblood writes: Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other [...]

[VIDEO] Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter, 1943

This training film contains an instructional prologue to its dramatic story which features Ronald Reagan as a fighter pilot. Both the prologue and the storyline serve the same purpose: to instruct the viewer on the importance of recognizing the [...]

[VIDEO] Ann Hui on the Spark Behind Wartime Film ‘Our Time Will Come’

Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come portrays a chapter in the history of Hong Kong’s wartime-era. In 1941, at the height of the Pacific War, Japanese forces took Hong Kong and unleashed offensive against cultural figures. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang [...]

[VIDEO] ‘Swing Shift Cinderella’, Tex Avery, 1945

Swing Shift Cinderella is an animated cartoon short subject. It is in the same vein as Red Hot Riding Hood. Frank Graham voiced the wolf, and Colleen Collins voiced Cinderella, with Imogene Lynn providing her singing voice. At the beginning, the Big [...]

[VIDEO] Full Movie: Alfred Hitchock’s ‘Foreign Correspondent’, 1940

Just after “Rebecca” from the same year, Hitchcock tackles a WW2 related story, a spy movie “Foreign Correspondent”. Not among the very best films of the director, there is nevertheless great scenes, a criminal running [...]

"University of Michigan fraternity party." Brothers and sisters and a cozy fire. Photos by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine, 1949.

University of Michigan Fraternity Party: Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine, 1949

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When Do Cats Prowl?

Cats Prowl at Night by A A Fair [Erle Stanley Gardner]. Dell, 1949. Cover by Gerald [...]

[VIDEO] Vintage Atomic Scare Film ‘One World or None’, 1946

A film from the Prelinger Archives showing the horrors of atomic warfare. Made only one year after the end of the Second World War, it is thought to be the first ‘atomic scare movie’, a genre which would flourish in the U.S. throughout [...]

[VIDEO] Feature Movie: ‘The Lady & the Monster’ with Bonus Spanish Poster: ‘La Mujer y el Monstruo’, 1944

This Spanish herald for The Lady and the Monster is only slightly larger than 5 by 3 inches, but the illustration is eye-popping. via Zombos’ [...]

New Yorker Cover: ‘Standing Room Only’, by Constantin Alajálov, 1944

Standing Room Only: Constantin Alajálov New Yorker Cover Art, [...]

Danish Poster for ‘Citizen Kane’, Orson Welles, USA, 1941

1946 Danish poster for CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA, 1941) Artist: unknown Poster source: Posteritati The Danish title translates as “The Big Man.” via Movie Poster of the [...]