Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Boris Karloff undergoing his transformation for The Mummy (1932, dir. Karl Freund) (via)

Boris Karloff undergoing his transformation for The Mummy (1932, dir. Karl Freund) (via)

Anita O’DayAngel Eyes 

Aquacade Ballet, 1953. Photographer: Philippe Halsman (via)

Aquacade Ballet, 1953. Photographer: Philippe Halsman (via)

Nino Rota - Romeo & Juliet: Main Theme (Soundtrack Music from Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet)

Scenes from The Golden Beetle (1907, dir. Segundo de Chomón), a 3-minute fantasy trick film notable for its spectacular use of color, which was done by hand. Online here.
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Scenes from The Golden Beetle (1907, dir. Segundo de Chomón), a 3-minute fantasy trick film notable for its spectacular use of color, which was done by hand. Online here.

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Queen Kelly (1929, dir. Erich von Stroheim) Art director: Richard Day (via)

Queen Kelly (1929, dir. Erich von Stroheim) Art director: Richard Day (via)

Ann Dvorak vs. the feds in Scarface (1932, dir. Howard Hawks) (via)

Ann Dvorak vs. the feds in Scarface (1932, dir. Howard Hawks) (via)

George Gershwin - Love is Here to Stay (1938)

Performed by the New York Philharmonic for Manhattan (1979, dir. Woody Allen)

The Cage, a 1947 short directed by beat poet/filmmaker Sidney Peterson, follows the adventures of an escaped eyeball as it rolls through the streets of San Francisco.
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The Cage, a 1947 short directed by beat poet/filmmaker Sidney Peterson, follows the adventures of an escaped eyeball as it rolls through the streets of San Francisco.

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Pam Grier, 1973 (via)

Pam Grier, 1973 (via)

The Sea God (1930, dir. George Abbott)

The Sea God (1930, dir. George Abbott)

Julie London - Dark

Rudolph Valentino & Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921, dir. Rex Ingram) (via)
Photographer: Arthur Rice 

Rudolph Valentino & Alice Terry in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921, dir. Rex Ingram) (via)

Photographer: Arthur Rice 

Stanley Kubrick, Chris Chase, & Jamie Smith on the set of Killer’s Kiss (1955)

“Stanley was very sweet and kind to me…He’d always drive me home. [On one] ride home I said, ‘Why are you always so nice to everyone?’ He said, ‘Honey, nobody’s going to get anything out of this movie but me.”

-Chase, 2001

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Killer’s Kiss (1955, dir. Stanley Kubrick) (via)

Killer’s Kiss (1955, dir. Stanley Kubrick) (via)