Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Charlie Chaplin playing with children (c. early 1920’s) (via)

Charlie Chaplin playing with children (c. early 1920’s) (via)

Vince Guaraldi - Skating (A Charlie Brown Christmas: Original Soundtrack Recording of the CBS Television Special)

Chorus girls in Dancing Lady (1933, dir. Robert Z. Leonard) Photo by Ted Allan (via)

Chorus girls in Dancing Lady (1933, dir. Robert Z. Leonard) Photo by Ted Allan (via)

The Unholy Three (1930, dir. Jack Conway) (via)

The Unholy Three (1930, dir. Jack Conway) (via)

Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Conformist (1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) (via)

Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Conformist (1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) (via)

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing

Constance Bennett in Sally, Irene and Mary (1925, dir. Edmund Goulding) (via)

Constance Bennett in Sally, Irene and Mary (1925, dir. Edmund Goulding) (via)

Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey) “It’s funny. The world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.”

Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey)

“It’s funny. The world is so different in the daylight. In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand. But in the daylight everything falls back into place again.”

Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974, dir. Mel Brooks)(via)

Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974, dir. Mel Brooks)(via)

John Morris - Transsylvanian Lullaby (Young Frankenstein: Music From the Original Soundtrack)

Julie Harris in The Haunting (1963, dir. Robert Wise) (via) “The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.” -Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

Julie Harris in The Haunting (1963, dir. Robert Wise) (via)

“The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.”

-Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

Humphrey Searle - The History of Hill House (The Haunting: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 2000 re-recording of 1963 score)

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning) Art direction by Charles D. Hall (via)

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning) Art direction by Charles D. Hall (via)

Kronos Quartet - Dr. Van Helsing & Dracula (composed by Philip Glass, from Philip Glass: Dracula, his score for 1931’s Dracula)

The Tell-Tale Heart (1928, dir. Charles Klein) (via) “Oh God! what could I do? I foamed —I raved —I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder —louder —louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! —no, no! They heard! —they suspected! —they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror!-This I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now —again! —hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! ‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! —tear up the planks! here, here! —It is the beating of his hideous heart!’” -Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart (1928, dir. Charles Klein) (via)

“Oh God! what could I do? I foamed —I raved —I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder —louder —louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! —no, no! They heard! —they suspected! —they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror!-This I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now —again! —hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! —tear up the planks! here, here! —It is the beating of his hideous heart!’”

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart