Category Archives: Movies
ARGUS SHOWMASTER
The first 8mm projector I ever owned. My parents bought it for me around 1964 at a Super Giant in the Washington, D. C. area. This was a branch of a local grocery chain that also sold consumer products.
It was a well designed, solidly built and totally reliable machine. I can still recall the sensual pleasure of taking off the case housing, fitting on the reels and threading the film. I used it to screen the 8mm movies I made throughout my high school years, as well as the 8mm prints of silent films I bought during that time from Blackhawk.
It was for me a magic lantern indeed.
A MOVIE POSTER FOR TODAY
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A FILM PUBLICITY STILL FOR TODAY
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IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN
AUDREY X 4
GIRL WITH NOTEBOOK
With thanks to Paul Pearson.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Even Pat Boone can’t totally ruin this song, though he gives it a good old college try . . .
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN
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EARTH’S BOUNTY
With thanks to Jessica Ritchey . . .
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MORNING SUN
A WESTERN MOVIE POSTER FOR TODAY
This is an interesting, somewhat offbeat Western based on a story by Dorothy M. Johnson, who also wrote the stories on which The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and A Man Called Horse were based.
She specified that the inscription on her tombstone read “PAID”. ”God and I know what it means, and nobody else needs to know,” she said.
She sounds like an author whose work would be well worth exploring.
ENCHANTED
A NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR TODAY
A painting done for the movie The Song Of Bernadette, used on the poster.