Watch The Railrodder, Starring Buster Keaton
Today is the 115th birth anniversary of Buster Keaton, whom Roger Ebert calls “the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.” The Railrodder was one of the last films…
Today is the 115th birth anniversary of Buster Keaton, whom Roger Ebert calls “the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.” The Railrodder was one of the last films…
A picture taken from the Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Trousset, published in Paris between 1886 - 1891. According to the caption, the various examples of hand shadow puppetry shown in this…
I found this wonderful photograph taken by Wallace Kirkland, in the LIFE photo archive.
These proud ladies, with their poise and perfect spines, were the winners of a chiropractors beauty contest held sometime in 1956.
See more pictures after the jump.
Michael5000’s lovely collection of vintage postcards.
A cool collection of vintage bromide cards featuring pachimon (imitations of famous Japanese TV and film monsters), on the rampage through famous cities around the world.
A lovely set of images scanned from old books, flyers and brochures by Dylan Todd. Most of the pictures in the set have been released under a Creative Commons License.
The Impossible Cool. An hot new blog with black and white photographs of retro movie stars, singers, models and other achingly-cool, beautiful people. They sure don’t make them like they…
Marvelous, just marvelous. A huge video compilation of rogues, master-thieves and supervillains from the 1960s Batman TV series.
Way before iPods, CDs, and cassettes tapes, the unwieldy reel-to-reel tape was one of the preferred ways of storing and listening to music. The beasts that played these tapes were…
A Live Journal user posted this collection of rare color photographs (includes one NSFW pic) captured during the Third Reich German era. The photographs, clearly taken from the Life photo…