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Lily Alexandre made a video about this!!!
The Kiss (1882) by Eadweard Muybridge
Unearthed in 2011, this short video created by cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge of a kiss between two women is the first kiss ever in the history of moving image, predating Edison's "The Kiss" by over a decade.
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Hbomberguy did a pretty good job pointing out how Somerton has tried to take up the air of modern queer creators, stealing the works they made to little or no money or exposure, and using them to bolster his own fame. It's a truly reprehensible act.
But I feel like it's also important to briefly touch on what he stole from the past.
The Celluloid Closet is a backbone text on queerness and cinema. Like, if you're at all interested in the subject, please read the book, and watch the doc. Yes, the language will be outdated. It was written in 1981 and the doc published in 1995. Language evolves. I was fortunate enough to both read the book and see the documentary in the early 2000s, when I attended university.
It was written by Vito Russo, who held a Masters in film and a desire to fight for queer rights after witnessing the Stonewell riots. The Celluloid Closet was first a live lecture presentation, then a book. He would try to get the book made into a documentary in the early years, and after he died, others picked up that torch to carry on his work and to pay respect to the man.
Vito Russo was also one of the co-founders of GLAAD. He was a co-founder of ACT UP. You may have, if you've watched documentaries or seen news stories about the AIDS crisis, seen parts of his speech, Why We Fight. He protested, advocated, and educated even as people he knew and loved died, and he himself was dying.
As Hbomberguy notes in his doc, he would go on to pass in 1990. This was a man who fought his ass off, even while dying, for a better tomorrow and better representation.
The fact that Somerton stole his work is beyond insulting to the queer history, and queer film history, that he purports to give a shit about.
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Puttin on the riiiiiiiitz 🧟♂️
#young frankenstein#gene wilder#art#fan art#illustration#marty feldman#mel brookes#teri garr#horror#camp#70s#comedy#film history#slapstick#frankenstein
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I would just like to point out that the floof is historically accurate.
So is David’s messy chaotic office:
Claude had big shoes to fill, playing a Broadway legend who only died nine years before this movie came out, and he knocks it out of the park! Vote Belasco!
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Lee Gentry (Crime Without Passion) - SAUL GOODMAN WHO?? Lee is the OG 'hot lawyer' and I love him and his stupid little mustache. The fact that I would will purposefully try to get thrown in jail for a chance he'd defend me says something about me but I don't care. ALSO THE TOP HAT AND TUXEDO COMBO? (see attached) Deceased.
David Belasco (Lady with Red Hair) - The floof should speak for itself, guys c'mon!
This is round one for The King of The Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!
Additional Propaganda under the cut!
Lee Gentry
THIS IS WHERE THIS STUPID GIF COMES FROM AHH!!!
David Belasco
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#trust me on this one I’m a Belasco researcher#Lady With Red Hair (1940) has plenty of issues regarding accuracy but Claude can do no wrong#plus this movie holds a special place in my heart because it introduced me to Claude Rains#op you are brilliant for creating this tournament#Claude Rains#David Belasco#film history#theater history#Lady With Red Hair
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Star Trek Set Tour 12/?: (More) Miscellaneous Corridors
#PEEP THOSE GOBOS!!!!#this was literally one of the best days of my life btw#colors#pink#uss enterprise#star trek#star trek tos#star trek the original series#set tour#star trek set tour#set design#film history#classic trek#1960s#lighting#film#filming locations#captain kirk#spock#reference#the enterprise#ncc 1701
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some rare and gorgeous mugshots photos of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which I sadly don't know the original source or context for
#conrad veidt#cesare the somnambulist#the cabinet of dr. caligari#if anyone has more info about them please tell me!#das cabinet des dr. caligari#german expressionism#silent cinema#classic horror#goth#gothic#beauty#horror#horror cinema#film#film history#my posts#hulderposts
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Just saw a "feminist" video essay (by someone who just happens to only talk about feminism in relation to cishet white able bodied women) say that the Hays Code was good for women because it "prevented them from sexualizing women by preventing onscreen depictions of sex". Never before has a video said something that made me vocalize my disgust of it's takes, but this did it.
I didn't think I would have to say this but if you defend the Hays code you are horrible and not in any way progressive. And if you don't know what it is please look it up because it's probably the most important piece of history when it comes to all media analysis in the western world.
#196#my thougts#leftist#leftism#feminist#feminism#queer#media criticism#media literacy#media analysis#the internet#social commentary#discourse#proship#fuck antishippers#hays code#film history#cinema#white feminism
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One of the scariest parts of the Hays code was its implicit lesson that the law is completely inescapable, and that no criminal is worthy of sympathy, nor will avoid punishment forever.
This is a deliberately terrifying and demoralizing message when there are always going to be laws which are unjust, and doubly so when you are a member of a class of people whose very existence is criminalized. As for instance, queer people were at the time.
It's censorship which denies the possibility of escape, and denies the possibility of unjust authority.
#hays code#film history#freedom of expression#anti censorship#acab#fanfiction#fan fiction#fanfic#fandom wank#writeblr#writblr#🌺♦️
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Happy public domain day!
Some notable things that entered the public domain in the US today are:
The Jazz Singer, the first “talkie” or movie with sound
The first three Hardy Boys books
The last two Sherlock Holmes stories
The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock’s first film
And all other works published in 1927 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1952!
#public domain#happy new year#copyright#the hardy boys#Sherlock Holmes#film history#alfred hitchcock#the original version of this post incorrectly listed Steamboat Willie!#that error has been rectified#it doesn’t enter until next year
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okay, so i recently watched a god-awful movie from 1971 called "Horror of the Blood Monsters". while it contained some so-bad-it's good moments, it was mostly unbearable to watch. however, the parts that were the most interesting and entertaining, were colorized clips from a 1956 black-&-white Filipino english language film called "Tagani" (Alternatively called "Kahariang Bato" for the Tagalong release). I mean just look at this!
this looks so fun!
there's elaborate creature costuming that is really fun to see and at times fairly impressive for a low budget Filipino production in the 50s! i mean, just look at these sequences involving humanoid crab and bat creatures!
and there's a surprising amount of body diversity too! there are fat folks and a few actors with dwarfism who don't appear to be playing nonhuman roles!
so, i thought, i should find a copy of Tagani that i can watch since that's what i'd really like to be watching in the first place. but...
i can't fucking find it anywhere.
no uploads, no streaming, no home video releases, not even any indications of film reels being shown of it. what the fuck? where is Tagani??? have i stumbled into lost media?
the only indications of its existence are the footage in Horror of the Blood Monsters, a poster, and a trailer uploaded to youtube. i found links to the film uploaded to youtube when i searched on duckduckgo, but when i clicked on them, the uploads were gone! I was able to find a 1080p copy of HotBM, so in a just world, i would be able to find a 1080p copy of Tagani as well.
if anyone has this magnificent film archived or knows where i can go to find a copy of this, please let me know! i'd love to watch it and help preserve it! if you'd like to watch the Tagani segments in Horror of the Blood Monsters, i recommend skipping most of the portions involving the main cast of white american actors for the best experience. I do not recommend watching the full film as it's SO boring in most scenes. but the Tagani scenes never fail to entertain
#scout's life#archivist scout#tagani#atomic age scifi#prehistoric films#movie monsters#lost media#movies#film history#filipino film#Kahariang Bato#cavemen#horror of the blood monsters#70s movies#50s movies#retro#vintage#film archival#preservation#film preservation
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New (old) Amundsen film just dropped!
I love this so much. The setting, the architecture of the house, Rex the dog, of course—I’ll bet he was a very good boy. Not to mention Roald looks pretty sharp in that suit!
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Buster Keaton sewing the dragon used in the Chinatown war scene in The Cameraman (1928)
#buster keaton#black and white#1920s#vintage#silent film#vintage hollywood#aesthetic#film history#the cameraman#he slayed
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TFW you're just trying to have breakfast with your pals but some ghosts decide to toss your bowler hats around the yard...
Watch the full film by Hans Richter.
📽️ : Hans Richter. Germany. Vortmittagspuk (“Ghosts Before Breakfast”). 1927. Bucknell University.
#jstor#film#film studies#film history#hans richter#silent film#black and white film#retro#multimedia
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Tamara Wiszniewska (1919-1981) - Polish actress
Tamara Wiszniewska was born on December 19, 1919 in Dubno, Poland (now a region in western Ukraine) on the banks of the Ikva River. It was here that she spent her younger years during which she picked up dancing, which eventually led her to her career in film. In her 1981 obituary in the Democrat & Chronicle, it was reported that Tamara, at age 15, “Was a ballet dancer, when German film director Paul Wegener discovered her and gave her a role in the historical film, August der Starke (August the Strong)” which premiered in 1936. This German/Polish co-production is a biographical look into the life of Augustus II, ruler of Saxony and Poland-Lithuania from 1694-1733. Although Tamara played only a small role it marked her debut and eventual rise to fame within the Polish film industry.
Following her appearance in August der Starke, Tamara appeared in thirteen other films between 1936 and 1939, including Trójka Hultajska (The Trio Hultajska, 1937), Ordynat Michorowski (Ordinate Michorowski, 1937), and Kobiety nad Przepaścią (Women Over the Precipice, 1938). Wladyslaw (Walter) Mikosz, Tamara’s future husband, produced two of these films. In an interview, Tamara and Walter’s daughter, Irene, states that, "The two met because of their film careers, and were married [late that same year] in 1937".
Life for the Mikoszs was happy for a time. Tamara continued to pursue her acting career through 1938 and 1939 and had welcomed a new born daughter into the world alongside her husband, Wladyslaw. Unfortunately, these happy times did not last long as the Mikosz family experienced the rise of Nazi Germany and their occupation of Poland in 1939 during World War II. The following excerpt from an interview with Tamara in a 1974 Times Union tells how drastically their lives were changed:
"I always played a rich spoiled girl who had lovely clothes, and for a short time I lived that kind of life too. It was a short, beautiful life that ended when the Germans took over Poland in 1939. We were wealthy and the toast of the town then. We’d go to Prague and Vienna just to see an opera or to play in the casinos. When the Germans came, my intuition told me I should have something on me to exchange. I sewed my jewelry into my clothes. Later, it bought us passes to freedom and bread so we were never hungry."
The German occupation of Poland during World War II brought then “beautiful” life of the Mikosz family to an end. Gone were their illustrious careers in film and the rewards that such a life had brought to them. In a later interview, Irene mentioned that her mother "was preparing to sign a contract for a film career in Hollywood, but Hitler’s invasion of Poland derailed the plans". Sadly, Tamara’s last appearance on the silver screen was in 1939 prior to the invasion of Hitler’s Germany; she never again starred in any films.
Although her dreams had been crushed, Tamara and her family did not lose hope. They made the best of their current situation, and were able to survive by selling the fruits of their labors that they harvested during their days in the film industry; their lives had been consumed with a fight to survive rather than a dream to thrive. However, not being ones to live quiet lives, the Mikoszs volunteered for the Polish Underground, the exiled Polish government that fought to resist German occupation of Poland during World War II. As civilians with backgrounds in film, Tamara and Walter were most likely engaged in spreading Polish nationalistic and anti-German propaganda. Such efforts of the civilian branch of the Polish Underground was in support of what Jan Kamieński refers to as "small sabotage" in his book, Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within: "In contrast of major sabotage, the idea of small sabotage was to remind the German occupiers of an enduring Polish presence, to ensure that they felt a constant sense of unease and generally undermine their self-confidence". While attending to these duties within the Underground, the Mikosz family was separated and shipped off to separate countries: Tamara and her daughter, Irene, to Czechoslovakia (where Tamara’s parents had been sent) and Walter to Bavaria. The family was not reunited until 1945, when they were sent to the same refugee camp in Bavaria. The Mikoszs remained in the Bavarian refugee camp until the year 1950, in which they emigrated to the United States of America. Tamara and Walter lived quiet lives in Rochester, NY after arriving from a war-torn Europe, and did so until they passed away.
Although they have long since passed away from this Earth, the stories of the Polish film star, Tamara, and her film-producer husband, Wladyslaw Mikosz, will live on so long as there are people around to tell it.
#history#history crushes#submission#tamara wiszniewska#polish#actress#film history#1930s#30s#old hollywood#women in film#women in history#poland#wwii#world war 2#ww2#ww2 history#old movies#old phography#20th century
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Arlene Martel as T'Pring, S2E1 of Star Trek, 1967
#star trek#t'pring#so so so gay for her#she's soooo beautiful#star trek tos#the original series#vulcan#amok time#spock#pon farr#tos#captain kirk#spirk#actress#film history#1960s#screencaps#my edit
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Judy Garland “The Pirate” (1948)
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