#thunderbolt (1929)

[everydayesterday]

[alightinthelantern]

Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

[ancestorsalive]

The life of writer and explorer Alexandra David-Néel, born in Saint-Mandé, France, in 1868.

She had an unhappy childhood, the only child of bitter parents who fought all the time. She tried running away over and over, starting when she was two years old. As a teenager, she traveled by herself through European countries, including a bike trip across Spain.

When she was 21, she inherited money from her parents, and she used it all to go to Sri Lanka. She worked as an opera singer for a while to finance her travels. She was especially interested in Buddhism.

She disguised herself as a Tibetan woman and managed to get into the city of Lhasa, which at that time was off-limits to foreigners. She became fluent in Tibetan, met the Dalai Lama, practiced meditation and yoga, and trekked through the Himalayas, where she survived by eating the leather off her boots and once saved herself in a snowstorm with a meditation that increases body temperature.

The locals thought she might be the incarnation of Thunderbolt Sow, a female Buddhist deity. She became a Tantrika in Tibet when she was 52 years old.

And she wrote about it all.

Her most famous book is Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1929), in which she wrote:

“Then it was springtime in the cloudy Himalayas. Nine hundred feet below my cave rhododendrons blossomed. I climbed barren mountain-tops. Long tramps led me to desolate valleys studded with translucent lakes … Solitude, solitude! …

Mind and senses develop their sensibility in this contemplative life made up of continual observations and reflections. Does one become a visionary or, rather, is it not that one has been blind until then?”

She died in 1969, at the age of 101, a few months after renewing her passport. She was a big influence on the Beat writers, especially Allen Ginsberg, who converted to Buddhism after reading some of her teachings.

~ The Writer's Almanac

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Thunderbolt (1929)

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fucking hell I had a headache anyway

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Theresa Harris makes her (uncredited) film debut performing "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home" in Thunderbolt (1929)

[the1920sinpictures]

1929 Fay Wray in “Thunderbolt”. From Karen Starr Venturini, FB.

[skyfire85]

-An F-4S painted in the Heater-Ferris scheme in 1983. | Photo: Keith C. Svendsen

FLIGHTLINE: 138 - HEATER-FERRIS CAMOUFLAGE

Tested by the US Navy and Air Force during the 70s and 80s, the Ferris and Heater-Ferris schemes sought to optimize the effectiveness of visual camo.

Carlisle Ferris, who goes by his middle name Keith, was born on 14 May 1929 in Honolulu while his father was stationed at Luke Field, Pearl Harbor. His father was then transferred to Kelly Field, Texas as a flight instructor before being moved again to March Field, California. There he was treated to a flight in a Douglas B-18 Bolo, which ignited a life-long fascination with aviation.

After WWII, Ferris enrolled in Texas A&M's aeronautical engineering program with the aim of getting commissioned in the USAF. When he found out that he was medically unable to become a pilot, he transferred to George Washington University to study anatomy and figure drawing. In 1951 he moved to St. Louis and worked as a contactor producing artwork for USAF training manuals. When the USAF closed the operation in 1956, Ferris moved to NYC to become a freelance artist for the aerospace industry, as well as participating with the Air Force Art Program. This program allowed him to fly on numerous USAF aircraft from the late 50s through to the 1990s, and in locations from Thailand to the Balkans. Ferris was one of the the program's most prolific artists, producing 62 paintings, along with two giant murals for the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum: "Fortresses Under Fire", which depicts the B-17 'Thunderbird' during its 70th mission, and "The Evolution of Jet Aviation", which is exactly what you'd think it is.

-In this 2005 photo, Keith Ferris stands before his mural “Fortresses Under Fire” at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. | MarkBennett13

APPLIED THEORIES

Seeking to combine his knowledge of aircraft and his artistic talent, Ferris went on to develop and patent several camouflage ideas, including painting a false canopy on the bottom of an aircraft to confuse opponents, and another involving asymmetrical, splintered patterns of gray. Another change was reducing the size of aircraft marking, as well as making them gray, black or white.

-A Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II with a false canopy on the underside. | Photo: USAF

The Ferris scheme was applied to several early F-14s and F-15s for testing, with mixed results.

-A painting guide for a model F-14, showing the splintered pattern of Gunship Gray, Dark Gull Gray and Gull Gray. | Illustration: Don Color

-An F-14 painted in a Ferris scheme. | Photo: US Navy

-Two Farris painted F-14s deployed on a carrier. | Photo: US Navy

-Painting guide for a USAF F-15 in a different scheme of Dark Gull Gray, Gull Gray and Camouflage Gray. | Illustration: Don Color

-An F-15 painted in the above scheme. | Photo: USAF

Later, Lt Commander Chuck "Heater" Heatley of the Naval Fighter Weapons School ("Top Gun") made some changes to the basic Ferris scheme, simplifying the pattern and running the various shades of grey across the entire aircraft. Two F-4S squadrons adopted the Heater-Ferris scheme, VF-301 ("Devil's Disciples") and VF-302 ("Stallions").

-One of the VF-301 F-4s in the Heater-Ferris scheme. | Photo: Keith C Svendsen

Experiments with the Ferris and Heater-Ferris schemes proved that they did work at reducing the range at which an aircraft could be seen, as well as disguising the direction of travel, but the usefulness of visual camo was being deemphasized in an age of radar guided BVR missiles, though the F-15 and F-16 have worn other schemes influenced by Ferris.

-A USAF F-16 showing multi-shade pattern camouflage, influenced by Ferris. | Photo: USAF

Now retired, Ferris and his wife operate a small online business, offering his original art and prints of his work for sale.

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Actress Theresa Harris was born on December 31, 1906, in Houston, Texas. Her parents, Isaiah and Mable Harris, were former sharecroppers from Louisiana. Harris' family relocated to Southern California when she was 11 years old. After graduating Jefferson High School, she studied at the UCLA Conservatory of Music and Zoellner's Conservatory of Music. She then joined the Lafayette Players, a Black musical comedy theatre troupe. She made her film debut in 1929 in Thunderbolt, singing the song "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home". As she entered the 1930s, she appeared in numerous films as a maid, hat check girl and other bit roles - with the likes of Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Thelma Todd, Kay Francis, and Barbara Stanwyck. Harris was not credited onscreen for the majority of her roles. She also performed in many radio programs. Harris died on October 8, 1985, of an undisclosed cause. (at Black Hollywood BCI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQTRjnLACs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(via Greenbriar Picture Shows: Sternberg Says It With Sound)

Thunderbolt (1929)

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Howard Hawks’ early career original poster for Code of the West (1925).  Also in the cast was George Bancroft, who was born in Philadelphia, and had 54 acting credits from 1921 to 1942, including an Oscar nomination for Thunderbolt (1929). His other notable credits include Underworld (1927), an early gangster film, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Angels with Dirty Faces, and Stagecoach as Marshal Curly Wilcox.

[darlingofdathomir]

Reylo Moonshiner prompt?

Cleaning out old prompts. I’d love to write this, but I’ll never get around to it with all my WIP’s. Free for anyone interested :)  Long legs dangled off the edge of a fire escape, smoke drifting between his lips as he admired the moonlight. It was a cloudless evening, and the reflection of the night sky twinkled on the surface of the Wilmington River. Sure, the music and the drink was a great time, but it was nice to escape to the peace of the night- a peace that was shattered too soon by a scream in the parking lot below. It seemed one of their regulars had been found out by his wife yet again. Ben sighed and snuffed his cigarette out on the railing as he hoisted himself up, disappearing to the landing below. Settles it, wife leaves, he drags the guy in to talk to Hux Set in Savannah, GA. It’s the fall of 1930, almost a year after the stock market crash in 1929. Wanting to take over the family business, Hux killed his father right before the crash, is kind of overwhelmed. Kylo works for him, even though he didn’t really need to. Leant Hux a large sum of money after the crash? Snoke was old gangster than used to run everything. Kylo’s dad was a crooked cop that caught him, told him to come home, to prove his allegiance to the gang he shot him instead. Rey’s parents died when she was young, small town folksin GA raised her, but she knew it wasn’t where she was from. Still had a bit of an accent different from the rest of them. Drove a 1929 Nash 400, everyone chipped in for it. Also has a 1929 Nash 400, 1923 Harvester S pick up truck Hux born in  1898, 32. Hux’s family is from England, moved to the US after WW1, he served for 3 years and was jokingly called the General, but it was rumored that his father’s high up position kept him sheltered from danger during most of the war. Between shady practices and money going missing, he and his father left for the US and bought in to a swing club. His mother stayed behind. Kylo’s born May 28th, 1900 during a total eclipse. Mother was the daughter of a famous senator who was indicted for contract killings for an underground organization that was fractured in the early 1900’s, the broken pieces rebanded under a different name which is why Hux & his father actually moved. She kept it a secret but still had a considerable amount of money. She married a crooked beat cop, Solo, and had Ben. They argued and he left for periods of time when he was young, and still being part of a well to do family she often traveled to visit friends and relatives. Ben ended up getting into serious trouble when he was left in the care of his uncle, and after one visit when Leia came home he was gone. Rey born June 21st 1905, Longest day of the year, orrrr eclipse Aug 30th 1905. Was told her parents were going out to California and were going to call for her any time. She was afraid to leave as she was waiting on them. Lives in Deepstep. Works at a junkyard with a weird uncle of vague relation, mostly raised by the town around her. Poe & Finn are in from New York, looking for a change of pace after Poe ran out his luck in the card games up North. Poe & Rey are both excellent drivers, and Poe is the one who convinces her to make the big run out to Savannah with them, he heard of a guy (Dj) who promised to hook him up with a big score out there. Hux takes their whiskey, pays them a quarter, and demands three more shipments or he’ll let the Northerners know where they are. Now Rey is stuck in the mess too. Rose is the sort of unofficial brew scientist and car mechanic. Loves to dress up, hates the First Order after her sister, a burlesque dancer, was killed over a disagreement over payment. ***Points of Interest Bonaventure Cemetary Thunderbolt, GA just outside Savannah

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Books read and movies watched in 2022, and whether I’d recommend them:

Books:

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton): Yes

The Devil and the Dark Water (Stuart Turton): No

At Bertram’s Hotel (Agatha Christie): Yes

A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie): Eh

The Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie): Yes

Destination Unknown (Agatha Christie): Eh

A Pocket Full of Rye (Agatha Christie): Eh

Pavilion of Women (Pearl S. Buck): Yes

O Caledonia (Elspeth Barker): Yes

The Mask Carver’s Son (Alyson Richman): Yes

(Poetry) Ordinary Words (Ruth Stone): Yes

(Poetry) Thirst (Mary Oliver): No

(Poetry) Howl & Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg): Yes

Movies:

Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig): Yes

High Treason (1929, Maurice Elvey): Eh

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean): Yes

Les Visiteurs du Soir/The Devil’s Envoys (1942, Marcel Carné): Yes

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz): No

Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock): Yes

North By Northwest (rewatch) [1959, Alfred Hitchcock]: Yes

Once Upon A Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone): NO

A River Runs Through It (1992, Robert Redford): No

The African Queen (1951, John Huston): No

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu): Eh

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock): No

I Married a Witch (1942, René Clair): No

La Belle et la Bete (1946, Jean Cocteau): No

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini): No

The Letter (1940, William Wyler): Yes

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler): No

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard): Yes

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg): Yes

The Plane that Disappeared (1961, Reginald Le Borg): No

Larceny (1948, George Sherman): Yes

The Woman in the Window (1944, Fritz Lang): No

The Spiral Staircase (1946, Robert Siodmak): No

High Sierra (1941, Raoul Walsh): No

Raising Arizona (1987, Joel Coen): YES

Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami): Yes

Night Train to Munich (1940, Carol Reed): Yes

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding): Yes

Encanto (2021, Jared Bush & Byron Howard): Yes

[con-alas-de-angeles]

There lived years ago the beautiful Gongsun, who, dancing with her dagger, drew from all four quarters an audience like mountains lost among themselves.  Heaven and earth moved back and forth, following her motions. Which were bright as when the Archer shot the nine suns down the sky and rapid as angels before the wings of dragons. She began like a thunderbolt, venting its anger, and ended like the shining calm of rivers and the sea…. 

 Du Fu, The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology: Three Hundred Poems of the T’ang Dynasty 618–906: Tang Shi III. #64; A Song of Dagger-dancing to a Girl-pupil of Lady Gongsun p. 1929

[elcinelateleymickyandonie]

JACK HOXIE.

Filmography

1915 Captain Courtesy

1915 The Diamond in the Sky

1915 The Scarlet Sin

1915 Fatherhood

1916 The Silly Girl from Portici

1916 Secret love

1916 A youth of fortune

1916 The Three Godfathers

1916 The Girl from Frisco

1916 Joan the Woman

1917 The New Adventures of Stingaree

1917 Aunt Juana's Man

1917 A Whirlwind of Whiskers

1917 Jack and Jill

1917 Nan of the musical mountain

1917 The bullseye

1918 The Wolf and His Companion

1918 'Blue Blazes' Rawden

1918 Nobody's Wife

1918 His Majesty, Bunker Bean

1918 The Iron Test

1919 Johnny get your gun

1919 The Call of Love

1919 Valley of the Giants

1919 Counted in the Hills

1919 Lightning Bryce

1920 Thunderbolt Jack

1920 Boy from Death Valley

1920 A Man from Nowhere

1921 Cyclone Bliss

1921 dead or alive

1921 Cupid's Mark

1921 The Sheriff of Eternal Hope

1921 Dawson Devil Dog

1921 The Broken Spur

1921 Hills of Hate

1921 The Double O

Two-fisted Jefferson

1922 The Crucible of the Desert

1922 The Desert Boyfriend

1922 Barbed wire

1922 The Crow's Nest

1922 Back Fire

1922 Horsemen of the Law

1924 the way back

1924 Fighting fury

1924 The Western Coup

1924 Daring Opportunities

1924 Hello, 'Frisco

1925 The sign of the cactus

1925 A roaring adventure

1925 Flying hooves

1925 ridin 'thunder

1925 Don Dare Devil

1925 The Red Rider

1925 The White Outlaw

1925 Bustin 'Thru

1925 Hidden loot

1925 Two-fisted Jones

1926 the demon

1926 A six-shot romance

1926 The Border Sheriff

1926 Looking for trouble

1926 The Fighting Peacemaker

1926 The Last Frontier

1926 The Wild Horse Stampede

1926 Red Hot Leather

1927 Rough and ready

1927 The Western Whirlwind

1927 The Wandering Ranger

1927 Smiling Guns

1927 Daring Men

1927 The three fighters

1927 Heroes of Nature

1929 Forbidden path

1932 Gold

1932 Outlaw Justice

1932 Law and lawless

1933 Via Pony Express

1933 Arms Act

1933 Trouble Busters.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hoxie

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*The lady who designed the Param Vir Chakra (PVC).* The Param Vir Chakra was designed by Savitri Khanolkar, a Swiss national, whose real name was Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros, married to an Indian army officer Vikram Ramji Khanolkar. She was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland to a Hungarian father & Russian mother. Her father André de Maday was a Professor of Sociology at Geneva University, while her mother, Marthe Hentzelt, taught at the Rosseau Institute. In 1929, she met Vikram Khanolkar, a young Indian Army cadet, undergoing training at Sandhurst, who had come to Switzerland for a break. She was still a teenager then, however both fell in love, though Vikram was much older to her. She came to India in 1932, though her father was not too keen on it & married Vikram in Lucknow. She changed her name to Savitri Bai after marriage. Inspite of her European background she quickly adapted to the Hindu tradition. She became a vegetarian, learnt to speak fluent Marathi, Hindi & Sanskrit & also learnt Indian music, dance & painting. She called herself an European with an Indian soul & never liked being called a foreigner. She had a deep interest in the Hindu Puranas, which she read extensively, as well as studied India's ancient history & it's legends. It was due to this Major Hira Lal Atal, first indigenous Adjutant General of independent India, asked her help in designing the Param Vir Chakra. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the Puranas, Savitri Bai thought of Rishi Dadichi, who gave up his own body for Indra to make the deadly Vajra or thunderbolt. She came up with the design of double Vajra, a common Tibetan motif then. The Param Vir Chakra, is cast in bronze with a radius of 13/8 inch. In the centre, on a raised circle, is the Ashoka stambh, surrounded by four replicas of Indra's Vajra, flanked by swords. Incidentally the first recipient of PVC, Major Somnath Sharma, was the brother in law of Savitri Bai's elder daughter Kumudini, who died while fighting at the Battle of Badgam during the 1948 War with Pakistan. She also did a lot of social work, helping the families of soldiers killed in war, as well as partition refugees. After her husband passed away in 1952, https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp_Fp_DhkW/?igshid=1xf911kzfzd3b