After the Fall | Men of Atomic Energy

Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Representative, Hiroshima, 1949

Shine Like Me | Scatman in '83

Scatman Crothers, 1983

Bowling Green | 1962

Donyale vs. Koalas | 1967

Fashion model Donyale Luna with Koalas at the Wildlife Sanctuary in Syndey, Australia (1967).

The Australian photo shoot with Donyale, center, in full length crotched dress.

Opticians of East Orange | Anspach Bros. Vintage

A completed frame order from the Anspach Brothers, an optical chain of New Jersey founded in 1895.

The first mayor of East Orange, Edward Bruen, bowtied and bespectacled, 1899.

Turn the Lights On | Candlelight Composition 1950

Fifties era college girls compose letters by candlelight, using an old india ink jar as a makeshift candleholder, 1950.

Strap-On & Strap-Off | Bras of 1946

Strapless and Standard Bras of 1946

What Should Have Happened to Baby Jane | New York Public Library, 1944

Woman inventor studies a doll at the NYC Public Library, 1944

Totally Inappropriate | NYC 1969

Shades of pink and otherwise, Streets of NYC, 1969

Crowd Pleasers | Eyewear of the Clay vs. Bonavena Fight, 1970

A few snapshots of the Madison Square Garden crowd at Clay vs. Bonavena, 1970.

The Artist at Work | 1946

A young Austrian girl at work in the studio, 1946

Rethinking the Granny Glasses | Sophia Loren, 1984

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

-Sophia Loren, 1984

Old Man Out | Peter Graves R.I.P

Peter Graves A.K.A. Jim Phelps

W.C. Handy & Bessie Smith PSA | St. Louis is Not For Lovers

Writing about the first time St Louis Blues was played (1914), composer W.C. Handy (pictured above) notes that "The one-step and other dances had been done to the tempo of Memphis Blues...When St Louis Blues was written the tango was in vogue. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightening strike. The dancers seemed electrified. Something within them came suddenly to life. An instinct that wanted so much to live, to fling its arms to spread joy, took them by the heels."

The following St. Louis Blues (1929) is a two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith. The early sound film features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition era singing the W. C. Handy standard, "St. Louis Blues". Handy co-authored the film and was the musical director. The film features a band that included James P. Johnson on piano, Thomas Morris and Joe Smith on cornet, as well as the Hall Johnson Choir with some thrilling harmonies at the end.

Bessie Smith performs W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues in 1929

I hate to see the ev'nin' sun go down
Hate to see the ev'nin' sun go down,
'cause my baby, he done left this town

Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
Feel tomorrow like I feel today,
I'll pack my trunk, make my getaway

St. Louis woman with her diamond rings
Pulls that man 'round by her apron strings,
't'want for powder and for store-bought hair

The man I love, would not gone nowhere,
got the St. Louis blues just as blue as I can be
That man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea,
or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me

Will to Power | Barbara Stanwyck in '33

Babyface (1933)

This movie is cited as being most responsible for the implementation of the private 'production code' in 1934. Barbara Stanwyck stars in this rags to riches story in pre-ww2 New York City, This clip contains two scenes cut from the final release, a breast grope and the entire rail yard 'exchange'. The Nietzsche speech here was also substantially changed. John Wayne has a small role here, as one of Stanwyck's early conquests.

The Secret to Success | Rod Steiger in '64

The Pawnbroker, 1964

The film was the first American movie to deal with the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor. It earned international acclaim for Rod Steiger and was among the first American movies to feature nudity during the Production Code and was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval.

Director Sidney Lumet initially had misgivings about Steiger being cast in the lead role. He felt that Steiger "was a rather tasteless actor — awfully talented, but completely tasteless in his choices." Lumet preferred James Mason for the role, and comic Groucho Marx was among the actors who had wanted to play the lead.

The film was controversial for depicting nude scenes in which actresses Linda Geiser and Thelma Oliver fully exposed their breasts. The scene with Oliver, who played a prostitute, was intercut with a flashback to the concentration camp, in which Nazerman is forced to see his wife (Geiser) forced into prostitution. The scenes resulted in conflict with the Motion Picture Association of America, which administered the Motion Picture Production Code.

The Association initially rejected the scenes showing bare breasts and a sex scene between Sanchez and Oliver, which it described as "unacceptably sex suggestive and lustful." On a 6-3 vote, the Motion Picture Association of America granted the film an "exception" conditional on "reduction in the length of the scenes which the Production Code Administration found unapprovable."

In The Money | Andy Mouse, 1986

Keith Haring Andy Mouse, 1986

Andy Mouse pays tribute to Haring's hero and mentor, Andy Warhol, to whom he was introduced following his second exhibition in New York at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1984. This historic encounter between Warhol and Haring brought together their mutual fascination with an “Art for Everybody,” and an admiration for Walt Disney.

Drawing on Warhol’s legacy, and similar to Disney, Haring created a world for both adults and children, in which art became a visual vocabulary and one that could be shared with everyone, as seen here on the animated canvas of Andy Mouse. Believing that cartoon figures could be an component of fine art, and regarding Andy Warhol and Walt Disney as heroes, Haring’s exuberant and enchanting Andy Mouse bonded together the work of these three significant artists.

The First 3-D Television | Hugo Gernsback in HD

TV Glasses by Inventor Hugo Gernsback, 1963

Hugo Gernsback was an Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, first published in 1926. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction".

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