dir. Sam Green - Short doc surrounding Mark Rudd's clear glasses that came to Sam's door from a time when the world was different.
KONTENT FILMS
30 July 2010
CLEAR GLASSES | A Short by Sam Green
dir. Sam Green - Short doc surrounding Mark Rudd's clear glasses that came to Sam's door from a time when the world was different.
KONTENT FILMS
29 July 2010
28 July 2010
27 July 2010
26 July 2010
Mirror Mirror | 1948
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
-St. Jerome
23 July 2010
22 July 2010
21 July 2010
Roy Orbison | Running Scared 1965
Rare clip of Roy Orbison, and his band The Candymen, taken from a Dutch Tv Show from 1965. The concert was from the Singer Concert Zaal in Laren, Holland, during their European tour.
20 July 2010
George Barris vs Supervan | 1977
The Super Van was re-built for the movie “Super Van” in the early 70’s. It started out as the Love Machine in the late 60’s, made out of a Dodge Sportsman Van. Super Van was example of the ultimate in futuristic motoring with solar energy. A six foot U shape boudoir sofa is the center of the entertainment console area, using a new flamboyant blue and orange burnished cotton material. The interior utilized Van Stuff accessories, with Perkins seat panels and Cole snack trays for added luxury pleasures. Musical sounds from a Craig stereo flow through quad speakers and dual 40 channel CB units. Wild music bars transform the tones to visual colored lights.
A plastic servateria slides our for easy access to refreshments. The number two compartment contains a monitor phone with intercom system. In the center, a Panasonic colored television and video units offers another choice of entertainment. Another compartment houses a Panasonic recorder for all taping and playback. Solar Power and electric panels by Sensor Technology, Inc., and PDC Labs, have solar battery and electronic system. A unique computerized lighting circuit with switches, actuates the electronic system to provide more battery power from the solar cells.
The exterior finish color is coordinated by the concept of Burnt Orange Sunset Pearls of Essence, and then blended to a bright sky blue candy, sprayed in 40 coats of lacquer.
More George Barris
18 July 2010
Eyewear of the Newport Jazz Festival | 1958
Anita O'Day sings Sweet Georgia Brown, Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. As the camera pans across the audience, you will experience the greatest collection of mid-century eyewear ever to be captured on film.
16 July 2010
15 July 2010
Who's That Girl? Pretty Maids All in a Row 1948
Who's That Girl? girls being photographed by a masked photographer, 1948.
14 July 2010
13 July 2010
12 July 2010
Who's That Girl? | Light Mask Bondage of 1948
Lovely gameshow contestants of the 1948 televised program, Who's That Girl?
09 July 2010
07 July 2010
Peter & Gordon vs Mid-Century Calderesque Sculpture | A World Without Love 1965
A World Without Love, Peter & Gordon, 1965
06 July 2010
California Boys | Mel Roberts vs Jimmy Stone
Jimmy Stone photographed by Mel Roberts, California BoysThe work of Mel Roberts showcases the male physique blossoming amidst Southern California’s most breathtaking landscapes between 1959 and 1980. From Mulholland Drive and Point Dume to Palm Springs and the Angeles Crest National Forest, Roberts’ Rolleiflex embraces a spirit of wholesome masculinity and a vision of man in the natural environment.
Roberts was openly gay when he was drafted to the United States Air Force during WWII. He met his first lover during basic training, and continued to serve as a cameraman in the South Pacific. After leaving the service, Roberts graduated from USC Film School and worked as a cinematographer and film editor through the 1950’s with projects at Columbia, Universal and United Artists.
Roberts also founded the California branch of the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights activist group in the country. Meetings were held in Roberts’ home, an environment of free love energized by drugs, music and male bonding. It is among these friends and lovers that Mel Roberts began his career in male erotica.
Because frontal male nudity was considered obscene, and commercial color processing photo labs could not legally develop such content, Roberts learned to develop color photos in his home. He soon became one of the most prominent male photographers of the period, with his work being published internationally. Between 1977 and 79, Roberts was the target of two LAPD raids on his home studio, with police confiscating everything, from darkroom equipment to mailing lists, for over a year. In 1981, shortly before the AIDS crisis broke, Roberts put down his camera.
In the summer of 2007 Mel Roberts passed away in Los Angeles, California. At the time of his death, he resided in the same home in Bel Air in which he lived in for over 50 years. Many of the photographs in his books, magazines and videos were shot in the house and around the back garden.
Don Anderson photographed by Mel Roberts
Roberts was openly gay when he was drafted to the United States Air Force during WWII. He met his first lover during basic training, and continued to serve as a cameraman in the South Pacific. After leaving the service, Roberts graduated from USC Film School and worked as a cinematographer and film editor through the 1950’s with projects at Columbia, Universal and United Artists.
Roberts also founded the California branch of the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights activist group in the country. Meetings were held in Roberts’ home, an environment of free love energized by drugs, music and male bonding. It is among these friends and lovers that Mel Roberts began his career in male erotica.
Because frontal male nudity was considered obscene, and commercial color processing photo labs could not legally develop such content, Roberts learned to develop color photos in his home. He soon became one of the most prominent male photographers of the period, with his work being published internationally. Between 1977 and 79, Roberts was the target of two LAPD raids on his home studio, with police confiscating everything, from darkroom equipment to mailing lists, for over a year. In 1981, shortly before the AIDS crisis broke, Roberts put down his camera.
In the summer of 2007 Mel Roberts passed away in Los Angeles, California. At the time of his death, he resided in the same home in Bel Air in which he lived in for over 50 years. Many of the photographs in his books, magazines and videos were shot in the house and around the back garden.
Don Anderson photographed by Mel Roberts
05 July 2010
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