Shots of John Lennon and Paul McCartney taken by TV Times photographers during a recording at Granada TV studios in 1965 (but never published).
Part of a massive cache of nearly half a million images from the worlds of sport, music and entertainment recently discovered stored in boxes at the British Film Institute in London.
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Where do you think you’re going, mister?
This next one’s for you…
Vintage quizzes from ‘The Girl Friend and the Boy Friend’ Magazine May 1953.
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(Cover Image: Girlography)
Five rejected poster designs by graphic designer Saul Bass (and the final, Kubrick approved design) for The Shining with handwritten notes by Stanley Kubrick.
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Reppy writes:
Squee [digging Bob Dylan] at Slane in 1984
70,000 attend festival at Slane Castle (RTE News)
P-Liz photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1942.
VE Day: 8th May 1945.
US And Europe Mark VE Day Anniversary (BBC)
UPDATE: The Old Boy comments:
Here’s the Irish Times cover. The text was approved by the censor; the arrangement of photographs in a ‘V’ was very definitely not.
Film from 1895 to 2015, or thereabouts – a personal tribute in seven minutes by Joris Faucon Grimaud.
Top grade in the Swiss schools system at the time was a 6.
He got into Zürich Poly on the basis of his science grades.
In fairness.
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(H/T: Nelly Bergman)
Celebrated historical photographs painstakingly recreated as miniature dioramas by Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger. What started as a joke in 2012 has since evolved into an ongoing project.
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