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TINTYPE TUESDAY: When Hollywood Publicity Shots… Go Wrong! (But Feel So Right)
sistercelluloid ♦ July 22, 2025 ♦ 3 Comments
Welcome to another edition of TINTYPE TUESDAY! In today’s episode, we salute those relentlessly cheery classic-era flacks, who churned out whimsical publicity pix that gave you no clue what the movie was actually about. These are some of my faves; please feel free to drop your own pix in Comments and I’ll fold them in (with …
MOMA Launches a Spectacular Series: Universal Restorations & Rediscoveries, 1928-1937
sistercelluloid ♦ May 8, 2016 ♦ 1 Comment
Friday the 13th just got lucky. That’s when the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) kicks off its fabulous series, “Universal Pictures: Restorations and Rediscoveries, 1928-1937,” which runs from May 13 through June 15. With several gorgeous prints newly struck by the studio, “this seemed a good opportunity to look at the Carl Laemmle Jr. years—which …
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