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The significance of the battlestar is change

DVD box art for The Cylons of the Lambs
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Advertising movies

Eleven More

Here’s another batch of posters from my treasure hunt. There are more I didn’t photograph yet.

Poster for "The Phantom Tollbooth"

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970). A lot of the kid posters are labeled “MGM Children’s Matinees,” which were films re-released between 1970 and 1972 to be played as matinees before current films.

This trailer even has the “Children’s Matinees” tag!
Poster for "Dr. Crippen"

Dr. Crippen (1963)

The full movie is on YouTube.
Poster for "Get Carter"

Get Carter (1971)

Poster for "Village of the Damned" and "Children of the Damned"

Village of the Damned (1960) & Children of the Damned (1964)

Posters for "World in my Pocket" and "Looking for Love"

World In My Pocket (1961) & Looking For Love (1964)

I couldn’t find any usable video from World In My Pocket (though there’s a dubbed version on a sketchy Russian movie site). All I have is the Wikipedia article. So I’ll compensate with two clips about Looking For Love.

Posters for "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "Rhino!"

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) and Rhino!

…and the full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZkM9fjzxg

Poster for "The Alphabet Murders"

The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Featuring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot.

Full movie:

Poster for "The Scarlet Coat"

The Scarlet Coat (1955)

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Advertising movies

Today’s treasure

I’m a digital media teacher. Today, I met with a bunch of fellow elective teachers for an all-day planning meeting. We normally meet at the district offices, but today we were invited to the Warner Bros. lot. In the middle of the meeting we were taken to Stage 24. It used to be where they filmed Friends, but today it was mostly empty.

MOSTLY empty; it now held this:

The floor of Stage 24 partially covered by rows of cardboard boxes and loose stacks of papers.

The stage had boxes and stacks of promotional posters from Warner movies from the past sixty years. “We’re going to get rid of all this. Take as much as you like!”

You know how you sometimes get a dessert that’s so delicious you keep eating well after you are full? That was me with these posters. I spent HOURS digging through them. I took a bunch for my classroom, and more for me. I left behind a ton of things that looked amazing but were not appropriate for school. Most of the materials were either half sheet posters or publicity packs, but there were some full size posters as well.

Here are a few of the things I found. I added trailers if I found them.

Doc Savage poster

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), starring Ron Ely, AKA “TV Tarzan.”

Deadly China Doll (1973)

The Impossible Years (1968)

(A scene, not a trailer)

A man called Dagger (1967)

THEME BY STEVE ALLEN!

Two posters for The Bad Seed (1956)

“A PICTURE OF EMOTIONAL EXTREMES and SNSITIVE DEPTH!”

Chamber of Horrors (1966)

“The first movie with its own FEAR FLASHER and HORROR HORN!”

The Body (1970) – music by ROger Waters!

“A deeply intimate feature-length film exploring the physical experience of being human.”

The Time Machine (1960) promotional materials.

Octopussy (1980) – Not the worst James Bond movie, but certainly close.

Time After Time (1979). I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said “My name is H.G. Wells. I have come here in a time machine of my own creation!”

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972). A Brian De Palma movie!

Rock & Rule (1983)

Debbie Harry! Cheap Trick! Lou Reed! Iggy Pop! Cartoon Animals!

Mayerling (1968). No real trailer available, but here’s a “fan” edit.

Not exactly a fan: “This movie is laughably bad. I really only watched it so I could look at Omar Sharif and honestly they did him dirty with that hairstyle.”

The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964) promotional pictures. I’d say this is the greatest film about a man who turns into a fish and joins the navy ever made.

The transformation scene.

Hot Potato (1976) and Enter the Dragon (1973).

Amazing that Bruce Lee got THIRD billing in the original trailer.

The Gumball Rally (1976)

Raul Julia’s finest film.

O Lucky Man! (1973) promotional pictures.

Slander (1957)

I think I’m getting this one framed.

I have a car full of posters like those, but I definitely left these two behind:

Hercules (1983)

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

“Sure, Peter Sellers has been dead for three year, but that doesn’t have to stop us!”
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Advertising Mastodon Photoshop

Magenta House

I took one of the things I made for my magazine (seen here and here) and reverse engineered it to look like a scan.

An ad for the Magenta Record Hut. Where else can you find Beef Pig?

Really, I’m just using this as an excuse to make a link for testing Fediverse connectivity.

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Mastodon

Masto-gone

Why did you stop working, ActivityPub and Friends plugins?

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Uncategorized

Published, part 2

You know what? Don’t even worry about that last post. Here’s a link to a PDF of all the inside pages.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rkLKVYQRmOhs1omnm0SWAER1ofSxTUV9/view?usp=sharing

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Photoshop

Now I can pretend I’m a published author.

I’m thinking about having my students make a magazine, so I made a goofy test book. I’m putting a link to it here in case any of you like to spend too much money on stuff. I set my profit to zero, so all of your money will go straight to the big scary corporation.

Most of it is stuff I’ve already posted. I’ll probably end up putting the rest of it up as well, so you should probably just wait.

https://www.blurb.com/b/11527636-robot-ponies

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Music Photoshop

Hounds of Luke

Please enjoy "Hounds of Luke" AKA "Kate Bush with my face."

I apologize in advance for all nightmares generated by this image.
Greatest Photoshop ever?

I just got a Mac Mini. I had forgotten how easy it is to use Garageband to make terrible music. Please enjoy this interpretation of a classic song from the eighties currently enjoying oversaturation thanks to a retro horror television show.

I’m sure this is how Kate Bush wanted this to sound.
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Advertising Photoshop

Real Ultimate Power

I wonder whatever happened to him.

When I was really working out, I’d start the day with a cup of KTPM, run thirty miles, have two more cups, lift for a few hours (either upper body, legs, or tongue), have eight more cups, then go right to sleep. I have never been healthier than I was at my healthiest!

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Advertising Photoshop

It’s Big!

A 1947 ad for the classic Big Sandwich before they went commercial. The most beautiful woman in the world holds one aloft. Glowing text gushes over the wonders of Big Sandwich. All told, seven people raise three Big Sandwich to the air as if to say WE DENY YOUR GOD.
Have YOU accepted Big Sandwich?