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Today we’ll explore Fred Astaire's rare short film Tap Hot.
It is not so much a film about a secret agent, as it is a cover for actual secret agents to share secret coded messages. It is credited with helping to win WWII.
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It is not so much a film about a secret agent, as it is a cover for actual secret agents to share secret coded messages. It is credited with helping to win WWII.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today we’ll explore Fred Astaire's rare short film Tap Hot.
It is not so much a film about a secret agent, as it is a cover for actual secret agents to share secret coded messages. It is credited with helping to win WWII.
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It is not so much a film about a secret agent, as it is a cover for actual secret agents to share secret coded messages. It is credited with helping to win WWII.
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TAKE OFF POWER
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
TAKE OFF POWER
"Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death.
Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death;
Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it."
-Kenneth Branagh #BOTD
Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death;
Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it."
-Kenneth Branagh #BOTD
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death.
Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death;
Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it."
-Kenneth Branagh #BOTD
Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death;
Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it."
-Kenneth Branagh #BOTD
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Recycled Xmas idea
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Recycled Xmas idea
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Tommy Ivo, Sanita Pelkey in skeleton costumes
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tommy Ivo, Sanita Pelkey in skeleton costumes
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
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Exotic Footwear Advent Calendar
Day Ten
Day Ten
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Exotic Footwear Advent Calendar
Day Ten
Day Ten
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Karl Valentin, Karl Valentin as Loreley, ca. 1916.
Colored photograph on cardboard, 5 ¼ × 3 ½ inches.
Colored photograph on cardboard, 5 ¼ × 3 ½ inches.
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Karl Valentin, Karl Valentin as Loreley, ca. 1916.
Colored photograph on cardboard, 5 ¼ × 3 ½ inches.
Colored photograph on cardboard, 5 ¼ × 3 ½ inches.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I had that dream again
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I had that dream again
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Sammy Davis Jr in rehearsal for Batman
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Sammy Davis Jr in rehearsal for Batman
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kumimono (組物), the complex wooden bracket systems used in Japanese temples and shrines. The style with vibrant painted details is more typical of Korean or Chinese architecture, while Japanese architecture tends to use more natural, unpainted wood, though some older temples in Japan do feature these
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
kumimono (組物), the complex wooden bracket systems used in Japanese temples and shrines. The style with vibrant painted details is more typical of Korean or Chinese architecture, while Japanese architecture tends to use more natural, unpainted wood, though some older temples in Japan do feature these
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Recycled xmas gift suggestion
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Recycled xmas gift suggestion
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Bring Me The Skull Of St. Thomas Aquinas is the Peckinpah film we didn't know we needed.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Bring Me The Skull Of St. Thomas Aquinas is the Peckinpah film we didn't know we needed.
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup is a Japanese 27 minute short experimental film made by Shūji Terayama, 1971
📽 Excerpt from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
📽 Excerpt from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Emperor Tomato Ketchup is a Japanese 27 minute short experimental film made by Shūji Terayama, 1971
📽 Excerpt from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
📽 Excerpt from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
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The age of man is over.
North Atlantic alert: orcas are now targeting commercial ships in what experts describe as increasingly coordinated attacks
A clipped voice from a nearby cargo vessel, then the words no one up here used to say out loud: “We’ve got orcas on the rudder.” On the bridge of a North
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The age of man is over.
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A German Christmas ornament catalogue from 1934 www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A German Christmas ornament catalogue from 1934 www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...
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Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1986
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1986
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Posing as an oiran (courtesan). Dochu-Ichiyo at Zakura Matsuri, Japan. Photography by ajpscs on Flickr
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Posing as an oiran (courtesan). Dochu-Ichiyo at Zakura Matsuri, Japan. Photography by ajpscs on Flickr
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Cold medicine in morning light
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Cold medicine in morning light
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Cat's Cradles, And Other String Figures. Penguin, First UK Edition edition, 22 Nov. 1979 www.catscradlecollective.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Cat's Cradles, And Other String Figures. Penguin, First UK Edition edition, 22 Nov. 1979 www.catscradlecollective.com