X Minus One - Child's Play

 

William Tenn.

http://www.oldtimeradioreview.com/x-minus-one---c.html

I cut down trees, I wear high heels Suspendies and a bra I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my dear Papa

 

Is there anybody out there?

 

It's a big, a big hard sun, beating on the big people, in the big hard world.

 

Happy New Year

 

1977-78. New from the Museum of Classic Chicago Television.

Sprite

 

1985 aliens.

What Happened to Peking Man?

 

Early hominid fossils lost in China in 1941.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mystery-of-the-lost-peking-man-fossils-solved-166415409/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man

In 1941, to safeguard them during the war, the Zhoukoudian human fossils—representing at least 40 different individuals—and artefacts were deposited into 2 wooden footlockers and were to be transported by the United States Marine Corps from the Peking Union Medical College to the SS President Harrison which was to dock at Qinhuangdao Port (near the Marine basecamp Camp Holcomb), and eventually arrive at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Unfortunately, the ship was attacked by Japanese warships en route to Qinhuangdao, and ran aground. Though there have been many attempts to locate the crates—including offering large cash rewards—it is unknown what happened to them after they left the college. Marine Richard Bowen recalled finding a box filled with bones while digging a foxhole one night next to some stone barracks in Qinhuangdao, while the city was under siege by the CCP Eighth Route Army who were under fire from Nationalist gunboats (a conflict of the Chinese Civil War). According to Mr. Wang Qingpu who had written a report for the Chinese government on the history of the port, if Bowen's story is accurate, the most probable location of the bones is 39°55′4″N 119°34′0″E underneath roads, a warehouse, or a parking lot.

Logan's Run

 

CBS 1977-78. 14 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_%28TV_series%29

The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (Part 2)

 

1754.  Frutex &c.; Vipera Aquatica,The Water-Viper.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-natural-history-of-carolina-florida-and-the-bahama-islands#/?tab=about&scroll=106

Turdus Rhomboidalis, The Tang; Turdus &c., The Yellow Fish.

Tapia &c.; Cancer terrestris, The Land-Crab.

James E. Gunn, RIP

 

He was 97. I have a couple volumes of the Road to Science Fiction anthologies he edited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Gunn_(writer)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-e-gunn-science-fiction-author-and-scholar-dies-at-97

Star Trek

 1977 bumper.

Night Flight

 
Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Cliffs Hotel, Cheddar, England.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002696527/

Svengoolie: Valley of the Dragons (1961)

 

Dragons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Dragons_(film)

Trailers From Hell.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/27987/valley-of-the-dragons#articles-reviews?articleId=1008211

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055583/

Merry Christmas in the TARDIS

 

Back on the old Observation Deck, I once had something to say about Doctor Who comics and that got me thinking about the place it all started, TV Comic. Except it got a bit twisted and I've never had all the information available, so it went on a back burner and just fermented in the drafts.

Merry Christmas

 

1979.

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n roll

 

 

I Think I'm Just Happy

 

In spite of his self loathing, Kurt Cobain was a handsome motherfucker. 

Escape - The Cave

 

Christmas ep.

https://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/12/escape---the-ca.html

Christmas Eve on MonsterVision

 

TNT.

ROM: The Space Knight

 

1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_the_Space_Knight

A Very Joe Bob Christmas

 

Vimeo clip. Gremlins and Pet Shop. MonsterVision.

https://vimeo.com/100583326

Christmas subjects. Christmas tree at Lafayette Square, horizontal

 

1920. Horydczak, Theodor, photographer. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019684965/

Howard the Duck (1986)

 

Duck. 

Playing now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_the_Duck_(film)

https://film.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-94-howard-the-duck-1798213267

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78156/11-far-out-facts-about-howard-duck

G.I. Joe Adventure Team: Search for the Stolen Idol

 

1971.

Xanadu (1980)

 

CBS promo 1984. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(film)

Frogger

 

1983 Atari. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 Promo slide. (Editor's Note screenshot only as that whole Youtube channel got deleted.)

The Great Comet of 1811

 

Napoleon's Comet. Also in War and Peace.

At the midpoint of War and Peace, Tolstoy describes the character of Pierre observing this “enormous and brilliant comet [...] which was said to portend all kinds of woes and the end of the world”. The comet was popularly thought to have portended Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (even being referred to as “Napoleon’s Comet”) and the War of 1812, among other events.

 The year 1811 turned out to be particularly fine for wine production, and merchants marketed “Comet Wine” at high prices for many years afterwards. The film Year of the Comet, a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film, is based on this premise and tells the story of the pursuit of a contemporarily discovered bottle of wine from the year of the Great Comet, bottled for Napoleon. The film stars Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Daly and French film actor Louis Jourdan (his last film before retiring).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1811 

https://darkmattersalot.com/2012/10/05/1811-1816-when-the-earth-had-a-brush-with-the-devil/

https://history.hanover.edu/texts/1811/Web/Topic-Comet.html 

Santa Medley

 

Santa Gifs.

Load of Xmas trees, N.Y.

 

c1910-15.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014689328/

Star Trek Tricorder by Mego

 

1976.

Eel River bridge, Humboldt Co., Calif.

 

c1912.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660511/

Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle

 

1975. I got this for Christmas.

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/11/the-greatest-toy-ever-made-is.html

Holmes & Yoyo

 

1976-77 ABC. Promos. 13 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_%26_Yoyo

https://www.metv.com/stories/do-you-remember-the-show-holmes-yoyo

The Twilight Zone - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

 

Coming up a little later on Me-TV. Christmas episode 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Exit

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734569/

https://www.metv.com/schedule/

The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (Part 1)

 

1754. From the New York Public Library Digital Collections. 

Accipiter Piscatorius, The Fishing Hawk.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-natural-history-of-carolina-florida-and-the-bahama-islands#/?tab=about

Noctua aurita minor, The little Owl.

Quercus Anpotius, Ilex Marilandica folio longo angusto salicis, Willow Oak; Picus Maximus rostro Albo, Largest White-Billed Wood-pecker.

Throwback Saturday

 

Giant open thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_I_Married_an_Axe_Murderer

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/so-i-married-an-axe-murderer-1993

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/552779/facts-about-so-i-married-an-axe-murderer-mike-myers

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

 

Directed by Ken Russell. Len Deighton book. Third Harry Palmer. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley. I have this DVD and I am a fan of the movie. Also have the book. Snowy location work in Finland was very nice. Cinematography by Billy Williams. Oscar Homolka memorably appears here and in Funeral in Berlin as Colonel Stok. Homolka will also be seen tonight on Svengoolie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Brain

Title sequence.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/billion-dollar-brain-1968

Trailers From Hell.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17451/billion-dollar-brain/#articles-reviews?articleId=201925

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/18805/billion-dollar-brain/

Fidelity Electronics Chess

 

1979.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Fidelity_Electronics

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/chess-in-fiction-and-film.html

Pepsi

 

1984.

Waterspout

 

1896.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004680215/

Star Trek

 

1982 bumper.

The World According to Carp

 

Carp. 

https://www.mediaite.com/news/why-is-literally-everyone-on-twitter-tweeting-about-carp-and-whose-carp-is-that-whats-happening/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=carp#

Star Wars Holiday Special

 

1978 CBS promo. With Flying High.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special

 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72863/dark-side-oral-history-star-wars-holiday-special

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

 

Next. In CinemaScope. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_(film)

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1792trif.html

100% Weird promo.

Panoramic view of Tower of London & Tower Bridge

 

c1909. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007663151/

Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

 

Next. This is actually the late movie. I know this movie from the robot Gif that was in my robot movie collection. There was and is a print on Vimeo, where I originally watched it. And elsewhere now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Girl_from_Mars

http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/devilgirlfrommars.htm

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2121femm.html

Magnavox Odyssey

 

1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

Scrooged (1988)

 

I have started to watch this one more often. I had not seen it much. Trading Places was last night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooged

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/scrooged-1988

https://thegoldenhornblog.home.blog/2020/12/18/scrooged-1988/

Golden Horn (WordPress) version. Getting harder to find movies to add. About 500 titles now.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71730/22-fun-facts-about-scrooged

The Evil of Frankenstein

 

 

1971 Saturday Night Movie promo.

New York & bridges from Brooklyn

c1913.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/build-bridge-out-of-her.html

The panoramic photography series will continue. I had barely even dented it.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662379/