Coming! Aitken & Watson Mesmeric Co. will commence a series of entertainments in mesmerism!

 

1885.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636875/

[Laboratory]

 

1936.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882751/

WOR, Bewitched Promo, 1984

 

The Mad Executioners

 

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/833/rec/50

The bull trout (Salmo eriox).

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-03f2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Rado Watches, 80's Sci-Fi Commercial, Tourneau Corner

 

The Ankh.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d20c47c-246a-d7f9-e040-e00a18060c58

Electricity Building

 

c1901. Night view at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002706234/

Adonis blue butterfly.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-6573-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Svengoolie: The Devil's Rain (1975)

 

I can't be sure if I've seen this or not. I think yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Rain_(film)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-devils-rain-1975

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-devils-rain-one-of-the-strangest-horror-movies-of-all-time/

https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=566

MST3K Turkey Day Marathon

 

Williamsburg Bridge, New-York

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-8c29-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Suspense - The Body Snatchers

 

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

 

Youtube has a bunch of good quality Godzilla movies new Free With Ads. Including the Japanese original version of the first movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidorah,_the_Three-Headed_Monster

http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewse-g/ghidrahthethreeheadedmonster.htm

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2333ghid.html

https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2768

[Woman with donkey in automobile]

 

1931.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016879339/

CBS Video Games - Wizard of Wor - With John Madden (Commercial, 1983)

 

The Addams Family (1991) - Teaser Trailer (rare)

 

Thanksgiving.

NBC Thanksgiving & Today Show promo 1977

 

Sells-Floto Circus poster

 

1915-30.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4edb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

[Laboratory]

 

1922.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016886700/

KTXL Spots/"Old Dracula" Promo/Matinee Movie Open - 1980

 

Witchcraft; The Horror Of It All

 

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/3405/rec/47

Talking Turkey

 

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/shrimp-mirliton.html

Dodo

 

1809.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-515a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Abraxas.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d20c47c-2468-d7f9-e040-e00a18060c58

[Weather vane/lightning rod]

 

1931-32.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016889825/

Purple hairstreak butterfly.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-656d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The X-Files - Kill Switch

 

Season five DVD. Ep. 11. William Gibson script. Aired February 15, 1998.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

https://www.avclub.com/the-x-files-kill-switch-millennium-goodbye-char-1798168545

Svengoolie: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

 

Directed by Ishiro Honda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_vs._Godzilla

Trailers From Hell.

https://screenrant.com/godzilla-kong-1962-fight-loss-reason-toho/

Day after Thanksgiving promo.

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/godzilla-vs-kong-comparing-1962-2021-versions/

Florida East Coast Hotel Co., Long Key fishing camp

 

c1912.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660774/

Puppet Master (1989)

 

Directed by David Schmoeller. William Hickey. Paul Le Mat. Barbara Crampton. This one I've seen too. Long time ago. I remembered the screwhead puppet. 

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

http://craneshot.blogspot.com/2013/08/evil-comes-in-all-sizes.html

Pedestrians on the Promenade

 

c1895. Brooklyn Bridge.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d0c56900-9f3a-0132-774d-58d385a7bbd0

Dollman (1991)

 

Directed by Albert Pyun. Tim Thomerson. Jackie Earle Haley. I got this, Puppet Master (1989) and Puppet Masters (1994) confused. I've seen this. Found on Youtube.

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

https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=12103

Suspense - Till Death Do Us Part

 

Colo. Springs, Colo.

 

c1913.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662000/

The Puppet Masters (1994)

 

Directed by Stuart Orme. Donald Sutherland, Keith David, Julie Warner, Will Patton, Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto. Found on Youtube. Never seen it.

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

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/4765/puppet-masters-the/

Armoured automobile, with balloon gun

 

1909. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014683224/

Nintendo Game And Watch (Commercial, 1983)

 

Congo (1995)

 

Directed by Frank Marshall. Free With Ads on Youtube. I read the Michael Crichton book as a teen and I still have that paperback. I wish Frank Marshall had directed more movies.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/congo-1995

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-strange-prehistory-of-1995s-congo/

https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/183-how-congo-tried-and-failed-to-walk-in-the-footstep/

https://www.avclub.com/it-s-no-jurassic-park-but-fellow-crichton-adaptation-c-1846771406

Walter L. Main 3 ring trained wild animal shows circus poster

 

1890-1904.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4ed5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

[Unidentified man, likely photographer George Stacy, sitting at a table, looking through a microscope]

 

c1861-66. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016653157/

Dune Commercial, Midnight Preview, December 1984

 

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

 

Directed by Don Bluth. Just starting on this-TV.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-secret-of-nimh-1982

https://www.avclub.com/the-secret-of-nimh-1798202749

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87405/12-facts-about-secret-nimh

Pteridomania

 

Fern Fever. "Pteridomania was a Victorian craze for ferns." 

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

The zeal of Victorian collectors led to significant reductions in the wild populations of a number of the rarer species. Oblong Woodsia came under severe threat in Scotland, especially in the Moffat Hills. This area once had the most extensive UK populations of the species but there now remain only a few small colonies whose future remains under threat. The related Alpine Woodsia suffered a similar fate, although the risks were not all to the plants. John Sadler, later a curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, nearly lost his life obtaining a fern tuft on a cliff near Moffat, and a botanical guide called William Williams died collecting Alpine Woodsia in Wales in 1861. His body was found at the foot of the cliff where Edward Lhwyd had first collected the species nearly two centuries earlier. In her botanical guidebook and memoir Hardy Ferns (1865), the writer Nona Bellairs called for laws to protect ferns from over-collection: "We must have 'Fern laws', and preserve them like game".

The Killarney Fern, considered to be one of Europe's most threatened plants and once found on Arran, was thought to be extinct in Scotland due to the activities of 19th century collectors, but the species has since been discovered on Skye in its gametophyte form. Dickie's Bladder-fern, which was discovered growing on base-rich rocks in a sea cave on the coast of Kincardineshire in 1838.By 1860 the original colony seemed to have been extirpated, although the species has recovered and today there is a population of more than 100 plants there, where it grows in a roof fissure.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-victorian-fern-hunting-craze-led-to-adventure-romance-and-crime

19th Century fernery at the Geelong Botanic Gardens in the city of Geelong Victoria, Australia

The Sadist

 

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/id/787/rec/42

Trochilus mango

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-d9e8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99