Observation Deck: 2021

Friday, December 31, 2021

Papilio X. 1-4. Bairdii.

1888-97.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-6b74-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

3rd Rock From the Sun - Dick's New Year's Speech - Se04E09

Svengoolie: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Directed by Eugene Lourie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_from_20,000_Fathoms

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s994fathom.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83232/11-deep-facts-about-beast-20000-fathoms

http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/beastfrom20000fathoms.htm

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Tamesi Bridge

1880-97.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797549/

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Big Goodbye

Season one, episode 12. Dixon Hill, Private Investigator. Aired Jan. 11, 1988. IMDb has this episode listed as number eleven and says it aired Jan. 9. Lawrence Tierney, Dick Miller.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708787/

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

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/revisiting-star-trek-tng-the-big-goodbye/

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Automobile salvage business. Muskogee, Oklahoma

1939.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017783886/

Apple Jacks - "Video Game" (Commercial, 1982)

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Coming under canvas, George the magician and a full supporting cast of wonder workers and funmakers presenting a spectacle rich in scenic and electrical effects surpassing in splendor and magnitude all that has before it.

c1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636890/

Monday, December 27, 2021

[Scientific laboratory]

1905-15. Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1863-1944, photographer

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018681234/

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Arachnophobia (1990)

Directed by Frank Marshall. Jeff Daniels. Small town spider infestation. Wine cellar foreshadowing.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/arachnophobia-1990

https://collider.com/why-arachnophobia-movie-is-good/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66197/18-creepy-facts-about-arachnophobia

https://www.avclub.com/a-creepy-crawly-counterpart-to-jaws-1798279946

The Time Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(1960_film)

Dog fish or mud fish, male.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3909-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday, December 25, 2021

The Menat.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7d20c47c-2488-d7f9-e040-e00a18060c58

Return of John Glenn's space capsule

[Washington, D.C.], 2/21/1962

https://www.loc.gov/item/2015650950/

Gremlins (1984)

Directed by Joe Dante. DVD I bought just for this time of year. Monster hit. Inspiring many imitators, most of which I've seen.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gremlins-1984

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/gremlins-1984-lookbackreview/

https://trailersfromhell.com/gremlins-4k-ultra-hd/

https://nerdist.com/article/gremlins-novelization-wackier-weird-movie/

https://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/837-gremlins-unleashed-cartoon-hell-on-frank-capras-am/

Merry Christmas

c1930s.

https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200216489/

Friday, December 24, 2021

Argynnis. I: 1-4. Diana.

1888-97. Butterflies of North America

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-6b4a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Thursday, December 23, 2021

1900. This view of the railroad bridge across the Dnieper River is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. The bridge was constructed by Amand Struve (1835--98), the engineer who also built Kiev's electric tram system and its central sewer system. Finished in 1870, the bridge was the first all-metal bridge across the Dnieper and one of the longest in the empire, spanning nearly a kilometer. Struve's bridge was the first in the empire built using the caisson method to lay the foundation and the first to use a decompression truss design. It stood on 13 piers across the river and survived World War I. The bridge was blown up in 1920 along with other Kiev bridges by Polish troops retreating from the city in the Russo--Polish War. The 25 views in Souvenir of Kiev are collotypes, made using a chemically-based printing process widely employed before the invention of offset lithography.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669055/

Suspense - The Burning Court

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

[Snowbound automobiles in New York City, 1917]

https://www.loc.gov/item/95504319/

Activision - "Action Games" (Commercial, 1982)

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Santa Medley

Found in the Kinja archive. I thought this was lost. The most involved Gif collection. I spent a couple of days working on this. Complete with Christmas music accompaniment.

Arpad Okay

12/19/15 9:59pm

This post is a-fucking-mazing.

Bowman the Wizard in his new marvelous entertainment of magic, mirth, mystery

1897.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014635596/

Monday, December 20, 2021

[Laboratory]

1936 February 15.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882041/

Tales from the Darkside WPIX Promo (1986)

Sunday, December 19, 2021

7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)

Directed by George Pal. Tony Randall. Gilbert Gottfried turned me on to this one. I liked the posters and the tacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Faces_of_Dr._Lao

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4536lao.html

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/308291/7-faces-of-dr-lao/#articles-reviews?articleId=66941

https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3883

The Incredible Petrified World

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053944/

Great or Common Paradise Bird.

1809. Zoological lectures delivered at the Royal institution in the years 1806 and 1807

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-514a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Stargate (1994)

Directed by Roland Emmerich. Free With Ads on Youtube. James Spader, Kurt Russell, Richard Kind.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stargate-1994

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/stargatepg13hinson_a019b2.htm

http://www.scifimoviepage.com/dvd/stargate-15th_anniv_bluray.html

Sawtooth Mountains near Stanley, Idaho

c1936.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007662257/

Spaceballs (1987)

Directed by Mel Brooks. Free With Ads on Youtube. John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Joan Rivers.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/spaceballs-1987

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/why-spaceballs-is-the-only-star-wars-spoof-we-need/

https://www.avclub.com/spaceballs-affectionately-takes-the-biggest-film-franch-1798286520

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65691/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-spaceballs

Fair Glacier from rim of Hell Canyon, Col.

c1921.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007661993/

The Wraith (1986)

Directed by Mike Marvin. Free With Ads on Youtube. Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, Nick Cassavetes, Randy Quaid. Clint Howard as Rughead stands out. Cassavetes is the biggest dick in movie history.

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