Suspension Bridge Grand March

 

c1867. Print shows illustrated title page to sheet music for Suspension Bridge Grand March by Henry Mayer, which celebrates the opening of the John A. Roebling Bridge on the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001701355/

Lights Out - Little Old Lady

 

[Oregon - automobile in road beside fishing stream]

 

c1921.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2006688649/

Touch Me by Atari (Commercial, 1979)

 

Plant City, Florida, strawberry festival and carnival

 

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

[1939 Mar.?]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017754353/

Eerie Street

 

1971-73 horror host show with Alexander. Green Bay, Wisconsin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4782850/

https://milwaukeehorrorhosts.com/Green_Bay_hosts_inline.html

Organon, Inc., West Orange, New Jersey. Laboratory

 

Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971, photographer

Fellheimer & Wagner, client

1961 May 12.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018732105/

The Land That Time Forgot 1978 NBC Saturday Night At The Movies Intro

 

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

 

Vincent Price.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061014/

Collared Hedge Hog, Erinaceus collaris.

 

Illustrations of Indian zoology: chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ...

1830 - 1834

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-9f12-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday

 

Open thread.

[Reichenberg, the Jeschken, Bohemia, Austro-Hungary]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002708492/

WKBS-TV Philadelphia - Star Trek

 

1979 clip with commercials.

The zodiacal light: Observed February 20, 1876

 

Trouvelot, E. L. (Etienne Leopold) (Artist)

Date Issued: 1881 - 1882

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e81d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Papilio arcturus.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-64cb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Svengoolie: The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

 

Directed by Robert Florey. Peter Lorre. Curt Siodmak script. The disembodied hand story has been used many times.

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

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68266/the-beast-with-five-fingers#articles-reviews?articleId=33768

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4329fing.html

River rapids, bridge

 

c1922. Photograph shows the Chittenden Bridge over the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming.

Price, Albert M., 1873-1957, photographer

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017656405/

Quiet, Please - Clarissa

 

Elderly couple and their automobile "home"

 

Eating in front of auto equipped with bed; inside of building.

c1911 Oct. 2.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2005693324/

Parker Brothers - Reactor (Commercial, 1983)

 

Plant City, Florida, strawberry festival and carnival

 

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

[1939 Mar.?]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017754360/

The great Goldin presenting the tiger god

 

1913.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636894/

Louisiana. Ruston. Louisiana Industrial Institute and College biological laboratory

 

Photograph shows seven young women in laboratory with instructor.

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1920]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647927/

NBC promo Time Machine & Berenger's 1985

 

The X-Files - The Rain King

 

Season six DVD. Episode 8. Aired January 10, 1999. My birthday. A man in Kansas claims he can control the weather.

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

https://www.avclub.com/the-x-files-the-rain-king-millennium-human-essen-1798173632

Panorama from Hairpin Turn, Mohawk Trail

 

c1921. 1 photomechanical print : halftone ; 7 x 34.5 in.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660996/

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Yesterday's Enterprise

 

Season three, episode 15. Aired Feb. 19, 1990. This is one of the best episodes of the whole series. Two Enterprises, two crews, altered timelines, only Guinan notices something wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Enterprise

https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-yesterdays-enterprise-1798166000

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Enterprise_(episode)

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/revisiting-star-trek-tng-yesterdays-enterprise/

Crack in the World

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/

Recurvirostra occidentalis.

 

Date Issued: 1839

The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-8991-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Saturday

 

Look at the size of that open thread. I slept on the new sofa earlier and had coffee and watched Svengoolie. Kolchak on now on Me-TV.

Below is what I did just now as I lost everything I needed for the open thread. Aw!

Longtime readers will remember the Saturday open threads traditionally had Charles Grodin. No.

Popeye (1980)

 

Directed by Robert Altman. Free with Ads on Youtube. Cast to the 40 inch living room TV. Robin Williams. Spinach. An odd one. I love the set design in this. Good cast. You never know with Altman. It made $60 million on a $20 million budget so not a flop. Paul Dooley on Random Roles interview link below.

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

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/popeye-1980

https://thedissolve.com/features/departures/503-how-robert-altman-turned-popeye-into-an-altman-mov/

https://www.avclub.com/popeye-is-equal-parts-live-action-cartoon-and-robert-al-1798271667

https://www.avclub.com/iconic-movie-dad-paul-dooley-talks-about-breaking-away-1845803434

The Gumball Rally Tenspeed & Brown Shoe & Fridays 1980 ABC Friday Night Movie Promo

 

Spotted another Star Wars reference in this promo for Fridays. Ernie Anderson. 1980.

Star clusters in Hercules. : From a study made in June, 1877

 

1881-82.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e81b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Euchelia jacobaeae.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-64cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Svengoolie: The Ghoul (1933)

 

Boris Karloff. I think this is a new one too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghoul_(1933_film)

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76236/the-ghoul/#articles-reviews?articleId=180543

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/7711

http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewse-g/ghoul1933.htm

The bridge, Venice

 

Print shows arched bridge with one pedestrian climbing it, reflected in canal waters, Italy.

1 photomechanical print : halftone.

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966, photographer

1908.

https://www.loc.gov/item/89712351/

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

Lights Out - Devil's Due

 

Ford automobile in creek in Oldham County, Kentucky

 

c1930. Photograph shows woman in Ford automobile with 1929 Kentucky license plate crossing creek bed.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2011660917/

Atari - Dig Dug (Commercial, 1983)

 

Helen Duncan

 

From Wiki - a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims. She was famous for producing ectoplasm which was proven to be made from cheesecloth.

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

In 1926 she developed from clairvoyant to physical medium by offering séances in which she claimed to be able to permit the spirits of recently deceased persons to materialise, by emitting ectoplasm from her mouth.

In 1928, the photographer Harvey Metcalfe attended a series of séances at the house of Duncan. During a séance he took various flash photographs of Duncan and her alleged "materialization" spirits including her spirit guide "Peggy" The photographs that were taken reveal the spirits to be fraudulently produced, such as a doll made from a painted papier-mâché mask draped in an old sheet.

https://www.curiousarchive.com/helen-duncan-ectoplasm-medium-britains-last-witch/

Tales from the Crypt - The Switch

 

Season two, episode two. Directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. William Hickey, Rick Rossovich, Kelly Preston, Roy Brocksmith. This is on Youtube. I have found this series plays well late night, along with some of the other late night 80s shows like Tales from the Darkside.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716896/

https://tftc.fandom.com/wiki/The_Switch

"Blue Flowers" - Dr. Octagon (1996)

 

Brownsville, Texas. Carnival ride

 

1942 Feb.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017727537/

Barnum the hypnotist

 

c1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636883/

[Woman working in the laboratory at the Endo Pharmaceuticals Building (Endo Laboratories), Garden City, New York]

 

1960.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2020630485/

"The Clone Master" - 1978 - Opening Teaser and first few minutes

 

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Most Toys

 

Season three, episode 22. Saul Rubinek. Data is kidnapped by an unscrupulous collector. The book Cadillac Jack by Larry McMurtry, he knew a collector that had a room with unique objects, but nobody had ever seen them or knew what they were.

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

https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-hollow-pursuits-the-1798166293

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Most_Toys_(episode)

The Time Travelers

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058659/