S.C.E. Clements
@sceclements-writer.bsky.social
🇬🇧🇨🇦London-based Canadian historical fantasy adventure novelist & motion picture industry professional. 📚🎬 Weirdly obsessed with the 1930s, 40s, & 70s.
There are some photos from the 70’s which REALLY have that decade feel like it was a LONG time ago. Japanese Telephone Operators in 1970.
Who remembers when diner tables/booths had a mini jukebox? This one is from 1982. 📷 David Turnley/Getty Images
Douglas Fairbanks clears a table as he duels Noah Beery in THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920), his first full-costume swashbuckler. Doug's brother, Robert, acted as a stunt coordinator and propmaster, lowering the table slightly to make the leap look even more impressive.
God, I love this movie. So underrated.
Tommy Krasker@tommykrasker.bsky.social · 2d agoThis Wed at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, I’m hosting #TheNoirCollective and #TCMParty watch party of MAN HUNT (1941), airing live on TCM. Pull up a chair – and lock your door. This is noir; you never know who’s out there… @tcmparty.bsky.social Link to watch if you don’t have TCM: archive.org/details/man-...
MARILYN MONROE with a Mountie in Banff National Park — Alberta, Canada in 1953.
You must be referring to someone else's exaggeration. Howard was enamored with masculine imagery. His rugged, independent man > civilized man stance is in print. If there was no blurring of real and fictional personality here, then it's never existed. The 'Hemingway Effect' is real :)
Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein@deepcuts.blog · 2d agoI'd argue Howard's tendency to myth-make or become a character has been rather exaggerated over time.
Across the Pacific (1942) reunited director John Huston and stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet from The Maltese Falcon (1941).
The Shadow magazine, dated August 1, 1941. Cover by Graves Gladney.
This (colourised) mirror selfie was taken over 106yrs ago in Japan (1920).
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in 1932
#OTD in 1944 ANNE FRANK wrote the final entry in her diary: “I get cross, then sad, and… keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be… if only there were no other people in the world.”
The giant, jam-packed dance floor of the HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM on Sunset Blvd in 1943
I rewatched THE MASK OF ZORRO this week, and once again am struck by how good and FUN action movies used to be compared to how they are now. Also, thanks to watching in HD for the first time I never noticed before that there's a jaguar scream sound effect accompanying several of the explosions
Remembering William Powell, born on this day, 1892. Pictured here in My Man Godfrey. 1936.
Yaki Point - Grand Canyon ',1924 Watercolours Gunnar Widforss,1879_ 1934 )
Absolutely incredible film. Antifa old ladies vs Nazi invaders, Die Hard by way of Enid Blyton, made and released while the war was still going on. (first recommended to me by Mr Alan Moore himself, should you need a more compelling endorsement)
David Willoughby@davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 2w agoOnce more, its Thora Hird taking out Nazis o’clock on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Harrowing, gripping Wartime drama ‘Went the Day Well’, adapted from a short story from Graham Greene, is screening 13:30 this afternoon
