Jeep

Joan Blondell behind the scenes of Wellman’s NIGHT NURSE (1931)

Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938)

Tatiana Alekseevna Mavrina (1902-1996)

Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954)

Edmund J. Sullivan (1869-1933)

A beautiful shot from 1908's L'Arlésienne.
Directed by Albert Capellani

The success of The Last Days of Pompeii (1908) inspired a boom in Italian historical epics

Unhappy with the stereotypical roles offered to him by Hollywood, Japanese-American film star Sessue Hayakawa created his own production company where he made movies like The Dragon Painter (1919)

L'Arlésienne (1908)
Directed by Albert Capellani

Frank Mayo and Virginia Valli in Wild Oranges (1924)
Directed by King Vidor

One of Bob Clampett’s wildest cartoons. Book Revue (1946) Mel Blanc is doing an impersonation of comedian Danny Kaye.

Preston Sturges (with scenes from his film "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek") - BOTD

Buster Keaton & Alice Mann in "Coney Island," 1917

#oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilm

This Day in Buster...August 29, 1926
The Sunday Record reports that Mickey Walker, worlds welterweight champion, and other celebrities of the boxing world spectated the staged boxing fight from Buster Keaton's "Battling Butler," saying,

lush portrait of Ingrid Bergman looking into the distance

BTD - Ingrid Bergman - EUROPA '51 - 1952 - Italian release poster - Art by Dante Manno

Betty Hutton winks at the camera as Eddie Bracken loses his mind

BTD - Preston Sturges - THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK - 1944 (the miracle is that Sturges got away with it)

Madrid durante la Guerra de España.
Milicianos en Cuatro Caminos bebiendo leche camino del frente.
Imagen procedente de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España

Frente de Asturias. Cercanías de Oviedo a principios de 1937.
Fotografía de David Seymour “Chim”.
Imagen procedente de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Paul Klee
Le Magicien, 1927

Something Good (1898) is believed to be the earliest depiction of on-screen kissing involving African Americans. This footage was rediscovered in 2021 in the National Library of Norway.

Safari So Good (1947)

Tormento [乱れる (Mikio Naruse #BOTD, 1964)]
DoP: Jun Yasumoto