The Retro Cinema Extinction
A random collection of photos of old cinema houses, mostly defunct and run down.
Vintage
The East End in the 1960’s – A Pictorial by John Claridge
Starting out as a enthusiast, John Claridge photographed the streets of London’s East End. The pushed, grainy black and white prints perfectly capture and take the viewer back in time. These pictures and quotes are from the book East End, published by Spitalfields Life Books. All photographs © John Claridge. […]
Toys Of Potatoes
These images jumped out at me. What can I tell you, I’m Irish and I do like potatoes! They are the pages of a 1931 Soviet era schoolbook. I think that younger kids might find this fun even by today’s tricked out standards—although I doubt they’ll be packing a pen […]
10 Vintage Life Savers Ads
From Wiki: In 1912 Edward John Noble bought the rights to Life Saver candies for $2,900. Noble founded the Life Savers and Candy Company in 1913 and significantly expanded the market for the product by installing Life Savers displays next to the cash registers of restaurants and grocery stores. He […]
Soviet Youth Festival Jazzy Matchbox Labels
I love the bold graphic quality of this matchbox label set. The contrast in colours and the block of cyrillic type balancing the comical caricatures that look like letters of the alphabet. Lovely stuff! 1957 International Youth Festival, Moscow 1957 1957 International Youth Festival—was held in Moscow from July 29 […]
In this you’ll find a match – A Fist shaped Match Safe
The Smithsonian have a terrific collection of Match Safes dating from the mid nineteenth century to the 1920’s. Also known as Vesta cases, vesta boxes, or pocket match safes, these containers basically kept your matches safe and dry and came in an amazing variety of designs. Check out the tiny […]
Brinkmann’s Cigarette Cards
These colorful German cigarette cards from the mid 1930’s caught my eye. The background designs reminded me of Shepard Fairey‘s Obey series. All of the cards are from Brinkmann’s Cigarettes Bunte Filmbilder –or Colored Film Pictures– series 1 and 2 which ran in 1935 and 1936. The designs are almost […]
15 Film Fun Magazine Covers
15 Fun Film Magazine covers, all illustrations by Enoch Bolles. Prof. Jack Raglin’s short bio of Enoch Bolles for MagazineArt.org: Enoch Bolles (1883-1976) was one of the earliest and most widely circulated glamour illustrators. Although known today as a pinup artist, Bolles was a versatile illustrator who also worked in […]
Remington and Underwood Classics
Remington and Underwood created classic American typewriters. Here are some high quality stills of two 1900’s models. I also posted some advertising for each company dating from that time. The Russian ad for Underwood I have no information on but the typography is terrific! By the by, the tagline for […]
Silkscreen Cuban Film Posters 1965–1974
Updated 12/2020: I found some more posters and have appended them. Sponsored largely by the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográfica (ICAIC), these posters span subjects as diverse as education, culture and reproductive health, political marches and other overtly political or propagandist themes consistent with the objectives of […]