Edith Tudor-Hart, Untitled (In Total Darkness, London), c. 1935
Kategorie: Unzugeordnet
Edwin Armstrong standing on top of the antenna tower of RCA Broadcasting Station WJZ, Aeolian Hall, 42nd Street, N.Y.C., 400 feet above the street, in May 1923. WJZ was the first broadcasting station in New York City proper and the pictures were taken just before the opening ceremonies began. As a result of this stunt David Sarnoff declared the roof permanently “off limits” for Armstrong.
Houdini before his near fatal jump & escape from the icy water below the Queen Street bridge in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 18th, 1910.
Alright, this is Houdini. But an icy river in Australian summer. I doupt the Yarra River has ever seen ice in the last millenium.
Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?
Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder for ever…
Happy 116th Birthday, Frank Capra
(May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991)“Maybe there really wasn’t an America, maybe it was only Frank Capra.”
– John Cassavetes“When I see a crowd, I see a collection of free individuals: each a unique person; each a king or a queen; each a story that would fill a book; each an island of human dignity.”
“Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film. “
