[TOYS] ROCKET RADIO MG-306: Pocket Transistor Radios Manufactured During the 1950’s & 1960’s
Posted: July 31, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Radio, technology, vintage Leave a commentGreat website focusing on the design and history of pocket transistor radios manufactured between 1954 and 1965.
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[VIDEO] National Archives: Communist Propaganda, 1950s
Posted: March 9, 2017 Filed under: Global, History, Mediasphere, Russia, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: 1950s, Central Intelligence Agency, Communist propaganda, director of the United States Information Agency, Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek, George V. Allen, National Archives, U.S. Air Force Colonel Bascom Neal, U.S. Army Colonel John C. Weaver, U.S. Navy Captain John Leeds, video Leave a comment
Creator(s): Central Intelligence Agency. 12/4/1981- (Most Recent)
Record Group 263: Records of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1894 – 2002
Date: ca. late-1950s
Description: This film features a conversation about different forms of Communist propaganda between George V. Allen, director of the United States Information Agency, Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek, U.S. Army Colonel John C. Weaver, U.S. Navy Captain John Leeds, U.S. Air Force Colonel Bascom Neal, and U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Raymond G. Davis. It includes several clips from Soviet propaganda films.
Local Identifier: 263.1078
National Archives Identifier: 592764
National Archives Catalog series entry
Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in ‘To Catch A Thief’, 1955
Posted: February 12, 2017 Filed under: Cinema, Entertainment, Photography | Tags: 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Film, Gary Grant, Grace Kelly Leave a comment[PHOTOS] ‘House on Haunted Hill’, Directed by William Castle, 1959
Posted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Cinema, Haunted, Horror, House on Haunted Hill, Movies, Scream, Skeleton, Thriller Leave a comment✨Design: Illustrations of Grocery Stores✨
Posted: January 5, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, History | Tags: 1950s, Architecture, design, Stores, vintage Leave a commentForgotten masterpiece: Original hand-colored printer’s proofs of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ from Panic #1
Posted: December 24, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: 1950s, Cartoons, Christmas, EC Comics, Holidays, Illustration, The Night Before Christmas, Will Elder Leave a commentMovie Poster: ‘White Christmas’, 1954
Posted: December 17, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Bing Crosby, Christmas, Cinema, Danny Kaye, design, Irving Berlin, Movies, Musical, Poster Art, Rosemary Clooney, typography, Vera Allen, vintage, White Christmas 1 CommentMovie Poster: ‘I’ve Lived Before,’ Richard Bartlett, USA, 1956
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Cinema, design, graphics, Illustration, Movie Posters, Movies, Poster Art Leave a comment1954 Retrofuture Art from an Unexpected Source: the French Chocolatier Cantalou
Posted: October 14, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, France | Tags: 1950s, Cantalou, Chocolatier, design, Futurism, Illustration, Paris, Retrofuture, Space Age, vintage Leave a comment[Illustration] Futuristic Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Design
Posted: August 30, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Architecture, design, Illustration, Interior design, Modern, Modern living Leave a comment
Detail from a 1958 Soviet Space Propaganda Poster
Posted: August 25, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Russia, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1950s, design, Illustration, Poster Art, propaganda, Soviet space program, Space Exploration, The Space Race Leave a comment[PHOTOS] Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’, 1958
Posted: August 16, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Cinema, Cinematography, design, Glamour, graphics, Illustration, Kim Novak, Movie Posters, Movies, typography Leave a comment
Original cover by Jack Davis from Tales From the Crypt #44, EC Comics, 1954
Posted: July 27, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Comic Books, EC Comics, Illustration, Jack Davis, Tales From the Crypt Leave a commentSource: thebristolboard
The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
Posted: July 16, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Science & Technology | Tags: 1950s, toys, vintage Leave a commentThe Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was a toy produced between 1950 and 1951. The toy allowed the user to conduct simple experiments with radioactive materials. Kit included;
- A Geiger counter
- An electroscope
- A Wilson cloud chamber
- A spinthariscope
- Four samples of uranium ore
- Pb-210 lead isotope
- Polonium
- Ruthenium
- Zinc
- various other accessories
After only a year of production, the toy was pulled from the market for obvious reasons.
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Viaggio in Italia, 1954: Roberto Rossellini Cross-fades
Posted: June 5, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: 1950s, Cinema, Filmmaking, Italy, Movies, Roberto Rossellini, Viaggio in Italia Leave a commentMr. Mercury Box Art, 1950s
Posted: May 10, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Robotics | Tags: 1950s, design, Illustration, novelty, toys, typography, vintage Leave a commentSource: humungus
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘To Catch a Thief’
Posted: February 15, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Cinema, Cinematography, Grace Kelly, Movies, Photography Leave a commentPulp Fiction: ‘I’ll Kill You Next!’ 1954
Posted: February 12, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Reading Room | Tags: 1950s, Books, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a commentSource: box-o-paperbacks
Poster: ‘Jazz West Coast’
Posted: January 29, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, design, Illustration, Jazz, Music, Pacific Jazz Records, Photography, Poster Art, typography Leave a commentThe 1953 Studebaker Commander Starliner
Posted: January 19, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Science & Technology | Tags: 1950s, Automotive, Car, design, Futurism, Illustration, Studebaker Commander Starliner Leave a comment‘The Brain from Planet Arous’, 1957
Posted: December 20, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Cinema, Movies, Mystery, Science fiction, Thriller, vintage Leave a comment
MAD Magazine #5, June-July 1953, 10¢
Posted: December 19, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics | Tags: 1950s, Bill Elder, Cartoons, Comic Books, EC Comics, Horror, Illustration, Mad Magazine, Parody, satire Leave a commentAndy Warhol: Jazz Album Covers 1952-58
Posted: December 18, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Andy Warhol, Cool, design, fashion, Illustration, Jazz, Music, Style, typography Leave a comment1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta ‘Competizione’ by Pinin Farina
Posted: December 18, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Automotive, design, fashion, Ferrari, Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta, Italy, Photography, Race Car, Sports car, vintage Leave a commentBelgian poster for The Deadly Mantis, 1957
Posted: December 17, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, design, Global Panic, Horror, Illustration, Movie Poster, Movies, Poster Art, Science fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a commentBelgian poster for The Deadly Mantis (1957)
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Popular Mechanics, March 1953
Posted: November 29, 2015 Filed under: Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1950s, design, Illustration, Magazines, Popular Mechanics, rockets, typography Leave a comment[PHOTOS] Jackson Pollock’s House & Studio
Posted: November 22, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere | Tags: 1950s, Art, Jackson Pollack, Painting, Photography, The Hamptons Leave a comment
Marilyn Monroe, by Milton Greene, 1953
Posted: November 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: 1950s, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene, Movies, Photography, vintage Leave a comment[PHOTO] Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Premiere of Porgy and Bess, 1959
Posted: November 9, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Cinema, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, Movies, Music, Porgy and Bess, Sammie Davis Jr., Show Business, vintage Leave a comment[VIDEO] William F. Buckley Jr. Interviews Hugh Hefner on Firing Line (1966) Parts 2-6
Posted: November 2, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Catholic Church, Civil rights movement, Firing Line, Hugh Hefner, Jonah Goldberg, Kevin D. Williamson, media, National Review, news, Playboy Magazine, Sexuality, Television, video, William F. Buckley Jr Leave a comment
[VIDEO] William F. Buckley Jr. Interviews Hugh Hefner on Firing Line (1966) Part 1
Posted: November 2, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere | Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Catholic Church, Civil rights movement, Hugh Hefner, Jonah Goldberg, Kevin D. Williamson, media, National Review, Playboy Magazine, Playboy Philosophy, Rich Lowry, Sexual Revolution, William F. Buckley, William F. Buckley Jr, YouTube Leave a comment
Interesting that National Review and Playboy were founded at about the same time. https://t.co/yXjGLE9z7J
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) November 2, 2015
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Vintage Toys: Space Helmet
Posted: November 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Astronaut, Space Exploration, Space Helmet, Space Race, toys, vintage Leave a commentJapan: Calendar Art, 1951
Posted: November 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Entertainment, Japan | Tags: 1950s, Calendar, design, Illustration, Japan, vintage Leave a commentPulp Fiction: ‘Beloved Traitor’
Posted: October 28, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Adventure, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Mystery, novel, Paperback, Romance, Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment1950 published as Lady, Toll That Bell
1960 republished with this new title
[PHOTO] Doris Day, Halloween
Posted: October 28, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Cinema, Doris Day, Glamour, Halloween, Holiday, Hollywood, Movies, Music, Photography Leave a commentThomas Hart Benton: Texas Panhandle
Posted: October 25, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture | Tags: 1950s, Illustration, landscape, Painting, Route 66, Texas, Texas Panhandle, Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Hart Benton (painter) Leave a commentThomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Texas Panhandle, Route #66, c.1953. Oil on board, 7 x 10 in.
‘Machines of the Future’: Illustrations from the Encyclopédie de La Vitesse, 1956
Posted: October 23, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Science & Technology | Tags: 1950s, design, Futurism, Illustration, Science fiction, vintage Leave a commentThe Machines Of The Future (Top), The Automobile Of The Future (Bottom) – Illustrations from the French, Encyclopedia Of Speed (Encyclopédie de La Vitesse), 1956. (via Agence Eureka)