December 19, 2021
Jose Mendez - Horror artist
December 18, 2021
The Chinatown News, Vancouver, BC
The Chinatown News was an English-language biweekly magazine founded by Roy Mah and published by the Chinese Publicity Bureau in Vancouver, British Columbia. Roy Mah was an active member of many Chinese-Canadian organizations, including the Chinese Veterans, and was a proud first generation Canadian. Mah started an earlier bilingual tabloid called the New Citizen, which ran from 1948 to 1952, and led to the creation of the Chinatown News. The first issue of the Chinatown News was published in 1953 under the name Chinatown; the name changed to Chinatown News.
The Chinatown News represented the interests of the English-speaking Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver, but had an international scope and was inclusive of all people of Chinese heritage. The publication was consistent in its effort to construct a distinct Chinese-Canadian identity and was a principal instrument of reclaiming a culture for Chinese-Canadians.
The History of Miss Vancouver Chinatown
Interviews with Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1960 Donna Yee (Mrs. Chan), Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1977 Andrea Eng, and Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 Bernice Liu.
December 11, 2021
Movie links
USA Sci-Fi & Horror Film Collection
Classic Horror
British Film Institute Collection
Black & White Films
Classic Hollywood movies
Ocean Liners
Patris Chandris Lines
Built: 1950 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, N Ireland
https://lastoceanliners.com/line/chandris-lines/?l=CHA
https://lastoceanliners.com/line/messageries-maritimes/?l=MES
Laos Messageries Maritimes
Built: 1954 by Chantiers Nav de la Ciotat, La Ciotat.
November 6, 2021
Misty
Misty
Misty was a weekly British comic magazine for girls published by Fleetway in the late 1970s. Focusing on horror stories, it was one of the few British girls' comics that was also popular with boys. Although Misty lasted less than two years it's still remembered and admired to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(comics)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Misty
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Misty-2016
-------------------------------------------------------
November 3, 2021
Classic TV shows
Valley of the Dinosaurs (cartoon)
Play for Today classics
Coronation Street, TOTP, Dr Who, Play for Today
Blakes 7
The Saint
The Champions TV Series 1968-69
Dr Who
Land of the Giants (season 1)
Lost In Space
Logan's Run
----------------------------------------------
A history of Japanese film
Ad Blankestijn - A history of Japanese film by year
https://adblankestijn.blogspot.com/p/j-film.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
October 26, 2021
Super 8
Super 8 websites
BOLEX 18 - 5L Super 8mm Projector
Kodak Instamatic M80-L Super 8 and 8mm movie Projector
http://www.bolexcollector.com/projectors/185l.html
--------------------------------------------------------------------
October 19, 2021
Daigo Fukuryu Maru
Daigo Fukuryu Maru - Lucky Dragon No. 5
Daigo Fukuryū Maru was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1,1954. The 1954 Toho film Godzilla was inspired in part by this event.
--------------------------------------------------------
Movie/TV links
UK Television: Play for today, Coronation Street, TOTPs, DrWho
Meiko Kaji Japanese movies
Japanese classic movies
Odd movies
USA movies & television
The Saint TV series
The Invaders
Doctor Who
---------------------------------------------
October 9, 2021
Pan Am & The Playboy Club (2011)
Pan Am (2011)
The show is about four flight attendants Laura, Kate, Maggie and Colette who represent Pan Am airlines. They together make Pan Am the most glamorous way to fly.
The Playboy Club (2011)
Set in 1961 he series centers on the employees (known as Bunnies) of the original Playboy Club operating in Chicago.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
September 24, 2021
Best of Paul Naschy
Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)/ Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
The Mark of the Wolfman /Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
Spanish title: La Marca del Hombre Lobo (1968)
The Mummy's Revenge (1975)
Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973)/ El espanto surge de la tumba
Movie links
Japanese Movies/Wim Wenders movies (commentary)
Mixed bag of movies
Italian movies
Rare movies 1
Rare movies 2
French movies
soft core movies
Japanese 'Kaiju' Film Collection
Japanese classic movie (English subs)
Assorted movies
------------------------------------------------------------
September 13, 2021
Italian sci-fi books
After the World Ends
Hardcover, 256 pages in colour, 19x26cm
An anthology book of aftermath cinema by Claude Gaillard. This is an English language version of a French book financed via KickStarter
In 'After the World Ends', you will be taken on a journey through post-apocalyptic cinema from its origins to its Golden Age at the VHS era. With dozens of films reviewed, hundreds of photos and posters, and the recurrent themes and tropes typical from the genre explored in detail. Packed with brand new interviews with the people who made the films including Fred Williamson, Sergio Martino, David Worth, Rae Dawn Chong, Steve De Jarnatt.
Science Fiction Italian Style: Italian Science Fiction Films from 1958-2000
Physical Info: 0.6" H x 9.69" L x 7.44" W (1.14 lbs) 288 pages
Italy is not a country generally known for its science fiction cinema. Over the years, however, a number of films belonging to the genre have been made and - while there might not be a single, defining science fiction ‘movement’ as such - they make for a curious, compellingly disparate whole. From critically acclaimed futuristic satires to cheapjack exploitation films featuring deadly extra-terrestrials; from counterculture polemics set in an imminent dystopia to post-apocalyptic action movies populated by Mohican-sporting thugs. There might be many different types of films, but they all deal with shared themes and concerns. And that’s not even mentioning the giant chickens and flesh-eating fish. This is the first English language book to deal comprehensively with the subject. Covering all Italian science fiction films made between 1958 and 2000 in detail – as well as including an overview of productions made in subsequent years – it examines a range of interconnected sub-genres, looking into how recurrent narratives came about, evolved and eventually faded. So… zip up your space suit, settle back in your anti-gravity seating device... and welcome to the wild, wild world of Science Fiction, Italian Style.
September 5, 2021
Remembering Shanghai
Remembering Shanghai by Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and the unpredictable nature of life against the epic backdrop of China in turmoil.
August 31, 2021
August 20, 2021
A Soldier's Film Journal of Ceylon 1944-1945
A Soldier's Film Journal of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1944-1945
Film and Narration by Ettore Porreca (1920-2013)
Ettore Porreca was a United States Army combat cameraman in World War II. In 1944 he was attached to the British army, and he was sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for a few months in the winter of 1944-1945. While there he and his comrades practiced their motion picture skills by filming various events and places, including the beautiful Ceylonese countryside, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ceylonese workers crushing stone by hand to make gravel, a city market place, a golf match, street scenes in the city of Kandy, and a colorful Ceylonese celebration.
The 16mm film they shot was developed while they were in Ceylon so that he and the other cameramen could learn from what they had done. Since the film was not war footage destined for government archives, Ettore was able to keep the film, and he sent it home. However, Ettore never had access to a 16mm projector, so he never saw the movies after his return home after the war. He put the film away and completely forgot about it.
Then in 2010, in the course of cleaning the basement, one of Ettore's sons found the film and had it transferred to digital format. Now Ettore, at the age of 90, could watch and narrate the film that he and his buddies shot 65 years earlier.
------------------------------------------------
August 11, 2021
Gibran Redinger
Doomed Barbarian is a sword and sorcery in space. From waste land planets run by magic to over populated planets consumed in tech . Doomed Barbarian and his six eyed techie friend Tugg are galactic bounty hunters looking to find adventure and make a few Bucks along the way.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/doomed-barbarian--2#/
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/doomed-barbarian/list?title_no=226438&page=1
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
