Astral Films. This was indeed a real movie from 1965, despite the more contemporary look of the poster.
This was brought to our little bloggity thing by Wacky Frank, of Mary Washington College fame.
Amateur footage of Woodhaven, Queens, 1965 — 1967
I found these videos on Youtube. They were taken between 1965 and 1967 in the neighborhood of Woodhaven in Queens, NY — where my family lived when I was a baby. I wasn’t around in the 1960’s, but this is how the community looked around the time my siblings were born.
Photo of woman applying lipstick near Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1943
United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division.
A great rendition of “Full Fathom Five”
I’m linking here to poet John Siddique’s Youtube channel — he has posted a great interpretation below of the “Full Fathom Five” section of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” (The oft-quoted lines actually comprise the second half of “Ariel’s Song” in Act I., Scene II.)
The softer reading here gives the poem a more muted feel, and the shooting location is terrific. (Man, that shoreline would be perfect for Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach,” wouldn’t it?)
Union Station, Washington, D.C., circa 1921
United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Neon Nerd Nolan Recites Shakespeare!
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30
(For Emily) 🙂
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan th’ expense of many a vanish’d sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.
Poster for “These Final Hours” (2013)
Roadshow Films.
I have come here to berry Caesar …
… not to praise him.
(Facebook friends, Roanokers, countrymen … lend me some money.)
Poster for “I Am Legend” (2007)
Warner Bros. Pictures.
James Moriarty as Hamlet?!
This comes from BBC Entertainment News — Andrew Scott (maybe best known to American audiences as James Moriarty from “Sherlock”) performing Hamlet’s famous soliloquy.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 