Picture Show (A thread for interesting photos from the world of movies and TV)*

This week's group is now here: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #456
And the selection therefrom:




It was a different world back then...

 

This week's lot: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #457
Five from the above:








Mommie dearest...

 

This week's installment is here: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #458
And here are five from that bunch:


Sam's face says it all...

 

The crew of The Monkees:

 

Frank Sinatra and Nancy Barbato on Newark Ave., Jersey City, N.J., late 1930s

 

Petty Officer Richard Boone during WWII

 

An impromptu top ten list from Andrei Tarkovsky, circa 1972.

translation:

1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951
2. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963
3. Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959)
4. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
5. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
6. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953
7. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
8. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
9. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967
10. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

 

Models of Enterprise (1964):



Jeffrey Hunter and Gene Roddenberry:

 

That large model of the Enterprise is now in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C., in a glass case for public viewing. Every 1/2 hour, a timer turns on the ship's internal lighting system for a couple of minutes.

 

Opening credits of the Combat episode "The Gauntlet":

 

Although it lacks a lot of its original parts (nacelles, antenna, lighting), it is gorgeous. The reconstruction was meticulous in its adherence to the original appearance. I highly recommend going to see it if you're in the DC area.

 

Julie Newmar in an episode of "Route 66."

 

Behind the scenes of "Route 66" shooting the episode "Voice At The End Of The Line", August 18th, 1962.

 

How did such a skinny kid get such a deep voice! He much have a huge ... talent.

 

Wow, Cary aka Chief Wide-in-the-Chin.

 

Great shots! Is it me, or the Enterprise really a lousy spaceship design? Those little posts are supposed to support the thrust of the suspended engines?

 

Where is this? Chicago?

 

Looks like looking over Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower to me. Chicago River below.
Just a guess. But the perspective seems right according to this view of the Trib Tower (in middle of photo)



And the title of the show...voice at the end of the line...seems appropriate, because Route 66 ends or begins (depending on your travel objective) not very far from here, near Buckingham Fountain.

 

That's it! You nailed it. Excellent!

 

Yes.

 

Route 66 was a unique show, taking a film crew all over America for a weekly drama series. I don't think anything like it has ever been done-- before or since. As a result, the backdrop of the series gives us a window on America as it looked back then (1960-64) instead of the usual Hollywood backlot.

Thanks for posting these!

 

I really loved that show, one more from that shoot: