Man with a Movie Camera *Dziga Vertov Part I

“I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it." ▶️ youtu.be/3GyNB4-eN1E?si… 🎥 Pioneering Sovie#documentaryry filmmake#DzigaVertovov, who made the seminal "Man with a Movie Camera," wa#BOTDTD 2 January 1896#Filml#Filmmakingng

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ✒ #IsaacAsimov, American scientist and #scifi writer ("I Robot", "Foundation Trilogy"), was #BOTD 2 January 1920. #Literature

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1905 and died aged 93 in 1998, Michael Kemp Tippett.

🎨 #SlavaRaskaj, Croatian painter, was #BOTD 2 January 1877. #Art #Painting

🎨 #ChristianDanielRauch, German sculptor, was #BOTD 2 January 1777. #Art #Sculpture

#MMLifers Born on this day in 1936 and died aged 56 in 1992, Roger Dean Miller.

🤖 #OTD in #Theatre #History 2 Jan 1921, the #scifi play ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (RUR), by #KarelČapek, had its world premiere in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. It introduced the term #robot for artificial men, which is derived from "roboti," Czech for serf or forced labourer.

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 2 January 1969, #RobertBNemiroff's stage drama "To Be Young, Gifted & Black," adapted from the writings of his late wife #LorraineHansberry, directed by #GeneFrankel, premiered off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York.

Moon Mullican - Seven nights to rock 78 rpm 1956 youtu.be/R00dWeHB28U Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967)

(1967) Australian garage/surf rock. This one moves .😎 #MusicSky youtu.be/9W68ijmbT_8?...

Topical humor in the 1926 comedy MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE. An Irishwoman attempted to shoot Mussolini and injured his nose.

George Beranger stealing the show as a preening actor in ARE PARENTS PEOPLE?

Just shattered a friend’s mind by sharing the Godfather (1972) still of Marlon Brando’s mustache turning into a tree.

Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) 🎭 😂 Nothing to do with soup. The Marx Brothers return in this 1930 adaptation of their stage musical. Laughs abound in the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

IMP (Universal) went on location for IVANHOE (1913) and staged a massive siege with wall-scaling, taunting, and combat so vigorous that the leading man was knocked out with a concussion.

The big thing to know is that studios used sound as an excuse to purge expensive talent. Bebe Daniels was dropped from Paramount for an allegedly unsuitable voice but then blasted back to the top when RKO signed her and put her in a musical.

Welcome to the public domain, DIZZY DISHES (1930), the first appearance of Betty Boop! ⭐️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Toshiro Mifune in, The Hidden Fortress (1958).

Welcome to the Public Domain, GEORGIA ON MY MIND (1930) 🎶 The song that captured hearts & became a state anthem in 1979—and now, in 2026, it belongs to everyone. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩 🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain. I guess I'm kind of biased, but I prefer the "international version" of the movie, which is basically a silent film with a recorded soundtrack of music and sound effects

universalize this please

“NIGHT OF THE DEMON” (1957) dir. Jacques Tourneur Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham 🎬 Elstree Studios 🎞 Columbia Pictures

Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson star in Otto Preminger's classic murder mystery film “LAURA” (1944) 🎬 20th Century-Fox 🎞 #FilmNoir

Hedy Lamarr by László Willinger for MGM, 1944.

Toshia Mori - BOTD in 1912

Haruo Nakajima - BOTD

Joe Orton (with scenes from the Stephen Frears' Orton biopic "Prick Up Your Ears") - BOTD

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) Written, edited, and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto - BOTD in 1960

Carole Landis by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine, June 1940. #botd

Basil Dearden (with scenes from his film "Victim") - BOTD

Valentina Cortese in "Juliet of the Spirits" - BOTD

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) Fly on the wall documentary that shows the Paris Opera Ballet putting together seven ballets. I've only been to the ballet a few times in my life and know little about the art form, but I found this film riveting. Directed by Frederick Wiseman - BOTD in 1930

Frederick Wiseman (with scenes from his documentary "Ex Libris – The New York Public Library") - BOTD

E.M. Forster, seated (with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Anders Danielsen Lie in "The Worst Person in the World" - BOTD

Kôji Yakusho in "Perfect Days" - BOTD

In The Mood for Love (2000) Directed by #WongKarWai Starring: #MaggieCheung #TonyLeung Cinematography by #ChristopherDoyle, #PunLeungKwan Music by #MichaelGalasso Production Design by #WilliamChang #InTheMoodforLove #2000s #asianfilm #Asiancinema #romanticfilm #Romanticcinema #perioddrama

Persona, 1966 Ingmar Bergman

The first edition of "Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was published on 1 January 1818.

From 1954, "Sunnyland" by Elmore James. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAU...

Images from films written or co-written by Ernest Tidyman - BOTD in 1928 Shaft (1971) The French Connection (1971) High Plains Drifter (1973) Street People (1976)

Last month, I wrote on all legislative races of 2025. There were still a few elections left in the year, however. But now, they're all done. And so we've updated the analysis: —Democrats flipped 25 legislative seats in 2025. That's 21% of the 119 GOP-held seats at play. —The GOP flipped 0.

"I often walked the streets of New York downtown, near the East River, taking my hand camera with me. One day I found myself in front of the old Post Office. It was extremely cold. Snow lay on the ground..." Alfred Stieglitz #botd January 1, 1864

Alfred Stieglitz, Photographer, #BornOnThisDay in 1864, in Hoboken, New Jersey ‘Winter, Fifth Avenue’ (1893), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Alfred Stieglitz, born 1 January 1864.

Remembering E. M. Forster on his birthday 🎂 📷 Bill Brandt, 1947 "He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in." - Zadie Smith