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Cover art preview for Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and the Big Bad Wolf (coming 12/2023)
#終わり方が好きな映画
The Sting(1973:U.S.A.)
Melody Fair(1971:U.K.)
Gone with the Wind(1939:U.S.A.)
The Shawshank Redemption(1994:U.S.A.)
These two go together well as they are circular. The first is by Marie (Rie) Cramer (1987-1977). Dutch Illustrator and writer. Sweet Illustrations
The second of course is Alfons Mucha (1860-1939: Czech Illustrator. This one is particularly pretty.
The Story of Propaganda is a truly fascinating one – and David Welch has told it beautifully in a wide range of printed and digital material collected by the British Library. 📰
In this extract, he discusses the wartime Ministry of Food’s ‘Dig for Victory’ slogan from 1939:
#Otd 1939: Death in Menton, S France of #Dublin & #Sligo's WB Yeats. Poet! @NobelPrize Lit! Co-founded @AbbeyTheatre. Senator of Irish Free State 2 terms. 🪦@DrumcliffeCOI since 1948. Epitaph from last lines of "Under Ben Bulben". https://t.co/tmjey1APcq https://t.co/qfG8qwJsqi
June 11, 1939: King & Queen of England taste 1st hot dogs at FDR's party. The Queen politely asked the President for some etiquette advice how to navigate a hot dog. “Very simple. Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone,” FDR supposedly said.
1939: "Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer" kommt zur Welt – als Teil einer Werbekampagne für ein US-Kaufhaus.
Rudolph Belarski, born #OTD in 1900, painted "Argosy Weekly" pulp covers for three of #ERB's most famous series: #CarsonOfVenus, #Tarzan, and #JohnCarter
January 8, 1938: "Carson of Venus"
March 19, 1938: "The Red Star of Tarzan"
January 7, 1939: "Synthetic Men of Mars"
Daily thing #1939: #Fanart of "Penguin" from #WarioLand2. (Plus the original Japanese version, I honestly can't decide which is funnier to me. 'Scornful Penguin' is becoming one of my favorite enemy archetypes.) #warioland #marioenemies
Born #OTD in 1900, artist Rudolph Belarski painted "Argosy Weekly" pulp covers for three of #ERB's most famous series: #CarsonOfVenus, #Tarzan, and #JohnCarter
January 8, 1938: "Carson of Venus"
March 19, 1938: "The Red Star of Tarzan"
January 7, 1939: "Synthetic Men of Mars"
#BetteDavis title cards from her 4 films of 1939: DARK VICTORY, THE OLD MAID, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX and JUAREZ.
#onthisdayillustrated March 14th, 1939: @ECB_cricket declare a draw on the 10th day their Test Match v SA in Durban
#onthisdayillustrated March 3rd 1939: #Mumbai , #Gandhi begins fasting to protest #British autocratic rule in #India