Cherokee Indians who fought with the Confederates pose with fellow soldiers during a reunion in New Orleans, US in 1903.
The University of Marylands womens rifle team in 1922.
The original intention for the design of Mount Rushmore as envisioned by it's designer sculptor Gutzon Borglum, circa 1925-1926.
A man prepares Southern BBQ in Alabama, US in 1932.
A shoe shiner takes his break to eat pasta in Naples, Italy in 1950.
Forty-five cameramen photograph the new Japanese cabinet at the Prime Minister's official residence in downtown Tokyo, Japan in 1954. Japanese newspapers usually sent 3 or 4 photographers to cover an event from all possible angles.
High school student Michelle Obama, 1970s.
Barack Obama, 1981.
Then Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders picking up trash in a public park after being elected, Vermont, 1981.
A Swagman using a hollow tree to live in somewhere in Australia in 1897.
Women selling food in Vienna, Austria in 1901.
Apache children on their way to school on the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico, US in 1904.
A Bedouin warrior in Saudi Arabia in 1906.
Women protesting the right to vote in Beijing, China in 1909.
A women calling herself "A Girl From Canada" sports her bicycle in Detroit, US in 1910.
A man holds his lemonade maker as he sells cups of it to tourists in Cairo, Egypt in 1912.
The Oakland Motorcycle Club playing motorcycle football (soccer) in Oakland, CA, US in 1924.
Fans enjoy a performance at a Harlem Jazz Club in NYC, 1926.
18 Year old Ruth Oliphant being inspected and coached by Mrs. Sivils on how to be a car hop girl (a waitress to drive in restaurants) in Houston, Texas in 1940. Mrs. Sivils coached the girls in diction, deportment and the importance of laughing at customers' jokes.
Just 4 horses being used to haul away a large amount of timber in Minnesota, US in 1895.
People enjoy a day at Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia in 1900.
Sami people milking a reindeer in Sweden in 1902.
Russian soldiers in Siberia in 1919.
2 Models pose for a picture in Moscow, USSR in 1965.
People protesting for equal rights for homosexuals in front of The White House in Washington DC, US in 1965.
A beach beauty contest in New Zealand in 1967.
A woman participates in the Loei Songkran beauty pageant in Thailand in 1971.
Egyptian belly dancer Zizi Mostafa dancing for former first lady Mrs. Jacqueline 'Kennedy' Onassis (in black, left) and her then husband Aristotle Onassis in Cairo, Egypt in 1974.
Lillian Gish (front right) poses for a picture with an extra prior to a scene in the film The Wind in 1928.
Crew members preparing to shoot a scene with Gary Cooper (sitting) for the film Sergeant York in 1941.
John Wayne takes a break to talk with his wife Pilar Wayne and his daughter Aisse Wayne while filming The Alamo in 1960. Interesting note, this films budget went over badly and Wayne paid for all the extra filming and overtime pay to the cast and crew himself.
Claudia Cardinale goofing around during filming of The Professionals in 1966.
Sigourney Weaver getting in the space gear used for a scene in Alien in 1979.
James Remar and Michael Beck take a break while filming The Warriors in 1979.
A special effects crew member working on the car for the film Blade Runner in 1982.
The entire cast of Aliens celebrating Al Mathews birthday after a difficult day of shooting. Mathews said of this moment "My fondest memory on Aliens was this: We were trying to get my whole squad into the APC as quickly as possible. Man, we must have done ten takes, on the very last take, we got it right. Once we were all in, in a military manner, we had the take in the can. Suddenly the door opened and I shouted, What the (bleep) is going on? I was tired and I knew the opening of the door would screw the sound and we would have to go again. I turned towards the door with smoke coming from my nostrils. There was Miss Weaver holding the biggest birthday cake I had ever seen in my life, and wearing the warmest smile ever! The whole cast and crew knew it was my birthday, and they were all in on it. I was so embarrassed, I broke down and cried. There was Sgt. Apone, bawling like a baby.
Kevin Peter Hall taking off his costume on the set of Predator in 1987.
Director Michael Mann talking about the upcoming scene with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro for the film Heat in 1995.
Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and director Billy Wilder prepare for a scene in Some Like It Hot in 1959.
Richard Burton chats with Elizabeth Taylor while her daughter Liza Todd sits in her lap during filming of Cleopatra in 1963.
Director Mel Stuart having a moment with Gene Wilder and Peter Ostrum prior to filming a scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971.
Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris take a break while filming The Way of the Dragon in 1972.
Mel Brooks and Cleavon Little discussing an upcoming scene on the set of Blazing Saddles in 1974.
Christopher Reeves being hoisted up for a scene in Superman in 1978.
Director David Zucker (center) tells Robert Hays how he wants him in the next scene while Leslie Neilsen and Julie Hagerty look on during filming of Airplane! in 1980.
Brian De Palma prepares Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for a scene in Scarface in 1983.
Jean Reno and Natalie Portman goof off with confetti to celebrate the end of filming Léon: The Professional in 1994.
Christian Bale and director Mary Harron laugh between filming American Psycho in 2000.
Boy Scouts having some fun at the Battle of Gettysburg reunion at the battlegrounds in Pennsylvania, US in 1913.
Children preparing for a play for the dedication of the William J. Gaynor Park Playground
and Recreation House in NYC, US in 1929.
Jesse Owens saluting the US flag after winning a gold medal in the Olympic Games in Germany in 1936. This picture is extra symbolic as the Silver and Bronze winners are from Germany and Japan, the US foes in WWII just 5 years later.
A Canadian soldier rides a motorcycle with 3 happy ladies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1945.
Suzanne Rayot, Arlene Norbe, Charlie Schwartz, Bob Toth and Matt Blender were just a group of teens from Fair Lawn High School in New Jersey who were driving near JFK International airport on February 7, 1964. Nothing too unremarkable so far in this picture... Except the the person who took this photo of them was actually Ringo Starr when it happened that the Beatles limo pulled up next to the High Schoolers and Ringo asked them to pull down the windows of the Chevy Impala they had borrowed for transportation. The Beatles had just landed in NYC for their first visit to the States. Ringo put the picture in a book that he had put together of the various photos he had taken from before his world wide fame up through his adventures as a Beatle and afterwards. In 2017 the subjects of Starr's picture were tracked down and recreated the picture sans one member, Mr. Blender, who had passed in 2011.
Gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan dressed in cowboy attire while riding a horse during his campaign in California, US in 1966.
Fans in Australia get excited for the Beatles in 1964.
A nude wedding of 2 hippies in Japan in 1970.
A woman cutting cake at her birthday party in Tehran, Iran in 1973.
John McCain's class photo for the U.S. Naval Academy, 1958.
His father, seen here as a rear admiral in with his wife and McCain's mother Roberta in 1961, would rise to the rank of admiral like his own father and lead U.S. Pacific Command.
McCain became a Naval aviator & flew A-4 sky hawks.At age 31 on oct 26th,1967 John was on his 23rd mission, a bombing mission over Hanoi when his A-4 sky hawk was shot down by a N.Vietnam missile while he still managed to release his pay load right before being hit.
After ejecting,McCain landed in a lake and somehow regained consciousness. He had only just resurfaced when an angry mob attacked the injured aviator. He would be taken to the notorious Hoa Lo prison, known as the Hanoi Hilton, and was interrogated for four days before he was medically treated. He was vomiting, fever-ridden and drifting in and out of consciousness.
The North Vietnamese doctors tried to set his bones without anesthetics and he was eventually given surgery to operate on his broken leg.
1967 McCain 6wks laying in a Hanoi hospital bed where he received marginal care for his numerous injuries. he lost 50 lbs,in a chest cast, his gray hair turned white as snow. Eventually, he was moved to a camp on outskirts of Hanoi.
The 31-year-old officer would spend the next two years in solitary confinement. He was routinely beaten and would eventually sign a confessional of criminal wrongdoing and apology, which was permissible under the militarys code of conduct. After 5 yrs going through unimaginable hardship, including torture, McCain was released in 1972. Captain John McCain headed back home to America after a stop in the Philippines.
Captain McCain receiving a silver star for his heroism in captivity and shaking the hand of President Richard M. Nixon, 1972. After his return to the U.S., McCain spent five months recuperating. Some wounds never fully healed. He never regained the ability to raise his arms above his head.
McCain became a U.S. Navy liasion to Congress and decided to embark on a political career rather than stay in and try to make admiral. He would retire from the Navy in 1981, after a distinguished career, in which he received the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Combat V and gold star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Purple Heart among other awards. He attained the position of Senior Senator from the state of Arizona as a Republican and would run two campaigns to attempt to reach the White House. McCain returned to Vietnam in 2000 and visited the former prison, which was turned into a museum with his son Jack.
The earliest known photo of the Taj Mahal. Circa 1855.
Lenin and Stalin together, 1919.
Dec. 21, 1933, Americans visiting Paris celebrated the end of Prohibition in the United States in a “real two-fisted manner,” its original caption stated in The New York Times.
J.R.R. Tolkien's original first page for Lord of the Rings, 1937.
Jackie and John F. Kennedy, 1959.
Frank Sinatra with John F. Kennedy in Las Vegas, 1960.
George Lincoln Rockwell, a former US Navy officer and founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959, here sitting in at a Nation of Islam rally on common grounds of racial separation in 1961. Malcolm X was the key speaker at this rally.
Picture series showing Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnams chief of police, executing a Vietcong official on the streets of Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offencive. It won the Pulitzer prize in 1969 for photographer Eddie Adams.
A US Marine prepares to enter a Vietcong tunnel, 1969.
Tony Kiritsis holding Richard O. Hall hostage with a sawed off shotgun during a live television broadcast. Indianapolis, 1977.
A female fencer and her husband and instructor in Paris, France in 1900.
A native Sioux woman works a telephone switchboard at the Many Glacier Hotel in Montana in 1911.
The funeral for Sun Yat-sen, the founder of The Republic of China, in Beijing, China in 1925.
Women prepare to do chores outside their small homes in Panama in 1929.
A pageant showing adults and children dressed as traditional Samurai in Tokyo, Japan, 1930.
A street in Chicago, US in 1931.
Fishermen pose for a picture of the coast of Cuba in 1932.
A fake tank carved out of rock to deceive the American invasion on Iwo Jima in 1945.
Six year old "Cranberry Pie Eating Champ" pats his stomach after eating a 10 inch pie in 15 seconds in the US in 1948.
A lone horse walks through the destruction caused by an earthquake in Valvidia, Chile in 1960. Imprecise estimates of the death toll went as high as 7,000.
Ramon Novarro prepares for a stunt scene with crew members in original film adaptation of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1925.
John Wayne (front center) and fellow cast members prepare for a scene in Red River, 1948.
Crew members helping with the costume for the actor in the suit Ben Chapman in the film Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.
Taking a page from the Steve McQueen play book, Sylvester Stallone does his own motorcycle driving while film the first Rambo film, First Blood, in 1982.
Crew members and Bruce Willis prepare for a scene in Die Hard, 1988.
Betsy Brantley (woman standing in white) who did the live shots of Jessica Rabbit does a scene with Bob Hoskins (center) and Alan Tilvern (right, seated in plaid) with extras and crew members for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988.
Crew members position the giant animatronic T-Rex for a scene in Jurassic Park, 1993.
Director Adrian Lyne prepares Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain for a scene in the 1997 version of Lolita.
3 veteran Tiger hunters pose for a picture somewhere in what is now North Korea in 1922.
Women working at a piano factory in Sydney, Australia in 1922.
A group of school boys hanging out between classes in Havana, Cuba in 1937. The young man with the lollipop is none other than Fidel Castro.
The MS St. Louis when it arrived in Antwerp in 1939. This was a German ocean liner carrying around 900 Jewish refugees. The German captain and his crew got them out of Germany. They first tried to seek asylum in Cuba, but were denied. Then they tried the US and Canada, but both denied them as well. Luckily Belgium, The Netherlands, France and the UK accepted them. However, since 3 of those countries were conquered by the Nazi's, over a quarter of these Jews were shipped to camps and died.
Charlotte Darehshori hides from sniper fire from Charles Whitman during the University of Texas Tower shooting on August 1, 1966. Whitman killed a total of 16 people, his wife and mother earlier in the day, than another 14 from sniper fire from the tower during a 90-95 minute shooting spree, while wounding another 32. He was eventually snuck up on and killed by police.
East Berlin guards adding fresh barbed wire to the top of part of the Berlin Wall in 1972 as a curious West German family watches.
Indian refugees arrive in London after being expelled from Uganda in 1972. Idi Amin, the former heavyweight boxer turned Ugandan dictator expelled all Asians from the country almost immediately after taking power.
2 women hitchhiking in Toronto, Canada in 1974.
Students playing a soccer game in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in 1980.
Australian Aborigines in chains at Wyndham prison, 1902 This picture is taken in the early 1900s at the Wyndham prison. Wyndam is the oldest and northernmost town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It was established in 1886 as a result of a gold rush at Halls Creek. However the circumstances and the story behind this picture remain unknown.
Italian Cavalry School, 1906 In the first decades of the 20th century the Italian Cavalry School at Tor di Quinto near Rome was – along with the French Cavalry School at Saumur – the leading institution for horsemanship in the world. Tor di Quinto was probably the foremost academy for advanced cross country riding.
Winning family of the Fittest Family award stands outside of the Eugenics Building, 1925
The American Eugenics Society presented eugenics exhibits at state fairs throughout the USA, and provided information encouraging “high-grade” people to reproduce at a greater rate for the benefit of society. The Society even sponsored Fitter Family contests.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel shortly after arriving in North Africa, 1941
The Desert Fox, the most well respected Nazi commander. German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians’ position. In January 1941, Adolf Hitler established the Afrika Korps for the explicit purpose of helping his Italian Axis partner maintain territorial gains in North Africa.
German motorcycle courier in Eastern Front, 1942 Riding on an exposed vehicle in the Russian Winter, here a combination motorcycle, required protective clothing. This Kradfahrer wears a sentry’s fur-lined overcoat, heavy mittens, the fur-lined cap of the reversible winter suit, which is no doubt being worn beneath the overcoat, and a gas-mask for face protection.
The marine and the kitten, Korean War, 1952 In the middle of the Korean War, this kitten found herself an orphan. Luckily, she found her way into the hands of Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor. He adopted the two-week-old kitten and gave her the name “Miss Hap” because, he explained, “she was born at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The V-1 “buzz bomb” plunging toward central London, 1945.
Porters transport a car on long poles across a stream in Nepal, 1948.
Cars are supposed to carry people, but in Nepal people carried cars on the rocky, hilly trail from Kathmandu. Automobiles, stripped of wheels and bumpers, were shoulder-borne to and from the capital, the only Nepalese city with modern roads.
Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel, 1961.
A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, Vietnam, 1965.
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, being led to his cell after his arrest in London, 1968.
The assassination of Anwar Sadat, 1981.
The assassins’ bullets ended the life of a man who earned a reputation for making bold decisions in foreign affairs, a reputation based in large part on his decision in 1977 to journey to the camp of Egypt’s foe, Israel, to make peace.
Seven horses of the Queen’s Household Cavalry lie dead after the IRA detonated a nail bomb, 1982. The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings were one of the worst IRA atrocities on the British mainland, killing 11 soldiers and seven horses and leaving dozens injured. The bombs were detonated just a couple of hours apart on July 20, 1982, and timed to cause maximum casualties.
Sporting a different mustache than we are used to, Adolf Hitler (on the right) during his military service sometime between 1916-1919.
Britain, 1940: The children of hop-pickers take cover in a trench in Kent, whilst watching a dogfight overhead during the Battle of Britain.
Under British military escort, two captured Luftwaffe crewmen walk out of the London Underground, 1940
Under British military escort, two German Luftwaffe crewmen, an Unteroffizier (Subordinate Officer, or Corporal) and an Oberleutnant (the highest ranking Lieutenant Officer) who bailed out over the English countryside and were taken as POWs during a bombing raid emerge from the London Underground onto the city streets as shocked Londoners look on. The unorthodox travel arrangements for the two POWs on public transportation probably served as a good propagandistic photographic opportunity, as the image would be widely disseminated and seen by a nation beleaguered by constant aerial assaults during the Blitz.
The art assembly line of female students engaged in copying World War II propaganda posters, 1942
A room full of women are hard at work emulating the “real danger” present in the master poster hanging in the background. It looks like some kind of class, like a high school or college art class. They may be all working on the same poster because they’re making multiple prints at the same time.
Kamikaze pilots posing with a puppy the day before their suicide missions, 1945
Photo shows Corporal Yukio Araki (age 17 years old) holding a puppy with four other young men (age 18 and 19 years old) of the 72nd Shinbu Corps. An Asahi Shimbun cameraman took this photo on the day before the departure of the 72nd Shinbu Corps from Bansei Air Base for their kamikaze mission in Okinawa.
Bill Gates' mug shot. He was arrested in 1977 for driving without a license.
A Thanksgiving turkey named Charlie trying to fly away after being pardoned by President Reagan at the White House, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1987.
The original cast of 21 Jumpstreet in 1987.
NWA circa 1987.
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby on his death-bed, taken by a journalism student named Therese Frare, quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic that, by then, had seen millions of people infected (many of them unknowingly) around the globe. David Kirby was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. A gay activist in the 1980s, he learned in the late 1980s — while he was living in California and estranged from his family — that he had contracted HIV. He got in touch with his parents and asked if he could come home; he wanted, he said, to die with his family around him. The Kirbys welcomed their son back. After a three-year struggle against AIDS and its social stigmas, David Kirby could fight no longer. The photographer Therese Frare recalls: “On the day David died, I was visiting Peta (one of the David’s caretaker in Pater Noster House). Some of the staff came in to get Peta so he could be with David, and he took me with him. I stayed outside David’s room, minding my own business, when David’s mom came out and told me that the family wanted me to photograph people saying their final goodbyes. I went in and stood quietly in the corner, barely moving, watching and photographing the scene. Afterwards I knew, I absolutely knew, that something truly incredible had unfolded in that room, right in front of me. Early on, I asked David if he minded me taking pictures, and he said, ‘That’s fine, as long as it’s not for personal profit’. To this day I don’t take any money for the picture. But David was an activist, and he wanted to get the word out there about how devastating AIDS was to families and communities. Honestly, I think he was a lot more in tune with how important these photos might become”.
Yet more Behind the scenes from films of yesteryear...
Behind the scenes of Ishiro Honda’s “The War of the Gargantuas”, 1966.
A front view of the rotating set of the spacecraft Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. It was commonly referred to as "the centrifuge" set, better seen from the side. Essentially a giant ferris wheel, the centrifuge rotating set weighed 27 tons and had a diameter of 38 feet.
Bruce, the shark from JAWS, under construction, 1974.
Effects creators work on the star of The White Buffalo, 1977. This film has been left to history as a western Jaws meets Moby Dick, starring Charles Bronson and directed by Dino Di Laurentiis. It's as cheesy as you'd imagine. However, the buffalo was pretty amazing. It was designed and created by Carlo Rambaldi, who was at this point best known for creating 1976's King Kong. You might know some of his other work... mechanical head effects work on Alien in 1983 and designing the alien itself in ET in 1982.
Jack Nicholson propped up with 2x4s, foam blocks and a pillow to shoot the final scene from The Shining, 1980.
For the scene in 1981's Escape from New York where Snake Plissken flies a glider into the prison city that is now New York, the cops are keeping track of his progress on a computer screen. Technology wasn't advanced enough to make this look in any way believable, so the "computer" graphics you see are actually a model city, completely outlined in reflective tape and shot under blacklight. Here's the final scene:
Filming Lando's animatronic and puppeted co-pilot Nien Nunb for Return of the Jedi, 1983.
If you ever wondered how Speilberg got the POV shot of ET wandering around in his Halloween costume, this should solve the mystery.
A story about Ben Chapman......met him at a convention around 15 years ago. I was in line next to his table to get Julie Adams autograph (she was the female lead in CFTBL) and I saw him interact with a father and daughter. The father was telling his daughter that this old gentleman was the guy in the monster suit that there were pictures of all over the place....I don't think she quite got it. Anyway....after he had got his pic taken with Ben, he was gathering up the pictures he had had autographed....and Ben kneeled down next to the little girl...he put the money her dad had just given him into her purse and said "buy yourself a cool toy you like." He was quite the gentleman.
Ben passed away several years ago. I'm glad I got to meet him and talk for awhile.
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