Thursday, December 25, 2008

Classic Stuff: Merry Christmas!

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Maybe you got some of this stuff--or maybe you will this Christmas! One Christmas I asked for Robbie the Robot (he's on the right) but ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Classic Stuff: Hopalong Cassidy

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Before there was Davy Crockett, there was Hopalong Cassidy, the TV cowboy that first made a lot of stuff for young boomers in the early 50s...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Classic Stuff: Davy Crockett

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The Davy Crockett episodes on Disneyland caused the first youthquake of the baby boom era in 1954 and 1955. "The Ballad of Davy Crocke...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Classic Stuff: American Flyer

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This is the train I got one Christmas --an American Flyer steam engine (top row) with coal car, box car and caboose. Don't get me starte...
Friday, October 31, 2008

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poster for the 1953 Technicolor movie of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which early boomers may remember. This year is the 110th anni...

The War of the Worlds

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This is the is the 70th anniversary of the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” on October 31, 1938. This year is ...

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Orson Welles, performing in the 1938 radio version of The War of the Worlds.

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Early boomers may have heard stories about the 1938 broadcast from parents and grandparents. The broadcast is famous, of course, because a n...

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This book cover illustration gives a fair idea of how H.G. Wells described the Martian fighting machines in his 1898 novel, The War of the W...

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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells was first published in 1898. In it, Wells shrewdly combined two topics that separately inspired a numb...

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The Classics Illustrated cover, the Alien Voices version (which I haven't heard yet) and a still from the 1953 George Pal version, avail...

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As for the other versions, it looks like the Classics Illustrated comic was issued in 1954 (though I'm not absolutely certain), so it ma...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Across the Universe

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The best movie about the 60s made since the 60s so far is Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, which tells its story with songs composed ...

The Best 60s Movie Yet

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It's been out for awhile, but after seeing it for the third time I'm ready to pronounce Across the Universe as the best movie about...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Heroes: Bucky Fuller

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Buckminster Fuller was an unlikely hero to thoughtful Boomer students in the 60s and 70s.

Utopia or Oblivion with Buckminster Fuller

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I’m making a list of people who helped me ruin my life. Marshall McLuhan convinced me that in this high tech age you can live anywhere and b...

The Little Film That Did

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The Steven Speilberg movie empire, including his production company--that's a photo of the entrance--started with a 25 minute student fi...

The Speilberg 60s Mystery

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In 1967-68, I was the go-between on my campus for an experimental film series. Compilations of films were sent from Hollywood or somewhere, ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

A Boy and His Robot

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The movie poster--which has pretty much nothing to do with the movie-- and its stars demonstrating a toy. Looks a little like the one I got...

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Robby the Robot, from The Invisible Boy. Next to maybe Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still , he was the coolest looking robot of the 50s,...