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Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Never say “Never”! With our September 14, 2022 blog post “Does Someone Know My Name?,” I thought the Library’s—and my—long mystery photo saga had come an end. In the beginning, we had over 100 unknown photos. At the time of the September posting, we had just 17 left. By any measure, this effort had been …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Since 2016, the Library of Congress has been trying to identify some super-obscure film, TV and music stills. We started with 800 "unknowns." We now have only about 15 left! Might you know who these mystery people are or what movie this shot is from?
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Or, more accurately, are you ready to identify another mystery photo from the Library of Congress?! Like our other mystery stills (see links below), this particular shot was found within a much, much larger collection of film, TV and music stills that the LC acquired about seven years ago. We have no other information besides …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Yep, we’re going to try again. Back in November of last year, we posted on this blog a now almost-infamous mystery photo that we have here at the Library; it’s the photo we call “Photo #33” a.k.a. “Two Dudes” a.k.a. “Are You Sure They’re Dudes?” And while we haven’t identified that picture yet, we are …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Regular readers of this blog and the Library of Congress main blog know about our long quest to identify some aggressively obscure film and TV and other images that we found in a collection of show-biz photographs that the NAVCC acquired about seven years ago. For a recap, see this link. We started with 800 …
Posted in: Uncategorized, Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
What a long, strange trip it has been. Some time ago, when I offered to help a colleague try to identify some super-obscure movie stills I had no idea…. It started almost three years ago. The Moving Image section of the LOC had just acquired a vast collection—30,000 photos!—of (mostly) movie and TV stills from …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Thanks to everyone who has offered suggestions for our myriad of unknown photos over the past few weeks. We have just a few more to ask you about. Please take a look and take a guess. As always “clicking” on any of the thumbnails below will increase the photo in size. Also, we will be …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
Regular readers of the “Now See Hear!” blog know that for the past year or so, we’ve been trying to identify some super-obscure film- , TV- and music-related photos. Though we’ve had an over 50% success rate, we still have some enduring “unknowns.” To try to facilitate some more solutions, we’ve gathered 30 of our remaining mysteries below. As …
Posted in: Unidentified Stills
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
After 22 previous posts, the Moving Image and Recorded Sound division of the Library of Congress has, with this final assortment, exhausted its currently slate of unidentified stills. (Or, at least until we acquire some more!) Thanks to everyone who has looked at these over the last year or so and has solved them or offered …
Posted in: Uncategorized, Unidentified Stills