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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …