Gorgon Zola's Baby

Greta Garbo, 1929.

Memorial for a fallen soldier. 1944.

El Espíritu de la Colmena (1973) - Víctor Erice

Heating the drum before use was necessary because the heat tightened the drum skin and changed its pitch. Basically, the shaman used the fire for tuning his/her drum. 

severed heads // goodbye tonsils

Innuendo — Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (1953)

Wendy, Darling. Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya.

(via Courant.com)

Rashōmon | dir. Akira Kurosawa (1950)

Matsumoto Hiroko 松本弘子 by Charlotte March - 1963

Insulated from natural contacts with earth, air and sunlight, by corsets pressing on the solar plexus, by voluminous petticoats, cotton stockings and kid boots, the drowsy, well-fed girls lounging in the shade were no more a part of their environment than figures in a photograph album, arbitrarily posed against a backcloth of cork rocks and cardboard trees.

—- Leon James and Willa Mae Ricker demonstrate the Lindy Hop, 1942.