The Pictorial Palette is a regular exercise that brings Technicolor glasses to design. By selecting a still from a classic film and exploring its color patterns, it is our hope that these little swaths of […]
It’s February which means it’s Black History Month and this year, the holiday could not have picked a better month if it tried. The controversy with the Academy of Motion PIcture Arts and Sciences reached […]
[pullquote cite=”Valeria Belleti” type=”center”]Dear Irma: …Ronald Colman was trying to do the Charleston and couldn’t—he looked awfully funny…”[/pullquote] So reads an excerpt from one of the more permanent fixtures on my bookshelf: a sweet little […]
Let it be known that The Retro Set Earl Christy. And Rolf Armstrong. And McClelland Barclay. And R Wilson Hammell. And Charles Edward Chambers. And Marland Stone. And Charles Gates Sheldon. And all of the other […]
Prior to being labeled “box office poison” the mid-1930s, Katharine Hepburn’s career was looking up. And George Stevens’ 1935 romantic drama Alice Adams had become one of the most successful of her career thus far. There was […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] strange phenomenon occurs in Hollywood each spring. For four days in April, this three-ring circus of a town transforms itself into a fleeting shadow of its former celluloid self. Even the freakish characters that […]
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