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Thank you to Hammer Horror Posters and Tom Chantrell
Hammer Horror Film Posters, 1955-1976
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Colour photographs of Soho, London, 1950s
Colour photographs of the Duke of Windsor, gardening
Soldier of the Future, 1959
Real Star Wars
London Smog, December, 1952
Locomotives, 1950s, by O. Winston Link
Puzzlewood/ Middle-earth
Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961
'California's Big Squirt', 1951
Marilyn Monroe hiking, August 1950
Princeton dance, 1952
Marilyn Monroe at home, 1953
Cat eating corn-on-the-cob, 1951
London's East End by John Claridge, 1959-1974
MAD Magazine Covers, 1952-1955
Muller Bros Car Wash, 1951
U.S. Navy Food Posters, 1939-1945
Project Mercury, 1959
"Girl Watcher" magazine, 1959
Doxford Engine factory, 1957/58
Colour Photographs of Trafalgar Square, 1950s
The poster for “The Snorkel” is hilarious!
Please do not be alarmed. We are about to engage … The Snorkel.
Oh, these take me back! Funnily enough I just recently saw The Snorkel – it’s on a Hammer anthology dvd (here in the US, anyway). They take me back to my long-ago youth when, thanks to the X certificate, the best a boy like me (growing up in a small English town) could hope for were posters, lobby cards, the trailers, and Famous Monsters magazine (imported from the US). The poster for The Mummy used to terrify me. Funny thing, isn’t it, the way the censors slapped an ‘X’ on everything vaguely scary back then? (Except for the ‘A’ rating for The Abominable Snowman – that one I got to see.)