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The voice of Betty Boop launched a thousand TV screen scribbles and parental curses....
Have fun playing with your "winky dink" at home!
Full story here.
"Junior, why is the cat glowing?"
From the 1950 catalog.
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I'll bet you never knew popcorn came in special hepcat/hipster/beatnik varieties.
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If this vintage clip whets your appetite (moderately NSFW), you can view
another famous film on the same theme in its entirety
on YouTube.
This photo feature ran in a lot of newspapers back in July 1953. But the Woodside Community Mission church seems to have disappeared soon after. I can't imagine why.
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What a shame bow ties are not much in style these days. Imagine how popular you would be, when flashing the "Drop Dead!" message!
"Is that a giant drycell battery in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
From the 1950 catalog.
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This is more agonizing and excruciating than
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? .
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If you like the trailer, the entire version--as filtered thru MST3K--is online, with part 1 below:
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My brain will never fully recover from viewing this.
Information here.
PS: do not confuse Torchy the Battery Boy with Bill Ward's Torchy.
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Disasters, Television, 1950's