Vintage Celluloid

Vintage Celluloid: Looking for Santa

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Even the US Navy can’t find Santa at this time of year. Above we see the sailors aboard the USS Annapolis making a valiant effort to locate Santa’s Workshop.

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Vintage Celluloid: Miami Beach at Last!

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Uh oh….

Hey, wait a minute… this looks more like California! I knew I should have turned left at Albuquerque…

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Shutdown

Shutdown: A New Hope

Steam Boat Han

Most of you probably know that Disney owns Star Wars now. Clearly, the possibilities abound.

And that’s something we can all be thankful for.

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The movie was pretty ‘meh’, but I really like the spaceship. Its ‘face’ is fabulous.

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User Input: A Childhood In Peril

To hell with C-3PO. Think how epic this would be.

As you’ve no doubt heard, Disney has announced the purchase of Lucasfilm, and further announced that there will be a third trilogy of Star Wars movies, with the first one arriving in 2015. When we first heard this news, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth around the AtomicToasters Galactic Central Command. The more we thought about it, however, the more we thought it might not be as bad as we feared.

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Vintage Celluloid

1339862190391See? I told you that he wouldn’t like The Care Bears….

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Startup

Startup: A Fitting Memorial

The original animatronic President Lincoln

Today is, of course, Memorial Day in the United States, but by a fitting coincidence it is also the 89th anniversary of the opening of the Lincoln Monument in Washington, DC, which memorializes the sixteenth president of the United States.

It is interesting, however, that this is not [...]