Author Archive: Retro

One of the oddest comedies of the 1950s, Behave Yourself! stars Farley Granger and Shelley Winters as a pair of none-too-bright newlyweds. Granger and Winters adopt a stray pooch named Archie, who unbeknownst to them has been trained as a go-between for a couple of underworld gangs. To the ever-mounting amazement of our hero and heroine, corpses begin to pile up all around them as one gang endeavors to rub out the other during a million-dollar smuggling operation. While it’s quite possible to treat murder as a farcical situation-remember Arsenic and Old Lace?–the killings in this film are sometimes too graphic to induce laughter (there’s nothing terribly mirth-provoking about gang flunkey Hans Conried lying dead in a bathtub with a bullet hole between his eyes). Another detriment is the casting of Granger and Winters, both of whom are woefully unsuited to their roles. In fact, such veteran villains as Lon Chaney Jr., Sheldon Leonard, Francis [...]

The Convair B-36 was the largest bomber, in sheer physical size, that has ever gone into service with the USAF. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the B-36 was the mainstay of the USAF’s long-range strategic bombing deterrent. Serving primarily as a strategic deterrent, the B-36 never saw any combat, although some B-36 reconnaissance aircraft flew some rather hazardous missions near or perhaps even over Soviet territory during the height of the Cold War in the mid-1950s.

The origin of the B-36 can be traced back to the early days of 1941, at a time when it seemed that Britain might fall to a German invasion, depriving the USA of any European allies in case of war, and in particular, leaving the Army Air Corps without any bases outside the Western Hemisphere. Consequently, the Air Corps felt that it would need a truly intercontinental bomber with unprecedented range, one that could bomb targets in [...]

In summarizing Glenn Miller’s military career, General Jimmy Doolittle said, “next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations.

I have produced this edit with the sincere hope of visually “Showcasing” the sheer will and extraordinary efforts that “Women” have extended in defense of freedom. Please consider, if you would, that this is but a partial view of the “Total Allied Women’s” contribution to preserving the “Worlds Freedoms”…

Sometime please thank your Grandmother, Mom, Aunt, Sister or Friend…

Even if it is in prayer…

What Happened to Emile – A Lesson in Citizenship – what happens at home if everyone did as they pleased. 1920s – silent

Documentary which claims to have found over 100 cases of adoptions between animals and humans, gives one example of a boy who was raised by apes. Produced by Major C. Court Treatt, F.R.G.S. This film on the subject of unusual relationships between humans and animals was produced and directed in the heart of Africa by Major C. Court Trealt, F.R.G.S..

Studio production trailers trace rock ‘n’ roll through the ’50s and ’60s with scenes from Rock, Rock. Rock, Celebration at Big Sur, The TA.M.I. Show, Woodstock, and many many more.