"Young
Bert Stern was already one of the leading fashion photographers of the 1950's when he resolved to shoot his first film before he was thirty. He made it, with two years to spare. The result,
Jazz on a Summer's Day, is a luminously breezy film that brings the rich color palette of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar of those years into the world of the documentary cinema."
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posted by carsonb
on Jul 5, 2010 -
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The year was 1957: the Soviet Union had launched the
cutest little sattelite ever. And it didn't just
look good, it
sounded good, too! As sweet a sound as any
avant garde composer of the 1950's might dream up! Of course, the US would have to get a little metal ball of its
own into space, but things
didn't go so well. They did manage to get one up there in
1958, but nobody knows if it sounded as good as ol' Sputnik. But anyway, most folks weren't listening to satellites 50 years ago, they were listening to, well, lessee, there was...
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posted by flapjax at midnite
on Jun 2, 2008 -
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