MetaFilter posts tagged with 50s and fifties

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

Artw — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:27:49 -0800

Keep watching the skies - The New York Times looks back at 50s Sci Fi films in anticipation of Alien Trespass, the new film from X-Files veteran R.K. Goodwin. One or two of those classics haven't even been remade yet!

The American Look, 1958

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:56:07 -0800

If you can make it through the glacially paced intro and can put up with the typically clunky, often laughable and jingoistic fifties-style narration, this 1958 film from Chevrolet, The American Look is worth viewing. Chock full of futuristic telephones, toasters, blenders, office machines, architecture and more, it's a mid-century design lover's dream. The film is visually striking and elegant, and presented in widescreen format. Here's part 2 and part 3. Or see it here in its entirety. More from 1958: Automobile commercials: GM Cars for 1958. Hilarious jingle. Must be heard. The Edsel. "Just like riding on air, because you are!" Cadillac. "And of course there's its remarkable look of stature and substance!" Chevrolet. "Four inches wider than last year! Over nine inches longer!" Cadillac "Motordom's masterpiece!"

Vault of McCarthite Terror

Artw — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:34:05 -0800

The pictures that horrified America - how comic books tipped 50s America into a moral panic. Comiclopedia on Fredric Wertham David Hajdu, author of The Ten Cent Plague, on censorship, race, and sex

Wally Deane: rockin' 'n' rollin' 'n' coppin' a cartoon riff.

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:40:17 -0800

Hey daddy-o, when you hear that big brash horn section pump out that oddly familiar riff, only to stop cold and make way for that that prescient single note from an electric guitar, followed straightaway by a twangy voice in perfect rockabilly delivery proclaiming "well, she's got a dress that looks like a sack!", then brother, you're listening to the hoppin' boppin' sound of Wally Deane's Drag On. Once you hear it, you'll wonder why Quentin Tarrantino never put it in a movie. Wally Deane: one of the greatest rockabilly acts you never heard of.

There comes a time in every young woman's life...

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:46:55 -0800

Scans from On Becoming a Woman by Harold Shryock, M.A., M.D. (1906-2004).

Alum Falls Ohio

plep — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:26:13 -0800

Alum Falls Ohio. 'An original comic about growing up in the Fifties.'