The Passion of Former Days

07 July, 2011

Here Comes the Bride

Who doesn't love weddings?

Anderson wedding, Sydney, 1930s. Source

Unidentified bride and groom, c. 1927. Source

Double wedding in Llanrhaedr, Wales, 1954. Source

G McCaughey and Fumiko Isumizawa cutting their cake, Japan, 1952. Source

Jack Keating and his new wife, Sydney Australia, 1939. Source

Lena Cohn and Tony Cansdale cutting their wedding cake, Haifa, Palestine, 1947 (for more of their interesting story, do follow the link!). Source

Riley wedding, WW2, NSW, Australia. Source

Gwendoline Morris and William O Jones, Oswestry, Wales, 1954. Source

Wedding of George Grant Mackenzie and Elizabeth Anne Pearson, 1927, England. Source

Wedding picture of Stanley and Evelyn Perlman, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943. Source

Arline Wilma Preston, 1928. Doesn't she just look beautiful? Source

06 July, 2011

Days at Disney

Behind the scenes at Walt Disney Studios, from 1938-1954

Voice actors getting into character for a recording of a Lady and the Tramp song, 1953. Source

Animator with Mickey Mouse cells, 1938. Source

Walt and an animator looking over sketches for Pinocchio, 1939. Source

Animator. Source

Who can't resist making a face at the camera? Animator, 1953. Source

The voice of... whatever that dog's name was, in Lady and the Tramp. 1953. Source

Studio recording, 1953. Source

Walt and others discussing a storyboard. 1953. Source

Walt and animators looking over footage from Pinocchio, 1939. Source

Walt and Jiminy Cricket's animator, 1939. Source

Underwater filming of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954. Source

Underwater nap during 20, 000 Leagues filming (I don't know if this comes reccomended). 1954. Source

Director of 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Richard Fleischer, in diving suit and with banana. 1954. Source

Walt. Don't smoke, kids. 1953 Source

Quite the collection. 1953. Source

Premiere of Fantasia... in Brazil. Why not? 1941. Source

05 July, 2011

Somehow, the train yards of Chicago aren’t the first place I’d think of going to to take beautiful pictures. Maybe this photographer, Jack Delano, didn’t think so either-- but it was his job with the US government, and in 1943 he created this remarkable set of photographs depicting not only the details of work at the train yards (what I assume he was assigned), but the surprising beauty of the place as well. When you say a photographer has a brilliant eye, this is exactly what you mean.