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Monday November 07, 2011

Reblogged from NPR Original: Bitch, I Told You I Got Taste

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npr: bitchitoldyouigottaste: Some photos of WWI veterans with their tin masks, some surviving pieces, and a couple WWI plastic surgery photographs. Sorry if this offends you somehow; I find it fascinating. Because of advances made in medicine, in WWI far more soldiers were surviving disfiguring facial injuries than ever before; this led to the rise in cosmetic surgery and prosthetics- the masks, though more aesthetically appealing than the early plastic surgery, were unsettling because they obviously didn’t move with the wearer’s face, creating a dead-eyed, doll like look. They fell out of favor by WWII, but many men who had received tin masks kept and used them for life. I appreciate that they incorporated this bit of history into “Boardwalk Empire” via the Richard Harrow character.

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bitchitoldyouigottaste:

Some photos of WWI veterans with their tin masks, some surviving pieces, and a couple WWI plastic surgery photographs. Sorry if this offends you somehow; I find it fascinating.

Because of advances made in medicine, in WWI far more soldiers were surviving disfiguring facial injuries than ever before; this led to the rise in cosmetic surgery and prosthetics- the masks, though more aesthetically appealing than the early plastic surgery, were unsettling because they obviously didn’t move with the wearer’s face, creating a dead-eyed, doll like look. They fell out of favor by WWII, but many men who had received tin masks kept and used them for life.

I appreciate that they incorporated this bit of history into “Boardwalk Empire” via the Richard Harrow character.

Reblog Posted
Thursday August 18, 2011

Reblogged from Criterion Survey. Original: Criterion Survey.

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criterionsurvey: FILM INSIGHT Rodney Dangerfield (onlooker, uncredited) The thirty-five-year-old Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York, in 1921) received neither respect nor screen credit for his legendary (if peripheral) “role” as an onlooker during Kola Kwariani’s racetrack dustup in The Killing. Fans of the harried-to-the-point-of-hallucinations comic genius’s Easy Money and Back to School—and even hard-core Rodneyists who go all the way back to 1971’s The Projectionist—must, however, now admit that the Dangerfield filmography truly begins here, in these few fleeting frames from The Killing, back in 1956. Dangerfield died in Los Angeles in 2004.  Excerpt from Chuck Stephens’ “The Killers Inside Me” article about actor profiles from Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. You may also find Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Spartacus in the Criterion Collection.

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FILM INSIGHT

Rodney Dangerfield (onlooker, uncredited)

The thirty-five-year-old Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York, in 1921) received neither respect nor screen credit for his legendary (if peripheral) “role” as an onlooker during Kola Kwariani’s racetrack dustup in The Killing. Fans of the harried-to-the-point-of-hallucinations comic genius’s Easy Money and Back to School—and even hard-core Rodneyists who go all the way back to 1971’s The Projectionist—must, however, now admit that the Dangerfield filmography truly begins here, in these few fleeting frames from The Killing, back in 1956. Dangerfield died in Los Angeles in 2004.

 Excerpt from Chuck Stephens’ “The Killers Inside Me” article about actor profiles from Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing.

You may also find Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Spartacus in the Criterion Collection.

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