Femmes Fatales | Jan 9 2014 |
Above is a photo of American actress Jayne Kennedy from her hilarious television movie Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women. The shot doesn’t begin to do her justice yet she still looks great in it. Kennedy started in beauty pageants before sliding into television roles and blaxploitation flicks such as The Muthers and Big Time, before veering into sports broadcasting in 1978 with The NFL Today. In pageants she was one of the first black women to blaze a trail, winning Miss Ohio in 1970 and making the semis at Miss U.S.A. the same year. In sportscasting she was one of the first women, black or white, to earn a prominent on-camera role, making her a dual trailblazer. Somewhere in there a sex tape leaked to the public, and since it was also one of the first, she can be said to have blazed a trail there too. Both of these shots are from 1979.
Vintage Pulp | Oct 24 2009 |
Above are nine issues of the French sci-fi photonovel Star-Cine Cosmos. These were created by Italian director Franco Bozzesi, and the interiors consist of black & white film stills arranged and captioned in comic book format. They were first published in 1961, and had an immensely popular run that lasted until 1965.