Cinema is Dope

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Rex Lease and Joan Crawford in the 1928 western, The Law of the Range. This is a very rare image and at a glance it might not be easy to recognize this is Joan Crawford in the image.

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It gets no rarer than this - an unbelievable rare image of Harold Lloyd (and notice the person below him) from the famous clock scene in Safety Last! This rare official still dates back to the 1920’s and parts of it have been torn over time. I’m presenting this image largely as is and with no special cropping. Enjoy!

Happy New Year everyone. Have fun while hanging around the clock waiting for the midnight hour to strike and as a safety note - be careful who your standing next to when the new year is rung in, as anyone standing close could expect or try and give you a big wet kiss.

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In honor of the closing of the original Alamo Drafthouse Downtown and in looking ahead to the grand opening of the Ritz (construction images on FLICKR; vintage Ritz pics on FLICKR), I proudly offer up this classic image from the Buster Keaton film, “The General.” As they say in boxing: let’s get it on, bring it on… The Ritz baby, yeah!

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Rat A Tat Tat guess whose back? Cinema still evokes in us our dreams, hopes and escape from our daily lives. At this moment in time the best cinema isn’t happening in Hollywood, it’s happening in Denmark, Germany and various countries around the world. To those that only think crap cinema is coming out, buy an all region DVD player and start exploring cinema from other countries. Here at Cinema is Dope I will provide such a journey and exploration of cinema and film festivals from around the world. I hope to turn people onto films and festivals they might not otherwise know about and allow fans of to share their thoughts. To start things off I’m posting this image from MGM’s ALL-TALKING PICTURE - “Dynamite” from 1929. This image perfectly captures how I feel sort of stumbling into a brand new site and I love Cecil B. DeMille’s composition in it.

Pardon the progress this week as I get everything setup and in place. I don’t have every page and the layout completely set.

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Roger Towne (Conrad Nagel) and Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) star in this early talkie by director Cecil B. DeMille.

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