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All My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966)

Jan

18

roses

All My Life (1966)

A still of a red rose bush next to a fence. Image via à pala de walsh. DP: Bruce Baillie.

Roses for the end of the Wars of the Roses (note: January 18 is when Henry VII married Elizabeth of York in 1486; the wars would continue until June 16 the following year).

“All my life, hold me close to your heart But all else above Hold my love, darling, just hold my love”

– Ella Fitzgerald, All My Life (Sidney D. Mitchell & Sammy Stept), 1936

In one continuous shot, the camera tracks a fence and rose bushes while Ella Fitzgerald's 1936 debut song All My Life is playing.

Mr. Hayashi (Bruce Baillie, 1963)

Dec

5

World Soil Day

Mr. Hayashi (1963)

Mr. Hayashi's hand digging in soil.

Someone digs in soil on World Soil Day.