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Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)
Aug
18
1961
A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.
And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now.
“And oh, are the Giants mad!”
– announcer on PA
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Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)
Aug
16
10 A.M.
An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley.
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Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
Aug
15
1927
“We know what year it is, don't we?”
– Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog
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Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)
Aug
15
1785
A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger.
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Fuoco! [Fire!] (Gian Vittorio Baldi, 1968)
Aug
15
Ferragosto
The statue of the Virgin with a bullet hole right through her eye. DP: Ugo Piccone.
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X [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)
Aug
14
“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”
– Dr. James Xavier
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…und deine Liebe auch [And Your Love Too] (Frank Vogel, 1962)
Aug
13
1961
Eva (Kati Székely). Someone offscreen lits her cigarette. DP: Günter Ost.
Three people must decide what to do on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall goes up.
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簪 [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
Aug
10
1941
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The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
Aug
9
Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..
“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”
– Elsa Bannister
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Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)
Aug
7
1949
A little boy runs down a Roman street. Superimposed a calendar page: SUNDAY AUGUST 7 S. GAETANO THE SUN RISES AT 5:15 SUNSET AT 19:42 – CRESCENT MOON. “S. Gaetano” refers to Saint Cajetan, who's feast day is on August 7. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.
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