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At Blind Skeleton, we’re fascinated by the way vintage entertainment intersects with the technology of its time. Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, with its fantastical gadgets […]
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Imagine a world where music wasn’t a click away but a treasure spun from shellac and steel. This was the landscape Henry Burr navigated, a Canadian-born tenor who […]
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The 1925 Soviet film “Battleship Potemkin” by director Sergei Eisenstein is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative films in cinema history. Set during the […]
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Title: A Nightmarish Vision: Revisiting “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” In the annals of cinema history, few films have etched as indelible a mark as Robert Wiene’s “The […]