Soviet Union razor blade packaging from the 1950s and 60s
豚と軍艦 // 1961 // 監督 今村昌平
Pigs & Battleships, 1961, dir. Imamura Shôhei
The opening shots of this film establish a kind of place very, very different from the typical images of middle-class life as seen in most previous films. I can’t help but wonder whether or not the text in the fourth shot – “This story is entirely fictional” – is meant to be taken as an ironic phrase, given how documentary-like the shot is.
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Собор Василия Блаженого на Красной площади в Москве. 1961 год. Фото: Бёрт Глинн.
Saint Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square by Burt Glinn. Moscow, Russia. 1961.
Margaret Rutherford as amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in Murder She Said (1961). link
Appointment by Aleksandr Nikiforovich Chervonenko, 1969.
Inspiration Haven 