For your Halloween listening pleasure -- Orson Welles in Dracula

The debut production of the Mercury Theatre of the Air.

Accoring to Terry Gilliam this is one of the ten best animated movies of all time.

The Mascot - Stop Motion Animation by Vladislav Starevich (1933)

Proof that the Roomba is the technology of the future

Science Fiction Theatre's adaptation of Jack Finney's short story, Such Interesting Neighbors.

Volto from Mars

Reposted from A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store...

Briefly, in 1945 and 1946, Volto was all over the funnies, both in comic books and the Sunday paper, drawn by two very well established Golden Age artists (Al Plastino and Frank Robbins), then he disappeared without a trace...

until God invented the internet.

Captain Marvel discusses the issues of the day (in 1945)

Which turn out to be a lot like the issues of the day seventy years later.

From Captain Marvel Adventures number 39.

Frankenberry meets Count Chocula meets Forry Ackerman

If you still have fond (or not so fond) memories of these colorful sugar-based products, check out this retrospective.

The prizes were much cooler before they worried about choking hazards

[Reposted from A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store...]

I suspect Raisin Bran was considered more of a kid's cereal back in the day.


From 1951