Science Fiction Double Feature

Full Ark. Across the street today in #NYC Flag at half staff for #NYPD above #Christmas holiday wreath. Background image/editing/sookietex. Ark of the Covenant by James Tissot 1836 - 1902.

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Science Fiction Double Feature. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionSunday image/editing/sookietex More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2014/12/science-fiction-double-feature.html

Post Apocalypse New York City, around 32th and 10th is concerned with the end of civilization either through war, plague, or some other general disaster.

In a world civilization after the disaster. The time frame may be immediately after or long after the catastrophe.

Focusing on the psychology of survivors the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization may have been forgotten. Post-apocalyptic may take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain.

Science Fiction Double Feature. The City on the Edge of Forever #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionSunday image/editing/sookietex More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2014/12/science-fiction-double-feature.html

Guardian of Forever: "Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway."

Astronomical images by NASA (Public Domain). Historical images by Library of Congress (PD). Brownstone and sky images, editing by sookietex. #startrek

Science Fiction Double Feature. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionSunday image/editing/sookietex More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2014/12/science-fiction-double-feature.html

A computer, never understood by the Instrumentality, which had reached the status of a God, able to foretell the future. It can only be reached walking a ruined processional highway leading into the clouds, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, closed to mankind for 10,000 years.

13th and Washington #NYC The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central Railroad to eliminate the fatal accidents that occurred along the street-level right-of-way and to offer direct warehouse-to-freight car service. It was in active use until 1980.

Science Fiction Double Feature. Pierson's Puppeteer in a General Products assembly hall #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionSunday image/editing/sookietex More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2014/12/science-fiction-double-feature.html

The Puppeteers' renown for honesty in trading allowed the species to accumulate an expansive mercantile empire called General Products; since the human Bronze Age, the Puppeteers have ruled this empire including every race in the 60-LY sphere of Known Space.

One of the most important items sold by General Products is the General Products Hull for spaceships. As one might expect from a Puppeteer, such a hull is completely impervious to everything except antimatter (which is not highly advertised but covered by a company warranty;

Flying Cars COLOR IMAGE

Flying Cars FREE COLOR IMAGE: Title: Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 / A. Robida. Creator(s): Robida, Albert, 1848-1926, artist. Date Created / Published: 1882? Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.

Summary: Print shows a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the Opera. Many types of aircraft are depicted including buses and limousenes, police patrol the skies, and women are seen driving their own aircraft.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-13553 (digital file from original item)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF. Works published before 1923, in this case 1882 ca., are now in the public domain.

This image is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this case Albert Robida (1848, Compiègne, Oise – 1926), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from the last day of that year. +sookie tex

Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title from item. Accession box no. 46. Subjects: Aircraft--France--Paris--1880-1890. Science fiction--1880-1890. Format: Conjectural works--1880-1890. Humorous pictures--1880-1890. Lithographs--Hand-colored--1880-1890. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper PAUL ORBAN IMAGE

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper FREE PAUL ORBAN IMAGE: The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated on and off. Sometimes it rocked slightly, like a boat on the water, and, in the big screen which served in lieu of a window at the front of the control-cabin, the dingy-yellow landscape would seem to tilt a little. The air was faintly yellow, the sky was yellow with a greenish cast, and the clouds were green-gray.

No human had ever set foot on the surface, or breathed the air, of Niflheim. To have done so would have been instant death; the air was a mixture of free fluorine and fluoride gasses, the soil was metallic fluorides, damp with acid rains, and the river was pure hydrofluoric acid. Even the ordinary spacesuit would have been no protection; the glass and rubber and plastic would have disintegrated in a matter of minutes. People came to Niflheim, and worked the mines and uranium refineries and chemical plants, but they did so inside power-driven and contragravity-lifted armor, and they lived on artificial satellites two thousand miles off-planet. Niflheim was worse than airless; much worse.

The chief engineer sat at his controls, making the minor lateral adjustments in the vehicle's position which were not possible to the automatic controls. At his own panel of instruments, a small man with grizzled black hair around a bald crown, and a grizzled beard, chewed nervously at the stump of a dead cigar and listened intently. A large, plump-faced, young man in soiled khaki shirt and shorts, with extremely hairy legs, was doodling on his notepad and eating candy out of a bag. And a black-haired girl in a suit of coveralls three sizes too big for her, and, apparently, not much of anything else, lounged with one knee hooked over her chair-arm, staring into the screen at the distant horizon.

"I can see them," the girl said, lifting a hand in front of her. "At two o'clock, about one of my hand's-breaths above the horizon. But only four of them."

The man with the grizzled beard put his face into the fur around the eyepiece of the telescopic-'visor and twisted a dial. "You have good eyes, Miss Quinton," he complimented. "The fifth's inside the handling machine. One of the Ullrans. Gorkrink."

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) This etext was produced from Space Science Fiction, February and March, 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

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This image may however not be in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this case PAUL ORBAN (1896-1974), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that year. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term to US works, If your use will be outside the United States please check your local law.

TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: Space Science Fiction, February and March, 1953. Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper PAUL ORBAN. +sookie tex

Metropolis (film 1927) IMAGES

Metropolis (film 1927) FREE IMAGES. Title: [Metropolis] / Klebrand. Date Created/Published: [Germany : s.n., 1926] Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 143 x 94 cm.

Summary: Poster for Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" shows the character Maria in Rotwang's transformation machine. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-13519 (color film copy transparency, top) LC-USZC4-13520 (color film copy transparency, bottom)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: POS - Ger .K3, no. 1 (F size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Exchange ; Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Subjects: Science fiction--1920-1930. Format: Lithographs--Color--1920-1930. Motion picture posters--German--1920-1930. Collections: Posters: Artist Posters.

Directed by: Fritz Lang. Produced by: Erich Pommer. Written by: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang (uncredited). Starring: Alfred Abel,
Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Music by: Gottfried Huppertz (original version). Cinematography: Karl Freund, Günther Rittau, Walter Ruttmann. Distributed by: UFA. Release date(s): 10 January 1927. Running time: 153 minutes/24 frame/s. Country: Weimar Republic. Language: Silent film, German intertitles.
Budget: 5,100,000 Reichsmark (est.). +sookie tex

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King Kong (1933 film) Original theatrical poster

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March 2, 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. King Kong (1933 film) Original theatrical poster. Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Produced by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, David O. Selznick (executive) Screenplay by: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose. Story by: Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace.

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot. Music by: Max Steiner. Cinematography: Eddie Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon Walker. Editing by: Ted Cheesman. Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures (Original) Turner Entertainment (Current via Warner Bros.) Release date(s) March 2, 1933. Running time: 105 minutes.

Country: United States. Language: English. Budget: $675,000. Box office: $1,700,000.

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Public domain explanation

A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1960 and 1961 reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO General--renewed copyrights to this poster or any collection of posters or any collection of material that might encompass this poster as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.

There is no evidence that the work's corporate author's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims or has ever claimed copyright on the image.

TEXT RESOURCE: King Kong (1933 film) From Wikipedia