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Film history told through public-domain frames, production records and the craft hiding inside images you know.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz built the most successful comedy in television history, owned the studio that made it, and ended their marriage the day after they finished shooting.
5 min read
Cher filed for separation in 1974, married Gregg Allman four days after her divorce was final, and then returned to CBS to co-host a variety show with her ex-husband for another two years.
5 min read
An actor hospitalised by his own make-up, an actress set alight by a special effect, and a sixteen-year-old lead who was already on studio-supplied medication. The documented aftermath of the most-watched film ever made.
6 min read
Star Trek was a ratings failure that ended in 1969. What happened to the people in the publicity photographs is stranger than the show: a NASA recruitment contract, an internment-camp childhood made public, and a ninety-year-old captain who actually went to space.
4 min read
Georges Méliès burned his own negatives and ended up selling toys in a Paris railway station. A hand-coloured print of A Trip to the Moon turned up in Barcelona in 1993 — fused into a single lump.
3 min read
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