Naked City mystery guest
Do you know her?
Canned Heat and the Brady Bunch
The Canned Heat album Future Blues makes a cameo appearance. As done the Stones’ Exile of Main Street.
Naked City mystery guest
He plays Maung Tun, a Burmese sailor in New York.
A Gregg Toland moment (Naked City)
Jack Priestly, the principal cinematographer for the television series Naked City, pays homage to Gregg Toland.
Adam and Libby (Naked City)
As Adam Flint gets the latest info on a murder investigation, his girlfriend Libby Kingston is — is doing what, exactly?
Naked City mystery guest
He plays a painter.
“Greenwich Village Today” (Naked City)
I’m confident that the man in the white shirt is the show’s producer, Herbert B. Leonard, in beatnik drag.
Thank you, local news
The local news informs me that salt will work to melt ice but only on treated roads.
Henry, television
“The strip must be from the early days of TV, before people (or parents) determined that sitting too close to the set was Bad For Your Eyes.”
Sid Caesar (1922–2014)
With a link to delirium.
Ratner’s (Naked City)
I like the awning: “1½ HOUR FREE PARKING.”
Any port in a storm
“Five-hour-energy-dot-com. This is NPR.”
Glenn Gould on watching television
“I don’t approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.”
A Naked City smile
Get back in character, young lady! This is the Naked City.
Naked City mystery guests
Can you identify the actors? One is making his first screen appearance.
Telephone exchange names on screen
From Naked City, quite a few exchanges.
Pocket notebook sighting (Naked City)
Ready for its close-up.
Libby Kingston’s advice
“Whenever you want to know who you are, don’t ask anybody else. Just ask yourself.”
Chris Chase (Irene Kane)
She starred in Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss (1955).
Failure v. non-success
From Naked City.
Winter weather wisdom
CNN tells us to wear a hat.
A Times Square record store
As seen on Naked City.
A Naked City Mongol
Yes, there are all kinds of ways to enjoy television. This post involves a highly specific application of the studies-in-material-culture approach.
Telephone exchange names on screen: SUsquehannah
From Naked City, a Manhattan exchange, serving the Upper West Side.
Domestic comedy
“I was not only sentient; I was watching.”
Huston on Agee
“As a guest on The Dick Cavett Show (February 14, 1972), John Huston told a story about James Agee having a first heart attack, at a resort in California.”
Marlon Brando on acting
“t’s a way of getting on and providing food and shelter for yourself and family.”
More deep-focus Lassie
There’s more to Lassie than I thought.
Deep-focus Lassie
A striking shot, perhaps a minor homage to the great deep-focus pioneer Gregg Toland.
Man��s Human evolution
Scott Pelley refers to “man’s” evolution, then “human” evolution.