This just made my day. I’ve spent countless hours there and this made me see it with new eyes. Posted to the Sutro Baths fan page on Facebook (by Barton Bischoff).
Sutro Baths Ruins • San Francisco from barton bishoff on Vimeo.
Related filmmaker post: Ruined? When taking a bath in San Francisco didn’t mean your options had tanked.
“Gareth Pugh’s emblematic chevron is also one of the symbols of Art Deco, and the glamour of the Deco years in Hollywood was one of the sub-currents in the designer’s latest collection.”
In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produced by the MPAA. Among others, there was to be no cleavage, no lace underthings, no drugs or drinking, no corpses, and no one shown getting away with a crime.
A.L. Shafer, the head of photography at Columbia, took a photo that intentionally incorporated all of the 10 banned items into one image.
The photograph was clandestinely passed around among photographers and publicists in Hollywood as a method of symbolic protest to the Hays Code.
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Breakdance in slo-mo and real-time…. beautiful…
B-boy Marcio from France’s Legiteam Obstruxion
