Title Cards

Here are the title cards for some okay movies you might know. Some of the designs, I think, are pretty stunning, particularly the older ones. It makes me wonder who made them and what that job must be like. I always wished I could design film credits for a living. I think I'd be good at that.

Preferred Pulp

Lillian's Request

Dear Mert,

I hope I can call you that! I have included something for you in this letter. I have included a little photograph of me. I also want to let you know that I am coming to see you soon about my books! I have one more for you to hold on to, but Dorothy (my sister, whom you’ll notice, has a bit of resemblance to me) will have the book to give to you . I am not exactly sure when , but do look out for her! I need to thank you in advance for keeping the books for me! I do not know what it is about your library, but I feel that it is the safest place to keep the books. I have two. You may read them, for they are nothing personal. But, I fear the worst, dear Mert. I do. I had the worst dream. Do you mind If I tell it to you? It was years, years later and I saw these two men wanting my books! They destroyed the library and they hurt you, but you protected my books! Mert, with all due respect, please, keep the books safe for me, please! Thank You! I will see you soon!

Yours, Lillian Gish

Pulp Ten

Literature

Here are twenty books I've never read.
And neither have you.
And you never will.
And neither will I.
Nobody will.

A Picture of Peter Saville

Really

one

of

the

best

designers

ever.



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Amazing Stories

When I was a kid, I had a picture book of cover art from science fiction pulp magazines that I used to pour over constantly. Those paintings had me rapt and though I've since lost the book somewhere, I still sometimes think about how cool that stuff was, so when I found some via stumble upon, I naturally had to hold them in a post here at PROOF.

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.

Clipping, June 18, 1978

I just fell upon Alice Bag's tumblr blog and found this clipping there. Naturally I'm reposting it as these are three of the coolest women ever born: Dianne Chai of The Alley Cats, Alice Bag from The Bags and Exene Cervenka from X. Here's what Alice had under this on her page...

“Female performers have always tended to be more reserved, but all that is changing. Rock music and sexuality are about rebellion and outrage and I refuse to dress up sweetly and play dumb.” - Alice Bag, interview with Kristine McKenna for the LA Times, June 18, 1978