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1. In the original pilot for Friends, the amusement was called Friends Like Us, utilized a antithetic font for the credits, and played R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" arsenic the taxable song. Friends Like Us was really what the amusement was called erstwhile the formed auditioned for it and signed on. However, they changed the sanction to Six of One (and yet conscionable Friends) to debar confusion with Ellen DeGeneres' TV sitcom These Friends of Mine, which had premiered earlier that year:
2. This is 1 of the last photos of James Dean alive. He was filling up his Porsche astatine a state presumption successful LA's Sherman Oaks vicinity earlier driving up to enactment successful the Salinas Road Race — helium would dice a fewer hours aft this photograph was taken:
3. Here's a photograph of a 23-year-old Sean Connery competing successful a Mr. Universe pagent successful 1953 (and no, helium didn't win):
4. Here's Jim Henson successful 1963, puppeteering Rowlf the Dog, who was the archetypal breakout Muppet character. Rowlf was the sidekick quality connected The Jimmy Dean Show:
5. And present is simply a behind-the-scenes photograph of Daniel Seagren, Jim Henson, and Frank Oz rehearsing a Bert and Ernie country for Sesame Street:
6. Oscar the Grouch was orangish during the archetypal play of Sesame Street, but that wasn't meant to beryllium his archetypal color. Originally, Jim Henson wanted Oscar's fur to beryllium magenta. However, colour TVs astatine the clip couldn't truly process magenta precise well, truthful Jim settled connected orange. He changed his mind, though, and gave Oscar his signature greenish fur for Season 2 — with Oscar explaining the colour alteration was a effect of him being covered successful mold and slime aft a abrogation to a swamp:
7. This is what Gucci's Fifth Avenue store looked similar successful 1965:
And this is what the store looked similar wrong (at the time, they didn't merchantability ready-to-wear clothing, lone accessories, and leather goods similar shoes and bags):
8. Here's a behind-the-scenes photograph from The Godfather of Marlon Brando getting his Vito Corleone aging constitution applied:
9. And here's a behind-the-scenes photograph of Alfred Hitchcock directing Janet Leigh successful the iconic ablution country successful Psycho:
10. Julie Andrews was not the archetypal idiosyncratic to play Mary Poppins connected screen. It was Mary Wickes (pictured below) who played the quality successful 1949 successful a one-hour TV adaptation that was portion of CBS’s Studio One series:
11. The Beatles' show connected The Ed Sullivan Show for the archetypal clip is simply a seminal infinitesimal successful some modern American and popular civilization history. Everyone's representation of it is usually of the achromatic and achromatic footage of the performance. Here's what the show looked similar successful colour and portion being filmed:
12. And this is the Beatles, but for George Harrison, who was sick, with Ed Sullivan (and their manager, Brian Epstein, connected the left), the time earlier the taping, during their rehearsals:
13. Here's a photograph of Fidel Castro with Malcolm X successful 1960. Castro was visiting New York for a United Nations conference, but was snubbed by immoderate hotels and governmental figures, truthful Malcolm X arranged for him to enactment successful a edifice successful Harlem, wherever helium received a warmer welcome:
14. Here's a photograph of famed designer Frank Lloyd Wright wrong the precise archetypal modern-day mall, Southdale Center successful Minneapolis, a period aft it opened successful 1956:
15. Anna Wintour has LONG been a fig successful the manner world. Here is simply a photograph of her attending the Yves Saint Laurent Spring 1972 Haute Couture Collection manner show, erstwhile she was an editorial adjunct astatine Harper's Bazaar UK:
16. This is what the McDonald's motion looked similar earlier it added its iconic treble Golden Arches to it successful 1968:
17. Here's a screenshot of precise early TV makeup. They needed peculiar constitution techniques due to the fact that the black-and-white cameras couldn't seizure colors the mode our eyes do. Lipsticks oregon blushes successful reddish often appeared excessively acheronian oregon muddled connected screen, truthful actors utilized shades similar green, blue, oregon adjacent purple to marque their lips and features amusement up decently successful grayscale. They besides needed to bash ample contours truthful that radical would beryllium capable to marque retired parts of the actors' faces done the low-resolution:
18. The Flintstones was sponsored by Winston Cigarettes during its archetypal 2 seasons, and the characters did respective integrated commercials for the brand:
19. Shot by Disneyland lensman Renie Bardeau, this is the last photo taken of Walt Disney astatine Disneyland successful 1966:
20. This is James Earl Jones successful 1962, successful 1 of his archetypal TV appearances. He played Othello successful The Cue for Passion, a five-episode bid which featured excerpts from the works of Shakespeare:
21. And no, this is NOT James Earl Jones! This is his father, Robert Earl Jones, who was besides an actor:
22. Here's a photograph of a 3 ½-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio alongside his stepbrother connected the beforehand structure of their location successful LA successful 1978:
23. These are photos of Mae West successful 1920, earlier she dyed her hairsbreadth her signature platinum blonde color:
24. No, this is NOT a photo of Betty White successful the 1940s. This is really Betty dressed up successful '40s apparel to promote her hosting the 75th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade (which was successful 1964). As portion of the promotion, Betty dressed up successful antithetic eras during which the parade was held...
...like the 1890s and 1920s:
25. Much similar we'd propulsion '90s, '80s, oregon '00s nostalgic-themed parties today, radical successful the '50s threw 1920s-themed parties. Below are a mates of photos from the '50s of a 1920s-themed party, implicit with everyone wearing period-appropriate costumes and the pistillate connected the near doing the "Charleston":
26. These clay models of Woody and Buzz's faces were created for Toy Story truthful that they could beryllium scanned into the machine whenever needed truthful that animators could ever get the close shape, depth, and standard erstwhile animating them:
27. To beforehand the remake of Child's Play successful 2019, promotional posters of Chucky sidesplitting Toy Story characters were released:
The poster designs were based connected the promotional quality posters for Toy Story 4 — which was released connected the aforesaid time arsenic Child's Play:
28. This is what it would person looked similar if you were sitting successful the assemblage during a taping of I Love Lucy:
29. And if you ever wondered what the acceptable looked similar successful color, present is simply a uncommon promotional colour photo:
30. You mightiness not person noticed, but Michael Keaton's Batman wears Nike sneakers successful Batman and Batman Returns. However, determination are contradictory reasons wherefore this came to be. According to the adjunct costume decorator connected the 1989 Batman film, 1 of the producers had struck a merchandise woody with Nike and needed them successful the movie, and due to the fact that they didn't acceptable stylistically with immoderate of the different characters oregon inheritance actors, they incorporated them into Batman's costume. The pb costume decorator connected the 1989 movie, meanwhile, remembers Nike gifting it to them without a tie-in:
31. Batman has really appeared onscreen a batch longer than you mightiness realize. He was archetypal portrayed successful 1943, by Lewis Wilson (with Douglas Croft arsenic Robin) successful a film serial:
32. This is what Macy's New York flagship store looked similar successful 1908:
And present is the store successful 2025:
33. No photos of the Titanic's Grand Staircase beryllium (well, astatine slightest earlier it sank). The photos we spot of the Grand Staircase are really from the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, which had an identical staircase. The 2 ships were built side-by-side and were nearly identical:
34. This is Steve Jobs astatine the precise archetypal Apple event successful January of 1984, wherever helium unveiled the archetypal Macintosh:
35. And here's a photograph of the iPhone erstwhile it was archetypal introduced connected Jan. 9, 2007, astatine Macworld, with radical snapping pictures of it with their integer cameras — the precise instrumentality the iPhone would soon mostly replace:
36. These are a mates of photos of Sarah Jessica Parker filming the very archetypal occurrence of Sex and the City successful June of 1997:
37. Here is simply a screenshot of Britney Spears and Madonna rehearsing the iconic buss they did during the 2003 VMA's "Like A Virgin"/"Hollywood" opening performance:
38. And here's a screenshot of Christina Aguilera kissing Madonna during rehearsal, which wasn't seen during the archetypal telecast due to the fact that the camera radical chopped to Justin Timberlake to get his reaction:
39. These are the Polish movie posters for Sunset Boulevard and Star Wars: A New Hope. The crushed they look truthful chiseled is that during communist rule, artists had constricted entree to Western selling materials (sometimes the films themselves were adjacent smuggled in) and were fixed originative state to construe films nevertheless they wanted. Instead of showing actors oregon scenes, they utilized bold graphics, surreal imagery, and symbolism to seizure the film’s temper oregon themes:
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