Spotting old books and magazines and dummy newspapers in TV, movies and old photos

[JunkMonkey]

Holy cow! These are nothing less than brilliant!

Thank you. I had to stop doing it as it used to confuse people. I got fed up with telling people I hadn't sent them the wrong book.

 

[Toby Frost]

Those are awesome! Great work! Is Goldstein being played by Trotsky?

I remember a Father Brown short story which revolved around a secret door in a library. Father Brown deduced this by noting that all the book titles on the door were false - "The Life of Pope Joan" was one of them. Seems a bit counter-productive not to give them proper titles.

 

[Don]

Holy cow! These are nothing less than brilliant!

Yes! The perfect dust cover for The Man in the High Castle. Does everyone know how Philip K Dick's Biblical reference, the grasshopper lies heavy, pertains to old age? The time in your life when you again fear stairwells as you did when you were a very small child? You experience your second childhood, if you live long enough.

 

[dask]

Maybe not a movie but in the ballpark:

 

[Pyan]

Available from Amazon - £4.95...

 

[Pyan]

Also on Amazon, but not with this somewhat lurid cover. In fact, I suspect the cover is to increase sales, rather than an accurate reflection on the story.

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.

 

[Bick]

Also on show:

 

[Pyan]

Another one:

 

[Extollager]

Great finds! It is fun to track these things down!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From The Psychotronic Man (1979):

Notable because the relevant newspaper article is not the big headline, but the secondary story about the "mystery slaying." It looks to me that they took a real newspaper, instead of creating a fake one, and pasted this fake article over it.

I'm not sure who the "math genius of the century" might be who rates a front page headline.

 

[Extollager]

Yes, that's the name of a real newspaper all right. It looks, though, like it was long defunct in 1979, but a Chicago Herald has since been issued.

Chicago Herald - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

THE CHICAGO HERALD

News Down the Middle

www.thechicagoherald.com

 

[Danivel]

Today at 4:42 PM

I was watching a Turner Classic Movie I had recorded. The San Francisco Enquirer newspaper they showed had an article on Data on 8,000 Antartic Meteors. I Googled that and it led me to this website where one of your members had posted an article that mentioned 8000 Antartic Meteors. I think his posted name is Extollager. The movie is a Perry Mason movie from 1935, In The Case Of The Curious Bride.

Just thought you might be interested, his post showed a newspaper date of 1951. Looks like that article about the Data on 8,000 Meteors has been used for a very long time.

Dan...

 

[Extollager]

Great catch, Danivel! It's remarkable how some of these headlines got recycled for years. If I were making a movie with a newspaper in it, I'd want o keep that going.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Great catch, Danivel! It's remarkable how some of these headlines got recycled for years. If I were making a movie with a newspaper in it, I'd want o keep that going.

If I was making a movie I'm pretty sure I would put a newspaper in just so I could!

Welcome aboard, Danivel!

 

[Toby Frost]

"I read the news today, oh boy!
8,000 Antarctic meteors..."

 

[Dave]

H.G.WELLS - The Time Machine in Better Call Saul

 

[Extollager]

I can’t say which one, but this is some literary offering in the old Everyman’s Library. The show is the Police at the Funeral teleplay, a Campion story with Peter Davison, late 1980s.

 

[Extollager]

For comparison with the previous picture, here's an old Everyman in red cloth with the embossed design:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From the 1949 film noir Undertow:

"Ballot Awaited Today After Amendments" is pretty vague.

"City Leaders Confer on Vital Soil Conservation Program" seems more informative.

 

[Extollager]

The book with the white diagonal markings is an edition, I think a Faber, of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. We get a clear view of it in this Inspector Morse teleplay, Service of All the Dead. On the shelf is I Am My Brother, John Lehmann’s second volume of autobiography (1960). The book next to I Am My Brother looks like it could be titled Aces of the Air, but I don't find a match for it. I'm pretty confident about "of the Air," though. I see also a Penguin Classic with a red or yellow band at the top.