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

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Note that the "pocket books" are all twenty-five cents. As Harlan Ellison pointed out in one of his essays, they didn't have to put a price on the paperback in those days; everybody just knew.

 

[hitmouse]

I dont think this has been done before. These are taken form the brilliant Wallace and Gromit animations, if anyone has not seen them.

 

[Extollager]

Is she looking at an issue of Photoplay from 1957 with herself on the cover? No, I guess not.

 

[dask]

New Yorker (mock?) and article about Daniel Craig’s character from Knives Out.

 

[Extollager]

"It's a fake!"

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

From an early scene in We Have Always Lived in the Castle:

I have flipped the image around from how it appears in the movie.

This appears to be a nonexistent book. Even a website dedicated to scenes of libraries in movies admits that a search for it comes up with nothing. If it was created for the film from whole cloth, they did a remarkable job of making it look like a book from the time period (early 1960's.)

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Later in the same film:

Again, this appears to be completely fictional (although obviously based on The National Review.)

 

[Extollager]

It's a convincing-enough "issue," though.

 

[dask]

Probably not a movie but close enough.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Something a little different, from Giant from the Unknown (1958):

The neatness and simplicity of this map amuses me somehow, as does the fact that the guy pointing at the map says "Here's where the cross was found" as he indicates the place clearly labeled "Cross Found Here."

 

[dask]

Peter Lorre fact checking in The Beast With Five Fingers.

 

[dask]

If it’s not a movie it should be:

 

[dask]

 

[Pyan]

Third from top, middle row and far left, fourth row.:

 

[Pyan]

And the one above:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Middle of the top row:

 

[Pyan]

To the right of that one:

 

[Pyan]

And t'other side:

 

[Pyan]

And the one behind the chap's hand:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

A couple of Funny Animal comics:

Second row on the far right:

Fourth row on the far right: