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Burlington Zephyr luggage label

The Zephyr was a diesel-powered articulated train, built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The train featured extensive use of stainless steel, and was meant as a promotional tool to advertise passenger rail service in the United States. The construction included innovations such as shotwelding (a specialized type of spot welding) to join the stainless steel, and articulation to reduce its weight.

On May 26, 1934, it set a speed record for travel between Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, when it made a 1,015-mile (1,633 km) non-stop "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash in 13 hours 5 minutes at an average speed of 77 mph (124 km/h). For one section of the run it reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h), just short of the then US land speed record of 115 mph (185 km/h). The historic dash inspired a 1934 film and the train's nickname, "The Silver Streak".

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Engineer Strong

The Stenberg brothers

A poster for The Project of Engineer Strong*

1929

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* The Project of Engineer Strong is the Russian title for Not for Publication (1927), directed by Ralph Ince

Hemerapolis Poster

A poster for Hemerapolis by Stefan Prohazcka (Stefan 2009 @ Flickr)

Hemerapolis website

Hemerapolis Facebook page

Vampire Tales

Set design by German Expressionist painter Cesar Klein

for Genuine (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)

Dark Twenties

 A scene from The Love Of Jeanne Ney

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1927

Skyscrapers & Top Hat

Semyon Semyonov. A poster for Who Are You? (1927)

via paul.malon @ Flickr

Deco Theater

City Theater in Amsterdam, designed by Jan Wils and Oscar Rosendahl (interior), was opened on October 28, 1935

Postcard via Roloff @ Flickr

Hollywood on the Moon

1938

Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon, on Flickr

Master of the World

An A.M. Cay poster for a 1934 Harry Piel sci-fi movie*

Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon

* Read The New York Times review (1935)

Battleship Potemkin

A poster for Sergei Eisenstein movie, 1925

Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon @ Flickr

Le Grand Rex

Opened on Dec. 8, 1932, the largest cinema in Paris was designed by French architect Auguste Bluysen, with Romanian-American John Eberson as consulting architect. The design was inspired by the famous Radio City Music Hall (New York).

During the German occupation, it was used as a "Soldatenkino" (Soldier's theatre)

The theatre is host to the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, a six-day event that attracts more than 48,000 attendees and is the most important adventure and discovery film festival in the world each April. In December there is the Féerie des Eaux, an aquatic-themed event featuring 1200 onstage jets of water, centering around a recently released family film.

Images: Truus, Bob & Jan too! (1); world of andrew woodyatt (4)

Rocketeer and a Friend

By Paul Roman Martinez (a.k.a. -Kopetkai @ Flickr)

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Gilda

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)

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The Beast of the City

Jean Harlow as Daisy Stevens aka Mildred Beaumont in a 1932 gangster movie 

Via paul.malon @ Flickr

Strike

A poster for Sergei Eisenstein movie (1925)

Artist: Anton Lavinsky

Raiders of Mjolnir!

Kino Capitol

Berlin, ca. 1925
Architect: Hans Poelzig

The Man with a Movie Camera

A poster by the Stenberg brothers for Dziga Vertov's film
1929

In-flight Entertainment

Cine projector onboard the ANT-20 Maxim Gorki
The 'flying cinema' was intended for something more serious than passengers' entertainment. Being the propaganda squadron flagship, Maxim Gorky delivered the latest newsreels and (probably) feature films to the periphery.

Read more about the ANT-20 @ Dieselpunks.org

A Man in a Hispano Suiza

A poster for Jean Epstein film
1933

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