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You and Office Safety (1969)

"'You and Office Safety!' is the most hilarious film on Office Safety you will watch! Made in the 1950's, this film is perfect as an eye-catching ice-breaker when delivering office safety training. Although the fashions have long-gone, and some of the behaviours in the workplace have changed, this program still addresses the following topics which are just as relevant today as when 'You and Office Safety!' was made: Good Housekeeping, Slips, Trips and Falls, Manual Handling, Electrical Hazards, Fire Safety, Correct use of Office Furniture, Being Responsible for your Actions.
It's easy to consider the office a perfectly safe work environment, and forget about the hazards that can exist. Just because you work in an office, it doesn't mean you shouldn't be concerned for your own health and safety, and that of your colleagues. You and Office Safety! is a multi-award winning film claiming the following prizes:
- Top Honors Award from the National Safety Council;
- Golden Decade Award Winner - US International Film and Video Festival 2008;
- Winner Cine Golden Eagle Award;
- 1st Place - National Visual Presentation Association (NVPA) USA;
- The Chris Award - Columbus Film Festival."

Produced by Safetycare Australia.

Originally a 16mm film, distributed by Xerox Films in 1969

(Trove)

"UFO is a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth. It was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainmentcompany.

Following syndication in the US and initial favourable ratings, a possible second series was scoped; initially entitled UFO 1999, this eventually became Space: 1999."

(wikipedia)

"Metropolis" behind the scenes (1927)

"Metropolis"

behind the scenes

via Getty Images

50's advertisement

"Men wouldn't look at me when I was skinny"

Lite-Brite commercial (1972)

Ruthven Todd (1914 - 1978)

Space cats, Joan Miró, poetry and mushrooms

Born in Edinburgh, Ruthven Todd spent most of his colourful life outwith Scotland: in London, the USA and Spain. He was an artist, a member of the surrealist school of art, amateur botanist and novelist, but is best known as a poet and writer of children’s books.

The Space Cats serie:

"Everyone goes to the moon in stories these days - why not a cat? So we have the ambitious young cat, Flyball, going off in a rocket and having extraordinary adventures. He is a delight in his space suit - a descendant perhaps of that famous adventurer Puss in Boots.

On the moon he becomes, of course, a super-cat, rescuing his master and finding surprising things in a cave. Children will love Flyball's story - grown-ups, reading it aloud, will see in it a slight take-off on the popular science-fiction thread."

From: https://www.goodreads.com/series/52775-space-cat

Ruthven Todd and Joan Miró:

Ruthven was a member of the surrealist school of art and that put him in contact with artists like Salvador Dali, Dylan Thomad and Joan Miró. With Miró, Ruthven worked on some poetry .

1) "A Poem For Joan Miro Plate III" (Cramer Books 14), 1947
2) "The glass tower for Jane Perry" (from "The Ruthven Todd Album"), 1947
3) For Joan Miro (Drawing with Ruthven Todd Poem)

More at: www.artsy.ne and www.annexgalleries.com

The botanic:

Taken from Ruthven Todd’s William Blake work.

More at: http://bq.blakearchive.org/16.2.bentley

The biography here: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/ruthven-todd

Mon Oncle (1958)

Mon Oncle, a movie by the director/actor Jacques Tati.

"Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings."

From: IMDB

The Kitchen scene:

Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea (1976)

"... Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Face of Abraham Lincoln" by Salvador Dalí.

"Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea… demonstrates a fascination with perception and the mystery of identity. Dalí layers multiple optical scales to create two paintings in one. This painting is based on a photograph that Dalí first saw in the November, 1973 issue of Scientific American. Vol. 229. No.5.. The article, “The Recognition of Faces” by Leon D. Harmon, featured a reproduced low resolution (252 pixels) monochromatic photograph of the face of Abraham Lincoln from an American $5 bill. Harmon’s computer generated “coarse –scale” portrait demonstrated the low quantity of information needed to represent a recognizable individual face. The concept awaked Dalί’s old fascination with paranoia – specifically, how much of the reading of an image is from the viewer as distinct from the thing viewed. By squinting slightly and so flattening the depth of field, the portrait of Lincoln snaps into view displacing the figure of Gala. Once seen, the image appears at each return."

From: harchive.thedali.org

A hybrid image is an image that is perceived in one of two different ways, depending on viewing distance, based on the way humans process visual input. The same technic was applied in Leonardo da Vinci's work Mona Lisa, wich is the secret behind the most famous enigmatic smile of history.

Hybrid images (spatial frequencies) was scientificaly studied and developed by Aude Oliva and Philippe G. Schyns.

More about Aude Oliva

More about P. G. Schyns

7up Bubbles (1974)

In the dawning of the 70's, Robert Abel & Associates (RA&A) brought to cinema a fresh aesthetic and innovative graphism look: ex. "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" (1979) and "Tron" (1982).

They also got into television advertisements, as you can see in that "7Up Bubbles" campaign.