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Not having sound to work with gave rise to some pretty creative visuals. (Varieté 1925)
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Lenin Hills, Moscow, USSR, 1984
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Cadillac de ville - Gene Laurents for Vogue -1965
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El Paso Herald, Texas, November 18, 1910
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East Germany, 1974
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Fog on the Thames, London, 1954, by Inge Morath

Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982) 
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Now, Voyager (1942)
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While America was in the throes of the Great Depression, Fred and Ginger were doing what they did best inside movie theaters, serving up a glittering, tuneful helping of witty, debonair, escapist fun.
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It Came from Outer Space (1953)
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București, Romania
Sala Palatului, 1976

Caviar packing. Photo by Ivan Zakharchenko, Astrakhan, USSR, 1973 via facebook.com/sovietvisuals