Piccadilly

"With its stunning production design and photography, 'Piccadilly' depicts London through an otherworldly cocktail of influences, blending the debauchery of the rich West End set with the sleazy excitement of a Limehouse dive bar and the city's smoky Chinese quarter.

German émigré E.A. Dupont, who brought an international flair to late-'20s British cinema, also tackles the then risqué subject of inter-racial sex. As Shosho, who works her way from kitchen hand to star attraction at the eponymous nightclub, via a love tryst with its (attached) owner, Chinese-American star Anna May Wong represents the ultimate, and ultimately doomed, Deco diva." (Simon McCallum)

New music score by Neil Brand

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Down the Rabbit Hole.

Before you line up for the new Tim Burton joint, check out the very first filmed version of Alice's trip through Wonderland.

Advice for the Embryo Trainman.

A Los Angeles streetcar conducting training film from 1914. Too bad they left out the part about not texting while driving the Metrolink train.

[via Hidden Los Angeles.]

The Erotic Secrets of the Danes.

This is Danish silent film queen Asta Neilsen dancing her way into the heart (and pants) of costar Poul Reumert in the 1910 film "Afgrunden." Considered too risque at the time to be released in the U.S., it can now be safely labeled VSFW (very safe for work).



[via Fetish Deisgn, which is definitely NSFW.]