Flying Cars COLOR IMAGE

Flying Cars FREE COLOR IMAGE: Title: Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 / A. Robida. Creator(s): Robida, Albert, 1848-1926, artist. Date Created / Published: 1882? Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.

Summary: Print shows a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the Opera. Many types of aircraft are depicted including buses and limousenes, police patrol the skies, and women are seen driving their own aircraft.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-13553 (digital file from original item)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

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Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title from item. Accession box no. 46. Subjects: Aircraft--France--Paris--1880-1890. Science fiction--1880-1890. Format: Conjectural works--1880-1890. Humorous pictures--1880-1890. Lithographs--Hand-colored--1880-1890. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper PAUL ORBAN IMAGE

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper FREE PAUL ORBAN IMAGE: The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated on and off. Sometimes it rocked slightly, like a boat on the water, and, in the big screen which served in lieu of a window at the front of the control-cabin, the dingy-yellow landscape would seem to tilt a little. The air was faintly yellow, the sky was yellow with a greenish cast, and the clouds were green-gray.

No human had ever set foot on the surface, or breathed the air, of Niflheim. To have done so would have been instant death; the air was a mixture of free fluorine and fluoride gasses, the soil was metallic fluorides, damp with acid rains, and the river was pure hydrofluoric acid. Even the ordinary spacesuit would have been no protection; the glass and rubber and plastic would have disintegrated in a matter of minutes. People came to Niflheim, and worked the mines and uranium refineries and chemical plants, but they did so inside power-driven and contragravity-lifted armor, and they lived on artificial satellites two thousand miles off-planet. Niflheim was worse than airless; much worse.

The chief engineer sat at his controls, making the minor lateral adjustments in the vehicle's position which were not possible to the automatic controls. At his own panel of instruments, a small man with grizzled black hair around a bald crown, and a grizzled beard, chewed nervously at the stump of a dead cigar and listened intently. A large, plump-faced, young man in soiled khaki shirt and shorts, with extremely hairy legs, was doodling on his notepad and eating candy out of a bag. And a black-haired girl in a suit of coveralls three sizes too big for her, and, apparently, not much of anything else, lounged with one knee hooked over her chair-arm, staring into the screen at the distant horizon.

"I can see them," the girl said, lifting a hand in front of her. "At two o'clock, about one of my hand's-breaths above the horizon. But only four of them."

The man with the grizzled beard put his face into the fur around the eyepiece of the telescopic-'visor and twisted a dial. "You have good eyes, Miss Quinton," he complimented. "The fifth's inside the handling machine. One of the Ullrans. Gorkrink."

Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) This etext was produced from Space Science Fiction, February and March, 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: Space Science Fiction, February and March, 1953. Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper PAUL ORBAN. +sookie tex

Metropolis (film 1927) IMAGES

Metropolis (film 1927) FREE IMAGES. Title: [Metropolis] / Klebrand. Date Created/Published: [Germany : s.n., 1926] Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 143 x 94 cm.

Summary: Poster for Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" shows the character Maria in Rotwang's transformation machine. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-13519 (color film copy transparency, top) LC-USZC4-13520 (color film copy transparency, bottom)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: POS - Ger .K3, no. 1 (F size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Exchange ; Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Subjects: Science fiction--1920-1930. Format: Lithographs--Color--1920-1930. Motion picture posters--German--1920-1930. Collections: Posters: Artist Posters.

Directed by: Fritz Lang. Produced by: Erich Pommer. Written by: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang (uncredited). Starring: Alfred Abel,
Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Music by: Gottfried Huppertz (original version). Cinematography: Karl Freund, Günther Rittau, Walter Ruttmann. Distributed by: UFA. Release date(s): 10 January 1927. Running time: 153 minutes/24 frame/s. Country: Weimar Republic. Language: Silent film, German intertitles.
Budget: 5,100,000 Reichsmark (est.). +sookie tex

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King Kong (1933 film) Original theatrical poster

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March 2, 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. King Kong (1933 film) Original theatrical poster. Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Produced by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, David O. Selznick (executive) Screenplay by: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose. Story by: Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace.

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot. Music by: Max Steiner. Cinematography: Eddie Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon Walker. Editing by: Ted Cheesman. Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures (Original) Turner Entertainment (Current via Warner Bros.) Release date(s) March 2, 1933. Running time: 105 minutes.

Country: United States. Language: English. Budget: $675,000. Box office: $1,700,000.

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A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1960 and 1961 reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO General--renewed copyrights to this poster or any collection of posters or any collection of material that might encompass this poster as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.

There is no evidence that the work's corporate author's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims or has ever claimed copyright on the image.

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The Lost World

Prof. Challenger (Wallace Beery) and Prof. Summerlee (Arthur Hoyt) behold the death struggle between allosaursus and trachodon. (The Lost World) (A First National Picture)

The Lost World By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Directed by: Harry Hoyt. Produced by: Jamie White (executive) Earl Hudson (unc). Written by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (novel) Marion Fairfax (screenplay) Starring: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Editing by: George McGuire. Distributed by: First National Pictures. Release date(s): February 2, 1925 (USA) June 22, 1925 (USA, wide release) Running time: 106 (original) 55 (Kodascope 16 mm) 64 (1991) 100 (1998) 93 (2000) Country: United States. Language: Silent film. English: intertitles. Budget: $700,000

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IMAGE CREDIT: The lost world Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: A. L. Burt Company, 1912. Original from: Princeton University. Digitized: Feb 20, 2008. Length: 309 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Science Fiction › General, Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character) Dinosaurs, Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Prehistoric peoples, South America +sookie tex

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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island - The "Bonadventure" sailed along this coast for the distance of half a mile. It was easy to see that it was composed of blocks of all sizes, from twenty to three hundred feet in height, and of all shapes, round like towers, prismatic like steeples, pyramidal like obelisks, conical like factory chimneys. An iceberg of the Polar seas could not have been more capricious in its terrible sublimity! Here, bridges were thrown from one rock to another; there, arches like those of a wave, into the depths of which the eye could not penetrate; in one place, large vaulted excavations presented a monumental aspect; in another, a crowd of columns, spires, and arches, such as no Gothic cathedral ever possessed.

Every caprice of nature, still more varied than those of the imagination, appeared on this grand coast, which extended over a length of eight or nine miles.

Cyrus Harding and his companions gazed, with a feeling of surprise bordering on stupefaction. But, although they remained silent, Top, not being troubled with feelings of this sort, uttered barks which were repeated by the thousand echoes of the basaltic cliff. The engineer even observed that these barks had something strange in them, like those which the dog had uttered at the mouth of the well in Granite House.

"Let us go close in," said he.

And the "Bonadventure" sailed as near as possible to the rocky shore. Perhaps some cave, which it would be advisable to explore, existed there? But Harding saw nothing, not a cavern, not a cleft which could serve as a retreat to any being whatever, for the foot of the cliff was washed by the surf. Soon Top's barks ceased, and the vessel continued her course at a few cables-length from the coast.

In the northwest part of the island the shore became again flat and sandy. A few trees here and there rose above a low, marshy ground, which the colonists had already surveyed, and in violent contrast to the other desert shore, life was again manifested by the presence of myriads of water-fowl. That evening the "Bonadventure" anchored in a small bay to the north of the island, near the land, such was the depth of water there. The night passed quietly, for the breeze died away with the last light of day, and only rose again with the first streaks of dawn.

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TEXT CREDIT: The mysterious island Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by: Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945). Publisher: Scribner, 1920. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Nov 8, 2006. Length: 493 pages. +sookie tex

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John Carter and Dejah Thoris

The morning of our departure for Thark dawned clear and hot, as do all Martian mornings except for the six weeks when the snow melts at the poles.

I sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots, but she turned her shoulder to me, and I could see the red blood mount to her cheek. With the foolish inconsistency of love I held my peace when I might have plead ignorance of the nature of my offense, or at least the gravity of it, and so have effected, at worst, a half conciliation.

My duty dictated that I must see that she was comfortable, and so I glanced into her chariot and rearranged her silks and furs. In doing so I noted with horror that she was heavily chained by one ankle to the side of the vehicle.

"What does this mean?" I cried, turning to Sola.

"Sarkoja thought it best," she answered, her face betokening her disapproval of the procedure.

Examining the manacles I saw that they fastened with a massive spring lock.

"Where is the key, Sola? Let me have it."

"Sarkoja wears it, John Carter," she answered.

I turned without further word and sought out Tars Tarkas, to whom I vehemently objected to the unnecessary humiliations and cruelties, as they seemed to my lover's eyes, that were being heaped upon Dejah Thoris.

"John Carter," he answered, "if ever you and Dejah Thoris escape the Tharks it will be upon this journey. We know that you will not go without her. You have shown yourself a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to manacle you, so we hold you both in the easiest way that will yet ensure security. I have spoken."

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This inage however MAY NOT be in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this case Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 - Aug 1972), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from that date. It may be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works. If your use will be outside the United States please check your local law.

TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: A Princess of Mars Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Edition: illustrated by: Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 - Aug 1972). Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Sep 27, 2005. Length: 326 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Science Fiction › General.

John Carter of Mars

“A Princess of Mars” First in series from the creator of Tarzan, this book features swordplay, daring feats, romance and six-limbed green aliens as Confederate Captain John Carter finds himself mysteriously transported to Barsoom, which we know as Mars.

All eyes turned in the direction I had indicated, and there, forging through the portals of the entrance-way rode Tars Tarkas and his fifty warriors on their great thoats.

A cry of alarm and amazement broke from the assemblage, but no word of fear, and in a moment the soldiers and nobles of Zodanga were hurling themselves upon the advancing Tharks.

Thrusting Sab Than headlong from the platform, I drew Dejah Thoris to my side. Behind the throne was a narrow doorway and in this Than Kosis now stood facing me, with drawn long-sword. In an instant we were engaged, and I found no mean antagonist.

As we circled upon the broad platform I saw Sab Than rushing up the steps to aid his father, but, as he raised his hand to strike, Dejah Thoris sprang before him and then my sword found the spot that made Sab Than jeddak of Zodanga. As his father rolled dead upon the floor the new jeddak tore himself free from Dejah Thoris' grasp, and again we faced each other. He was soon joined by a quartet of officers, and, with my back against a golden throne, I fought once again for Dejah Thoris. I was hard pressed to defend myself and yet not strike down Sab Than and, with him, my last chance to win the woman I loved. My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. Two I had disarmed, and one was down, when several more rushed to the aid of their new ruler, and to avenge the death of the old.

As they advanced there were cries of "The woman! The woman I Strike her down; it is her plot. Kill her! Kill her!"

Calling to Dejah Thoris to get behind me I

worked my way toward the little doorway back of

the throne, but the officers realized my intentions,

and three of them sprang in behind me and blocked my chances for gaining a position where I could have defended Dejah Thoris against an army of swordsmen.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: A Princess of Mars Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Edition: illustrated by: Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 - Aug 1972). Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Sep 27, 2005. Length: 326 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Science Fiction › General.