Google has recently launched an online photo gallery featuring images from Life magazine's archives, many of which have never been publicly seen before. The new Google service is available at http://images.google.com/hosted/life; it currently offers 2 million photos. In the coming months, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library.
Life's own website will begin showing the magazine's photo archive in late February.
The Time cover above shows Miriam Hopkins in the title role of Becky Sharp, the 1935 film adaptation of W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Hopkins received her one and only best actress Academy Award nomination for playing Thackeray's anti-heroine in the Rouben Mamoulian-directed production, which happens to be the first three-strip Technicolor feature film ever made.
Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL – Ultimate 2 Disc Edition
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET at the Academy
A STORY OF HEALING, THE LONG WAY HOME: Oscar's Docs
RASHOMON: Monday Nights with Oscar
A Century Ago: The Films of 1908
MILK, Prop. 8, and More Celebrity Gay Slurs
Sundance 2009: To Boycott or Not to Boycott
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That's pretty amazing.
Incredible collection with some real hard to find material.