Scopitones

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Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot - Comic Strip

Bardot and Gainsbourg in lurid form

Serge Gainsbourg - (2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion.

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Antoine - Les Elucubrations

No health and safety bothers for Antoine

Pierre Antoine Muraccioli (born 4 June 1944), known professionally as Antoine, is a French pop singer, and also a sailor, adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

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Joi Lansing - The Silencer

Another Joi Lansing Scopitone. Just beautifully camp!

Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The 1959 Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time one year before the Scopitone in France

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Joi Lansing - Web of Love

Truly camper than a row of tents.

Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening “tracking shot” in Orson Welles’ 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

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