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DAISY EDGAR-JONES & GLEN POWELL as KATE CARTER & TYLER OWENS
TWISTERS (2024) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

You have any idea what you're getting yourself into? I'm beginning to.
DAISY EDGAR-JONES & GLEN POWELL as KATE CARTER & TYLER OWENS
TWISTERS (2024) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

Infinity Pool
2023 | Brandon Cronenberg

Infinity Pool
2023 | Brandon Cronenberg

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896).

Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898)
Directed by William Selig

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896).

Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898)
Directed by William Selig

HOUSE M.D.
↳ S4E15: “House's Head”

HOUSE M.D.
↳ S4E15: “House's Head”

ZENDAYA as TASHI DUNCAN
CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

ZENDAYA as TASHI DUNCAN
CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

I think it's a very complicated moment for her because she sees innies as subhuman. Yet, Helly is appreciated and respected and loved in a way that Helena never has been. And realizing that this character that you saw as, like a servant, might actually be living a richer life than you, I think that that really affects her. - Dan Erickson (S2, E2 : Goodbye , Mrs. Selvig, Behind the Scenes)

I think it's a very complicated moment for her because she sees innies as subhuman. Yet, Helly is appreciated and respected and loved in a way that Helena never has been. And realizing that this character that you saw as, like a servant, might actually be living a richer life than you, I think that that really affects her. - Dan Erickson (S2, E2 : Goodbye , Mrs. Selvig, Behind the Scenes)

Alex Bortell, "Jacob Wrestles with the Angel"

Alex Bortell, "Jacob Wrestles with the Angel"

Struggling to explain that my ideal relationship dynamic is basically evil god x devoted dog.

Struggling to explain that my ideal relationship dynamic is basically evil god x devoted dog.

Tennessee Williams, from "The Glass Menagerie," originally published in 1944

Tennessee Williams, from "The Glass Menagerie," originally published in 1944

i love saying “girl fuck you”… regardless of the occasion its so healing. i could literally be alone in my room ummm girl fuck you!

i love saying “girl fuck you”… regardless of the occasion its so healing. i could literally be alone in my room ummm girl fuck you!

Philips EL3585/00 // portable open reel tape recorder (1964)

Philips EL3585/00 // portable open reel tape recorder (1964)