Screen shots from the Whitney Museum website…
Hey, that’s “The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee.”
It’s not the worst film ever made in the 1960s.
And it can be bought for a mere $10 here.
W in PM – PM in W
We have been studying spreadsheets and pouring over periodicals…
These numbers are fairly accurate, perhaps, plus or minus 10 (or 20?).
According to our calculations, between June 1940 and June 1948:
Weegee published 797 photographs in PM.
Weegee published 436 stories in PM.
Number of stories by year:
1940 – 56
1941 – 138
1942 – 78
1943 – 92
1944 – 53
1945 – 17
1946 – 3
1947 – 2 or 3
1948 – 2
Stories by (slightly absurd and subjective) subjects:
alphabetically:
animals – 11
car crash – 31
children – 8
crime – 94
entertainment – 66
fire – 72
holiday – 4
labor – 13
NYC – 5
politics – 23
signs – 1
transportation – 8
weather – 19
Weegee – 17
WWII – 63
numerically:
crime – 94
fire – 72
entertainment – 66
WWII – 63
car crash – 31
politics – 23
weather – 19
Weegee – 17
labor – 13
animals – 11
children – 8
transportation – 8
NYC – 5
holiday – 4
signs – 1
In the 436 stories, between 1940 and 1948, Weegee published 797 photographs in PM…
Weegee Daily… September 15, 1944… Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models…
PM Daily, September 15, 1944
80-Mile Winds Lash the City as Hurricane Wreaks Damage Along Atlantic Coast
The big storm broke windows all over town. A night watchman and a policeman clean things up at Cohen’s Silk Store at Grand and Allen Sts.
Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models in the window of the Edith and Billie Bridal Salon, 271 Grand St.
Noir-ish lighting at Grand and Allen Sts.
Glamorous sweets on signs, and a B, in the window of Natalie Bakery Inc, 271 Grand St.
Weegee Daily, September 15, 2013
New Product Alert… Nascent Naked City… Coming Soon…
As soon as we leap over a few last minute technical and sensory, perfumed and odorous hurdles: blood smelled like the beach, fires smelled like cotton candy, Sammy’s smelled like Coney, the mannequins couldn’t smell, and what does sleep smell like?
We’re publishing a scratch and sniff version of Nascent Naked City!
The Outlaw: Rare Rear View…
Weegee, Naked Hollywood, 1953
“Rare View”
Rear View
66 Years ago today… Howard Hughes – “a lonely and unloved, money loving man.”
Weegee Daily… September 12, 1941… “quiet understanding, no excitement.”
PM Daily, September 12, 1941
Orthodox Jews heard the President in East Side spots…
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, September 12, 2013
Yesterday the President could have been heard in East Side spots, like this restaurant at East Broadway and Jefferson Street… “quiet understanding, no excitement.”
We kinda phoned this one in…
WD Photo by Ceegee
66 Years Ago Today…
PM Daily, September 11, 1947
Weegee Daily… September 11, 1941… This unidentified girl…
PM Daily, September 11, 1941
This unidentified girl had just left the Sheridan Theater near the exploded water main but the flood was so deep that she couldn’t get across the street…
Weegee Daily, September 11, 2013
Sheridan Theater is long gone; St. Vincent’s hospital is rapidly diminishing…
To be continued…
66 Years Ago Today… A Sumptuous Horse Opera…
PM Daily, September 10, 1947
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