The 1954 film, ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Announced today is a pilot to be made of Charles Willeford’s ‘Hoke Moseley’. The deeply dark set of novels are set in Miami and have quite a cult following. The books haven’t been in print for many years, so this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Website Cinema Treasures, a website devoted to all things US theater, has the story:http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/31544“The Suburban Open Air Theatre opened on October 6, 1950, featuring the musical comedy “Three Little Words” with Fred Astaire, Vera Ellen & Red Skelton. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My newest Swampy’s Florida podcast: Swampy’s Florida Podcasts: TV Horror Hosts: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2ngqqj . #Florida #Horror #Television #TV
Actor Bill Cobb has died at 90. He’s known for a litter of films, but I best know him for his role in the terrific film about Florida, ‘Sunshine State’. He’s in the film poster image on the bottom left.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s what’s playing at the Outdoor Theatre in Clearwater during this past weekend in 1957. This is a small hand card that had been passed out to movie goers at the theater. Note the amount of western films! My how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘3 Body Problem’ is an 8 part series avaible through the Netflix network. The eries is an adaption of a book with the same name. Episode 8 ends in Florida and I clipped these stills from the series. The last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is an actual advertising card for Tampa’s ’40th Street Drive-In’ back in 1954. This was back when a news reel and cartoon was part of the show. Thus noted at the bottom. The theater opened in 1953. The location lasted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This theater card is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
Here’s a flyer from today in 1951 of what was playing at the Joy-Lan Drive-In in Dade City. This advertising piece is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Movies #DadeCity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To further celebrate Thank a Mailman Day, here’s a Florida book to read! Theodore Pratt wrote many books with Florida as a setting. With out a doubt the best of these was ‘The Barefoot Mailman’. The book chronicles a fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…