Dave's Journal, Oct2026
Last visit to Ogunquit was March, this year, when there was snow & ice on the seaside walk ("The Marginal Way") and no people.
Yesterday was better than I expected for October, with nice weather, shops still opened and plenty of visitors.
(Click the smaller pictures for a larger pop-up version.)
Millionaire Frederick Loren invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle, in an allegedly haunted house he has rented. He promises to give each guest $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight. All the windows are barred, there is no electricity and no phones or radios to use.
(Looks like a spooky movie shot.)
Stumbled into this on the TUBI streaming channel. It's a really good 1933 vintage movie by any measure. Reading on Wikipedia, it's restoration and lost/found history goes on and on.
I dropped $10 on a used (I think) dvd - horrible copy, so I did what I had to do to get a nice copy.
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures and filmed in two-color Technicolor . . . . Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum were the last two dramatic fiction films made using this process.
Found this vintage film on the KANOPY (local library) streaming service. Legend says that it is the reference "scary house" movie for all that follow. It really was good, and I am going to somehow get a copy for myself.
PS: well this movie is currently on YouTube, and with the help of VideoDownloadHelper, I now have a copy.
Nice day yesterday, whichever window you looked out of....
..... but the back looked more "dramatic" later on.
(I was 12 .... scared me to death.)
Betty and I went dancing later ......
This is a charcoal and white chalk "drawing" on paper. (Click it for a scalable larger view.)
This knocked me out, so I thought to post it here.
(From American Art Review )
