2013-01-15
post/40559460463
quote 00:44:27
“ The next morning Zapruder passed on CBS News’s lower bid and sold the print rights of the film to Life magazine for a total of $150,000, equivalent to over $1 million in today’s money. Even then, this sum wasn’t unheard of: just a few years earlier, the magazine had paid $500,000 for the exclusive story of the Gemini astronauts and their wives. ”
Alex Pasternack in The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made at Motherboard, on the Zapruder’s amateur film of the assassination of JFK. Fascinating article- I hadn’t realised the footage has only been seen on US broadcast television once, or that it had such a tumultuous history of rights ownership.
2010-12-07
post/2128838977
photo 04:16:43
The PanAm Worldport, a terminal at JFK (built when it was still Idlewild, at the dawn of the jet age). Sadly, it’s being demolished:
The plan would entail the demolition of the smaller terminal, the PanAm Worldport, an architectural symbol of the 1960s jet age that has nevertheless been described as a blight on the airport by passengers and airline executives alike.
Delta has long lamented the state of the Worldport, which it uses for many of its international flights, describing the space as unpleasant and unfit for its role as a gateway to the United States for international travelers.
