It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Noirsville Tune of the Week
"Foul Owl on The Prowl" From In the Heat of The Night (1967)
Foul Owl On The Prowl
(Boomer & Travis)
There's a foul owl on the prowl tonight.
Hey, little lark, get outta the dark,
Foul owl on the prowl.
Hey little jay, stay out of his way,
Foul owl on the prowl.
You just might be the quail he'll tail,
Foul owl on the prowl.
You just might be the swallow he'll follow,
Foul owl on the prowl.
If you hear him hoot, scoot,
If you pass his tree, flee,
If you catch his eye, fly,
Don't wait to say goodbye.
He's got a yen for a purty little hen,
Foul owl on the prowl.
He's hungry for a chick, so get home quick,
Foul owl on the prowl.
If you hear him hoot, scoot,
If you pass his tree, flee,
If you catch his eye, fly,
Don't wait to say goodbye.
He's got a yen for a purty little hen,
Foul owl on the prowl.
He's hungry for a chick, so get home quick,
Foul owl on the prowl.
Foul owl on the prowl.
Foul owl on the prowl.
Foul owl on the prowl.
Foul owl on the prowl.
Foul owl on the prowl.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Noirsville Noir Images of the Week
Soho by Night - Bips |
Copacabana - NY Daily News |
Chicago Subway? - Unknown |
Brooklyn - Unknown |
Times Square - NYC - Unknown |
Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Hollywood |
Unknown |
Chestnuts - Unknown |
The Gold Coast - Chicago - Milton Halberstadt, Photographer |
New York City Archive |
Unknown |
New York City Archive |
David Battel |
New York City Archive |
Vilma (center) with fellow Clifton's Cafeteria Camera Girls - Vilma Caldwell |
Unknown |
Canal Street Station - Stanley Kubrick |
Signal Hill, Los Angeles - Life |
WeeGee and model |
Lovers - Brassai |
New York City Archive |
Unknown |
New York City Archive |
Lloyd Sandgren |
New York City Archive |
Bettie Page - Camera Club shoot |
Dino, Sammy, and Frank |
NYC Getty Images |
New York City Archive |
Jean Depara |
Chicago Orange Garden Restaurant - Unknown |
Frank Oscar Larson |
Chicago 1950s - Unknown |
Vivian Maier - Street Photographer |
New York City Archive |
Lena Horne |
Pratt Street, and the long Dock - Arbury Bodine |
Diane Arbus |
Movie Star Photos - Irving Klaw |
Camera Club Girl? How Noir of Her - Unknown |
Times Square - New York City |
Kamera Club Girl - How Noir of Her - Unknown |
Photographer - Unknown |
Camera Club Girl? How Noir of Her - Unknown |
Unknown |
Chestnuts - Unknown |
The dancers of the Nell Gwynn Strip Club in Soho having a cup of tea between dances, 1959. - AP |
New York City Archives |
New York City Archives |
Camera Club Girl? How Noir of Her - Unknown |
New York City Archives |
Photographer Frank Larson |
Mexico City - Unknown |
Bettie Page - How Noir Of Her? - Charles West |
New York City Archives |
New York City Archives |
Louis Faure |
A Quartet of Camera Club Girls showing off their assets? How Noir of Them? - Unknown |
New York City Archives |
New York City Archives |
New York City - Unknown |