The first of the Universal Holmes films, "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror," opened OTD (September 18) in 1942. The last lines in the movie are taken from the 1917 Arthur Conan Doyle story "His Last Bow", set on the eve of the First World War.
Director Ridley Scott's hand-drawn cover for a draft of The Martian (released 2015). This cover page was launched into space aboard the spacecraft Orion on December 5, 2014 in an 4½ hour orbital flight test of Orion's heat shield, parachutes, jettisoning components, and on-board computers.
The prologue and epilogue of "The Monkees In Paris" (airdate February 19, 1968). These wraparound segments filmed at Screen Gems Studio 7 on December 24, 1967 comprise the final footage shot by Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, and Davy Jones for the television series The Monkees.
Peter Tork playing a guitar while sitting on a custom-built Velocipede. The "Monkee-cycle" was invented by Mattel's John W. Ryan & Robert A MacMeekin. Everything you ever needed to know about the famous not-a-unicycle can be found in this 1968 patent (filed 1966). The patent expired in 1985.
Live from the casino in the Belgian city of Knokke-Heist, 1970, Spanish rock band Los Bravos cover the track 'Looking Around' from Yes' 1969 debut album. Los Bravos' frontman, Tony Anderson, is the brother of Jon Anderson.