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Although I run a game set in 1933, this slang site should serve for any game set during the pulp era, except the very early ones (pre-WWI), or the vary late ones (1943-):

 

Jazz Age Slang

A guide to the vernacular of the 20's and 30's.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

 

My home campaign is set in an alternate 30's where some pulp-tech has changed the course of science and technology. Not everyone has a taste for Crimson Skies-GURPS Gernsback style action, but everybody can use a few cool super-science toys to throw at player's now and again. These two sites proved a great resource for me:

 

Tales of Future Past

Enter a world where engineers have no budgets. A world where gigantic machines promise mankind a future of unlimited romance, adventure, and really big robots. It's Tales of Future Past!

http://www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm

 

The Future We Were Promised

An archive and research library of futurist nostalgia

http://www.losthighways.org

 

Happy pulping

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You know, you never know what you're going to find until you start surfing around...

 

The British National Archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

 

There's an archive of Public Information Films from 1945-1951 in there that's really interesting. A lot of interest in germs and defending the country after the war.

 

Jak :thumbup:

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And, for that matter, here is the US National Archives.

 

United States National Archives

http://www.archives.gov

 

There's some pretty nice WWII pictures that can be used by pulpsters... Here's a nice pic anyone can use for a character (from the WWII pics select list section):

 

102. An American officer and a French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city, ca. 1944. 111-SC-217401. (ww2_102.jpg)

 

... and a good pic of a black female riveter

 

21. Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA. 86-WWT-3-67. (ww2_21.jpg)

 

Jak

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I'm not sure this fits, but Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoons started publishing in 1918. It started out with sports, but soon moved to unusual facts.

 

I haven't been able to find any sort of archive online, but it might be a good source for story hooks. They sell reprintings of the book collections, going back to the first in 1929.

 

http://www.ripleypress.com

 

Does anyone have one of these (or know of an online archive), and do they make good resources?

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Posted from an earlier thread I made:

In 1976, Universal gifted its entire run of Newreels, from 1929 to 1967 to the National Archive, placing them in the public Domain. Archive.org has them all available for free download at http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels.

 

Keith "real scene-setters" Curtis

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Posted from an earlier thread I made:

In 1976, Universal gifted its entire run of Newreels, from 1929 to 1967 to the National Archive, placing them in the public Domain. Archive.org has them all available for free download at http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels.

 

Keith "real scene-setters" Curtis

This is what I was looking for all along!

 

Great find! Yes, Great Find!

 

:D Jak

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Has anyone mentijoned Harry Houdini yet?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini

 

I'm watching a special on Harry Houdini now on the History Channel. Besides being a stage magician, Harry Houdini had many "real" escapes to his credit. He wouid often have police officers lock him in jail cells, which he would then escape from. Once he as locked in the cell wearing only a loin cloth to prove he wasn't carrying any lock picks or keys, and locked in jail for the night. He escaped, switched all of the prisoners around to different cells, and then escaped himself from the jail to a waiting car.

 

For any pulp character that wants to base themselves on an escape artist, Harry Houdini would be a great model. I'll see if I can find something a bit more in depth than the Wikipedia site, it's a bit brief.

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