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Weird Tales pulp cover collection

   Fri, October 13, 2006 - 7:53 PM
So, somewhere in a land of Three's there was a discussion about H P Lovecraft. That prompted me to make a slide show of my colection of pulp art and place it on you tube.
Where did the covers come from? Once upon a time I had a wonderful, well paid job with my own window office and lots of downtime. That didn't last. But over a course of several months I did a lot of browsing on Ebay admiring the cover art of old magazines. There was heavy trafficing in Weird Tales magazine which is a pulp that ran from the 20' through the 50's with several revivals since then. Rather than get into a costly collecting mania, I decided to grab as many cover scans as I could. I tried to get a complete run of jpegs, but after a few months I got bored hunting for the missing issues.
I recently got a new Mac, so this is my IMovie test drive as well as my own little Halloween celebration. Music is "Green Fuz" by the Cramps.

I thought I could embed the movie here, but I guess not.
Here's the link anyway www.youtube.com/v/42Q-4Js8fYg
There are over 200 covers in the clip, played in chronological order, with a little bit of editing to keep things on the beat.



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Sat, October 14, 2006 - 10:14 AM
You rock!
Thank you BT!!
Sat, October 14, 2006 - 10:16 AM
You have to size the window down for the resolution to look right
Sat, October 14, 2006 - 8:56 PM
fuzzy video
I should have followed the recommended settings at Youtube but I exported with the IMovie Quicktime defaults. Too many effing formats to choose from.
Maybe I'll shoot some video in the woods next weekend and try some live action editing.