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08:08:15-09:05:15 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: Domenica del Corriere was an Italian weekly newspaper which ran from 1899 to 1989. It came out every Sunday free with Corriere della Sera, but was also sold separately. Famous for its cover art -- examples of which, above -- its issues are still avidly collected.
09:12:15 -- PICTURE OF THE WEEK: From 1964, artist's concept of a Philco Aeronutronic lifting body Mars Excursion Module (MEM), approximately 30 feet long and 33 feet wide at the tail, intended to carry three astronauts from a mother ship down to the Martian surface. The proposed hull consisted of columbium and nickel alloy. The MEM would have been used for a 40-day stay on the Martian surface before ascending again for a rendezvous with the main spacecraft, much in the same manner as used in the Apollo lunar missions at the end of the decade. Aeronutronic was a defense-and-space related division of Ford Motor Company.
09:19:15-10:10:15 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: From 1951, theater lobby cards for The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Thing From Another World, and The Man From Planet X -- the first three visitors-from-another-world-themed full-length sci-fi flicks, each with a decidedly different take on the biology and motivation of the aliens. Despite the colorful promise of the lobby cards, all three were filmed in black and white.
10:17:15-11:14:15 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: From the 1963 edition of the United Kingdom's Eagle Annual, illustrations for and first page of an article entitled "Flying Saucers - Fact or Fiction?". The annual was published by the British comics periodical Eagle throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Published in hardcover, the 1963 annual featured 58 articles and features, under the categories stories, adventure strips, sport, interest, humorous strips, true life adventures, and hobbies. The four-page flying saucer article came under the "interest" category, and focused on the first-hand accounts of an RAF pilot from 1955, and two Australian railroad engineers from 1954.
11:21:15-01:16:16 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: A selection of cover illustrations from various 1950s issues of Galaxy Magaine. The illustrations were the work of famed sci-fi illustrator and pioneering visual artist Ed Emshwiller.
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