(Part 3) Top products from r/ObscureMedia

My hubby is a lover of obscure art, film, games, and more. His birthday is around the corner, and although we do not have a shared interest in these things, I have in the past been able to buy him some wonderful gifts by finding people like him on reddit and other online sites and hearing from people who share his passions about prized possessions and great finds. I'm hoping this community might be able to help me in that way.

To give an idea of his tastes, I will list some of the gifts I have been able to give him in the past which are now well-loved:

• Melies Box Set
  
  
• Norman McLaren Boxed Set
  
  
• The Man Who Planted Trees - Frédéric Back
  
  
• Winsor McCay - The Master Edition
  
  
• La Linea - Osvaldo Cavandoli
  
  
• Lynd Ward - Six Novels in Woodcuts
  
  
• Ulrich Merkl's republication of Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McKay <-- Prized possession.
  
  He also lives the silent comedy era, and has boxed sets of Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Arbuckle, Bowers, and probably some others I'm not thinking of.
  
  So, chime in if you think you have similar tastes. What are your personal prized possessions? What might fit into his collection that is missing?

No problem! There was a reprint of After Man in 2018, and it's affordable under $40. Man After Man has indeed been out of print since 1990 and is fairly pricey between $100-300. Dougal Dixon has many other books too such has The New Dinosaurs, If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today, and many other dinosaur related books (many for children.) Most of these are out of print as well and are expensive, but worth it if you're really interested. Maybe you could luck out at your local library and just rent them.

There is however a rare book he made that was only released in Japan for some reason (and of course it's the most badass one) called Greenworld (グリーン・ワールド) about humanity colonizing an alien world and taming certain inhabitants. Although I've never seen Greenworld for sale on English sites, if you know how to order from Amazon Japan you can find the two books in the series for less than $20 a piece.

I linked to some PDF's in my original comment if buying isn't an option.

The Highlander Folk School later became heavily involved in the Civil Rights era. Among those that took classes there were folks like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. (Which lead to billboards that accused King of attending a "Communist Training School".)

Highlander's founder, Myles Horton, is a personal hero of mine. If you'd like to learn more about his work, I'd recommend this interview. His autobiography, The Long Haul is also excellent.

Also, note that future director of On The Waterfront and East of Eden Elia Kazan had one of his first credits as a production assistant on this film.

A diving suit was created for the dog star Benji and Marineland is the location of the historic event of the first scuba diving dog.

There was a book published to document this event.

From IMDb:
Here now is one of Florida's very rare (if not lost) motion picture gems, and a ton of fun for the whole family. Filmed in 1981 as part of an ABC's "Afterschool Special" anthology series, this half-hour puppy flick served as a publicity stunt both for the Benji film company and for Marineland of Florida. Located on Highway A1A (the Route 66 of Florida's east coast) this Sunshine state counterpart to Marineland of California was one of Florida's first theme parks before Disney.

Besides Benji, the park has also shared the spotlight with Clint Eastwood in "Revenge of the Creature" (sequel to "Creature from the Black Lagoon")Lloyd Bridges in his "Sea Hunt" series, and Elvis Presley in "Live a Little, Love a Little." Alas today, the ravages of time, weather, and economics have turned the facility from a once famous dolphin show site, into a strictly marine biology education camp. Still, should you happen to spot this classic on DVD at your local Wal-Mart or Target Store, (along with the aforementioned other 3) snatch it up quickly before it's gone! You won't be sorry.

Yes, especially after how great Hollywood Said No! was.

Wow. That brings back a ton of memories.

If anyone is interested, the event is talked about in detail in this book http://www.amazon.com/Want-My-MTV-Uncensored-Revolution/dp/0452298563

This was animated by Richard Williams Studio, the animation team behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The channel that uploaded this video has a wealth of animated content related to Richard Williams, the man who literally wrote the book on animation, well worth a look.

this script was written for my dad. the film was made without permission. i didn't even hear about it until it was already made, likely because it bombed. in the biography Nightmare of Ecstasy: Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. my dad is quoted. in it it tells the story of how/why my dad hired him to write scripts for him.
it was made without permission.

If anyone's interested there's a Soviet sci-fi movie
http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Dowells-Testament-Olgert-Kroders/dp/B00005M20D

as well as the book the movie is based on.

You might be interested in Gay New York

This is probably a tie-in to the Pranks book from Re/Search at the turn of the 90s. All of these people had some degree of underground cred, Joe Coleman as a rather amazing, if twisted, artist and Mark Pauline was with Survival Research Labs. Karen Finley actually showed up in the news quite a bit as Jesse Helms used her work to go after the NEA. Boyd Rice has a resume of questionable decisions too long to explain here.

Paul Boyer's "When Time Shall Be No More" is an good and thorough critique of the history of those end-times mindsets-well worth the read.

I wish! There is a version available on Amazon but the reviews all say it’s a totally unreadable “Google-translate” job.

https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Globe-Lunar-Trilogy/dp/1543042295

This book is a good resource... pricey, but maybe you can find it at a library?

>It featured mostly local acts in the Dallas music scene.

True, but the show occasionally featured nationally known guest performers, including The Monkees, Herman's Hermits, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Sonny and Cher, The Outsiders and even Frank Zappa

A book about the show came out a couple of years ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Sumpn-Else-Show-Bud-Buschardt/dp/0989402401

It was even a comic first.

All Darger's artwork is reproduced in this book, along with selections of his writing. Very few people have read all of In The Realms of the Unreal, and I'm not sure many people would want to; according to the descriptions I've read it's fairly tedious and incomprehensible; Darger goes back over the same thing several times, is obsessively detailed about certain things, goes off on wild tangents, lifts whole passages from other books, uses the same stock phrases over and over again, and so on. The main reason In The Realms is so long is because Darger never went back and copy-edited anything, he just wrote more material, compulsively. Though he's not normally considered to be mentally ill, he seems to have been afflicted with some sort of hypergraphia, the overwhelming urge to write. One of the other things he wrote apart from In The Realms, an autobiography called The History of My Life, tails off into a 4000 page tangent about a tornado.