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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colescott was inspired to begin his Dillinger series after a visit to the old Biograph Theater in Chicago, where Dillinger was ambushed by the FBI. For his version of Dillinger's famed raid on the Mason City, Iowa, bank, Colescott again went to the scene, interviewed Iowans who had been present for the great event. Colescott's version breaks the bank heist into a series of movie stills, evokes Dillinger's gaiety and derring-do with "Fun" lettered in a corner and a half-naked doll, with a star in her navel, strumming a banjo-ukulele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thirties on Their Minds | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...wake of Bonnie and Clyde, there is an almost euphoric sense in Hollywood that more such movies can and will be made. The reason is that since mid-1966, the studios have opened doors and checkbooks to innovation-minded producers and directors with a largess unseen since Biograph moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Died. James J. Metcalfe, 53, German-born ex-FBI agent (1931-35) who helped gun down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934, later joined the Chicago Times as a reporter, made a splash with his 1937 series exposing the German-American Bund; of an abdominal hemorrhage; in Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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