Friday, November 5, 2021

Droste fail

From Over-Exposed (dir. Lewis Seiler, 1956). Click for a larger view.]

When is the Droste effect not the Droste effect? Right here, with Shirley Thomas, host of Phone Call to a Personality, interviewing famous photographer Lila Crane (Cleo Moore).

[IMDb has nothing for the role of Shirley Thomas. TCM has Shirley Thomas playing herself. Other sources say Constance Towers.]

comments: 3

J D Lowe said...

It was surprising that Wikipedia’s Droste effect article had the Bourton-on-the-Water village model as an example. It reminded me of this xkcd cartoon on the problem of building a model railroad that contains one’s own town: https://xkcd.com/878/ . One soon encounters the Matryoshka Limit :-)

Michael Leddy said...

Thanks for sharing that xkcd here, Jim.

Anonymous said...

Related, from 1971's Escape From the Planet of the Apes.