Thomas Edison was granted the patent for his light bulb on 27 January 1880. This week’s Follies commemorate that anniversary with images of light bulbs and lamps from the classics era…
Dial M for Murder
Hitchcock
Notorious
Rear Window
The Birds
A premiere night at the Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles 1930s
A Streetcar Named Desire
Awaiting the hunter
Karloff enjoying tea during a wardrobe fitting on Frankenstein 1931
Bright Lights 1930
To Be or Not to Be 1942
Cat People
A Christmas Story
Rear Window
Carole reading a script
Mr. and Mrs. Pepsi
Detour 1945
Vito Corleone
Double Indemnity
Dracula
East Side, West Side 1949
The Hunter
Fester
Gilda
A Christmas Story
The Killers 1946
Gloria on Sunset Blvd.
Behind the scenes – Grand Hotel
Strangers on a Train
You Only Live Once on set
I Confess 1953
I Know Where I’m Going 1945
I Wake Up Screaming 1941
Joanie with lamp and Oscar
Joe reads “Salome”
Kong
Laura
Two Charlies
Marion
Mazda ‘Inkies’ lamps used on a 1931 movie
THE MALTESE FALCON, from left: Barton MacLane, Ward Bond, Humphrey Bogart, 1941
Mildred
Mrs. Charles
Psycho
Murder, My Sweet
Mildred Pierce
Desperate Norma Desmond
Laura on the spot
Out of the Past
Paola Mori
Pickup on South Street
Raging Bull
Scarlett Street
Side Street
Strangers on a Train
The Asphalt Jungle
The Big Heat
The Big Sleep
The Bride
THE EXORCIST (1973)
The Hustler
The Lady Eve
The Lady from Shanghai
The Maltese Falcon
The only time we saw the Mertz bedroom
The Asphalt Jungle
The Petries
Judy Garland
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Swede and Kitty
The Thin Man
A Foreign Affair
All About Eve
Barbra
Curly
Edison, the Man
Edison
Garbo in Grand Hotel
Gina Lollobrigida
Jane Fonda
Light bulb in a glass of milk
Limelight
Dietrich
Natalie Wood
Psycho
The Man Between 1953
The Wrong Man’s wife
T-Men 1947
Judy
Fowler
Gable
Once upon a screen... 
Oh, fabulous! I think you have found every light bulb and lamp ever used in classic Hollywood.
Great round of pictures. What a fun post!
No Gaslight? I suppose that breaks the theme. Might be interesting to do “period” films that show other forms of lighting: Westerns (lanterns), Robin Hood (torches), the gaslamps in “Gaslight,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” Chaplin’s “Easy Street,” etc…
Can’t put into words how difficult it was not to include Gaslight, but you’ve given me a great idea for a future post! 😀
Amazing pictures!
I suddenly have the urge to go shopping for light fixtures at antique shops!
LOL. My apologies to your wallet!