Flatiron Dust Storm: Picnic & Storm Center (1955-1956)

[Fiona Shnapple]

At the Wiki They wonder:

Is there any reason, other than a typo, that the film in "Bleeding
Edge" is said to have come out in 1956?

Please take another look at this Flatiron Painting:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/21.41.2


I don't know, but....Pynchon is into the movies in a Big way, and he
digs into the labor struggles, the studio strife, the Big Business
Giants and the Independents....the Blacklisting and Turings and
Testifyings and Technologies...and so on and, as in VL, his film
choices are not simple throw away, red herring, but thematic. In this
case, I suspect that P is pointing us to Columbia and Phoenix, to
Picnic (1955), sure, but to Storm Center (1956).

So the dates? Just me? Making paranoid plots plot? Well...trust and
honor make the hawala work. Lack of it puts people out of work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Center
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