50 Photos That Show Famous And Iconic Pop Culture Moments From A Sliiiiiightly Different Angle

1. These photos, taken in 1946, are the first photos of Earth taken from space:

They were able to achieve this by launching a V-2 missile carrying a 35-millimeter motion picture camera into space. The camera was protected in a steel case, which allowed it to survive when the missile crashed back down to Earth:

2. In October 1968, Apollo VII transmitted the first live TV broadcast from space. The astrounts closed the broadcast with a sign saying, "Keep those cards and letters coming in folks":

3. Below are a couple of Deadpool & Wolverine posters that were created just for Thailand:

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4. A lot of the photos we see of Studio 54 tend to be in black-and-white, but below are a couple of photos of the club in color (with the infamous Moon & Spoon in the background):

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5. In the original pilot for Friends, the show was called Friends Like Us , used a different font for the credits, and used R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" as the theme song. Friends Like Us was actually what the show was called when the cast auditioned for it and signed on. However, they changed the name to Six of One (and eventually just Friends ) to avoid confusion with Ellen DeGeneres' TV sitcom These Friends of Mine , which had premiered earlier that year:

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ICYW, These Friends of Mine would change its name to Ellen to avoid being confused with Friends.

6. The final episode of Friends is the most-watched show of the entire 2000s — 52.5 million viewers watched it. Below is a pic of people watching the finale live in Times Square:

7. This is a photo of a group of friends watching the finale episode of the very first season of Survivor . While having reality TV watch parties is common now, this was an entirely new thing 24 years ago — aside from The Real World , reality TV did not really exist in the US. That season of Survivor would change TV forever , and 51.7 million people watched the finale :

8. Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Chris Columbus directing Macaulay Culkin in a scene for Home Alone vs. how the scene looked on-screen:

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9. Here's a photo of the characters from Dinosaurs vs. a photo of the puppeteers who play them:

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10. This is a photo of Will Smith warming up the crowd before a taping of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990:

11. Here's a publicity photo of the entire cast of Beetlejuice :

12. And here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Tim Burton directing a scene from Beetlejuice in 1987:

13. Here are some behind-the-scenes photos of the stand-ins for Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and Robbie Coltrane during the filming of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix :

And here's a closeup that shows the stand-ins vs. the cast:

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14. This is the title screen for The Marriage , which, in 1954, became the first primetime TV show to air in color :

15. And this is a screenshot of the first toilet to ever appear on TV. In 1957, the series Leave It to Beaver featured a toilet tank, which the producers had to fight the network to feature (they couldn't show the bowl, though):

16. Here's Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrence Howard — when they were the entire MCU — at the Iron Man panel at Comic-Con in 2007, where they showed the first trailer for the first Marvel Studios movie (that had A LOT to prove):

17. Here's Kirk Douglas — during a break from filming 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea on the Disney lot — with his two sons, Joel (left) and Michael (right), on a test drive on a ride vehicle that was being built for Disneyland:

18. Here's Elizabeth Taylor with her two sons, Christopher (left) and Michael (right) Wilding, and then-husband Eddie Fisher riding Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland in 1959:

19. And here's Princess Di and Prince Harry riding Splash Mountain at Disney World in 1993:

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20. This is a photo of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz taken after the cast and crew of I Love Lucy surprised the two during a rehearsal for the show with a cake in celebration of their 15th wedding anniversary:

21. This is James Earl Jones in 1962, in one of his first TV appearances. He played Othello in The Cue for Passion , a five-episode series which featured excerpts from the works of Shakespeare:

22. And this is a screenshot of Hugh Jackman from his very first onscreen appearance. He appeared in a 1994 episode of the Australian series Law of the Land :

23. Here's a photo of a 3 ½-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio alongside his stepbrother on the front porch of their home in LA in 1978:

24. These are some behind-the-scene photos of Anne Hathaway filming The Devil Wears Prada outside the Met on what was clearly a pretty cold night:

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25. Here's a behind-the-scenes photo from The Munsters of Fred Gwynne getting his Herman Munster makeup applied:

26. And here's a publicity photo that shows what The Munsters looked like in color:

27. In 1953, the Academy Awards were televised for the very first time. Here's a picture that shows how that looked like behind-the-scenes:

28. This is a photo of Nancy Pelosi in 1987, when she was running for Congress for the first time:

29. And here's a photo of Bill Clinton meeting then-President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden in 1963:

30. Here's a photo of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shaking hands ahead of their first debate — which also happened to be the first televised presidential debate — in September of 1960:

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31. Aside from the Zapruder film, this is believed to be the last photo of JFK taken while he was alive. This photo was taken two seconds after the fatal shot, when the motorcade was already passing the Texas School Book Depository Building, which can be seen in the background:

32. This Coca-Cola ad from 1900 features Hilda Clark, a light opera and dance hall singer, who was the brand's first celebrity endorsement :

33. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was so popular that in 1938 a pretty-close-to-scale replica of the Dwarfs' cottage was built at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London. It was built to last 30 years, and you could even go inside it — with the interior also looking like the one from the film:

34. These are photos of Mae West in 1920, before she dyed her hair her signature platinum blonde color:

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35. There are actually two versions of the 1931 classic film Dracula . One is in English and stars Bela Lugosi, while the other is in Spanish and stars Carlos Villarías. Both movies were filmed simultaneously in essentially two shifts; the English movie was filmed during the day, while the Spanish version was shot at night — filming the same exact scenes that the English film had shot that day. Below is a side-by-side of a scene from both versions:

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36. Batman has actually appeared onscreen a lot longer than you might realize. He was first portrayed in 1943, by Lewis Wilson (with Douglas Croft as Robin) in a film serial :

37. Oscar the Grouch was orange during the first season of Sesame Street , but that wasn't meant to be his original color. Originally, Jim Henson wanted Oscar's fur to be magenta . However, color TVs at the time couldn't really process magenta very well, so Jim settled on orange. Though, he then changed his mind and gave Oscar his signature green fur for Season 2 — with Oscar explaining the color change was a result of him being covered in mold and slime after a vacation to a swamp:

38. Speaking of Sesame Street , in 1973, Julie Andrews starred in a delightful ABC special titled Julie on Sesame Street , which along with the Sesame Street gang, also featured Perry Como:

39. Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Steven Spielberg and Drew Barrymore on the set of E.T. :

40. Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects artist who helped create two of the most iconic movie aliens ever. He designed the head mechanisms for the alien in Alien and designed E.T .:

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41. Here's how they used to record music for Mickey Mouse cartoons:

42. If you ever wondered what Will's apartment on Will & Grace would look like if it were real, you can get an idea from the pic below, which shows you a view from the opposite side of the apartment:

43. And if you're a fan of Ina Garten, this is what her barn kitchen looks like:

It even has a fireplace right next to it!

44. Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Billy Wilder directing H. B. Warner, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, and Gloria Swanson during the classic card scene in Sunset Boulevard:

And here's a photo of legendary director Cecil B. DeMille surrounded by William Holden, and silent-era movie stars Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and H.B. Warner on the set of Sunset Boulevard:

45. This is Steve Jobs at the very first Apple event in January of 1984, where he unveiled the first Macintosh:

46. Here's Marylin Monroe taking a break from filming There's No Business Like Show Business to visit Marlon Brando on the set of his film Désirée :

47. And here's Marlon Brando taking a break from filming Désirée , and hanging out with James Dean:

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48. This is one of the last photos of James Dean alive. He was filling up his Porsche at a gas station in LA's Sherman Oaks neighborhood before driving up to participate in the Salinas Road Race — he would die a few hours after this photo was taken:

49. This is a photo from the last time Betty White, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan appeared together onscreen. In 2000, Estelle and Rue guest-starred on the sitcom Betty was starring in, Ladies Man :

50. And lastly, if you were watching the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show , this is likely what it looked like. Below is a picture of a TV set playing the performance:

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