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Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter. His style has been described as combining fantasy and baroque images with gritty, working-class sensibilities. His career spanned over 50 years and he is most well-known internationally for such films as La Dolce Vita (1960) and Amarcord (1973). In terms of his great influence, two examples can be readily seen: The term paparazzi ("a brash photojournalist") comes from the character Paparazzo in La Dolce Vita and "Felliniesque" has come to describe cinema or television that recalls Fellini's aforementioned style.

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Uncle Jim was a popular radio host in the 1930s. His show was dubbed “The Kiddies Theater of the Air with Uncle Jim”. WFIL radio was a merger of two of Philadelphia’s early stations, WLIT (originally WDAR) owned by the Lit Brothers Department Store, and WFI owned by Strawbridge and Clothier. Before the merger, the two stations shared the same frequency.

Illustration of a yellow and blue smile face wearing white sunglasses.

The curl text on this button indicates that it was a promotional item from Autoline, which is a used car dealership in Jacksonville, Florida. They opened in 2004 and the smiley face with sunglasses is used in their promotional materials.

Illustration of a face made up of a pancake with two eggs as eyes, a strawberry as a nose and two strips of bacon making a open mouthed smile.

Good morning, Mr. Breakfast is a scene in the film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure where Pee-Wee speaks to his pancake breakfast. The film focuses on Pee-Wee Herman’s nationwide adventure to look for his stolen bike.  Warner Bros. hired creator Paul Reubens to write the full length film after the success of the Pee-Wee's Playhouse show. In 1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was created by Reubens and directed by Tim Burton.

Illustration of a face with eyes squeezed closed and a frown with a tongue sticking out over black text on a yellow background.

This is a variation of the classic yellow smiley face that is comprised of a yellow circle, two black dots for eyes and a black arc ending in serifs for a mouth. It  was designed in 1963 by by commercial artist, Harvey Ross Ball. Ball was commissioned by The State Mutual Life Insurance Company to create a happy face to raise the morale of their employees. His version was created in 10 minutes. The design was printed onto more than 50 million buttons. Neither Ball nor the company copyrighted this smiley, so it was continually used by other businesses in their promotions. 

The design and concept is quite simple and was definitely used before Ball’s 1963 version. However his has become the most iconic. Variations have been used for advertising campaigns and in popular culture ever since.

The words "vote for Evel Knievel for President" listed in the center of the button in blue capital letters. The words are over a red white-trimmed background with eight stars. 

Evel Knievel was an American icon known for his daredevil stunts usually involving ramp-to-ramp jumps on his motorcycle. Born Robert Knievel in Montana, Evel Knievel was born from his childhood desire to perform stunts, performing his first show in 1966. Knievel grew to popularity as his show was taken to Las Vegas, and continued to gain publicity by jumping his motorcycle over famous landmarks including the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Knievel slowed down in the 1980s and began marketing for big firms like Harley-Davidson, and continued to appear on television and did charity events until his death in 2007. As the result of his numerous motorcycle crashes, Knievel currently holds the title of “most broken bones in a lifetime” in the Guinness Book of World Records, having had 433 broken bones throughout his career.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an American science fiction family film released in 1982. The film was co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison and starred Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote. The film tells the story of a boy named Elliot Thomas who befriends an extraterrestrial who is stranded on Earth. He and his siblings help to return E.T. to his home while trying to avoid their mother and the government.

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E.T. and Me is an adaptation of the motion picture screenplay for the movie E.T. It is a retelling of the story from the point of view of Elliott the boy who finds E.T. 

The film E.T. was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and tells the story of a young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth and helps him return home. E.T. was the highest-grossing film of 1982, and remains among the highest-grossing films of all time.

Black and white photograph of Lon Chaney as Erik from the Phantom of the Opera with red text on a grey background

The image on this button is the character Erik from the 1925 horror silent movie The Phantom of the Opera, an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Lon Chaney played Erik, the phantom, a mad disfigured composer who sought love with opera singer Christine by causing a series of mayhem and murder. The make-up of the phantom was designed by Lon Chaney himself. The sound version of the movie from 1930 is lost. 

This button is a Topps "Batty Button" from 1970. The series included images of Erik from the Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Creature from the black lagoon, and Wolf Man all with funny texts.

Image of a dark red, pink, and purple sky over sand dunes. Image also has two light blue moons in the sky, one at the top of button and one towards the bottom. The word "Dune" is listed on the center bottom of the button in white capital letters. 

The 1984 film Dune was based off of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel by the same title. The film was directed by David Lynch and starred Kyle MacLachlan. Despite the long, 13 year process of adapting the novel into a film, the movie was not well received by audiences; so poorly received that David Lynch replaced his name with a pseudonym in most copies of the film.