Early Muppet: Jim Henson’s 1955 Puppet Of Kermit.

Concept drawings for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968): an early “Star Gate” version, and an alien landscape.

Costume designs by Robert Perdziola for an ALICE IN WONDERLAND ballet.

Concept art and the finished puppet/suit/rig by Rick Baker for An American Werewolf in London (1981).

The first time I saw it I was about 10. That transformation scene: man. You could almost feel it happening to yourself. In later years though, whenever I would think of the film, the first images that popped up were of those misty moors at the beginning of the film. Tense.

John Bauer - The Ring, Riding in the moonlight, 1914

Behind the scenes of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984).

Series, THE LONESOME DOLL by photographer, Aline Smithson.

Concept drawings for Hanna-Barbera’s SCOOBY-DOO by Alvaro Arce and others. 1969/70s.

Ophthalmologist sign in Tainan City, Taiwan, 1962.

Combining the gritty 1970s aesthetic with the neon power of the 1980s: Blade Runner (1982) concept art by Syd Mead.

An Andy Warhol animatronic. I’m reading Warhol’s diaries now—when he mentioned in a 1981 entry that an animatronic of him was being made, I knew I could count on the Cybernetic Zoo to have images of it.

The intention was to have the animatronic perform a “No-Man Show”, where it would quote Warholisms and lines from Warhol’s book, Popism, among other things. As these things go, the project was never realized. All we have is this thing, which one day might become sentient.