Unique Flag in Toys - 1992 Film

 

One the movies are good for is putting fashions and feels into a bottle.  In 1992, Robin Williams starred in Toys.  If Gateway Computers mated with a 1990s modern art project, this is the resultant barf.  There is something attractive about the film, and all the actors give their A game.  But it stinks like a glittering turd.  It could have been the 1990s Willy Wonka, but not something bland and square makes this movie poke along.  Although a bad movie, its worth watching once every ten years. 

A unique bumper car swallowtail pennant is visible during the funeral scene.  Another flag can be seen on the castle.  

As general rule of thumb, if a movie has a way too extravagant intro that goes on, and on, in the beginning, chances are its going to be crappy movie. Somehow all the effort and budget goes into the first five minutes and then its crap afterwards.  

The best part of the movie the Bill Nye-Talking Heads video  MTV makes a small cameo, when indeed during the 1990s MTV was music television. 

American Spectrum Flag

 

A pride flag for all Americans to feel the loves.

The New Trans Flag, The Trans-Temporal Flag

Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong Generation?  Perhaps you were assigned Generation X but you identify as Generation Z.  Maybe you are in to Steampunk?  Perhaps the Renaissance Fair?  Maybe you are born in 2005 and you feel like a Baby Boomer.  Or rather you are a Boomer and feel as though you should be a part of the Generation V, the Greatest Generation that won WWII.  Generation W is the Boomer Gang.  Or maybe you are a millennial, which is really a bi-millennial since the original, true millennials are all dead.  The millennials included Leif Erikson and Æthelred II the Unready.  

This flag represents those persons who refuse to remain in the assigned temporal generation.  It is a Trans flag of sorts, Trans-Temporal to be exact.  

The flag represents a double rainbow as a symbolic portal of crossing through time.  If you have ever seen a Double Rainbow in the wild, then you have been invited to be a part the chosen ones for the mystical Trans-Temporal lifestyle. 

The canton on the side represents all the organic tones of humanity.  Likewise on the white chevron has stars painted in infrared and ultra violet.  Thus one needs special goggles or unique biological modifications to see the thirteen stars.  There are 15 stripes based upon Isaac Newton's dissection of visible light; red, orange, yellow, green, blue (cyan), indigo (what we consider blue), and violet.  

So if you don't fit into your assigned Generation feel free to let these colours fly, time is a human construct after all.

Corto Maltese Flag from Suicide Squad 2021

 

One of the joys or sad things about being a vexillologist is that fictional countries stick out like sore thumbs.  Of course its a comic book movie, which requires a level of disbelief.  However Hollywood can't pull one past us.  Nonetheless in DC's Suicide Squad film from 2021, it takes place on the fictional island nation off the coast of South America - Corto Maltese. 

The flag is a tribar of red, yellow and blue with the national coat of arms in the center.  In the red stripe is a yellow Argentinian-link Sun.  In the blue stripe is a yellow star.  The Coat of Arms have two wildly pointed deer that resembles the HBC with two crossed swords behind the shield.   

September 2021 Article by Peter Lichtgarn

 

1763 Proclamation Flag at Demarcation Point in Pennsylvania

 

The 1763 Proclamation flag was first hoisted along the original line as defined by King George III.  This Royal Proclamation was issued on October 7, 1763 during the George Greenville administration of Original Congress (Parliament).   Among several things, it became the border for several English Colonies from West Florida to Quebec.  During this time Canada, Quebec, and the 13+ North American Colonies were united under one government.  

The 1763 Proclamation used water sheds to set the western border of the several colonies, as well as the northern borders for the lost colonies of East and West Florida and southern borders of Quebec.  Basically the Eastern Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes were supposed to become an Indian Reserve/Reservation.  Before the American Revolution these borders would move, but as a heritage trail, the original 1763 borders is demarcated and honored with this flag.  

The 1763 Proclamation Flag uses the old UK flag pattern of Scotland and England, without St. Patrick's Cross since it was not included until 1801, after 'Ireland' became a part of the UK.  Likewise there is a red border with white broken edges to represent a fence.  

This is a cultural heritage flag, that does not have any irredential connotation.  It can be used to underscore this moment in history to educate Americans, Canadians, and the British about their common heritage.   It is an educational-geographic flag that can be flown anywhere in Canada and the United States that made up this border in 1763. 

Broadkill Beach Flag, Delaware

 

Broadkill Beach is a beach with, as of 2021, problematic name by some.  Imagine if there was a Dudekill Beach or Teenkill Beach?  No so matter, the flag of Broadkill Beach features a red crab with on a yellow background. 

Broadkill Beach is a tiny sliver of beach, that is free.  The hard part is finding parking.  There is a small lot next to the beach entrance.  Many people park on Bay Avenue, but it is kinda' illegal.  If you ever visit you see what I mean.  

There is a small bike and shore eatery right next to the place.  You can rent bikes.  It is tiny town with a rather infamous name.