The ending to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is incredibly beautiful. Laura Palmer weeps for joy upon seeing her angel as the stalwart Special Agent Dale Cooper stands by offering comfort. On-set photographer Lorey Sebastian captured moments from this ending in a series of publicity photos. This time, I’m looking at photo slide…
I’ve professed my love of the first 35 minutes of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on numerous occasions. I’m particularly drawn to the original Fat Trout Trailer Park, which were the first scenes shot on Sept. 4-5, 1991 in Snoqualmie, Washington. The former Riverside Mobile Home Park is long gone but, like a magician,…
According to “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,” July 22 is Laura’s birthday. In honor of the occasion, here is a look at a classic publicity photo from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
In advance of the Twin Peaks first season finale in May 1990, the ABC Television Network created a publicity photo with images of Laura Palmer presented in miniature television screens. These smaller images gave newspaper outlets more flexibility to include photos in stories.
There was much excitement in the air when Twin Peaks was first broadcast on the ABC Television Network in spring 1990. Despite the buzz, not every household had tuned into David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking show, especially since it aired at the same time as NBC’s incredibly popular Cheers. As May began with the last half of…
As a follow-up to the deep dive into the Twin Peaks Morgue scene written by Harley Peyton for Twin Peaks episode 1.003, I’m looking at another publicity photo from my collection. This image of Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) and Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is unique in several ways. We never see this exact exchange in…
One of my favorite characters from the second season of Twin Peaks is Agent Cooper’s nemesis Windom Earle. Played by the late Kenneth Welsh, this publicity photo was captured around the end of March 1991 as the final episode were being filmed in Southern California.
The character of Josie Packard in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was originally meant for Isabella Rossellini. Her character would have been named Giovana Pasqualini Packard. When scheduling didn’t work, Joan Chen was cast as the “vulnerable outside” as described in a March 1990 publicity photo.
For the second season of Twin Peaks, ABC Television commissioned additional publicity photos such as these images of Joan Chen and Michael Ontkean. Based on research, it appears the image was captured on the Blue Pine Lodge set in Van Nuys, California around the time episode 2.004 was shot in August 1990.
One of the more unique publicity photos I recently acquired at auction is an Associated Press (AP) Laserphoto of Laura Palmer’s funeral scene from Twin Peaks episode 1.003. This printed image on paper is a relic from laser technology first introduced in the mid-1970s. I even found the newspaper where the image was printed in…