early cinema
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How little changes…I work in advertising (don’t judge me! I merely create the ads rather than design them, far too soul destroying for my like) and just like the terrible Burger King 9/11 free fries ad, I have had a few of these forced on me…one of them was to edit footage of Hitler to make him ‘humorous’ – I was not amused.
November 11th, 1917
War! What is it good for?… Hard sell advertising apparently.
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I may be as queer as they cum but even I can see Louise Brooks *had* something.
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Still from the Great Train Robbery, 1903
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Before the earthquake
Footage of San Francisco’s Market Street, taken from a camera mounted to a cable car on April 14, 1906– just four days before the big earthquake. This is apparently the first 35mm film ever taken. The Ferry Building, at the end of the street, is still there.
San Francisco 1906 (repaired) (by karenhowes74)
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Experimental Colour Film (ca. 1903)
So the edwardian times were all black and white right? Wrong! And to my mind this aces the cheating hand coloured Lumiere 1899 film, anyday.
Experimental Colour Film (ca. 1903)
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A Kiss in the Tunnel
This is what those Victorians got upto on those trains (apart from murder, of course)
A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) (by BFIfilms)
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Petticoat Lane (1903)
Fascinating view of Petticoat Market from the turn of the century. Love the gentleman at the end who raises his bowler to the camera! I wonder if he realised we’d be watching him do that, 108 years later?
Petticoat Lane (1903) (by BFIfilms)
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Film clips of the world of 1900 (by devroshart)
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Titanic
There are quite a few videos on YouTube re: the Titanic – sadly quite a lot referring to that terrible travesty of a movie by James Cameron and quite a few people that scarily can’t tell fact from fiction. Above is a nice one that does indeed include portraits so it’s on track roughly with this blog. I also saw one that had more cross-fades from old pictures to new wreck pictures (hey all you Titanic slideshow video creators, why don’t you do that instead of another boring one of Jack n’ Kate?) and then couldn’t find it again under the deluge – this is the closest to that one:
My fascination for Royal Mail Steamer Titanic and it’s demise comes from the fact it was one of the last gasps of an extremely opulent aristocratic and moneyed world that was pretty much destroyed by WW1 and later events…how I wish I could go back there (and leave before the iceberg hit, of course). We shall not know it’s like again.
By the way one of the songs that I was listening to while I was in the exhibition actually looking at the ship’s bell was strangely prescient – Broken Bells, Sailing to Nowhere:
Oh and spook! the wallpaper I randomly chose for this blog is very close to that which was in the First Class bedrooms – if the mockup at the Artifacts exhibition was correct.
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Old London Street Scenes (1903)
Old London Street Scenes (1903) (by BFIfilms)
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