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In 2024, for the company's 40th anniversary, Criterion built a replica of the Criterion Closet inside of a van. The van's debut at the New York Film Festival during weekends in September and October was highly attended, with some visitors waiting as long as 10 hours in line to get inside of the van and purchase Criterion titles. Additionally ...
People demonstrating a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope at a sidewalk gathering. The Schmidt–Cassegrain design is very popular with consumer telescope manufacturers because it combines easy-to-manufacture spherical optical surfaces to create an instrument with the long focal length of a refracting telescope with the lower cost per aperture of a reflecting telescope.
A vintage 1970s "orange tube" Celestron C8 telescope. Celestron was the first large scale commercial manufacturer of the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, introducing its "C8" 8" diameter 2032 mm focal length, ƒ10 telescope in 1970. [7]
Chicago VIII is the seventh studio album by American rock band Chicago, released on March 24, 1975 by Columbia Records. Following the experimental jazz / pop stylings of Chicago VII , the band returned to a more streamlined rock-based sound on this follow-up.
The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. [2] The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.
Wieboldt's celebrated 100 years in business in April 1983. An advertisement in the Chicago Sun-Times stated "Building for a New Tomorrow". "An important part of Chicago's past, we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm. The dream of yesterday is the promise of tomorrow. Chicago, Wieboldt's. Tomorrow begins today." [1]
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. [1]
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