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This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s. So enjoy scrolling through these historical pics, pandas, and be sure to upvote the ones that you ...
In the TV movie North and South (Based on the John Jakes novel of the same name) laudanum is used by Justin to drug Madeline to keep her trapped and complacent. In the Season 1 finale of Netflix series Bridgerton (2020), Lord Archibald Featherington is implied to have died by forced suicide through ingestion of a vial of laudanum after the ...
April 1896 – Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City September 28, 1896 – Pathé-Frères is founded in Paris. 1896 – French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing many early special effects ...
Basten, Fred E. Glorious Technicolor: The Movies' Magic Rainbow. AS Barnes & Company, 1980. Bowser, Eileen. The Transformation of Cinema 1907–1915 (History of the American Cinema, Vol. 2) Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Rawlence, Christopher (1990). The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures. Charles Atheneum.
My young mind knew a similar device – the View-Master.Those white “reel” discs held dozens of images that also could appear in 3D, scenes of Yosemite or Batman or Mickey Mouse.
During the American Civil War, opiates were the most effective painkillers available to military surgeons. They were also used to treat diarrhea, muscle spasms of amputees, gangrene, dysentery, inflammation from gunshot wounds, and to sedate agitated troops. [45]
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others; however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures. The earliest films were in black ...
In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spread to America, where coal became the main source of energy just as it had years earlier in England. Vintage photos of coal miners in America Skip to ...