Category Archives: History
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Early 20th century footage of Tokyo as Japan emerged from the chaotic Meiji period toward a new era of militarism and industrialisation.
The footage has been corrected for speed with ambient sound added by EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam.
Earlier: Reel Time New York
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A clip of daily life in 1911 in New York city slowed down to realistic speed and supplied with ambient sound by videographer Guy Jones
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In 1662, a 19 year old Isaac Newton wrote a list of all the sins he believed that he’d committed ‘before and after Whitsunday of that year’. They included:
Making pies on Sunday night
Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them.
Making a feather while on Thy day.
Denying that I made it.
Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him.
Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.
Striking many
Wishing death and hoping it to some
Denying my chamberfellow of the knowledge of him that took him for a sot.
MORE: The Newton Project
(Pic: portrait of Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689)
The evolution of the iconic National Geographic front cover, from the foundation of the magazine in 1888 to the present day
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Featuring this month at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival – director Marshall Curry’s narration-free edit of the 1939 Amerikadeutscher Volksbund Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, attended by 20,000 people:
…an event largely forgotten from American history… A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN uses striking archival fragments recorded that night to transport modern audiences into this gathering and shine a light on the disturbing fallibility of seemingly decent people.
The director explains more in this Q&A with Field Of Vision.
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No ordinary 1968 Ford Mustang, rather, one of two fastbacks driven by Steve McQueen in Peter Yates’ ultra stylish Bullitt (1968).
This is the ‘hero’ car (the battle-scarred stunt double has since disappeared, having been sold to a salvage yard after filming).
Formerly believed to have been lost (or, worse still, scrapped like its stunt double), it’s actually belonged to the same New Jersey family since 1974 and was unveiled this week at the 2018 Detroit Motor Show, close to the 50th anniversary of the cinematic car chase that sealed its reputation.
Yours for between €2.5 and €4.0 million. Were it for sale. Which it’s not.
Meanwhile, less interestingly, Ford has announced a Bullitt-themed 2019 Mustang.
MORE: Steve McQueen’s “Lost” Bullitt Mustang Is Unveiled (Vanity Fair)
