https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mCuAQlF6U
Footage by the pioneering French engineer and cinematograph inventor Louis Lumière of a snowball fight on a street in Lyon from 1896, upscaled and colourised by Joaquim Campa using the open source software DeOldify.
Your man on the bike, though. Classic bombardment.
Plus ça change…
https://twitter.com/lorraineelizab6/status/1314506289142169600
Old Ireland tweetz:
Staff and customers at the Bailey Bar, Duke Street Dublin 1960’s. Photograph by Harrison Forman and part of American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries collection.
Not a plate of tapas between ’em.
Mmf
Yesterday: The Men In White Coats
On this day in 2009, the death of Edward Delaney RHA.
Irish History Bitesize! tweetz:
Award-winning @Aosdana sculptor. Studied @NCAD_Dublin & Germany. eg Thomas Davis on College Green (angels later, awakening 4 provinces), Wolfe Tone & Great Hunger in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Silent footage from 1923 of a USAS plane dropping a ‘curtain’ of titanium tetrachloride creating a hanging curtain of opaque gases to conceal ships.
This is where the phrase originates.
The technique would go on to be used in WW2.
Irish History Bitesize tweets:
On this day in 1852: Death Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS. Born #Dublin. Childhood Dangan castle #Summerhill #Meath. PM x2. Victory against Napoleon at Battle of Waterloo 1815. Oversaw passage Catholic Relief Act 1829 @StPaulsLondon
Rob Cross tweetz:
My colourised 1949 aerial photo of #Dublin featuring Trinity College, the Custom House, and the old North Wall and George’s Dock areas of the Dublin Docklands before it was transformed into IFSC (International Financial Services Centre)
Antii fascist cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s by Erich Godal, seamlessly reduxed by illustrator Chris Piascik for 2020.
Rob Cross tweetz:
My colourised and restored August 1911 Robert French photo of a bustling Rathmines Junction in Dublin featuring pedestrians, cyclists, trams, and horses. Original b&w photo from the National Library of Ireland.
