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Film and other tricks of the light. Also wolves.
Trees on London's Southbank getting their nice autumn colouring. On the 11th of July. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
"Costume"? "In character"? What are they talking about? #CountBinface #YouGov @countbinface.bsky.social
Louise Jouvet, with a superb example of his default "mildly affronted" expression.
Dream as cinema; cinema as dream. Two glass lantern slides with costumed life models, from a narrative series (late 19th century).
Two mechanical lantern slides used to create patterned projections from a toy or domestic lantern slide projector. Mid-late 19th C. The devices themselves are shown at around 45 secs in (the video is silent).
Lina Cavalieri, singer and actor (1874-1944). Largely remembered as an opera singer, she did make a number of silent films both in Europe and the USA. This tinted postcard was circulated in the French mail at Christmas 1912.
Tinted postcard of the variety artist Mary Roesler, posed sitting on big pink thing and playing a lyre. Circulated in the French mail, Grande Marne district. 1905.
Saw Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent" yesterday and all I can think about is the cat with two faces. Directors, do not put cats with two faces in your films if you want people to remember the rest of the story.
"How does one invoke the Spirit of Cinema?" Angela Carter, The Merchant of Shadows (in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, 1993)
Fear of portrait photography: Victorian magic lantern slip-slide showing an apprehensive (and possibly drunk) sitter and his worst fears being realised. mp4 animation from original slide
