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thinkbolt · 6 months
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Fiddlesticks (Celebrity Pictures, 1930) -
dir. Ub Iwerks
first complete sound cartoon photographed in color, and Iwerks' first cartoon after leaving Disney
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alightinthelantern · 5 months
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February 9, 1942: The French ocean liner Normandie, docked beside pier 88 in Manhattan, NYC, catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette. A pile of highly flammable kapok life preservers were improperly stored near a working acetylene torch in the ship's grand salon, and a stray spark caused a blaze quickly got out of control. The ship's onboard telephone system had been disabled days prior along with most of the ship's advanced fire suppression system, and the sprinkler system was improperly activated at all of its control stations simultaneously, dropping the water pressure within it to useless levels. It took twelve minutes for the NY Fire Department to respond to the emergency, by which time the fire had been fanned by a strong wind to become an inferno sweeping through the Normandie's upper decks, and 2,000 Navy men and civilians working aboard were streaming out of the ship through a limited number of entry points, preventing firefighters from getting aboard the vessel. When they finally could get aboard, they found their hoses incompatible with the firefighting inlets on the French ship, meaning they could only fight the fire from outside the ship.
For several hours firetrucks on land shot water on the Normandie's starboard landside while fireboats poured water onto the Normandie's seaward port side, but the fireboats poured significantly more water into the giant ship than the trucks did, causing an imbalance of water in the ship's upper decks and a dangerous list to port. The Normandie's designer ‎Vladimir Yourkevitch was in NYC, and when he heard his ship was on fire he rushed to the site and begged to be let aboard so he could open the . "I designed the ship!" he said, "I can find my way through it with my eyes closed! I'll open the sea-cocks [valves], the ship's belly will fill with water, the ship will sink six inches and settle on the bottom, and it will be safe!" The Navy administrators at the conversion site were unmoved. "This is a Navy job," they said brusquely.
By evening the fire had been brought under control, but the ship was listing about thirty degrees to its seaward side. Thinking the Normandie no longer in danger, the Navy and Fire Department abandoned the ship for the night, not realizing only the ship's mooring ropes were keeping it from capsizing. In the night the ropes snapped, and the ship rolled over onto its side, wallowing in the mud at the bottom of the river. There the ship lay for eighteen months, no one sure what to do with the wreck.
In August 1943 it was decided to raise the ship and convert it into an aircraft carrier. The superstructure was cut away and then the hull was pumped free of water, and it slowly emerged from the river and returned to an even keel. But it was found the fire had damaged the hull too severely and the ship's machinery had deteriorated too much for the ship to be of further use. The hulk sat idly until the end of the war, when it was decided to scrap it after both the US Navy and the French Line expressed no interest in salvaging the ship. The remains of the Normandie were scrapped in Newark, New Jersey in 1946.
Photo taken by Harry Warnecke for the New York Daily News. It is unclear if this photo is a real color photo or a digital colorization. I found this photo on a Facebook group dedicated to the Normandie claiming the color photo is real. This photo has been published before only in black-and-white, and Getty Images features the photo in B&W, but Getty's version of the photo is slightly cropped on the right edge compared to the color photo (look closely and you'll see the space between the second funnel and the right edge of the photo is wider in the color image), meaning Getty's version of the photo is not necessarily from the original negatives, but could be an early reproduction. Interestingly, Harry Warnecke actually owned a color film studio and took color press photos of celebrities for the NY Daily News during this time period, so it's indeed possible that this is a genuine color photo. If anyone can provide any information one way or the other, I would be quite grateful.
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20thcenturystarlet · 6 months
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Christina in red, 1913
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haciaelmar · 1 year
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morning fog | Leica M6 | Kodak Portra 800 | 2015
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kleinefreiheiten · 1 year
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1979 Hamburg
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maydayistactile · 2 days
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lightswitch
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notbecauseofvictories · 5 months
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nosferatu is a beautiful movie, amazing choices by everyone involved---except the main actors. they were terrible.
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persistent-wallflower · 4 months
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@demonrunningwild tagged me to do a favourites moodboard. That was fun, thanks! <3
If you wanna do this, tagging: @msva9 @senjukannon @privateschoolfeline @forxstboyfriend
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moviessilently · 2 years
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Did you know that Georges Méliès designed his films for color? Madame Thuillier hand-colored every release but many of his productions have since been copied to black and white safety film.
Méliès films sometimes appear cluttered in black and white. Look at this comparison from A Trip to the Moon. The color brings order to the composition.
(The color version of the film was believed lost for decades but was finally discovered in Spain.)
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jsingewald · 1 year
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Had a few sheets of film to shoot, the last of my Velvia, so I got the 1500 block of Harford Rd/Ave, and revisited these three places on Howard Street, where my project officially started in 2010-11, after grad school. I love the empty streets on a cold holiday morning! Happy Holidays! #bmoreblockbyblock #baltimore #howardstreet #architecture #photography #4x5 #viewcamera #historic #bmorehistoric #film #light #color #composition #perspective #time #changes #early https://www.instagram.com/p/CmmKukNuE3S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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hiriaeth · 10 months
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The way people's standards have fallen sharply with how art has fallen into mediocre content intent to absorb and keep you complacent. Also amazing how hype really lulls people into anything. I truly think i'm not a media person period especially since nowadays copaganda literally has evolved to be considered a requirement in any show and they are centered/protected if not given emotional weight and purpose whereas unless the show was a literally in a precinct this wouldnt be happening.
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cinema-paradise · 1 year
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Coyote Ugly (2000) + Cool color palette
Dir. David McNally
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katnissgirlsmakedo · 1 year
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you know the scene in the great gatsby when nick describes how gatsby felt the first time he kissed daisy and it was like he knew that if he kissed her he would love her forever and never be the same man again, and then he kissed her anyway. you know i was gonna say something ridiculous but i’ve just decided i cannot. ok well you know what this is the saying ridiculous things website what the hell. um anyway. merlin bbc merlin could neverrrr… ok i’m finishing this movie now and then maybe reading more if i’m not too tired and then going to SLEEP.
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haciaelmar · 7 months
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little dandelions | Olympus OM-1 | Kodak Pro Image 100 | 2023
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kleinefreiheiten · 1 year
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1979 Hamburg
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vilmakosola · 2 years
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Found items
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