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Arthur Prince Spear (1879-1959), 'The Dawn', ''Hearst's'', October 1919 "Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head?"
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Blue Roman Pool at William Randolph Hearst's Castle in San Simeon, California, UNITED STATES
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#ThrowbackThursday In June of 1931 Buster Keaton was one of a number of William Randolph Hearst’s guests at Hearst Castle. Here’s a page from the guest book - Buster asks, “Can I come again?”
#throwback thursday#buster keaton#william randolph hearst#vintage hollywood#1930s#ibks#the international buster keaton society#buster keaton society#the damfinos#damfino#damfamily
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The clash between the “boy genius” and the newspaper tycoon heated on #OnThisDay in 1941, when William Randolph Hearst forbid any of his newspapers to run advertisements for Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE.
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When Knighthood Was in Flower (Robert G. Vignola, 1922).
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not really enjoying tumblrs trend of comparing Thomas Andrews to Stockton Rush 😒Could you share how the two differ despite the fact they died by their own creations?
ive been trying to figure out how to tackle this ask for a few days now because theres so much to disentangle, but disentangle i will.
see, this comparison relies on common misinformation and misconceptions about titanic. its a ship thats been romanticised and mythologised for decades, and every portrayal of it from william randolph hearts yellow newspaper coverage to robin gardiners conspiracy theory to jim camerons film.
what im gonna list to disentangle this whole thing is by no means an exhaustive list of titanic misconceptions, only those relevant to this topic
-titanic was a cruise ship - titanic was an ocean liner not a cruise ship (ive detailed the differences in a different ask here)
-titanic was a brand new unique ship never seen before - not true, ocean liners had existed for decades. theres debate about which was the first, but many agree that its the ss great western which launched in 1843. titanic wasnt even the first launched in her class; that honour goes to the rms olympic.
-it was built with substandard materials and cut corners - this is one of those where theres potentially some truth, but its been misrepresented. theres some evidence that the rivets werent the best made, but the board of trade cleared the ship and she was built with the same materials and basically the same design as her sister ship, rms olympic which sailed for 24 years under the nickname "old reliable" and literally rammed a u-boat during ww1 when she was requisitioned as a troop ship. ultimately, the builders were not blamed in the wreck inquiry and the materials used were not substandard.
-it was built as said above due to the choices of j bruce ismay - yeah so this one obviously ties into the above. theres a lot of unreliable sources who seem to believe ismay oversaw the entire design and every cut corner was due to money. this simply isnt true and isnt how this sort of thing worked. white star had a contract with harland and wolff wherein they would build the ship agreed upon and when it was finished, it would be presented to white star and undergo sea trials, and during that time, white star could reject the ship if they considered it substandard. this is what happened to the ss city of rome. unles. the design itself was to be changed a la britannic after titanic sank (improving safety measures), white star could not interfere. ismay could not force them to use different materials.
-it was all ismays fault - okay, i could go on about this for a long time, but this ask isnt about ismay. the gist of it is that history has blamed ismay due to the influence of william randolph hearst (yeah, the guy from newsies and supported hitler) who hated ismay and blamed him entirely. actual evidence shows ismay helped a lot of people during the sinking itself.
-titanic was badly designed - ive kinda gone over this a little already, but again, titanic was not badly built. she was practically identical to olympic which was a fantastic ship. in the design, no risks were taken. most of the designs were enlarged versions of parts of previous successful ships. she was considered the safest ship on the sea. four of her water-tight compartments could be breached without her sinking which was a big fucking deal.
-thomas andrews was the sole designer - there was actually a team of designers that included andrews. he didnt even draw up the original plans; that was alexander carlisle.
-titanic sinking was a unique situation - yeah nah, boats sank a lot around that time. literally two years after, there was a similar disaster with the rms empress of ireland which goes entirely forgotten nowadays. in the same decade, you also had the sinking of lusitania in 1915, principe de asturias in 1916, volturno in 1913 and even thrown in princess sophia in 1918.
-the sinking was actually caused by a coal bunker fire - this is simply horseshit and im sure im gonna end up having to explain and debunk that one too
-the crew were taking unnecessary risks to win the blue riband - this myth is widespread because of the movie, but titanic was not trying to beat the record of the fastest ship from southampton to new york (thats what the blue riband) is; she physically couldnt. it was held by mauretania at that point with a record of 26.06 knots/48.26 km/hr. titanics top speed was 23 knots. white star as a line never focussed on speed and ismay never told the captain to speed up.
-she was "unsinkable" - this is a little harder to disentangle. the claim itself was "practically unsinkable", but the context of that was to do with how safe titanic was as mentioned above. also, the idea of an unsinkable ship was not quite to white star or harland and wolff; most of the shipping industry believed it.
-almost everything youve heard about the life boats - okay so here you need to throw out your preconceptions of what a life boat is because our modern conception does not match that from the early 1900s. to not get into all the details of life boat philosophy at the time (if you do wanna know, just send me an ask lmao), the main purpose of life boats at this time was ferrying passengers to a rescue ship. that was it. this attitude was informed by both the wrecks of the ss valencia and ss clallam, as well as the miraculous rescue of the rms republic. titanic did not have enough life boats for everyone because it was never expected for the passengers to be alone in the life boats for hours; it was not a design flaw, it was a feature.
-that fucking stupid ship swap myth and the idea that the crew were trying to sink the ship - i dont even want to get into why this is bullshit, plus ive also debunked it in another ask
i highlight all of the above to emphasise the fact that titanic was not a badly built ship. she was designed well, built well and sailed well. many experts agree that the way that she hit the iceberg was the only way she could have sank.
this is not the case with titan and stockton rush. in a previous post, ive gone over the design of the titan, the flaws in it and what experts in the field believe, so im not gonna go over it again, but rest assured, the titan imploded because of rush's actions and decisions.
titanic did not sink because of thomas andrews. its due to his design that anyone survived the titanic because she stayed afloat for over two hours which allowed the crew to launch all the life boats. thomas andrews himself helped many survivors during the sinking and evacuation.
he also was not a rich man using a gravesite as tourism; nepotism was certainly involved in his career but he spent ten years working his way up in the company, helping with the design of countless ships. he was mostly regarded as a good man who worked hard and recognised the hard work of others.
its honestly ludicrous to compare them because the disasters themselves are simply not comparable. the titanic did not sink because of the folly of rich men cutting corners; titan did.
thomas andrews, for any faults he had, knew what he was doing and built a good ship that was unlucky. almost every other ship he helped design didnt sink or if they did, most of them were due to ww1.
its just such a ridiculous comparison, and thats all it is. without the misconceptions and misinformation about titanic, the comparison simply falls apart. its built on a foundation that fundamentally misunderstands the titanic disaster.
if you want to talk about shipwrecks caused by stupid decisions made by rich men, go look up the last incarnation of hms captain or the gunilda or the fucking vasa if you want, you can literally go see that one. but dont besmirch the memory of a guy who, by all acounts, died a hero helping other survive.
#anon#kai rambles#long post#its a very fucking long post#titanic#rms titanic#titan#titan sub#oceangate#oceangate expeditions#stockton rush#thomas andrews#white star#harland and wolff#j bruce ismay#william randolph hearst#btw if you ever want clarification on any of the topics i briefly touched on just send me an ask#i can talk about this for days#first time im using coloured text in a post which is Odd#james cameron#shipposting
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#marion davies#movie star#old hollywood#silents and talkies#years active 1914-1937#jazz age#william randolph hearst#san simeon
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favorite wikipedia thread
#'oh you're the non-famous twin'#also interesting how many celebrities are twinless twins! liberace and elvis presley both had twins who died in infancy.#same w william randolph hearst.
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william randolph cursed
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I’ve had this idea in my head for a while and I simply need to get it out
So the pairings [respectively] Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Shawn Michaels and Steven Regal/The British Bulldog where Hunter/Steven have so much internalised guilt because they were very much raised to not associate with ‘common folk’ because they’re ’beneath them’ [no pun intended] and now they’re both [respectively] in love with Davey/Shawn they’ve got a lot of guilt around ‘tarnishing their image that their parents spent so long building’ and also just feeling genuinely dirty for their love because of how deeply the ideal that lower class people are disgusting was drilled into them
Anyway I’ll shut up now, if anyone is interested I actually have a lottttt of like trauma/angst hcs for Steven and Hunter related to their upbringings and more to say about this in general
#wwe#wwf#90s wwf#wcw#world championship wrestling#wcw wrestling#triple h#paul levesque#hunter hearst helmsley#davey boy smith#the british bulldog#british bulldog#steven regal#lord steven regal#william regal
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Mank (2020)
#2020#film#movie#film noir#Mank#David Fincher#Lily Collins#Rita Alexander#Gary Oldman#Herman Mankiewicz#Amanda Seyfried#Marion Davies#Charles Dance#William Randolph Hearst#Arliss Howard#Louis B. Mayer#Tuppence Middleton#Sara Mankiewicz#Tom Burke#Orson Welles#Citizen Kane#North Verde Ranch#Victorville#Hollywood#San Simeon#California
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More manipulated images! With this one, I managed to do what I wanted last time, with Little Red and the B. B. Wolf. I used this french poster as base:
I've got a reproduction hanging in my apartment.
With Microsoft Photo Editor, I removed the blue background. I could've removed the green border too, but I was lazy, and it's pretty much a solid color, I could've changed it manually if I felt like it. (I'm only realizing that now, though).
On FireAlpaca, I separated the image into the blue part and the rest with two layers. I applied the Ben-Day process I figured out on the blue layer, and changed the rest of the image to a red tint. Then I converted the red tinted version to a two-color vector on Inkscape (the colors being pink and brown).
I repeated the process for the red tinted layer, separating it into two layers, then applying the Ben-Day process on both, one being black over a red background (dark red) and the other being red over a white background (light red).
I'm pretty pleased with the result, the other versions of the image I tried to modify, a long honking time ago, don't look nearly as good, see:
Lame!
As for the movie itself - or rather, the serial: It's an adaptation of three American serials (made by a French studio, however), starring Pearl White. You know, she was the inspiration for the Penelope Pitstop cartoons, always getting tied up and chained to a railway by bad guys. In the movies, however, she often got out of those traps without help.
The dude in the poster is the villain from one of those serials, Exploits of Elaine. His name is "The Clutching Hand", and he's one of the first movie supervillains - although Fantômas came first. He's also the first hidden villain, which is why he's got the bandana covering his face. Filmgoers had to go see every episode of the serial to narrow down his secret identity. It was kind of like a superhero franchise, you gotta watch them all.
See, he's got a mask under his mask.
Of course, one of Pearl White's movies, The Perils of Pauline, was produced by William Randolph Hearst, a real-life supervillain, so, let's not give the era that much credit.
#image manipulation#firealpaca#inkscape#micrsoft photo editor#movie poster#silent film#silent film serial#silent film actress#Pearl White#Exploits of Elaine#Les Mystères de New York#art#poster#The Perils of Pauline#the perils of penelope pitstop#The Clutching Hand#Pierre Decourcelle#Fantomas#William Randolph Hearst#Supervillain
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ANOTHER REASON WHY USED BOOKSTORES ARE AWESOME
I bought this book -- The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth Whyte -- a few years ago at the wonderful Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood. However, I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, so it's just been sitting on one of my bookshelves pretty much ever since I bought it.
Today, I just happened to pick it up and start thumbing through it, and this fell out:
Now, I don't know what it is exactly, but it sure looks like a thank you note that would be sent in response to someone who had expressed condolences after someone's illness or death. Was it sent to someone from William Randolph Hearst's estranged wife after he died? That in itself is interesting because Hearst and his wife were estranged for the last 25+ years of his life because he had a very public affair with actress Marion Davies. Here's the thing, though: Hearst died in 1951, but the used book that the thank you card fell out of was published in 2009. The card definitely looks much older than the book, but that just brings up more questions. Did someone have the card from 1951 and just decide to use it as a bookmark since it's a biography of Hearst? Was the card a collectible item about Hearst and they figured that the book was as good a place as any for safekeeping? Is it even a card pertaining to the famous William Randolph Hearst who is the subject of the book, or maybe for his son, William Randolph Hearst Jr., who died in 1993?
I have no idea, but I bought a used copy of a book about William Randolph Hearst for like $7 in North Hollywood a few years ago and on top of the fascinating story of Hearst's crazy life printed within the book's pages, it's created a whole new set of stories and questions for me just because somebody left a unique memento tucked in those pages. All I can say for sure is that you don't get these types of experiences when you're reading e-books on a Kindle or an iPad.
#Books#William Randolph Hearst#Reading#The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst#Hearst#Kenneth Whyte#The Iliad Bookshop#Los Angeles#Bookstores#Used Books#Book Stores#Bookshops#Book Lovers#Books and Reading#Used Bookstores
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News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
―William Randolph Hearst
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“A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.”
- William Randolph Hearst, #botd in 1863
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Literally crapped in my pants today
ok so I was taking the Dumb ass Iready diagnostic they insist we fucking do even though we WONT do it in high school😡😡😡 anyway I was on a question and it said MOTHER FUCKING WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST ANC I JUMPED UP AND ALMOST SCREAMED CUZ LIKE I LITERALLY LUV NEWSIES SJSJKSKSJSJS. anyway that’s it but I couldn’t believe it!!!!
#newsies musical#newsies#william randolph hearst#musicals#musical theater kid#theatre#crazy#school#funny
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