1922 Kodachrome Test Footage; Kodak's earliest color film

[CountDeMoney]

Were there were odd styles of movement even before widespread use of motion pictures.  For instance Groucho Marx was know for doing an exaggerated walk with where he was stooped and had one arm on his thigh.  This was a popular fashion in the 1890's, but in the 1930's it looked old fashioned and subsequently funny.  Today, it's simply not recognized.

And I'm sure kids today don't recognize a zoot suit roll, either.  But so fucking what, if they read a book instead of melting their brains with Facetweeting all day they'd know.

[garbon]

Were there were odd styles of movement even before widespread use of motion pictures.  For instance Groucho Marx was know for doing an exaggerated walk with where he was stooped and had one arm on his thigh.  This was a popular fashion in the 1890's, but in the 1930's it looked old fashioned and subsequently funny.  Today, it's simply not recognized.

And I'm sure kids today don't recognize a zoot suit roll, either.  But so fucking what, if they read a book instead of melting their brains with Facetweeting all day they'd know.

Maybe you should tweet classic works.

[Syt]

Interesting idea (though it's probably been done already): set up twitter accounts for all characters in a Shakespeare play, then let them tweet their lines.

[Sheilbh]

There's a twitter account that tweets a line of Howl every hour. One that's tweeting WW2. One of my favourites is one tweeting Pepys's diary: 'I was drunk and fell in a ditch'...

[PDH]

'I was drunk and fell in a ditch'...

  He fell into the ditch because it was dark!

[MadImmortalMan]

Harvesting with Oxen in Cirencester from 1924:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k5hcndldI

House of Parliament, 1926:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=G9_gjh_YTJ0&feature=endscreen

Much later colour film, 1938, of the English harvest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzAIkMwrg

I really like the quality of this one, scenes from the river Thames,1935:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObu5VXfTVI

Thanks for posting those, mongers. The one on the English harvest was especially good, and the comments were fun.

The building across the street from Parliament that has the tube station in the basement and looks like it belongs in Mordor apparently wasn't there in 1926. 

[Caliga]

It seems like all of those chicks had really nice teeth.  I could be wrong but I don't think many folks got braces back then, so maybe having nice teeth was a requirement of being a film actress back then?

[mongers]

Harvesting with Oxen in Cirencester from 1924:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k5hcndldI

House of Parliament, 1926:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=G9_gjh_YTJ0&feature=endscreen

Much later colour film, 1938, of the English harvest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzAIkMwrg

I really like the quality of this one, scenes from the river Thames,1935:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObu5VXfTVI

Thanks for posting those, mongers. The one on the English harvest was especially good, and the comments were fun.

The building across the street from Parliament that has the tube station in the basement and looks like it belongs in Mordor apparently wasn't there in 1926. 

Yes, Portcullis House, no surpise it was finished during the first Blair administration and a fine example of public spending, you'll appreciate this google fig trees in relation to the building. 

[Josephus]

It seems like all of those chicks had really nice teeth.  I could be wrong but I don't think many folks got braces back then, so maybe having nice teeth was a requirement of being a film actress back then?

Or it probably means that most children do not require braces, despite what dentists say.

[Caliga]

Could be.  Maybe none of those girls were English.

[jimmy olsen]

It seems like all of those chicks had really nice teeth.  I could be wrong but I don't think many folks got braces back then, so maybe having nice teeth was a requirement of being a film actress back then?

Or it probably means that most children do not require braces, despite what dentists say.

After living in a country where kids who need braces often don't get them until they're in college, I'd say a large percentage do.

[Queequeg]

There's a twitter account that tweets a line of Howl every hour. One that's tweeting WW2. One of my favourites is one tweeting Pepys's diary: 'I was drunk and fell in a ditch'...

One did Constantine XI.  It got depressing. 

[Syt]

After living in a country where kids who need braces often don't get them until they're in college, I'd say a large percentage do.

Didn't know you spent time in New Jersey.