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June 6, 2015
Whoa! What kind of weird, creepy video is this? The commentary...
Whoa! What kind of weird, creepy video is this? The commentary at the end made me laugh, though.
she’s got the crazy eyes!
she’s got the crazy eyes!
abandonedmarionette:
Book Cover Porn | The Night Circus by...
Book Cover Porn | The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I love it when books have a lot of different covers.
readingisavice:
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I’m going, and so should you.
Photos of famous landmarks while they were still under...
Photos of famous landmarks while they were still under construction.
June 5, 2015
On June 6, 1933, the first drive-in movie opened. (Today in...
On June 6, 1933, the first drive-in movie opened. (Today in history!)
There was one drive-in theater in Memphis when I was growing up (one that I knew about – and what do you know, it’s still open!) I used to think it would be cool to watch something there, but my mom argued (probably rightly) that it would be much more comfortable to watch a movie at home than in the car. Because let’s face it, I would have been going with her, and not been making out with a boy.
When drive-ins first started, they were home to mainly B movies (your monster flicks and what have you) – one of the last B movies I saw was Spiceworld, because I’m not all that big on monsters.
And let’s face it: I would watch this movie again if there weren’t a birth in it. So it was pretty scary after all.
The House on Haunted Hill is about a guy who opens a contest: whoever can spend the night in this rickety old mansion gets a huge cash prize ($10,000, which almost doesn’t seem like enough, but I don’t know what sleeping in a haunted house goes for these days with inflation).
But this kind of proposition isn’t anything new. In 1850, Charles Dickens started a rumor that anyone willing to spend the night in Madame Tussauds’ Chamber of Horrors would get a monetary reward, and people tried it! I wrote about it a few weeks ago.
And while I might be tempted to accept someone’s million dollar offer to sleep somewhere scary, realistically speaking I can’t walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night without turning a light on, so I wouldn’t be much competition.
June 3, 2015
todaysdocument:
The 110th Anniversary of The Great Train...
The 110th Anniversary of The Great Train Robbery
Moving images changed with the debut of The Great Train Robbery in December of 1903. Produced by Thomas Edison, inventor of many audio and visual playback machines, the film began to shift the focus from novelty films such as Carmencita to plot-based cinema.
The Great Train Robbery was one of the first crime dramas and archetype of the western genre. The film introduced moviegoers to robberies, chase scenes, and gun shoot-offs. The film was also one of the first to incorporate a full cast of actors and to shoot on-location.
Most of the films preserved at the National Archives were produced by government agencies. Yet The Great Train Robbery was produced by the Edison Company. This raises the question, how did it get here?
Learn the answer - and more background to The Great Train Robbery at our Media Matters blog: Media Matters » The Great Train Robbery
