Cinematic staging from 126 years ago in this three-shot film. Sort of a nonfiction-fiction-nonfiction sandwich.
DIVING FOR TREASURE (Robert W. Paul, 1900) rediscovered, restored, and recently digitized:
vimeopro.com/cinematheque...
For more on the film see:
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...
Speaking of flowers, here's one of the beautiful stencil-colored rotating flower films from the collection of the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
Veldbloemen (Gaumont, 1912) Watch to the end for a magical transformation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2I...
I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Full fathom five / the Florsheims fit fine
LA Bluesky lining up to make Spencer Pratt jokes:
Robert Ryan and Mary Astor in the brilliant noir ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann, 1948).
There’s a variation on the Annabelle Butterfly Dance at the end here 🦋
Sad to hear that Marjane Satrapi has died. Just screened PERSEPOLIS in my Directed by Women class this spring. A political, fierce, and uncompromising artist.