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Free Culture Movies to Watch During #COVID19: SEVEN CHANCESAfter…



Free Culture Movies to Watch During #COVID19: SEVEN CHANCES

After we rewatched my “The Bachelor” DVD the other night, I noticed in the end credits it had been based on a Buster Keaton movie called “Seven Chances” that I had never heard of.  So I went looking, and here it is.  The opening sequence was a test filmed in Technicolor.  Clearly the print color hasn’t held up.  Apparently its been restored; this isn’t that version, however.  I can only find the trailer online and its entirely sepia tone.  

This Buster Keaton short (hour long) is a comedic masterpiece! 

Sinterklaas’ EveChildren in the Netherlands would place a carrot…



Sinterklaas’ Eve

Children in the Netherlands would place a carrot or some hay for Sinterklaas’ horse in their klompen, left by the fireplace or perhaps the windowsill tonight, hoping to find their shoe filled with sweets and small gifts left by Sinterklaas the on the morning of December 6th, St. Nicholas’ Day.

Public Domain photo by X posid 

cincylibrary: On September 24, 1848, Charles Fontayne and…



cincylibrary:

On September 24, 1848, Charles Fontayne and William S. Porter set up their camera on a rooftop in Newport, Kentucky and panned across the Ohio River capturing on eight separate daguerreotype plates a panorama of the nation’s sixth largest city, Cincinnati. The Daguerreotype View of Cincinnati, which came to be known as the Cincinnati Panorama of 1848, won top awards for its technique and artistry. At a time when most photographs were confined to portraits, this innovative work attracted worldwide attention and survives as the oldest comprehensive photograph of an American city.

See the panorama.