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Kids Love Smoking Fail
This grown man giving kids a smoke would be socially unacceptable these days…and illegal
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First Ever Photograph Portrait in the US
This portrait of Dorothy Draper was taken between 1839-1840 and is believed to be the first photographic portrait ever taken in the United States.
When you think about it, it’s about 170 years old!
World’s Oldest Computer Animation
Kitty. – N.Konstantinov. – vintage retro video
Soviet computer animation was made in 1968. A group of russian physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov in the head of it created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer “BESM-4″. Computer printed hundreds of frames on the paper using alphabet symbols and then they were converted to the cinefilm.
Советский мультфильм 1968 года, сделанный с использованием ЭВМ (БЭСМ-4). Подробнее на русском – http://www.etudes.ru/ru/mov/kittie/
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test – vintage retro video
A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see.
Visit Kodak’s A Thousand Words blog for a post about the video: http://1000words.kodak.com/post/?ID=2982503
Nadia Comaneci Perfect 10 Montréal Olympics 1976
Nadia Comaneci scores a perfect 10 on the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. This first time ever that someone had scored a perfect 10 in a gymnastics event.
Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano, The First Rap Hip Hop Song?
Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celetano was made in 1972 and is considered by many to be the first instance of a rap/hip hop song
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World’s First Digital Camera
From 1975 comes this crude portable digital camera powered by 16 nickel cadmium batteries
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
Alice in Wonderland (1903) – vintage retro video
The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.
With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
To find out more about the film, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/974410/
Y2K Backup Floppies
In the year 1999 these were very popular, the 1.44 MB floppy diskette in rainbow colors. The year 2000 was thought to crash many computers but it never did.
Computer Virus TV News Report 1988
Computer Virus TV News Report 1988 – Vintage retro video
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