The Open Road London (1927)
London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.
Bubble-smith Sterling Johnson on Stinson Beach
Canon 550D T2i test footage
(Source: youtube.com)
Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906. “Mount Adams incline.” A closeup of one of Cincy’s famous incline railway lines, and of a lesser-known clothesline. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (full size)
“A record groove magnified 1000 times. But before you go getting all sappy about the days when things were objects and stuff was things, remember that hard drives are things too. If you haven’t read it already, I hereby recommend Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms.
“(via aaronmeyers)”
