Philosophy
Some fun from film maker Rene Clair...The Crazy Ray [Paris Qui Dort] [1927].
Wikipedia...
The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris.
The Crazy Ray
Rene Clair [Wikipedia]
- Bullshit Or Not: Descartes Edition
There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, "In Search Of..." called, "Bullshit or Not?" with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." It's a line I like so much that...
- Letterisme And The Letterists...a French Avant-garde Movement
Alain Satie, extrait de ecrit en prose The beat generation of Paris. "The group was a motley assortment of novelists, sound poets, painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed...
- The Great Paris Exposition Telescope, 1900... Largest Refracting Telescope
In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope. In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope was unveiled at that year's Paris Universal Exhibition. It had interchangeable lenses for visual and photographic uses, but its main primary lens diameter...
- Two Historical Cinematic Halloween Offerings
Above is an example of the two-strip cemented positive process. Film strip A is the black and white negative. Film strip B is the black and white silver record of the red layer. Film strip C is the black and white silver record of the green layer. ...
- Deceased--maria Schneider
Maria Schneider March 27th, 1952 to February 3rd, 2011 "Maria Schneider, Actress in ‘Last Tango,’ Dies at 58" by William Grimes February 3rd, 2011 The New York Times Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in “Last...
Philosophy
Rene Clair's "The Crazy Ray"
Some fun from film maker Rene Clair...The Crazy Ray [Paris Qui Dort] [1927].
Wikipedia...
The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris.
The Crazy Ray
Rene Clair [Wikipedia]
- Bullshit Or Not: Descartes Edition
There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, "In Search Of..." called, "Bullshit or Not?" with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." It's a line I like so much that...
- Letterisme And The Letterists...a French Avant-garde Movement
Alain Satie, extrait de ecrit en prose The beat generation of Paris. "The group was a motley assortment of novelists, sound poets, painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed...
- The Great Paris Exposition Telescope, 1900... Largest Refracting Telescope
In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope. In 1900, the Great Paris Exhibition Telescope was unveiled at that year's Paris Universal Exhibition. It had interchangeable lenses for visual and photographic uses, but its main primary lens diameter...
- Two Historical Cinematic Halloween Offerings
Above is an example of the two-strip cemented positive process. Film strip A is the black and white negative. Film strip B is the black and white silver record of the red layer. Film strip C is the black and white silver record of the green layer. ...
- Deceased--maria Schneider
Maria Schneider March 27th, 1952 to February 3rd, 2011 "Maria Schneider, Actress in ‘Last Tango,’ Dies at 58" by William Grimes February 3rd, 2011 The New York Times Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in “Last...