Philosophy
Voices...H. G. Wells and Orson Welles
I have recently made two posts regarding H. G. Wells and I thought that you might like to hear his voice.Audio...H. G. Wells and Orson Welles [October 28th, 1940]H. G. Wells and the "sexual revolution"? Tono-Bungay"...the feel good elixir Evil/good...companions of human existence?H. G. Wells [Wikipedia]Orson Welles [Wikipedia]
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"too Much Johnson" Redux
Joseph Cotton and Edgar Barrier in the 1938 Orson Welles film Too Much Johnson. "Orson Welles lost film screened in Italy" Too Much Johnson, a silent film made by Orson Welles in 1938 and lost for three decades, has been restored and is being screened...
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Aldous Huxley Lecture..."the Ultimate Revolution--a Blueprint To Enslave The Masses"
Aldous Huxley gave this speech to a Berkley audience, in which he admits that his novels such as "Brave New World" were not just fiction, but real blueprints for types of controlled and enslaved societies. A shocking look at the results of the Fabian...
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Bill Speare's "othello" Via Orson Welles
This is a documentary of Orson Welles' filming of Shakespeare's Othello. Internet Archive... Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film,...
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"tono-bungay"...the Feel Good Elixir
Snake oil products have been around a long time, are still here, and probably will never go away. Why? Well, there is money in the marketing of such items that claim cures and "feel good" experiences. I guess it's all in the mind. H. G. Wells wrote...
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Orson Desaix Munn And "scientific American"
Orson Desaix Munn June 11th, 1824 to February 28th, 1907 Orson Desaix Munn was publisher of Scientific American. The Munn & Company, formed with Salem H. Wales and editor Alfred Beach, bought the six-month-old Scientific American magazine from Rufus...
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