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A couple of points to emphasize for our American cousins. Firstly Reginald Fessenden a Canadian working in America broadcast first Christmas 1906 with live music and speech, Secondly XWA Montreal, now CFCF, was licensed in 1919. Don't forget about 2LO in England. Truly Radio was an international accomplishment.
Would have liked to have seen ANY information of her working and personal, behind-the-scenes relationships with the great W.C. Fields. He was such a stickler for rehearsing his complex gags TO PERFECTION, one can't help but wonder how he put up with her lackadaisical attitude towards film making and the rigors of rehearsal. . . . . And what did Louise see in the Hollywood legend whose sole interest in life appeared to be drinking? "Thank you, 'The 1920sChannel,' for this wonderful video bio."
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisesed men." , Mr. Willy Wonka, courtesy Mr. Roald Dahl. Fingers of history wagging at us unnoticed, throughout popular art ... direct quotes strike the ear in a rather disconcerting manner, without a context to grasp. That is, of course, the fun of it 👍. Rum and Coca-Cola in a funeral parlor. Yum.
Loco weed Dear. Considering the factual freedoms of the day, it may have been regional concoctions of uplifting spirits provided by mngmt. Research rqrd.
Dizzy Izzy & The Blah Club Of 1926 1852pm 30.5.24 that said..... this chap compiling the archival presenttions could create a skit regards DADA art movement, perhaps?
There's some real trippy gems from that period 1910-1920s that make me wonder... like Don Marquis's "Archy and Mehitabel" serial. Wikipedia: "Archy, a cockroach [a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in the building had left], and Mehitabel, an alley cat." Remember, Coca Cola didn't start using cocaine-free coca leaves in their recipe until 1929 :)
@@kindafoggy Dizzy Izzy & The Blah Club Of 1926 2018pm 30.5.24 attitudes to mind altering substances back then being pretty lax... let's face it, cocaine was big in the wank stanied world of psychoanalysis.... and laudanum was a biggie amongst the poets of old. as was opium infused wine. that said, you'd get the same sense of abject and heightened whimsy with a decent dram of whisky. any budding poets or playwrights take note.... DADA was interesting as an insane comment on an insane new dawn.... and the message, if message there was, is still relevent in this new era of technological induced insanity... though simulating the past is pretty tiresome, i suppose. refer to kafka. when did he release his banal gregor samsa tale? maybe your reference parodied kafka's angst? you could go seek out derek and clive - and squatter and the ant tale. pretty amusing. after a glass of whisky, i hasten to add. or you could just drag out a vast array of derek and clive via you tube and laugh your proverbial nuts off. as i do - when feeling lacklustre or hemmed in...
I’m saulteux ojibwe and it’s wild we’ve been telling these stories longer than I’ve been alive and only now does it feel like people outside our community cares…
Actually, some of that stuff is reality... energy from the sun, individual submarines. Even my mother's generation couldn't foresee that we'd all be carrying minicomputers in our pockets that could tie together multiple forms of communications in a small, handy, easy to use device. I'm sure that Motorola had no idea what they were unleashing when they invented the first cell phone.
"People Who Must" By Carl Sandburg ............... 2011pm 28.5.24 or those who are asked if they enjoy playing rugby retort that it's not something they enjoy moreover something they have to do. akin to the young child who rushes home froms chool to suggest he must got to the football game, it's something he has to do.. that kindda attitude gets a thumbs up in some homes...
That searchlight could get some 'interesting' responses from folks living near the tracks, if it went on at the wrong time, or reflected off the wrong thing.
If only they had build a train bridge across the Bering Strait in the 1910s instead of having a world war there could've been many Train Hotels travelling around 5 of the 7 continents. Much cheaper & more fun than war.
Nuts! These sorts of things are now turning up on airliners. Compare the luxury liner of the early 1900s, say the Lusitania, to any modern cruise ship of today, say the Queen Anne of the Cunard company.
Some icebergs though! However, at least the prices were cheap. You only had to pay ten bees for one ticket from New England to Missouri .@@JackGordone
