Early color motion pictures

We interrupt this long closing about the kitchen to post a short video. This is a screen test from a 1922 Kodak use of Kodachrome.  Yes, that's 1922, about 10 years before the earliest color motion pictures to hit the silver screen.  It is a gorgeous piece -- not much to speak of, just a starlet preening for the camera in different poses and outfits -- but the color is amazing, and the feeling of looking back into history is incredible.  She doesn't move the way modern actresses do for the camera.  And the textiles(!) Mesmerizing.




I found this on tywkiwdbi, of course. I recommend, actually, clicking on the video and watching it from within youtube.com (which you will be automatically directed to) -- because then you can see the whole frame, not just the portion that fits in my blog.

This is like rubbing Norm Coleman's nose in it.

This is so cool -- I don't know if you've seen it. Al Franken was giving a talk at the MPR booth at the Minnesota State Fair, and during it, drew, free-hand, from memory, an accurate map of the United States of America. Video below.



See the brief New York Daily News article about it, here. I am so proud of my senator, even though he's not technically my senator since I don't live in that state anymore. But I supported him!

(Thank The Man for the link.)