LordWoolamaloo, 10 days ago to movies

This evening's viewing: Modern Times. Been a long time since I last saw it, & while remembering the amazing & rightly famous sequence where Charlie is sucked into the cogs of the machine, I had totally forgotten about the equally amazing roller skate by the precipice scene, which still looks remarkable (the drop is in fact a glass matte painting, a clever bit of VFX for the era)

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animated gif from Modern Times, with Chaplin seemingly roller skating blind towards a sheer drop by a damaged stairwell railing in a department store.

estelle, 5 months ago to history

How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/

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itnewsbot, 8 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

How Strikes Reflect Longstanding Battles for Control in Hollywood - Striking actors and writers fear A.I. Executives don’t seem to. It’s a longstanding battl... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/movies/artificial-intelligence-hollywood.html #allianceofmotionpictureandtelevisionproducers #a.i.artificialintelligence(movie) #2001:aspaceodyssey(movie) #artificialintelligence #writersguildofamerica #theterminator(movie) #bladerunner(movie) #moderntimes(movie) #metropolis(movie)