The oldest ever motion pictures?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=MWfIeWFWBio&NR=1[/youtube]

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That was very soothing.

Here's a film reel:

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It's nice enough, in its own way, but somehow it doesn't seem to have quite the soothing effect of the first clip.

eddie wrote:^

It's nice enough, in its own way, but somehow it doesn't seem to have quite the soothing effect of the first clip.

Eadweard, certainly liked naked ladies. I liked the lady that keeps her hat on.

Randy Newman, evidently addressing a film subject:

A waffle's throw away from where I now type this twaddle is where one will find the Stock Farm ... there Muybridge made his first impavid incursions into the heretofore unknown world of horse-flight, goaded by a ruthless locomotive satrap doomed to tragedy. Yez, innovation and imagineering is biznes-as-usual 'round here ... not tiresome Gundersen Lutefisks etc. *



*Playwright and corporate communications consultant Syl Jones suggests that "Minnesota nice" isn't really about being "nice" at all. It's more about keeping up appearances, maintaining the social order, and keeping people in their place. He relates these social norms to the literary work of Danish-Norwegian novelist, Aksel Sandemose, Jante Law, and more generally, Scandinavian culture...