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Rev. O.L. Jaggers amateur singing That's Life. He also plays the organ in this clip.
Cautions.....the song ends at the 2:32 something mark....No one could sing and play the organ like O.L. could..... His haunting bluesy pumping and grinding organ playing has to be heard to be believed.....>>> https://youtu.be/v4Ugnvd9Naw http://waxidermy.com/images/life_detail.jpg http://waxidermy.com/images/life_detail.jpg Some writer had the nerve to call this a vanity album.....how rude. |
Projected advertising..?
A question if I may, about the 1917 photo below. The image shows the intersection of Spring Street (left) and Main Street (right). The photo appears to have been taken from the Marsh-Strong building (1914).
https://i.imgur.com/HjtI8L5.jpg LINK to full sized image In the image, the largest potential advertising space has been left totally blank. The words “READ OUR AD HERE TONITE” are displayed prominently next to the empty space... Were ads projected onto this space at night? This would seem to be the only likely explanation, but... I can't find any projector unit on the rooftops in the foreground. And it seems to me, if there were a projector there, it would project an image with severe keystone distortion. And it seems that any other location on Spring, Main, or 9th would be too far away to project an image from. https://i.imgur.com/lZz2Qq2.jpg Does anyone know if ads were routinely projected onto the white rectangle? And if so, from where were they projected? Were similar projection techniques used in Times Square? And if so, who was the first to advertise in this way, LA or New York? |
From the same photo in my previous post...
Does anyone know what these two objects are? https://i.imgur.com/5HfPOrc.jpg It looks like we are seeing the back of a little blonde haired girl kneeling, but maybe not... if so, she seems out of proportion with the man in the foreground (the girl appears too large). Black smoke appears to surround the object, but I believe the “smoke” is actually some kind of stain on the photographic negative. The object, which may be some kind of cart or vehicle, seems to be highly ornate and decorative, and the design seems to feature Indian style, Ogee arches. Anyone have any ideas what this thing was? Then there's this object that looks like something out of Stonehenge. It appears to be too tall (let alone, too narrow) to be any kind of guard rail. It does not resemble any horse-hitching post I've seen before. Beyond that, I'm stumped. https://i.imgur.com/F4PeAqQ.jpg Any idea what this object is? |
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Man, I'd have loved to have seen that - imagine, it's 1917, you're in your best suit, there are only one or two horse-drawn carriages within your view, cars have almost totally replaced them. You look up, and you see this giant, outdoor projection, fading out and into other images. It must have seemed like the future. I wonder if Miller ever hand-tinted or colored any of the images? The camera/lens geek in me still wonders where the projector was placed. And how they overcame that keystoning, which would have been tremendous with the projector so close to the “screen”, and the screen being so much higher than the projector. Perhaps the stereopticon had a matched pair of architectural shift lenses, which could raise the altitude of the projected image, without distorting it. Of course, the stereopticon would have to have side-by-side lenses instead of one-above-the-other lenses, just to make room for the shift lenses. Man, I'd love to see how they did it! Are there any other camera geeks here who might venture a guess? |
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<<<....... the stereopticon would have to have side-by-side lenses instead of one-above-the-other lenses, just to make room for the shift lenses.>>>
Stereo/3D uses 2 separate images spaced laterally at roughly eye spacing [YMMV] so the lenses MUST be side by side taking or projecting. Photographs were made to be contact printed and viewed in the holder/viewer that allowed one's eyes to merge the two images into a , voila', 3D image. Other later methods use red and blue images viewed thru cheap 'spectacles'. Dunno how the CGI folks do it these days, nor do I give a care, even tho' I look forward to the day when actors will not be required at all, and the Hollywood Creeps disappear Quote:
Dyes in the emulsion were short-lived, as demonstrated in the example. Technicolor movies were made by photographing three B&W images thru color filters and re-assembling them by printing with three colors. Obviously producing a very vivid and long lasting final movie. Stunning color prints were made by a similar process , known as 'Dye Transfer", Three filtered B&W shots, each enlarged onto a transfer film , each of which was dipped into the appropriate dye , sequentially impressed onto the paper in perfect [ if done right] register Then Kodak came up with Kodacolor for print film , a similar [cheap] movie film and Ektachrome. If one can see a film box, on one side is a disclaimer that read something like "All dyes may fade in time [..not our fault].. Indeed, many such movies have been lost to fading. IIRC UCLA has a restoration program but the color films of the late 40s early 50s are doomed. Fortunately, we don't care at Noir All that said, Ektachrome E6 process is still available and has storage characteristics very close to Kodachrome. Some folks say that it will be around a little longer as the movie folks made a several year commitment to purchase movie stock. One rumor is that, although the makers like to shoot on digital, they archive on film |
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Ran across this house while researching another and was astonished to find it still standing near the busy corner of Hoover & Pico...from the Times, April 12, 1903
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Notice street car rails in corner bend ... these could be Horse Driven (PULLED)Trolley Car Tracks , THUS .... the raised cement water trough would be to give hitched trolley horses a drink of water at that spot , without any bother , ....A perfectly rational answer and obvious to most normal humans with an ounce of brains |
(ca. 1937)* - View of the intersection of Main, Spring, and 9th streets in downtown Los Angeles circa 1937. A uniformed man sits in a booth on top of a pole in the foreground of this corner as pedestrians walk by underneath.
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[But the actual street running as the spine of much of the hill was along Bunker Hill Ave. Certainly not 3rd and Hope which was at a considerable drop below (like the equal to the height of a 10 story building at that intersection!] What a shame ! I'm sorry rick m for this confusion. I wanted to point where was the Alta Vista. Sure the top of the Third street tunnel below Hope Street was at that considerable drop. |
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https://s15.postimg.cc/n1p2n3wxn/tro...tcompl.bmp.jpg LAT March 9, 1928 https://s15.postimg.cc/f00u56yqj/trough4.bmp.jpg LAT Dec 27, 1929 https://s15.postimg.cc/5oes8j4a3/troughthird.bmp.jpg LAT Jan 22, 1932 https://s15.postimg.cc/6hre0z2jf/trough4_UT.jpg LAT March 2, 1936 https://s15.postimg.cc/wh4y09wy3/troughsunset.jpg LAT May 12, 1937 |
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