Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
From 1897, the most republished newspaper editorial of all time, summing up the prevalent style of its times very well indeed. Merry Christmas from Centuries of Sound.
2017
1897 in Art
John Collier – Lady Godiva Edvard Munch – The Kiss Paul Gauguin — Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Montmartre, printemps Henri Rousseau — Boy on the Rocks Jacek Malczewski — Vicious Circle L. A. Ring – In the garden door. The artist’s wife Ramon …
1897 in Film
To mirror the main mix, this year we have some extra inappropriate content – irresponsible drinking, the occult, and actual sort-of porn. The Hallucinated Alchemist Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer The X-Rays The Bewitched Inn Making Sausages After The Ball Leaving Jerusalem by Railway Naval Combat in Greece Spanish Bullfight La prise de …
Bram Stoker – Dracula
It’s been over twenty years since I last read ‘Dracula’ and I was a little surprised to find that my opinion about it this time was essentially the same. It’s 50% utterly wonderful, a wildly evocative mystery story with enough half-spoken to lead to a century of derivative works, none of which can quite capture …
S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission
People live only 500 miles from the North Pole, so why didn’t anyone reach it until 1908? Well, it turns out there are many reasons, and a number of innovative solutions to the problems, including freezing a huge ship in the ice and letting the currents pull you across the arctic over a couple of …
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Elsewhere in 1897
Firsts The first Boston Marathon, the discovery of the electron, Kyoto University, Juventus F.C., The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, The play Cyrano de Bergerac, Aspirin, The Kinetoscope, The Tremont Street Subway in Boston – the first underground metro in North America. It began in Africa Benin is put to the torch by the British Army’s …
1897
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack “He told them he wanted a certain cylinder containing a particularly obscene song. He claims in his affidavit, on which the warrant was issued, that Hunting sold this cylinder to him and then in his presence made him another equally objectionable record, …
1896 in Film
Aside from The Kiss, this year we have some genuinely amazing work from Georges Méliès – real one-minute horror and fantasy films, a huge leap forward for the artform. The Haunted Castle (Le Manoir du diable) The Kiss Le Cauchemar (A Nightmare) Snowball Fight McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio Blackfriars Bridge Lion, London Zoological …
1896 in Art
Lovis Corinth — Self-portrait with Skeleton Edvard Munch – The Sick Child Viktor Vasnetsov – Birds of Joy and Sorrow Jean-Léon Gérôme – Truth Coming Out of Her Well, Armed with Her Martinet to Chastise Mankind Paul Gauguin – Self-portrait ‘près du Golgotha’ Arturo Michelena — Miranda en la Carraca Hugo Simberg — The Garden …
A. E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Raised in Worcestershire and finding myself eventually settled in …