August 2019

1916 in Film

  Intolerance The Floorwalker Sherlock Holmes Fatty and Mabel Adrift The Rink 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Cenere The Mystery of the Leaping Fish Judex: L’ombre mystérieuse (The Mysterious Shadow), Episode 1 Farmer Alfalfa Sees New York Joan The Woman Snow White Hell’s Hinges East Is East The Danger Girl Behind the Screen Civilization One …

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The CoS Tapes #2 — Professors of the Xylophone 1897-1916

The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. Another compilation of early recorded music – this one has a selection of virtuoso xylophone solos, from the time when this was …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 13 (1905)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 17th August 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another sonic adventure through time with James Errington, this time joined by guests Dominic, Joanne & Adam to listen to the sounds of 1905 and discuss such pressing topics as skeleton xylophones, the hubris of Dick Dastardly, melancholy in Spanish music, the latter-day lack of …

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Elsewhere in 1916

January 1 — The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. January 10 — In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia inflicts a defeat on the Ottoman Empire. January 13 – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the Allied British in the Battle of Wadi. February …

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