Photo by Keri Wiginton, Chicago Tribune.
GE opens Edison era time capsule, turns on century-old light bulb.
Trip down Market Street, San Francisco filmed four days before the 1906 earthquake.
Television Commercials 1950s-1960s.
The 1st projected film, Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895) was filmed by Louis Lumière using his Cinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. This film was screened at the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, along with nine other short movies. Three separate versions of this film exist, all seen in this video.
President Kennedy delivers an inspirational space exploration speech on Sept. 12, 1962: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
The story of the World War II “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster, including its origins and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England in 2000.
