Photos From History Thread

[W3H5]

Don't really know if this appropriate considering what happened to it's occupants... I'm not saying you can't post pictures of a 550 Spyder and a Carrera GT but posting pictures of the exact cars that people were killed in is a bit insensitive IMO.

I understand your comment, but it’s not like we’re looking at crash scenes. Those are historic cars due the untimely deaths of the occupants.

 

[GTboyz]

Don't really know if this appropriate considering what happened to it's occupants... I'm not saying you can't post pictures of a 550 Spyder and a Carrera GT but posting pictures of the exact cars that people were killed in is a bit insensitive IMO.

I kinda understand what you're trying to say, but I feel that as long as it's not the crash photos, I don't think it's insensitive.

I mean it's like if I post a picture of the Renault F1 that Senna drove or Ken Miles driving the J Car. It's not insensitive IMO.

 

[kikie]

 

[TexRex]

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Doubtful. When that photograph was taken, the most common method used to take photographs required fifteen to thirty seconds of exposure time. Because of the time it took, a subject's movement resulted in a blurring of the subject. Compare to photographs of nighttime traffic that show streaks of red and white light indicating movement of headlights and taillights along the roadways.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Guy on the right train sure does look spooky though.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

This is a neat place to visit. My family always went to a historic place when we went out to visit family every year, and this would have been one of them. Wish I had some pictures of it.....

 

[TexRex]

Guy on the right train sure does look spooky though.

I suppose, though his appearance is still easily explained by shift during film exposure.

Daguerrotype was still used to a moderate degree at that time and took considerably longer (though offered higher quality images), as in actual minutes, depending on the light available, so if it was used here...mad respect to the dude on the left holding his hat up. And the guy straight-arming the champagne (presumably) bottle, for that matter.

 

[Pete05]

I suppose, though his appearance is still easily explained by shift during film exposure.

Daguerrotype was still used to a moderate degree at that time and took considerably longer (though offered higher quality images), as in actual minutes, depending on the light available, so if it was used here...mad respect to the dude on the left holding his hat up. And the guy straight-arming the champagne (presumably) bottle, for that matter.

That bottle of champagne(?) would've felt as heavy as a case of the stuff in the end

 

[TexRex]

That bottle of champagne(?) would've felt as heavy as a case of the stuff in the end

Yeah. Given the number of people pictured, I suspect it's not Daguerrotype because of the exposure time. It was probably tintype.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

 

[gnomefromnome]

 

[Pete05]

That is a beautiful piece of automotive art right there.

 

[Liquid]

The Hand Of God (1986)

Diego Maradona and Peter Shilton

 

[Liquid]

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2004)

Something about this image is just... really nice.

 

[W3H5]

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2004)

Something about this image is just... really nice.

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“You think that’s water they’re drinking?” - Morpheus. 1999.

 

[gnomefromnome]

 

[gnomefromnome]

more photos

 

[Liquid]

Test Card F

One of the most famous images in British television history. This test card was used on the BBC between 1967 and 1998 during the night when no programmes were being broadcast. In 1998, BBC One began broadcasting 24 hours a day and BBC Two replaced the test card with pages from Ceefax.

This is the actual image used for the test card. On the cropped test card itself, Bubbles the Clown is more saturated to better calibrate the broadcast cameras.

 

[polysmut]

Test Card F

One of the most famous images in British television history. This test card was used on the BBC between 1967 and 1998 during the night when no programmes were being broadcast. In 1998, BBC One began broadcasting 24 hours a day and BBC Two replaced the test card with pages from Ceefax.

This is the actual image used for the test card. On the cropped test card itself, Bubbles the Clown is more saturated to better calibrate the broadcast cameras.

I think the X on the blackboard was the exact centre of the screen.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

That is quite fascinating. In the US, it was the color bars with a tone. Or nothing but fuzz. Astoundingly annoying!

 

[Pete05]

That is quite fascinating. In the US, it was the color bars with a tone. Or nothing but fuzz. Astoundingly annoying!

That sounds like exactly what we had here in Australia.

 

[Liquid]

That is quite fascinating. In the US, it was the color bars with a tone. Or nothing but fuzz. Astoundingly annoying!

That sounds like exactly what we had here in Australia.

At least between 1998-2012, the replacement Pages From Ceefax broadcast during the night used to sound like this:

 

[TexRex]

That is some danged smooth jazz.

 

[Pete05]

At least between 1998-2012, the replacement Pages From Ceefax broadcast during the night used to sound like this:

Nice.

We never got that though. It was the test pattern until we got 24/7 coverage on all channels.

 

[TheCracker]

That is quite fascinating. In the US, it was the color bars with a tone. Or nothing but fuzz. Astoundingly annoying!

It had all that as well:

 

[Touring Mars]

The real Mrs. Doubtfire, from Edinburgh...

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/a...tfire-was-based-stockbridge-shopkeeper-604276

Apparently, her original shop is now an art gallery, called Doubtfire.

 

[kikie]

10 year anniversary of GTP.

 

[kikie]

 

[gnomefromnome]

GRAPHIC WARNING: https://www.adn.com/multimedia/video/video-alaska-zoos-blinky-injuries-meddling-tourist/2015/07/22/

Twenty-one years ago, Australian tourist Kathryn Warburton decided to climb over two fences surrounding the polar bear exhibit for a photo opportunity. Binky proceeded to attack Warburton, and in the footage bystanders are seen trying to beat the polar bear away as it bites and claws at her leg.

 

[W3H5]

What could go wrong getting up close to a frickin’ polar bear?