Roaring 20s Figural Celluloid Brush and Comb
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Spent way too much time yesterday trying to figure out if this book’s cover was real ivory or fake ivory (ie celluloid). The time period it was made (1890s) lands it smack in the middle of when both could be equally possible options. I have a known celluloid photograph album to compare it to, but nothing made of real ivory so at this time I am still on the fence about its veracity…
But dang I love the gilded gauffered edges and clasps!
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VINTAGE ANTIQUE SCENIC BEADED CELLULOID FRAME BAG PURSE 1920s ebay Leslie Brooks Antiques
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Four Kitsch Celluloid Plastic Rabbit Bunny Faces
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1930 CELLULOID PEARL POCKET KNIFE | LISTING
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Those of us who have used film all our lives are able to discern whether or not a film is made on film, but the public has mounted not a whiff of protest (using digital rather than celluliod). Some might think I am splitting hairs. After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away. Us old guys who cling to film are dying out; soon, editors will never see a sprocket hole in their lives.
For the finale of my 1974 film Zardoz, I wanted to shoot a scene of Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling in which they age and die. This involved shooting with a fixed camera, so that we could take them out, age their clothes and faces, put them back in, shoot them a bit more, then take them out and age them further, until eventually they were skeletons that, in turn, crumbled away. This process took an entire day. Then, the camera assistant unloaded the camera and accidentally exposed the film to the light. This meant we had to spend another whole day shooting it. I also had to restrain Connery from killing the assistant - who soon afterwards changed his name and moved to Los Angeles. I spied him in a cafe in LA one day. “Is Sean in town?” he asked, with a quivering voice.
- John Boorman on the making of Zardoz (1974)
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God I love being an animation nut it allows me to bring in who I call Louise and Jacques as they never had official names and explain they are the oldest animated characters still alive in the cartoon meets reality world.
They are from the 1870s. However, what throws people for a loop is the factor they are the only animated characters not to be animated on celluloid,
As they were animated via rubber strips instead, with cutouts in them illuminated by this old piece of technology known as a Magic Lantern you have enough of those in sequence with each other add in a background and you had animation
However with the invention of celluloid this was quickly phased out it's why they are the only two characters to have been made this way,
But the fact that I get people in disbelief saying there's no way all animation was on Celluloid and I get to sit there like a smug cat because nope theres 2 of em that were on Rubber.
I love Louise and Jacque, since they were made by a French man I pictured they live over in Paris and typically can be found around the Louve they're the old couple that have been through everything so they're just relaxing, the Goverment taking care of them as Cultural Heritage Toons since they hold the record of being the very first Toons to hop off the film reel.
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IKHULU INGONYAMA 4/100
The Lion King - Kiara [Swahili, “Princess”]
3 hours. 2D drawing/painting
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