Watch the 1896 Movie The Pistol Duel, a Startling Re-Creation of the Final Days of Pistol Dueling in Mexico

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One some­instances hears lament­ed the ten­den­cy of films to depict Mex­i­co — and in par­tic­u­lar, its cap­i­tal Mex­i­co Metropolis — as a menace­en­ing, rough-and-tum­ble place the place human life has no val­ue. Such con­cerns change into close to­ly as previous as cin­e­ma itself, hav­ing first been raised in response to a tough­ly thir­ty-sec­ond-long movie known…

Watch {Hardware} Wars, the Authentic Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978)

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This previous Might, YouTu­ber Jen­ny Nichol­son set off waves of social-media dis­course with “The Spec­tac­u­lar Fail­ure of the Star Wars Resort,” a four-hour-long video cri­tique of Dis­ney’s enormous­ly expen­sive, now-shut­tered Star Wars: Galac­tic Star­cruis­er in Orlan­do, Flori­da. Hav­ing gone viral sufficient to rack up over 9 mil­lion views in lower than two months, it’s arguably…

Watch Tom Waits For No One, the Pioneering Animated Music Video from 1979

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Tom Waits For No One, above, is bound­ly the one movie in his­to­ry to have received an Oscar for Sci­en­tif­ic and Tech­ni­cal Obtain­ment for its cre­ator and a primary place award on the Hol­ly­wooden Erot­ic Movie and Video Fes­ti­val. Direc­tor John Lamb and his half­ner, Bruce Lyon additionally deserve recog­ni­tion for his or her style in supply mate­r­i­al….

Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months

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Cel­lists unwill­ing to set­tle for any however the best instru­ment should, quickly­er or lat­er, make a pil­grim­age to Cre­mona — or moderately, to the Cre­monas. One is, after all, town in Lom­bardy that was dwelling to numer­ous pio­neer­ing mas­ter luthiers, as much as and includ­ing Anto­nio Stradi­vari. The oth­er, much less­er recognized Cre­mona is a…

Watch Patti Smith Learn from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Solely Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voice

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Within the video above, poet, artist, Nation­al Ebook Award win­ner, and “god­moth­er of punk” Pat­ti Smith reads a selec­tion from Vir­ginia Woolf’s 1931 exper­i­males­tal nov­el The Waves, accom­pa­nied on piano and gui­tar by her daugh­ter Jesse and son Jack­son. The “learn­ing” marked the open­ing of “Land 250,” a 2008 exhi­bi­tion of Smith’s pho­tog­ra­phy and artwork­work…

Watch the Earliest-Recognized Charles Dickens Movie: The Dying of Poor Joe

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A lit­tle over a decade in the past, a cura­tor on the British Movie Insti­tute (BFI) dis­cov­ered the outdated­est sur­viv­ing movie fea­tur­ing a Charles Dick­ens char­ac­ter, “The Dying of Poor Joe.” The silent movie, direct­ed by George Albert Smith in 1900, brings to life Dick­ens’ char­ac­ter Jo, the cross­ing sweep­er from Bleak Home. Pri­or to…