Series
The early frames, made before anyone knew who they were looking at.
3 stories published.
Start here · Part 1
Told to think up a comedy make-up, Chaplin walked into the Keystone wardrobe, borrowed trousers from one actor and shoes from another, and came out as a character he would play for twenty-six years.
3 min read
Part 2
In photographs of ENIAC, women are shown setting switches and plugging cables. For decades many of those pictures were published without their names.
3 min read
Part 3
Georges Méliès burned his own negatives and ended up selling toys in a Paris railway station. A hand-coloured print of A Trip to the Moon turned up in Barcelona in 1993 — fused into a single lump.
3 min read
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