This is a visualization created by 3D animator Jarde Owens providing a tour of all the Titanic’s interior (and exterior) features from top to bottom, including the engine rooms, secret rooms, and MORE. Did you know the Titanic was one of the first ocean liners to have a swimming pool?
To mark the 25th anniversary of the incident, this is a video of the infamous 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in which high winds caused Barney to rip himself wide open on a light pole. I remember it well: one minute I was stuffing my face with Thanksgiving morning cinnamon
Traveling even further back in time than that 2001 BBC news report about cameraphones comes this January 31, 1978 Talking Heads performance of ‘Psycho Killer’ on a British music television program called ‘Old Grey Whistle Test.’ Catchy name. I actually love ‘Psycho Killer’ and used to play it all the
Take a trip down memory lane all the way back to 2001 with this BBC news report about the upcoming release of cameraphones — phones that can take and send photos in addition to text messages. The future! I love how the multimedia message the guy sends in the video
In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably,
This is a video from Thomas Edison’s motion picture studio of the first ever copyrighted film, The Blacksmith Shop, filmed by Edison’s assistant W.K.L. Dickson, and delivered to the Library of Congress for copyrighting in August of 1893. Granted it’s not a particularly exciting film, but historic nonetheless. Ah, August,
This is a short clip from The Pirate, released in 1948, of a man kissing a woman after flipping the cigarette he’s smoking back into his mouth, then flipping it back out after the kiss to cover her face in a cloud of smoke. Or maybe he’s just blowing her
Because it’s spooky season, this is a video featuring scenes from the classic 1922 unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula ‘Nosferatu’ that have been upscaled to 4K and colorized. Did you know that Stoker’s heirs sued after the film’s release and all copies of the film were ordered to be