foto storiche

[Bukkake girl]

il timone ovviamente

[Lo Zio]

eccerto, per navigare nel futuro

[MARMIST]

č per i giochi di macchine, gnurant

[masterz]

ste foto sono meravigliose , sono rimasto incastrato 45 minuti a vedere le ultime 2 pagine

sono commosso :')

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[GREZZ]

rotfl i modellini

comunque č cosě che hanno filmato mezzo Metropolis

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Schüfftan

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Schüfftan

esatto, grazie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCfftan_process

The process was refined and popularized by the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan while he was working on the movie Metropolis (1927), although there is evidence that other film-makers were using similar techniques earlier than this. The movie's director, Fritz Lang, wanted to insert the actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings, so Schüfftan used a specially made mirror to create the illusion of actors interacting with huge, realistic-looking sets.

Schüfftan placed a plate of glass at a 45-degree angle between the camera and the miniature buildings. He used the camera's viewfinder to trace an outline of the area into which the actors would later be inserted onto the glass. This outline was transferred onto a mirror and all the reflective surface that fell outside the outline was removed, leaving transparent glass. When the mirror was placed in the same position as the original plate of glass, the reflective part blocked a portion of the miniature building behind it and also reflected the stage behind the camera. The actors were placed several meters away from the mirror so that when they were reflected in the mirror, they would appear at the right size.

In the same movie, Schüfftan used a variation of this process so that the miniature set (or drawing) was shown on the reflective part of the mirror and the actors were filmed through the transparent part.

Over the following years, the Schüfftan process was used by many other film-makers, including Alfred Hitchcock, in his films Blackmail (1929) and The 39 Steps (1935), and as recently as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), directed by Peter Jackson. The Schüfftan process has largely been replaced with matte shots, which allow the two portions of the image to be filmed at different times and give opportunities for more changes in post production.

The Schüfftan process's use of mirrors is very similar to the 19th century stage technique known as Pepper's ghost.

[Lo Zio]

la scuola per formiche ha fatto... scuola... ah-ah!

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esatto, grazie

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Nicolae Minovici - The Doctor Who Hanged Himself for Science - During the first decade of the twentieth century, while employed as a professor of forensic science at the State School of Science in Bucharest, Nicolae Minovici undertook a comprehensive study of death by hanging. Inspired by his research, he decided to find out, first-hand, what it would feel like to die in this way.

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Beelitz Heilstatten Military Hospitalfamous as a set for The Pianist and Valkyrie Built as a sanatorium in the late 1800s and early 1900s Treated Hitler during World War I
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Balaklava Submarine BaseBlack Sea base for submarines also housed a series of tunnels that reached into the mountains Top Secret Location run by the Soviet Union
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Devil's Slide Bunkers on the coast of San Mateo County in California were high tech for the late 1930s concrete and steel observation pillboxes. The site was sold to a private owner in 1983.
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Fort Ord 80 miles south of San Francisco, was used primarily as a training center for U.S. Army Olympic-size swimming pool established in 1917 closed 1994
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Fort Tilden established in 1917 in Queens pointed its cannons toward the sea to protect New York. During World War II but was not needed, decommishioned 1974
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Greenbrier Bunker secret location built to house Congress in the event of a nuclear warcompleted in 1961 and maintained by government employees working undercover as Forsythe Associates
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Hexagonal structure in the middle of the Patapsco River south of Baltimore was built from 1848 to 1850
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Johnston Atoll Now a National Wildlife Refuge deep in the Pacific over 800,000 square miles of ocean1926 nuclear testing from 1958 to 1975
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Maunsell Sea FortsThames and Mersey estuaries were built to protect England from German submarines decommissioned in the 1950s
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Nekoma Mickelsen Safeguard Complex ND-radar system intended to find and destroy missiles launched at the U.S.didn't even stay in service for an entire year. The complex was deactivated on Feb. 10, 1976
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RAF Stenigot Built for crazy long-range radar during World War II Lincolnshire England
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Saint Nazaire Locks France Fortified locks built for German submarine protection make for some intriguing abandoned sites
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The Eight Blockhouse AntiAircraft Flak Towers in Berlin-Vienna and Hamburg Germany WWII
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Titan I Missile Complex Eastern Washington dive 155 feet below the ground and you'd find three 1960s-built silos that once housed nuclear-tipped Titan I rockets
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[manuč]

[GioOliju]

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Samurai wearing armor, Japan, circa 1876, photo by Kozaburo Tamamura.

[manuč]

e le donne samurai?

[IL RAFFFO]

si ma ciccio sono tutte giŕ postate

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A viscount in the Armoured Cavalry Branch of the French Army left behind a collection of hundreds of glass plates taken during World War I that have never before been published. The images, by an unknown photographer, show the daily life of soldiers in the trenches, destruction of towns and military leaders. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the WWI. --Reuters (18 photos total)

A French officer stands near a cemetery with recent graves of soldiers killed on the front lines of World War I at the Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe on the Champagne front, eastern France on Dec. 19, 1916.


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French soldiers stand in German trenches seized after being shelled on the Somme front, northern France in 1916. #


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A French soldier aiming an anti-aircraft machine gun from a trench at Perthes les Hurlus, eastern France. #


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Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener (2nd left) meeting French General Albert Baratier (right), on horseback, as French Marshal Joseph Joffre looks on (2nd right), on the Champagne front, Eastern France in 1915. #


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French soldiers moving a 95 mm cannon, on the rear guard near the front, at an unknown location in France. #


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French General Emile Eugene Belin (right) visiting the front line near Arras, Northern France. #


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French troops from the rear guard eating lunch near Arras, Northern France. #


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Carcasses of animals strung up before being cooked for soldiers, on the Champagne front, eastern France. #


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A shelter for machine gunners in a French trench at Apremont-la-Foret, eastern France. #

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A French soldier after taking a shower, at the rear guard near the front line, at an unknown location in France. #


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German soldiers (rear) offering to surrender to French troops, seen from a listening post in a trench at Massiges, northeastern France. #


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French soldiers firing a 155 mm mortar from a trench on the front line, at an unknown location in France. #


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Germans soldiers, captured during the Battle of Verdun, taking off their clothes for a body search by French soldiers, in Eastern France. #


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A dog pulling a Belgian machine gun at an unknown location in northern France. #


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French General Joseph Joffre (2nd right) congratulating and awarding medals to soldiers, who fought in the Battle of Verdun, in Verdun March 1916. #


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French soldiers posing outside their shack, called "The Chalet", at la Sapiniere near Lachalade on the Argonne front, eastern France. #


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French troops in trenches above Ablain-Saint-Nazaire in the Artois front, northern France, in 1916. #


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French officers inspecting trenches on the Argonne front, eastern France May 1916. A Viscount in the Armoured Cavalry Branch of the French Army left behind a collection of hundreds of glass plates taken during World War I that have never before been published. The images, by an unknown photographer, show the daily life of soldiers in the trenches, destruction of towns and military leaders. #

[MARMIST]

ha detto "hundreds". dove sono le altre ?

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ha detto "hundreds". dove sono le altre ?

A casa sua suppongo

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...mandy/?hpid=z9

come anniversario del D-Day il Washington Post ha pubblicato delle rare e bellissime foto storiche