While the most renowned of the adaptations of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , Disney's 1954 film starring James Mason ...

Due in no small part to the Disney film adaptation, Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea has emerged as the pre-eminent...

When it comes to the amusement park... the classic fairyland of boardwalks, sideshows and rickety old wooden rides... there is no greater a...

Born in London, England, in 1853, Moses King developed a publishing empire that produced guidebooks of cities across the UK and United Stat...

In this hand-tinted 1908 Pathé Frères short by Segundo de Chomón, a trio of slapstick Chinese explorers (interpreted through very 1908 cari...

Arthur T. Merrick provides this charming image from the Dec. 2nd, 1899 issue of Life Magazine . Merry Christmas to all, and I hope Santa mak...

Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a billion dollar franchise, there have been many attempts at replicating its success with every a...

The actual 1890's were not especially gay for the United States. The Panic of 1893, caused by a contraction in foreign commodities trad...

The Haunted House is a delightful little trick film by Spanish pioneer of effects films, Segundo de Chomón. Coming out the same year as hi...

It can be a hard afterlife out there for a ghost. A proper appointment to a lucrative position can be difficult to come by, especially in a...

The Spanish-American War was short-lived, lasting from April to August of 1898 and ending with the Treaty of Paris in which Spain's Paci...

The following article ran down the wire of several newspapers on Sunday, May 9, 1897, including the Saint Paul Globe , Buffalo Times , and t...

French silent film pioneer and rival to Georges Méliès, Gaston Velle went direct to source with a loving tribute to Jules Verne. Released i...

The following vision of  "Looking Up Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri, in the Year 2010" comes from a 1910 issue of the Greater ...

It began with a modest announcement in the March 12, 1909 edition of the Arizona Gazette announcing "G.E. KINCAID REACHES YUMA". ...

Retro-futuristic cards were a popular inclusion for chocolates in Europe. The following set was produced by Stollwerck Chocolade, a German c...

"Where's my flying car?" That is the cry of the disappointed futurist who bemoans that our most ambitious dreams have yet ...

As we all know, infancy is a child's most grotesque stage of development. So much neediness and squalling and fluids. If only there was...

I wonder if the relative degree of optimism in futuristic visions can be determined by how far away they are placed. For example, Walt Disn...

Though little discussed today, save perhaps for one of his most famous fairy tales, Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was often compared to his...