In the decades prior to the creation of film, the unveiling of large-scale paintings took the place of mass entertainment media events. Lan...

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The romance of the Gay Nineties has its automatic signifiers. Ladies with bustles and feathered hats, men in dapper suits and handlebar mou...

Much like Georges Méliès, the conjurer-turned-filmmaker from across the Chanel, Walter R. Booth began his cinema career on the theatrical s...

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Paul Grimault's Le Roi et l'Oiseau took nearly 30 years to complete, a labour of love and story of artistic passion that typifie...

It was the last of its kind, the last of the true "universal" expositions and the final in string of international expositions he...

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A group of explorers - all men - venture into the trackless expanse of jungle in search of a hidden mystery. Testing brawn and brain, they ...

Tiki culture - the fantasy world of thatch-roofed bars, Hawaiian shirts, and whimsical ceramic mugs - was largely a product of post-World...

A film as important as Disney's  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  meant that it has always had a presence at Disney's theme parks, in...

Over a century of film adaptations and countless parodies, including no less than The Simpsons , have inured many to the truly chilling eff...

The following illustration by E.B. Bird comes from an issue of St. Nicholas Magazine published in 1907 and is entitled Santa in 2007 . So ...

After Uncle Tom's Cabin  and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , journalist Edward Bellamy's speculative novel Looking Backward: 2000...

Though unmentioned, the spectre of the Great War looms large over the 1918 Danish film Himmelskibet . Called A Trip to Mars  in its Eng...

Originally published circa 1867, Darius Green and his Flying-Machine  by John Townsend Trowbridge, was a simple verse mocking the aspir...

The Disney company was faced with challenging times throughout the late 1960's and 1970's. Walt Disney passed away in December of 1...

The common story goes that Halloween originated in the misty days of pre-Roman Ireland, with the year-ending festival of Samhain. That fina...

Long before Johnny Depp or Bing Crosby's voice, the inept schoolmaster of Washington Irving's classic American novel The Legend of ...

H.P. Lovecraft touted it as one of his favourite stories... An early example of murder, occultism, madness, and the vertigo of the infinite...