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| + | There is an interesting story where hearth becomes the theatre. The figures were manipulated from inside the chimmney in which the operator was cpncealed by a green baize. Al went well until a large bird tumbled down the chimmney and covered everything with soot, burst its way through the cloth curtain, flapped its great wings and clawed at everythign within reach. All the women shrieked and fled, being sure that the devil himself had come for them. | ||
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| + | strangley the only thing that i tolderate, that I liek, that is familiar to me when I am photographed, is the sound of the camera. The photographer's organ is not his eyes (which lens frees me), but his finger, what is linked to the trigger of his lens, to the metalllic shifitng of the plates. For me the noise of this is not ...?? Caeras, in short, are clocks for seeing.- and perhaps someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. The Astronomical Revolver- in which a circular Daguerrotype plate was rotated intermittently by clockwork through a modified form of Maltese Cross mechanism. | ||
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Calcutta receives electricity supply , although earlier that year, teh Maharaja of Bikaner had apparently been teh first Indian to switch on an electric light bulb. [[Lord Curzon]] becomes Viceroy and Governor general of India. The seminal work of Urdu literature,[[ Ruswa Mohammed Hadi Mirza]]'s Umrao Jaan Ada is published. Performance of B.G.Deval's Marathi play, [[Sangeet Sharada]], someties cited as the first ever reform 'social'. | Calcutta receives electricity supply , although earlier that year, teh Maharaja of Bikaner had apparently been teh first Indian to switch on an electric light bulb. [[Lord Curzon]] becomes Viceroy and Governor general of India. The seminal work of Urdu literature,[[ Ruswa Mohammed Hadi Mirza]]'s Umrao Jaan Ada is published. Performance of B.G.Deval's Marathi play, [[Sangeet Sharada]], someties cited as the first ever reform 'social'. | ||
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Lord Curzon.
There is an interesting story where hearth becomes the theatre. The figures were manipulated from inside the chimmney in which the operator was cpncealed by a green baize. Al went well until a large bird tumbled down the chimmney and covered everything with soot, burst its way through the cloth curtain, flapped its great wings and clawed at everythign within reach. All the women shrieked and fled, being sure that the devil himself had come for them. Ultimately what I am seeking in the photograph of me is Death: strangley the only thing that i tolderate, that I liek, that is familiar to me when I am photographed, is the sound of the camera. The photographer's organ is not his eyes (which lens frees me), but his finger, what is linked to the trigger of his lens, to the metalllic shifitng of the plates. For me the noise of this is not ...?? Caeras, in short, are clocks for seeing.- and perhaps someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. The Astronomical Revolver- in which a circular Daguerrotype plate was rotated intermittently by clockwork through a modified form of Maltese Cross mechanism.
A rotating shutter of 12 apertures exposed the plate each time it was at rest, giving 48 exposures in 72 seconds. The bareel of the gun is a tube containting the photographic lens. Behind,and mounted on the butt, is a large cylindrical
Calcutta receives electricity supply , although earlier that year, teh Maharaja of Bikaner had apparently been teh first Indian to switch on an electric light bulb. Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy and Governor general of India. The seminal work of Urdu literature,Ruswa Mohammed Hadi Mirza's Umrao Jaan Ada is published. Performance of B.G.Deval's Marathi play, Sangeet Sharada, someties cited as the first ever reform 'social'.
H.S. Bhatavadekar films a wrestling match in Bombay's hanging gardens.
The Ravi Varma press is facing mounting debts for various reasons- the brothers' constant travels, the prevailing plague conditions and the difficulty of hiring labour, the death of their uncle making their brothers leave Bombay for two years.
A number of paintings are sold to Joshi for the sum of Rs. 22,000
First recording of Indian music by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd. in London in 1899
