formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
This is an origin story. In June 1896, the Soviet novelist Maxim Gorky, then a 28-year-old reporter, attended an event organised by the Lumiere brothers in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Gorky was there to see what he and his … Continued
Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone. Source: Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches | Games | … Continued
Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film about two women plotting murder is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired Hitchcock’s classic among others. Source: ‘The epitome of what the horror film should be’: How 1950s French horror … Continued
In April 1983, a German magazine, Stern, and a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to have made one of the century’s most extraordinary historical discoveries. In fact, it was one of the century’s most extraordinary hoaxes – and the … Continued
Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. Source: Tony Harrison’s V: Why a poem outraged … Continued
Powered chiefly by enthusiasm and primitive publishing tech, these publications shaped the future of video games media. Source: Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s | Games | … Continued