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45 days ago
High Treason (1929) is a British science-fiction film that imagines life in the futuristic year 1950
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silentmoviegifs.bsky.social
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45 days ago
In the 1920s, it seems like people really envisioned airships playing a major role in the future. Even the Empire State Building was designed with a mooring mast for blimps
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jonlharrison.bsky.social
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45 days ago
They got it right on the Channel Tunnel!
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silentmoviegifs.bsky.social
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45 days ago
Méliès predicted the same thing 22 years earlier. Though really, people had been talking about building a tunnel since the early 1800s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_the_English_Channel
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jonlharrison.bsky.social
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45 days ago
I’ll be tracking this one down on YouTube!
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silentmoviegifs.bsky.social
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45 days ago
Here's the silent version. There's also a sound version, that includes a few unique scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQIMQLoMV4&t=1580s
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jonlharrison.bsky.social
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45 days ago
Thanks very much!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_the_English_Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQIMQLoMV4&t=1580s