Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel | Open Culture

 

 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland predates the invention of cinema by a couple of decades. Nevertheless, much like the “Drink me” bottle and “Eat me” presented to its young protagonist, Lewis Carroll’s fantastical tale has called out the same message to generations of filmmakers around the world: “Adapt me.” This century, though not even a quarter of the way over, has already brought us full-length Alice movies (to say nothing of television productions) from Europe, South America, and of course the United States. Those last include separate adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass by no less an auteur than Tim Burton.

Both of those books were also taken on by a writer-director named W. W. Young more than a century ago, though he simply combined portions of both novels into a single feature. You can watch this silent Alice in Wonderland from 1915 above, in a version its uploader calls “by far the highest quality version of this film on the internet,” assembled “primarily from two prints scanned by the Library of Congress, along with a few other sources.

Source: Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel | Open Culture

Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More | Open Culture

 

 

Few cities have been as romanticized as Paris, and few eras in Paris have been as romanticized as the nineteen-twenties. This owes much to the famous expatriate artistic and literary figures residing there in that decade: Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dalí, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Man Ray, to name just a few of the figures revived in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. It’s still difficult, a century later, not to feel at least some curiosity about the real Paris in the twenties, footage of which you can see colorized and enhanced to play at a smooth 60 frames per second in the video above.

Source: Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More | Open Culture

Turkey’s search for gold has a massive humanitarian and environmental impact · Global Voices

Image by Arzu Geybullayeva

On February 13, a massive landslide that dislodged 10 million cubic meters of earth across a 200-meter slope at the Çöpler Gold Mine in the town of İliç, in Turkey, once again raised questions over the ruling government’s lack of oversight over private business operations in the country, including in mining industry. At least nine workers are reportedly still missing at the time of writing this story as a result of the landslide. There is increasing concern among environmental experts that some 1,000 hectares of land in the area were exposed to cyanide and sulfuric acid used at the mine for the extraction.

Source: Turkey’s search for gold has a massive humanitarian and environmental impact · Global Voices

‘The FSB understood Navalny’s value’ Journalist Christo Grozev on how he plans to investigate Navalny’s death — Meduza

Yevgeny Feldman

On Monday, officials from Russia’s Investigative Committee told Alexey Navalny’s mother that the cause of her son’s death had still “not been established” — and that his body will not be handed over to his family until it has undergone a 14-day “chemical examination.” Navalny’s associates fear that this long delay will allow the authorities to erase valuable evidence of the politician’s true cause of death, making it harder to find those responsible. Four years ago, when Russia’s Federal Security Service poisoned Navalny with the chemical nerve agent Novichok, a team led by investigative journalist Christo Grozev identified the agents behind the attack. Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova spoke to Grozev about who he suspects is responsible for Navalny’s death and how he plans to get to the truth this time. Meduza has summarized the conversation in English.

Source: ‘The FSB understood Navalny’s value’ Journalist Christo Grozev on how he plans to investigate Navalny’s death — Meduza

De drum mă țin – ore de drum

Paris, 2016

Cine e Beat și de ce n-am știut niciodată cu adevărat, dar m-am străduit să aflu la Centre Pompidou într-o expoziție care a trasat rătăcirile acelei generații unice.

E drept că am ieșit de acolo mai amețită decât am intrat, sub influența inspirației debordante a protagoniștilor cu aură de vedete.

Source: De drum mă țin – ore de drum

Violência Doméstica – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A violência é uma das maiores barbáries cometida contra a mulher durante séculos. Um acontecimento traumatico que da porta para dentro já fez inúmeras vítimas, aliás, faz diariamente em todo munfo. Claro, hoje devido a lei, bem menos. Isso no Brasil, mas em muitos países, essa realidade ainda é constantemente vista. Mulheres que não tem o direito sequer de ir a uma delegacia por viver sobre o poder do marido, onde há países que não tem lei específica à mulher. A violência é uma forma de poder que aniquila a vida de muitas mulheres, que não tem o direito de dizer que sofrem.

Marii Freire. Violência Doméstica

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Fé – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Pilar de sustentação fundamental para todo ser humano que crer em Deus, na natureza ou qualquer forma maior que exista no universo. É nela, nesse tecido finíssimo, ao qual nos vestimos, principalmente nos momentos de dificuldades, doenças, desejos ocultos, amores impossíveis, saudade infinitas, pedidos de cura, libertação de algo ou alguma coisa; perdão. Em tudo, há essa ligação, – essa aproximação entre o ser humano e o espiritual. Uma conexão que nem o homem explica em toda sua ciência. Mas que nos coloca na posição de subalternos, a medida em que se deseja “alcançar uma graça” impossilitada na terra. Porém, nutrida e vinda dos céus, como forma de recompensa pelo preço que pagamos: acreditar.

Marii Freire. Fé

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