1/9 After killing and capturing any pockets of survivors scratching out an existence in the ruins of a Reign city, the Top Hats would take photos of the destroyed buildings. They made copies of the photos, and set the originals aside. 2/9 They doctored the photo copies using scale models, negative splicing, multiple exposures, pencils, wax and clay figures (etc), and even an early version of Kubrick’s front screen projection technique.
Mar 22 • 43 tweets • 17 min read
1/40ish 🧵 People love to point to various elements of the control and monitoring of the population to argue that Orwell's 1984 is becoming our reality. What they miss is the main element that Orwell claimed was needed for the foundation for it all..
2/ If you want to control the world, you must first control history. The foundations of all we have come to know as our modern world has its origin in the mid to late 1800s, right at the time the great expositions were being built and destroyed.
Jan 16 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
MOVIE SETS ON THE RUINS OF THE REIGN
🧵 1/22: Explaining the World Fairs
“You don’t build the olympics, have the olympics once, and then blow up the olympics.”
I’m riffing on this ~1.5 hr video:
2/22 When an experienced builder looks at (alleged) construction 'photos' from World Fairs, the first thing they ask is,
“Where’s all the half eaten sandwiches? Where’s the coffee cups? This ain’t no job site..”
