Category Archives: Entertainment

Faust: The Opera – Opens March 19, 1859

Posted on March 19, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré’s play Faust et Marguerite, (loosely) based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, Part 1. It debuted … Continue reading →

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Canadian Classic Cinema – The New Waterford Girl

Posted on March 12, 2016 by hystoria.ca

A movie for a younger audience, perhaps – not a bad flick for those whom might be bored on a Sunday afternoon – “The New Waterford Girl” offers under-aged drinking, drug-taking and fighting during the 1970’s Mooney, a young Canadian … Continue reading →

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Hilarious House of Frightenstein -The Best Of Children’s TV

Posted on February 29, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Hilarious House of Frightenstein – the very best children’s television show that ever was.

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Das Triadische Ballet – Bauhaus (1921 – 1929)

Posted on February 22, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Das Triadische Ballet (The Triadic Ballet) is an Oskar Schlemmer’s creation – a symphonic dance, divided into three parts – a trinity, which evolve from the hilarity to the gloomy. Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 – April 13, 1943) was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertainment, The Joy of Musik, Wartime | Tagged Bauhaus, choreography, costume, dance, Das Triadische Ballet, David Bowie, geometry, Germany, Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals, Oskar Schlemmer, pantomime, The Triadic Ballet, theatre | Leave a comment

Mr Potter’s Museum of Curiosities

Posted on February 12, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Mr. Potter’s museum had over 10,000 stuffed animals which included a tableaux of: “…a rats’ den being raided by the local police rats … [a] village school … featuring 48 little rabbits busy writing on tiny slates, while the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adults, Children, Death & Culture, Entertainment, Taboos | Tagged auction, Bonhams, Damien Hirst, Guardian, Harry Hill, London, Mr Potter’s Museum of Curiosities, mummies, mummified, Museum of Everything, Peter Blake, Primerose, stuffed animals, taxidermist, taxidermy, two-headed goats | Leave a comment

Listen To The Earliest Known Piano

Posted on February 5, 2016 by hystoria.ca

The earliest known surviving piano was created by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731). It is kept within the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with two other existing creations of Cristofori. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertainment, Inventions, The Joy of Musik | Tagged Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco, Domenico Scarlatti, Dongsok Shin, Grand Dukes of Tuscany, harpsichord, Metropolitan Museum of Art, piano | Leave a comment

Our Fancy – Red Skelton & Vincent Price in “Freddie’s Masterpiece”

Posted on February 4, 2016 by hystoria.ca

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The Wonderful World of Girly Shows

Posted on February 3, 2016 by hystoria.ca

When word the circus was coming to town spread, people of all ages became anxious knowing wolf-faced boys and a 3-legged lady would be making an appearance. Wives would become agitated knowing their husbands were smitten with the idea of visiting the … Continue reading →

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After the Ball – World’s 1st Adult Film

Posted on January 12, 2016 by hystoria.ca

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, (Paris: December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938) was an illusionist and filmmaker famous for creating special effects such as dissolves, multiple exposure, hand-painted colour and time-lapse photography. Marie, is also know for the stop-trick, where he claimed he accidentally achieved … Continue reading →

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Record of a Sneeze – An Edison Kinetoscopic Film

Posted on January 9, 2016 by hystoria.ca

The video you’re about to watch is the first movie to be copyrighted in the United States by The Edison Manufacturing Company – a company organized in 1889 by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. Record Of A Sneeze, was filmed … Continue reading →

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