Now you’ve done it…
But they were ten gallon derbies, that came in white for the good guys… right?
Re-watching Wolf Hall and not sure all the sets are good for 1529. In ep. 2 Cromwell and Cavendish are discussing Cardinal Wolsey self-flagelating, and pull open a drawer with his whip in it. I can’t find anything about there being drawers in 1529. Elsewhere I read where they were invented by the Chinese, perfected by the Japanese and spread like crazy in 17th C Europe.
“The Christmas Story” was set in the 1940s, and the mother’s hairstyle is from the early 1980s, when the movie was made. I suspect that was deliberate.
Drawers start to show up in the late 1400s:
Chests-entirely-of-drawers (vs the seemingly more common open chest that also has a drawer) exist by then in France, as well :
Another thing about that telescope - the image would have been inverted. Take a look at this diagram of a simple two lens telescope:
http://electron9.phys.utk.edu/optics421/modules/m3/telescopes.htm
This isn’t a problem if you’re looking at stars, but for looking at things on the ground, it’s a bit different.
Depends. If it was a Galilean telescope, with the rear lens a negative one, the image would be erect.
I admit that it’s unlikely – positive lenses are easier to make and arguably more useful. But negative lenses correct myopia (my eyeglasses are negative), and they could conceivably be made and used. I don’t recall if the movie shows both lenses clearly enough to judge. If they did, it’s likely they were both depicted as positive.
I’ve long had a theory about that legend of “a long time ago in a galaxy far away” thing.
I think the whole Star Wars saga is set in the Milky Way galaxy, a long long time in the future. How else to explain the characters with very recognizably Earth-like names? (Calrissian being one stand-out example.)
The opening scroll, with the famous phrase “a long time ago in a galaxy far away” is itself set from the point of view of some time even farther in the future in a galaxy far away from the Milky Way.
I always assumed the “Long long time ago” thing was done by Lucas to deliberately prevent people from claiming the Empire is future Earth that got taken over by the Fourth Reich or whatever.
It’s easier than all that, fairy tales start “A long time ago in a kingdom far far away”, Star Wars is a fairy tale in space, it’s not really or not just Sci Fi, it’s fantasy.
Or whatever.
Sounds like a college football team. The University of Chicago Fighting Intelligence.
They hired a dialog coach, and Dick faithfully followed his direction.
and no one said Boo about it-
Dick Van Dyke sorry for 'atrocious cockney accent' in Mary Poppins | Dick Van Dyke | The Guardian.
He also said he was completely unaware during the shoot that anything was wrong with his attempted cockney accent. “I was working with an entire English cast and nobody said a word, not Julie [Andrews], not anybody said I needed to work on it so I thought I was alright.”
Dick is extremely talented, so the accent wasn’t his fault. His dialog coach (who was Irish) told him that was right, and not a Brit on the cast said a word.
So, no the Brits in the cast did not cringe every time they heard it.\
No, this is wrong. Some silly writer found out that Stetsons weren’t made until after the heyday of the cowboy= true. And she saw a bunch of posed photos (like the famous Wild Bunch pic) with the guys in suits and bowlers. Thus “Cowboys wore bowlers!” wrong, wrong wrong, and it has spread like wildfire. even on QI.
Cowboys in the old west wore kinda shapeless wide brim wool felt hats, sometimes called 'wide awake hats". You can see those on all the pictures of real cowboys working out on the range. Sometimes straw hats or even sombreros. Teddy Roosevelt wrote of some guy who wore a bowler in a rough cowtown and how they knocked it off and teased him about it. Bowlers were worn in more civilized areas in town. Bat Masterson was considered a character as he always wore one.
Stetson took that wool felt hat and added style and shape. The original is kinda a “ur-stetson”.
Can you give me a citation on this?
On which?
Yeah if you just look at photos of the time of period accurate cowboys they are wearing “cowboyish” hats. There’s also the fact the US Army Cavalry hat in the 1870s very much also looked like a cowboy hat really makes it seem like cowboyish hats were pretty common.
On cowboys, etc yes.
Now in the towns and cities, more bowlers.
I was asking about the hats that cowboys wore during the time of the Wild West. I wasn’t asking about the fact that there were a lot of black cowboys (which I knew about), about the fact that a lot of present-day images of cowboys cam from Wild West shows (which I knew about), or about the fact that there was never a single organized gang of outlaws (which I had no opinion about and had never really thought about). I was asking for a citation from a book or an article that had done a study of what hats cowboys wore at that time. I have no problem accepting that they wore these hats that you call wide awake hats. I had never read about that before, but I have no problem believing it. I just would like a citation that I can give if I’m asked about it.
I think the hairdo thing is intentional. The movie / show makers know that having modern hairdos on the pretty stars makes the production more palatable to modern viewers. Having historically accurate hair would distract the average viewer, and lessen the sex appeal of the characters. After all, hairdos from even 20 years back (from any particular 20th century moment) look surprisingly silly.
Obviously, it’s also much more straight forward (and cheaper) to let the actors have the hairdos they would have, anyway.
I can’t speak for Midsomer, an imaginary county somewhere between Somerset and Berkshire, but in London there were plenty of people from all over the Commonwealth during the second half of the twentieth century, and many of my extended family are mixed-race in one way or another.