Until the mid-20th century, colonial powers made these films to convince Africans that they deserved to be oppressed.London Film Productions, Ltd.A still from Sanders of the River (1935).
Starting in the 1890s, when the Lumière brothers pioneered the medium as we know it today, the motion picture embarked upon a long journey from obscure invention that no one knew how to monetize into the predominant medium for mass communication and global entertainment.
The Cotton Club had a reputation for catapulting famous careers, but history has a way of glossing over the cabaret's social transgressions. Taxis line up outside of the Cotton Club at Broadway and 48th Street, circa 1937 in New York City, New York. George Karger/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A chorus line dancing the can-can at the Cotton Club. George Karger/Pix Inc./The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images The American sprinter Jesse Owens and dancer and actor Bill Robinson —on the left — surrounded by dancers during a rehearsal at the Cotton Club, Sept.
Michael Jackson Didn’t Invent The Moonwalk Left: Michael Jackson. Right: Bill Bailey. Image Sources: YouTube (left), YouTube (right).
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Michael Jackson performs the moonwalk (at 3:39) for the first time in his career at the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever special on March 25, 1983.
When the biggest pop star in the world is at the biggest point in his career on one of the biggest stages he’s played, and he unveils a mind-blowing move that would become his signature, no one questions who may have done that move before — and it’s hard to blame them.
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Pablo Picasso did not like to discuss his art with his fans — and he meant it. According to Arthur I. Miller’s book Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, Picasso carried around a Browning revolver loaded with blanks and would fire at anyone he found too meddlesome. This didn’t come from nowhere: Symbolist French playwright Alfred Jarry inspired the Cubist artist, who seemed to imitate Jarry with the whole gunslinger act.
Whether Odin, Frigg, Thor, Balder, or Freyja, these Norse gods boast tales that are far more outrageous than you ever realized.Mårten Eskil Winge/Wikimedia CommonsThor rides into battle against the giants.
You can obviously learn a lot about a culture from their idols. And the legends of the Norse gods provide a revealing glimpse into a fascinating ancient culture. The stories of the Norse gods, passed down for generations throughout Scandinavia, feature remarkable characters from a forgotten time and express values that reflect how these medieval people saw the world.