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Victorian Hoax Photography Collection #6 (Flying Monsters Edition Part #3)
“Who on God’s Earth is responsible for this?” screamed the Penny Rotten Paper and Illustrated Times headline. It was printed alongside the cartoon in photograph #10. Nobody really knew the answer to this until many years later. The majority of people surveyed in the 1860s believed it was something to do with the paranormal; the…
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Victorian Hoax Photography Collection #5 (Flying Monsters Edition Part #2)
Here is a journal account written by a landlord living in London: “The giant ghouls and monsters hung in the sky, staring down at us as if we were prey. Is this how the apocalypse begins and ends? I have seen people all over London down on their knees, reaching to the heavens and praying…
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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #3
We’re keeping things short and sweet today. Here are some more stills from the movies of Godbert Lawley. Our research suggests that many of the actors, sets, stories and props were recycled. However, they were reworked to such a degree that a casual viewer would never detect it. We believe that the images in this…
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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #2
An interesting fact about Godbert’s movies is that the overwhelming majority of the staff were not only alcoholics, but were largely drunk on set. According to one interview, he said that the reason for this is that alcoholics are not only cheaper (because they can be paid in alcohol), but they also make better stuntmen.…
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The Druids’ Search for Light Collection #1
Shortly after we posted the first collection of the Siblings of Saint Rupert, an anonymous collector contacted us. They told us about some photographs which they’d inherited from their late father who, in turn, inherited them from their father etcetera, spanning back several generations. We asked for digital copies for analysis and, once received, we…
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Victorian Hoax Photography Collection #3 (Martian Edition Part #1)
Today’s collection has to be one of the most bozarre and hilarious we’ve archived thus far. Yet when these images began to circulate in a national newspaper in 1895, Victorians were queueing up to be fooled. In 1895 a theatre company named Barnard & Co. was celebrating the end to a fantastic summer season in…
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