This past Halloween I was lucky enough to see the silent film Nosferatu accompanied by the Vancouver Orchestra. The scenes of coffins, death and creatures stalking in the night made me jump as music filled the room. The tension of some of the eerier scenes were then quickly broken as the audience laughed at the [...]
Archive for the ‘arts’ Category
I was researching costumes in the early 1900s when I stumbled on a remarkable find. Although I had originally wanted to post about costumes in general, the astounding nature of these images made me realize that there was no way to present them appropriately unless I devoted an entire post to them. So all of [...]
