movies

1848 – The Courier (2020)

timespace coordinates: 1960 – 1963 London, England – Moscow,  the Soviet Union / Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to deliver messages to secret agent Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze). Rachel BrosnahanJessie Buckley, and Angus Wright also star. (wiki)

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1842 – Amundsen (2019)

timespace coordinates: Amundsen’s South Pole expedition 1910 – 1911, North Polar Expeditions and The Northeast Passage 1918 – 1926

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Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872 – 1928). It was directed by Espen Sandberg and was distributed in Norway by SF Studios. (wiki)

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PEOPLE LOSING THEIR MINDS IN ANTARCTICA

movies

1840 – Blithe Spirit (1945/2020)

timespace coordinates: 1937 England

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Blithe Spirit is a 1945 (imdb) British fantasy-comedy film directed by David Lean based on producer Noël Coward‘s 1941 play of the same name. Blithe Spirit (2020) – imdb – is directed by Edward Hall

series

1820 – Brave New World (2020 TV series)

timespace coordinates: (post-apocalyptic) New London / The Savage Lands (amusement park) The series “imagines an utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamyprivacymoneyfamily and history itself.” In an update of the original novel, an artificial intelligence system named Indra also connects citizens via a wireless network.

Brave New World is an American social science fiction drama series. It is loosely based on the classic novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. It premiered on the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock on July 15, 2020, In October 2020, the series was canceled after one season. (wiki)

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documentary, Uncategorized

1796

timespace coordinates: The Flying Train, Germany, 1902


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through New York City in 1911


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s


timespace coordinates: San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906


timespace coordinates: A Trip Through the Streets of Amsterdam, 1922


timespace coordinates: Laborers in Victorian England, 1901


timespace coordinates: Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915


timespace coordinates: Moscow, Tverskaya Street in 1896


The oldest recorded video, timespace coordinates: “Roundhay Garden Scene”, England,1888


 timespace coordinates: 1895 – France, Lyon, place des Cordeliers, – Factory outlet, France, Lyon, Monplaisir, chemin Saint-Victor (today rue du 1er Film) – The Landing of the photography congress in Lyon, 

1896 Launch of a ship, France, – Switzerland, Geneva, National Exhibition, Swiss Village,  – Westminster Bridge, Great Britain, London,  – France, Lyon: Quai de l’Archevêché,  – Panorama of the Grand Canal taken from a boat, Italy, Venice, Grand Canal,  – Arrival of a train in Perrache station, France, Lyon,  – Broadway, United States, New York,

1897 – Jaffa Gate: east side, Jerusalem 1897The pyramids, Egypt, Giza Panorama of the Golden Horn, Turkey, Istanbul Camel caravan, Jerusalem, –  France, Lyon, place du Pont  – Japan, Kyoto, Honshu,

1899 – Biarritz: the beach and the sea, France, Biarritz, – Grande Plage, –  Bad weather at the port, Italy,

1900 View from a whaling boat in motion, France, HyèresPanorama taken from a sedan chair, January 25, 1900, French Indochina (now Vietnam), village of Namo, Annam

1902 Fort-de-France: market, Martinique, Fort-de-France, French Antilles


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books

1793 – The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2 – 2019)

timespace coordinates: – journey across Europe and the East The setting is a world dominated by the Magisterium, an international theocracy which actively suppresses heresy. In this world, humans’ souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sapient “dæmons” in animal form which accompany, aid, and comfort their humans.

The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust. The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Pullman took his title The Secret Commonwealth from a 17th century book of the same name by the Scottish clergyman Robert Kirk, about encounters of country folk with supernatural creatures. (wiki)

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documentary, movies

1762 – The Dig (2021)

timespace coordinates: Suffolk, in the east of England, 1939 – excavation of Sutton Hoo

The Dig (stylized as the DIG) is a drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, It stars Carey MulliganRalph FiennesLily JamesJohnny FlynnBen ChaplinKen Stott, Archie Barnes and Monica Dolan

Edith May Pretty was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local archaeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property. 

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