Plan B Forum

"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd..."

- Tom Lehrer

Nope, it's not a lewd one...

You may be surprised at that...

I know what it is.

But i'm not saying.

Me too (but I had to cheat)

Saw it right away!

Hahahahahahaha. Anachronism much?

I've never watched the show, so I'm only generally aware of what it's about; basically a soap opera set in the 1920s...

Given who started the thread, naturally I assumed there was something obscene involved, , so first I looked for phallic symbols...

However, upon learning that wasn't it, the next thing I did was start looking for something that didn't belong in the 1920's (a modern watch, a cell phone peaking out from a pocket, etc.)

Took me a little while but I finally spotted it...

Lord Jim wrote:I've never watched the show, so I'm only generally aware of what it's about; basically a soap opera set in the 1920s...

How is that even possible, it is excellent TV, and far more than a soap opera. And it's not set in the 20s, or at least it doesn't start out that way. The opening scenes are from April 15, 1912 and it goes through WW1 and its impacts on the fabric of the class structure in England. Season 5 starts in 1924. The show has dramatic upheaval, for sure, but it really about socio-economic and political change. With some sex and scandal thrown in for good measure.

I'm stunned you're not watching it. It's so damn good.

If only we still lived in a world before the cock-up existed . . .

But.... we wouldn't be there.... would we?

Fnaaarrrr...

I have never seen that show. It appears though that the male in the picture is a tall drink of water.

They had Water in the 1920s and they had plastic, well some what.

Well, they had water and they definitely had clear glass bottles, which are hard to distinguish from plastic ones, in a photograph.

(But then again, they didn't have color photography...maybe that's the real cock-up? )

Econoline wrote:Well, they had water and they definitely had clear glass bottles, which are hard to distinguish from plastic ones, in a photograph.

(But then again, they didn't have color photography...maybe that's the real cock-up? )

They had clear plastic in the 1920; it was not petroleum based and its applications were limited. Plastic go back to the late 1860's. One of its fist uses was in the manufacture of billiard balls as a cheap substitute for ivory. It didn't catch on, they tended to be brittle and sometimes even explode.

That wasn't clear.

liberty wrote:One of its fist uses was in the manufacture of billiard balls as a cheap substitute for ivory.

It's good that someone has finally addressed the elephant in the room.

they didn't have color photography...

Ahem...

First Color Photograph



Photograph by James Clerk Maxwell

Best known for his development of electromagnetic theory, Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell dabbled in color theory throughout his life, eventually producing the first color photograph in 1861. Maxwell created the image of the tartan ribbon shown here by photographing it three times through red, blue, and yellow filters, then recombining the images into one color composite.

http://photography.nationalgeographic.c ... an-ribbon/