RECORDS are there to be broken – right? Well in some cases, records are made simply because no one else has come up with them yet. But the weird and quirky records are the ones that stick in the memory, and there have been plenty attempts made and broken that have Bradford connections. From the largest game of If You re Happy and You Know it to the oldest Twitter user, there have been some truly unusual attempts. So here are just a handful of ones which you may, or may not, know about:
Bradford pupils set a ‘happy’ new record The largest game of If You re Happy and You Know It featured 1,128 take part in Lister Park on July 7, 2011.
25 iconic directors’ first films in color
By Chris Compendio of Stacker |
25 iconic directors’ first films in color
The early 20th-century film industry experienced several technological innovations that would forever define the art form. Along with the genesis of synchronized sound and dialogue in movies, Hollywood also went through growing pains with the advent of color film. Most of the popular films in the early period of Hollywood were black-and-white, as was standard at the time, and it would take decades for color to become the norm.
Before mainstream films were presented in full color, there were several attempts to add color to movies either for the entire running time of the film or for certain sequences. Methods included tinting the physical film frames with dyes, or the Pathéchrome technique that involved the use of stencils. Some filmmakers hand-painted film stock, with an iconic example of this technique being the 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon.”