Invented by tech-savvy William Garity in 1937 for Walt Disney Studios, The multiplane camera gave viewers the illusion of depth in animated motion pictures.
Before the multiplane camera, animators found it difficult to create a successful tracking shot using traditional animation methods that were expensive and time-consuming. The multiplane camera answered this problem by creating a realistic sense of three-dimensional depth in a cartoon setting. The multiplane camera also made way for new types of special effects in animated films, such as moving water and flickering light
Learn how it helped shaped Disney’s animation from Walt Disney himself in this footage from an episode of an old series called Disneyland from 1957 and see it demonstrated in the Disney classic “Bambi” In the video below.
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History Of Popular Boys Toys is an interesting infographic about how toys intended for young boys have changed over the last 50 years. See how toy culture has evolved and what has remained timeless
If you are curious to earn more about the history of toys, we suggest checking out Twinkl!
“Toys are children’s words and play is their language.” -Garry L Landreth
If you are looking for more bite-sized bits of knowledge check out our Fun Facts category!
It’s loaded with all kinds of interesting facts like 50 Years 50 Toys
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Some weeks Friday feels like it cannot come soon enough. To celebrate this lovely Friday we take a look at some funny TGIF Friday comics.
“Music always sounds better on Friday.“ Lou Brutus
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See some mind-bending funny optical illusions of similar everyday objects in this cool video, Mirrored: Objects Reflections.
Have you ever looked at the top of an Oreo and thought it looked similar to a sewer cover? Been reminded of the long neck of a giraffe while looking at a lamp post? You certainly will after watching this short and sweet video.
“Trello is a creative duo. They make short films, music videos, creative projects, and videos. By observing and talking with people, their aim is to ultimately take inspiration from them as human beings.” – Tanello Productions
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane? Nope! It’s incredible black-and-white film footage of Superman’s arrival from 1948!
This clip from the Columbia serial “Superman,” which preceded the more familiar “Adventures of Superman” TV show, opens with the destruction of Planet Krypton and the escape of the infant who would become Superman.
The landing of the baby’s space capsule on Earth takes place on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. — with the capsule landing behind a well-known rock called the Molar.
“I am Superman. I stand for truth, for justice, and for the future.” – Superman
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Ever dreamed of getting a being friends with a magical fairy?
This whimsical art installation is so magically well done, you feel like you are seeing fairies up close!
Sprite Symphony was created by artistic duo Davy and Kristin McGuire as a public art as an imaginative public art installation in the United Kingdom. The multi-award winning couple are famous for their storytelling abilities showcased though digital projections and theatrical projects
“Sprite Symphony is a magical installation using projections and sound to create a beautiful yet dark display of fairies that have been trapped in jam jars and are trying to escape their glass cages. “ The McGuire’s
Although we would have loved to see the fairies frolicking freely out of their jars, we can’t help but admire the skills and creativity behind this enchanting art installation!”
“All you need is faith, trust & pixie dust!” Tinkerbell
If you enjoyed this magical video and are looking for some more fairy fun, be sure to, check out this magical collection of Enchanting Fairy Houses.
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Travel to the island of sumo wrestling where children train to become the next generation of Sumo Wrestlers on “Sumo” island in Japan.
“Amami Ōshima, an island off mainland Japan, is well known for its sandy beaches and thriving coral reefs. It’s also home to the country’s largest concentration of dohyōs, or sumo rings.
Here, coaches like Jiro Morita of the Sumiyo Sumo Club take great pride in training young people into wrestlers with storied careers—not to mention preserving a centuries-old cultural tradition.” – Great Big Story
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Many of us have fond memories of the cool California Raisins singing catchy tunes. What is lesser known is their incredible fame and future influence and impact they had on advertising. Continue on to find out which famous singers and musicians voiced the raisins and see some flashback videos of the California Raisins!
The California Raisins were the brainchild of imaginative advertising writer Seth Werner in 1986 for a Sun-Maid raisins commercial. The team he worked with were racking their brains for fresh ideas to pitch for the commercial when on a whim Werner exclaimed “We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing ‘“I heard it through the Grapevine”.
To their surprise, they landed their pitch granted them $7,500,000 dollars to bring the California Raisins to life. The California Raisin Advisory Board had noticed that products like beer and cigarette ads created emotional connections with the buyer and hoped the California Raisins to do the same. Werner and his copywriting partner, Dexter Fedor, knew in order for the commercial to be a hit, the raisins needed personality. “We decided that we wanted the raisins to be cool and a bit intimidating,” Werner said.
They focused on choosing the perfect lead singer for the part of the four piece California Raisins Band, enlisting the Buddy Miles, a Carlos Santana collaborator and drummer for Jimi Hendrix to record “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” They wisely hired Will Vinton, the Oscar-winning animator who would later trademark the term “Claymation,” to help create their vision of dancing raisins.
The cool California Raisin’s were an instant hit with all ages, audiences loved Raisins’ authentic R&B sound and image and the claymation was a huge novelty for that time. Sales of raisins themselves increased 20 percent after the first commercial. The California Raisins’ rendition of “Grapevine” reached No. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 paving the road for albums. Between 1987 – 1988, they released four albums, two of which impressively platinum. They sold more than 2 million albums featuring classic hits such as Raisins “Lean on Me” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
The fun-loving raisins even attracted mega musicians such as Ray Charles and Michael Jackson to singing their own versions of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” for later commercials. Jackson, who agreed to do his commercial for free (and on the condition that he only work with Vinton, who he knew from their Captain EO project with Disney), helped create his own Claymation raisin with his signature single white glove, fedora, and pelvic-thrusting dance moves.
The Raisins popularity continued to grow. In 1987, the talented claymation artist Will Vinton produced a “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in A Claymation Christmas Celebration which he would win an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. The California Raisins band members now had well-known names, A.C., Beebop, Stretch, and Red and in 1988 Vinton created a mockumentary-style TV special called “Meet The Raisins”. It gave the band a colorful backstory that included a rise to stardom and delved into the histories of each band member. Then in 1989, a 13-episode Saturday Morning Cartoon show called The California Raisin Show aired.
The fun-loving Raisins’ influence were so successful in their time that during the peak of their popularity in the late ’80s, the California Raisins they had a fan club, comic books merchandise including plush toys lunch boxes and even air fresheners. The healthy cereal Raisin Bran hired increasingly popular dried fruit and teamed up with the Raisins to help promote their boxed cereal. And to top it all off fast food chain Hardee’s bought a license to produce collectible Raisins figurines.
Like many good things, times changed and the end of the 80’s saw a dip in the love for the California Raisins. Vinton made one last Claymation TV movie about the Raisins in 1990 but with marketing costing too much the California Raisins went into retirement. Their songs, albums, and cartoons live on though and it is because of them that it is now commonplace to see ads that include anthropomorphized food or candy. “The Raisins opened up a floodgate … everything had to be personified,” Vinton told Food & Wine Magazine.
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Many of us, children and adults think about the stars and the moon before we drift off to dreamland. Have you ever wondered how astronauts sleep in space?
Find out how and what it is like for astronauts to go to sleep in their space shuttles in this video starting with astronaut Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency.
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Meet Davinder Singh from India who just broke the world record and claimed the title of “World’s Fastest Nose Typer!”
To complete the challenge Davinder had to type ‘Guinness world records have challenged me to type this sentence using my nose in the fastest time.’ And type it faster than the former contender’s record of 43.85 seconds to become the new champion! You can see this hilarious world record in the making in the clip below!
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Mark Tatulli is a comic strip writer/artist, animator, and television producer, known for his work on the cable reality television series Trading Spaces and A Wedding Story, for which he has won three Emmy Awards. Tatulli began drawing in elementary school, where his cartoons first appeared in the school’s newspaper.
After trying unsuccessfully to promote eight different strips over a decade, his first comic strip was Bent Halos, which features two angels named Harold and Mort who achieve little success in their attempted roles as guardian angels. Liō, which has been published since May 2006, is a “sweetly dark” pantomime cartoon without dialogue that was inspired by Tatulli’s love of the horror movies he watched while growing up as a child in the 1970s.
The title character is a “weird little boy” who inhabits a world occupied by aliens, monsters, robots, and other strange characters. According to Tatulli, he came up with the name “Lio” because he “wanted a simple name to go with the simple, wordless concept. Just three letters.” In 2012, Tatulli released Lio: There’s a Monster in My Socks, a book compiling comic strips from the first year that the cartoon was distributed, with a focus on those strips that would most appeal to children. In 2009 Tatulli was recognized as “Best Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society
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This incredible and entertaining chain reaction machine is straight out of a Dr.Seuss book!
The creative man behind Joseph’s Machines spent a year making this entertaining video. He then showcased its amazing ability in a live performance.
He has made many other amazing Rube Golberg & chain reaction machines on his popular youtube channel.
“Solutions to daily annoyances” Joseph
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You have never seen pogo sticking like this! These amazing pogo stick tricks performed in a majestic natural setting are unreal!
HIT OF HISTORY: Pogo sticks were invented over 100 years ago in 1891 by George H. Herrington of Wichita, Kansas, “for leaping great distances and heights”.
Modern pogo stick inventors Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall updated the device in 1920 calling it “spring end hopping stilt”. It is thought that the beginning two letters in these men’s last names are where the word “pogo” comes from.
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Check out this “super” Guinness World Record Batman costume is adorned with 23 functioning gadgets on its cosplay suit! Devices include smoke bombs, a grapnel gun, and ‘bat tracker’, a UV lamp, NBC (nuclear, bacterial, chemical) bat respirator, and even a bat sign projector!
“The detail and imagination behind the gadgets take the meaning of cosplay to a whole new level.” – Stephen Daltrey, Editor of the Guinness World Records
Created by special creature effects expert Julian Checkley, the ingenious gadgets are concealed and attached to the Batman suit. Based on Bruce Wayne’s outfit from the Batman: Arkham Origins video game, the suit was 3D printed and then molded and cast in flexible urethane rubber.
The 23 gadgets increased in complexity as his project progressed and Julian enlisted the help of an electrical engineer to create the most challenging gadget – the 2000-watt EMP Stun Gun. The parts were then trimmed, detailed, and painted, before being mounted on an especially designed undersuit. It was then applied to Julian’s body cast, suitably weathered using dirty earthy colors, and was ready to fight crime on the streets of Gotham City. When fully kitted out, Julian strikes an imposing figure, towering over 6”10’ (208cm), the bat ears make a difference!
“There were many long hours trying to devise the gadgets and finding ways to store them on the suit. They are classic gadgets but also some are specific to Batman: Arkham Origins. I am immensely proud of my Guinness World Records title!” – Julain Checkly
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Learn the wonderful story of Lego and how it evolved in this short animated film created by Lego to celebrate their 80th birthday.
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called “Lego”, derived from the Danish phrase “leg godt,” which means “play well”.
In 1947 The company expanded to begin producing plastic toys and bricks we know today. See the story unfold in this neat short film by LEGO!
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Eric Carle is beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated picture books for very young children.
His best-known work, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into 64 languages and sold over 46 million copies.
Since it’s publishing in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have sold around the world.
Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, Carle moved to his father’s native Stuttgart when he was 6 years old, and spent his formative years in Nazi Germany. “Hitler dictated not only politics,” Carle tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, “he also dictated art.”Under the Third Reich, the only acceptable art was realistic and didactic, removed from the so-called “degenerate” trends of abstraction and Modernism.
But, in an act of resistance, Carle’s high school art teacher invited the young creative to his home to show him illegal reproductions of Cubist, Surrealist, and Impressionist art. Carle can’t recall exactly what he saw, but he thinks that’s where he saw expressionist Franz Marc’s Blue Horse. That visit and those reproductions made a deep impression on me,” he says. Marc’s Blue Horse even makes an appearance in the back of Carle’s new book.
It’s an iconic image, he says, regularly shown as a symbol of expressionism. Carle hopes blue horses show his young readers that in art, there is no wrong color.
“One must not stay within the lines,” he says. The point is to just enjoy color — but also to be surprised. Seeing a green lion or a polka-dotted donkey is still a bit of a shock, he says. “So in a small way, I repeat the shock I went through, I think. Of course, I’m not too sure it will work that way.”
Eager to return to the United States, Carle began working as a graphic designer for the New York Times in 1952, before being drafted into the army during the Korean War.
About a decade later, Carle’s career took a turn. He designed a poster of a red lobster, an advertisement for a pharmaceutical company, which caught the attention of children’s author Bill Martin Jr. The writer commissioned him to illustrate “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? “ (1967), and the rest is history.
From then on, Carle wrote and illustrated his own bedtime tales, including “1, 2, 3 to the Zoo” (1968) and the fan favorite, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”(1969).
Carle has maintained an instantly recognizable style of college. He begins by painting white tissue paper with acrylic paint, and stores these swatches in color-coded drawers in his studio. He then cuts them to shape and layers the pieces to create grouchy ladybugs, purple cats, and beautiful butterflies. Carle loves that his signature technique is accessible. “In fact, some children have said to me, ‘Oh, I can do that,’” Carle said. “I consider that the highest compliment.”
In 2002, Carle and his wife opened the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, which presents exhibitions on Beatrix Potter, E. H. Shepard, Ludwig Bemelmans, and Quentin Blake, among others. The world lost a very talented & inspiring human when he passed in 2021.
“We have eyes, and we’re looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.” Eric Carle
His legacy will live on in his wonderful books. Watch a neat look at the amazing Eric Carle in the video below!
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Take a sweet behind-the-scenes tour inside a Krispy Kreme shop where the famously good glazed doughnuts are made!
We highly suggest grabbing a donut or something sweet at least before watching this!
HIT OF HISTORY: Krispy Kreme opened its doors on July 13, 1937, Vernon Rudolph bought a secret yeast-raised doughnut recipe from a New Orleans French chef.
He rented a building in what is now historic Old Salem North Carolina and began selling its Krispy Kreme doughnuts to local grocery stores. The delicious scents of cooking doughnuts drifted into the streets.
Passersby stopped to ask if they could buy hot doughnuts. So he cut a hole in an outside wall and started selling Original Glazed doughnuts directly to customers on the sidewalk. That special secret yeast recipe remains a Krispy Kreme secret ingredient to this day!
“FUN. FRESH. AND WARM. We make our Original Glazed Doughnut the way we always have.”
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Take a trip down memory lane with this clever electronic Rainbow Reading remix of the iconic “In Your Imagination” song!
Reading Rainbow inspired countless children to read and connect so that they can “go anywhere, be anything.”. Though times & technology have changed greatly, their powerful lessons remain valuable today!
“A book lets you zoom through time and space. But don’t bother packing. You can stay in one place.” – Reading Rainbow
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This hilarious and mind-bending trend nicknamed “Art Doppelgangers” has everyday folks taking photos next to paintings in museums and art galleries that they share an uncanny resemblance to.
Scroll through the slideshow to see just how strange and funny Art Doppelgangers are!
FUN FACT: The term doppelganger is a German word meaning “double-goer”. To have a doppelganger simply means having a look-alike or twin, although according to many traditions, a doppelganger is a sign of a paranormal phenomenon. The term could be used in a completely neutral manner, but most of the time a doppelganger signifies the presence of an evil twin or some other dark mischief. SOURCE SO BAD SO GOOD
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Balablok explored human nature in this simple but profound paper cutout shape short.
Created by Director, animator, and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar in 1972. This beautiful short stands the test of time.
This speechless stop motion short film won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or du court métrage in 1973 from the National Film Board of Canada.
“Here is an animated replay of the human comedy as amusing in its perception as in the way it caricatures humanity’s propensity to resort to violence rather than to reason.” – Bretislay Pojar
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Chow Yun-Fat, a self-professed Buddhist and beloved and notoriously humble movie star and from Hong Kong recently announced that he will be donating his entire fortune over $714 million to various charities.
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The mega movie star accumulated his grand fortune from starring in over 90 films over 40 years of famous box office hits such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, A Better Tomorrow, and The Replacement Killers, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
He has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor. The Los Angeles Times once called him “the coolest actor in the world”.
“The money doesn’t really belong to me, I am only in charge of it temporarily,” he told reporters when he first revealed the plans for his fortune.
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According to Chinese news outlet ET Today, Yun-Fat despite his wealth and stardom he has always lived a humble life spending only about $100 ( USD) per month ($800 HKD). He takes public transit whenever he can, buys his clothes at second-hand stores he and his wife prefer to eat at food stalls over fancy restaurants. He only recently bought a smartphone after the Nokia flip phone he owned for 17 years finally broke.
When asked why he likes to shop at discount shops despite his tremendous net worth, Chow replied “I don’t wear clothes for other people. I just wear whatever I find comfortable.”
He and his wife say that they plan on giving the fortune away to a number of charities, in addition to their own foundation, which they Chow and his wife, Jasmine Tan, have set up their own foundation years ago, according to an earlier interview with Apple Daily hive.
“My dream is to be a happy and normal person,” Yun-Fat told ET. “The hardest thing in life is not about how much money you earn, but how to keep a peaceful mindset and live the rest of your life in a simple and carefree manner.”
PHOTO CREDIT CHOW YUN-FAT
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Take a journey through the ages of mixed media artwork with this enchanting Coldplay music video, Strawberry Swing.
With the help of talented film director and artist Aaron Platt, superstar musician Chris Martin lives out his superhero fantasy as the video progresses.
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Take a Ride with Danny MacAskill in Imaginate through a visually stunning yet geometric world that will have you questioning your perception.
Danny MacAskill clearly has an eye for both sports and arts and it translates beautifully in this collaboration video with Red Bull.
“Two years in the making, street trials rider Danny MacAskill releases his brand new riding film. Whilst previous projects have focused on locations and journeys, MacAskill’s Imaginate sees Danny take a completely different approach to riding. Enter Danny’s mind and enjoy.” – Red Bull
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