It's Bloody Fantastic!

Hello, hello. Straight up - looking at that timeline and starting to investigate just how far we've come in terms of television and movies was so fascinating. Could you imagine if you were alive when that stuff first came out? Like a moving and talking picture? It baffles me because we are so used to all this technology, we don't bat an eyelid. But just IMAGINE if you' never ever seen anything like it before? It would've been INSANE. 

I've been told a few times by my dad about certain things he was around for. Like Jaws. "Oh Hannah, it just scared the shit out of people." He tries to explain it to me, about things I wasn't around for or was too young to remember. Jaws, The Exorcist, Soldier Blue (the first time you actually saw flesh explode), Psycho! and countless others. Even things like watching the moon landing for the first time ... he was very young, but he remembers it and how everyone ones when it happened. Total disbelief, amazement ... these days people just take things for granted. Like it's always been there or something.

Imagine if you were part of the team that invented the first motion picture, computer, television, the use of special effects and could see what it's like today .. my God, I think it's absolutely incredible. I remember vividly when Toy Story came out - it was like the coolest thing I had ever seen. The mad rush to buy my little sister a Buzz Lightyear for her birthday was so crazy, it was just like that Arnie movie "Jingle All the Way" with that Turbo-Man Doll. The only thing I really remember shocking me so much, was when they released a video showing what the iPhone could do. I was like whoa. But don't ever remember being so amazed like I'm sure millions were in the 1900's.

1927, Warner Brothers released "The Jazz Singer" - which automatically reminded me of the movie "Singin' in the Rain" - one of my favourite movies. It's a musical-based movie, about when the "talking picture" was first brought into the world and how everybody reacts now that silent movies are likely to be no more (watch it if you haven't). It stars Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds. All incredible dancers - I love it.

Singin' in the Rain

[1952]

I think sometimes it's a good thing to take a step back and appreciate how far we've come. To appreciate those who had the ideas, the determination and means to actually make crazy, somewhat "unrealistic" dreams come true.