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Printed 108 years ago today in The Pensacola Journal.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

Funnily enough "gulp cafe" is name of the instance my Mastodon is hosted on, I wonder if they'll find that coincidence as moderately amusing as I have.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Could the instance be named as a Evereteer reference by a fan?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

unlikely, as it has another reason for the name that is fairly fitting for the instance's niche (which is also why I just mentioned the name rather than directly link it, as it's theme is not something that most without a specific interest would want to randomly click a link to and see.)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Fair enough!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Nothing changes eh!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

What sort of movie would Everett True be watching in 1916?

[-] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago

Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks woulda been the big names at the time; D.W. Griffith's Intolerance came out about three weeks prior and was cleaning up pretty well at the 1916 equivalent of the box office

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance

I looked it up and wow, I didn't realize that movies were already so big in 1916.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That was pretty much the year movies became that big; Griffith's Birth of a Nation, released the previous year, more or less revolutionized the filmmaking process and near-singlehandedly codified long-form cinema as we know it today. Of course it also made the KKK the good guys, so, you know, some aspects coulda been better.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Probably a literal box office

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

Great question! Wikipedia has the answer. Charlie Chaplin was in his prime. D.W. Griffith put out "Intolerance", which I've read about but never seen. Several Cecil B. DeMille movies. And, of course, Everett True had one of his shorts.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

oops didn't realize this was a repost, sorry bout that Wild Bill.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I heard him say “something doing“

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@brbposting @Rolando Everett is one of those characters where I can hear his voice absolutely clearly

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Isn't there one of these where True whacks a guy for doing the same thing? XD

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

that's during the moving picture though

this is before the moving picture

let's bring that phrase back

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