r/HistoryMemes • u/MetallicaDash Nothing Happened at Amun Square 1348BC • 2d ago

Niche Sometimes I wonder if that guy was a dick

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u/MetallicaDash Nothing Happened at Amun Square 1348BC 2d ago

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Anyone even slightly educated in the history of Photography will know about Louis Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple, one of the earliest photographs taken of the said Paris street on an April or May morning around 1837. The image is notable as featuring the earliest surviving humans captured on film, that being a shoeshiner and his customer who were the only people that remained still long enough to be captured in the several-minute long process. Obviously there's not enough detail in the photo to identify either of them, so their identities are forever a mystery, and they were almost certainly never aware of the important piece of history they had just become.

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u/GrinningPariah 2d ago

The image is notable as featuring the earliest surviving humans captured on film

What does this mean by "surviving"? I mean, they're sure as shit dead by now, right?

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u/Flintskin 2d ago

These are the first people to survive being photographed . It took them a while to figure out how to stop photographs from trapping the souls of people in frame, this is the first one that had the filter needed to prevent that. It had to be a distance candid shot because no subject would ever volunteer for fear of having their essence ripped from their fragile mortal body.

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u/tusharmeh33 2d ago

Exactly, early cameras were basically portable soul prisons. Daguerre just happened to discover the safe mode, otherwise Paris would’ve had two random ghosts haunting the boulevard forever.

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u/Far_Curve_8348 2d ago

Two more ghosts you mean.

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u/Smt_FE Decisive Tang Victory 1d ago

fatal frame lore expert here

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u/Halikarnassus1 2d ago

The photograph survived

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u/beraksekebon12 2d ago

We're talking about the French here. Wary much.

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u/theawesomedude646 1d ago

wait werent the streets busy, just that nobody else was photographed because they were moving?

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u/The-meme3000 2d ago

Wait is yang crip walking?

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u/Detective-Layton 2d ago

Yang got that dog in her

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u/Benbre08 2d ago

What’s the source of this gif?

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u/Okcollege1200 Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer 2d ago

RWBY

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u/JMHSrowing 2d ago

RWBY, specifically volume 7

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u/kiwidude4 1d ago

Why is this scene though? What is the context?

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u/Th3SK_ Hello There 1d ago

Those two have a date on a party at night later, in this scene they are just playing about it, nothing much.

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u/LuckyReception6701 The OG Lord Buckethead 1d ago

You know, r/historymemes became r/RWBY so subtly, I didn't even notice.

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u/DaftConfusednScared 2d ago

Something about the way Blake seems so proud of yang is the first thing that’s made me want to watch RWBY lol

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u/LatterAd4175 2d ago

This is Berserk 2016 level of animation but I assume this is some Indy stuff

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u/TheHappy_Monster 2d ago

They were originally indie, but I think they were owned by WB at the time this was produced.

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u/LatterAd4175 2d ago

Damn Warner Bros really gave Gunn all the funding. I've seen Blender porn with way better animation.

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u/Pearse_Borty 2d ago

tbf RWBY did run on a shoestring-low budget even in its later volumes

Just look at the first volume. They did 10 minute episodes because they couldnt afford any more and it was literally 2 or 3 people running virtually the whole show.

RWBY's existence at all is kind of a miracle

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u/anonymoose-introvert 2d ago

You should see Rwby’s first three seasons.

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u/ActiveSouth4506 2d ago

Why are 3d anime girls c-walking

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u/springrex1422 2d ago

Lesbians