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If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport

Anachronism
- False anachronism
  - Contemporary ruins
    - Ukrainian Airfield
  - Smiling Victorians
- Parachronism
  - Hollywood Premakes
  - Steampunk laptop
  - USB Typewriters
- Prochronism
  - Biblical Scenes in Google Earth
  - Classic photographs in Lego
  - iPad in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
  - Ming Dynasty Beer-cans
Atypical duration
- Anomalous survival
  - Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
- Collapsed duration
  - Time-lapse from space
- Extended duration
  - 27-year-old picnic
  - Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010
  - One family, 30 years
Pre-mainstream technologies
- Colour photography
  - Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
  - Fleet Street, London, 1:55pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 1924
  - Panoramic Tokyo, 1865
- Music video
  - Soundies
- Photography
  - Aerial
  - Calotype
  - Collodion
  - Daguerreotype
  - Fakes
  - Film
    - Amateur
    - Archive
    - Bloopers
    - Chronochrome
    - Feature
    - Kinemacolor
    - Kinetophone
    - Kodachrome Motion
    - Pioneer
  - Hand-tinted
  - Hipstamatic
  - Kodachrome
  - Photobooth
  - Platinotype
  - Portraiture
  - Roundography
  - Steroscopy
  - Time-lapse
  - Waxed paper negative
- Snap-shot photography
  - Girl on a tricycle Ireland 1900
Simultaneous time
- Chiswick High Road 1982 / 2003
- Looking into the Past: The Kodak building
- Retrographs
- The "Ziggy Stardust" phone-box 1972-2009
- The Ghosts of…
  - Cherbourg
Time-travel culture
- "Back to the Future" iPhone App
Uncategorized
- Art
  - Design
    - Advertising
    - Books
    - Comics
    - Informatics
    - Magazines
    - Objects
      - Clothing
      - Memento Mori
      - Toys
      - Vehicles
    - Posters
    - Products
  - Drawing
  - Modelling
  - Music
  - Painting
  - Panorama
  - Photoshop
  - Sculpture
  - Technology
    - Computers
    - Mobile
- Geography
  - Archaeology
  - Location
  - Maps

Give thanks by saving: London’s VE & VJ Day 1945 in colour…

This excellent amateur colour film was shot by Lieutenant Sidney Sasson, US Army Signal Corps, Army Pictorial Service. It is drawn from the Imperial War Museum’s Archive.

Watch out for the unorthodox Victory symbol at 2:57.