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How to be a Retronaut

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

Anachronisms
- Future in the past
  - Atomic Age Hollywood
  - Hi kids, here's a story about civil defence
  - Nuclear Toys
  - Spacelander Electric Bicycle, 1946
  - The Dazzle-Ships of WWI
  - Visions from Popular Science
- Past in the present
  - "Cloud of Unknowing" - Gorillaz
  - "The Swing" (1767) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  - Biblical scenes in Google Earth
  - Classic photographs in Lego
  - Facebook updates for historic events
  - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculptures, 1700s
  - Man removing his shirt in Piero della Francesca "The Baptism Of Christ" (1450)
  - USB Typewriters
  - WWII Paper Planes
- Present in the past
  - Apple Mac in Mad Men
  - Contemporary ruins
    - Ghost Station Tube Maps
    - Ukrainian Airfield
  - Contempory Memento Mori
    - Aged Barbie
    - Aged Superheroes
    - Bugs Bunny's skeleton
    - Tweety-pie's skeleton
  - Darth Vader painted by Monet, 1875
  - Dubai through an 1857 lens
  - Hollywood Premakes
  - iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  - iPods in 1977
  - Ming Dynasty beer-cans
  - Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
  - Star Wars for Retronauts
  - Steampunk
    - Steampunk laptop
    - Steampunk Stormtrooper
  - Superheroes in history
  - The Georgian iMax
  - Victorian Star Wars
  - “Modern Renaissance” & “Celebrity Time-Travel”
- Time-crashes
  - The Soviet Hobbit
  - Tudor Pinhole Camera
  - Victorian Delorean
  - We Are All Animals
Change
- Extreme change
  - Earl's Court Farm, 1867
  - Heathrow Airport, 1935
  - The Brixton Zebra
  - The Collapsing Wall, 1940s / 2010
- Gradual change
  - "Stour Valley and Dedham Village" (1815/2010), John Constable
  - Anna and Richard Wagner, 1900-1945
  - Chiswick High Road, 1982 / 2003
  - The "Ziggy Stardust" phone-box, 1972-2009
Early technology
- Colour film
  - Colour footage of Venice 1912
- Colour photography
  - Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
  - Fleet Street, London, 1:55pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 1924
  - Imperial Russia, 1909-1915
  - New York City, 1941
  - Panoramic Tokyo, 1865
  - Soho, 1959
  - WWII WASPs
- Film
  - Alice in Wonderland, 1903
  - Amateur
  - Archive
  - Bloopers
  - Chronochrome
  - Feature
  - Kodachrome Motion
- Firsts
  - 15 World's Firsts
- High Resolution
  - London, 1950s, in hi-res colour
- Music video
  - Soundies
  - The first music video, 1895
- Photography
  - Aerial
  - Calotype
  - Collodion
  - Daguerreotype
  - Fakes
  - Hand-tinted
  - Hipstamatic
  - Kodachrome
  - New York: The first photograph
- Recorded sound
  - "There'll Come A Time" - Arthur Pryor, 1897
- Snap-shot photography
  - Girl on a tricycle, Ireland, 1900
- Stereo photography
  - 3D Ancient Japan
Immediacy
- Bablake School, Coventry, 1955-57, by Alan Hails
- Chicago Night Clubs, 1970s, by Michael Abramson
- Greetings from 1950s Wales
- Paris, 1910-1914, by Eugene Atget
- Photobooth animations
- Portraits, F. Holland Day
- Smiling
  - Smiles of old Japan
  - Smiling Victorians
- Square Dance, Oklahoma, 1940
- USSR, 1953
Multiple Time
- The Ghosts of…
  - Amsterdam
  - Cherbourg
  - Leningrad
  - Macclesfield
  - the Blitz
  - Toronto
  - World War II
- The Kodak building
Replicas
- Brand-new 18th Century Shirts
- Brand-new medieval castle
- Brand-new medieval humours
- Brand-new Smalltown, USA
- Brand-new WWII
Time-travel culture
- "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
  - "The Time Machine" Comic
  - "The Time-Machine" in Lego
- Back to the Future iPhone App
- Dr Evermore & the Forevertron
- Echo Park Time-travel Mart
  - 10 Time-travel Mart products
  - 5 Time-travel tourism ads
- Hang this up in your time-machine
- Map of time-travel in popular film and TV
- Present - Michæl Paukner
- Time-machine guitar effect pedal
Uncategorized
- Geography
  - Location
Unusual duration
- Contracted time
  - 100 years of Hovis
  - Four sisters, 25 years
  - Rush hour, Waterloo Station, 1970
  - The longest time-lapse video
  - Time-lapse from space
- Exceptional survival
  - Hatch the Tudor Dog
  - Ice-Age flute
  - London's oldest statue
  - Mozart's skull
  - Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
  - The Cabinet of Sarah Hare
  - The Roman road-map
- Expanded time
  - 27-year-old picnic
  - Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010
  - One family, 30 years

Early colour: Alps, 1909

These pictures are autochromes taken by Remi Verstreken in 1909. The picture above is at Kandersteg, as is the first picture below. The second two are of the Glacier Mont-Rose, across the border in Italy.