I've just spent 2 hours watching this thread, definitely my favorite GAF thread ever. Some amazing photos and contributions! Here is my contribution to this thread:
Chaplin after the set of The Circus (his only movie that won an Oscar btw) was ravaged by a fire accident. He was going through a lot of bad stuff on his life at that moment, crazy expensive divorce, tax disputes and now this. He looked genuinely sad on the photo.
Young Stanley Kubrick taking a selfie while he was at the dentist in 1946. He was 18 years old.
And here's years later as a renowned film Director on the set of the Shining.
Women firefighters douse flames during the Pearl Harbor attack.
First World War, Belgium. A French pilot makes a forced landing after a failed attack on German Zeppelin in Brussels, 1915. Soldiers are climbing the tree.
Children playing with stacks of money. Weimar, Germany. 1918-1923. Yes, that's real money.
Here's the reason:
With the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm a new Government was formed in the town of Weimar (as Berlin was too unstable) known as the Weimar Republic. Thus a new democracy was born. From the start the Weimar Republic seemed doomed being branded the November Criminals for signing the armistice that betrayed Germany and then for signing the Treaty of Versailles. Moreover, the Social Democrats that held the majority in the Weimar Government was pressured both by the left and right wing seeking to usurp power.
One of the first problems that the Weimar Republic faced was Hyperinflation. Money became so worthless that children could play with stacks of it. People's savings were wiped out causing widespread discontent and civil unrest.
The Empire State Building in front of an ascending full moon, 1930s.
First model/concept of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, 1964.
Cell phone precursor, 1880s.
