But we probably won't smile, as in the famous song by Yuri Loza. Moreover, this holiday is still far away. But remembering this holiday, especially if it was not without incident, is always pleasant. Chocolate, sweets and fragrant Moroccan oranges from a distant childhood are probably remembered by everyone who is over 40 now. As well as Santa Claus with gifts, the Snow Maiden and other characters. And of course, Christmas trees, from small sizes to gigantic ones. And so it went from year to year. Was it really the same a hundred years ago? Of course it was.
It was only in each country in its own way. Unless the trees were the same from France to Siberia. Despite the turbulent times throughout Europe, no one forgot about the change of the year. This holiday was held strictly once a year, as in the main photo. This is how we imagine it in those days - a family feast by candlelight. Candles were even put on the tree, which was very unsafe.
As you can see, the First World War is a war, and the change of the year is on schedule. Fir-trees were made even in the field. And put candles on them, as expected. And so it was like everywhere. For example, in the USSR, electric garlands on Christmas trees could only be used by craftsmen who had the opportunity to get light bulbs. The massive use of Christmas tree garlands from electric bulbs began only about 50 years after the First World War. And no one doubted that before that the whole world was celebrating the New Year by candlelight. Until digital archives appeared, which began to give out some oddities.
This is just Aufsberg in the Alps. Everything is very similar to a photomontage. Very strange phenomena in this photo around the edges of the tree. The feeling that some of the light spots were just painted on. Let's put that aside and see another photo.
This is Dresden, a tree near the Bismarck monument. Guess what year it is. It is clear that long before the one who cannot be written about arrived at the service there. 1918. World War I ended quite recently, and it was somewhere nearby. On the other side of the front there was complete devastation, and on the scale of a huge country, and here it is …
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This is also Dresden and at the same time. Some strange trees. But, alas, they cannot be considered closer. But a lot of photos from neighboring France have survived. It's so good that in the 20th century, photographic equipment began to improve and cameras with short exposure appeared. And what are we seeing?
This is a children's New Year party at the Elysee Palace in 1922. What kind of phenomenon is burning on the columns? For a better view, I enclose an enlarged version.
This is not a phenomenon at all, but ordinary light bulbs like candles. At the time of exposure of the photographic plate, for some reason, their flame was brought along a bizarre trajectory. If the lens rocked, then everything would come together. What kind of light was it? And in the bottom photo, besides this light, strange white spots were reflected. Anyone who has tried to photograph in humid places knows that such an effect is produced by a flash on the smallest drops of water in the air, even if the eyes cannot see them. But what about light then? Did these lamps emit a certain substance that circles according to its own laws, but the eye does not notice it and means it as ordinary light? But one photo is one photo, two are already a pattern.
This is also a celebration of the New Year's holiday in the same building, only in 1926. The photo is slightly blurred, but you can see those sitting at the table quite well. Only the lights in the background behave strangely.
They confidently write out some kind of chain-link next to them according to some incomprehensible law, and in the future everything is seen in accordance with the laws of optics. What are these strange light bulbs? For information, at that time there was already ordinary electric light from incandescent lamps, and it looked the same everywhere and something like this:
But for some reason, at all New Year's holidays, we see a strange picture.
Those who were involved in photography during the Soviet era can say that this is easily formed if the photographic plates are poorly washed after fixing. There is nothing to object, he himself admitted this, but here is a whole Rol agency with professional darkroom. Again, this could be blamed on humid air and magnesium flares, which were very bright. Perhaps, but facts are dumb.
This is a Christmas bathing in Paris (we are still far away) in 1922. Pay attention to the right side of the photo.
There was definitely no flash here. Why did the white spots focus on the Masonic design symbols in the background? And these spots are smaller in size than on the person standing in front, strictly according to the laws of perspective. And the point here is not at all in the flashes and the accuracy of the staff. The secret must be sought elsewhere. Or here's a similar case from the same events:
Why do swimmers need a spear? Even we have not yet thought of such a biathlon.
But if you look at it carefully, it becomes clear that this is a spear from the same balustrade. He was hooked onto the balcony to bring into the premises that very incomprehensible energy resource that lit the lamps. The picture begins to build up.
This is a common New Year's Eve celebration in Paris in 1923. They don't fall into the salad, the wrong culture, but that's not interesting. Above the table is a gas lamp, the identifier of which, as in all similar structures, is the valve in front of the lamp. It is unclear for what purpose it was modified with a wire. Why, if nothing burns on it? But the lights in the background attract attention.
What is it? This is clearly not gas. And the wiring on the walls or ceiling is also not observed. Fires in those days were feared very much, and all the wiring was outside on rollers. She even spoiled the interior, but they turned a blind eye to this. And such photos are not isolated.
This is New Year's Eve in Paris in 1926. A wire goes to the tree, which is clearly visible. But the design of the lamps on the vault is very strange.
It is unclear how the lamps were stuck into an architectural socket, the name of which then smoothly passed into the field of electrical engineering. No wires outside are suitable, and for so many lamps they would be thick. The dim light of the lamps indicates that there is most likely no filament in them. And such phenomena are not isolated.
It was hard to imagine, but this is an ordinary Christmas market in 1922 in Paris. There are a lot of lamps. If these were incandescent lamps, their consumption for that time would have been enormous.
This is another New Year celebration in 1922. An ordinary evening, only an unusual setting. There is a lamp in the background.
It is clearly seen that his lamps are hanging on chains, and no wires go to them. A little further, a similar lamp even burns.
And just above there are light bulbs, the light of which slides to one side.
And again we see the incomprehensible wandering of light around the lamps. What could have caused this effect? We look further.
This is another Christmas tree from 1922. But it is not even she who is interesting, but the chandelier above her. It comes out directly from the metal structure of the ceiling, and visually does not fit wires to it at all. And again there are white spots around. And if you look closer?
Electricians, you will probably be interested here. The bulbs hang on obscure wires, but from the inside of those wires … no. In any case, in places of twists they would be visible. And these wiring is most likely an ordinary wire. I do not presume to speak for everything, but the power wires were then made in paper insulation, which is very difficult not to notice. It was these chandeliers with a secret that hung in the store of Fyodor Shvabe in Moscow.
This is another Parisian tree, but only with an unimaginable number of phantoms. There is probably no point in talking here about poor-quality washing of negatives.
So clearly to stick around the image of people with spots is possible only by removing them in nature. Where did so many of them come from, and in fact, where does the new year come from? It's simple. Look at the background of the photo. And probably that's enough to demonstrate the material.
As you probably already guessed, the very light that wanders in the photo has completely different characteristics from the light of incandescent lamps. More precisely, in the latter the source is a red-hot thread, and in the former it is something completely unrelated to the heating of the metal. And this something gives birth to light not at a specific point, but in the space around itself, and this space changes according to incomprehensible laws. Only cameras with a relatively short shutter speed, which began to appear at the beginning of the 20th century, could recognize and fix such light. Modern cameras could probably do it too, but … the sources of such light have disappeared. And the sources are the very domed systems of houses, including temples.
But the most interesting thing is that under the influence of the sources of this wandering light, certain phantoms began to appear in the optical range. What was it? Maybe souls from the afterlife, maybe something else. It is not for nothing that lamps and mirrors were hung there when they were in the houses of the dead, the material about this is set out here. And on the Christmas holidays, due to the abundance of the inclusion of such light sources, these optical phenomena began to manifest themselves completely in extraneous places. From behind the walls of the temples for which they were intended, optical phenomena came out and began to appear on the streets, and they were recorded by an ordinary camera. Or maybe not only a camera, but also people's vision. Due to the intensity of the dome installations, this incomprehensible raster began to appear more and more clearly, and to be noticeable to people with ordinary vision. It is not excludedthat for this reason, among other things, these sources were destroyed all over the world. The good old communist principle worked - “if you don't know how to react, forbid”.
And the trees in the 20th century came completely different from what we imagine them to be, but much better. And they worked wonders. Well, actually, that's what Christmas magic is for.
P. S. Professional photographers who found themselves working with photographic plates would like to hear your opinion on the above phenomena in the photo.
Author: tech_dancer