Historical Distortion

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What is presentism?

• Focusing too much on 20th and 21st century history

• The lack of interest in history

• Judging the past by modern standards

• The lost of traditional customs

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What did the president of the AHA think about presentism?

(AHA - the American Historical Association, or Aha!)

• It's bad because it makes history social studies

• It's good because it gives people of minorities a voice

• It's unfair because it ignores what the world was like back then

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Kristen Stewart (from the image) is said to be the best of the 11 "Dianas" but her movie has sparked some controversy due to it darkening Diana's image (mental illness). It's also admitted to be historically inaccurate and more of a fiction.

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The movie "Spencer" - historical distortion

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Which is incorrect about the play 'Hamilton'?

https://youtu.be/r1izVfVpBwE

• It's casting is color-bind

• It's casting is color-conscious

• The writer himself played the role of Hamilton

• Only a few of its actors were BIPOC

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Who wrote this play?

(aka the guy who casted himself)

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Daveed Diggs

• Anthony Ramos

• Okieriete Onaodowan

Color-blind vs color-concious casting

Color-blind

Gives an equal chance to everyone

Distorts history

Forces BIPOC to act as their own enemies (in 'Hamilton')

Color-concious

Progressive

Gives BIPOC actors less chance

-> Solution: More BIPOC stories with BIPOC actors

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'The Mountaintop' - when and where?

• Broadway - 1995

• Broadway - 2015

• Broadway - 2019

• On TV - 2018

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'The Mountaintop' - who were involved?

• Katori Hall

• Lynn Hunt

• Michael Oatman

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How did Katori Hall respond to the incident?

• She went on ABC news and express her anger

• She was happy that Oatman wanted to explore racial authenticity

• She spoke out on the New York Times

• She wrote an editorial on The Root full of outrage

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What Oatman did was wrong and illegal

• True

• False

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First photo ever - who and when?

• Louis Daguerre - 1851

• Joseph Niepce - 1826

• Louis Daguerre - 1839

• Joseph Niepce - 1892

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What was the first daguerreotype made of?

(By Louis Daguerre - took minutes instead of hours)

• Light-sensitive paper

• A copper plate

• A silver plate

• Soluble gelatine

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What's different about the Kodak Brownie?

(introduced in 1900, the world's 1st mass market camera)

• It was more expensive but worked better

• It had flashlights

• It was a cardboard box with lens

• It was easy to use and quite cheap

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Earliest color photos (1907) - what process & who?

• Autochrome - Eastman Kodak

• Chromatic - Eastman Kodak

• Autochrome - the Lumière brothers

• Kodachrome - George Eastman

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Why is it so hard to colorize old black & white photos?

• It takes hours and hours of Google Search

• Many different colors can have the same lightness value

• People are strongly against it

• Colors were totally different back then

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AI have colored...

• White waterfalls brown

• Yellow taxis

  black

• The Golden Bridge white

• A brown dog

  black

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DeOldify is threatening whose job?

• Jason Antic

• Jordan Lloyd

• Richard Zhang

• Emil Wallner

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AI colorization programs - what and who?

• DeOldify - Jason Antic

• DeepAI - Philip Isola

• Algorithmia - Richard Zhang

• DeOldify - Richard Zhang

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Who created this picture?

• Bas Uterwijk

• An AI

• Michelangelo

• A cameraman

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What software did Bas Uterwijk use to create this portrait?

• DeepAI

• Artbreeder

• ImagenAI

• ChatGPT

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How did FDR hide his paralysis from the public?

• All pictures of him in a wheelchair were destroyed

• By learning to stand and walk with support

• He didn't appear in public

• He had robotic legs

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Why did they alter history in the Woman King?

• To attract people to learn more about Dahomey's history

• For a more entertaining plot

• To make the Oyo Kingdom look 'evil'

• To show the power of women