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100x100 900 Project Created by Magmart That Is To Be Part of The Google Cultural Institute
100x100 900 Project Created by Magmart That Is To Be Part of The Google Cultural Institute
The omnipresent shadow of World War Two and Anne Frank wrote in her
diary ‘Countless friends and acquaintances have gone to a terrible fate’ and
so her family go into hiding. Eric Ravilious, a RCA alumnus and war artist
goes missing presumed dead whilst observing a sea rescue mission off
Iceland. This is the year 1942.
Motion pictures include classics like ‘Casablanca’ the famous song played by
Sam -‘As time goes by’ - and ‘Holiday Inn’ when ‘White Christmas’ is sung
first on film by Bing Crosby. The animation ‘Bambi’ premieres and, I in the
1960s, a young child was taken out of the cinema howling with shock when
his mother got shot. In Great Britain Winston Churchill gives a speech ‘’Now
this is not the end…’. On radio ‘Desert Island Discs’ – still aired today- started
with its famous intro music and holds the following years together.
Through all of this the number ‘42’ resonates like some numbers do, and
further along the century it is the backbone of Douglas Adam’s radio series,
then TV and later a Hollywood film ‘Life, the universe and everything’.
Somehow part of its script fits back to 1942 in textual echoes for me so I
intertwined and put them into time’s distorting filter.
So long ago yet the thread of continuity is us: for all our truths, failings and
humanity.