When there was no television ... (11 photos)

It is interesting to look at the TV, to be exact - on its entertainment part, as a continuation of the glorious traditions of the entertainment industry a century ago. Essentially the same thing.

A visit to a madhouse.





Family hiking in the dissecting room.
Careful contemplation of death. With a sweet taste - and you're still alive.
Who we are engaged in the program "The duty of" and news items (see "catastrophe").



Very near to the anatomical theater are public morgues.
There were exhibited on public display fresh corpses.
Drowned and slaughtered prostitutes were particularly popular.
Genre transformed into the program "The last hours of a famous person."



The show "Wild Woman". The struggle of women. With cries from pulling hair.
A special highlight was the cause to fight someone in the crowd watching this man.
It escalated into "Dom-2", "The Last Hero" and other shows Shootout.



Show freaks. Only we have the bearded woman, the Siamese twins and the fattest man in the world.
Man is glad that he is like everyone else. And that something bad did not happen to him.
"Minute of Fame" and all sorts of "Stand up, the court is." Although the present frikshou is "Full House."



Beginning of the twentieth century - the epidemic of pornography in France.
Add the pornographic industry.
"Sex with MAIL SAVE" and other erotic shows.



The circus tent. Drum roll - just this once passing all the celebrities.
"Stars on Ice", "Dancing with the Stars," "Two Star", "Do you weak."



Burlesque / vaudeville - humorous dialogues with erotic overtones.
Later, gradually turned into a kind of striptease.
"Comedy Club»



Mobile selling patented drugs.
Dr. Waugh-Hoo, the famous Indian healer. "Resurrection Infusions for Patients." Tincture of the life-giving herbs accidentally discovered beauty Ta Kwa-la, the wife of the leader of the Choctaw tribe.
I am one of the Uniform Senedrionov and explicit Mongol Inner Temple: - The lame begin to speak, and the blind to go, as soon as I make passes. I - medium, coloratura hypnotist and alcoholicity Comptroller of human souls.
This immediately a whole bunch of clinical charlatans. From Malakhov + or Kashpirovsky to battle magicians and estrasensov.
And, of course, "Astrological Forecast»



Mobile shows like "Wild West." Theatrical performances.
By the force of the impact and credibility are very similar to the life of various series of militia and bandits.



Opium salons.
Although ... it is closer to the Internet.

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