British Pathé – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:45:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg British Pathé – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Tellurometer, with a Girl to Help https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/10/the-tellurometer-with-a-girl-to-help/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:45:27 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1809372

To start off your weekend, here’s a 1961 clip from British Pathé depicting the surveying and mapmaking technologies of the era. [Massimo]

]]> 1809372 Globemaking Films https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/11/globemaking-films/ Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:49:43 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3424 More]]> This short film on globemaking from 1955 has been making the social media rounds:

Compare it to this short film from 1949:

It’s nearly identical in its turns of phrase and factoids, though there are slightly different emphases. Though the firm is unnamed, it’s clearly the same one: it’s even the same guy doing the varnishing.

These films fascinate me because they describe a kind of globemaking—layers of plaster, paper globe gores, and varnish—that I don’t think happens any more. There are some similarities to Bellerby’s globemaking methods, but Bellerby’s underlying globe isn’t a plaster shell. And most of us don’t have the money for a Bellerby globe: if we have a globe, it’s almost certainly a Replogle. As this short video from the Chicago History Museum reveals, Replogle’s globes are a combination of paper, cardboard and glue:

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