Keystone 10814. Mexican Bull Ring - The Fall of the Picador (c1900)
Scroll down to the first comment to view the stereo illusion and a cropped expansion.
Details and History
This stereoview, titled "10814. Mexican Bull Ring - The Fall of the Picador", comes from the Keystone View Company. The preceding image in the series entitled "10813 - Mexican Bull Ring - Flaunting the Scarlet" was found at the Library of Congress and may also be viewed as an animated gif. The Wikipedia page on bullfighting offers a great deal of relevant history and context. One reference therein notes that more horses died in the ring than bulls until padded armor was introduced in the 1930s.
Copyright Advisory
With the exception of sound recordings, all copyrightable material published before 1923 in the United States is now in the public domain due to expiration of the copyright. The derivative work presented here is placed under creative commons license.
Technical trivia
A digital image was scanned with an Epson scanner using the levels control to independently clip the red, green, and blue channels at the limit of useful density. Aggressive noise reduction with Noiseware Pro reduced artifacts in the print as well as physical damage (i.e. scratches). The digital image was rotated until level (arbitrary) and the borders were cropped. Subsequent image rotations, scaling, alignment, color correction and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
Keystone 10814. Mexican Bull Ring - The Fall of the Picador (c1900)
Scroll down to the first comment to view the stereo illusion and a cropped expansion.
Details and History
This stereoview, titled "10814. Mexican Bull Ring - The Fall of the Picador", comes from the Keystone View Company. The preceding image in the series entitled "10813 - Mexican Bull Ring - Flaunting the Scarlet" was found at the Library of Congress and may also be viewed as an animated gif. The Wikipedia page on bullfighting offers a great deal of relevant history and context. One reference therein notes that more horses died in the ring than bulls until padded armor was introduced in the 1930s.
Copyright Advisory
With the exception of sound recordings, all copyrightable material published before 1923 in the United States is now in the public domain due to expiration of the copyright. The derivative work presented here is placed under creative commons license.
Technical trivia
A digital image was scanned with an Epson scanner using the levels control to independently clip the red, green, and blue channels at the limit of useful density. Aggressive noise reduction with Noiseware Pro reduced artifacts in the print as well as physical damage (i.e. scratches). The digital image was rotated until level (arbitrary) and the borders were cropped. Subsequent image rotations, scaling, alignment, color correction and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.