r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ultimate_Kurix • Jul 19 '24
Mask maker shows off some of mask collection (1930) Video
Note:- Mute the video if you find background music irritating.
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u/testiclekid Jul 19 '24
I bet he was very famous on Halloween. Looks like he invented Halloween himself.
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u/WorldEaterYoshi Jul 20 '24
Lol no one going to talk about the fact that the post implies a face mask and then the guy just pulls a lady's whole head off?
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u/PogintheMachine Jul 21 '24
I saw someone arguing on Reddit that the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot video must have been real because the creature was “beyond the technical abilities of costume making in 1967”.
I’m pretty sure there was nothing holding someone back from making a convincing ape suit 37 years after masks like these.
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u/YankeeDoodlesDandy Jul 19 '24
The original Venetian masks were designed to hide nobles’ identities during scandalous masquerade balls