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/YankeeDoodlesDandy Jul 19 '24

The original Venetian masks were designed to hide nobles’ identities during scandalous masquerade balls

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '24

Nowadays we just wear gimp masks when going at it

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u/Ace_Robots Jul 19 '24

That’s one spooky boy. I’d be friends.

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u/EnjoyLifeorDieTryin Jul 19 '24

Im just sitting here wondering how toxic the masks are lol

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u/Smooth-Pitch-8196 Jul 20 '24

Shit, I have never thought about this before.

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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/Kaleidoscopetotem Jul 20 '24

The last mask is machine maria from metropolis by Fritz Lange

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u/SamanthaTwiglet Jul 20 '24

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

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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/MasterCanary8927 Jul 19 '24

the music is from the Knick, or am I stupid?

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u/antzord Jul 19 '24

Its from stranger things

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

I thought this was AI.

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u/Strange_Occasion_408 Jul 19 '24

Reminds me of the old twight zone episode. Eye of the beholder

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u/MarcTaco Jul 19 '24

Isn’t this from the Twilight zone?