#PeerTube is more than just techy stuff nowadays! ๐Ÿฅณ Here's a thread of human-curated video playlists to help you discover what's available:

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3D Printing - https://fedi.video/w/p/qax18Q5wPJw7E7SDKUJFTE
Adventure Games - https://fedi.video/w/p/sVAoWjJZQnSZnw9kyur9Y3
Animals - https://fedi.video/w/p/dUP8ub8SkvAQZygMacmx3w
Animation - https://fedi.video/w/p/18pM2fMmVb11TDokdbPBCP
Art & Artists - https://fedi.video/w/p/5ipZQ3F61oGHLrSEEBcFMo
Board Games & Card Games - https://fedi.video/w/p/rVaisWFBTK9ECVHdL7NNo2
Books, Reading & Writing - https://fedi.video/w/p/nJCANXPGtVkQCELSgTgMnL
City Planning & Urbanism - https://fedi.video/w/p/gfM65MJwWNUQFXVhj19M8A

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Clothes ๐Ÿ‘•

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History ๐Ÿ“œ

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Trains & Railways ๐Ÿš†

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1900s ๐ŸŽฉ

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Acorn Computers playlist

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MS-DOS playlist

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Christmas - https://fedi.video/w/p/nVmnztNREu5f6QtHzJ9tUJ
Easter - https://fedi.video/w/p/7AYm3QTAnvpJsdcSEpSbr9
Halloween - https://fedi.video/w/p/ddtnp1T5TCMxzsFDRs35e4

BEST OF PEERTUBE
Best of PeerTube 2025 - https://fedi.video/w/p/ddaBzij9HNENLHN9U2XjMd
Best of PeerTube 2024 - https://fedi.video/w/p/9FGkNfjBeJ3j3GKjevJ7xX
Miscellaneous Fun Things - https://fedi.video/w/p/biNer6d4VBp8kMg3kSvwHD
Featured Videos - https://fedi.video/w/p/mriGETt45THTAjGbCDA8bY

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@FediVideo I'm wondering, how much people must pay to watch #Fantasmagorie when it released on 1908. It's shorter than 2 minutes 

@adhisimon @FediVideo Most films at the time were not much longer than that - typically 5 to 10 minutes.

Cinemas in the US in 1908 cost a nickel (5 cents) and were known as "nickelodeons". They showed a series of short films one after the other. You paid your nickel, went in, watched for as long as you wanted, and left.

@robinadams @adhisimon @FediVideo hmm interesting. So paying isn't just for one viewing. You can left anytime.

@serigala_tropis @adhisimon @FediVideo That was the way cinemas worked for a long time. Even after "feature films" became a thing, cinemas played continuously a programme that usually consisted of a newsreel, a few short films and cartoons, a B-movie and then the feature film. The audience came and left whenever.

So many people would come in in the middle of the movie, watch the end and then the shorts, watch the start of the movie, whisper to each other "Isn't this where we came in?" and leave.

It was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) that changed the trend. He made cinemas enforce a policy of no admission after the film had started, so as not to spoil the big shock when Janet Leigh's character (which the publicity had made you think was going to be the main character) is killed in the shower.

@robinadams @adhisimon @FediVideo well we can't have this in the modern times. if it were, people would not leave watching "Inception" (2010) in cinemas because the movie isn't meant for only one-time viewing and audiences will stay on cinema until it's full, barring new audience from entering the room. ๐Ÿ˜†

@robinadams @serigala_tropis @adhisimon

There's a very good novel and TV series called "The Night Watch" by Sarah Waters, which is set in the 1940s which plays with this concept.

You see the story begin halfway through, which is the same way someone would enter a cinema in the 1940s. You then see the story from the middle to the end, and then after that you see the beginning of the story and the true context for the ending.

@robinadams @adhisimon

Yup, cinemas were more like television back then. It wasn't just fiction films, there were also news bulletins, sports events, documentaries etc.

There also used to be specialist cinemas devoted entirely to news, the equivalent of a rolling news channel today. You paid to go in and catch up, then leave when you wanted.

TV was then invented and took over, especially as sets became cheaper, and the only thing left that people preferred in the cinema were long form films.

@FediVideo @robinadams yes, feels like I'm watching an episode of some serries on cable. Watch in the middle because too late at the begining, and waiting for the replay few hours again to watch the begining