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Это причудливые фотографии Сада фей Коттингли / Cottingley Fairies, на осовании которых в 1998 году был снят фильм "Fairy Tale - Правдивая история".
Сам Невилл Колмор http://irochka5.livejournal.com/236088.html
был убежден, что изображения Коттингли - это мистификации и считал,что такое внимание и известность Сад Коттингли получил только благодаря Конан Дойлю, которому пришлись по душе фотографии "фей Коттингли."
Status: Staged using paper cutouts
Technique of Fakery: Staged Scene, Models and Cutouts.
Date and Time Period: 1917-1920; (1900-1919)
Themes: Children, Paranormal, Striking a Pose
Frances and the Fairies,
July 1917.
Elsie and the Gnome,
September 1917.
Fairy Offering a Posy to Elsie,
August 1920.
Frances and the Leaping Fairy,
August 1920.
In 1920 a series of photos of fairies captured the attention of the world. The photos had been taken by two young girls, the cousins Frances Griffith and Elsie Wright, while playing in the garden of Elsie's Cottingley village home. Photographic experts examined the pictures and declared them genuine. Spiritualists promoted them as proof of the existence of supernatural creatures, and despite criticism by skeptics, the pictures became among the most widely recognized photos in the world. It was only decades later, in the late 1970s, that the photos were definitively debunked.
It was not until 1978 that James Randi pointed out that the fairies in the pictures were very similar to figures in a children's book called Princess Mary's Gift Book, which had been published in 1915 shortly before the girls took the photographs.
Fairy figures in Princess Mary's Gift Book
Below is a side-by-side comparison of the figures in Princess Mary's Gift Book and the fairies in the first Cottingley fairy photo.
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