In the silent era, and even into the 1930s and 1940s (A Tale of Two Cities, 1935; Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935; Foreign Correspondent, 1940), introductory narrative information about time and place was typically carried by one or more expository intertitles.
The debacle should serve as a cautionary tale: The information age has not been kind to the corporate giants clambering aboard.
In Norse mythology, largely recorded in Iceland from traditional material stemming from Scandinavia, numerous tales and information about Thor are provided.
A Dickensian tale for the information age.
If a Westerner disappears on board a ship, there'll be an initial burst of coverage from their local media outlets, fed by press releases from the cruise lines, which tale off as information dries up – and it dries up quickly.
This entailed scrutinising every aspect of the tales for hidden information, following Holmes's advice to Watson that one should "never trust to general impressions, but concentrate upon the details".
It's one-sided, flawed and personal in the Michael Moore mode, and it jibes completely with the stories told by people from out west who offered cautionary tales at an information session at the same theater two years earlier, when the leasing frenzy upstate was just beginning.
Eleanor is not concerned with telling her own tale; the snippets of information she lets fall push us gently towards the assumption of a fairly settled and uneventful life in which even major developments, such as widowhood, unfold relatively naturally and calmly.
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Early miniaturists, too, loved to illustrate the most unlikely tales and pieces of information given in such works.
