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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Dual Roles

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

One of the most curious types of stories is when lost things turn up again. Today's tour will give you a couple of good examples, for sure.

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0:00.0

Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

0:08.7

and Mild.

0:13.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:16.3

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:22.2

just waiting for us to explore.

0:25.4

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:36.8

Some directors like to drop Easter eggs into their films, little bonuses in their films

0:41.6

for the eagle-eyed viewers to spot.

0:43.9

Alfred Hitchcock often inserted himself into the backgrounds of his films, finding him

0:48.2

became kind of a game, one that was sometimes so distracting viewers needed to watch a movie

0:53.3

more than once because they didn't catch the story the first time around.

0:57.8

Random characters or props do little more than entice an audience to pay closer attention

1:02.8

to the background of a scene.

1:04.6

In one instance, however, a piece of films set decoration set off a firestorm through

1:09.8

the international art world, and it was all thanks to a mouse.

1:15.1

It all started around 1926.

1:17.5

The Hungarian artist Robert Barony had a big name in the avant-garde scene at the time.

1:22.8

He'd already brought expressionism and cubism to the country prior to the start of World

1:26.9

War I.

1:28.1

Before that, he had studied in Paris, focusing on post-impressionism and studying the works

1:32.8

of Van Gogh and Guggen.

1:34.8

After a few exhibits of his paintings, Barony returned to Budapest and founded his own

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