How Brown Saw the Baseball Game is a 1907 American short comedy film distributed by Siegmund Lubin's Lubin Manufacturing Company. The film follows Mr. Brown, a baseball fan, who drinks several highball cocktails before arriving at the ballpark. He has become so intoxicated that the baseball game appears to him in reverse motion. During production, trick photography was used to achieve this effect. The film received positive reviews in a 1908 issue of The Moving Picture World, a film journal, that regarded it as successful and "truly funny". The identities of the film's cast and production crew are not known. Film historians have noted similarities between the plot of How Brown Saw the Baseball Game and the comedy film How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game directed by Edwin S. Porter, released the previous year.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1610:

English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay

1790:

The first United States Census was conducted, as mandated by the United States Constitution to allocate Congressional seats and electoral votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_United_States_Census

1870:

Tower Subway (interior pictured), one of the world's earliest underground tube railways, opened beneath the River Thames in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Subway

1903:

The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization started the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilinden%E2%80%93Preobrazhenie_Uprising

1990:

Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

perfusionist: A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfusionist

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else can tell, what it is like to be alive.   --James Baldwin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin