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Chaise Longues are luxurious pieces of furniture, originally used as ornamental items and as a day bed where the lady of the house could take a quick nap in the afternoon. The only way to get comfortable on a chaise longue is to lie back on it. It is said that Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame, would settle back in his chaise longue at his home in Goldeneye, Jamaica to dream up his stories.
A chaise longue usually measures around 6ft, so there is plenty of room to stretch out. Victorian chaises have a shapely serpentine shape and Regency couches are recognised by their attractive carved scroll ends. Both are the epitemy of elegance, and with a bolster cushion tucked under your neck you’re ready to kick off your shoes and settle back. Nowadays, the antique chaise longue is more often used as a decorative piece, with the modern soft sofa being preferred for the afternoon siesta.
The first film was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It was a two second film of people walking around in a garden and was called ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’. The first silent films were short, usually only a few minutes in length. 1929, when the means of recording sound and movement at the same time was discovered, silent films became obsolete, with the exception of Charlie Chaplin whose character of the Tramp was compatible with silent medium. When the silent era ended he refused to go along with sound; instead he maintained the melodramatic Tramp as his mainstay in ‘City Lights’ (1931) and ‘Modern Times’ (1936).