Interesting history info. I don't think I would have paid enough attention to a Guinness ad to notice that, good catch

BTW, Martin Scorsese mimicked the Jacob Riis photograph in a scene from Gangs of New York



Martin Scorsese is the ultimate film aficionado. Quentin Tarantino doesn't have jackshit on Scorsese. See the kids who are running in front of the camera and looking back at it? If you watch some of the very earliest films from the Lumiere Brothers and from Thomas Edison, you will see kids doing the very same thing. If the camera was mounted on a trolley and filming was done while the trolley was in motion, kids would run in front of it and keep looking back. This is instantly recognizable once you've seen those films. I've no doubt it was to these early films Scorsese was nodding.

Scorsese also paid homage to Sergei Eisenstein for his Odessa steps sequence in the film Battleship Potemkin. (The scene in Gangs of New York where the soldiers open fire on the draft riot protesters). Specifically, the way Scorsese shot the scene and, more importantly, the way it was edited.

I once saw a showing of Battleship Potemkin with a live orchestra providing the music and a few sound effects like explosions. It was great.

That's a cool connection between the photos and filmmakers. ^