The First Film Ever Made Was About Babies Harvested From Cabbages (1896)
The first narrative film in cinema history was about a fairy harvesting babies from a garden. The most reproduced postcard imagery of the early twentieth century showed the same scene. The best selling toy of the 1980s — a doll that came with adoption papers and was sold from a converted hospital — was modelled from these very same ideas. This was a theme that repeated itself again and again across an eight hundred year window — babies appearing from a cabbage patch with no traceable parents, distributed to families through an unseen process. And there is a strong case to be made that it wasn’t just a folklore tale that mothers told their children but, in fact, it was rooted in something more sinister. In this video we investigate the foundling wheels that were installed in Catholic European churches from 1198 onwards and the eighty percent infant death rates inside the institutions that received the babies, how the orphan train system shipped a quarter of a million American children across the country between 1854 and 1929, the Paris incubator exhibition of 1896 where Alexandre Lion charged admission to keep premature babies alive in glass boxes, the documented connection between that exhibition and Alice Guy-Blaché's 1896 film La Fée aux Choux — the first narrative film in cinema history, why Salvador Dalí, André Breton, and Paul Éluard collected the cabbage baby postcards as serious cultural documents, and how a 1980s American toy phenomenon repeated the entire eight hundred year mythology in plastic. Watch until the end to decide for yourself whether the cabbage baby folklore was an innocent piece of children's storytelling — or one of the longest-running cover stories in Western history. If you think this story deserves to be heard, help us make sure it is – Subscribe, like and share with someone who needs to see this 🔎 ✅ Subscribe: @zaidalopez5091 📌 Source Links Foundling wheel — origin in Rome, 1198, and spread across Catholic Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundli... Orphan Train Movement, 1854–1929 — child placement records and program history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_... Alexandre Lion — French engineer and inventor of the modern infant incubator, 1889: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand... Alice Guy-Blaché — first female filmmaker and director of La Fée aux Choux, 1896: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_G... Martin Couney — Coney Island infant incubator exhibition, 1903–1943: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... Cabbage baby postcards — early 20th century European and American imagery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcard Surrealism and André Breton — collection of folk imagery as cultural document: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3... James Birch, Babylon: Surreal Babies, 2010 — surrealist postcard collections: https://www.jamesbirchgallery.com Cabbage Patch Kids — Xavier Roberts, Martha Nelson Thomas, and the BabyLand General Hospital concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage... Eugenics and early 20th century American medicine — historical context for premature infant abandonment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenic... #hiddenhistory #erasedhistory #forgottenhistory #alternativehistory #historymystery #oldworld #folklore #foundlingwheel #orphantrains #cabbagepatchkids #aliceguy #earlyfilm #childhistory #institutionalhistory #europeanhistory #americanhistory #losthistory #culturalhistory #medicalhistory #darkhistory
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