On: Mark Twain at Stormfield (1909) [video]

[sramam]

interesting that the digital version is LR flipped (is there a phrase for that?). wondering if there is a reason for that to happen.

[wahnfrieden → sramam]

The image has been flipped left to right to correct the camera-to-subject orientation.

[stavros → wahnfrieden]

What do you mean? What's that?

[alibosworth → stavros]

That's just a quote from the youtube description. My take is that it is a fancy way of saying that they corrected it to match reality.

[alibosworth → alibosworth]

Interestingly... on looking closer at the "restored" version, he is now sipping his tea with his right hand, as are his daughters, but he is smoking with his left hand.

[wahnfrieden → alibosworth]

He was right-handed, arthritic in the right, so he learned to write with his left; it doesn't seem reliable to know what hand he'd use for what activity