"When he was a teenager in Savannah, Potter, his brother Jeffrey and a friend shot a short 8mm movie about the CSS Georgia. They built a 2-foot model.
At some point, Potter decided to test whether he had the skills to become a Hollywood special effects artist.
Potter’s younger brother put on a coat and straw hat and went out to a marsh with a cane fishing pole and Potter took a photo. He took another photo of the model. He glued the boat's image onto the photo of his brother, then used dirt and glue to "age" the photo.
Potter sent the photo to historical groups, setting off a sporadic search for a CSS Georgia photo that he now says never existed."
1 posted on
04/13/2015 11:02:03 AM PDT by
dware
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
04/13/2015 11:02:35 AM PDT by
dware
(The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
To: dware
The historians are all about to go negative...
3 posted on
04/13/2015 11:06:45 AM PDT by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: dware
At some point, Potter decided to test whether he had the skills to become a Hollywood special effects artist. Apparently, he did have those skills.
4 posted on
04/13/2015 11:06:46 AM PDT by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: dware
Strange none of the linked sites had a photo of this. I had to google CSS Georgia and pick through a bunch of photos of other ships till I found one that matched the description of the one mentioned.
6 posted on
04/13/2015 11:20:23 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
To: dware
Maybe he is hoaxing us now.
10 posted on
04/13/2015 11:30:07 AM PDT by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: dware
Robert Holcombe, former curator of the National Civil War Naval Museum, told the AP in February that while the original photograph would be needed to confirm if the image was authentic, he believed it was real.Fake, but accurate, eh Bobby?
This is why I tell the kids, frequently, that whenever they hear someone say "According to experts..." their b.s. meter should go through the roof, and they should be extremely skeptical of whatever is said next.
12 posted on
04/13/2015 11:41:49 AM PDT by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: dware
14 posted on
04/13/2015 11:47:55 AM PDT by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: dware
Isn’t that the one Dirk Pitt found in Africa?
19 posted on
04/13/2015 12:02:19 PM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: dware
CSS Georgia: Funding in the amount of $115,000 for her construction was provided by the Ladies' Gunboat Association.[2]
22 posted on
04/13/2015 12:12:46 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: dware
Where's the pic of the Civil War soldiers standing around a dead pterodactyl they shot down.
27 posted on
04/13/2015 2:07:52 PM PDT by
4yearlurker
(Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
To: onedoug
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