Snow Globe

A snow globe or snow globe is a transparent sphere, usually made of glass containing a scene in miniature, often in the form of a landscape. The sphere includes the water in the snow globe that serves as a medium through which the "snow" falling out. To activate the snow globe to be physically shaken to distribute the white particles across the globe. Then, the snow globe restored and fall the snowflakes slowly through the water to the bottom. Some snow globes have a built-in music box that plays a Christmas song.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Exactly when the first snow globes are made remains unclear, but they are already in the early 1800s in France. They are probably the successor of the glass paperweight, which became popular several years before. Snow Globes were on display at the Exposition Universelle in 1878 and in 1879 at least five companies were producing snow globes sell them throughout Europe .
 * 2 Production
 * 3 cultural references
 * 4 external link

In 1889 there was a snow globe produced that contained a model of the new Eiffel Tower, to mark the world exhibition in Paris, which the centenary of the French Revolutionmarked. Snow Globes became popular in England during the Victorian era, and in the early 1920s stakes snow globes the Atlantic Ocean to the United States where they were a popular collector's item . Many of the Snow Globes were made by Atlas Crystal Works, which had factories in Germany and the United States.

In the United States was awarded the first patent in 1927 to Joseph Garaja in Pittsburgh. In 1929, garaja convinced Novelty Pool Ornaments to an underwater fish-version.

In the United States during the 1940s were often snow globes used to advertise. Religious Snow Globes were common in Europe were a gift for Catholic children during the 1940s and 1950s. Snow Globes are in different movie scenes, of which the best known is the opening of the 1941 classic Citizen Kane :.

In the 1950s, the Snow Globes were formerly made of glass, also available in plastic. Nowadays, there are many different types of snow globes available. These snow globes are produced in many countries, by mass production in China to Hong Kong and finely crafted types still produced in Germany. Snow Globes show different scenes, such as a typical Christmas landscape, Disney characters, animals, historical scenes, and so on. ==Production[ Edit] == Initially snow globes from a heavy Crystal Dome, which on a ceramic figure or tableau on a heavy ceramic was placed, filled with water and then sealed. The snow or "flitter" was made of bone chips, pieces of porcelain, sand or sawdust. With the technological development was the glass thinner, the foot was lighter (bakelite was popular during theart deco) and the snow was made of tiny gold foil or non-soluble SOAP flakes. Nowadays, for health and safety reasons, small pieces of white plastic used. Again later the fluid replaced by a light oil and later by water with antifreeze (Glycerin or glycol). An additional benefit was that the Glycerin and glycol slowed the descent of the snow.

Snow Globes can nowadays music, moving parts, internal lights, and even electric motors that turn on the snow, so it is no longer necessary to shake the glass world. There are also snow globes in which items such as photos can be placed. ==Cultural references<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="170" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In modern films and literature are snow globes often symbolize youth, innocence or the so-called "Happy Days" in the life of the respective character.


 * In the Land of Maas and Waal, on texts of Lennaert Nijgh and sung by Boudewijn de Groot, two lines for come about "... the big Stef cock, which made a glass egg. When you shake, then it is snowing on theEgmond Abbey.
 * In the movie Citizen Kane let Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) a snow globe falling and mutters "Rosebud" in his last breath when he dies.
 * In the television series Lost , the character Desmond believes that no one can escape from the island because it is in a bloody snow globe is.
 * Richard Gere 's character kills his wife's lover with a snow globe in the movie Unfaithful .
 * In the 1994 Disney film The Santa Clause gives Bernard the delf (David Krumholtz) to Charlie (Eric Loyd) a magical snow globe with a moving scene in which his father Scott Calvin/Santa Claus (Tim Allen) can see at any time that he wants to. The snow globe is his link with his journey to the North Pole that it was not a dream.
 * In the film The Santa Clause 3 a snow globe plays a special role in the escape clause where the film to daait.
 * In the film Falling Down by Joel Schumacher, the main character buys a snow globe as a gift for his daughter.
 * In an episode of Heroes, with the title "The Hard Part", Sylar gives his mother a snow globe antagonist because he knows how much they love them.
 * In Pixar 's Knick Knack a snowman in a snow globe wants a pretty "Sunny Miami" reach to the other side of the Bookshelf.
 * The last episode of St. Elsewhere shows that all events were the fantasy of an autistic boy who possessed a snow globe containing a likeness of St. Eligius hospital.
 * In The League of Gentlemen of the BBC are Tubbs and Edward (who have a local store) obsessed to ' non-locals "to stop and buy anything in their store, especially a collection of snow globes (which they call ' Precious Things ') on a shelf, and often accuse them of attempted shoplifting
 * Snowglobe is the name of a Christmas movie by ABC Family.
 * In the special Christmas edition of the character Shawn Spencer gives a Psych snow globe to Carlton Lassiter (to remind him to certain nightmares) and a snow globe to his father Henry Spencer, containing him all fishing. Corbin Bernsen who portrays Henry Spencer collects snow globes.
 * One shows the opening scene of the Simpsons family in a snow globe and in different episodes are snow globes that are usually intended as parody of the ' Rosebud'-scene in Citizen Kane.
 * In the comic series Watchmen , the memory of a previous accidentally broken snow globe in the youth of Laurie Juspeczyk for a sudden awareness.
 * In an episode of Family Guy Peter Griffin refers to the snow globe-time of Citizen Kane by telling what "Rosebud" really means.
 * In Blinky Bill's White Christmas, Blinky breaks Wombo's most prized possession, a snow globe. Blinky and Flap then go to the Wollomi Pines to make a real snow globe.