100 years of Pyrex, processed cheese and nudes in movies

Marking a century

Some things which celebrate their 100th birthday in 2015:

3-D films The first was shown at the Astor Theater in New York on 10 June, featuring the Niagara Falls.

Nude scenes in films Audrey Munson played an artist’s model in Inspiration, a film by George Foster Platt released by the Mutual Film Corporation on 18 November 1915. It didn’t lead to a long career. By 1920 she was selling kitchen goods door-to-door. The following year she tried to take her life and in 1931 was consigned to a psychiatric hospital where she spent the rest of her life before dying, aged 104, in 1996.

Pyrex, which was introduced in the buffet cars of American trains.

Compulsory voting It was introduced for the first time in state elections in Queensland. It resulted in a win for Labor. Processed cheese, which was invented by J.L. Kraft Bros in Illinois in order to increase shelf life.