Yet in silicon valley , where pasty-faced youths with a penchant for churning out computer code are often feted as rock stars , celluloid fantasy can sometimes become reality .
Combs were among the first and most popular objects made of celluloid .
梳子是第一批也是最普遍的用赛璐珞制造的物品之一。
But in the late nineteenth century , that panoply of possibilities began to fall away with the arrival of a totally new kind of material - celluloid , the first man-made plastic .
但到了十九世纪末,那种盛况随着一种全新材料的兴起而衰落,这就是赛璐珞,第一种人工合成的塑料。
In the projection booth , two machines whirred : a digital one , which in the event worked perfectly , and an old-fashioned celluloid one , which was on hand in case the more advanced technology became unruly .
For people at the dawn of the plastic age , celluloid offered what one writer called " a forgery of many of the necessities and luxuries of civilized life , " a foretoken of the new material culture 's aesthetic and abundance .