Slopfest #8 · 1934 · Vienna
The Monster Was a Toy Submarine
A blurry photo, a famous monster and a toy boat. Every genre of slop in one picture.
Museum status: Rejected by three major museums. Framed anyway.
- Venue
- Alte Donau, a rented rowboat
- Attendance
- 47
- Guest of honour
- Albert Einstein (took the only photo in focus, of a bread roll)
- Fun fact
- 3 photographs, 1 Semmel
What happened
Guests were rowed out on the Alte Donau at dusk to look for the Donauweibchen, the Danube's legendary water nymph. Four sightings were reported and three photographed, all of the same floating Semmel. Albert Einstein, the only guest with a decent camera, took the one photo in focus. It shows the Semmel very clearly and has never been published.
Elsewhere in 1934
The Daily Mail prints the 'Surgeon's Photograph' of the Loch Ness Monster, revealed in 1994 as a toy submarine with a model head.
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