Posted on 04/12/2016 1:25:46 PM PDT by NRx
Incredible and haunting scenes from a trove of old films discovered in a basement in 1994. The footage was taken by two men who filmed scenes of ordinary people and normal life at the turn of the last century. Included are street scenes, sporting events, workers going to and from their jobs, parades and social gatherings and people recreating.The movie men would film the people at a time when moving pictures was cutting edge technology and then show the films that night in local theaters letting people see themselves in a motion picture (for a small price).
In a lot of the film segments the kids steel the show.
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Wow...amazing to think that all of those people are gone. Yet there they are!
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Cool thing about living back then, other than the black and white, was that there was always a bassoon player in the background.
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A lot of those kids in the 1905 films likely went on to become World War I veterans.
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A lot of those kids went onto become worm food during the Great War.
Still get this:
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Sadly, yes.
Plus all those lovely smells from the horses and the unwashed masses.
Good thing color film was invented.
Without it the world would be in black and white. I think it happened around 1938 when someone went over a rainbow.
Or booked a ride on the Titanic 7 years later.
Not to mention air conditioning was still a long ways off.
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These are wonderful! Thank you for posting!
My grandmother was born and raised on a farm in Norway in 1884. (So maybe 20+ years behind the US at the time in terms of technology??)
She came to America alone at the age of 17 with no friends or relatives to meet.
She died in 1982. She would always tell stories, and say how she must have lived in the most unbelievable time in the history of the world. No grow up with no electricity, no running water, etc. and to live to see men on the moon!
Excellent heads up. Appreciation!
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