I like how they corrected the film for frame rate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film of that age with natural movement. That adjustment really brings those scenes to life.
Every adult in that film was born in the nineteenth century, and some of them lived to see the moon landings on television.
One of my aunts was born in 1889 and witnessed most of the 20th century, dying in 1991. She graduated from college in 1910. I asked her in 1985 what she remembered about Haley's comet as she was alive to witness it twice, once in 1910 and again in 1985. She said that it was not a big deal to her at the time. However, she followed politics closely and was a staunch conservative. She knew a lot of politicians and some famous judges and attorneys, such as Thurgood Marshall. After she passed, I found an invitation to the Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge among her things.