Those were my sentiments exactly...all the people depicted are now dead...or in a very advanced age.
Everyone was well dressed...not like today where slob casual is the mark of the day...(Myself included)...The women looked rather homely in these pictures...
A time gone by...between wars and before the world wide depression.
Burton Holmes...I have one of his books. A travelogue dated 1911 featuring Hawaii, the Philippines and some other points in the east. Again...the descriptions of the peoples and their cultures is vastly different than today’s writings...
There is a genre of movie types I once learned in Film School decades ago...I think this would be billed as a sort of City Symphony type film...
Or travelogue, if it was a Holmes production. If so, then this would be something that would run prior to the B film , followed by the A feature...
Give away dishes? A band in the pit to provide accompanying music?
Technology is grand, but sometimes I pine for the lost yesteryears. We didn’t know that we had it so bad back then... But then again, to have the entire world and its knowledge in the palm of one’s hand is pretty amazing...
So true. I was a big proponent of technology for the last thirty to forty years, always out in front, showing my friends and family what could be done. But I see some things that are decidedly not constructive. We clearly see the double edged sword that is technology. I have begun to wish there were no cell phones. I love having the world at my fingertips, but seeing a family of four at breakfast in a hotel I was staying at, all with their faces in their phones is a disconcerting sight to me.
And I think there is a destructive aspect to it, not just the cultural and societal, bu the governmental. You summed it up nicely.
One of our own, LS, is writing a book about technology and its effects on society both good and bad.