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Take a break from election overload and watch this beautiful, fascinating footage from a lost world.
1 posted on 10/24/2008 11:58:15 AM PDT by mojito
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2 posted on 10/24/2008 11:59:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Jim DeMint: "If you took the name off the top, the Senate could pass the Communist Manifesto.")
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3 posted on 10/24/2008 12:00:24 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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A link to the related article in the Telegraph that explains how this footage was found:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3248605/Lost-film-footage-of-Edwardian-London-discovered.html


4 posted on 10/24/2008 12:00:50 PM PDT by mojito
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Thank you! That was enchanting.


5 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:03 PM PDT by agere_contra (Joe the Plumber has been vetted more thoroughly by the MSM than Obama has.)
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wow...


6 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:08 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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Cool! I often wonder what it would be like to live in a city where all of the horse power is fueled by oats.


7 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:14 PM PDT by Genoa
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Wow. The quality is very good.

I'd love to see the entire 12 minutes.

8 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:55 PM PDT by skeeter
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9 posted on 10/24/2008 12:03:38 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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It sure was quiet back then.


10 posted on 10/24/2008 12:03:41 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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13 posted on 10/24/2008 12:04:25 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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Horse drawn double deckers and your usual camera hams.

Excellent!


14 posted on 10/24/2008 12:04:40 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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15 posted on 10/24/2008 12:04:46 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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That is absolutely amazing. It's so clear and perfect, it almost appears fake. I mean the guy with the moose-stache looks right out of central casting.

Stunning stuff.

16 posted on 10/24/2008 12:04:46 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Remarkably well preserved footage given it's age. Very natural too - both in the lack of posed shots and given the fact that the camera was almost certainly hand cranked.

Loved the double-decker horse drawn bus right at the end.

18 posted on 10/24/2008 12:05:12 PM PDT by Jeff F
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Great footage from a lost time! That toddler in one scene could be still alive today, around 106 years old.


19 posted on 10/24/2008 12:05:37 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
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Very, very cool! Thanks for posting!

I’d love to see the entire 12 minute film.


21 posted on 10/24/2008 12:08:12 PM PDT by retrokitten (Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!)
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Thanks for a post that neither depressed or enraged me. I loved the train on the overpass at the end.


22 posted on 10/24/2008 12:08:30 PM PDT by VR-21
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Thank you for posting this! Very cool, where do you get to see the rest?


24 posted on 10/24/2008 12:08:40 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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Bump for after-work viewing.


25 posted on 10/24/2008 12:09:18 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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What a wonderful glimpse into a very different life and time. The sight of a train chugging and steaming through the bustling city on its elevated platform was quite remarkable.


26 posted on 10/24/2008 12:09:41 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Somewhere in Illinois, a community is missing its organizer.)
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