[opticks]

"I wonder how many of the little boys playing in the water would die at Flanders."

"A sobering thought. "This video almost has a "dinosaurs before the comet" feel to it. I don't mean to insult these people, but they were living in the last days of a confident, prosperous, optimistic world, with no clue that almost a million of their countrymen would die in a war that started a decade from when this film was made."

It would be difficult--but in my opinion doable--to identify many of the people in the footage. Would make a neat project.

[Age of Reason]

“It would be difficult—but in my opinion doable—to identify many of the people in the footage. Would make a neat project.”

Then don’t miss this:

http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/aboutlewishine2.html

From that link:

“The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine are part of our history, but we know almost nothing about their lives. . . . By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.”