Vintage film, TV, documents, and photographic footage from down the years

[Tintin]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
Searched to find content I posted previously, appropriate for this thread (unless my quick survey missed it being here already)

(max to full screen - resolution is great!)

https://x.com/Culture_Crit/status/16...791320577?s=20

Glorious, thank you. No, it's not archived yet, but will be very soon, now you've provided her

[Ewan]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Here's some film I made about two and a half years back, which really isn't vintage, at all, so definitely violates any criteria, but may be fun to share

Beckington to Frome, 2021 top deck of a bus - spring

Fascinating, an interesting anamoly at 57 sec to 1:01. Heading out of town the speed limit is 20 mph, yet according to the paint on the road you can travel at 30 mph coming in the opposite direction.
My guess is they missed the road surface paint but the street signs will correctly indicate 20 mph.

[Harmony]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Fascinating, an interesting anamoly at 57 sec to 1:01. Heading out of town the speed limit is 20 mph, yet according to the paint on the road you can travel at 30 mph coming in the opposite direction.
My guess is they missed the road surface paint but the street signs will correctly indicate 20 mph.

I am thinking if you could see the other side of the street sign, it would say 30 mph but we can't see that. The 20 mph is just to warn people that can view it from the side they are on when driving.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Here is a little more recent, but no less mesmerizing, collection of short sequences. London in the swinging sixties.

I've not been to London in some 25 years (and have no plans to return any time soon), but I strongly suspect -- no, I am absolutely certain -- it looks nothing like this today.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5zk0eyKzp1c

[Tintin]

Posted by Miller (here)
I've added this particular video because of the stunts (no CGI etc in those days), that it was half silent and half talkie and also because the starring female lead is my Great Aunt Kitty (professional name Pauline Johnson), who died before I was born.

My, how very interesting I love little stories like that.

[Ewan]

Posted by Harmony (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
Fascinating, an interesting anamoly at 57 sec to 1:01. Heading out of town the speed limit is 20 mph, yet according to the paint on the road you can travel at 30 mph coming in the opposite direction.
My guess is they missed the road surface paint but the street signs will correctly indicate 20 mph.

I am thinking if you could see the other side of the street sign, it would say 30 mph but we can't see that. The 20 mph is just to warn people that can view it from the side they are on when driving.

Thanks Harmony but that would be impossible, in the UK you would never have a situation where one side of the road could drive faster than the other. A speed limit applies to the road with no regard to direction.



I will see if I can find my fathers photo record of his time in Israel in 1947 and scan a few photos. They were probably taken with a very cheap camera and are small images to begin with. He was out there with the military after WWII, supposedly fighting/supressing the Stern Gang

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Miller (here)
I've added this particular video because of the stunts (no CGI etc in those days), that it was half silent and half talkie and also because the starring female lead is my Great Aunt Kitty (professional name Pauline Johnson), who died before I was born.

My, how very interesting I love little stories like that.

And in the same vein, also a spectacular filmed stunt, we have this — which Innocent Warrior used to start the Humans Are Amazing thread.

Posted by Innocent Warrior (here)
Hello!

A thread for amazing human feats of courage, strength, endurance, intellect, creativity, or whatever the case may be.

Duration 2 minutes and 43 seconds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i86U0_7ZocU

[Ewan]

Posted by pabranno (here)
TinTin can you elaborate on Penn Station? Don’t want to derail, but with that great photo for reference…just a quickie if you could.

Tnx🙂

It would seem that it was likely bribery and corruption that led to the demolishing of Penn Station, when you see what was built in its place. Madison Square Garden. That said, passenger volume was tailing off thanks to more frequent and affordable flights - so the railroad company would have been more amenable to selling.

If anything good came from it at all it was the establishing of....

The protest against Penn Station's demolition, though relatively small, was enough to spark the architectural preservation movement in the U.S.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) was formed largely due to the loss of the original Penn Station. The New York Landmarks Law was also passed three years following Penn Station's demolition. Indeed, that law helped save the Grand Central Terminal and more than 30,000 other buildings from similar fates.

The irony being, today, Madison Square Garden may be forced to relocate.

[Ewan]

1937, Hindenburg Disaster.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UDfUyFXLXWw

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1896, Pope Leo XIII (apparently the earliest born person ever captured on film (b. 1810) )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3IVQ-1t92hA

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1967, The stabilised Patterson/Gimlin film upscaled to 60fps.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oPlRr_OfxZI

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Sometime after 1879 the events described happened. Uncertain of date of interview.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DEJNpWBcvQE

[Tintin]

Posted by Ewan (here)

I will see if I can find my fathers photo record of his time in Israel in 1947 and scan a few photos. They were probably taken with a very cheap camera and are small images to begin with. He was out there with the military after WWII, supposedly fighting/supressing the Stern Gang

Please do!

[Tintin]

Posted by Ewan (here)

Fascinating, an interesting anamoly at 57 sec to 1:01. Heading out of town the speed limit is 20 mph, yet according to the paint on the road you can travel at 30 mph coming in the opposite direction.
My guess is they missed the road surface paint but the street signs will correctly indicate 20 mph.

It's certainly something I've noticed, more than once. At other points along the entire route, not shown here in the film, are 30 mph markings and 40 mph markings next to each other on the road. The best guess I can make here without being fully in-the-picture with exactly why this is so is that they tend to appear as one enters a more built up area (30mph), and when one leaves (40mph), hence the anomaly. Does that make sense? Other than that, I really don't have a clue but it may be a correct determination

One for the Council to clear up for me I think.....

[Tintin]

A HUGE thanks to ALL of you and the quality of your contributions, the vast majority of which, if they weren't already captured, do now reside in the library

Here are more wonderful pieces:

1896 photo, and a platform view of London Victoria Underground Station. My, that's changed beyond recognition now:

For our Canadian friends, Vancouver, from 1907, somewhere I've always been interested in wanting to visit, but know it doesn't look like this now

And this lovely offering from London Piccadilly, 1968, filmed from a moving vehicle starting in the area around Piccadilly, and then moving beyond

[avid]

Brilliant, happy London memories too. Great thread 👍👍👍

[Brigantia]

Posted by Tintin (here)
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And this lovely offering from London Piccadilly, 1968, filmed from a moving vehicle starting in the area around Piccadilly, and then moving beyond

These old films from cities are delightful to look at, and what is especially noticeable is that there are no yellow parking restriction lines at the kerb. (Edit - just noticed at the start there are double yellow lines, but only by the bus stop.)

Imagine that, you could park anywhere you want on the street in central London! Those were the days... I used to park right in the centre of my home city, but no longer; you pay a fortune for parking or catch the Park and Ride bus nowadays.

[grapevine]

Judy Garland - 'Over The Rainbow' Live 1958

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ss49euDqwHA

An incomparable and amazing performance from the legend that was Judy Garland.
Judy only performed "Over The Rainbow" twice during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years

[Tintin]

Epicurean thrills: Great views from the revolving restaurant at the top of the GPO Tower in London. The restaurant would take 22 minutes to rotate fully. Filmed in 1967, the Tower closed in 1980. It's a pity as I was just too young at the time and we just never got the opportunity to get there. A British Pathé news video this time:

[Tintin]

Suffragettes in 1910: Here we scenes of 'disturbances' during the November 1910 marches although compared to the UK miners protests of the 1970s and 1980s, or more latterly the crazy scenes from Antifa types, this is all jolly well civilised. This footage from Parliament Square, Westminster:

[Tintin]

From the YouTube description this fascinating look at Australia, from the 1920s the scenes shown feature Melbourne, Sydney, Cronulla and the Dandenong Ranges. Filmed on 16mm and the original provider source is a chap called Robert Juckert caught on a bench right toward the end. The timestamps are as follows:

00:00-3:27 - Melbourne
3:28-4:55 - Dandenong Ranges
4:56-11:01 - Cronulla and Sydney
11:02-11:26 - Robert Juckert

[Brigantia]

Ahh, the GPO tower! That brings back memories of days out to London with my mum, we always knew we were very close to the terminus when we could see it.

Here's another good one on London, just over a couple of minutes, about London's railway stations in the 1960s, accompanied by Little Eva's Loco-Motion which was a perfect mix.

You'll also love it if you're interested in history - those fashions, steam trains, a pre-scrubbed St Pancras, and passengers getting off a train before it stops, yikes!

Also - notice the footage accompanying "you've got to swing your hips now", hahaha!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U-n6qnAnHK0

[Tintin]

Some more glorious home-made footage here this time from Oxford. The content provider has titled this from the 1960s but I do rather wonder whether it may be the 1970s. Perhaps fashionistas amongst you could verify either way although fashions would have overlapped the decades anyway, as they do. It's been suggested that the Hillman buses date this to the 1970s.

I adore Oxford City. It palpably hums with intellectual curiosity and the architecture is outstanding. I particularly love Magdalen College having walked through it about 5 years ago. That hums with history insofar as one could put that in a jar, and actually take it home for posterity.

This isn't the highest quality footage, but a wonderful document all the same. There's also no audio save for the static crackle of the film itself



And although not one for inclusion in the collection I do think this is a lovely history piece from the charming Alice Loxton whose enthusiasm is really quite infectious. Here she does a short piece on the famous sites of Oxford including 'The Eagle and Child' public house which I have been to, and which was home to The Inklings amongst whose number were Tolkien and C.S Lewis

The Secrets of Oxford’s Streets | And What Lies Beneath the University

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jck5VOnNL0s