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

[Tintin]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Egypt 1860 - 1930

Wonderful shots - thanks so much

Aside, for all : I've informed the team here about some temporary technical problems at home vis my laptop and it now being essentially non-operational, so, my ability to respond in any type-written way is impossible right now, from home. If I should appear to go 'dark' post-working hours in communication of any kind across the forum, bar the occasional 'thanks' here and there, this is why. I'm working on a solution right now so hope to be back in proper business within a week :fingerscrossed:

[Vangelo]

This is a video is from the 1964-65 NY Worlds Fair - Mastro Pizza Pavilion

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y1BB_FNvbWg

Frank (Mastro) Ferrentino, MD adds a description of this video;
This is a video I created from the 1964-65 NY Worlds Fair. Those who attended the fair will remember the Mastro Pizza Pavilion with the automated slide & sound projector that told the story of my Uncle Vincent and Grandfather Frank Mastro and how they were the precursors of what Pizza now means in our Culture today.

My Uncle Vincent developed the First Pizza Franchise long before Pizza Hut, (Pizza Plaza) but died an untimely death at 33 in 1965.

My Grandfather died at 58. They have left behind a legacy that should never be forgotten; Frank Mastro was the original Pizza King & his Son Vincent furthered his fathers Dreams.

Don't believe stories of those who claim credit for their accomplishments.

This video is a great historical slide show of pizza at the New York world's Fair 1964-1965.

The opening lines in the video state this exhibit: "This is a pavillion of pleasure..."

As you watch this video slide show you will hear a "beep" as each new slide is presented. This sound is what triggered the movement of the next slide. It is kind of irritating but necessary.

But for the history of pizza this is a priceless show. This gives the history of pizza as seen through the eyes of: "The Pizza King: Mastro Pizza".

During the New York world's Fair, pizza was not known as widely as it is now.

Sure it was in New York, New Haven, Providence, Chicago, San Francisco, and other big cities with an Italian population. And that's where pizza stayed for a long time... Pizza was certainly not mainstream.
source

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/...937789913?s=20

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

A terrific video with some lovely clips from the late nineteenth century.

Around The World in 1896 Colorized (4K 60fps) New York, London, Jerusalem, Paris
Lost in Time
17mins

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DDi62bPbWHw

[Tintin]

Mount St. Helen's erupts in 1980

A truly evocative and piloerection inducing image of the volcano in all its awe-inspiring pyroclastic terror:



The following description provided by a friend of the photographer:

Steve Firth, a friend of the man who took this photo had the following to say:

“...That Pinto and dirt bike belonged to a good friend of mine and when he stopped to turn around, he took this picture.

He told me that there was lightning bolts shooting out of the smoke but he didn’t have the right filter on his camera to capture them at that moment. The picture could have been even more amazing.

It was used on the TV news and used to be on the cover of Mt. St. Helens brochure at the Johnston Observatory / visitor center.

He gave me an original 8×10 copy of it although it looked like he was a good distance away from the blast, he barely made it out of there alive.

Had the blast came more in his direction he would have died in seconds. Sometime later he returned and photographed a burned-out pickup with a horse trailer attached to it.

He told me he had talked to them that day and said they never made it out.

He is a freelance photographer so he took some amazing pictures of the aftermath as well. Anyhow, I thought I’d let you know a bit more about that fabulous picture."

[Brigantia]

Here's a lovely Pathé News film of London, narrated by Rex Harrison and nine and a half minutes long. It says 1950 in the title but a comment says it was filmed in 1955; it refers to 'the Queen's Lifeguard' so it must have been later. It was also after clothes rationing ended as there are a lot of New Look dresses with wide skirts.

A view of the Thames with no high-rise buildings; traffic moving calmly and easily in the centre; the Thames thriving as a port. Truly a bygone era.

(PS - Pathé News is a brilliant source of vintage British film.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=co54X683Ob8

[mountain_jim]

^ definitely mis-titled as at 8:30 you can see a banner for the Open Air Theatre Summer Festival 1955 (the year of my birth)

[Tintin]

I'll pivot to genuinely older vintage material soon, but I absolutely do recall actually watching this very segment 42 years ago

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands broadcast April 2nd, 1982

[Brigantia]

Posted by Tintin (here)
I'll pivot to genuinely older vintage material soon, but I absolutely do recall actually watching this very segment 42 years ago

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands broadcast April 2nd, 1982

Oh my, I watched that too! Was that John Simpson? That BBC News theme music really takes me back as well.

Going back a further two decades, here's the rush hour on London Bridge in the 1960s...

[Tintin]

Posted by Brigantia (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)
I'll pivot to genuinely older vintage material soon, but I absolutely do recall actually watching this very segment 42 years ago

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands broadcast April 2nd, 1982

Oh my, I watched that too! Was that John Simpson? That BBC News theme music really takes me back as well.

Going back a further two decades, here's the rush hour on London Bridge in the 1960s...

Yes, that was John Simpson. Oh, and that rush hour scene Save for the outfits, and Routemaster buses, it really had not changed at all in the near 6 years I used to cross the river via the bridge.

[Tintin]

A brief montage showing the Titanic interior before and after she sank. It's pretty evocative I think

Obviously one can pause the images as they do flip quite quickly:



Titanic Original Survivors Interviews from 1956 & 1970 *Must See*

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-p3D7rQdhxw

[Sue (Ayt)]

This is a personal pic of my dad and uncle. Love the outfit and the car!

[Tintin]

Home movie | San Francisco 1959

Here's an absolutely charming home movie shot by whomever (!) back in 1959

A commenter beneath this video said the following, with which I wholeheartedly agree:

Reviewer: kaitlyn zuniga
January 15, 2018
Subject: so stunning
I love the way the person filming chooses to capture the woman and who i'm assuming is to be her mom from different angles. so beautiful. especially the last scene... gorgeous. after watching this i had to come to the conclusion that the cameraman was the woman's lover because the way he captures her essence and what he chooses to film is so sweet.

This second longer version has its very own charm too.

Both videos filmed without sound so allows the viewer to imprint their own impressions - charming indeed



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Description:

8mm home movie labelled "San Francisco and the Redwood Highway #1." Shot ca. 1959. Includes scenes of San Francisco International Airport, tourist spots in San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor and Fishermen's Wharf

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Tintin (here)
Description:

8mm home movie labelled "San Francisco and the Redwood Highway #1." Shot ca. 1959. Includes scenes of San Francisco International Airport, tourist spots in San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor and Fishermen's Wharf

I've not been to San Francisco before, but based on the reports of this city's decline I'd have to say there was a teensy-tiny chance that the folks in this film reel, if they had a time-machine, wouldn't recognise their city circa 2024. Heck, they may not even know what planet they're on!

[Brigantia]

Can you imagine trying to play a sport dressed like this...

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Brigantia (here)
Can you imagine trying to play a sport dressed like this...

Or going mountaineering?













But this woman is Russian, dressed rather more practically:

[grapevine]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Brigantia (here)

Posted by Tintin (here)
I'll pivot to genuinely older vintage material soon, but I absolutely do recall actually watching this very segment 42 years ago

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands broadcast April 2nd, 1982

Oh my, I watched that too! Was that John Simpson? That BBC News theme music really takes me back as well.

Going back a further two decades, here's the rush hour on London Bridge in the 1960s...

Yes, that was John Simpson. Oh, and that rush hour scene Save for the outfits, and Routemaster buses, it really had not changed at all in the near 6 years I used to cross the river via the bridge.

Me too I wonder if we passed each other every day!

[Ewan]

These two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev Museum. The museum caption reads: “(Left) The artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945 when he returned”. This is the human face after four years of war. The first picture looks at you, the second one looks through you.

In 1941 he was a young man ready to start his creative life as an artist when Germany attacked the Soviet Union and he had to join the Army. Four years later, the difference in his face is striking.

A thin and tired face, deep wrinkles, a troubled stare, this man was completely changed after witnessing 4 years of a no-rule war on the Eastern Front.

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Smart, beautiful and deadly, 19-year-old Soviet sniper Roza Shanina had 59 confirmed kills, 1945

Roza Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius.

Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession).

In 1944, a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as “the unseen terror of East Prussia”. She became the first Soviet female sniper to be awarded the Order of Glory and was the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive it.

According to the report of Major Degtyarev (the commander of the 1138th Rifle Regiment) for the corresponding commendation list, between 6 and 11 April Shanina killed 13 enemy soldiers while subjected to artillery and machine gunfire.

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Rare photographs of the deadly Soviet women snipers, 1941-1945

Perhaps the most remarkable of these women was Lyudmila Pavlichenko, one of the deadliest snipers in military history. Born in Ukraine, Pavlichenko moved to Kyiv in 1930 at the age of 14.

There she joined a local shooting club, learning the skills that would prove vital in the war. By the time the war started, she had married, had a child, divorced, and studied for a master’s degree in history.

When war came in 1941, Pavlichenko was among the first wave of volunteers to join the army. She was in the field as a sniper from August 1941 to June 1942, fighting in Odesa and Sevastopol. During those 11 months, she racked up a remarkable 309 confirmed kills, including 36 enemy snipers.

[Tintin]

1906 Mount Vesuvius eruption

Wow, just wow

[Tintin]

Posted by Tintin (here)
Mount St. Helen's erupts in 1980

A truly evocative and piloerection inducing image of the volcano in all its awe-inspiring pyroclastic terror:



The following description provided by a friend of the photographer:

Steve Firth, a friend of the man who took this photo had the following to say:

“...That Pinto and dirt bike belonged to a good friend of mine and when he stopped to turn around, he took this picture.

He told me that there was lightning bolts shooting out of the smoke but he didn’t have the right filter on his camera to capture them at that moment. The picture could have been even more amazing.

It was used on the TV news and used to be on the cover of Mt. St. Helens brochure at the Johnston Observatory / visitor center.

He gave me an original 8×10 copy of it although it looked like he was a good distance away from the blast, he barely made it out of there alive.

Had the blast came more in his direction he would have died in seconds. Sometime later he returned and photographed a burned-out pickup with a horse trailer attached to it.

He told me he had talked to them that day and said they never made it out.

He is a freelance photographer so he took some amazing pictures of the aftermath as well. Anyhow, I thought I’d let you know a bit more about that fabulous picture."

...and here's some video from a much safer distance. One assumes the photographer (above) was stationed somewhere towards the right of this video