Relics

[Walter Hale 4]

Found these relics for you (and me)





"Memphis En Fete, King Cotton opens week of Carnival".



WS. Huge barge making its way down the river with the King and Queen of cotton and their court. LS. The Barge filled with people dressed as the court of King Cotton. LS. King and Queen Cotton seated beneath a canopy and surrounded by their court. CU. The King, Bill Mallory, a Yale American footballer and Queen Miss Molly Darnell?.



LS. The King and Queen climb steps from the barge followed by their attendants carrying their trains. WS. The King and Queen make their way past crowds followed by their attendants. LS. Mr Overton the Mayor of Memphis presents the key to the city. CU. King and Queen. CU. Queen cotton. WS. Night shots of float entitled "Hollywood" WS. Another float which formed a part of the Pageant. WS. Float lit up at night. WS. Float in the shape of a boat. WS. Float. WS. Float.
FILM ID:827.13

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[Walter Hale 4]

and again...

The Hague, Netherlands 1930 | Den Haag, Nederland [AI Colorized, Denoised, Upscaled, 60fps]


1930 Film about homes, villas and offices in The Hague, intended to attract new residents to The Hague and to show which housing is available here. Residential areas such as Marlot, Vogelwijk and Bloemenbuurt are seen. Furthermore, the new Volharding building and the Bonneterie shop. The beautiful living environment with, among other things, Koekamp, dunes and beach is recommended.

[Walter Hale 4]

1944 - Jack Lieb's Colour Scenes of London & Paris (speed corrected)..



In spring 1944 cameraman Jack Lieb was on the ground filming events surrounding D-Day in stunning color/clarity. Later on he provided audio commentary for the scenes. The singular issue with the footage is that the projector plays it back extremely fast, which I believe disorients the viewing experience.

- written , remastered by guy jones.

Splendid AYE

[Walter Hale 4]

1959 - Dashcam Ride Through West End London (w/ added sound)




Quote Guy Jones - "Old film of a "backplate" ride through West End London around Oct 1959. Worked on footage and added in sound for ambiance. This is from British Movietone."

[mike edwards66]

Thanks for these, I love those old films of times gone by. This, from over 100 years ago is quite mesmerizing. They are staring at us, and we are staring at them, over a century apart:

[keninlincs]

Thanks for these, I love those old films of times gone by. This, from over 100 years ago is quite mesmerizing. They are staring at us, and we are staring at them, over a century apart:

Thats amazing and a little odd seeeing them looking right at us!

[mike edwards66]

Thanks for these, I love those old films of times gone by. This, from over 100 years ago is quite mesmerizing. They are staring at us, and we are staring at them, over a century apart:

Thats amazing and a little odd seeeing them looking right at us!

And here we are over a century later, looking at them. Life is but a blink of the eye.

[Walter Hale 4]

Found a good compilation here from Sydney AU (where they're struggling right now because of the floods brought on by 6 days of rain).



From The Film Australia Collection.

Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by Joe Scully. Episode 12 of the Life in Australia series. This series was made to encourage immigration to Australia and to highlight the various social activities, employment and educational opportunities and lifestyles of the various cities and regional centres throughout Australia. This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales capital of Sydney in the mid 1960s

[Walter Hale 4]

Awful music background but even so this is very good video of Memphis streets , 60 years ago.
Filming location is on South Third, East Gage and South Main Street. Wonder if they look the same (or close to) today are has been re-zoned?

[Walter Hale 4]

8mm Home Movie Life and Times in Memphis, TN 1958

This 8mm home movie reel takes us to various places around Memphis Tennessee. We see the zoo, lakes, and the gates of Graceland.

[Walter Hale 4]

Should the bikini be banned? (1961)

Segment took place on Bondi Beach in Sydney and is from the Four Corners program, 60 years ago on ABC television.

Good report until the grumble guts disrupts the reporter and camera man. At that time, there were regulations about how skimpy the controversial bikini swimsuit could be, and inspectors roved the sands to enforce the code.

[Gamma Master]

Just found this thread, I really like stuff like this.
Not sure if it fits into this thread but this is a recording of President Benjamin Harrison who was president 1889-1893

It's wild to think that you can sit there and listen to his voice from after such a long time. Apparently there was a recording of Rutherford Hayes' voice (1877-1881) but it got lost/was destroyed.

[pmp]

I always see this thread title and think it's referring to certain members of the board!

How about a sound recording of Tchaikovsky speaking? And there's also Brahms in the final video at the end - which is rather apt considering Tchaikovsky was rather rude about him on numerous occasions!

[Walter Hale 4]

1946 Wurlitzer 1015. Grade one restoration. Still holds up and sounds great!

[Walter Hale 4]

Zenith Transoceanic model Royal 3000-1 (1965).
This particular example was made on 9/6/1967 (the date is stamped on the chassis), but this model came out a few years earlier.

[Walter Hale 4]

1967 Zenith Royal 3000-1 Trans-Oceanic

[Walter Hale 4]

This is a recent scan of 35mm film held by Prelinger Archives, San Francisco and thought to be an original 1906 print. It was scanned by Adrianne Finelli at Internet Archive on October 11, 2018 using IA's Lasergraphics ScanStation scanner set at 5120 x 3840 and scanned to 16fps. This full-width scan is 4096 x 3072 pixels wide and every second frame is doubled for a playback frame-rate of 24fps.




- written and upload by Mike Upchurch...

[Walter Hale 4]

99 years ago! Another vintage video that was colourised.

A Trip Through the Streets of Amsterdam, 1922

[Walter Hale 4]

Now this next film covers the festivities of Memphis City Beautiful's 25th Anniversary in 1955.

[Walter Hale 4]

Ampex VPR 3 - Close-up of the Ampex VPR-3 videotape recorder. You'll see threading and operation of the fastest 1" VTR ever made. If you need a dub from 1", let the uploader know. Please see http://videopark.com/quad1/quad.html

[Walter Hale 4]

Extremely rare, spectacular film about London during WW-II in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]


London during WW-II like you have never seen it before! This film footage is very rare. It is of extremely high quality in full HD, 1080p. The source is raw footage for an unknown film about London with the working title "Heart of the City". Now press the ´SHOW MORE´ button below please:

The various scenes have been motion-stabilized, slightly speed-corrected, enhanced and colorized by means of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence software.

The film shows remarkable scenes of bomb damage, close up filming of the release of barrage balloons, anti-aircraft gun positions, traffic at Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, militairy parades in front of Buckingham Palace, beautiful scenes of the Thames during daytime and at dusk, Waterloo Station, and much more.

Detailed description (slightly shortened to fit the 5000 character limit), based on Hugh Rainbird´s great contribution to identifying all the locations:

00:00​ South side of Westminster Bridge looking over to the Houses of Parliament. Probably blitz-damaged St Thomas's Hospital on the left.
00:37​ Buckingham Palace with "Guards" in Khaki uniform. On Sunday 18th June 1944, a German V1 flying bomb fell on the Guards' Chapel in Wellington Barracks on Birdcage Walk, just a few hundred yards from the Palace, during Morning Service. 121 soldiers and civilians, including the presiding Chaplain, were killed, 141 were seriously injured.
00:58​ The "Upper" Pool of London from London Bridge, river Thames.
01:16​ Cigar shop on a corner of Piccadilly Circus, maybe Haymarket .
02:16​ Trafalgar Square. All the art treasures form the National Gallery at the top of the Square had been removed to secure storage sites in mines and caves at the outbreak of War.
03:12​ Back to the "Upper Pool".
04:09​ "Blitz" bomb damage in the City of London. Many of these "bomb sites" were still there, overgrown with vegetation and weeds in the early and mid 1950's.
04:20​ Holborn with St Andrews church.
04:48​ Back to the Piccadilly Circus cigar shop, and you can see the covered-over statue of "Eros" far left, to protect it from war damage. Looking towards Regent Street.
06:08​ Looking across the River Thames from the Embankment to the "Shot Tower" on the left and the "Lion Brewery" on the right, on Waterloo''s South Bank. The brewery, together with a lot of bomb damaged slum housing, would be swept away to make room for the 1951 "Festival of Britain" site, but the Red Lion statue now stands at the bottom of the entrance to Waterloo main-line railway station in York Road.
06:25​ Great Windmill Street, near the famous Windmill Theatre
06:50​ More "Blitz" damage near Christ Church Greyfriars (still in ruins today)
07:15​ "Blitz" damage in the City near Tower Hill.
07:40​ St. Paul's Cathedral: Christopher Wren's masterpiece stands almost undamaged among the "blitzed" buildings.
08:04​ More "Blitz" damage near (Location?)
08:45​ A barrage balloon Goes Up in Westminster Gardens near the Houses of Parliament. The Balloon fabric" was a hard-wearing material with many uses in much demand in "austerity Britain" after the War!
09:36​ Women's Royal Army Corps personnel being instructed at an Anti- Aircraft battery in Hyde Park.
10:10​ Might not be a gun, but a range-finder used to determine the altitude of a hostile aircraft.
11:10​ Piccadilly Circus. Eros is "unclothed" and the motor vehicles and dress look pre-War. This footage is from the 1930´s. Apologies for overlooking this.
11:29​ Trafalgar Square.
12:04​ Hyde Park Corner, maybe pre-War. The railings haven't been taken away to "build Spitfires", and Speakers' Corner is thriving, which was not allowed during the War.
12:30​ Waterloo Station. A "king Arthur" Class locomotive brings in an express from Bournemouth or the South West of England
13:33​ A "Mogul" brings in another train - note the porters hurrying towards the First-Class coaches! Probably pre/war. Rail travel was restricted during the War. "Is your journey really necessary?" and one would expect to see many more people in uniform, Royal Naval personnel travelling to and from "Pompey" and Devonport, as well as "brown jobs", among the passengers. Certainly the Southern Railway wouldn't be advertising "Summer Fares" at the ticket barrier,
15:53​ A reprise of "Blitz" damage near Holborn, St.Andrews Church (at a different time of day)
15:58​ Policemen near Philip Lane and Aldermanbury Avenue (now "Route-11")
16:04​ Another barrage balloon goes up, near the Tower and Tower Bridge (location?)
16:17​ Back to Piccadilly Circus, looking towards (?)
16:30​ VE Day celebrations, this is definitely 8th May 1945.

The concensus now is that this war time footage was shot towards the end of 1943.

- written, remastered and upload comes from Rick88888888

[Walter Hale 4]

across the Atlantic, how about this relic from 60 years ago in the Kentucky region?

[Walter Hale 4]

The following is very good slideshow and images but the choice of background music is very ordinary. You may need to click mute button on this one.

Old photos of Memphis(Tennessee)1905-1910

[Walter Hale 4]

RetroTech: Play vinyl records with CD functionality - Sharp RP-117

The demonstration part starts at point of 08:58 on the vid.



The most technologically advanced record players were made over 30 years ago. The example demonstrated here, the Sharp RP-117 from 1983, lets you navigate records using features you would expect to find on a CD player.

- written, review and upload comes from Techmoan. You must check out his YT channel.

[Walter Hale 4]

Spectacular New York, Lower Manhattan Waterfront in the 1930's in color! [AI enhanced & colorized]

The original film has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, A.I enhanced and A.I. colourized by means of modern video software.

Source B&W footage: Prelinger Archive (USA).
Music: Hampus Naeselius - "Adapted by Dark".

Please help to improve this timeline:
00:00​ Start of the boat trip at Battery Park

00:30​ Castle Clinton, until 1941 the home of the New York Aquarium

00:42​ It's roof is stil intact
01:00​ Battery Park

02:50​ Staten Island Ferry

03:14​ Slip-5 Battery Maritime Building

03:45​ Slip-4 New York Central

04:00​ IWW building: Industrial Workers of the World, Est.1905 (?)

04:18​ New York State Canal Building.