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Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on January 07, 2015, 01:00 PM:

I don't know how many of you google search home movies of your hometown. You would be surprised at what you might find on youtube and other such places. This morning I came across some 8mm footage of my city from 1940. It really is amazing what is out there on the internet.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 07, 2015, 01:10 PM:

I've tried similar searches for where I live, no luck so far.

Not quite the same: but the last CineSea Gary Sloan (I think) had a 1950s era 16mm film done by the Wildwood chamber of Commerce promoting tourism: the place didn't look all that different!

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on January 07, 2015, 06:33 PM:

My Uncle Stan worked for Kodak for many years, and was one of the main reasons I got started in this hobby. I saved a 100' reel of standard 8mm film he shot in my hometown in the mid 1950s. The Kodachrome has held up quite well! Here's the YouTube link:
http://youtu.be/fe4GJn2wJog?list=UUx9BTYmDZHAmRYh0Nti46OQ
p.s. I'm the kid picking huckleberries and with my new robot and roller skates at Christmas [Smile]

Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on January 07, 2015, 07:17 PM:

It was really nice Joe. I get almost hypnotized viewing old footage like that. Watching the berry picking seems not that far removed from pastoral 19th century rural America.
Thanks for sharing. (cool robot too)

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on January 08, 2015, 05:12 PM:

Thanks guys,
Tim, the woman was my Aunt. The film has a lot of YouTube views because it's linked through the local historical society.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on January 08, 2015, 05:32 PM:

I've just watched it. Interesting that it is in colour as (in Europe, anyway) most of what was shooted was in black and white.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 08, 2015, 05:47 PM:

I would imagine Kodachrome was pretty popular in R8 back then. Think about it: you couldn't get a color TV, but your home movies could be color.

Joe: have the places changed a lot? I'm sure the people have, but it's nice to look back and recognize places that are still there.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 09, 2015, 01:45 AM:

Totally agree Guy

I was looking at some film posted on you-tube of a place called Greenock in the 60s...and there it was "the shop" where I bought a small aero engine, that must be around the 1965 mark when I was 13 or 14 years old. I had used my savings from potato picking on a farm and doing folks gardens to make enough money to buy it. Greenock was the only place I could get one of those engines...fun times for sure.

Its strange how your brain will "click" onto something that was almost 50 years ago... you would think would be forgotten.

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