This was filmed in Holland around 1921, and enhanced to add color and sound.
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Open thread 9/3/21 — 23 Comments
Impressive, but the speed still needs to be brought down a few fps and normalized.
Neo hasn’t posted a baseball column in awhile, so here goes: in view of the 1920s theme, here’s a video on baseball in the 1920s (the end of the dead-ball era), featuring the only case of a death in MLB caused by an on-field injury. Protective headgear was rarely used in MLB at the time of Ray Chapman’s death, although the Phillies’ manager gave cork-cushioned caps to his players in 1921. It was not until 1958 that MLB made batting helmets mandatory, and not until 1983 were ear protectors required on batting helmets.
I don’t think either the fans or the players today miss the baseball uniforms of the 1920s, which were made either of 100% wool or a wool/cotton blend. They must have been a test of a player’s endurance as well as skills in summertime heat and humidity.
They did the same in the WW I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old”using over 100 year old battle footage.
The results were amazing. They even had lip readers figure out what the soldiers were saying, and the speech was dubbed in with the actual accents of the region the particular regiments we’re from. It was almost chilling, in one scene you felt like you were in the trenches with them, listening to the soldiers chitchat nervously just before going over the top.
I can see someone doing a Hitler style parody with these type of videos.
Robert Shotzberger– Ask and ye shall receive: here’s a Hitler parody rant about Biden and Afghanistan. Sample:
‘Imagine Biden during WW2’
‘I could have won’
‘I would’ve outsmarted him’
I love this. It brings such a humanness to history. Fully-dimensional people enjoying life – should be shown in high school history classes to dispel the notion that prior generations were different or that, somehow, we are better and more evolved or sophisticated.
JimNorCal– here’s a French version of a protest song and dance that was written in 2020 in opposition to Macron’s COVID-19 lockdowns and other diktats. It’s called “Danser Encore” (“To Keep On Dancing”) and has become popular all over Europe. The video is of a flash mob in the Gare du Nord on March 4, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o8UfIqS0U&ab_channel=MetaTV
“Danser Encore” may be a long way from “Dansons la Carmagnole” of the French Revolution (“Vive le son du canon!”), but it’s a start.
Amazon had a colorized version of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” (1945) (directed by Rene Clair) a few months ago. It’s a classic I’d been meaning to see, but it had lapsed into the public domain so all the versions I found were poor quality.
The colorized version was about the quality of neo’s clip. Pleasant to watch. I’m not sure why I can’t find it on Amazon now. Legal issues?
I like colorization plus film clean-up. I’m not sure I’d want to watch “Casablanca” or “Dr. Strangelove” colorized, but in general I like color and colorization.
Ah, the days when something was left to the imagination
Isn’t it interesting that they seemed to being having a good time, even though they were all wearing the same dark color and there were no boobs hanging out. Maybe they spent most of their time doing more important things like cooking and washing clothes. Our young people have far to much money and time on their hands.
Isn’t it interesting that they seemed to being having a good time, even they were all wearing the same dark color and there were no boobs hanging out. Maybe they spent most of their time doing more important things like cooking and washing clothes. Our young people have far to much money and time on their hands.
If you want to cut through all the noise and nonsense and distraction and understand what is really going on in the United States, politically speaking, just look at the internals of this ABC News poll on Joe Biden.
It has him at 51% disapproval and 44% approval. And while a lot of people might point to the internals showing women and minority groups still favoring Biden, the only numbers that genuinely matter are these:
Biden approval/disapproval
White no college 26/70
White with college 53/45
Everything that’s going on boils down to the wide-ranging failures of America’s professional/managerial class and that class’ refusal to acknowledge them. With women and minorities, you can imagine cultural reasons keeping them on the Democrat plantation. College-educated whites still giving Biden the thumbs up is only about denial.
Mike
Saw They Shall No Grow Old, I love to see old movies and more look at background and cloth style.
Remember those people out having a good time came just a few years after WWI.
The movie “They Shall Not Grow Old”, a good friend and I went on a tour of WWI battle fields. Went all down the trench line from Belgium to Verdun. One the scenes in the movie was a place we actually visited. We recognized the place when we saw the movie.
ElizS, could not agree more! Well put.
Re: Bankruptcy quote…
Mike K mentions the classic Hemingway quote in the “Depressing” topic, which has become an internet meme. It’s from Hemingway’s first novel, “The Sun Also Rises.”
Hemingway wrote better short stories and I’m a fan of his journalism, but “Sun” is my favorite Hemingway novel. In a New Neo special feature, here’s the bankruptcy passage from “The Sun Also Rises.”
Mike is a British aristo and Hemingway’s friend, who has gone bankrupt. The context is Mike’s story about attending a formal dinner requiring military medals. Mike asks his tailor for medals. The tailor comes through. Turns out Mike didn’t need the medals so he gave them out to various girls at the affair.
____________________________________
“Don’t you think that was funny?” Mike asked. We were all laughing. “It
was. I swear it was. Any rate, my tailor wrote me and wanted the medals
back. Sent a man around. Kept on writing for months. Seems some chap had
left them to be cleaned. Frightfully military cove. Set hell’s own store by
them.” Mike paused. “Rotten luck for the tailor,” he said.
“You don’t mean it,” Bill said. “I should think it would have been grand for
the tailor.”
“Frightfully good tailor. Never believe it to see me now,” Mike said. “I
used to pay him a hundred pounds a year just to keep him quiet. So he
wouldn’t send me any bills. Frightful blow to him when I went bankrupt. It
was right after the medals. Gave his letters rather a bitter tone.”
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“What brought it on?”
“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had
creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than anybody in England.”
“Tell them about in the court,” Brett said.
“I don’t remember,” Mike said. “I was just a little tight.”
“Tight!” Brett exclaimed. “You were blind!”
–Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises”
The “gradually” before the “suddenly” part of the decline of the West goes back to WW I.
The Bing Crosby clip was amazing, and sent me searching for the lyrics, because I couldn’t make out all the words they were singing; I hope the SJWs will be just as hard of hearing.
That also turned up a long review of the myriad works of the composer, Irving Berlin.
Impressive, but the speed still needs to be brought down a few fps and normalized.
Neo hasn’t posted a baseball column in awhile, so here goes: in view of the 1920s theme, here’s a video on baseball in the 1920s (the end of the dead-ball era), featuring the only case of a death in MLB caused by an on-field injury. Protective headgear was rarely used in MLB at the time of Ray Chapman’s death, although the Phillies’ manager gave cork-cushioned caps to his players in 1921. It was not until 1958 that MLB made batting helmets mandatory, and not until 1983 were ear protectors required on batting helmets.
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkIddx6QuVE&ab_channel=The1920sChannel
I don’t think either the fans or the players today miss the baseball uniforms of the 1920s, which were made either of 100% wool or a wool/cotton blend. They must have been a test of a player’s endurance as well as skills in summertime heat and humidity.
They did the same in the WW I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old”using over 100 year old battle footage.
The results were amazing. They even had lip readers figure out what the soldiers were saying, and the speech was dubbed in with the actual accents of the region the particular regiments we’re from. It was almost chilling, in one scene you felt like you were in the trenches with them, listening to the soldiers chitchat nervously just before going over the top.
I can see someone doing a Hitler style parody with these type of videos.
Here’s a nice bit of colorization, with a very young Bing Crosby and a very wild party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDF7LZpg8c
Robert Shotzberger– Ask and ye shall receive: here’s a Hitler parody rant about Biden and Afghanistan. Sample:
‘Imagine Biden during WW2’
‘I could have won’
‘I would’ve outsmarted him’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T1txBRoQxQ&ab_channel=HitlerRantsParodies
Coronavirus Rhapsody
https://youtu.be/8KPbJ0-DxTc
I love this. It brings such a humanness to history. Fully-dimensional people enjoying life – should be shown in high school history classes to dispel the notion that prior generations were different or that, somehow, we are better and more evolved or sophisticated.
JimNorCal– here’s a French version of a protest song and dance that was written in 2020 in opposition to Macron’s COVID-19 lockdowns and other diktats. It’s called “Danser Encore” (“To Keep On Dancing”) and has become popular all over Europe. The video is of a flash mob in the Gare du Nord on March 4, 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o8UfIqS0U&ab_channel=MetaTV
The text at the bottom of the screen is in French; an English translation is here:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/danser-encore-keep-dancing.html
“Danser Encore” may be a long way from “Dansons la Carmagnole” of the French Revolution (“Vive le son du canon!”), but it’s a start.
Amazon had a colorized version of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” (1945) (directed by Rene Clair) a few months ago. It’s a classic I’d been meaning to see, but it had lapsed into the public domain so all the versions I found were poor quality.
The colorized version was about the quality of neo’s clip. Pleasant to watch. I’m not sure why I can’t find it on Amazon now. Legal issues?
I like colorization plus film clean-up. I’m not sure I’d want to watch “Casablanca” or “Dr. Strangelove” colorized, but in general I like color and colorization.
Ah, the days when something was left to the imagination
You might find this link to the smile museum (on Instagram) interesting. They take old photographs, restore them, colorize them . . . and then go one step further. They make them smile.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/COvphH6Bxjl/?utm_medium=copy_link
Isn’t it interesting that they seemed to being having a good time, even though they were all wearing the same dark color and there were no boobs hanging out. Maybe they spent most of their time doing more important things like cooking and washing clothes. Our young people have far to much money and time on their hands.
Isn’t it interesting that they seemed to being having a good time, even they were all wearing the same dark color and there were no boobs hanging out. Maybe they spent most of their time doing more important things like cooking and washing clothes. Our young people have far to much money and time on their hands.
If you want to cut through all the noise and nonsense and distraction and understand what is really going on in the United States, politically speaking, just look at the internals of this ABC News poll on Joe Biden.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-job-approval-drops-44-amid-broad-criticism/story?id=79791303
It has him at 51% disapproval and 44% approval. And while a lot of people might point to the internals showing women and minority groups still favoring Biden, the only numbers that genuinely matter are these:
Biden approval/disapproval
White no college 26/70
White with college 53/45
Everything that’s going on boils down to the wide-ranging failures of America’s professional/managerial class and that class’ refusal to acknowledge them. With women and minorities, you can imagine cultural reasons keeping them on the Democrat plantation. College-educated whites still giving Biden the thumbs up is only about denial.
Mike
Saw They Shall No Grow Old, I love to see old movies and more look at background and cloth style.
Remember those people out having a good time came just a few years after WWI.
The movie “They Shall Not Grow Old”, a good friend and I went on a tour of WWI battle fields. Went all down the trench line from Belgium to Verdun. One the scenes in the movie was a place we actually visited. We recognized the place when we saw the movie.
ElizS, could not agree more! Well put.
Re: Bankruptcy quote…
Mike K mentions the classic Hemingway quote in the “Depressing” topic, which has become an internet meme. It’s from Hemingway’s first novel, “The Sun Also Rises.”
Hemingway wrote better short stories and I’m a fan of his journalism, but “Sun” is my favorite Hemingway novel. In a New Neo special feature, here’s the bankruptcy passage from “The Sun Also Rises.”
Mike is a British aristo and Hemingway’s friend, who has gone bankrupt. The context is Mike’s story about attending a formal dinner requiring military medals. Mike asks his tailor for medals. The tailor comes through. Turns out Mike didn’t need the medals so he gave them out to various girls at the affair.
____________________________________
“Don’t you think that was funny?” Mike asked. We were all laughing. “It
was. I swear it was. Any rate, my tailor wrote me and wanted the medals
back. Sent a man around. Kept on writing for months. Seems some chap had
left them to be cleaned. Frightfully military cove. Set hell’s own store by
them.” Mike paused. “Rotten luck for the tailor,” he said.
“You don’t mean it,” Bill said. “I should think it would have been grand for
the tailor.”
“Frightfully good tailor. Never believe it to see me now,” Mike said. “I
used to pay him a hundred pounds a year just to keep him quiet. So he
wouldn’t send me any bills. Frightful blow to him when I went bankrupt. It
was right after the medals. Gave his letters rather a bitter tone.”
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“What brought it on?”
“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had
creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than anybody in England.”
“Tell them about in the court,” Brett said.
“I don’t remember,” Mike said. “I was just a little tight.”
“Tight!” Brett exclaimed. “You were blind!”
–Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises”
The “gradually” before the “suddenly” part of the decline of the West goes back to WW I.
That’s the theme of “The Sun Also Rises.”
Those old seaside scenes have a real charm about them — I kept hearing this in my mind’s ear: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OsTkM4V0Wqk
And when it was over I could hear this for a chaser: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjebfmpbrEw
This is awesome. How their stance has changed in 13 years. Now vax passports are pro liberty.
https://twitter.com/david_shane/status/1415763990542757890
@ tcrosse on September 3, 2021 at 11:45 am said:
The Bing Crosby clip was amazing, and sent me searching for the lyrics, because I couldn’t make out all the words they were singing; I hope the SJWs will be just as hard of hearing.
That also turned up a long review of the myriad works of the composer, Irving Berlin.
https://brightlightsfilm.com/irving-berlin-film/#footnote_7_15343
Berlin wrote a LOT of music.
http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/berlin/songography.html