Time Travel: to the 1920s

A scrap of footage such as this, capturing the spontaneity of a moment 80 years ago, can become haunting on repeated viewings.
The subjects are all dead, the location is likely something else now. Yet we can see the moment over and over. Indeed, film is the nuts, bolts and wiring of the only time machine we have!

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[str009]

My grandmother will be a hundred years old in 2012. This was the world she grew up in. One of the few remaining who saw it with her own eyes. When there were no planes in the sky, no television, and the world smelled like horses. It's amazing to think of the changes she's lived through, and trying to explain records, dial telephones, and library reference cards to my great-grandkids.

[NCeddie]

@str009 Yes, I think you have grasped the whole reason I call this Time Travel.

Your comment showed me you are thinking about it from both directions!

[iamatumor]

Hahaha for a second i thougt what it had been like if there had been a youtube in the 20s...

hmm....

[NCeddie]

@iamatumor

Yeah! Then this little clip would have been posted 90 years ago by a contemporary fan of these silent stars!

[missunshinejaq]

I just traveled back in time to 1920 ...

watching this video :))

ThankX :))

[NCeddie]

@missunshinejaq

Atta girl!!!

[NoIDidunt10]

Its always such a weird feeling I get whenI see movie clips from the 1920s and 1930s,knowing everyone on film is dead and everything in the film no longer exists.It truly is like travelling back in time

[NCeddie]

@NoIDidunt10

I think you get it completely!

[mrsmagloo]

ITA. Old films, photos, and memories are the only true form of backward time travel. Oh, and the most famous of all: looking and photographing the night sky. Every star you are looking at is light that is billions of years old, and no longer exists in that state.

[carreterito]

But what you don't know is that she had an iPhone is her pocket.

[freakahurt]

oh god shes dead and OLD

[AbrudanDorin]

@freakahurt she's dead omg.

[Daisycutt3r]

back then 240p was high res!

[Aeronauticalexplorer]

0:12 they started to have a 4sum