Old Films and Pictures

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Woman Born in 1878 Talks About Her Childhood in Los Angeles, California in the 1880s​

Audio recorded Sept. 1964 by the subjects niece.

 

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Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) HD Sequence​

 

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Annie Oakley Shooting glass balls (1894)​

 

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I've Got A Secret

Astronaut Neil Armstrong's parents, Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel Armstrong have a secret that their son was just made an astronaut on this day at 3 PM, September 17, 1962. Armstrong was one of nine new men so chosen.

 

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Listen to the oldest known recording of a human voice | BBC Global​

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First film recording of Appalachian music:

 

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Newly rediscovered silent film,
The Heart of Lincoln from 1915.
THE HEART OF LINCOLN was a 65 minute feature film directed and starring Francis Ford, the older brother and mentor of legendary Hollywood Director John Ford. It was first released by Universal Pictures in 1915 and re-cut in 1922. The only known print of THE HEART OF LINCOLNwas discovered in the archives of HISTORIC FILMS in August 2024 by Dan Martin, an intern who studied Film Preservation at Toronto Metropolitan University.

 

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This has snips of old movies. Put on cc and it will display the year and movie title

Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk​