By the way...thanks for posting these over the years. I enjoy them immensely, and watching them evokes a variety of emotions for me.
It is an odd sensation to watch and realize that every single person in the earlier ones was born, lived their entire lives, rich or poor, famous or obscure, and in the end died and are all dust and we view them through this short window into their lives.
From a historical perspective (I am a history buff) I find them absolutely fascinating to watch. The clothes. The mannerisms. The haircuts. The makeup. Everything is like being able to open a window and look into their time.
The technological perspective. Many of the people are very suspicious of the filming. Some are fascinated with it...there was one scene where a burly older gentleman with a beard and glasses walked by, was turning and looking as he passed off one side...then you saw him come back and you could tell he was going to talk to the guy filming. And there are people who grin like pumpkins just like many people do today when they see someone filming.
Fascinating.
So...thank you again.
I am glad you enjoy the posts.
Just as you can read Chaucer and Shakespeare and know they were all like us.
Those were my sentiments exactly...all the people depicted are now dead...or in a very advanced age.
Everyone was well dressed...not like today where slob casual is the mark of the day...(Myself included)...The women looked rather homely in these pictures...
A time gone by...between wars and before the world wide depression.
Burton Holmes...I have one of his books. A travelogue dated 1911 featuring Hawaii, the Philippines and some other points in the east. Again...the descriptions of the peoples and their cultures is vastly different than today’s writings...
There is a genre of movie types I once learned in Film School decades ago...I think this would be billed as a sort of City Symphony type film...
Or travelogue, if it was a Holmes production. If so, then this would be something that would run prior to the B film , followed by the A feature...
Give away dishes? A band in the pit to provide accompanying music?
Technology is grand, but sometimes I pine for the lost yesteryears. We didn’t know that we had it so bad back then... But then again, to have the entire world and its knowledge in the palm of one’s hand is pretty amazing...