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By: TidiousTed

TidiousTed — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:44:56 +0000

Beautiful footedge, Have just linked your movie to the top post on my blog. Great work Retronaut

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By: Ben Coleman

Ben Coleman — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:47:44 +0000

Andrew S: TV came after movies, my friend. Hollywood has been the babylon of movie making since the likes of D.W Griffith put out blockbusters like The Birth of a Nation in 1914. Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars (Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers) were at their peak in the 1920s.
Anyway, this footage is indeed spectacular, and makes this ex-pat pine for London.

By: Marista

Marista — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:06:21 +0000

Beautiful stuff, even if the titles are horribly slow to leave the screen! Maybe people were illiterate or semi-literate then? And everyone was white back then! Well, we took care of that!

By: Paul Trickett

Paul Trickett — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:36:01 +0000

Fantastic old film. Hard to believe that women were still one year away from full voting rights! I wonder how many of those young men in the street scenes were to sign up just 12 years later and go to war in Europe again.
Well done for this.

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By: cam

cam — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:11:06 +0000

oooopsss! remove harold lloyd from what i was saying. he was an american! i thought he had been bron in england. sorry.

By: Cam

Cam — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:07:48 +0000

save the sceptical energy. a few years after these were taken…hitler was busy making his own colourized films on the industrialization of germany. and yes…london was very aware of hollywood. look no further than the talented comedians of the time in the silent movies. some were british, charlie chaplan and harold lloyd, for instance, went to hollywood. the gish sisters were drawn to hollywood from canada. fattie arbukle was american but included him in this because he was such a great talent that was assassinated by hollyweird (my lil hommage).

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:16:15 +0000

according to that ever reliable source of information, Wikipedia:
“On January 22, 1947, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began operating in Hollywood”

Seems a little odd.