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How to be a Retronaut

If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport

Anachronisms
- Future in the past
  - Aliens in vintage postcards
  - Atomic Age Hollywood
  - Hi kids, here's a story about civil defence
  - Nuclear Toys
  - Spacelander Electric Bicycle, 1946
  - The Dazzle-Ships of WWI
  - Visions from Popular Science
- Past in the present
  - "Cloud of Unknowing" - Gorillaz
  - "The Swing" (1767) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  - Biblical scenes in Google Earth
  - Classic photographs in Lego
  - Facebook updates for historic events
    - Facebook updates for historic events (Part 1)
  - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculptures, 1700s
  - Man removing his shirt in Piero della Francesca "The Baptism Of Christ" (1450)
  - USB Typewriters
  - Vintage typewriter stickers
  - Woman in a chicken suit, 1910
  - WWII Paper Planes
- Present in the past
  - Apple Mac in Mad Men
  - Contemporary ruins
    - Ghost Station Tube Maps
    - Ukrainian Airfield
  - Contempory Memento Mori
    - Aged Barbie
    - Aged Superheroes
    - And Vinyly
    - Bugs Bunny's skeleton
    - Tweety-pie's skeleton
  - Darth Vader painted by Monet, 1875
  - Dubai through an 1857 lens
  - Hollywood Premakes
  - iPad in 2024: A Space Odyssey
  - iPods in 1977
  - Ming Dynasty beer-cans
  - Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
  - Star Wars for Retronauts
  - Steampunk
    - Steampunk laptop
    - Steampunk Stormtrooper
  - Superheroes in history
  - The Georgian iMax
  - The internet as vintage Penguins
  - Victorian Star Wars
  - “Modern Renaissance” & “Celebrity Time-Travel”
- Time-crashes
  - Antique Beat
  - Dali and Disney's "Destino"
  - The Soviet "Hobbit"
  - Tudor Pinhole Camera
  - Victorian Delorean
  - We Are All Animals
Change
- Extreme change
  - Construction
    - Construction of Nelson's Column
    - Construction of the Eiffel Tower
  - Earl's Court Farm, 1867
  - Heathrow Airport, 1935
  - The Brixton Zebra
  - The Collapsing Wall, 1940s / 2024
- Gradual change
  - "Stour Valley and Dedham Village" (1815/2010), John Constable
  - Anna and Richard Wagner, 1900-1945
  - Chiswick High Road, 1982 / 2024
  - The "Ziggy Stardust" phone-box, 1972-2009
Early technology
- Film
  - "Alice in Wonderland", 1903
  - "Fred Ott's Sneeze", January 1894
  - "The Gay Shoe Clerk", August 1903
  - Amateur
  - Archive
  - Bloopers
    - Hollywood Bloopers c. 1936
  - Colour Film
    - "Colour on the Thames", 1935
    - "London in the Raw", 1964
    - "Temples of India", 1938
    - "The Titfield Thunderbolt", 1953
    - Colour footage of Deauville, 1912
    - Colour footage of Israel, 1940s / 50s
    - Colour footage of London, 1920s
    - Colour footage of Roosevelt, 1941
    - Colour footage of Smalltown America, 1954
    - Colour footage of Soho, 1950s
    - Colour footage of Venice, 1912
    - Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Test Film
  - San Francisco's Market Street, 1906
- Firsts
  - 15 World's Firsts
  - The "first photograph" of New York
  - The first fake photographs
  - The first photograph of a human
- High Resolution
  - London, 1940s, in hi-res colour
  - London, 1950s, in hi-res colour
  - New York, 1940s, in hi-res colour
- Music video
  - Soundies
  - The first music video, 1895
- Photography
  - Aerial
    - Aerial panorama of San Francisco in ruins
  - Colour
    - Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
    - Fleet Street, London, 1:55pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 1924
    - Imperial Russia, 1909-1915
    - New York City, 1941
    - Panoramic Tokyo, 1865
    - Soho, 1959
    - WWII WASPs
- Recorded sound
  - "There'll Come A Time" - Arthur Pryor, 1897
- Snap-shot photography
  - Girl on a tricycle, Ireland, 1900
- Stereo photography
  - 3D Ancient Japan
Immediacy
- Bablake School, Coventry, 1955-57, by Alan Hails
- Carnaby Street, 1968
- Chicago Night Clubs, 1970s, by Michael Abramson
- Children 1905
- Greetings from 1950s Wales
- Paris, 1910-1914, by Eugene Atget
- Photobooth animations
- Portrait, 16th Century, by Holbein
- Portraits, F. Holland Day
- Smiling
  - Smiles of old Japan
  - Smiling Victorians
- Square Dance, Oklahoma, 1940
- USSR, 1953
Multiple Time
- Ambiguous Time
  - The Retronaut's Daughter
  - What year is this?
    - What year is this? #1
    - What year is this? #2
- Looking into the past
- Stepping into the past
- The Ghosts of…
  - Amsterdam
  - Cherbourg
  - Leningrad
  - Macclesfield
  - Newcastle
  - the Blitz
  - Toronto
  - World War II
- The Kodak building
Replicas
- Brand-new 18th Century Shirts
- Brand-new medieval castle
- Brand-new medieval humours
- Brand-new Smalltown, USA
- Brand-new WWII
Time-travel culture
- "Photograph of a time-traveler"
- "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
  - "The Time Machine" Comic
  - "The Time-Machine" in Lego
- Back to the Future iPhone App
- Dr Evermore & the Forevertron
- Echo Park Time-travel Mart
  - 10 Time-travel Mart products
  - 5 Time-travel tourism ads
- Hakan Nordkvist, time-traveler
- Hang this up in your time-machine
- ICANHASTIMETRAVEL
- Map of time-travel in popular film and TV
- Mark Wallinger's TARDIS
- Present - Michæl Paukner
- Time-machine guitar effect pedal
Uncategorized
- Geography
  - Location
Unusual duration
- Contracted time
  - 100 years of Hovis
  - Four sisters, 25 years
  - Rush hour, Waterloo Station, 1970
  - The longest time-lapse video
  - Time-lapse from space
- Exceptional survival
  - Hatch the Tudor Dog
  - Ice-Age flute
  - Lennon and McCartney: the last known photograph
  - London's oldest statue
  - Mozart's skull
  - Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
  - The Cabinet of Sarah Hare
  - The Roman road-map
- Expanded time
  - 27-year-old picnic
  - Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010
  - One family, 30 years

Colour footage of Roosevelt, 1941

Excerpt from home movie of FDR driving and walking with assistance to take the Oath of Office on January 20, 1941. Donated by John Boettiger, Eleanor Seagraves and Curtis Roosevelt. Archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library public domain.
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Thanks very much to Joe Angelelli.

1 comment to Colour footage of Roosevelt, 1941

Kenj

September 18, 2024 at 3:21 pm

What a gem! Love seeing the ppl in the crowd and their reactions when they see they’re on camera. And the radio broadcaster standing behind FDR.

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