Traveling even further back in time than that 2001 BBC news report about cameraphones comes this January 31, 1978 Talking Heads performance of ‘Psycho Killer’ on a British music television program called ‘Old Grey Whistle Test.’ Catchy name. I actually love ‘Psycho Killer’ and used to play it all the
This is a video from Thomas Edison’s motion picture studio of the first ever copyrighted film, The Blacksmith Shop, filmed by Edison’s assistant W.K.L. Dickson, and delivered to the Library of Congress for copyrighting in August of 1893. Granted it’s not a particularly exciting film, but historic nonetheless. Ah, August,
This is a video of 1930’s London that’s been remastered, stabilized, and upscaled to high definition and 60FPS with AI. It’s also been colorized, but not necessarily historically accurately, presumably because Rose from Titanic was too busy contemplating why she didn’t scoot over and make room for Jack on that
It’s hard to believe 1992 was 30 years ago, isn’t it? Time passes in the blink of an eye (and thousands of cold ones). This is a video from a typical McDonald’s restaurant in 1992 when the fast food giant was promoting Batman Returns and the Summer Olympics were taking
This is a video documenting launch day of the iMac at a CompUSA store in Alexandria, Virginia on August 15, 1998 — just over 24 years ago. The interviews with the Apple reps and customers are great. As my mom would say, it’s a real hoot. I remember when I
This is some recently unearthed footage of New Orleans from way back in 1898 when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. The video features six floats from that year’s Mardi Gras parade (the theme was ‘Harvest Queens’), and more than one time traveler I was able to spot by zooming and
These are two videos from Ryan Briggs featuring the last day of school at Glendora High School in California circa 1999 and 2001. God, I remember 1999 — just like it was 23 years ago. Which is to say not very well at best. I guarantee my body didn’t ache
This is a video of all the celebrity window cameos from the original Batman series (1966 – 1968) as Batman and Robin “climb” the exterior of buildings. There are fifteen in total, and they are, in order: 1. Jerry Lewis 2. George Cisar (from the 1966 film) 3. Dick Clark