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A Theist · (This post was last modified: January 28, 2018 at 9:50 am by A Theist.)

Found this to be pretty interesting. Sound and video footage of 1929 NYC. 1929 was also the year of the Stock Market crash which led the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s. I don't know if this video was filmed after the crash but it seems to be cold weather and there's a part in the video where people are moving furniture and belongings out of a tenant flat. Maybe someone being evicted from their home? This was two years after the first motion picture talkie, Al Jolson's, "The Jazz Singer", (1927).

**vorlon13** · January 28, 2018 at 11:05 am

Interesting.

Go watch a Trip Down Market Street (1906)

**Rev. Rye** · January 28, 2018 at 11:21 am

(January 28, 2018 at 9:46 am)A Theist Wrote: Found this to be pretty interesting. Sound and video footage of 1929 NYC. 1929 was also the year of the Stock Market crash which led the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s. I don't know if this video was filmed after the crash but it seems to be cold weather and there's a part in the video where people are moving furniture and belongings out of a tenant flat. Maybe someone being evicted from their home? This was two years after the first motion picture talkie, Al Jolson's, "The Jazz Singer", (1927).

I suspect at that point, the transition from silents to talkies was all but complete. Also, it turns out that at least part of it (see 3:54) was shot before the crash, since the visit by British PM Ramsay MacDonald happened on October 4, 1929, mere weeks before the crash. It's possible that parts were shot later, but it would appear that even by the year's end, the Great Depression wasn't quite as bad as it would be in 1930. Even if it was shot after, it would still likely be pre-disaster.

A Theist · January 28, 2018 at 1:57 pm

(January 28, 2018 at 11:05 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Interesting.

Go watch a Trip Down Market Street (1906)

Awesome!

**Tiberius** · January 28, 2018 at 2:36 pm

Jeez, there were no rules of the road back then were there? Tongue

**vorlon13** · January 28, 2018 at 3:37 pm

Film made just days before 1906 earthquake devastated the city.

It's really touching watching those folks unaware of what was impending.

A Theist · (This post was last modified: January 28, 2018 at 4:58 pm by A Theist.)

(January 28, 2018 at 2:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Jeez, there were no rules of the road back then were there?

No kidding! I can't believe those people were driving on the left side of the road! Smile

**vorlon13** · January 28, 2018 at 7:09 pm

It's the same cars all the way along. I think the film crew gave a heads up to all the car owners in Frisco if they wanted to be in the movie.

60 Minutes did a segment on it several years back. Ascertaining a filming date was tricky, the film itself wasn't dated. They went by some business names/locations, car license plates, and even near the end the wet pavement corresponded with a recorded rain shower just days before the quake.

**Rev. Rye** · (This post was last modified: January 28, 2018 at 8:25 pm by Rev. Rye.)

(January 28, 2018 at 2:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Jeez, there were no rules of the road back then were there?

It would appear the automobile was just a novelty at that point and people didn't grasp the full responsibility that comes from pushing a 1200 lb vehicle at speeds their grandparents' generation couldn't even imagine, something that would eventually turn out to be a damn effective killing machine for someone who wanted to put their minds to the task. The term jaywalking only came into being mere months prior, and it had yet to even be made illegal.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at...jaywalking

https://www.salon.com/2015/08/20/the_sec...t_the_ban/

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