Yesterday TheAtlantic.com's Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg posted a short reel of "process plate" rear-projection footage of downtown Los Angeles, shot sometime around '48 or '49, I'm guessing. "If it was ever used, it was seen fuzzy and out of focus," she wrote. "Today, however, it's amazing documentation of a lost neighborhood.
"Watch the signs, the spectators and passersby, and the streetscapes, and marvel how historical images can carry evidentiary value that no one ever imagined they would."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 7, 2011 at 7:25 PM
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RFignolia
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One clever fellow at 3:44 waves at 62+ years into the future.
Posted by RFignolia
at September 7, 2011 9:58 PM
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actionlover
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LOVE this stuff! Great find!
Posted by actionlover
at September 7, 2011 11:14 PM
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eddie mars attacks
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Great video, thanks for posting this.
Posted by eddie mars attacks
at September 7, 2011 11:40 PM
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joe banks
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the first bit looks like coming up Bunker Hill and then driving south on Grand (?) Ave? You see them pass an Angel's Flight market.
all those Victorian homes bulldozed in the 60s/70s. now Disney Hall, Chandler Pavilion, and rows of condos and apartment buildings fill the space
after they go back down the hill, looks like the head west away from the downtown area but not sure what street.
Posted by joe banks
at September 8, 2011 12:00 AM
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LFF
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hmm, I now have the urge to play a game of LA NOIRE...
Posted by LFF
at September 8, 2011 12:45 AM
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JLC
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To fill out time in between movies, TCM shows a lot of old travelogue shorts. It's amazing the stuff that's out there that people don't know exists. I watched one the other day about the 1939 exposition in San Francisco. The buildings were designed only to last for the duration of the event, so few, if any, still exist (though I think some still exist from the 1911 exposition). The technicolor footage of the fountains and light displays is wonderful.
Posted by JLC
at September 8, 2011 4:42 AM
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Super Soul
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joe banks is right about it being Bunker Hill. First clip goes up 2nd to Grand, then down to just before 5th. Second clip is the same, extending on to 5th over to Flower (past the LA Public Library.) Third clip goes north on Flower from 5th, ending up on streets that were taken out in the redevelopment. How strange it is to see single family homes along those streets.
Posted by Super Soul
at September 8, 2011 7:21 AM
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actionlover
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I've decided to recreate this video (sometime in the next couple of weeks). I'll let y'all know where you can see it.
Any further help identifying the various routes will be appreciated. (thanks joe banks and super sould)
Posted by actionlover
at September 8, 2011 8:52 AM
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Floyd Thursby
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Some of the changes joe banks mentions are included in an extra on the Kiss Me Deadly Blu-ray.
Posted by Floyd Thursby
at September 8, 2011 9:03 AM
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Super Soul
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actionlover: here you go, I'm pretty sure this is the full route of all three clips taken together:
http://g.co/maps/gveuu
That last stretch of Flower shown in the film doesn't exist anymore, so google shifts it over to Hope St. instead.
Posted by Super Soul
at September 8, 2011 10:01 AM
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Joe G
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Very cool. I'd love to see somebody use this in a new short or something.
Posted by Joe G
at September 8, 2011 5:15 PM
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at October 21, 2011 11:44 PM