Writers of historical or alt-historical fiction are always in search of pictorial references for people and places of times past. Still pictures are good (and for most of history, they’re all that we have), but for over a century now we’ve had moving pictures, as well – and the internet, bless its digital heart, preserves them and displays them for us at our command.
Herewith, a trio of links:
London street scenes, 1927, in color: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgxki8_R968
Street scenes from Berlin and Munich, circa 1900-1914, also in color: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0
Driving around New York, 1928. This one’s in black and white, and is a staged comedy short, but the backgrounds are the real thing. (And it’s amazing how long some of the visual high-speed automotive tropes we’re still seeing in film and television have been kicking around.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0
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