Bound For Glory - America in Color, 1939-1943

I found that picture inriguing too, MB. It certainly portrays a different lifestyle associated with "blue collar" work than we know today.
 
You know what's really cool is seeing home movies from the era or the rare color newsreel footage.

My grandfather was a dentist that had a good pracitce here and during one of the floods in the 1930's he shot a bunch of film from various Pittsburgh bridges of the event. When I interned at KDKA I loaned the film to the video archives department and they put it all on digital beta. Since then his movies have been on PBS, CBS and the History Channel documenting historical flooding that has taken place in America.

There's never any money that comes from it but it's really neat to see his name on the credits as a contributor of historical film.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']You know what's really cool is seeing home movies from the era or the rare color newsreel footage.

My grandfather was a dentist that had a good pracitce here and during one of the floods in the 1930's he shot a bunch of film from various Pittsburgh bridges of the event. When I interned at KDKA I loaned the film to the video archives department and they put it all on digital beta. Since then his movies have been on PBS, CBS and the History Channel documenting historical flooding that has taken place in America.

There's never any money that comes from it but it's really neat to see his name on the credits as a contributor of historical film.[/QUOTE]

My grandfather worked for a radio station, and accumulated an awesome amount of classic albums (which I have many of), and he, like myself and many of us, was an unabashed technophile. While we still have most of his and my grandma's photographs (including his "stereo" cameras, which were really cool pseudo-3d images). One thing I don't think we have are all his home movies; he took dozens of them on 35mm reels (I think), and all of them were in color.

He also had a lot of old Disney shorts and b&w newsreels; regretfully, when he passed away, distant relatives came from everywhere who we'd never met before who ransacked their place like it was a village swap meet. Personally, being very close to my grandfather, after he passed I wasn't interested in making sure "I got mine," which, in the end, means that I lost out on a lot of memories to some piece of shit who barely knew the man.

Back to the topic at hand, I suppose...that's a neat story, PAD.
 
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