It is simply wonderful that we can all use this amazing Way-Back Machine to see not only our past, but how the past was viewed 50, 60, 70, 80 years ago. Thanks greatly to Periscope for this fantastic idea they've developed, to gather together every single educational film from days gone by, digitizing them, and posting them here on KZread to be freely viewed by the world. Sure, in these videos, many of the things and procees shown are decades out of date, and the ideas and notions in many of these films are archaic at times, to say the least. However, we can still see how we as a nation and a civilization got to the world of 2021. American ingenuity, hard work, and free market capitalism. The stuff dreams are made of.

I am reminded of several conversations I had with my grandfather, who was born in 1922. He said that he couldn't imagine a generation that had seen as much change as his. He remembered as little boy that some small dairies and grocers still delivered milk in horse drawn wagons. He lived to see men walk on the moon and build an orbital scientific research station in the form of the ISS. Now that's a profound level of change.

@psilvakimo

3 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. My father used to tell me the same things. He was born in 1919. He remembers the ice man as well, who delivered it by horse. As a kid he said he believed that a man would go to the moon but that it would take 100 years. Nope he was only 50 when that happened. He passed in 2010. He saw a lot.

@dsan2509

2 жыл бұрын

Things do change. I was born in 56 and as a young boy in the 60s I recall the ragman and knife sharpener patrolling the streets of Buffalo in their horse drawn carts!

@kkarllwt

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was born in 1892. died dec 71. He went around the world as a 17 year old sailor on teddy roosevelts great white fleet. lived to see the 747 and the moon landings. TV radio,all the cars and highways, Air conditioning!

That old guy could spin quite a yarn.

@jaminova_1969

3 жыл бұрын

He went to school for it!

I am fairly certain that some of our educational films we saw in class during my early education were Coronet Films. I vaguely remember that logo. Yeah, I'm old.

@jasonruckman191

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@BELCAN57

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonruckman191 I'm 64 and I saw them.

In the 1960s we had in our home an AM Band radio and a black and white TV set . We considered ourselves modern.

@CraigLumpyLemke

2 жыл бұрын

In the 60s we could listen to LAPD police calls on our AM radio near the top of the band. When we heard a "hot call" we'd sometimes pick up the party line telephone and tell the other people on our line that something was happening.

I like this video and the 1800 video.

Imagine those people traveling on a steam locomotive at 50 miles per hour for 6 or 8 hours. Arriving at a destination that normally would have taken a month, in less than one day. It must have been akin to a wormhole by today's standards! I think that very many Americans lived and died in less than a 50 mile distance from where they were born. Times change.

@basedredpilled1809

3 жыл бұрын

"I think that very many Americans lived and died in less than a 50 mile distance from where they were born." Most people still do, and likely will keep doing for some time to come.

@markhonea2461

3 жыл бұрын

@@basedredpilled1809 true that. I live around 50 miles from where I was born. But part of my point was in between the lines. You see, I have been thousands of miles away from here numerous times, and I guess that is what is different than not too long ago. I am uncertain how long it would have taken to get to a remote location in Costa Rica from Washington State 75 years ago, but it would have been far longer than the less than 24 hours it took me, in this day and age. 👍

right on

Imagine a life where if you needed something to survive, you quickly figured out how to grow it, hunt it, or build it. No GoFundMe, no complaining to politicians that you're underserved, just plain "Be creative and work hard or die". THAT is what builds strong societies.

@alaskaaksala123

2 жыл бұрын

No welfare or food stamps…it was sink or swim

@dfjr1990

2 жыл бұрын

No conservatives bitching about shit all the time...

@jhgust

2 жыл бұрын

No corporate welfare!!!

I have one of these machines

Great America

some things never change,places get crowded and now people move to less crowded places and make them overcrowded!!!

If the boy was born around 1840 and lived a halfway long life he would of Seen tremendous changes in his life time. Even as a young man he would of heard the term interchangeable parts. Were parts for a machine could be built by different contractors and be assembled somewhere else.

@Flightstar

3 жыл бұрын

He would have seen the capture of one of humans oldest of holy grail's. The ability to fly.

I think what contributed A lot to the super fast advancement of technology since almost the day the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights were ratified is the freedom, separation of church and state, and the fact that while in the rest of the world technology and invention were kept secret and permitted only certain families here in America nothing was secret. Everything was available to everybody who wanted to research EVERYTHING and suggest improvements and modifications to every invention and new product. On account of this freedom, every invention has been improved many many times over. Take for example the car The cars of today are descended from the horseless carriages there at the end of the nineteenth century and modern cars don't resemble In the slightest way those horseless carriages there were back then. The airplane is another example. None of the airplanes of today look even remotely like the airplanes the Wright brothers built but they owe their existence to the Wright brother's planes that began the air age. And the list could reach for miles and miles. I personally believe that that is what has made America A powerful nation and A land where everybody wanted to come and make A new home and A new life. And among all of these new immigrants were people like Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. And the immigrants who themselves weren't inventors frequently had children who grew up to be inventors. Invention put man on the moon. Today we live in a world of invention. Everything we have Is made by machines. Almost every phase of our lives involves the use of machines. I praise and thank God for the technology that God is so graciously given to us.

Now people have invented squatting and complaining and primate-mimicking.

Whitney yes: same night Lincoln got shot Lewis Payne/Powell/Hill (+ 5 or 6 other clandestine aliases, otherwise) a partisan ranger with John Singleton Mosby's 43rd Virginia Cavalry [dismounted] tried to shoot Seward with a Whitney (no, not the gin) 7 days later the Grey Ghost disbanded his command in the field rather than surrender it; mission accomplished.

@CraigLumpyLemke

2 жыл бұрын

Well there's always trout x drapes. But that would rule out baseball.

@Imtahotep

2 жыл бұрын

@@CraigLumpyLemke naw, not according to Abner: he made it all the way to home plate on April 12, and once again on the 13th, the days after he went fishing; but you see, there's not a self respecting, unspeckled trout near Moultrie, so they ate up all the hard tack loaves and holy mackerel, unwilling to drape them on the parapets when under siege: Such is war.

3:31 still couldnt invent human morality and kindness

Way out west. In Ohio.😏😂😂👍

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

It WAS the West then! Pittsburgh,PA was originally called "The Gateway to the West", The "geateway" moved west with the frontier until "we" reached the Pacific as a nation.

@markhonea2461

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesslick4790 I understand that. I still get a kick out of what is referred to as the Midwest.

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

@@markhonea2461 These language "quirks" happen all of the time. The "shortwave" radio spectrum is STILL called THAT when today, those bands are comprised of humorously long radio wave lengths.

I'm watching this video on a phone devise first imagined on " The Jetsons " for the sake of futuristic comedy.

@kkarllwt

Жыл бұрын

Dick tracy's wrist TV.

Sounds like a lot of These “inventions” came from good old England.

Boil feathers, tan hides,AND NATIONAL PARKS.

Can't hear it !

@whirledpeas3477

2 жыл бұрын

If you clean the shit out of your ears 👂

Hard to believe the way we live is constantly evolving. Soon we will all have flying cars.

@AA-ke5cu

2 жыл бұрын

Thats what everyone thought in the 50's. People can't even drive correctly on the ground ; imagine those same idiots flying in the air. It will never happen for the average guy in the street.

grandpa admits being a victim of child labor

@joekerr6874

3 жыл бұрын

I'm dyin over here lol

@rbnhd1976

3 жыл бұрын

You boutta let your mom and sisters go hungry?

All this because we didn't want to do our own work hmm idn

Damn,white people are smart!

@Joesolo13

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of it built on slave labor. That cotton gin was awful nice when you owned a few hundred human people.

@AA-ke5cu

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone would pro create to produce extra farm hands that were needed to survive; remember that when your told to take the trash out. Because your father was more interested in screwing the neighborhood female folk and eventually bailed out.

And then came the Democrat s.

@booklover6753

2 жыл бұрын

To Larry......"It is better to be silent and thought ignorant, than to have spoken and removed all doubt".

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

Жыл бұрын

@@booklover6753 yup that s why AOC Pelosi and Bidey the Pooper should be quiet

Aint nuthin ever good came from fancy pants long hairs inventions trying to get outta work!

@gorilla1871

3 жыл бұрын

Work hard not smart my grandpappy used to say

I hate to admit, but I enjoy these films because it isn't forced "wokism" on me. You cannot watch ANYTHING on TV that doesn't feature only people of color or LBGQT with no or few caucasians. Virtually every commercial or ad prominently features people of color. I don't have a racist outlook, and treat all with respect and dignity. My stomach churns to see what is happening. I don't recognize the USA anymore and can't do anything about the misery that is coming. Liberals, leftists, Marxists, MSM, and academia are at the steering wheel now. The USA is truly doomed as it becomes Balkanized. Saul Alinsky must be pleased.

@danielsearcy7496

2 жыл бұрын

This video had black slaves in it. They just glossed over it when talking about the cotton gin. Believe it or not, acknowledging other people and their contributions to society (or the ways they were exploited) isn't always "wokism"

@Joesolo13

2 жыл бұрын

Its truely insane that anyone like yourself can exist. Apparently the only media you're comfortable consuming has too appeal exactly to your existing beliefs. You don't like questioning that so you fall back to films produced decades ago. When they mention the cotton gin, which fueled massive expansion of slavery and the racism that came with it. It even featured those POC you're so fearful of.

@edsmith6464

2 жыл бұрын

@@Joesolo13 At what point, in my comments, did I say I was fearful of POC? Work on your reading comprehension.

@booklover6753

2 жыл бұрын

@@edsmith6464 You aren't racist Ed, you just hate seeing people on TV that don't look like you. You should work on the comprehension of your own compositions. You are both transparent and full of hatred.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

Жыл бұрын

Yup every commercial now has just Black's and Minorities with no Whites

Actually it was slavery that propelled early American growth...

@abundantYOUniverse

3 жыл бұрын

No they were just kidding.

@brosefmcman8264

3 жыл бұрын

How?

@maxkronader5225

3 жыл бұрын

You parrot the woke line well. However, like all PC woke dogma it's bullshit. Industrial and economic growth was the antithesis of slavery. Slavery merely allowed Southern States to perpetuate medieval chattel feudalism for a few more generations after it was outdated elsewhere in the world. The US would have advanced MORE rapidly had industrialization and the attendant increase in productivity reached southern agriculture earlier. The southern insistence on slavery inhibited the economic growth of the US because the plantation owners preferred to live like medieval lords rather than like successful 19th century businessmen. No. US economic growth and dominance did not happen because there was slavery during the first 90 years of the Republic, it happened IN SPITE OF the fact that there was slavery during the first 90 years of the Republic.

@abundantYOUniverse

3 жыл бұрын

@Mighty Mouse Girlfriend Your drama queen act is a joke.

@n33to

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, it was industrial machinery. The only reason slavery went away is because machines work better than humans.