These time capsule videos are awesome! Thanks for all the work doing the xfers!

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Glad some people like them, because I get plenty of hate mail from those that don't but my feeling is over time these will be favorites. To be able to look back into history.

I came home from Australia on the Arcadia a sister ship to the Himalaya. The footage of either the Princess Patricia or the Princess Marguerite is good for trivia. Either one of those ships was leased from the CPR by the P&O-Orient steamship company for trial run cruising off the west coast of Mexico. And from that trial Princess Cruises was born. True.

The Stompin' Tom song "The Iron Workers Song" does a great job of telling the story of the bridge collapsing, and is how I first heard about it.

I was at the PNE in 1958, at the start of this. George Adamski was there with his UFO exhibit, and the GM turbine car. I was 14 years old. In those days, license plates were gold numbers in green, reversing colors each year. Error Flynn died at Kitsilano Beach, with a 16 year old girl a friend of mine knew. Xavier Hollander spoke to me, tried to pick me up. At 15, I joined The British Columbis Regiment, then went into the Regular Force the next year, at 16. Hail Kitsilano

That's a fascinating glimpse of Canadian history. I have never been to Vancouver. Cheers!

Gives me goosebumps seeing my wonderful city over 60 years ago.

Thankyou.

Great footage! Thank you for sharing, fantastic.

This is great, thanks for the share

Thanks!

Good footage. Did you transfer it yourself?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that's what I do. Been in the video archiving and production business since the mid 80's.

The stabilization of the image was made by the scanner by his own, by you using a editor or by KZread?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

From what he told me he made a bracket that the camera slid into on the dash. There is no correction done on my end. I will make a short video to show what I did to get these films ready for youtube. There was a little but of work besides scanning them with the wolverine, as it outputs 20 frames. I have to speed correct and set up the aspect and crop as I scan the film full frame with the sprocket holes and edges showing, and then clip that out in editing.

Nostalgic ❤

Awesome to see a time we actually got snow regularly

There was quite a selection of old cars on that film :-))

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

My father in law was a car buff. I am too but I like the ones you plug in.

@BoB4jjjjs

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I don't, they will be hard to use here. I would rather they used hydrogen in cars, ok you could burn hydrogen direct, or use a cell to get the electricity, but the distances here and the traffic in this country it will never work, plus they got themselves in a mess already with not all charging stations being able to charge all cars, plus the connections are not the same either and a twin charging station will only charge one car at a time. I want to get to my destination, not sit waiting for two hours or I get another boost to carry on. I don't mind electric cars, but they will have to have Hydrogen either making electric for journeys here or to run a small engine to charge the batteries as you go. I like the idea of a cell making the electric, but it is a bit volatile,

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@BoB4jjjjs There was a car on the market from 2010 to 2019 made by General Motors that was just that. The Chevy Volt. I happen to have 2 of them. These is a reason I bought the first one, was for that very reason. I wanted electric but didn't want any restrictions when travelling. I bought the second because they were taking them out of production. Sure there are other plug in hybrid cars on the road, but none of them operated the way the volt does. All other plug in hybrids, the engine plays a significant role in driving the car. First they all have a very short battery range, around 20 or so miles, but also if you go over a certain speed typically 60MPG 110kmh, or you put your foot into the accelerator to merge or pass, the gas engine fires up right away. So around town and for short trips they can run on battery, but there will always be some gas used as the ones I have seen go through a warm up cycle when you first start it so the engine is warm and can start right away when called upon. The BMW i3 with the REX is a pure electric with a generator, but the tiny 600cc twin cylinder means the gas backup is only good to get you home, not for road trips (plus the fact it only carries enough gas to go 80 miles) The volt on the other hand, second gen will get between 90 and 100 KM on the battery alone, at all speeds and under all driving conditions. (First gen goes between 50 and 60KM) Then and only then does the gas engine start. With a full charge and full tank I can go over 700KM, and then a 35 litre fill will gove me 600KM of gas only range per tank. It was the best car that GM has ever built, but now they are pushing the full electric car. There are rumours that the volt power plant will return in an SUV and that would be great if that comes to furution.

@BoB4jjjjs

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I like the idea of that, but if they made it a hydrogen engine (though fuelling up will be a problem as no stations to fill up from). I am surprised the big energy OIL companies have not stepped in to build Hydrogen engines for both Cell type and even better for us here is Scotland, burn Hydrogen directly in an engine. Iceland I am told has gone down the Hydrogen route. Hyundai have also made a Hydrogen car (I think they are hedging their bets) as I can't see fully electric cars working unless they can get them to charge in the time it takes to have a coffee break at a service station. This I don't think will happen, so I can see Hydrogen cars taking off yet, especially if the oil companies step in, they can make the Hydrogen through the night and ship it out. Only problem I can see is Hydrogen takes up a lot of room, so unless they can get a way to store and transport it like Gas/Petrol/Diesel (I prefer diesel, but I like low down grunt that I get from a diesel) and I don't like revving the hell out of an engine just to get power. I used to when I had a few bikes though, but that is another story! I like GM's Idea of a small engine making enough electric to drive the electric motor, I can't see why it can't be done? I have always thought that a small engine could provide more electric power than it the energy it used, though proving it is another thing as all the know it alls say there is no such thing as free energy, you need to use energy to get energy. Well, I still think you can use wind power to make electric to make hydrogen to run cars etc through the day. An electric car is still polluting as you still have to run a power station to charge it, so you save nothing if it needs charging through the day. Let's face it, if all the cars in the road were electric, the system wouldn't cope, and then what about the power outages the USA had this year in case of fires, how do you charge your car then? I like GM's idea and would even buy a car like that, less pollution is a lot better than we have at the moment. I think aircraft are by far doing the most harm to the world, but everyone wants to fly somewhere for holidays! They burn more fuel in half an hour than I do all year and that is just in one engine, al lot have four engines, two being more popular now, but still, in one hour a two engined airliner uses more fuel in an hour than I do in two to three years! Now that just say it all to me really! Stay safe, I need you to entertain me at the moment as I am disabled and the wife being at home working is driving me nuts! :-)

What kind of car is he driving in the road shots? An Oldsmobile? I love the jet aeroplane hood ornament.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

That I don't know. My father inlaw passed away 3 years ago, and he never got to see these old films scanned. I did them years ago on VHS tape, but they just don't look the same. I will ask my mother inlaw what car he had back then. This was well before both myself and wife was born.

I really wish you didn’t add this elevator music. At least use something contemporary of the era.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Must be royalty free or it will be hit with copyright. This is the royalty free music I licensed in the early 2000s and it cost me about 2 grand to buy a library of it so I use what I have. Don't like it turn the sound down.

@pkrail

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids the music is fine

The S.S. Oriana 18:25 - The very last Orient Liner ssmaritime.com/oriana.htm Someone understood the importance of her arrival back then, in the early 1960's ?

The city was much more beautiful then. Its a shame it was turned into a cosmopolitan global dystopia with nothing differentiating ir from any other global meteopolis. Glad I fled.

@12voltvids

7 ай бұрын

Still is a great place to live if you can afford it.