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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 3, 2018 20:28:04 GMT
I was re-watching Dark Passage (1947) last night, and noticed a brief scene, inside a San Francisco apartment, where Bogart's character wrapped up some clothing in butcher paper, then dropped the bundle down a chute marked "incinerator." So I guess the clothes dropped down to a building incinerator, probably down in the building's basement, which burned peoples' discarded trash? Interesting... I suppose that practice has long since been abolished - at least here in the U.S.
What other old, antiquated, obsolete things do you notice in classic films? (and I don't mean "old cars," "old fashions," necessarily, but practices or certain types of technology that have long since become passé).
For the first time, I noticed an ice truck and the worker grabbing a huge block of ice with tongs in the background of the movie Ragtime. |
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