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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 18:45:30 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).
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 31, 2018 18:50:04 GMT
One-minute long video says it all.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 31, 2018 18:51:31 GMT
Xerox Magnafax Telecopier.
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Post by snsurone on Jul 31, 2018 18:53:01 GMT
Well, in old films, crops were planted and reaped by hand.
Now, there's machinery to do that work.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 19:02:29 GMT
ZolotoyRetrieverI grew up in an apartment building in NYC that had an Incinerator Room on each floor of the building. General kitchen garbage was sent down to the basement to be burned. People would leave good stuff that didn't fit in the shoot on the floor. Got many great 78rpm records and books that they could not bear to have burned by "raiding". My mom would sometimes get mad but it was GOOD STUFF !
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 19:16:42 GMT
Newsmen going around with a boxy sort of movie camera on a tripod - and the camera had to be hand-cranked.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 31, 2018 19:23:36 GMT
Women with nylon stockings and garter belts.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 19:46:39 GMT
Men wearing a shirt and tie and a fedora to a baseball game and women there wearing a dress and hat  . Maybe not this fancy a hat as in The Natural, BUT hats anyway. |
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 31, 2018 19:52:45 GMT
And Kate Hepburn's big hat worn in Yankee Stadium in WOMAN OF THE YEAR that initially annoys the guy seated behind her (although by the ninth inning they have become good buddies),
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 19:55:55 GMT
And Kate Hepburn's big hat worn in Yankee Stadium in WOMAN OF THE YEAR that initially annoys the guy seated behind her (although by the ninth inning they have become good buddies), and someone has changed seats !  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 20:02:00 GMT
Reel to Reel Surveillance in  |
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 31, 2018 20:07:22 GMT
WC Fields speaks into an ear trumpet (for the deaf) in It's A Gift.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 20:08:30 GMT
Film Projector :   also in Citizen Kane |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 20:16:16 GMT
How about those pneumatic message tubes they used in office settings: somebody would put a message in a cylinder, place it in the pneumatic tube, press a button, and air pressure would whisk it away to its designated recipient.
Seems awfully antiquated now, but at least it was a step up from using carrier pigeons - also something seen a few times in old movies.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 31, 2018 20:18:05 GMT
Computers with reel to reel tapes and punch cards.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 31, 2018 20:20:08 GMT
Car phones. Police boxes on telephone poles with phones in them. The cops used to wear the key around their necks.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 20:21:22 GMT
Actual Rolls of Film being developed and the pictures printed in an amazing One Hour !  |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 21:04:26 GMT
Car phones. Police boxes on telephone poles with phones in them. The cops used to wear the key around their necks. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 21:14:34 GMT
Newsmen going around with a boxy sort of movie camera on a tripod - and the camera had to be hand-cranked. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 31, 2018 21:44:15 GMT
Still hand cranking:  A clothes wringer "mangle" And before hand-cranked can openers, there were those lethal looking ones you'd see someone like Irene Dunne or Myrna Loy using:  |
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