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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 31, 2018 21:46:49 GMT
Milk men delivering milk in glass bottles.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 22:01:30 GMT
Commuting on a Street Car a la Harold Lloyd  Horse Drawn Carts on everyday city streets  |
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 31, 2018 22:08:17 GMT
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 22:24:31 GMT
Milk men delivering milk in glass bottles.
I recall a scene from a classic film, circa 1950, where they had a dry-cleaning company send around a van with a driver to pick up, and deliver, peoples' dry cleaning. *eta: the clothes were delivered wrapped in paper coverings, not the modern thin plastic they use nowadays.
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Post by marshamae on Jul 31, 2018 22:35:50 GMT
Typesetting by hand- young Tom Edison, citizen Kane, Deadline USA
milk deliver box built into the kitchen wall with a two sided door so the milk man could put your order in from the outside. 39 steps.
I’ve often thought about all we knew as children about the technology of the 18th and 19th century because westerns and frontier dramas were so popular. Canoes, tents, telegraphs, pony express, crank phones, paddle wheel boats, flat boats, log cabins, cooking over a fire, even snake bite remedies and splints for broken legs in the wilderness, we knew all about those things from tv and film.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jul 31, 2018 22:44:44 GMT
Doghouse6: speaking of can openers, I also sometimes notice in classic films how beer cans were made of much heavier metal, and had to be opened with a can opener. And metal bottle tops had to be pried off with some sort of bottle opener (no twist-off caps back then).
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Post by divtal on Jul 31, 2018 22:48:04 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:  Doghouse, when I saw the wringer, I wondered what was "old" about that. Then, I realized that it wasn't a pasta press.  I watched All The President's Men, a couple of nights ago. Stories were written on manual typewriters, with carbon-paper inserts for copies. In one scene, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford), need to find a phone number in Minneapolis ... he went to the Washington Post's library of Yellow-Pages.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 31, 2018 23:02:20 GMT
Doghouse6 : speaking of can openers, I also sometimes notice in classic films how beer cans were made of much heavier metal, and had to be opened with a can opener. And metal bottle tops had to be pried off with some sort of bottle opener (no twist-off caps back then). There was a thread on the General board a few weeks back - "You're Really Old If You Remember..." or something like that - and those came up. "Church keys," they were called: the can opener at one end and the bottle opener at the other:  Some of us remembered getting all the way to the beach with a cooler full of drinks, and realizing no one had thought to bring one. We still keep a magnetized one on the side of the refrigerator; I've never gotten used to twist-off beer bottle caps. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 31, 2018 23:12:17 GMT
Doghouse, when I saw the wringer, I wondered what was "old" about that. Then, I realized that it wasn't a pasta press. I watched All The President's Men, a couple of nights ago. Stories were written on manual typewriters, with carbon-paper inserts for copies. In one scene, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford), need to find a phone number in Minneapolis ... he went to the Washington Post's library of Yellow-Pages.It's like the old saying: old wringers never die, they just become pasta presses. Didn't Douglas MacArthur say something like that? First office I worked in (a year before the Watergate break-in) we were still using carbon paper. We had a Xerox machine, and it was about the size of a side-by-side refrigerator laying on its side, no multiple page copying, and each one took about ten seconds. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 23:22:47 GMT
Of mice and men used this type of thresher when "bucking barley" .. cannot find actual image (yet) 
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Post by london777 on Jul 31, 2018 23:31:58 GMT
One-minute long video says it all. Hardly a fair test-case. They are from Arkansas. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 23:39:00 GMT
marshamaewe knew all about those things from tv and film.
Yep and we found them interesting and asked the folks about the things we didn't recognize or understand. Now, there just doesn't seem to be general interest in anything but the latest and what's coming out next week. 
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 31, 2018 23:45:59 GMT
Speaking of milk bottles--also milk in scenes.
How many people are drinking a glass of milk in movies--especially after 1945. I see it a lot in UK films.
I assume it was product placement?
I heard the story that smoking in films was so the actors had something to hold in their hands but is this really true?
As for phones-ever wonder how some movies would be different in people had access to cell phones? How many plots would change..
In Metropolis they have people talking into tvs.
Yeah right-that'll be the day.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 1, 2018 0:36:39 GMT
One-minute long video says it all. Hardly fair comment. They are from Arkansas. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 1, 2018 0:51:22 GMT
One interesting thing you see in some classic films is the act of manually panning for gold, along the edge of a creek or stream. Looks antiquated, but in matter of fact, many amateur prospectors or hobbyists still do that sort of gold-panning to this day.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 1, 2018 1:10:22 GMT
Gold panning depends on the gold being close to the surface . There aren’t so many places in the US. Where gold is that close to the surface.
Drinking milk was very big in the US until the 70’s when General Foods led the food industry in introducing more sugar in foods. By the 1980’s juice had replaced milk as the go to drink of childhood. Bad decision. So the films showing kids drinking milk were just reflecting the common practice. There’s a great scene in QuizShow where Charles Van Doren, beginning to stress over his participation in the quiz show, goes to his parents home in Connecticut late at night and eats chocolate cake and cold milk in the kitchen. He tells his father there is something so simple about this childhood pleasure...
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Aug 1, 2018 11:18:49 GMT
Not technologically related, but I did see an older movie recently where a doctor in a hospital lit up a cigarette and also offered one to his patient! And I seem to recall another older movie with someone smoking on an airplane! Now, even movies from as recently as the 90's or early 00's showing smoking in restaurants seem a bit trapped in time.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 1, 2018 13:26:10 GMT
Xerox Magnafax Telecopier. There's something like a Telecopier in Call Northside 777. |
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 1, 2018 13:42:53 GMT
Teletype machines - see those a lot in many movies from the 1930's to 1970's...  Also, photographer flashbulbs being changed out after every photo. |
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Post by kijii on Aug 1, 2018 13:48:22 GMT
Men wearing hats inside of buildings
Men sitting at their own dinner table in suits
Phone booths
Special people as Elevator operators
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