Interesting historical video/audio.

MehGuy · May 26, 2021

Occasionally I like to dig Youtube to hear interesting audio/video files from the past. Found some interesting things like phone calls from the 1930s and home recording from the era. Post Youtube videos of historical video/audio.

German recording of a stereo sound performance in 1944. Remarkably you can reportedly hear war fire around the the 2:30 mark. A little faint.. but seems real.

While the audio quality is not as good as the 1944 recording above.. it's still a remarkable quality considering it was recorded in 1903.

MehGuy · May 26, 2021

The greatest hits of the 1850s! Sad how far we've fallen..

Chesterton · May 26, 2021

MehGuy said:
The greatest hits of the 1850s! Sad how far we've fallen..

I listened to all that. Now I'm going to have nightmares.

MehGuy · May 26, 2021

Audio recording of Hitler made without his knowledge.. captures his real voice. Have to say.. he had the deep voice to match his super villain persona.. lol.

dzheremi · May 26, 2021

For some reason they've made it age restricted (I don't know why; there's nothing controversial or bad in it), so it won't display without going to YouTube directly, but here's a neat little documentary telling the story of the first ever gramophone recordings of the folk music of Bhutan, which were only made in 1968.

Or how about the first ever commercial Ethiopian recordings, from 1908? They are sung by Tessema Eshete (b. 1877):

MehGuy · May 30, 2021

I love these Youtube channels that clean up, stabilize and use AI to increase the resolution and add color. Helps to bring out the reality that these were once living breathing people with problems and joys just like the rest of us.

MehGuy · Jun 6, 2021

1902 commercial for bicycles. Would be cool to ride one.

Robban · Jun 6, 2021

MehGuy said:
1902 commercial for bicycles. Would be cool to ride one.

You can borrow mine, there does not seem to be any differedce.

MehGuy · Jun 6, 2021

Robban said:
You can borrow mine, there does not seem to be any differedce.

Yeah the modern bike is probably very similar to an early 20th century bicycle.. still.. it'd be thrilling to ride something that was crafted over a 100 years ago.

Robban · Jun 6, 2021

MehGuy said:
Yeah the modern bike is probably very similar to an early 20th century bicycle.. still.. it'd be thrilling to ride something that was crafted over a 100 years ago.

Absolutely, I had a semi-diesel from 1936, they don't wear out.

Sunshinee777 · Aug 18, 2021

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MehGuy · Nov 6, 2021

The inventor of Basketball describing how the game originally game to be. Talk about on a radio program shortly before his death.

Amazing some gym coach coming up with a game out of the blue went on to be a multi maybe even billion dollar industry.

MehGuy · Nov 28, 2021

A video from the 1930s showing an early example of electronic music.

Sounds like 1980s video game tunes to me.

Chesterton · Nov 28, 2021

MehGuy said:
The inventor of Basketball...

I won't mention any names, but somebody sure has appropriated the heck out of my culture. Oh well, I guess this means I get to keep my dreadlocks.

MehGuy said:
A video from the 1930s showing an early example of electronic music.

It looks like Kraftwerk gets the ~~credit~~ blame for inventing techno in 1970. Or so the Germans would have us believe. (R.I.P. Norm MacDonald)

Sunshinee777 · Nov 28, 2021

MehGuy said:
A video from the 1930s showing an early example of electronic music.

Sounds like 1980s video game tunes to me.

That is so cute.

Sunshinee777 · Nov 28, 2021

Chesterton said:
I won't mention any names, but somebody sure has appropriated the heck out of my culture. Oh well, I guess this means I get to keep my dreadlocks.

It looks like Kraftwerk gets the ~~credit~~ blame for inventing techno in 1970. Or so the Germans would have us believe. (R.I.P. Norm MacDonald)

I can’t

DamianWarS · Nov 30, 2021

MehGuy said:
The inventor of Basketball describing how the game originally game to be. Talk about on a radio program shortly before his death.

Amazing some gym coach coming up with a game out of the blue went on to be a multi maybe even billion dollar industry.

Every Canadian knows this story, we had these "part of our heritage" commericals in the 90s and they are often referenced ironically.

and parodied...

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