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Gregory Schnakenberg
@GSchnakenberg

While working in our archives, I found an old metal box. Inside was a long-forgotten roll of silent 8mm film marked "The Philippines 1942"

Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization.

Yesterday, it came back. On it was:

[video of puppies]

10:28 AM · Jan 7, 2023

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That tree-limb broom looks Phillipine primitive

[brewens]

2. The last episode of Ken Burns' Baseball was the making of it. They showed his coproducer having

just found I think two reels of Red Sox footage from 1919, the last year they had Babe Ruth. I'm pretty sure she was in a storage area at Fenway Park in Boston.

It was almost completely deteriorated, and they could only salvage several seconds of it. What a shame. Had anyone realized that was there, they could maybe have saved quite a bit more if they'd gotten to it a few decades sooner.

[Abolishinist]

3. I clicked on the twitter feed... someone colorized the B&W film

and reposted it. I have NO idea how this works, but if you read the replies to the colorizer's post he tells how he did it.

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5. Neat, thanks. nt

[efhmc]

4. Someone on Twitter colorized it.

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. Puppies!! Some things never change

and in this case that's good!

[Bayard]

7. No disappointment here

PUPPIES!

[LudwigPastorius]

8. My God...

Actual brutal footage of puppers recreating the Battle of Luzon!

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Some joys are generational, some are perpetual sources of renewal.

Thanks for this one.

[SilasSouleII]

10. Livestock

1942 Phillipines. Still happens today.