1939 People, Clothes IN COLOR

[Marc Chevalier]

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Below are screen captures from a series of COLOR home movies filmed at the New York World's Fair in summer, 1939.

These images show ordinary people of that time. It's a rare chance to see, in blazing color, what our ancestors looked and dressed like.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Many more images to come!


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[Quigley Brown]

Here's a link to a website that has a collection of snapshots of ordinary life in America from the teens to the 60s.

http://squareamerica.com/index.htm

 

[Matt Deckard]

Those screen grabs from those DVDs you got off Ebay?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yup! And there are some very nice examples of belted-back jackets, too.

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[Maj.Nick Danger]

Cool.

They look pretty much just like folks today, just better dressed. I often tend to push the fact that things actually were in color, not just shades of grey, into the back of my mind. It's nice to see the past in color. Thanks for posting these.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

1939 World's Fair Films

You know you can see them for free here (These are the same as the ones sold on that auction site) : http://www.archive.org/search.php?q...AND mediatype:movies AND collection:prelinger

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Stay tuned -- many more images to come tomorrow and Thursday!

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[Baron Kurtz]

YES!!

the guy on the far right.

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[Lauren]

Bless, you, Marc, for providing photographic proof that not everyone looked like the movie stars. These are brilliant, and really, the way many of us would have looked had we lived back then. Kudos. Please share more!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's a different photo of him:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Please share more!

Believe me, there's a LOT more.

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[Wild Root]

Marc, these are great! I'm sure I'd cry if I watched the footage... this kind of stuff effects me... it's real, not smoke and mirrors, it's the REAL 1930's that really happened and not some idealistic interpretation from Hollywood!

This photo is amazing! I love the two girls and the guy on the bench wearing a ringer T-shirt with a pith helmet and sunglasses! lol

=WR=

 

[Matt Deckard]

The rampant hatlessness is disturbing.

You can also find many of the vids on youtube.

 

[Steve]

I'm floored; I've never before seen color photos (or screencaps, as the case may be) from that long ago. Wow, just wow. They all look so natural, not standing out the way we do when we dress that way; it makes me sad.