Blast From the Past: High Quality Color Footage of New York City in the 1930s

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Color film first burst onto the scene in 1935 when Kodak introduced the world to Kodachrome, and the first of this film that was available to the public was the 16mm variety for home movies. Later, Kodak introduced similar 8mm and 35mm film for home movies and photography, respectively, but it was the 16mm film that had finally offered consumers the ability to easily capture their world in color for the very first time.

The above video is a rare clip released by the Romano Archives that shows what French tourist Jean Vivier was able to capture using the 16mm film all the way back in 1939, when he came to visit the Big Apple.

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Similar to the one in London!

 

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Notice nobody was looking at their tablets or smart phones!!

 

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Look at how huge the city already was over 80 years ago...

Notice nobody was looking at their tablets or smart phones!!

They were still staring at IBM's punch-card machine

 

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Their calculators.