Paris 1960
In late 1960, a social group from Kansas took a trip to Paris. From half a century on, they look like ambassadors from another age; possessed of the innate self-confidence, tinged with innocence, of Americans abroad at the height of the American century. They took...
Detroit, 1940s
There’s something dreamlike about the footage used in this episode. Suffused with light and colour, it feels like a memory plucked from the back of someone’s mind. The impressions of a half-remembered day from long, long ago. We witness no great life event here. No...
Somewhere in the 20s
I love the people in this film. They are so unmistakably, so completely 1920s-looking, it could almost be a clip from one of Jay Gatsby’s home movie. That is, if Gatsby had led a somewhat more ordinary life. The story here is straightforward – some fairly well to-do...
South Dakota 1938
https://youtu.be/QFirINirEPY Sometime around September or October 1938, a young man took to the streets of his home town in South Dakota to film some of the residents going about their daily lives. The contrasting reactions of the people he meets are a joy to behold. ...
New York World’s Fair 1939
The World's Fair (now known as Expo) has been held in a different city every few years since 1851. Perhaps the most iconic of all the fairs was held in New York over the long, hot summer of 1939. The event was a spectacular success, drawing tens of millions of...
Introducing The Memory Project
The past is closer than you think. That was the starting point for The Memory Project. A web series that searches through old home movies to find stories of ordinary people. Real lives, real moments, lost to time… Until now. There are thousands of these abandoned...
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