Just watched this brilliant little film: It's great that this has survived but it makes me wonder whether in 80 years time there will still be quality recordings of 'everyday life' in 2013 that people can look back on, or whether we are now so overwhelmed with everyone taking hours of videos and millions of digital photos of every aspect of their lives (including what they're having for dinner), that it will either (a) be impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff, or (b) everything will just be consigned to a huge digital heap of insignificance or (c) lost as people's computers break down and stuff gets wiped off. Sorry - spent ages trying to get across what I mean and still don't think I've managed it! I also wonder about family photo albums in the future (being a keen family history bod): My Mum and Auntie had a load of old photos of various family members which, before my Mum's memory went, I sat down with her and labled up and put in an album. Will such a thing as a family photo album exist in the future, or, again, with so many photos being taken, and so many of them being held just digitally, will they just lost in the mists of time? Waffle over.
There is a website for bygone croydon, with old pictures and videos of the area, its great to see the way things were when i was growing up and play guess where that is and whats there now. I know exactly what you mean about future generations having anything to look back on, digital media is great but it is a very much a here and now media. And heaven forbid that the only records of now that survive are T.O.W.I.E or big brother
I love stuff like this Mrs Moosey. This was filmed at Stanage Edge (Don't know if you know it, just outside Sheff) http://www.yfaonline.com/film/sheffield-climbers And my favourite, James Mason on 'The London nobody knows' Full film here if you're interested. http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15064408nCWcD4Pm?h1=The London Nobody Knows
Other than the landmarks a lot of those buildings in the 1927 film are still standing - quite a bit of that film (tower of London/London bridge/London bridge etc used to be my walk to work) Speaking of which - if I went into work early and walked over Tower Bridge and up Tooley Street I would often see tramps cooking up warm milk to have with their meths (as in the James Mason film) - they would be in Potters Fields Park (before it got all swish round there) or down by the side of the long gone Antigalican Pub
