Located in London, Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is the world’s oldest original model village, first opening in 1929. This is one of the earliest films made of the setup. Stuck in the 1930’s, it remains in operation today.
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“Video Killed the Radio Star”
This was the first video that MTV played, when it debuted on August 1, 1981, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles. Ah, 1981. I began my senior year in high school and had just got my first car. My thick collar-length hair was bleached auburn from a summer spent outdoors, and I was still a virgin. What memories!
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Opening Ceremonies of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
London now has the unique distinction of being the first city in the world to host an Olympic event for the third time. These photos are courtesy of the BBC Archive.
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Color Photographs of Miami, 1939
Charles W. Cushman isn’t among the most well-known of 20th century photographers. But, he had a passion for capturing average people and still life. Between 1938 and 1969, the Chicago-born Cushman took 14,500 images, almost exclusively using Kodachrome color slide film. Now, many of his photographs appear in a book published earlier this year by Eric Sandweiss, The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman’s Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America. These are pictures Cushman took in Miami in 1939.
Color Photographs of Greece, 1920’s
A girl husks corn in a field on the Salonika Kozani Road, Microghouzi
A hunter lies under an olive tree on the island of Crete
A maid of Candia poses in costume
A man in national costume smokes a waterpipe, Crete
A man poses in the national costume of Crete
A muleteer stands in the woods in Crete
A peddler with his wares passes through the village, Gastouri, Corfu
A woman in traditional Greek dress knits sitting outside her home, Aivali
A woman poses in the national costume of Crete
A woman works outside her home in Crete
Actress in peasant dress from Thessaly
Artist from Mt. Athos stands next to painting of Saint Nicholas
Girls stand on a stairway of a house in a Greek fishing village, Benizze, Corfu
Peasant women, Delphic Festival
Prior and his monk stand next to well at Europulus monastery, Corfu
Three women pose with children on stone steps, Corfu
Three women sit and do needlework, Crete
Turkish refugees dry corn near site of Pella in the Macedonian plain
Two women with baskets used for gathering olives during harvest, Deka, Corfu
Women and girls in the garden of a country home, Deka, Corfu
Women filter water taken from riverside pools to use for drinking, near Jugoslavian Frontier
Young woman sitting in a garden of flowers, Corfu
Photographs courtesy Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic.
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