The World War 1 generation, things like this is what's truly great about You Tube !

These wonderful people have been gone for decades. God bless them.

FINALLY I find this on KZfaq. I recorded this off AMC when it first aired. I was almost 15 years old. That tape broke and I could never find this documentary again, until now. Thank you!!! I distinctly remember the woman yelling “Fatty Arbuckle!” at 1:42, and the man saying “It was traumatic in the extreme” at 34:50. These people had such a different and distinct way of speaking, I was fascinated as a young man, and it was this film that sparked my interest in silent pictures. This brings tears to my eyes almost 30 years later 🥹😊

This is fabulous.. I don’t know why but it makes me cry. I wish everyone who still has their elderly relatives available to speak with would record their descriptions of memories and thoughts. They’re treasures we don’t realize fully until the people have passed. Thank you for sharing this.

Love the video, so much fun! Love the older folks singing, and their wonderful reminiscing of the past.

I stumbled across this and it is absolutely wonderful. We are so fortunate that these people were able to record their memories for future generations. Their humour still shines through. Its like looking through a window into a different world. Thank you for uploading this.

THIS is absolutely adorable. God bless those sweet people❤❤❤❤

The Photoplayer is an almost lost treasure of the Silent Film era

Thanks for uploading this! As a silent film fan, this is such a treat.

I watched this when it first came out. I have wanted to see it again all of these years.

FINALLY I find this on KZfaq. I recorded this off AMC In 1996 I think, and that tape broke and I could never find it again, until now. Thank you!!! This brings tears to my eyes 🥹😊

Eskimo from Buffalo!❤❤❤❤❤❤ it!

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Thank you.

Thanks for posting, this is marvelous ❤

I love this!!

Simply wonderful!!

Beautiful tribute ❤well done

This is such a cute documentary, thank you

Hope to see you all across the river, I won't forget you.

Spotted this yesterday. Looks a most interesting and valuable slice of oral history... 🎞🎞🎞 Was there a book tie-in as well?

To nitpick a bit about the filming of this: I can only assume a proper camera crew would've been too disruptive in nursing homes, where most of these interviews were filmed? That said, not ALL the interviews are in nursing homes, and yet the camera still hides behind other objects or opaque glass or something. We're PEEKING at these folks, and I started finding it distracting about halfway through. I would like to be able to see, and HEAR, the subjects more clearly. Subtitles should also have been deployed. Anyway. These folks were the group before the "Silent Generation". I guess they're known as the World War I Generation? But that seems insufficient, at least for Americans. (Not our war really, despite the exhortations of Mr. Wilson and Ms. Pickford.) The "Lost Generation" seems to refer more to writers and other arty types, mostly in Europe. Also, all the dead young men in Europe, literally "lost" to the meat-grinder of War. I think the most accurate term for Americans of this time is "The Movie Generation", because these folks grew up with nickelodeons and finally movie palaces that featured lavish silent screen entertainment. Recently I heard someone opine that the movies changed humans at an evolutionary level, and I think that might just be true. One woman here says the time of her youth, the first 2 decades of the 20th century, might as well have been a million years ago. There's something true about that. We can talk about cars and their immediate impact on infrastructure, but the movies changed the way people understood the world outside their communities, as the woman from Billings, Montana suggests. They also got us accustomed to passively accept entertainment, no matter the message (hello there, "Birth of a Nation", we meet again, as we always do when it comes to surveys of the Silent Era), leading the way for the talkies, TV, the Internet, and lord knows what else coming down the pike - AI entertainment? (Shudder.)

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