Color footage of NYC from 1916 (filmed using Kinemacolor technology)

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Lovely; elegiac, even.

Whenever I watch footage from before 1960, I’m reminded that…

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I loved seeing the old Penn Station brought back to life in (semi-)living colour.

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It was like being there.

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Ah, even way back then that well-worn New York City tradition of cars not stopping for pedestrians. Walkers were a bit politer back then.

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I know; all those glorious hats! I weep for all the haberdashers.

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Wait, they were still using horse-drawn trolleys in 1916?

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