Lost Film of 1919 "Black Sox" World Series Found

[Perknose]

In a filled-in swimming pool in the Canadian Yukon! D:

It was part of a cache of newsreels from the Canadian Yukon that were at one point used to fill in a swimming pool that was being converted into a hockey rink. The newsreels were discovered in 1978 and sat in an archive, and it was only this year that a White Sox fan working on a documentary about the lost films stumbled onto this one.

 

[brianmanahan]

wow that is incredible!!

 

[Linflas]

Picture quality is pretty amazing other than the deterioration around the edges especially given the neglect.

 

[Ichinisan]

The mechanical board that allowed the huge crowd of people to "watch" the game over 1,000 miles away looked awesome. How the hell did it work? Player positions updated by radio / telegraph somehow?

 

[Kaido]

Wow, that video is almost 100 years old! Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27IqVo5-Oc

 

[techs]

That is really something. Do they have the complete games? I'd like to see the plays that they thought were intentionally blown.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Awesome

 

[TallBill]

That is really something. Do they have the complete games? I'd like to see the plays that they thought were intentionally blown.

Hah seriously, would be interesting to watch.

 

[Jadow]

if I could time travel, one thing that would be near the top of my list would be to go to a teens or 20's baseball game. Probably a Yankees game, so not the 1919 series necessarily, but that would be awesome.

 

[phucheneh]

I didn't know that people in 1919 had the reading speed of developmentally disabled five year olds.

 

[Ichinisan]

I didn't know that people in 1919 had the reading speed of developmentally disabled five year olds.

A lot of people just didn't read at all.

 

[phucheneh]

A lot of people just didn't read at all.

I think it just struck me as weird as a comparison to modern day. We're still quite a half-literate society, yet anything in writing on movies/TV usually requires uber-speedreading to get through before it disappears.

Silent movies must have really been a bitch to get right.

 

[Perknose]

The mechanical board that allowed the huge crowd of people to "watch" the game over 1,000 miles away looked awesome. How the hell did it work? Player positions updated by radio / telegraph somehow?

^^^ Telegraphed by an observer from the game itself and then often broadcast by radio.

That's how Ronald Reagan got his start in show business, as a radio broadcaster re-creating baseball games live from bare-bones telegraphed play-by-plays and then embellishing the facts (as they ALL did) with colorful, made-up add-ons -- Medwick dances off first, the pitcher looks him back -- over the air.

Edit: Yup, folks, Ronald Reagan got his career start embellishing the truth and making up stuff!

Following college graduation, Reagan landed a job as a radio announcer at WOC in Davenport, Iowa and later at WHO in Des Moines. He quickly realized he was in a position "...of getting into a new industry and riding it to the top." An often repeated tale of Reagan's radio days recounts how he delivered "play-by-play broadcasts" of Chicago Cubs baseball games he had never seen. His flawless recitations were based solely on telegraph accounts of games in progress.

On a 1937 trip to California to cover baseball spring training, Reagan took a screen test for Warner Brothers film studios. It led to his first part in a Hollywood movie. The role seemed tailor-made for Reagan -- he played a radio announcer in Love Is on the Air. From then on, Reagan carved a niche for himself in grade-B movies.

WHO's on (the radio) first!

 

[SP33Demon]

This is so freaking cool. I love watching old baseball film, what was weird was the part before your link that said the players were on the fray. Is that their dugout?? It's just a bunch of chairs on the field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPHqbJXDQI#t=138

 

[Lonyo]

If only it were a few years later so it could still be under copyright. I think copyright terms need extending so things like this can be covered.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

this is pretty awesome. marked for later. love watching historic footage.

 

[skimple]

Edit: Yup, folks, Ronald Reagan got his career start embellishing the truth and making up stuff!

Seriously? The guy has been dead for 10 years and hasn't been president for 25 years, and you're still spewing liberal hate at him? Find a hobby besides hating people.

 

[KeithP]

Seriously? The guy has been dead for 10 years and hasn't been president for 25 years, and you're still spewing liberal hate at him? Find a hobby besides hating people.

And a admin as well. Should know better.

-KeithP

 

[OutHouse]

Awsome, loved the arial shots.