hey/his/ i just stumbled onto some home videos of a Belgian family that visited or lived in the Belgian Congo (around 1955). I was very intrigued by the simplicity and how daily life looked like back then.
here's the video i was talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ9UfSrkfOg
Post your own cool videos/footage/findings
found some 16mm film of the Belgian king and queen visiting Usumbura, Congo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WSssdTJ6o
OP again, Pathé's youtube account has a wide collection of old footage. Here are the most intersting stuff I found while browsing their channel:
>Suicide Bomber Pilots, Footage from WW2,1945
Suicide Bomber Pilots, Footage from WW2, 1945
>Man jumping to his death from the Eiffel tower testing out his homemade parachute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
>Baghdad, Iraq during the fifties:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AajPxROvcTA
another cool channel on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/HistoricFilmsArchive
The channel has old videos on politics, war, technology/innovations, old news, music, advertising, impressions of various cities in the 20th century...
See e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGDSdrlPI0&index=61&list=PL5yLEe2GajSjF7-16UIgeJXSCkCKAhM3y
(first hydrogen bomb)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOZoaHC5-MY&index=47&list=PL5yLEe2GajSin7dY05K13-J8i-kR20H4X
(personal computers in 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7R0NiBw-zc&index=4&list=PL5yLEe2GajSin7dY05K13-J8i-kR20H4X
(computers in the supermarket)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blB6jE2Wc5c&index=123&list=PL5yLEe2GajSjF7-16UIgeJXSCkCKAhM3y
(construction of the WTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulUKvLGJxM&list=PL5yLEe2GajSi3mV25dV9CVFj99wkOAmJ6&index=76
(basketball in the old days)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU0wZrv8Xxg&index=109&list=PL5yLEe2GajSgmvYlEFES0aG9rWaKkU1sd
(Rio de Janeiro in the 30s or 40s i guess)
WWII Propaganda's always interesting. Here's my favourite from Frank Capra's Why we Fight series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZnFo7JORo