"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
08/21/2020 at 11:40 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
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This is quite interesting: large format film made in 1902 on a train passing over Wuppertal, which sits between Dortmund and Köln.
The embedded film has been stabilized and colorized; you can read more about it and see the original footage here:
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I’m reminded of a scene from some cheesy high school TV show where the teacher tells the kids how much they don’t know about Benjamin Franklin. How did he walk? What did he sound like? Thus they’re encouraged to create a class film so future generations would know about them.
Tripper
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 11:46 |
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This is WILD, thank you for sharing! Watching it full screen you can almost put yourself there.
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Just Jeepin'
> Tripper
08/21/2020 at 11:48 |
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It’s truly amazing the quality of that film. Reminds me of the difference between 35mm and 70mm today, but this was 120 years ago!
For Sweden
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 11:48 |
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Germany, 2002
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 11:58 |
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The train is still there! You’d think during
WWII it would have been destroyed. Apparently not.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 12:12 |
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To think they’re 12 years away from a very dark time in German history. Absolutely wild when you think about it.
Mark - Sixpots None The Richer
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 12:27 |
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In Germany we say that the people of Wuppertal are crazy. The proof? They are building their train tracks upsi de down !
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Mark - Sixpots None The Richer
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
08/21/2020 at 12:50 |
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It’s a general misconception that the war is to blame for the demolition of German cities and infrastructure.
The truth is that the reconstruction was far worse than the bombings.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/out-of-the-ashes-a-new-look-at-germany-s-postwar-reconstruction-a-702856.html
Damages to crucial infrastructure (like Wuppertal’s suspension railway) and some historic landmarks were quickly rebuild. In fact, especially in Western Germany it was called a miracle how quickly the infrastructure was rebuild to be even more capable than pre-war.
But in order to create “automotive cities” and to build affordable housing, office and commercial space,
Germany’s (East and West) approach to build cities in the 50s and 60s was destroying the unique features of the historical city centers. That’s why today a lot of the bigger cities are missing charm and distinctive features.
In Eastern Germany (the GDR) the ideology is also to blame for the deliberate demolition of cultural heritage to build a new socialistic society. One example of many is the
Berlin Palace
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In other words: Rebuilding Germany to what it would’ve looked like pre-war was possible despite the damages, but consciously not done for various reasons in a lot of cases.
fintail
> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 13:03 |
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The contrast between the old stone Romanesque buildings and the alien-looking train system must have been astounding in 1902, it still looks crazy.
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> Just Jeepin'
08/21/2020 at 15:03 |
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That’s the train that the elephant jumped/ was pushed? out of
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Just Jeepin'
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
08/21/2020 at 15:15 |
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Yep.
RacinBob
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
08/21/2020 at 16:13 |
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exactly my thought too. At the height of 300 years of economic development and just 14 years from 50 years of economic squalor .