Man, seeing Johnstown like this is weird but when I was a kid I'd see all the old tracks all over the place and the old trolley station was close to where I grew up.... As a kid I worked there cleaning the building for the bus transit that moved in the old trolley building and I found old trolley coins from the 50s and 60s and an old pin. 😊
The Johnstown I grew up in. Everyone working and pulling their own weight. Nobody had their hand out for free money. A classic American Industrial City.
Depressing, seeing how far America has fallen. What was once a lively thriving small city is now a shell of its former self. Anyway, it is great to see glimpses of a time before the melting pot melted down.
Corrupt unions was bought. People on strike just in time blow contract in Canada only give 2.6 billion dollars away and destroyed steel mill blaming owners time after time
@@mountainhobo I couldn't agree with you more I was born in Johnstown all it is now is a dump drug infested dump barley nobody works the ones that do have a job can't make it, rent is so cheap because of no jobs it's sad, when I was a kid that was a growing city now it's all falling apart sad 😢
So many comments not liking the music . . . . . I was thinking it's kinda 'corny' music but fits the era and the rural backwoods feel you get with the visual. The volume controls are right there for you so why complain. I think, probably twice I almost muted it, but then just went with it anyway. We live in a special time right now with the technology we have available to us. The people in these images could never look back at past life the way we can, right in the comfort of our home with such ease. We could seven, at any moment, see something that we feel compelled to know more about, so with a few clicks, open a new tab and research in on the spot. Amazing stuff if through the eyes of anybody in this video. It is sad that the strife in the world today being at the levels of what it is, has me constantly thinking . . . . . how long will this last before we destroy what we have and go through another dark age (at best), gone forever at worst. Truly, thank you PeriscopeFilm for doing what you do.
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The trolley footage is most likely from (or close to) June 11, 1960, which was final day of trolley service in Johnstown. Hence people bothering to film something otherwise considered mundane.
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the first few tracks of this soundtrack were a weird choice, imo. mid-century jazz might have been a better choice? but hey, you do you. and anyway i'm usually on board with the audio selections from y'all.
while i agree that modern camerawork trends from vloggers and tiktok types tend to be absolutely atrocious and unpleasnt to watch, i'm interested in what seperated a static frame of a subject from 1959 from the same technique used in modern times?? i, and i assume anyone else whom owns a video camera and a tripod, can pull shots just like these off easily right out of the box. is there more to it to you? i'm usually in agreement about these aesthetic things being more enjoyable in film/tape video/etc of other eras than the styles that were born of social media and trends of the past ~10-15 years, but "the static frames in this video must mean whoever shot them is a pro who knows how to do it" is a bit silly, even to me.
Why do you have to have that irritating clock running in the whole video? That with the music makes it unwatchable. I can understand wanting to watermark your work but there are other ways to do that
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