For people who don't know, it was shot in 35mm which was an analog technology. 35mm film can be converted to 4k. So most of the films that were shot from 40's through the 90's had potential to be converted to 1080p or 4k, but we didn't have the devices or technology yet to watch them on.
I grew up in Dallas and it’s a treat for me to see how it looked at the beginning of the 1970’s(my father was in his late 20s at that point and one of my uncles had just come home from Vietnam). Watching films like this one is the nearest thing to a time machine that we have. And by way: Most of the cars that were in the film are now sought-after collector’s items.
I see that most of the theaters on Elm Street are gone and only a few of them were still left at the time. Only the Majestic still remains to this day.
Early 1970, likely January/February. One of the theatre marquees advertises Marlo Thomas in "Jenny". Another has Warren Beatty/Liz Taylor in "The Only Game in Town".
Dallas was slow on economic progress in those days. Only if you were in properly connected social circles could you progress from the meager earnings that were typical of those times. It took decades for the DFW area to come into the real world.
I'm really interested in what year or decade did the street name signs change from the old 40s/50s font style to what they look like today, that kinda the greenish background with white font. I do know most Dallas street signs have looked basically the same for four decades at least
Over time. Just like how neoclassical, art noveau, and art deco fonts shared their strip along with the cursive style shop font in the 1920s. It all came at different intervals, and most of all of these are 1940s fonts.
We didn't have a clue back then. Cars and trucks were pretty cheap at the time and didn't last very long. 100 thousand miles was a big deal. Our '68 Dodge Dart lasted to 135 thousand miles and that was extremely good. My '71 Chevy Impala went 140 thousand before I bought the next car. Most people kept a car or pickup a few years and upgraded to a new one. People could afford to do that back then when cars were only 3 or 4 thousand dollars new. I also had a '65 Chevelle that I wish I had kept. Even back then, I knew it had a classic look. But nobody could have guessed those old cars would ever be worth anything in the future.
@@gdub350 Yes, before drugs, but also there were no street bums because the cops would arrest a bum for vagrancy back then. It sure was nice, I wish they would do that now!!
1969 exact. I saw a 1969 Mercury, a lot of 1964 Fords (that's not really important however to the current year but a interesting tidbit I notice) 1965-68 Lincolns, cadillacs from '59 and 1964, Plymouths, no Buicks surprisingly but might have missed them, and the Police vehicle is around a 1967 Dodge Coronet.
Well lit and preserved film will be superior to digital for a long time, still - but my impression is “Ugh the 1970’s and the things we thought were actual medicine that were only actually metaphysics. Let’s alleviate pain with petroleum derivatives was a bad call.”
That’s where all the homeless shelters are located. People in Dallas don’t want them in their neighborhood so they have no choice but to put them in Downtown. It’s not going to change simply due to the location of the shelters. Just about every city in North Texas without homeless shelters send their homeless population to Dallas. The vast majority of homeless people aren’t even from Dallas. Cities across the country also give their homeless one way bus tickets to other cities. So, there’s a lot of them that aren’t even from Texas. But even with that being said, it’s still nowhere near on the level of cities in California (LA, SF, etc.)
