Super 8 home movie footage. San Jose, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, Candlestick Park, 1960s, Blue Angels, Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz. Driving. These are taken around 1968.
I know, I think that is why I wanted to feature the sounds of birds throughout this video to remind us that the natural, more tactile world is still here with us if we can only remove ourselves from screens and screen culture.
@@AlfredsVisionsGreat video. I thought the sound was from film at first. I figured the sounds had too be added. I've never seen 60 years old home movies with sound. Even the home movies with Natalie Wood in them. Those people had access film equipment. The best available for that era probably
And yet was it? Was everyone satisfied and connected? I will say that it was a world less mediated by social media and media in general. No screen time. Sitting close to the screen, which was television was discouraged and said to be dangerous physically. I think many times people say the past was better because there is that sense that life was more physical and social things happened only in the walking world or the telephone. Teenagers got bored and wanted to get out of the house and do something.@@dannyhood7433
Hilarious because my older aunts and uncles did nothing but bellyache about how San Francisco and the Bay Area in the 60’s was ruined forever. It never changes.
Hospital Curve near Daly City on I 280 , everything looks the same 55 years later , except San Jose and the Silicone Valley hasn't blown up quite yet with development , very cool !
I'm not sure which part is hospital curve but it would be good to identify it for me and others. People ask about places in the footage and I'm not always sure. 17 and the Pruneyard are of course easier.
I grew up in Bay Area. The plane at the start is a Navy Anti=submarine aircraft. They flew overhead every 30 minutes for years to patrol the ocean and keep Russian or Chinese subs from spying on military ports, counting our ships.
@@kcalb3180 A lot of money and resource does go to military whether or not people are living well. I'm not saying the Chinese were sending submarines necessarily.
Not sure what I found more fascinating---the actual video, or the weird "soundtrack". But, yeah, hailing from the Bay Area myself, I recognized a few spots. The shot of Candlestick Park sure brought back memories.
I grew up in the Bay Area. A lot of it looked familiar and definitely recognized Candlestick Park and the Golden Gate Bridge. The old cars brought a smile to my face. I miss the old VW Bugs and the large tail fins on the Chevys. The soundtrack didn’t match unless you had birds chirping on your car radio! Thanks for the memories!
@@AlfredsVisions Maybe music from the 60’s would have worked too since it was all taken from a vehicle. Either way, I enjoyed watching it. Those were definitely the ‘good old days’ to me. Thanks!
I was in grade school in 1965 my family living in Hunter Point Naval Shipyards SF. I was bused from base to Danial Webster School, a tall brick building and we had to pass a massive 100 yr old stockyard that really stunk. Heard ugly rumors about animal experiments on base. it was a very rough part of town. One morning, along the shipyard waterfront, there was a massive tide line of used syringes and medical waste. You could hear the crowd across the Bay singing the Star Spangled Banner at Candlestick Park on game nights.
The sound effects was cleverly used in this video montage. I've seen it where other YT posters would dub-in music that seemed ill-fitting for the visuals, which detracted from the visual. But in this case, the dubbed-in audio worked very well.
Nice video transfer. You can almost see the film grain and I couldn't detect video dropped frames. So many film transfers are blurry and compressed to death. Likely those master films are then thrown out.
There are no tent cities or homeless people in these old movies like there is today, littering our sidewalk. How far have we really come as a society? Plate C
@Generic_Name_33 I understand that. I think the main thing is our social connection and back in the day there wasn't social media and one could feel very alone but the only solution was to get out and make a friend. The trouble now is the illusion of friends that we never even hang out with in person. Many things happen through video screens. In ways this means connection in other ways it means tuning out of the actual world around us. But every generation tends to think the last generation was better or that their own generation was better than the current. Things will change so much that when you are old you might be telling the young ones in your life that life was better when you were young. However, they didn't say Apocalypse Now for nothing about the 1960s.
@Generic_Name_33 I understand the worry. I usually feel hope that the young human being comes into the world fresh from nature or God and there is always something possible that might enter the world and mix things up for the good. My fear is "screen culture" and whether that might actually change the human brain genetically and create a future of sociopathic humans who have no way of knowing how to connect - connection not being built into society. I've only recently figured out ways to remove myself from too much screen time and I was born in a time we were told not to sit so close to the television.
I am almost 60. In the early 80s, my neighbor and I discovered hundrends of super 8 with great stuff on them including lots of 60s and 70s porn and homemade porn. Great times.
Exactly. Before video came out in the late 70s super 8 was it. In 1977 I had bought a b&w, silent three minute reel of a scene from Star Wars from Kmart of all places.
eah, the soundtrack was just a sound collage that I threw on instead of playing it silent or with the sound of a projector. It’s footage. At the same time if you listen for them, you’ll usually hear a bird somewhere.
I always wanted to go to both the dinosaur park and Santa's Village, we would beg our parents to stop, but we were too poor to afford to go there.. Those were magic times to grow up in the Bay Area in the 60's. Moved out of the Bay Area 20 years ago and finally left California last year.
Dude, is that a basketball gym mixed with a bird chirping for background noise? WTH? Anyway, i drive a lot of those roads everyday day and im kinda amazed how simalar everything looks.
This home movie really needs to be cleaned up, picture stabilized, and perhaps bring it up to the 64K standard. A good rock music soundtrack would make this film shine, and sell it to Grateful Dead Productions with some Grateful Dead from 1968.
Good ideas but I kind of like the texture in the sound. I made the transfers myself with a machine I bought. It is limited. I leave the better transfers for when someone asks to license the footage.
Could be but I doubt it. I don't think these super 8 films were shot any later than 1972. But cars are a good way to date films. I will have to check out that '76,
I know just the quickest shots, but I like the old shot of the dinosaurs. Other than that most of the footage I have is from Santa Cruz mountains, Summit Road and the white deer up there by Madonna Park.
@@AlfredsVisions I thought that looked like highway 17! Boy, was Santa Cruz fun or what? The Big Dipper and the bumper cars, and the air guns and the electric trains in the glass enclosure, and The Plunge.
Here in Sunnyvale there have been a lot of birds chirping, especially this one mockingbird, but I also wanted to just create a soundscape and contrast the valley which was developing big time in the last fifty years with the birds which have been here since they were dinosaurs.
Great footage. I do agree with the commenter how generations complain about the present and fondly recall their past as the best of times. No doubt this present will be remembered as wonderful by seniors in the 2050’s and 60’s.
Jimi shows up in her dreams, Sounds like it really happend?. I remember women always find jimi atractive. I had huge posters of jimi back early eighties. The worst, but girls my age didnt say anyhing bad upon seeing jim hendrix. I had the good ones, We used to listen to B side in Nine to the universe after hours. But they were open minded. Although kids my age were starting to takk shit on jimi hendrix, anything sixties.
Clean new smooth freeways. Although they canceled a good portion of their programmed routes. There should have been a N-S 101 freeway, and the 480 should have been completed. An E-W 80 to the ocean would have been icing on the cake.
Great footage, but WHAT is that creepy soundtrack overlapping everything? It sounds like radio interference, the inside of a schizophrenic's brain, and maybe the Devil all on top of each other. Where did the sounds come from? I'm not talking s#!t, I'm genuinely curious to the creator of the vid.
The footage stands on its own silent. I just thought I’d throw on a sound collage rather than a nostalgic song or music. I think there is still a nostalgia but in a different way - bits of unclear voices and birds and ambiance.
@@AlfredsVisionsyes, I enjoyed the background sounds. Gave it a haunting tho comforting feeling, like being a kid in the backseat with your parents up front.
