This interview was recorded in 1979.
See the full video here: https://youtu.be/js91H5wB11Q
Before the telephone. Before the automobile. Before the airplane. Before paved roads. When most people rarely traveled more than 25 miles from their homes. It was a time of horses and buggies and the early days of US mail delivery. She was 98 years old and was telling me about her life and times back in 1979 when I filmed this interview in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Please remember when you are watching this that you are watching 16mm work print outtakes from my 1979 prime time television special, The Information Society. Unfortunately, the material that I selected as possible to be used, has been lost in my fire of 2008. This wonderful video presents what I was going to use, including a lot of irrelevant questions. I wish I had more of this. I wish I had been smart enough as a young filmmaker when I did this back in 1979 to realize the incredible history that she was so able to articulate. The time before the radio. Certainly before television. The time when she traveled by train and trolley and horse. The time when the telephone was a device where everyone in town could hear everyone else speaking. I found this old 16mm workprint in my basement and digitized it not knowing it would be as wonderful as it is. I recorded this for a television special I was making in 1979 called “The Information Society.” You can see the entire 1 hour film on my YouTube channel by searching it although I did not use this clip in the film.
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Another amazing oldest lady story – https://youtu.be/1CVcZ_8HPuY
I miss the 90s
Back when old people were more awesome than cool.
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I cant imagine what to say about today's day and age when I'm 98. It feels like nothing to me. Everything is so convenient, what stories are we to tell?
That had one with a guy in the 30s and he saw Abraham Lincoln when he was younger and at a lookalike contest he saw a man that looked just like Abraham Lincoln participating who eventually won.
The winner? Was a black man.
My grandma will be 95 this August. She was born in 1929 on August 7 and she’s full of stories.👏🏻❤️🔥💯🥰 Im only 51🤷🏻♀️i grew up with my great grandparents and using an outhouse, 😳🤣💩my grandma she still dyes her hair black and still wears her make up and dresses up all the time✔️☑️✅🫂🥳🤩
People were writing letters, send them in the mail. 📬📨📭
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Does anyone hand write and send letters any more?
Ahhh yes The patient generation
Western civilization peaked in the 1890s. It's all been collapse since then.
Nice long regular walks kept them from getting any kind of adhd that’s for sure…it was safe back then as well for sure
Looks like Rudy Giuliani in drag.
These stories are very interesting. 😄
Well, she’s in terrible shape for being 98 years old. My grandmother is 107 and she’s better than that.
Wait till she sees all the certifications and I.D’s and proof that you live where you say you live to get any legal license
She sounds like Dale the farmer from Napoleon Dynamite
What year was this it looks to be 1960?
And i wish we had alot more of them around to teach us all over again 😞
I don’t know why this younger generation find old people boring. I’ve always found it interesting and captivating whenever they told stories from their past. It’s almost like I was reliving an era that was before me.
Could she not afford a phone?
No telephone?? 😮