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by grungegun 1724 days ago
Is there a reference for this to verify that this isn't just some historical reenactment? I'm trying to be more careful after I was once pranked by a friend who showed me a black and white video, claiming it was real, of people playing ping pong with nunchucks. I believed him at the time, but it was an ad campaign that someone on youtube had reposted to make it seems legit.
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Found it, starts at 1:13

>Filmed on July 13, 1929.

>87 year old farmer in garden describes work versus play, describes changes that have occurred, and describes travel by automobile versus stagecoach.

https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/5313/r...

Should be real

Googled around and an earlier upload w/o the subtitles have the "MIRC @ SC.EDU" watermark https://youtu.be/RS27u6IqWt0

It's the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_librar...

I can't access the library catalog tho for some reason. Trying to find it in the online collection.