Where were the early steam sound film outtakes from the 20s?

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2023 10:18 pm

I have been wracking my brain all day to remember the web site I found several years ago that featured live sound movies of steam locomotives from the 20s-30s. I believe they were all outtakes. I was looking in my files and think I lost the URL for the site.
I'm sure someone on here remembers them. Variety of subjects. SP, B&M, etc.
Thank you in advance.

nathansixchime · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:03 pm **Posts:** 948

Potentially this? https://www.youtube.com/@SpeedGraphicFilmVideo/videos

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2023 11:36 pm

nathansixchime wrote:

Potentially this? https://www.youtube.com/@SpeedGraphicFilmVideo/videos

What I remember is that it may have been some kind of university film library or something like that.
There were quite a few trains involved.
I hate getting old and can't find or remember stuff.
I didn't see it in any Youtube listings. I didn't see it on Youtube the first time, different web site.

geoff1944 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:57 pm **Posts:** 36

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... XUvE6Ayeje

Geoff Quadland

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2023 2:49 am

The original source for the vintage Fox Movietone News outtakes that are at Speed Graphic on YouTube is the Fox Movietone News Collection in the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina Libraries.

Be forewarned, this site was "updated" a while back, and it became, at least for me, pretty user unfriendly, simply because searches didn't work very well.

I haven't used it in some time, and the link to this specific collection seems to have been changed again, so maybe it's better now.

Good luck!! Let us know if the university got the search tools working better.

https://digital.library.sc.edu/collecti ... ollection/

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Tue May 09, 2023 8:01 am

I have noticed a lot of fun Fox Movietone films that I saw on YouTube a few years ago have been removed.

NJDixon · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:36 pm **Posts:** 364

softwerkslex wrote:

I have noticed a lot of fun Fox Movietone films that I saw on YouTube a few years ago have been removed.

I remember that the Speed Graphic Youtube channel that had a lot of them uploaded said they were going to have to start removing a lot of them because the college that owned the collection was making legal rumblings. There was some really good stuff on there too: Baldwin steam locomotives being loaded on ships for overseas delivery, a press video for those unusual B&M Berkshires, a publicity video for the new DL&W Poconos (with sound clips of the air horns they were equipped with even.)

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue May 09, 2023 1:34 pm

I don't encourage wanton "online piracy"; lord knows I've been a victim of it, as have many of the groups I've worked with.

BUT there exist programs designed to download and save online videos, some even custom-tailored to sites like YouTube.

If you spot online video footage relevant to your society/museum's mission, it may behoove you to save a copy as a file somewhere to be archived later. Don't count on your favorite websites or video links to stay online forever. "Pixel rot" happens everywhere, from archives like these to YouTube to porn sites to Napster............... Someday, even YouTube and Flickr will be gone, too.