I used to have a VCR tape of old-timey newsreels from the 30s and one of them was a story about a dude who did this kinda thing to his car. He's showing this backward-car shit off in the city and some cop walks up to him, looks at the car, WHACKS THE DUDE WITH A FUCKING BATON, then points for him to GTFO with a "ged da fuck odda hehr!" expression. The best part is that everyone looks like they're having a great ol' time, including the dude who just got brained by Boston's finest. The guy's smiling while O'Malley the Copper looks like he's debating taking another swing.

If that dude with the car had been black, the tone of that newreel would have been a weeeeee bit different, especially the ending.

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Least ridiculous is clearly "pictures of dogfights above London, the Battle of Britain" because that footage EXISTS! See this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-fVLCnsBs

These newsreels contain footage of German formations from the ground (1:00) as well as in air footage from the fighters as a German bomber is shot down (6:15).

Ok, to be pedantic, I don't know if it's above London, and it's not great quality. But gun cameras were widespread in World War 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_camera

So it's not at all a ridiculous request.

I forget where, but similar concept (although with older technology) was used for a billboard to produce images like this in much larger sizes back in the 30s. I wish I could remember what city it was or what it was called, just an old newsreel about using a projector to "blow up" a motion picture into lights just like this. Was pretty bad ass for pre-transistor tech.

>> ^Deano:
Love the lurid commentary. He probably does the celeb gossip as well.



Sounds like Ed Herlihy's grandson perhaps http://www.videosift.com/video/Old-Timey-Newsreel-on-the-Suez-Crisis-and-more