Traveling the USA| Back in time (video)

Traveling the USA| Back in time (video)

What do you know about time travel? Well, besides the fact that they are impossible (yet possible, as scientists say). And besides, what for a jump into the past need a time machine.

But if we tell you that to go to new York beginning of the XX century right now? Without leaving home and without spending a penny? All you need for this trip is the Internet and some free time.

Alexei Zakharov, photographer and animator from Moscow, has created a short film called «Old New world», which impresses with its realism and attention to detail.

Using old photos of new York, Boston, Detroit, Washington and Baltimore, Zakharov recreated the video projection which shows how looked American cities between 1900 and 1940.

If a good animation is not enough for you to continue your journey will help you interactive map resource from the 80s.NYC that takes you to new York in the mid-80s.

The card gives you the opportunity to walk the streets of the Big Apple, using thousands of publicly available images tied to urban locations. The presence of so many vintage photographs we owe to the initiative of the 1980-ies, which was determined to photograph every building in the five boroughs of new York for tax purposes.

So we, the people of the future, you can thank the bureaucracy for 800,000 color photographs of the best city on earth.

Traveling the USA| Back in time (video)source: 80s.nyc

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