OT: Baseball film from the deadball era

[barrysloate]

I remember seeing some early footage where the Giants hoisted their championship flag. Does anybody know the details of that?

[bmarlowe1]

These films were made. You can find, for example, contemporary newspaper references to showings of 1908 WS films at theaters. I have seen (and have on saved my computer) some very short pre-game and game sequences from the Cubs-A's 1910 series. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these films have very likely turned to dust long ago.

Here are a couple of still frames from the 1910 series:

[Wite3]

As with most films pre-1920...they have been lost to time. There are a very few snippets that have survived from the early days of baseball. I know the HOF has a few dozen frames from the deadball era but they are either too degraded or too fragile to be shown/transcribed.

Joshua

[obcbobd]

I collect DVD/tapes of old BB Games. One I have entitled BB Newsreels 1913-38 has some dead-ball era footage.

1913 Opening Day at Ebbets Field and
1919 World Series with warmups and some game footage from game 1 and game3. Pretty nice stuff.

If someone wants I could make a copy of the DVD.

thanks

Bob

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

I collect DVD/tapes of old BB Games. One I have entitled BB Newsreels 1913-38 has some dead-ball era footage.

1913 Opening Day at Ebbets Field and
1919 World Series with warmups and some game footage from game 1 and game3. Pretty nice stuff.

If someone wants I could make a copy of the DVD.

thanks

Bob

YES, if it wouldn't be too much trouble!

[obcbobd]

DVDs in the mail tomorrow to Len and Skip. I think a few others PM'd me, but I don't have your shipping address.

thanks

Bob