Name: Watch This To Hear Her Describe Life BEFORE 1900
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T08:28:43.000Z
Duration: 16 min 16 s
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Hello, I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and I'm about to show you a clip of a 98 year old woman who I interviewed back in 1979.

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She's just a CZ colorful and alive as she could be.

A film, a major special for public television called the Information Society is completely new idea.

We're still in the industrial age in 1979 Yet computers are moving into banks and stores and not yet homes too much butt into people's lives.

It's got some rural people, and I start talking to people about the coming of the information age and about the lives that they lived in before.

Even cars and telephones on this lady, 98 years old, remembers everything.

I found this piece of film in my basement in a can didn't know what it was, digitized it, and I find her.

You're going to see blotches and marks and scratches.

I'm looking at this biggest story the information age and the industrial age.

And here I'm talking to a woman who remembers so much she could have talked to me for hours and they should have done that.

And in those days, I threw out the outtakes.

Not important in the picture, you know, Be someone to listen to you.

I was born in 81 you know, And there was a long period before that.

Didn't number and little still came in and they couldn't compete with him.

Of course, the people in the county didn't come home for lunch today.

Come on, in the trance explication Mexico.

Uh, well, world that went from links down the power bill, and, uh, I think the train left for it.

It took us about three hours to get up Stopped of every station, you know, with either to take on something.

It was always to put something off and, uh, and come up.

We stopped to pick these up temples like the great and sometimes leave stopping the station and the old and the back board.

Mellie would spend 15 minutes of getting ready to leave.

And the in the wear of time, The you almost prayed for snow because when you had the the slaves and it was much easier to get around in a sleigh.

What about, um uh, communication between people.

And it's like, I don't think everyone missed getting the mail it with guys, and we had to go to two miles.

And I have to get my and have a child that one like yours and the I will horseback.

You know, I had a step in the back and actually got in.

And, of course, when the horse crap traveling with you know that was all right.

Way right and we had a big old buffalo warm.

Let's compare well, we had what the stage coach would come from.

It came from language right down when languishes down.

I think that when this far I don't look so feel peace gone.

It went down and lead was supposed did that, I think, to the book and 11 class and love it usually got.

And of course, when the telephone rang, the whole neighborhood went ballistic to walk and that a great deal of news got around that way.

They could, and some sometimes people would be listening to the bone.

I've got a radio and it's that right here and I don't know.

I know that none of you remember one man's family.

But there was a story one man's Obama in the ran for I don't know how many years, 20 or 30 years I think, and I remember this simply came on.

Just abundant done a little after and, uh, how we would rush some bombs.

We're rushing the dinner table to get in to hear the story of one man family, and, you know, it never ended.

And I That was one thing I never like to listen to something that don't bend.

And, Well, when people came on legs, stay with you, they bought it.

Grady Little Luggage and I stayed at least two weeks.

Nobody ever would ever think that Common spent in the week.

All the sense that was the carriage for the guests.

And then they Santa something else to carry the looming.

Modern want communications like telephone, television, satellite way that we now deal with each other.

Wait, no, I It's a wonderful world to live in today, but, uh, I don't think we're in amber.

I know one of those days in those days, I thought I had everything with everybody ad I thought a little more than everybody else because I really had no Kayla's And at the time, it wasn't difficult again.

And, uh, Well, when I think well, everybody was friendly, Everybody knew everybody else.

And, uh, it was it Was it little nice lunch.

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