Old documentaries

[Harpo]

Something of a guilty pleasure for many, some old documentaries have acquired their own special appeal after the passing of time.
Narrative, music, and of course fashions and styles of bygone times are my own favourite aspects.

Let’s gather here some examples of old documentaries that are worth watching, but perhaps not for the originally intended reasons.

 

[Ursa major]

It did say upfront that it was based on two novels by Erich von Däniken.

 

[Harpo]

I’ve never otherwise heard or seen them called novels.

 

[farntfar]

I remember when Von Daniken's books came out, that I, along with most of the other boys at the school spent hours building cardboard models of pyramids to see if they would re-sharpen razor blades, as he promised.

As I was too young to have any blunt razor blades in the normal course of events, it was necessary to buy blades and blunt them on sausages. Simply using a rock seemed to be cheating.

It didn't work, of course, and I blame my lack of ability to produce a convincing beard ever since to be entirely Erik's fault.

 

[Harpo]

....sausages?

 

[Ursa major]

....sausages?

Perhaps there's a useful link that farntfar can provide, one explaining why they were used.

 

[farntfar]

I wanted to blunt a blade on something that was cheek like. So essentially skin covered flesh. A stone or paper wouldn't blunt the blade in the same manner.
It seemed logical at the time.

 

[Dave]

Like everyone else, I read the first of the, ahem... novels, but it wasn't so bad that it ever made me go and look for a razor blade to blunt. I didn't know that there was a documentary, but forgive me if I don't watch it at 1.25:45 long. He had some interesting conspiracy theories, and at the time I had never heard of some of the ancient artifacts before so it opened my eyes up to those. I think that Thor Heyerdahl and other explorers have shown that these early cultures did have contact with each other, but contact with people from the stars is overreaching somewhat.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Like everyone else, I read the first of the, ahem... novels, but it wasn't so bad that it ever made me go and look for a razor blade to blunt. I didn't know that there was a documentary, but forgive me if I don't watch it at 1.25:45 long. He had some interesting conspiracy theories, and at the time I had never heard of some of the ancient artifacts before so it opened my eyes up to those. I think that Thor Heyerdahl and other explorers have shown that these early cultures did have contact with each other, but contact with people from the stars is overreaching somewhat.

I think Thor Heyerdahl showed that those early cultures could have had contact with each other - but modern genetic sequencing has been more useful in actually proving how peoples came to end up where they did and who they shtupped on the way.

No alien DNA involved.

 

[Harpo]

Like everyone else, I read the first of the, ahem... novels, but it wasn't so bad that it ever made me go and look for a razor blade to blunt. I didn't know that there was a documentary, but forgive me if I don't watch it at 1.25:45 long. He had some interesting conspiracy theories, and at the time I had never heard of some of the ancient artifacts before so it opened my eyes up to those. I think that Thor Heyerdahl and other explorers have shown that these early cultures did have contact with each other, but contact with people from the stars is overreaching somewhat.

Then just watch the first five minutes, for the music.

 

[BAYLOR]

Something of a guilty pleasure for many, some old documentaries have acquired their own special appeal after the passing of time.
Narrative, music, and of course fashions and styles of bygone times are my own favourite aspects.

Let’s gather here some examples of old documentaries that are worth watching, but perhaps not for the originally intended reasons.

Ive actually seen this documentary . Pure hokum but very enertaining.

You might also look up the made for tv movie Search for the Gods 1975