Some 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations, going back to the mid-1800s, are now available to the public for the first time online.

The city Department of Records officially announced Tuesday the debut of its photo database and its previously unpublicized link to the site.

The images are part of the Municipal Archives' vast collection of more than 2.2 million photographs, featuring all manner of city oversight — from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

Researchers, filmmakers, genealogists and preservationists particularly find the photos useful. But anyone can search the images, share them through social media, or purchase them as prints.

The department's Kenneth Cobb said bringing the images online was part of the agency's mission to make city records accessible to everyone.

[AP]

Link: New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery

Unfortunatly, there are no mirrors available yet, so access is... sporadic.

Since it's not a standard embed, I post it here on the talk.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=23193

YouTube has 52 minutes and 24 seconds six parts (#1 (6 minutes), #2 (10 minutes), #3 (10 minutes), #4 (10 minutes), #5 (10 minutes), and #6 (6 minutes and 24 seconds)) showing "The Flintstones Wacky Inventions".

Not embeddable or else I would have submitted it.

http://egotvonline.com/2010/07/16/15-classic-hero-cartoon-openings/ from http://digg.com/television/15_Classic_Hero_Cartoon_Openings_Videos (read comments even for more links).

Seems to meeee, that if like swampgirl said with her play list here,
http://videosift.com/playlists/swampgirl/Sift-Newbies-in-Need,
that if y'all full a yerselves would dodge yer egos for a few seconds, and give some support to the folks who ditch this wankfest once they see the true colors of some of the worst violators of the cult of MeHe ("shes" don't factor in, too few women on the site that will put the less than gentlemen here in their places) would care to go and lookit'....we'd stop scaring folks away!!

..ya .buncha doofs!

I hope to scare away personally, more than a half dozen of ya regulars!!

Sohan Dosova is now believed to be the oldest woman in the world at the ripe old age of 130!

I find it patently unfair that there is still no reliable female counterpart to Viagra.

My favorite Star Trek bad guy passed away today.. He was known for much more than that though:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,4189863.story

Let's go sift a couple up for Mr. Montalban. RIP

http://www.videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-Holiday-Special
It was once abandoned and denied by it's creator. Before the digital age it was loved and passed on by fans in conventions. We've given it a home all these years...

Now the moron wants to take it back. Maybe out of shame? Maybe he's going to make some crappy sequels. Who gives a shit. It's ours damn him!

Now I see it in parts on YT.. Can someone do the piggy back thing so we can have the complete show on our Christmas list?

"With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening in a Los Angeles hospital. She died peacefully but had never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack nine days ago.

She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality. She is the embodiment of beauty.

Statement by Mark Roesler, business agent for Bettie Page"

http://www.bettiepage.com/obit/index.html

To insure the integrity of our Vintage Channel, consensus has decided that Vintage Sifts are 70s and older. When you are posting, please add "vintage" to your sift ONLY if it is or older than 1979.

Also, it must be original footage... no recuts, remakes or videos shot in "vintage style"

It pains me, but I'm going to remove any 80s I've posted in my channel too. (This is going to take me awhile )

Preserve and protect the essence of Vintage Channels bodily fluids!

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Google

Damn, i just spend an hour browsing the archive. Mighty impressive!

Please try to keep your vintage posts over 25 years old if at all possible. 70s and older is best, but I've put some in from '80 to '85

Thanks

In my time here we’ve been fortunate to have community-minded members ask us to share a little about ourselves with the rest of our sifting family. A couple of Sift Talk posts immediately come to mind:

http://mystery.videosift.com/talk/This-Is-Not-The-Greatest-Post-In-The-World-No
http://happy.videosift.com/talk/The-Great-VideoSift-Coming-Out-Thread

I know there have been others of a similar nature in Sift history. However, this is not that kind of post. Well, not exactly.

For this post I’d like members to share their first published videos, and if you feel like it, also share a little bit about what the video says about you. If you're a brand new member, still drop a link to your first video in the comments section. This isn't a high school reunion. All are welcome.

A wise member once said that sifting itself is a form of coming out, and it’s true. What you post can say a lot about you. So what was the first thing you told us about yourself?

This was my first published video. I like seeing true amateurs making a go of it with nothing but their talent and determination. This video highlights that in two respects, because it shows the lovely amateur Sophie Merry dancing her heart out for us, and it also shows the amateur video remixing talents of a fellow Sophie Merry fan. Good for both of them.

This next one was published second, though I submitted it at the same time as my first published video. (Dig the retro Yahoo player. I could update it, but I prefer to keep the vintage player for as long as possible.) This video foreshadowed two things in my Sifting career:
1. I REALLY enjoy posting comedy videos, as they are my bread and butter.
2. I’m a Star Wars geek. They say hindsight is 20/20. You poor bastards should have banned me right then.

Maudlin section (with apologies to maudlin)

Many people have faded away from the Sift, and I miss a few of them. Here are the baby pictures of a few that I miss the most:

CaptWillard: http://www.videosift.com/video/Criminals-Water-Bottle
snoozedoctor: http://www.videosift.com/video/Sausalito-Summernight-by-Diesel
critttter: http://www.videosift.com/video/Nembutal-Fest-with-the-Cramps (still one of my favorite titles to date)

If some old Sift buddies of yours have also faded away, please link their first videos too. For auld lang syne.

And now for something completely different:
... more inside ...

So I bought a shirt online, and the company sent me a second one as a gift. This is what the second one has on it. I feel like this is a Warholesque rendition of a famous model/actress from the late 50s to the 60s. Who is she???



My guesses are Linda Harrison, possibly Raquel Welch or maybe Diana Riggs. Does anybody know?

Paul Newman, actor and maker of great salad dressing died yesterday. He was 83.

Remember when his food products started coming out? How long has it been 20 years ago?
It seemed to start with salad dressing, but products expanded into sauces of all kinds, popcorn, cookies, candies, lemonade and coffee. Damn, what have I missed?

Thanks Paul for Cool Hand Luke and Organic Vinegar and Oil dressing! RIP

Have a browse though some of his work here on the Sift.
http://www.videosift.com/search?q=paul+newman
If you post a tribute of your own. Let us know here

The best one of them passed away at 68 this week. I've just tossed a few movie trailers up and I see a few others have too.

Let's have some fun in honor of Mr. Fontaine and showcase some of his work this week.

From guardian.co.uk :

"The cinematic world was today celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film Metropolis - thought lost for 80 years, until they were found in the archive of a museum in Argentina."

Can´t wait to see the full length restored version.

Full Story
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2288990,00.html

If you don't mind, doing a couple of things to your submissions helps tremendously. Also I love to add your vintage clips to my decade playlists.

1. Add the release date in the Title. If there's no room, then the tags please.
2. Please include the decade in the tags (40s, 50s etc..)

most importantly..
3. Limit materials to only original footage that's at least 20 years old. Please no "made to look vintage" pieces that are aren't actually old.

Thanks a lot folks

http://blog.videosift.com/schmawy
^warning: large post, many embeds, very cheesy^

CaptWillard
Critttter
DotDude
Firefly
Greatbird
Iwastheturkey
Jonny
Kevlar
Kommie
Kronosposeidon
Kulpims
MarineGunrock
Uhohzombies
Silvercord
SlipperyPete
Choggie