{"id":19629,"date":"2012-03-20T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19629"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:50:35","slug":"vintage-videos-bahamas-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/vintage-videos-bahamas-in-the-1930s","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Videos: Bahamas In The 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19632\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"vintage-bahamas-films\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vintage-bahamas-films.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vintage-bahamas-films.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vintage-bahamas-films-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>More vintage home movie footage of Bermuda in the pre-World War Two [1939-1945] era has been restored and posted online by Nova Scotia\u2019s provincial archives.<\/p>\n<p>The scenic 1933 footage was taken during a holiday trip to Bermuda, Bahamas and Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>The newly posted footage was shot by John B. Porter (1861-1943), a mining engineer and amateur filmmaker, who travelled extensively around the world and took 16mm moving pictures of his travels.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in Montreal, summered in Guysborough, and wintered in California.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"428\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/utMx8C2f-Nc\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"428\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/utMx8C2f-Nc\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenic 1933 footage taken during a holiday trip to Bermuda, Bahamas and Jamaica by John B. Porter, a mining engineer and amateur filmmaker, who travelled extensively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,44,73],"class_list":["post-19629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-films","tag-history","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}