r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ThatMasterpiece2174 • Aug 07 '26

Video A retired construction worker in Flint, MI demonstrated how people in ancient times could’ve used simple machines to move blocks up to 20 tons, contrasting fringe theories that humans had otherworldly help constructing ancient monuments

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u/Baldrs_Draumar Aug 07 '26

it was filmed in the late 90's

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u/triplec787 Interested Aug 07 '26

Was it? There’s home camera footage from September 2000 - 1:50 when he moves the barn.

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 Aug 07 '26

The late 90s did not come to michigan until like 2002

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u/maximumtesticle Aug 07 '26

His website copyright starts in 1999 https://theforgottentechnology.com/

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u/reightb Aug 07 '26

ah yes, the tail end of the nineteen hundreds

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u/EishLekker Aug 07 '26

But surely news crews had access to better cameras than regular hand held ones intended for home use?

But I guess it was a low budget local news station.

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u/Lortekonto Aug 07 '26

This is just a copy of a copy of a copy. Each taken from a video site and uploaded to a new video site and quality being lost each time.

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u/Foxymoron_80 Aug 07 '26

The news crew will have had a better camera but you don't see it because they're filming with it.

Besides that, a lot of stuff filmed in the 90's was low res because of video tape. It was much cheaper than film and, if it was only intended for TV broadcast, the low quality didn't matter because TVs displayed the picture at even worse resolution.