The Vancouver Videodisc
 

After its discovery in 2012 someone (not me) has graciously taken the time and effort to digitize the entire laserdisc which contains thousands of individual photographs for almost everything in Vancouver up until the disc was pressed in 1983.
If you can't keep up, download the video and play it back frame by frame. There's a lot.

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thanks for the link! the Vancouver at 1500 KPM is amazing!

Oh wow! I remember having to watch this in elementary school! it was sooo cool backthen to have a laser disc player.

Yes, this is great. Thanks for posting!

A little bird has told me that the reason the video is no longer available is because someone purchased the rights to the footage and requested it be taken down for unknown reasons.


This is why we can't have nice things. :(

So, the gist I got out of the original video before it was pulled was that they were approached by another person who requested it come down because they were working on a remaster and updated release.

Well, it's been seven years and this person never updated anyone on their progress, nor did anything ever get released so I purchased a copy and here it is again out of the spite of "I'm working on this. I'm remastering it. No I won't tell you when it's ready and no I won't tell you how to contact me."

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An archival copy can be located at the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library.

Here are 2 gif from 3 seconds of the Youtube video The Vancouver Disc . I'd be curious to see the quality of the original Laser Disc (if there are any differences in quality).

1 second in a 19 sec gif

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2 seconds in an 18 sec gif

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https://makeagif.com/i/g5LD6Y

It's amazing how much some things have changed dramatically since 1983 and some things did not change at all.

Massive difference. It looks all muddy because of digital compression.
Youtube cranks up the compression when adjoining frames vary wildly, that's why the image archives are a tiled mess while the time lapses are excellent.

There's a few people working on this right now. In the last few years a group developed a device called the Domesday Duplicator to skim the raw analog modulation data out of a laserdisc and save it, resulting in a near-perfect copy of a stamped disc without any preprocessing by the player's electronics.
I have one disc. I know where another and possibly a third is. The Domesday Duplicator allows you to merge multiple captures to try and build a flawless copy. I have no timeline when that might become available as I am not associated with that project.