Amazing Footage Restored and Upscaled from a 1939 Ski Jumping Comp in New Hampshire

“Big Nansen” is a steel trestle tower jump in Milan, NH built a couple years before this film was shot
“Big Nansen” is a steel trestle tower jump in Milan, NH built a couple years before this film was shot
The OG, constructed out of mesh and papier-mâché by Steve Chmelar
Mathieu Stern develops 120 year old glass plate negatives using the cyanotype process
Original footage by Lumiere from Lyon, France in 1896
Titanium tetrachloride (FM) rapidly creates dense white smoke when it comes into contact with damp air
The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures
History has a strange way of repeating itself
It was the world’s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building
Life in color over 100 years ago
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