Amateur film of Cologne offers interesting look into history of Minnesota

(FOX 9) – As modern-day drone expertise sweeps throughout Cologne, you get the sensation quite a bit has modified right here within the final 100 years. The truth is, 83 years in the past, on this similar stretch of land, a really totally different digital camera captured a really totally different lifestyle.

It was July of 1939, two months earlier than the beginning of World Struggle II, and two locals, Ray and Esther Dowidat, determined to doc on a regular basis life on this small, German-inspired village. 

“They had been right here about two years training medication and determined to make a film about their recollections of dwelling right here,” Roger Storms instructed FOX 9.

The end result was a 14-minute beginner brief movie, utilizing Esther’s diary entries as a tour information. They take viewers from life on the farm, to contained in the city’s economic system, centering across the booming flour mill and creamery.

In July of 1939, two months earlier than the beginning of World Struggle II, two locals, determined to doc on a regular basis life in a small, German-inspired village in Minnesota. 

There was a work-hard, play-hard mentality again then… And the saloons had been on the coronary heart of it – a spot the place all of the ‘good natured Germans or Hollanders’ might unwind. 

The Esthers’ movie was first found in 1949, ten years after it was made, within the attic of a member of the family. 

The unique footage was jumpy, virtually unwatchable. It will definitely landed within the nationwide movie archives the place it was digitized, and the remainder was historical past.

An beginner movie made on a whim finally made historical past for Cologne.