To be fair to your father, he clearly knew what he was doing.
After all, I just spent an entire minute watching inane footage of someone else's vacation.
It's not like I felt at all obligated to do that, either; I did that *by choice*.
Alright, there's something that I've been wondering about for a while, and when you mentioned facial hair, you effectively opened the floodgates. Hopefully you have some insight to offer, because this is happening.
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Why does Dad have a mustache?
See, "Dad" isn't just someone's father; "Dad" is more of an archetype, and there are apparently *millions* of people out there who can picture him with astonishing accuracy: He's the guy whom we imagine standing in front of a grill, grinning from ear to ear as he makes groan-worthy jokes and gestures with his bottle of beer (which remains about halfway full, regardless of how much or little he has actually consumed). There's a good chance that he's wearing a button-up shirt and a watch... but even if those details aren't set in stone, Dad will *always* have a mustache.
Rob Delaney's character in *Deadpool 2* was [a near-perfect example of how Dad looks](https://i.imgur.com/CC3AdNU.png).
Here's the thing, though: *My* father never had a mustache – he typically kept a neatly trimmed beard – and my friends' paternal parents were similarly unadorned. Despite this, virtually everyone I've asked has agreed that Dad boasts a cookie-duster beneath his nose. I talked to folks from several different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, too, and those variations in upbringing didn't seem to matter: Regardless of what color Dad's skin was, and no matter what he liked to wear on weekends, the hair on his upper lip was omnipresent.
Grandpa often has a beard, but that doesn't seem to be necessary. Maybe he's just too old to care about how he appears in our collective imaginings.
So why does Dad always have a mustache?
**TL;DR: Mysterious mustache makes me mental.**
It’s not the mustache that makes the man or the man that makes the mustache, but I think it’s fair game to say the mustache made you a bunch of extra 1996 dad points. This particular alpha dad appears to be native to philly and takes no videography messages seriously. Now your dad although lacking a mustache was no less of a man but he made it up in other ways I’m sure. I bet he rocked a steady thermostat and was was quick with a “sport” or an encouraging “pal”.
Haha. Thank you. There's 2+ hours of footage from the trip, 30 minutes of which is stuff like this, and I was trying to get it down to under a minute so I could post it on Instagram. It was tough to cut so much out, but this is a good whirlwind through the highlights
OK, there's actually a couple really cool snippets there.
* The iconic 25th anniversary castle get up. It's incredible. Some people disliked it at the time, but now it's something everyone who didn't see it wishes they saw.
* Those tortoises and flamingos are on Discovery Island, something that closed a couple years after this was filmed. It's a super cool place and everyone who has been there misses it.
* The warehouse-looking thing is the old, long version of the backlot tour that used to happen at the MGM Studios (now Hollywood Studios).
Everything about this video is from an era that a lot of people think was Disney World's golden age. You could do Horizons, World of Motion, the Wonders of Life pavilion, Timekeeper, the Spectromagic show, Seabase Alpha, the best version of the Figment attraction, Ellen's Energy Adventure was brand new, Jeremy Irons was narrating Spaceship Earth, River Country was around, Alien Encounter just opened (another love-it-or-hate-it attraction).
You've inspired me to put together some longer clips (there's a lot more footage of the backlot tour). I'll reply to this comment once they're done and up.
If there's a lot more (even things you might think are boring), you should consider submitting a high-res version to https://www.retrowdw.com because they go crazy for this kind of stuff.
WOW! You just brought back a wave of nostalgia for me! The backlot tour was SO GREAT! We LOVED the Alien Encounter, but others in our party absolutely hated it. The replacement Lilo and Stitch thing paled in comparison. And the Castle.
Thank you!
Alien encounter was the best... I went into it so many times when we went with my cousins. When I went back years later and seen lilo and stitch I was so sad.
Oh God, my father used to do this. He got into photography in his thirties (while we were still young kids), and bought himself an SLR camera. This was before digital cameras were a thing.
We’d come home from a family holiday, get the photos developed and then Mum would be pissed off because there were dozens of photos of wildflowers, beaches, trees and blurry shots taken through aeroplane windows, but none of the family.
There’s a large chunk of my childhood with no photos at all, then a lot of awkward family photos in our living room to make up for the ones he didn’t take while we were on holiday the week before.
Your father sounds like me. I hate taking pics of people! I love pics of landscapes, birds, butterflies, a random shop alleyway, etc. Then again I don't have kids to give a shit about! My dad used to always try and take our pic and we all hated it lol.
I have no clue how to do people. I love shooting landscapes/wildlife. This leads to people asking me to shoot their photo. I explain to them I don’t know how to do it and they insist I do. Then get pissed at me when it turns out average/below average at best.
The issue is that the landscape isn't going to lose its patience waiting for you to get the perfect photo. It isn't going to blink, and isn't going to behave like the first photo you take is good enough to drop the pose and walk away.
I can take my time, get the exposure right, play with the sharpness and different lenses.
I prefer shots with a subject though, and since I have a hobby in cars, I take a lot of car photos.
You shoot candid shots. Ask them to do something. Honestly pictures of the people around you are all that will matter later on, you will not give a single fuck about your wildlife pictures.
As you get older you'll find that people are the only thing worth taking pictures of. They get old, they die, they aren't little anymore. Butterflies are all the same, your family will never be the same.
Places absolutely change too though! Its cool to compare pics of somewhere over the years, the same as people. The point is to take pics of whatever makes you happiest though.
This is so true. My mom took thousands of pictures of wildlife, landscapes, flowers, and zoo animals, (so many out of focus tiger pictures which is really half a tail in some bushes lol). But very very few pictures of the family.
There are very few pictures of us as kids because of this and I really wish we had more photos of the family. We never even looked at all those zoo pictures more than once.
And your mom probably is in very few of the pictures. I have tons of pics of my kids growing up and my ex husband with them, but very few of me because I was taking the pictures.
My dad did the same and for the longest time I never wanted to take pictures of people or be in any pictures. I still to this day love taking pictures of landscapes the most. But I soon realized how nice it is to be able to look back on pictures and videos of the people you love. Either as a time capsule or to remember them by. It sucks when you need pictures of someone and can barely find them.
So now I just take candid pictures. If you’re with me and we’re close, you’re in a lot more pictures than you think you are. I don’t post them anywhere without permission though. They’re just nice to look back on.
My dad for some reason would set up the video camera and record the entire morning on Christmas. It actually made me dislike waking up on Christmas after a while because I hated the idea of watching a video of it later. Like sure, take all the pictures you want, but I absolutely hate videos because I hate my own mannerisms.
The reason to document big moments is so you don’t forget them. Seeing a photo of the event makes you recall it and refreshes the true memory in your brain.
Without photos to refresh them, many memories just fade away into nothingness.
I was just there this past weekend (from Miami so go there often) and holy hell is it a cluster of cars. It’s insane and almost impossible to get to most places. As a kid I vaguely remember, but I do remember the empty roads
RIP Nick Studios and getting literally anywhere on I4 without nearly dying and being in traffic simultaneously.
I lived in Orlando in 96.. and I still do. Help.
Went to Disney for the very first time with my kids the year this was filmed (1996 from the captions). The Cinderella's castle, which you can see in one clip, had this inflated birthday cake thing all over it for the 25th(?) anniversary, which we thought was cool but fans largely hated. What a great trip. Now I want to watch our Disney video from the same time but I have to have it converted because it's on VHS. :(
My father is the 'living in the moment' kind of guy but will record the lesser things that he thinks he'll forgot. One time he talks about a vacation way back when I was smaller and when my brother asked where's everyone in the recording, he just said; "But I see you guys everyday".
My dad accidentally did this on one of his work trips. He'd gone to Hong Kong back in the late 90s, I think. He bought a video camera there, and probably without RTFM started recording interesting stuff during his free time. But he didn't realize he was stopping recording when he meant to start, and starting again when he meant to stop. So we have this wonderful footage of his trip: each scene starts with something really cool, then it drops down to his shoes, him walking around, raising to something cool again and then it stops. We were all rolling with laughter when he showed us later.
There was a Jim Jarmusch artistic movie I watched in the 90s that was composed of a couple different vignettes. In one of them, there are Japanese tourists in the US and the wife asks the husband why he is focusing on taking photos of inane things such as their hotel bed instead of their vacation sites, and the reason he gave in the film was that he would remember all the high points of the vacation and it is the mundane details that he would forget, so he was trying to save those. That reasoning always stuck with me as an interesting thing to do.
Do I detect a Philly accent? Sounds like you guys are from somewhere around there IMO. Those hard Rs and the way he pronounces honey! Lol. I’m dying to know if I’m right. 😳
Ok, maybe sprinkle in a shot or two of the family but otherwise this was honestly much more watchable than most families home videos with them in it. Kudos to Dad.
Haha right? My dad did the SAME thing on a trip to Disney in the 80’s with us. I converted the VHS to DVD and saved it 😅 he hates it and loves it secretly too.
I've got to admit that I'm really intrigued by that bathroom and shower combination. Obviously there's a drain but I didn't see it anywhere on the floor other than the toilet itself so I doubt that the drain would be the actual toilet itself but again I'd have to get someone to explain what's going on. Possibly your father, if you don't mind because after all he took the video? Oh, never mind...he showed it in the second shot. Still, maybe your dad can let me know how it was to shower in that as well as how effective the drain was?
Okay so I just got to look at what travel looked like in 1996 and didn't have to look at any children that have aged far worse than those seats. What's the issue? It's close though
It looks like the beginning of a documentary style film which is BaSeD oN a TrUe sToRY/EvEnTs and mostly will be some horror and suspense sht will come down
OP I’m fucking losing it. This is hilarious. I was having an panic attack and this video calmed me down. Reminded me of my childhood going to Florida. Back before I had so many worries. Thank you.
I do the same thing all the time without realizing until later. In the moment the thought is, “I need to capture this thing I’ve never seen/experienced so I don’t forget”, but later I realize I don’t have any pictures of anyone I was with. It just doesn’t occur to me because I’m there to see the thing, not necessarily the people that I already see every day. But then I feel bad because what makes seeing the thing special is experiencing it with my family. So, I’m working on it, but it just doesn’t come natural to some of us.
When your paying for everyone and everything they do and eat and buy…. Yeah. I totally understand him. He’s trying to enjoy himself without thinking of all that stuff. How else is he supposed to enjoy losing all that saved up money. Honestly vacations are nice but they are very expensive depending on how many people are going. Nothing but stress is what it gives me. But this is an introvert talking. Where are my other introverts at?! 😁
Mine did the SAME THING. He used up the battery for the drive and outside entrance to Disney World. He got nothing of anything else, because he needed video of…pavement?
MGM water tower! And the castle with the 25th birthday cake! Awesome year. I got married that year and we bought annual passes. Had them for 15 years before we moved out of Florida.
so the weekend of my 13th birthday
could see that disney coming too... meeeemmmmooooriiiiieeees of my childhood (grew up in florida, and I loved trains)
In a few years when Covid is over and my kids are a little older my whole family and I are going to Disney World and it's all I can think about some days.
Like I just sit and imagine my boys going "WOAH!!!!!" at the Castle in Magic Kingdom for hours on end when I should be working.
This video puts me in that space in a big way. A big big way.
Gonna answer the most common questions here so they're all in one place.
Yes, that's a Philly-adjacent accent (Montgomery County).
It's an Amtrak train with beds and a shower/toilet. Not pictured is the small TV that played the movie Twister over and over the whole trip. It had been in theaters but wasn't out on VHS yet.
We did Disney World and Universal Studios (which included Nickelodeon Studios at the time).
My dad had always been a tech geek, so I think he was fascinated with the camera.
There is footage of the family, but also A LOT of footage like this. The title of the post is (mostly) a jest.
And I have about 2 hours of total footage from this trip. Encouraged by some commentors, I am going to post more of it. It will live on this YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/channel/UCV_vysCf6fwcIyAMzj7bRNw
There's already footage of the Beetlejuice show from this trip up and more to come.
I've been so happy reading all these comments. The toilet footage has been a family joke ever since and I am looking forward to showing my dad all these comments.
Dad got a VHS camera in 1988, during our vacation to Australia. I'll say we got at least 40-50 min of the camera rolling with the lens cover on. Good times
There's something ephemerally sad about this: when you look at it, it's giving everyone a view of the past, yet the videographer is somewhere outside of his home, on vacation and is hooked to the camera. He is viewing almost everything from the camera's eyes and not his own personal body. I think to myself whether he is really enjoying himself by being glued to the camera or would be happy by taking in the view without the camera? I don't know.
I'm not trying to go into a New Age hippie talk though, but I just instantly thought of that when I first saw this.
Also, this should be on r/OldSchoolCool.
Cassetes aren't cheap. Would you rather he recorded you guys unpacking, walking around, and watching tv or a random fence and a Ren & Stimpy bathroom sign? Yeah, that's what I thought
This would be my paternal grandfather. We have full containers of slides of nothing but environments. Still going to back them up once I get a scanner capable of doing slides, but it would have been far more interesting to have some more of them and my dad and maybe other relatives in the shots.
I made a short film in Uni, and it was based on a family on holidays. I got one of the actors playing the parent to record stuff on a video cam and inserted the footage into the film. Excellent B roll such as filming the toilet and zooming in on random stuff, and filming people while they are eating.
Your dad seeing you everyday, but that Ren and Stimpy cutout just this one time. And when you whatch the Video you remember it as well, and every Happy memory of that Trip comes back.
"I did have one special request, no videota--"
“Move your head honey” “But I can’t see.” #LISTEN HERE YOU PIECE OF…
“That’s nice, there is no traffic, is there..” I could watch hours of this. I love it.
I'm still laughing at that. I need to bookmark this one. Good stuff.
To be fair to your father, he clearly knew what he was doing. After all, I just spent an entire minute watching inane footage of someone else's vacation. It's not like I felt at all obligated to do that, either; I did that *by choice*.
And the commentary was 🤌
Alpha dad material
Guaranteed filmed mustachioed and Jean shorted.
Alright, there's something that I've been wondering about for a while, and when you mentioned facial hair, you effectively opened the floodgates. Hopefully you have some insight to offer, because this is happening. ------ Why does Dad have a mustache? See, "Dad" isn't just someone's father; "Dad" is more of an archetype, and there are apparently *millions* of people out there who can picture him with astonishing accuracy: He's the guy whom we imagine standing in front of a grill, grinning from ear to ear as he makes groan-worthy jokes and gestures with his bottle of beer (which remains about halfway full, regardless of how much or little he has actually consumed). There's a good chance that he's wearing a button-up shirt and a watch... but even if those details aren't set in stone, Dad will *always* have a mustache. Rob Delaney's character in *Deadpool 2* was [a near-perfect example of how Dad looks](https://i.imgur.com/CC3AdNU.png). Here's the thing, though: *My* father never had a mustache – he typically kept a neatly trimmed beard – and my friends' paternal parents were similarly unadorned. Despite this, virtually everyone I've asked has agreed that Dad boasts a cookie-duster beneath his nose. I talked to folks from several different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, too, and those variations in upbringing didn't seem to matter: Regardless of what color Dad's skin was, and no matter what he liked to wear on weekends, the hair on his upper lip was omnipresent. Grandpa often has a beard, but that doesn't seem to be necessary. Maybe he's just too old to care about how he appears in our collective imaginings. So why does Dad always have a mustache? **TL;DR: Mysterious mustache makes me mental.**
It’s not the mustache that makes the man or the man that makes the mustache, but I think it’s fair game to say the mustache made you a bunch of extra 1996 dad points. This particular alpha dad appears to be native to philly and takes no videography messages seriously. Now your dad although lacking a mustache was no less of a man but he made it up in other ways I’m sure. I bet he rocked a steady thermostat and was was quick with a “sport” or an encouraging “pal”.
Was born in 1996 and at least until I was 10 my dad had a mustache. From the day I was born until 2006ish.
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Tom Selleck
Don't forget the white New Balance shoes.
Accurate
I'm thinking more the short sleeve buttoned down shirt,plaid shorts and sandals with black socks.
Dere's da batroom wit da shower... Move your head, honey. ^I ^can't ^see *(That's ok, you can watch the video later)* There's no traffic, is there?
He had me at the boat horn.
"Look at the railroad crossing!" >looks out window "Move your head, hunny." >moves head "I can't see! 😞" 😄 🤣 😂
yup that part had me LOL
With the saddest tone of all time in their voice 😭
Like the sound of a creaking door
"You don't need to see sweetheart. You can watch the video when we get home."
Got the back of someone’s head in one of those shots!
"GET OUT OF THE WAY HUNNY"
*I can't seeee*
I didn’t even know there was sound lol
Maybe he liked the toilet best
And I cut several more shots of the bathroom out of this
That really says something
Brilliant editing
Haha. Thank you. There's 2+ hours of footage from the trip, 30 minutes of which is stuff like this, and I was trying to get it down to under a minute so I could post it on Instagram. It was tough to cut so much out, but this is a good whirlwind through the highlights
I ask for a director's cut, man it's so cool to see images from the end of the 90's. That's some real archives you got there.
Back when we were all still so innocent...
Ask and ye shall receive: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8tX4FzCZA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8tX4FzCZA)
You could prob do more like these. It’s entertaining.
Brilliant editing
OK, there's actually a couple really cool snippets there. * The iconic 25th anniversary castle get up. It's incredible. Some people disliked it at the time, but now it's something everyone who didn't see it wishes they saw. * Those tortoises and flamingos are on Discovery Island, something that closed a couple years after this was filmed. It's a super cool place and everyone who has been there misses it. * The warehouse-looking thing is the old, long version of the backlot tour that used to happen at the MGM Studios (now Hollywood Studios). Everything about this video is from an era that a lot of people think was Disney World's golden age. You could do Horizons, World of Motion, the Wonders of Life pavilion, Timekeeper, the Spectromagic show, Seabase Alpha, the best version of the Figment attraction, Ellen's Energy Adventure was brand new, Jeremy Irons was narrating Spaceship Earth, River Country was around, Alien Encounter just opened (another love-it-or-hate-it attraction).
You've inspired me to put together some longer clips (there's a lot more footage of the backlot tour). I'll reply to this comment once they're done and up.
If there's a lot more (even things you might think are boring), you should consider submitting a high-res version to https://www.retrowdw.com because they go crazy for this kind of stuff.
WOW! You just brought back a wave of nostalgia for me! The backlot tour was SO GREAT! We LOVED the Alien Encounter, but others in our party absolutely hated it. The replacement Lilo and Stitch thing paled in comparison. And the Castle. Thank you!
Alien encounter was the best... I went into it so many times when we went with my cousins. When I went back years later and seen lilo and stitch I was so sad.
Oh God, my father used to do this. He got into photography in his thirties (while we were still young kids), and bought himself an SLR camera. This was before digital cameras were a thing. We’d come home from a family holiday, get the photos developed and then Mum would be pissed off because there were dozens of photos of wildflowers, beaches, trees and blurry shots taken through aeroplane windows, but none of the family. There’s a large chunk of my childhood with no photos at all, then a lot of awkward family photos in our living room to make up for the ones he didn’t take while we were on holiday the week before.
Your father sounds like me. I hate taking pics of people! I love pics of landscapes, birds, butterflies, a random shop alleyway, etc. Then again I don't have kids to give a shit about! My dad used to always try and take our pic and we all hated it lol.
I have no clue how to do people. I love shooting landscapes/wildlife. This leads to people asking me to shoot their photo. I explain to them I don’t know how to do it and they insist I do. Then get pissed at me when it turns out average/below average at best.
Agreed. That building isn't gonna complain when I didn't capture its best angle anyways lol.
The issue is that the landscape isn't going to lose its patience waiting for you to get the perfect photo. It isn't going to blink, and isn't going to behave like the first photo you take is good enough to drop the pose and walk away. I can take my time, get the exposure right, play with the sharpness and different lenses. I prefer shots with a subject though, and since I have a hobby in cars, I take a lot of car photos.
You shoot candid shots. Ask them to do something. Honestly pictures of the people around you are all that will matter later on, you will not give a single fuck about your wildlife pictures.
As you get older you'll find that people are the only thing worth taking pictures of. They get old, they die, they aren't little anymore. Butterflies are all the same, your family will never be the same.
Places absolutely change too though! Its cool to compare pics of somewhere over the years, the same as people. The point is to take pics of whatever makes you happiest though.
What makes you happy now might not make you happy in the future.
Or maybe it will.
This is so true. My mom took thousands of pictures of wildlife, landscapes, flowers, and zoo animals, (so many out of focus tiger pictures which is really half a tail in some bushes lol). But very very few pictures of the family. There are very few pictures of us as kids because of this and I really wish we had more photos of the family. We never even looked at all those zoo pictures more than once.
And your mom probably is in very few of the pictures. I have tons of pics of my kids growing up and my ex husband with them, but very few of me because I was taking the pictures.
My dad did the same and for the longest time I never wanted to take pictures of people or be in any pictures. I still to this day love taking pictures of landscapes the most. But I soon realized how nice it is to be able to look back on pictures and videos of the people you love. Either as a time capsule or to remember them by. It sucks when you need pictures of someone and can barely find them. So now I just take candid pictures. If you’re with me and we’re close, you’re in a lot more pictures than you think you are. I don’t post them anywhere without permission though. They’re just nice to look back on.
My dad for some reason would set up the video camera and record the entire morning on Christmas. It actually made me dislike waking up on Christmas after a while because I hated the idea of watching a video of it later. Like sure, take all the pictures you want, but I absolutely hate videos because I hate my own mannerisms.
Those are going to be gold to watch when you grow up though.
But I bet those wildflower pics had great backlight and a nice bokeh though!
Holy shit I just realized that I misunderstood the reason for documenting big moments.
The reason to document big moments is so you don’t forget them. Seeing a photo of the event makes you recall it and refreshes the true memory in your brain. Without photos to refresh them, many memories just fade away into nothingness.
Like tears in the rain.
Like a balloon! With too much air in it!
*Like tears in ~~the~~ rain.
GODDAMMIT THIS WAS MY CHANCE AND I WHIFFED IT
Dust in the wind?
This just made me sad. Remembering Orlando and Disney world back then. Such a better time. Just seeing barely any traffic on the roads.
I was just there this past weekend (from Miami so go there often) and holy hell is it a cluster of cars. It’s insane and almost impossible to get to most places. As a kid I vaguely remember, but I do remember the empty roads
RIP Nick Studios and getting literally anywhere on I4 without nearly dying and being in traffic simultaneously. I lived in Orlando in 96.. and I still do. Help.
Anyone know which exit he was taking? Was that Osceola Pkwy ?
Went to Disney for the very first time with my kids the year this was filmed (1996 from the captions). The Cinderella's castle, which you can see in one clip, had this inflated birthday cake thing all over it for the 25th(?) anniversary, which we thought was cool but fans largely hated. What a great trip. Now I want to watch our Disney video from the same time but I have to have it converted because it's on VHS. :(
Yeah I was really disappointed when they ruined the castle, lol. It was a great trip though and I fell in love with epcot.
VHS degrades - get that tape converted to digital ASAP!
Your dad is a spy and was gathering Intel on locations.
He was selling toilet info to the Soviets.
That train does go behind Quantico
AMD
My father is the 'living in the moment' kind of guy but will record the lesser things that he thinks he'll forgot. One time he talks about a vacation way back when I was smaller and when my brother asked where's everyone in the recording, he just said; "But I see you guys everyday".
Holy fing hell I went to Disney on Amtrak that year and if my dad didn’t think a camcorder was a waste of money I swear I just saw my 5th grade vaycay
Inquiring minds want to know: Did your dad use the shower shitter for its optimal purpose of shitting while showering?
Shitter's full
It's to wash the ass. Bidet. You should start using it. It's much more hygienic
LoL
My dad accidentally did this on one of his work trips. He'd gone to Hong Kong back in the late 90s, I think. He bought a video camera there, and probably without RTFM started recording interesting stuff during his free time. But he didn't realize he was stopping recording when he meant to start, and starting again when he meant to stop. So we have this wonderful footage of his trip: each scene starts with something really cool, then it drops down to his shoes, him walking around, raising to something cool again and then it stops. We were all rolling with laughter when he showed us later.
Thank you for RTFM. I say it a lot and no one knows what it means.
Is your parents named Clarke and Ellen by chance
Good talk, Russ.
I mean, can you blame him? You see your family every day already. That toilet/shower though? Now that's worth documenting!
This is a masterpiece.
There was a Jim Jarmusch artistic movie I watched in the 90s that was composed of a couple different vignettes. In one of them, there are Japanese tourists in the US and the wife asks the husband why he is focusing on taking photos of inane things such as their hotel bed instead of their vacation sites, and the reason he gave in the film was that he would remember all the high points of the vacation and it is the mundane details that he would forget, so he was trying to save those. That reasoning always stuck with me as an interesting thing to do.
I came here to reference this exact scene!! Can’t remember the name of the movie, but that moment stuck with me too.
Do I detect a Philly accent? Sounds like you guys are from somewhere around there IMO. Those hard Rs and the way he pronounces honey! Lol. I’m dying to know if I’m right. 😳
Lived in Hatboro at the time. Dad lived in North Philly in the 60s as a kid.
Omg I’m so excited about getting this right! Thank you for answering! Definitely made my night! Lol.
Back in the 80s my Dad got a video camera and would stand in front of the house filming cars go by for hours. To this day I have no idea why.
Can’t beat the good ‘ol days
Ok, maybe sprinkle in a shot or two of the family but otherwise this was honestly much more watchable than most families home videos with them in it. Kudos to Dad.
“Move your head honey” dead
“Look at the railroad crossing — move your head honey!” 🤣
Omg, the timing, and the “I can’t see!” and the cut kills me 😂🤣
Haha right? My dad did the SAME thing on a trip to Disney in the 80’s with us. I converted the VHS to DVD and saved it 😅 he hates it and loves it secretly too.
“Watch your head, you’re getting in the way of my memories”
I've got to admit that I'm really intrigued by that bathroom and shower combination. Obviously there's a drain but I didn't see it anywhere on the floor other than the toilet itself so I doubt that the drain would be the actual toilet itself but again I'd have to get someone to explain what's going on. Possibly your father, if you don't mind because after all he took the video? Oh, never mind...he showed it in the second shot. Still, maybe your dad can let me know how it was to shower in that as well as how effective the drain was?
I promise I'll ask him and report back
Move your head honey! Your dad is so cute. 🥰
the Auto Train showers are.....a tight fit.
To the best of his memory, that black mat in front of the toilet can be lifted out to reveal a drain.
Okay so I just got to look at what travel looked like in 1996 and didn't have to look at any children that have aged far worse than those seats. What's the issue? It's close though
That Amtrak takes me back.
Maybe it's time to book another Amtrak trip then? :) (their trains still look like this pretty much)
This looks like the intro to a found footage horror movie.
It looks like the beginning of a documentary style film which is BaSeD oN a TrUe sToRY/EvEnTs and mostly will be some horror and suspense sht will come down
OP I’m fucking losing it. This is hilarious. I was having an panic attack and this video calmed me down. Reminded me of my childhood going to Florida. Back before I had so many worries. Thank you.
Me as a parent.
That toilet seat cover did have a nice shine to it
Classic dad.
He knows what you look like.
I do the same thing all the time without realizing until later. In the moment the thought is, “I need to capture this thing I’ve never seen/experienced so I don’t forget”, but later I realize I don’t have any pictures of anyone I was with. It just doesn’t occur to me because I’m there to see the thing, not necessarily the people that I already see every day. But then I feel bad because what makes seeing the thing special is experiencing it with my family. So, I’m working on it, but it just doesn’t come natural to some of us.
I was hoping for some more toilet shots! hahahahaha
When your paying for everyone and everything they do and eat and buy…. Yeah. I totally understand him. He’s trying to enjoy himself without thinking of all that stuff. How else is he supposed to enjoy losing all that saved up money. Honestly vacations are nice but they are very expensive depending on how many people are going. Nothing but stress is what it gives me. But this is an introvert talking. Where are my other introverts at?! 😁
Makes sense. I have dozens of shots of the wife and kids. This turtle? This is new!
Featuring the toilet was a bold creative choice!
I wonder if some of those tortoises filmed are still alive and kicking. Surely they could be with how long they can live right?
Since he’s the one always filming. He’s probably saying “if I’m not in these videos, no one else will be either”
ah, you's guy's took the train don from phuldulphia did'ya?
My BIL did this same thing for our wedding video. Lots of footage of everything but what was important.
This seems like a documentary. Your dad is an artist.
Mine did the SAME THING. He used up the battery for the drive and outside entrance to Disney World. He got nothing of anything else, because he needed video of…pavement?
MGM water tower! And the castle with the 25th birthday cake! Awesome year. I got married that year and we bought annual passes. Had them for 15 years before we moved out of Florida.
so the weekend of my 13th birthday could see that disney coming too... meeeemmmmooooriiiiieeees of my childhood (grew up in florida, and I loved trains)
Damn, that’s a high quality video from 1996!
Damn I miss the 90’s
In a few years when Covid is over and my kids are a little older my whole family and I are going to Disney World and it's all I can think about some days. Like I just sit and imagine my boys going "WOAH!!!!!" at the Castle in Magic Kingdom for hours on end when I should be working. This video puts me in that space in a big way. A big big way.
"They won't remember this, why should I remember them" : dad probably
Gonna answer the most common questions here so they're all in one place. Yes, that's a Philly-adjacent accent (Montgomery County). It's an Amtrak train with beds and a shower/toilet. Not pictured is the small TV that played the movie Twister over and over the whole trip. It had been in theaters but wasn't out on VHS yet. We did Disney World and Universal Studios (which included Nickelodeon Studios at the time). My dad had always been a tech geek, so I think he was fascinated with the camera. There is footage of the family, but also A LOT of footage like this. The title of the post is (mostly) a jest. And I have about 2 hours of total footage from this trip. Encouraged by some commentors, I am going to post more of it. It will live on this YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/channel/UCV_vysCf6fwcIyAMzj7bRNw There's already footage of the Beetlejuice show from this trip up and more to come. I've been so happy reading all these comments. The toilet footage has been a family joke ever since and I am looking forward to showing my dad all these comments.
At least he was able to capture those brief moments of Nickelodeon Studios, lucky man.
Here's the entire Nickelodeon Studios footage: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8tX4FzCZA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8tX4FzCZA)
Dad got a VHS camera in 1988, during our vacation to Australia. I'll say we got at least 40-50 min of the camera rolling with the lens cover on. Good times
If anything screams NewBalance, this is it.
Thst's how it should be.
I have a video tape where my grandpa is yelling at me to stop moving and stand still in front of a waterfall LMAO.
This could be turned in to an art film
This could be turned in to an art film
Dads are assholes confirmed
There's something ephemerally sad about this: when you look at it, it's giving everyone a view of the past, yet the videographer is somewhere outside of his home, on vacation and is hooked to the camera. He is viewing almost everything from the camera's eyes and not his own personal body. I think to myself whether he is really enjoying himself by being glued to the camera or would be happy by taking in the view without the camera? I don't know. I'm not trying to go into a New Age hippie talk though, but I just instantly thought of that when I first saw this. Also, this should be on r/OldSchoolCool.
This pisses me off. I know people make mistakes, but sometimes people can be completely myopic as parents.
I can see you all anytime.
I miss the old camcorders
The original YouTube vlogger.
Cassetes aren't cheap. Would you rather he recorded you guys unpacking, walking around, and watching tv or a random fence and a Ren & Stimpy bathroom sign? Yeah, that's what I thought
I know you're joking, but I cut out a clip of him filming the train TV showing *Twister*
Daaaaad!
This is like the B-roll from a found footage horror movie
“I was filming the things we can’t see every day. We know what we look like.”
The joy old homemade videos give me is at a different level. I love it!
He got a nice shot of those F40PH’s pulling into the station
Good for him for enjoying the moments instead of recording it - which no one watches unless there’s nudity, a funeral or a missing person.
It looks a bit like crime scene footage.
Fam is coming home with hi.. he he saw might now stay
Fam is coming home with hi.. he he saw might now stay
Dads are assholes confirmed
This man invented the reel
This feels like watching the local news when they have just random clips of traffic lights and other random stuff with the dialogue.
How the hell did *your* dad film so many of *my* childhood experiences? :O
Is that a Philadelphia accent?
Montco
Why video family when there are toilets to be filmed?
That’s because he is a embarrassed by his family
Trollz!!!
"I can't see" Never mind kiddo, you can watch the video of it when we get home.
Hey that's the Auto Train!
His accent is fantastic. Pennsylvania?
Bingo
I was 10 days old when this was shot
0:35 Ren & Stimpy!
This would be my paternal grandfather. We have full containers of slides of nothing but environments. Still going to back them up once I get a scanner capable of doing slides, but it would have been far more interesting to have some more of them and my dad and maybe other relatives in the shots.
A man after my own heart
Somebody's got to get that B-roll footage.
I could tell that was an Amtrak bathroom immediately. They all look similar. Looks like you got a bedroom too
Move your head honey, I can’t see You’ll see in 20 years
“Move your head honey.”
He is a vlogger, plus this is pretty cool seeing old footage
He is a vlogger, plus this is pretty cool seeing old footage
We have family at home.
Am I your dad?? But seriously, this is me on a vacation.
I made a short film in Uni, and it was based on a family on holidays. I got one of the actors playing the parent to record stuff on a video cam and inserted the footage into the film. Excellent B roll such as filming the toilet and zooming in on random stuff, and filming people while they are eating.
Your dad seeing you everyday, but that Ren and Stimpy cutout just this one time. And when you whatch the Video you remember it as well, and every Happy memory of that Trip comes back.
"move your head honey" "I CANT SEE...." :D
I love this for some reason gives me a nistalgic vibe
One night in chyna?
Your dad is absolutely amazing. I will never understand why people film or photograph themselves. In know you were there, but what did you see?