{"id":1272,"date":"2016-01-11T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/hc\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:28:15","slug":"some-of-our-bravest-and-finest-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/films\/some-of-our-bravest-and-finest-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Film: Fireman and Police parade; UMC-Remington Arms Workers, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lsfGUu4hHc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1912 &#8211; Some of our Bravest and Finest (movie)<\/p>\n<p>Bridgeport History Center<\/p>\n<p>This silent film was found hidden in the archives of the Lewis Corbit Photo Studio Collection.\u00a0 It is thought that this was taken by either Lewis Corbit or a family member as the firemen and police marched up Bridgeport&#8217;s Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the film is a rare shot of the UMC\/Remington Arms\u00a0employees crossing Barnum Avenue.\u00a0 The unusal site of men and women busily leaving and returning to work shows the activity of the East Side of Bridgeport in the\u00a0early 20th century.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The National Film\u00a0Preservation Foundation funded the careful restoration and reformatting of this rare nitrate film.<\/p>\n<p>This unique film is made available to our researchers to see a glimpse of Bridgeport&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1912 &#8211; Some of our Bravest and Finest (movie) Bridgeport History Center This silent film was found hidden in the archives of the Lewis Corbit Photo Studio Collection.\u00a0 It is thought that this was taken by either Lewis Corbit or a family member as the firemen and police marched up Bridgeport&#8217;s Main Street. Towards the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[101,116,151,163,170,179],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","tag-corbit-studio","tag-firemen","tag-main-street-bridgeport","tag-parade","tag-policemen","tag-silent-film","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}