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You can see some of the bungas around Harmandir Sahib from the Khalsa raj. Demolishing them was a stupid thing to do! they formed a defense, that was the primary purpose. Demolishing them and constructing the wide entranced clock tower only made it easy for the army to invade and bring tanks in!  

 

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5 hours ago, puzzled said:

From the late 1960s

watch @56:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUgt7rXb5o

You can see a man selling flowers as well, not sure how far back this went, but during the Sikh empire there used to be people selling flower garlands at Harmandir Sahib. 

wow the recording quality was so good!

Movies like Lawrence of Arabia were recorded to high quality equivalent to 8k/4k I believe.

 

I wonder if the movie you posted was recorded to such a high quality?

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15 hours ago, ipledgeblue said:

wow the recording quality was so good!

Movies like Lawrence of Arabia were recorded to high quality equivalent to 8k/4k I believe.

 

I wonder if the movie you posted was recorded to such a high quality?

They restored the movie and released it again a few years back. 

Quite a dull movie imo! watched it a few years back, but they show a lot of old Gurdware, and beautifully sung shabds. 

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14 minutes ago, puzzled said:

They restored the movie and released it again a few years back. 

Quite a dull movie imo! watched it a few years back, but they show a lot of old Gurdware, and beautifully sung shabds. 

yes but they restored it to a higher quality than what we would have gotten on our home equipment last century!

They must have recorded the movie using high quality film, and it's nice they had it handy to restore to something like 720p or maybe even higher?

would be nice to see a blu ray release!

it would be a blu-ray I would watch!

Also thanks for the link, I will try and cut it for my tiktok and instagram. I wonder if I can get away with posting the clip on youtube as well without getting. a copyright notice?

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9 minutes ago, ipledgeblue said:

yes but they restored it to a higher quality than what we would have gotten on our home equipment last century!

They must have recorded the movie using high quality film, and it's nice they had it handy to restore to something like 720p or maybe even higher?

would be nice to see a blu ray release!

it would be a blu-ray I would watch!

Also thanks for the link, I will try and cut it for my tiktok and instagram. I wonder if I can get away with posting the clip on youtube as well without getting. a copyright notice?

Do you make videos? what's your youtube channel? 

Not sure if they will let you, I couldn't paste the video on here, only the link. But give it a go ...  

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30 minutes ago, puzzled said:

Do you make videos? what's your youtube channel? 

Not sure if they will let you, I couldn't paste the video on here, only the link. But give it a go ...  

Actually I have other channels where I make videos. 

I do have a youtube channel where I uploaded some paat from Hajur Sahib.

have uploaded 6 videos on there so far. Ongoing project is to get Sampooran Rehraas and Aarti videos on there where Raag instruments are used throughout, except maybe for Pauris and Chaupais etc Trying to cut and edit from various videos to achieve this

But I have created channels where I will be creating content for Tik Tok and instagram as well (and should go to facebook as well), as I have some experience of this. Also less copyright problems making clips on those platforms.

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17 minutes ago, ipledgeblue said:

Actually I have other channels where I make videos. 

I do have a youtube channel where I uploaded some paat from Hajur Sahib.

have uploaded 6 videos on there so far. Ongoing project is to get Sampooran Rehraas and Aarti videos on there where Raag instruments are used throughout, except maybe for Pauris and Chaupais etc Trying to cut and edit from various videos to achieve this

But I have created channels where I will be creating content for Tik Tok and instagram as well (and should go to facebook as well), as I have some experience of this. Also less copyright problems making clips on those platforms.

Oh ok, share the link if you want ... 

 

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