We are backtracking a bit this week, linking up with earlier episodes in our travels with Oom Willem van den Berg. In our defence, it is not always easy to identify and date unmarked, hundred-year-old films. Some of the reels also appear to be out of sequence, possibly from being incorrectly spliced and stitched together.
Unlike today’s digital era, where clips can be edited on a computer in minutes, film editing a century ago was a slow, manual process. Home movies were sh...