Curiosity Cabinet / World Before / Now
World Before / World Now Video Archive
A video archive shelf for old footage, public-domain films, maps, timelapses, and data stories.
Media
Curation shelf.
A collection of videos and maps that show how the world has changed.
- Rights
- link-and-summary shelf; verify media rights per item
- Embeds
- Deferred until source, captions, and performance posture are reviewed.
Curatorial Rule
The archive should make time feel visible: streets before traffic, cities before skylines, classrooms before screens, maps before borders moved, and nature before we learned how much we had damaged.
Every item needs context. Old footage without date, place, rights, and why-it-matters is only nostalgia wearing a hat.
Starter Shelves
Useful shelves: public-domain films, NASA imagery, old city footage, satellite timelapses, oral-history clips, engineering megaprojects, classrooms over decades, and conservation before-after stories.
The page should eventually support side-by-side comparison, timeline filters, and a short note on what changed.
- date
- place
- rights
- source
- why it matters
- then/now comparison