Last week, I wrote about a 1940s-era Cubs film that had been posted to YouTube by the Chicago Film Archive.
Here it is again:
The YouTube page dated it from 1942 “based on the date code found on the 8mm film stock.” But I knew that couldn’t be right, because Cubs home uniforms in 1942 didn’t look like that, and it would certainly have been possible for film manufactured in 1942 to be used at a later date.
The scoreboard provided a clue, but at the same time the teams I thought I’d seen on the board didn’t match any date I could find with a crowd that large anywhere from the mid-1940s through 1956, when the Cubs stopped wearing that style of uniform.