Wonderful images of kilts in a 1928 film

[castledangerous]

Thanks for posting that! It's amazing, how clear the film is, how great the special effects are, how inventive and funny the whole thing is.

Interesting that in 1928 the end of The Civil War was only 53 years in the past, as far in the past as The Vietnam War is today, and that nearly all the older men in the US would have been Civil War veterans.

1928 was 63 years after the end of the Civil War in 1865, and 2013 is 38 years after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, so your math is off on both counts, I'm afraid. I doubt there were many Civil War veterans surviving in 1928.

[castledangerous]

In 1930, the population of the US was 122 million. If 12% of the Civil War veterans survived to 80 years old, there would have been approx. 267,000 who reached that age. If every single one of them were alive in 1928, which is extremely doubtful (a 20 yr old in 1865 surviving until1928 would have been 83), they would have made up approx. 2% of the population. I don't know what your definition of "nearly all the older men in the US" is, but it certainly could not have been true in 1928 that even a majority were Civil War veterans.