Archivist Finds Long Lost Film Reel, Thinking It's Lost WWII Footage, Surprisingly Finds Puppies Instead (Viral Reddit Video)

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jan 17, 2023 3:00 PM EST

Has it ever happened to you that you tried to do one thing, and for some reason, luck was on your side, and you got an even better result than you were expecting? It's a rare thing, but when it happens… gosh, it feels good. And that's exactly what happened to this one archivist. A long forgotten 8mm film reel that was in an old metal box that the archivist was sure had lost WWII footage on it turned out… to be a tape full of pawdorable puppies. 

Talk about searching for silver and finding gold. There is nothing cuter than puppies in this whole wide world. Except for maybe dogs and puppies together. Or maybe puppies smiling those adorable smiles of their. Puppies, in short, are adorable, and we can only imagine the smile on this archivist's face when they realized what was on that tape. Because we're certainly smiling as we watch the video. 

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    Dog - Posted by u/MulciberTenebras 6 days ago An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked "Philipines 1942". Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead.
    via u/MulciberTenebras

    It's such an awesome thing to know, actually, that humans in all times during history and in all kinds of places around the world have one thing in common - and that's our love for puppies. The people then may have had less access to filming equipment, but it's good to know that the access they had was spent filming adorable puppies playing. 

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    via u/MulciberTenebras

    Okay, if you tell us that this video didn't make you smile, we won't believe you. All of you out there who may have thought that the archivist who found this video was upset it didn't have WWII footage have been proven wrong by the mere fact of watching this video. It's impossible not to smile at it, and we're sure that's exactly what the archivist did. 

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    Rectangle - muppethero80 5d Best day ever! Titan-Bomb ⠀ Radix2309 • 5d He expected to see manslaughter and instead he got man's best friend +1.5d ⠀ Reply 2 Awards Man's laughter one could say. : 4.2k 4 2.0k 42.1k ↓
    via u/muppethero80, u/Titan-Bomb, u/Radix2309
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    Font - SchnoodleDoodleDo 6 Awards 'Best day ever! Long ago, n far away you filmed us on that Bestest day the happy, romping time we spent, we had no clue how much it meant to You, our tired human friend, a time of war - when would it end? n far +3.5d a brief escape - you watched us play, long ago away...
    via u/SchnoodleDoodleDo
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    Rectangle - darwin_green 5d Clips like this prove that people never change. : Reply OateyMcGoatey And puppers. +1.5d : Ĵ 8.1k 2.0k +
    via u/darwin_green, u/OateyMcGoatey
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    Rectangle - SimilarYellow 5d My 96 year old grandpa has a picture (not a photo) of a cat in his wallet that looks really similar to what the cat he had as a kid looked like. The cat died when he was 8, if I remember correctly, but it still lives in his heart :D 685
    via u/SimilarYellow
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    Rectangle - AngryWino 5d That's the cutest WWII combat footage I've ever seen. Reply 2.5k : adam_demamps_wingman • 5d Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail. The German Shepherds wore gray. +506 +
    via u/AngryWino, u/adam_demamps_wingman
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    Rectangle - animallover365 5d That Battle of the Broom segment in the middle was quite difficult to watch ⠀ Reply 330 ArthurBea 5d The broom is definitely a Filipino broom. You don't want to have a Filipino mom after you with one. Lucky it wasn't a slipper.
    via u/animallover365, u/ArthurBea
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    Font - ghesus 5d The long forgotten "Battle of the Bark". Reply ultravioletgaia 5d Battle of the Borktards notmichaelgood 5d Battle of the barkland islands 899 492 ↓
    via u/ghesus, u/ultravioletgaia, u/notmichaelgood
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    Rectangle - Magnaraksesa 5d They're so chunky! ⠀ jedi2155 5d Looks like Chao Chao puppies! Reply 745 +
    via u/Magnaraksesa, u/jedi2155
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    Mammal - GravityoftheMoon 5d My grandpa had a box of photos from the Korean War, and we were going through them one day with him there to tell us stories. About half of the photos were pics of dogs. Every time he would look at a dog photo, he would say "Oh! I remember that dog. Hmm...I didn't see him much after this picture." Reply 41.1k ↓
    via u/GravityoftheMoon
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    Rectangle - snafubar_buffet +2.5d Rare historical footage of happy floof-dopes ⠀ Reply 1.3k
    via u/snafubar_buffet
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    Rectangle - SadRaif 5d People were recording puppies even in the 1940's, interesting. Reply 4 972 : lagunaeve +1.5d Films were some expensive luxurious thing back then no? And whoever filmed that decided: puppies. Money well spent i say. 693
    via u/SadRaif, u/lagunaeve
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    Rectangle - Commercial-Living443 +1.5d Searching for Silver And Finding Gold Reply 4147 ↓
    via u/Commercial-Living443

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