Colourised footage of England in 1901, everyone intrigued by the camera

[Nevilledog]

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Glorfindel]

2. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing, Nevilledog.

The cheeky street kids were probably part of the Baker Street Irregulars.

[TxGuitar]

3. How many of those young boys

Ended up buried in France 15ish years later? Very sad.
But I love this and all other colorized old film!

[sarge43]

24. I wondered the same thing. Haunting.

[jpak]

4. The shawls

Very strange

[HipChick]

16. Smog was very bad, especially up North..

[KentuckyWoman]

20. My grandmother was born 1888 in Berlin

She died in 1953 in Cincinnati. I never saw her go in public without a head covering. It was both cultural and practical. Especially in Berlin, the air was not good and it was a lot of work to wash hair. "Bird baths" daily were the norm.

Scarves would certainly work better than a fancy hat and eventually, practicality becomes fashion.

For instance gloves in public went out of fashion once good antibiotics were available ....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. They are muslims wearing hijabs. But tRumpanzees would say those are good hijabs, allowable. . . .nt

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. That's pretty cool,

I really like when people find and post old historic videos like that. It's interesting that nearly all the women in that video have their heads covered, and their coats are similar to a muslim hijab. Rightwingers today would probably be outraged


This one was posted a few years ago. The camera was mounted on the front of one of San Francisco's street cars in 1906. It's 14 minutes long, and I have only watched it all the way through a couple times. Usually I skip around. The traffic, clothes, behavior and everything is so interesting.

[indigoth]

7. There's no traffic control whatsoever

pedestrians everywhere. Cars everywhere. Horses and wagons everywhere. All going about their business with seemingly no care as to where anyone else is traveling.

Pretty amazing compared to today’s traffic control.

[KentuckyWoman]

22. I have a nephew who is living in India for business.

Oh the stories he tells about traffic in some areas. It has been so fascinating to me.

I joke that the traffic in Atlanta is not a whole lot different.

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. I've seen the original version

I didn't realize they'd colorized this. Thanks for posting.

[yonder]

23. Thanks for this one.

[Sneederbunk]

6. A lot of urchins.

[malthaussen]

8. I was waiting for somebody to come up and wave and say "Hi, Mom!" n/t

[Sancho]

9. Lots of hats!

...and it must have taken a long time to get the kids dressed too.

[Hekate]

10. Very cool to see that bustling crowd

Thanks

[bucolic_frolic]

11. How difficult to understand ancestors who lived in earlier times

I can hardly recall, now, how poor the information flow in the 1970s, the limited minds of my parents, let alone pre-cars, pre-toasters, pre-radio or tv, when few opportunities existed for anyone getting much of anywhere.

[elleng]

12. 'Everyone' meaning all the KIDS!

[erronis]

13. I imagine it took a lot of work to apply the colorization to each frame.

Nowadays we'd just tell the computer to find faces, hands and add some color (whatever the preference.) Oh, and please choose some nice pastels for the ladies' clothes.

[sarge43]

27. If they weren't well to do, back then people preferred dark clothing.

The stains, dirt and crud, everything from coal dust to dried horse manure, didn't show as much.

[Dream Girl]

29. I assumed this was a digital color conversion.

Hard to imagine anyone going frame by frame…

[YoshidaYui]

14. History was one of my favorite subjects in high school

This is so very cool thanks for posting. Love it

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. This is cool

The children are adorable. Thanks for posting.

[David__77]

18. Yikes.

Apparently average life expectancy was then under 50. Such poverty existed then. It is interesting, and I’m not sure whether urban or rural life would be worst then.

[KT2000]

19. the colorizing has changed something

All of the garments look like they are brand new. In reality they would be much worn looking.

[Walleye]

21. Timeless, though, little boys still love to show off for the camera

[peppertree]

25. Amazing. You can just hear "wid'a liddle-bit of luck, WID'a liddle bit of luck..."

[JohnnyRingo]

28. Looks like a young Tucker Carlson at 42 seconds.

He has that puzzled furrowed eyebrow face.

That's pretty amazing. Thanx for posting.

[peppertree]

31. Carlson in a past life?

Might explain his fixation with being on camera (he loves those close-ups).

[TheBlackAdder]

30. While sound film was exhibited in 1900, it took decades to make commercially viable. Why the sound?