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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
This is pretty cool. I love these glimpses into another time.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows-what-london-looked-like-in-1927/
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Barcelona, 1908
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=kJdwzY1o7k8
San Francisco 1906, a few days before the earthquake
(the traffic in this one is crazy...)
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)Hell, just getting from one side to the other would beat Frogger, hands down!
PB
Renew Deal
(81,852 posts)The current Dunkin Donuts used to be a horse carriage vendor.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
Renew Deal
(81,852 posts)canoeist52
(2,282 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)Incredible what a difference color makes, and the images are remarkably clear. It's like seeing that era for the first time.
Can't rec this enough.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)janlyn
(735 posts)My Nan and Granddad met in London in 1930.This brought their memory back!! And how easily I could picture them there together !
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)I can't imagine a London without the golden arches or Pizza Hut.
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4936546243117445&pid=15.1
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Pathéchrome was around at the turn of the century, and there were a number of other early color processes as well (including Kinemacolor,whose process Biocolour was said to have infringed). By 1925 there were many movies that featured Technicolor inserts.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)In fact, I was initially surprised when I learned that they had so much WWII film in color...
Here's apparently the earliest surviving color film, made in 1901:
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)It's the color that makes all the difference in the world. This film also lacks the jerkiness that movies from that era typically had.
What is also amazing to me is how incredibly modern everything and everyone looks. The clothing isn't as far from ours as I would have thought. Okay, so all of the women are wearing skirts, and most of the men have hats of some kind, but still.
I'm a history buff. I used to read old Life Magazines and feel as if I remember the events of the late 30's and early 40's as if I'd lived then. I've been to London several times, although the last time was in 1980. Nearly everything in this movie looks exactly as I remember it.
Wow. Just wow.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I really do like that about england, no guns or very few
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Love watching the faces looking back at the camera -- the oddity of it all.
allan01
(1,950 posts)couldnt watch the brittish film , but here is a film of market street but in 2005
on edit : got to finaly see the film . NIce
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It seems EVERYONE dressed in a suit of some kind and wore a hat.
And as far as a "police state"? Imagine what it was like when there was a cop on almost EVERY street corner directing traffic. Then there were the beat cops who WALKED around listening for trouble. They could blow a whistle and every cop in earshot would come a runnin.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)...its like the roads were part of the community then, rather than the danger zones they are now. The pedestrians and cyclists and the odd man-drawn carriage all seem so relaxed and social, even with the old cars puttering along among them.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The idea of going 60 mph was for a train,...not a car.
The roads out of town were often dirt with well worn ruts. The concept of a "commute" was unheard of.
gopiscrap
(23,736 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Grateful for Hope
(39,320 posts)I recommend watching it.
CitizenLeft
(2,791 posts)Thank you so much for posting that - I'm an Anglophile to the core, and London is my favorite city in the world (after Cleveland, were I was born ) I hope to get back to London for a 2nd visit before I leave this mortal coil.
Wonderful!