This is one of my favourite finds online. Film images taken in the late 1800s in places around England. Street Parades, funfairs, seaside Towns, as well as shopping districts and markets, public transport, and busy traffic. It also features the many different social classes of the time, from workers to wealthy landowners and dignitaries.
The original 9-minute film has been carefully enhanced for video, providing some amazing detail, and also colourised for full effect.
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One cannot believe that a city could be crowded by people like in the movie, without all the cars we are having nowadays. A great insight, Pete! xx Michael
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The populations of the cities were still large, even back then.
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Liked this!!!
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Like this!
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Pete, this is fascinating. There’s so much in this video. Thank you!
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I’m very pleased that you enjoyed it, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’re welcome, Pete. Best to you.
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I wonder if the fisticuffs scene was real or staged.
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In my opinion, it was staged for the camera. It looks that way to me.
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I wasn’t sure, but I was leaning toward staged.
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It is beyond comprehension how much we have changed in one hundred years. I have my own theories for that of course. The leap in technology and science from 1902 to 2002 is inexplicable unless we had a huge helping hand with it.
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Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, you have come up as ‘Anonymous’.
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As usual, I can’t view it Pete😙
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That’s a shame. This was a really good one.
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Fascinating video. I also watched a suggested video: “Titanic and Olympic Original Footage / Survivors” (Vintage Stories).
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Thanks, David. I will have to check that one out.
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There’s AI out there that has the gray to color scale down. In the B&W film days they had a chart showing how color x would translate to grayscale. I read something by actor James Arness saying how “Gunsmoke” required a whole “new” wardrobe that looked like what people might wear when they switched to color, unlike what they had to wear to shoot in B&W. “We looked like comic book characters. Orange shirts and light green pants. An outsider would have thought we were all colorblind.” Nice work, there, Pete.
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Thanks for the extra information, especially about the coloured clothes in ‘Gunsmoke’. 🙂
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It truly is fascinating to me to see the dramatic changes in our world over time…some gradual and some shockingly fast…
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This is one of the best films I have found, John.
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Indeed. Warmest regards, Ed
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There are some very interesting people here, doing some interesting things! I imagine they were amused at the idea of being photographed but probably didn’t imagine that we would be looking at them in 2023. Nice range of dogs!
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They would have had no idea that we were looking at them long after they were all dead. 🙂 Dogs have always been popular in England, for as far back as it has existed.
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Great film….well done chuq
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Glad you enjoyed it, chuq.
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Absolutely wonderful…..Thank you:)
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I thought so too. Thanks, Janet.
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It’s amazing how the faces become so much more distinct.
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The digital enhancement technique in this film is first-rate. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hi Pete, sadly the video is not available here in South Africa. This sometimes happens.
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That’s a pity. It happens here sometimes too, probably copyright issues.
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These are a joy to watch. The enhancement works beautifully. Thanks, Pete, for sharing another great find!
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Thanks, Olga. I think this is one of the best yet, such great detail.
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just delightful-A good way to start my day. Thank you-Michele
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I’m so pleased you enjoyed it, Michele.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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unbelievable
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This is some of the best quality enhancement I have found, Gavin.
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Such good quality film. That and the colour makes the people seem more real and not just sepia-tinted unsmiling figures that we usually see.
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Exactly right, Stevie. That’s why I love to find these online.
Best wishes, Pete.
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wow, the enhancement really makes all the difference
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It certainly does. Great detail on the faces.
Best wishes, Pete.
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