Posted on 04/12/2016 1:25:46 PM PDT by NRx
Incredible and haunting scenes from a trove of old films discovered in a basement in 1994. The footage was taken by two men who filmed scenes of ordinary people and normal life at the turn of the last century. Included are street scenes, sporting events, workers going to and from their jobs, parades and social gatherings and people recreating.The movie men would film the people at a time when moving pictures was cutting edge technology and then show the films that night in local theaters letting people see themselves in a motion picture (for a small price).
In a lot of the film segments the kids steel the show.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
And for an encore... here is a short video of people promenading at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris. For all of the shortcomings that came with living back then, I really think we have lost something in the elegance and manners of that era. The French call the decades before World War I the “Belle Epoch.”
super groovy!
Great post! Thanks.
1901 street scene in Shanghai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ls4mV51Yk&nohtml5=False
A lot of rickshaws.
It ends with a contingent of military types walking by.
Lots of rickshaws in Youtube link in #24. Also, if you look really, really close, you can see a sign for hair growth formula that says “You grow hair, look like Stalin!”
Great find. The soldiers look like British Ghurkas. But the officers are clearly German. In those days China was more or less shared by, and divided up, between the great imperial powers.
That’s what it looked like to me too, but I couldn’t figure out why they would be German officers rather than British officers.
Bfl
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I’ll have to wait till later to watch more. There must be some people who could recognize their relatives in these films.
This is a good show. Thanks! (32 minutes into it)
All are now passed on. It’s interesting to contemplate the difference in time. The youngest boys likely fought in WW I, while the older people didn’t even live to see WW II.
Time will pass all of us by.
Wow!
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