Edwardian London Comes to Life (Amazing Movie footage from 1904)

Powerline ^ | 10/24/2008 | John Hinderaker

[Dallas59]

...and knowledge shall be increased..."

Amazing where we have gone in 100 short years...

[null and void]

Everyone in that movie is dead.

LISTER walks down the corridor, looking around. As he enters the mess, he notices small piles of white powder on some of the tables.

LISTER: Where is everybody, Hol?

LISTER sticks his finger in one of the piles of white powder and tastes it.

HOLLY: They're dead, Dave.
LISTER: Who is?
HOLLY: Everybody, Dave.
LISTER: What, Captain Hollister?
HOLLY: Everybody's dead, Dave.
LISTER: What, Todhunter?
HOLLY: Everybody's dead, Dave.
LISTER: What, Selby?
HOLLY: They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave.

12 Int. Corridor.

LISTER is still trying to understand what HOLLY is saying.

LISTER: Petersen isn't, is he?
HOLLY: Everybody is dead, Dave.
LISTER: Not Chen?
HOLLY: Gordon Bennett! Yes! Chen, everybody. Everybody's dead, Dave.
LISTER: Rimmer?
HOLLY: He's dead, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody is dead, Dave!
LISTER: Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?
HOLLY: I wish I'd never let him out in the first place.

[AnAmericanMother]

Thanks for the tip!

What's funny is that some of the places in the film are actually recognisable, and I've stood in the same place as the photographer.

The bridge and the pond are in St. James's Park, and of course the shots of the costers and so forth were taken at Covent Garden Market. The arched building on the right hand side is still there (it was there when an artist painted the same scene in the 1730s). And the intersection with the huge "BOVRIL" sign on the building is looking up Ludgate Hill across the Viaduct to St. Paul's dome.

Really not much has changed in the City.

[Richard from IL]

bump for later

[ansel12]

Sorry the photo of Geronimo is from 1905, Geronimo died a “half decade” after the London footage.

[Oatka]

WALTER WYCKOFF (third pic down), while never mentioning the stench of Chicago streets in 1892, did mention the slime of ground up horse manure on the streets and sidewalks and how the ladies had to hike their skirts up a bit to keep from being fouled.

The site mentioned above refers to the stench of the stock yards. Any city in those days must have had a miasma that would clear your sinuses pretty fast, especially in the summertime.

I was a kid in NYC in 1948 when they still had a few horse-drawn delivery carts and things would be pretty pungent until the street sweeper came by - a guy with a wide brush and a trashcan on wheels.

[bert]

I thought I saw Eliza and Professor ‘iggens there

[Lurker]

A survey was done at the time of the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago. One of the questions was 'What do you think will be the worst problem the City will face in 100 years?'

The most popular answer was 'how to handle all the horse crap.'

L

[timestax]

How do we see the whole twelve minutes???

[visualops]

Some other clips available at the archive
http://www.bfi.org.uk/creativearchive/titles/

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The most popular answer was 'how to handle all the horse crap.'

That's actually true, in a metaphorical sense.

[Dallas59]

Turn of the Century (20th) Film Clips

Requires Quick Time to view.

Place a year in the search box to get videos. Goes back to 1890's

[opticks]

"I wonder how many of the little boys playing in the water would die at Flanders."

"A sobering thought. "This video almost has a "dinosaurs before the comet" feel to it. I don't mean to insult these people, but they were living in the last days of a confident, prosperous, optimistic world, with no clue that almost a million of their countrymen would die in a war that started a decade from when this film was made."

It would be difficult--but in my opinion doable--to identify many of the people in the footage. Would make a neat project.

[Age of Reason]

I used to work with some guys who were kids in Brooklyn, NY, around 1911.

They told me how they used to play in the streets and pick up horse manure to throw at each other.

Sounded gross to them when they told the story as old men.

But horse manure from a healthy horse really isn’t bad—I had no problem picking it up with my bare hands and never bothered altering my course to avoid stepping in it when I spent a lot of time around horses.

Horse manure is like high quality fertile earth.

[Age of Reason]

You can find a lot more early film clips on the Library of Congress website.

[windcliff]

ping

[Verginius Rufus]

Everyone is that movie is dead.

The same thought occurred to me too. All of the horses, too.

I wonder how many of the young boys splashing in the water died on the Western Front in the First World War.

[Age of Reason]

“It would be difficult—but in my opinion doable—to identify many of the people in the footage. Would make a neat project.”

Then don’t miss this:

http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/aboutlewishine2.html

From that link:

“The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine are part of our history, but we know almost nothing about their lives. . . . By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.”

[ansel12]

“A survey was done at the time of the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago”

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Right now I am looking at a “special pass” for the 1893 Chicago Worlds fair or the World’s Columbian Exposition.

The pass is issued by a Horace Tucker to Manuel Ramirez ‘Mexican band’

[incredulous in PA]

I think I’ll go home and re-watch Mary Poppins with the kids. The costuming looks pretty authentic.