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Edwardian London Comes to Life (Amazing Movie footage from 1904)
Powerline ^ | 10/24/2008 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 10/24/2008 11:58:14 AM PDT by mojito

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time: movie footage of London shot in 1904. This clip is an excerpt from a 12-minute long video that was made as a travelogue to lure visitors from Australia. It is a fascinating and all too brief glimpse into the vibrant, teeming London of Sherlock Holmes:


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1904; godsgravesglyphs; london; sherlockholmes; unitedkingdom
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To: ladyvet
The footage is being shown as part of this year's London Film Festival.

I don't know when the rest will become available.

41 posted on 10/24/2008 12:23:10 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

That’s amazing, thanks for sharing. Kind of eerie when you consider that every person in the video is now dead. It was way too short though, going searching for more old footage like this!


42 posted on 10/24/2008 12:23:19 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: mojito

Save for later.


43 posted on 10/24/2008 12:23:46 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Eat the MSM!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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.

Since the end of the Napoleanic Wars, Europe had gone through a remarkably peaceful time, by historical standards. That world would be shattered to an extent that it is almost impossible for us to fathom.

44 posted on 10/24/2008 12:25:02 PM PDT by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Joe 6-pack

OMG That is amazing.


45 posted on 10/24/2008 12:25:16 PM PDT by retrokitten (Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!)
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To: mojito

It’s early 19th century, but you can go see Dicken’s World: www.dickensworld.co.uk


46 posted on 10/24/2008 12:25:30 PM PDT by RedDogzRule ("Dalai-Bama...the true Antichrist?")
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To: mojito

Bump... awesome.


47 posted on 10/24/2008 12:27:02 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: retrokitten

I did a painting inspired by a poem of his, and in fact, have a pic of it posted on my FR homepage...it was like completing a circle when I found that....


48 posted on 10/24/2008 12:31:19 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: null and void
"I must confess..."

I get the impression that HG Wells was a more than a bit of a monster, but those few paragraphs strike me as awfully good writing.

49 posted on 10/24/2008 12:32:38 PM PDT by TiberiusClaudius
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To: Citizen Blade
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.

Now imagine your great great great grandchildren, in 2108, stumbling upon some of your old home videos, from 2004, where the children are running around happily, playing in the water, and dancing with their parents - before all the terrible wars and totalitarian tyranny and demographic catastrophes of the 21st Century.

Remember, The Messiah's mentor thought that he would need to murder 25 million American "capitalists" in order to impose communism in North America.

50 posted on 10/24/2008 12:33:21 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You are very good.


51 posted on 10/24/2008 12:34:00 PM PDT by retrokitten (Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Now imagine your great great great grandchildren, in 2108, stumbling upon some of your old home videos, from 2004, where the children are running around happily, playing in the water, and dancing with their parents - before all the terrible wars and totalitarian tyranny and demographic catastrophes of the 21st Century.

Wow, we're both a couple of Molly Sunshines today, aren't we?

52 posted on 10/24/2008 12:36:45 PM PDT by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: mojito

View later


53 posted on 10/24/2008 12:37:20 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: mojito

Everyone in that movie is dead.


54 posted on 10/24/2008 12:38:22 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: mojito

Oh wonderful! I love the little moments- kids being kids, people hamming for the camera. Priceless!


55 posted on 10/24/2008 12:38:39 PM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: Citizen Blade

It’s always interesting to think about other times, and how it felt not to know things we now take for granted. I once read a fascinating book about the first millinium (the year 1000 AD). One of the things that really struck me was how quiet their lives were, since nothing was motorized. Of course, they were lucky to live into their 40s.


56 posted on 10/24/2008 12:41:43 PM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Keep the change!)
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To: TiberiusClaudius

Yeah. They choke me up every time.

Perhaps it’s because of the lines that follow, which are perhaps the most poignant ever committed to paper:

“And strangest of all is it to hold my wife’s hand again, and to think that I have counted her, and that she has counted me, among the dead.”


57 posted on 10/24/2008 12:41:56 PM PDT by null and void (Socialism doesn't work because of people./People don't work because of socialism...)
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To: mojito
Since there's no sound, I used it to once again prove my theory that any song can turn any footage into a music video that fits perfectly.

Randomly, my ITunes was playing an old Bob Dylan bootleg song, and it was a perfect match.

58 posted on 10/24/2008 12:42:36 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Citizen Blade
Here is a photo of Geronimo taken half a decade after that London video was shot. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
59 posted on 10/24/2008 12:43:44 PM PDT by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: mojito

Very cool...


60 posted on 10/24/2008 12:43:46 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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