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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 27, 2018, 11:44 AM:

Here is some beautifully transferred historical footage on Youtube of New York City in 1911.

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Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. This film was taken by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America

https://youtu.be/aohXOpKtns0

Posted by Will Trenfield (Member # 5321) on April 27, 2018, 11:57 AM:

Stunning.

Posted by Kev Morrison (Member # 6338) on April 27, 2018, 12:03 PM:

That was really an interesting film. Quality was great, and kudos for the added sound - well done!

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on April 27, 2018, 12:35 PM:

It seems the BFI have found snippets of old, sometimes thought lost in colour, films. The prints had been cut up and used for leaders to films they had been donated and in their collections for decades. One was from the leader of their 2 strip technicolor print of "The Black Pirate".

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on April 27, 2018, 02:07 PM:

Almost 95% of men were wearing suit. Just like in many films.

For those from the States, when this outfit started to change?

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on April 27, 2018, 03:14 PM:

Amazing footage Janice [Cool]

crossing those busy streets [Eek!]

Posted by Daniel Macarone (Member # 5102) on April 27, 2018, 04:35 PM:

Completely fascinating and right up there with A Trip Down Market Street 1906. I can get hooked on those archive films on youtube once I get started. When it's speed corrected w/ added sound, it feels like you've travelled through time and it's not hard to imagine being there.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on April 27, 2018, 07:28 PM:

Janice, thanks so much for posting this, it is really amazing! The quality is as good as anything that could be shot today in HD. It's really like seeing a lost civilization. Before the great wars that changed life forever. A time of great civility and elegance, so unlike today. [Frown]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 28, 2018, 10:13 AM:

Different from today: better in certain ways, yet not so much in others. For example in 1906 New York City had thousands and thousands of horses, naturally their...exhaust was all over the place.

I wrote a paragraph on how this acted under various weather conditions and actually grossed myself out! I scrapped it in case any of you are making lunch right now.

Suffice it to say people pretty much lived their lives in constant contact with it and they suffered for it. When the earliest automobiles started to show up, Doctors advocated for them: the nastiness above is the reason.

So the present certainly has it's nastiness to it, the past just had different nastiness even where it wasn't the same nasiness!

Posted by Maurizio Di Cintio (Member # 144) on April 28, 2018, 10:42 AM:

Truly amazing!!!! It's so pin sharp and rock steady!!! Have you used any wizardry in post?!!
My gosh, like someone said, it really looks like you have travelelled back in time with a direct sound movie camera: in fact even the short pauses in sound between shots sound like a recording on pre-striped sound film: a short gap, that is, betweein shots.

How come this kept so clean??? Details, please! And thank you for posting

Posted by Oliver F. R. Feld (Member # 1911) on April 28, 2018, 11:06 AM:

Amazing, beautiful and stunning...
Thank You, Janice...
Why do I expect Kate Winslet in her TITANIC-dress to appear the whole time?
I especially love the car driving behind the train and the smiling driver.
Makes me think to screen THE MAGIC BOX this weekend

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