Getting Dressed - Victorian Maid, Christmas 1853

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
  • A Victorian maidservant dresses ready for a day of work, then ventures out into a cold evening...
    Thanks to support from www.loveniplaw...
    Director/Cinematographer: Nicole Loven / crowseyeproductions
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    Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven / periodwardrobe
    Shoes - Kevin Garlick, www.kgarlick-sh...
    Stockings - Sally Pointer www.sallypoint...
    Dickens' suit - Andrew Musson
    Voice-over: Martha Milne / machinequilter
    Music: Chris Gordon www.chrisgordon...
    Sound recordist: Alex Pollard
    Make-up/hair: Liv Free / livfreemakeup
    Hair stylist: Anita Cudbertson
    Costume Assistant: Annis McGee
    Runner - Stuart Riley
    Runner - Kieran Speed
    Maid - Kate Fenwick
    Well dressed man - Elliot Sargent
    Baker - Andrew MacDonald
    Charles Dickens - David Clayton
    Audience -
    Liv Free
    Naomi Lambert-Smith
    Charlotte Napper
    Carmel Kazadi
    Charlotte Page
    Karen Hunter
    Emma Haigh
    Pamela Marnie
    Emily Bickerdike
    Charlotte Brindley
    Emma Kirkup
    Stephanie Riley
    Sarah Cliffe
    Lucie Evans
    Aiden Van Rensburg
    Karen Y Crow
    Kathy Coulson
    William Richardson
    Andrew MacDonald
    Kieran Speed
    Keith Loven
    John Males
    Will Quirk
    Curtis Clapham
    Filmed on Location in Lincoln, UK www.visitlinco...
    Many thanks to:
    The Village Church Farm, Skegness churchfarmvilla...
    Stephen Gillard
    Stokes Coffee, Lincoln www.stokes-cof...
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    Andrew MacDonald / potshop1

КОМЕНТАРІ • 766

  • @jamwar764
    @jamwar764 5 років тому +1404

    I feel like I am constantly being taken in a time machine. It's not just the clothing, it's the way the clothing was lived in. I feel like I'm there.

    • @louise-yo7kz
      @louise-yo7kz 5 років тому +20

      So true. Just wonderful these vids

    • @eliiuu9597
      @eliiuu9597 3 роки тому +16

      honestly, it's why i love historical fashion so much. and why i want to wear these older fashions so much. because i know so many people of all different backgrounds wore something similar.

    • @nulnoh219
      @nulnoh219 Рік тому

      A time machine invented by a very perverted person. We're always in the changing rooms.

  • @julianna8151
    @julianna8151 5 років тому +2172

    tbh it isnt a crowseye production until there are are garter ribbons above the knee

    • @brokebassoon
      @brokebassoon 5 років тому +197

      "Beneath the knee"!

    • @strideryourself
      @strideryourself 5 років тому +34

      julianna ??? *Beneath

    • @kaitlinr9735
      @kaitlinr9735 5 років тому +78

      And some sort of long slip type thing "worn next to the skin"

    • @scarletpimpernelagain9124
      @scarletpimpernelagain9124 4 роки тому +23

      Somebody says that about every one of these films I’ve watched so far. It’s about historical dress, what do you expect them to use?

    • @thewestwind_
      @thewestwind_ 3 роки тому +2

      @@scarletpimpernelagain9124 Chill out, party pooper

  • @i8anapplemac
    @i8anapplemac 5 років тому +1564

    I wish we had pockets like that nowadays

    • @vt1527
      @vt1527 5 років тому +40

      Isla my ball gown as well as Dirndl dresses have hidden pockets like that! They are so great, I wish pockets like those were more common in modern clothing

    • @jenniferstilger9134
      @jenniferstilger9134 5 років тому +90

      I get excited every time I find a maxi dress with pockets.. and every time someone would compliment me on my dress my first comment is always “Thanks! It has pockets!” And I show them off.

    • @Sarahhannahtx
      @Sarahhannahtx 5 років тому +32

      Pockets in dresses are heavenly! 😍

    • @horseenthusiast1250
      @horseenthusiast1250 5 років тому +19

      Isla I just sew all my clothes with Big pockets now

    • @Tina06019
      @Tina06019 5 років тому +40

      I sew big pockets into my skirts (obviously I don't wear pencil skirts!), and I also sewed a "pair of pockets" to wear around my waist when I am wearing one of the full skirts I make with reach-through slits hidden in the sides. Because, well, POCKETS!

  • @noellejones7164
    @noellejones7164 4 роки тому +40

    omg the fact that they fully costumed like 20-30 people just for this ONE video truly shows the quality and care that goes into these videos

  • @catherinecao4810
    @catherinecao4810 4 роки тому +521

    When that baker gave the maid some bread, I legit cried. It’s these acts of kindness that were brought to light by Dickens and his writing.

  • @penguincookiez
    @penguincookiez 5 років тому +808

    I LOVE how stories are now incorporated into the dressing videos. This series keeps getting better and better!

    • @rokukou
      @rokukou 4 роки тому +10

      i agree! i noticed there is a warm little moment hidden in each video.

  • @kirstenirwin9084
    @kirstenirwin9084 5 років тому +747

    This was so very nice to watch. Brought on a smile and good for Charles Dickens doing this for the working class of London. They had very little time for themselves back then, so I bet this was a treat.

    • @Apollo890
      @Apollo890 5 років тому +32

      Birmingham not London but yes very kind of him indeed.

    • @MichelleOsorio
      @MichelleOsorio 5 років тому +11

      As someone who is visiting my fiancé in Birmingham as we speak I have to mention my family constantly said “Have fun in London”. 😂

    • @sewgatormomm
      @sewgatormomm 5 років тому +2

      Dickens was actually a horrible man. You should watch BBC Mrs. Dickens Family Christmas to see how really creepy he was.

    • @monicad.2269
      @monicad.2269 5 років тому +5

      Yep! Makes me tear up a bit seeing their expressions

    • @LadySnowfaerie
      @LadySnowfaerie 4 роки тому +17

      Dickens had lived as one of them for a few years as a boy, working in a shoe shine factory while his father was in prison. He never quite forgot the experience, so he championed to improve the worker's conditions with his writing in his later life. It wasn't so much him being nice as it was him being very driven and angry about what was happening.

  • @Angie-GoneSoon
    @Angie-GoneSoon 5 років тому +2443

    I got a little nervous when they showed that man walking behind her, very relieved when he walked past.... Jack the Ripper....
    NOT TODAY!

    • @unicornsprinkles3277
      @unicornsprinkles3277 5 років тому +97

      Angie Roberts lol he wasn’t from dickenses times tho

    • @73dmonty
      @73dmonty 5 років тому +103

      I had the exact thought! Wondered where this little social history video was headed!!! I even said to my husband, (who wasn't really watching) "Who's he supposed to be? Jack the Ripper??" Just glad to know I wasn't the only one with the thought.

    • @annesuniverse
      @annesuniverse 5 років тому +108

      i swear to god when he came up right behind her i almost had a heart attack

    • @kyoyameganebereznoff
      @kyoyameganebereznoff 5 років тому +48

      73dmonty Jack the Ripper was much later in the century.

    • @raining214
      @raining214 5 років тому +56

      The Ripper murders happened through 1888 and only in Whitechapel as far as we know

  • @seraphinasullivan4849
    @seraphinasullivan4849 5 років тому +1509

    No wonder they had a good time.
    "Alright, people, gather 'round and Mr. Dickens will tell you a ghost story about a cranky old miser who was scared straight into being nice to poor folks like you."
    I'd pay to see that. Bring all my equally poor friends and pay their entrance fees too

  • @PhilosophicalBum21
    @PhilosophicalBum21 5 років тому +400

    It was oh so very lovely! Especially the ambiance and all the little details. Like our main maid's poor hands were so red and so cold as she got changed for the day. Really makes you feel like we really are in a drafty house in the middle of winter in the 1800s. I especially love the sense of mystery as we watched all these different types of working people waiting in line. This thought of "What amazing thing are all these people waiting for? I suppose I'll wait too and see what all the fuss is about!" Really makes you feel like you were there in person.

    • @monmothma3358
      @monmothma3358 5 років тому +4

      Yes it was a very nice builup and I loved the revelation!

  • @zialuna3758
    @zialuna3758 5 років тому +351

    Dickens was a proponent of the working class throughout his life and most of his novels due to his youth. The way I know this is because I loved A Christmas Carol so much growing up I decided to take a course on Dickens when it was offered at university. I loved the course, hated the professor, but learned far more than I expected to. 😉

    • @louise-yo7kz
      @louise-yo7kz 5 років тому +5

      A very conscientious man

    • @sewgatormomm
      @sewgatormomm 5 років тому +1

      Watch BBC Mrs. Dickens Family Christmas. He was not a decent person at all. @@louise-yo7kz

    • @marywebb9127
      @marywebb9127 5 років тому +3

      @@sewgatormomm He had Mommy issues do to his resentment of his Mother. He blamed her for him going to the work house as a child.

    • @YT4Me57
      @YT4Me57 4 роки тому +3

      @@marywebb9127 and that experience made him so conscientious about the life of the poor.

    • @marywebb9127
      @marywebb9127 4 роки тому +7

      @@YT4Me57 Don't get me wrong I loved his books but he had issues with women. It stemed from his resentment of his Mother. He based his writings, novels and short stories on life experiences and people he knew. He treated his wife terribly late in his life. He based his Character Flora Flinching off his wife in "Little Doritt".

  • @dgcclan9445
    @dgcclan9445 5 років тому +573

    I love how you put the fashion into context with contemporaneous events. Such a delight!!!

  • @user-oj5bw7sl8p
    @user-oj5bw7sl8p 5 років тому +2014

    Feel so sorry for this poor maid! As most of English working class people in 19 century, she was living on only bread and tea, - with some small pie on the big holidays as a great treat. No fruits, no vegetables, permanent exhaustion due to the lack of vitamins and hard work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. Modern people are incredibly lucky to live much happier life nowadays, and these historical videos help us appreciate all the good things we have now. Even though we haven't got them for free,- labor unions were fighting for ages for every improvement in the life of working classes.

    • @emilyb.8219
      @emilyb.8219 5 років тому +357

      That's why when people always comment on these kinds of videos "I was born in the wrong era, I love those clothes!" it makes me sigh. People disregard how hard the average person had it back then!

    • @goldensloth7
      @goldensloth7 5 років тому +17

      truth!

    • @nielubieinceli
      @nielubieinceli 5 років тому +108

      do not forget that maids were often sexual abusing

    • @user-oj5bw7sl8p
      @user-oj5bw7sl8p 5 років тому +196

      @@nielubieinceli Yes, unfortunately, maids were often sexually abused,- and after that thrown out of the house, where they were working, pregnant and without any means to support themselves and the future child.

    • @ionamoon4745
      @ionamoon4745 5 років тому +48

      For Christmas I think treatment of working class girls is still like that in some respects- you’d be surprised 😱

  • @Agaettis
    @Agaettis 5 років тому +431

    I'm having a very hard time mentally right now...and this was a wonderful treat for me. Thank you

    • @louise-yo7kz
      @louise-yo7kz 5 років тому +24

      Do feel better soon

    • @WaysideArtist
      @WaysideArtist 5 років тому +24

      Sending you some emotional backup. 💕

    • @maireadmaguire4589
      @maireadmaguire4589 5 років тому +14

      I promise it will get better. You’re joy in the little things will see you through.

    • @mariagallo2355
      @mariagallo2355 5 років тому +10

      Love for you 💗

    • @lozzylols
      @lozzylols 5 років тому +11

      I hope you find yourself in a better place very soon, I totally understand how you feel. Take care x

  • @virginiaseybold
    @virginiaseybold 2 роки тому +30

    I’m sitting here, crying at work. This is absolutely gorgeous. The look on the maid’s face as she takes in the story, as she admires the bread in the window…. This video drives home what’s so important to me about the holiday season: the little things that we must never take for granted. When I was a little girl my favorite book was the Polar express, and my mother had a silver bell just like the one in the book that she would place under the tree every year for me and my brother to find once we were done with our gifts. We would pull it out and ring it, and it was always the most beautiful sound. Fast forward to adulthood, and I’m celebrating Christmas at my mother’s when she hands me a small box. It’s the very last Christmas gift under the tree. I open it and what do I find but that same silver bell. I burst into tears on the spot; the most thoughtful gift I have ever received. 🎄 🔔

  • @MorganJServices
    @MorganJServices 5 років тому +197

    Your productions are too marvelous for words. I became so entranced. I was feeling everything of the wide eyed maid.

  • @jiminsthighsrapmonsdimples6240
    @jiminsthighsrapmonsdimples6240 5 років тому +43

    This made me tear up not gonna lie, especially when the man gave her some bread. It felt like an optimistic remark that A Christmas Carol was based on real kindness

  • @minasees
    @minasees 5 років тому +320

    i just watched “the one who invented christmas”! and seeing this right after is just delightful!! i am absolutely in love with your ‘getting dressed’ series!

    • @a.z.s6679
      @a.z.s6679 5 років тому +1

      minasmiles can u post the link to
      The one who invented Christmas.
      I can’t seem to find it

  • @laurenconrad1799
    @laurenconrad1799 5 років тому +21

    I love these videos, especially ones for working women, who don’t always get the wardrobe history videos they and their clothes deserve.

  • @pixielocks3290
    @pixielocks3290 5 років тому +137

    I'm really struggling mentally and emotionally with the stresses of Christmas and this really put everything back into perspective for me. Thank you so much for such a wonderful video. A Christmas carol was always my favourite story and that's not me being bias because I played Belinda Cratchit in my high school production over 15 years ago. It really sends across the message that family and love are all that matter at Christmas. Not gifts or the latest gadgets or how much money you have to flaunt but about those who are nearest and dearest to you. Merry Christmas x

    • @h.calvert3165
      @h.calvert3165 5 років тому +4

      Pixie Locks
      God bless you, & may your Christmas be beautiful! May the rest of your life be filled with love. 🎄 💖 🎄

  • @jeywithane130
    @jeywithane130 Рік тому +14

    it's become my own silly christmas tradition to watch this video, and gosh, i always get emotional. it's so well done.

    • @juliak1615
      @juliak1615 5 місяців тому

      Oh that is not at all silly! I just rediscovered this gem of a video and honestly, I feel like rewactching it every Christmas as well. :)

  • @JadeStrawberry
    @JadeStrawberry 5 років тому +170

    This was a lovely story.

  • @blissgirl9052
    @blissgirl9052 5 років тому +394

    Could be those delightful pregnancy hormones but yes, this made me cry. Just lovely.

    • @teresitaromero4325
      @teresitaromero4325 5 років тому +39

      Bliss Fancy me too and I’m not even pregnant.

    • @MarinaLKitchen
      @MarinaLKitchen 5 років тому +19

      Not pregnant either and I cried too!

    • @rosrychaplet
      @rosrychaplet 5 років тому +10

      Congrats

    • @ilsev4795
      @ilsev4795 5 років тому +4

      Same, the christmas adverts are starting to appear on tv and I cry everytime! Hormones....

    • @VulcanTrekkie45
      @VulcanTrekkie45 5 років тому +16

      I'm a guy and I got weepy at the end

  • @theanimeidiot8903
    @theanimeidiot8903 5 років тому +232

    I want to be at that reading. Can I be there? Did he actually go through the entire book? Oh, it would be so lovely to go see that! I would pay sixpence for that! I’d pay a crown!

    • @michaelarichmond438
      @michaelarichmond438 5 років тому +56

      There's a gentleman near me that every year dresses up as Dickens and does public performances of "A Christmas Carol". If you can believe it, he does an *even better* job than in this video! It's simply magical!

    • @theanimeidiot8903
      @theanimeidiot8903 5 років тому +13

      Michaela Richmond Oh how lovely! I do wish I could go there! Where does he perform? Perhaps I can see the performance!

    • @monkiram
      @monkiram 5 років тому +3

      @@michaelarichmond438 I'd love to know too, please tell us where this is

    • @michaelarichmond438
      @michaelarichmond438 5 років тому +16

      @@theanimeidiot8903 and @monkiram His name is Mike Randall and he performs in Western New York. He is seriously fantastic. When he's performing you would swear there were 20 other people up there on stage!

    • @theanimeidiot8903
      @theanimeidiot8903 5 років тому +10

      Michaela Richmond *packs bags* ok so I’ll go to the annoying city only this once but I want some Shakespeare so-

  • @tabs157
    @tabs157 5 років тому +163

    Am always so happy when I see one of these videos 😁😁😻

  • @brandonphipps4755
    @brandonphipps4755 5 років тому +236

    I really enjoyed this! Please continue to make these fantastic videos! I really enjoyed this but I wanted so badly for the story to continue on. It would be amazing if u could make similar episodes of other classics. I wanted to know more about this girl and what happened after the show! Does she go home and tell the other maids about how the show was and what she thought? Is there an older head maid who thinks stories and fairy tails are for children? Does this girl get to teach this older lead maid the joy of stories? I don't want it to end! We want more we want more we want more....lol. Great work guys!! Bravo!!!

    • @erynhofland4744
      @erynhofland4744 5 років тому +6

      Brandon Phipps
      Why don’t you write that story?

    • @jamesrobiscoe1174
      @jamesrobiscoe1174 5 років тому +4

      Brandon---I never heard such questions before. I agree with Eryn: you might try to outline your ideas, identify a theme (such as "imagination is not only for professional writers"), choose your cast of characters, and you're ready to roll.

    • @brandonphipps4755
      @brandonphipps4755 5 років тому +3

      Wow u totally put me in a spot that I'm not sure or. I want to say oh I could never but at the same time I have been writing since I was a kid. I actually call myself a old Hollywood historian because I am obsessed with that topic. But I'm also very intrigued by general and typical lives of earlier centuries. Right now I am reading gone with the wind, and I finished this book that I really enjoyed but I can't think of the name nor the book before it! Something about tenafly road, a man is hurt in a war(civil maybe) and he is thought to die so he is given lots of morphine. He doesn't die and he left the hospital not only with his life but also a bad wound that begins to fester along with an addiction to morphine. Such a good book! The other was like a prairie girls story and her dad dies in a bad snow storm the night she is born. I found this channel because of my nonstop research of the civil war, native Americans and American history and so on. Could I write it? Yeah. But. More importantly would it be good? Could but would it be amazing and worthy? Probably not lol

    • @brandonphipps4755
      @brandonphipps4755 5 років тому +7

      I could see this girl in the video having a story line similar to possibly a Jane eyre mixed with maybe Melanie from gone with the wind and maybe end it with a bit from the movie the enchanted cottage or even lord Fauntleroy or little women

    • @93midnightsunrise
      @93midnightsunrise 5 років тому +2

      Do it! Write it! And post it to Archive of Our Own so we can read it. It’s one of the best sites for fan-fiction.

  • @kokonana4086
    @kokonana4086 2 роки тому +9

    So heart-warming when the baker handing her a piece of bread. Love the entire production. Really feel like I'm riding a time-machine and going back in time.

  • @berkleypearl2363
    @berkleypearl2363 5 років тому +41

    We just closed up Dickens on the Strand here in Galveston. It’s my favorite festival! There’s a parade, shops that sell all kinds of fun stuff, costume contests, and everyone dresses up in a vaguely mid 1800’s style and it’s so much fun!
    I was able to purchase a beautiful 1870’s style day dress at the festival for hardly over 100 bucks because it was the last day

    • @MizzKittyBichon
      @MizzKittyBichon 5 років тому +5

      No way! That's so cool! I would love to go to a 19th century-inspired event like that!

    • @christinesarkis4029
      @christinesarkis4029 5 років тому +3

      I didn't go this year because I was sick, but it's always a great time. I hope I can find the time to sew a costume for next year!

    • @JeantheSecond
      @JeantheSecond 5 років тому +3

      😮 Why can’t my city do this?!

    • @kaitiewoodard5748
      @kaitiewoodard5748 5 років тому +1

      I’ve wanted to go for a while but I didn’t want to without period clothes but I’ve decided to make my own ensemble and go next Christmas! I’ve heard it’s wonderful

  • @SeaMonkey137
    @SeaMonkey137 Рік тому +6

    These "stories" are so much better than just descriptions of getting dressed in a specific period, and really add some dimension to the clothing described. Well done.

  • @Gamers-xi3bl
    @Gamers-xi3bl 3 роки тому +11

    Wow this explains so much of why "Scrooge" is such a famous story. It isnt because its Christmas season but because Dickens himself had read it to his own audience back in 1853. This is truly beautiful.

  • @malenasander7906
    @malenasander7906 5 років тому +60

    These series make me watch
    Downtown Abbey again. It’s how the live of those living in that century actually coming to live. Thanks for entertaining us with history 😊

    • @chrisholland7367
      @chrisholland7367 5 років тому +11

      Downtown Abbey was turn of century drama. Queen Victoria had already died her son Edward Vll had become king it was also the lead up to ww1 .

    • @bbth667
      @bbth667 2 роки тому +1

      Downtown Abbey is set a while after the 1850s, but yess!I'm going to watch it too

    • @gerardacronin334
      @gerardacronin334 2 роки тому +1

      The first episode of Downton Abbey was set at the time the Titanic sank in April 1912. This video is set approximately 60 years prior to that.

  • @roet8792
    @roet8792 5 років тому +154

    I'm not entirely sure but this video made me cry

    • @snippetsofvictoria
      @snippetsofvictoria 5 років тому +7

      I teared up a little when the baker gave that little cake to her

    • @korkronwarlord
      @korkronwarlord 4 роки тому +2

      Me too friend, me too. Its hard to explain but its just there, that feeling of good towards one self and your fellow man through a fantasticly told tale.

    • @KellyMcnelly333
      @KellyMcnelly333 3 роки тому

      Crows eye productions are just stunning. They get me aswell everytime 🥲

  • @impagain
    @impagain 4 роки тому +15

    Dicken's performance was wonderful. I wish I could go back in time for a day and watch the man himself perform a reading of it for certain!

  • @mintyonthemoon
    @mintyonthemoon Рік тому +4

    Gosh, I didn't expect to get so emotional about Dickens pricing his performance low enough for the working class to enjoy it. Incredibly special.

  • @AeonSaint
    @AeonSaint 5 років тому +43

    Wishing everyone a happy St. Nicholas evening.
    Merry christmas to everyone.
    "God bless us, every one!"

  • @SeliahK
    @SeliahK 5 років тому +9

    Whoever the actor was playing Dickens... bravo, he was VERY lively, and great to listen to. Love it. :)
    Love the whole series, too. I'm a 3D artist, so these videos, and the depths that they go to (including how the garments are fastened!) are invaluable for research for some of the things I make. Thank you!

  • @veccakeka464
    @veccakeka464 5 років тому +20

    I don’t know why, but tears wouldn’t stop running down my cheeks. For some reason i feel both filled with joy and sorrow. Excellent portrayal!

  • @Ticket2theMoon
    @Ticket2theMoon 5 років тому +4

    I’m reading A Christmas Carol with my 8 year old daughter and she’s loving it. This video helped her get a clearer idea of what everyone would look like. She did say she wondered what it would be like for the kids to get dressed. 😊

    • @angharadlloyd473
      @angharadlloyd473 5 років тому

      I think little girls would wear a very similar outfit just without the corset.

  • @stardresser1
    @stardresser1 5 років тому +7

    These CrowsEye dressing videos are SOOOOOOOOO good. I'm a costume designer/wardrobe stylist of 30 years in la, and I have to say, these are flawless. Beautiful, accurate, informative, artistic, and made like gorgeous little movies. Not only are they all of the above, but if you are tired, but wired, they will put you to sleep! (kind of like Bob Ross, another favorite.) LOVE THESE!

  • @relayniedarcy
    @relayniedarcy 5 років тому +51

    Aww, that’s lovely! Of course, I now want Charles Dickens (or someone dressed like him) to read me The Christmas Carol in its entirety.

  • @MsSteelphoenix
    @MsSteelphoenix 5 років тому +99

    I LOVE that there are people of colour in this film! They are so often forgotten and they were definitely there.

    • @stepchildofsoul
      @stepchildofsoul 4 роки тому +5

      Indeed, thanks for that.

    • @snowyskylar8821
      @snowyskylar8821 4 роки тому +5

      It's not culturally correct. 3 cheers for European Christian Man

    • @stepchildofsoul
      @stepchildofsoul 4 роки тому +14

      @@snowyskylar8821 Shut it, fool. Africans of all social strata were present in London as far back as the Roman era of European history. It wasn't until at least a century later that cowards like you started rejecting and demeaning other humans.

    • @scouttyra
      @scouttyra 2 роки тому

      +

  • @Juliana-kc1sv
    @Juliana-kc1sv 5 років тому +10

    as a costume designer, there's nothing i love more than these videos. clothes have souls, and you always seem to communicate that !!!

  • @ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim
    @ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim 2 роки тому +2

    I cried so hard watching this. . . Dickens really was one of the best men that ever lived. It is amazing how your touching portrayal of this girl with a hard life made A Christmas Story even more meaningful.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 5 років тому +43

    The costumes kook so good and the narration by the actor playing Dickens really excellent! In my home town too, it's the first that I have heard of that.
    It would be good if you could do a full production of any Dickens story but especially A Christmas Carol, my favourite Christmas story . I watch various productions every December without fail and wold add yours to my watch list if it ever came about.

    • @CrowsEyeProductions
      @CrowsEyeProductions  5 років тому +12

      We are musing on the idea of dramatising 'The Chimes' for a Christmas yet to come...

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 5 років тому +4

      @@CrowsEyeProductions Really? That would be interesting and would introduce some to lesser known Dicken's work. I believe that it was his next publication after Christmas Carol but I may be wrong.

  • @petuniaandpoppy4615
    @petuniaandpoppy4615 5 років тому +29

    Enchanting. Again you capture the atmosphere and texture of the past.

  • @angharad.9743
    @angharad.9743 5 років тому +92

    This reminds me of that doctor who episode where they meet dickens

  • @aracthedragon
    @aracthedragon 5 років тому +4

    Oh, I adored this. I adored this so much. My family and I have watched the 1984 movie version of "A Christmas Carol," the one with George C. Scott, every year at Christmas time since I was six years old. I can recite whole parts from it from memory, I've seen it so many times. This was so delightful. Finding out that Charles Dickens insisted that one of his first public performances of "A Christmas Carol" be affordable to working class folks made me choke up. Thank you for this, you guys do such wonderful videos.

    • @annapaulikonis2433
      @annapaulikonis2433 5 років тому

      Watch the Musical Versio 1970, with Albert Finney.Excellent Version.

  • @torriem1653
    @torriem1653 5 років тому +8

    This was so lovely. Watching these videos makes me miss my grandmother and how much I wish I could show them to her. She would get such a kick out of them. I hope your team continues to bring such seemingly simple routines of our ancestors to life. Thank you for your art!

  • @thatoneemokid9030
    @thatoneemokid9030 5 років тому +72

    i yelled out “YAY!” when i saw this, i’ve been looking forward to this video ever since it was teased, and i can definitely say that i’m not disappointed! merry early christmas❤️🎄

  • @grey_roses
    @grey_roses 5 років тому +5

    Great video! I always enjoy seeing the 'shapes' of an era's dress in its most pragmatic forms.
    When I was at University, every year...in the relief after exams, before we left for Winter break...the head of the Drama department would put on his Dickens duds & do the most amazing reading of 'A Christmas Carol'. He made your hair stand on end when Christmas Present confronts Scrooge over the horrible children sheltering in his robes: 'Are there no *workhouses* ?' *Number Expunged* years later, & I still remember his performance every Christmas...just as described here, nothing but the man on the stage & the characters leaping from his book. 〰💙👏

  • @epd1113
    @epd1113 5 років тому +38

    I love your videos. The main lady in this one is so stunning.

  • @gheldmann
    @gheldmann 4 роки тому +6

    I adore these videos. A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas tales, so I loved this episode! Am I the only one who teared up when the baker gave the maid some bread? Or how Dickens made sure the price of admittance was affordable? Simple kindnesses like that keep me going.

  • @Apollo890
    @Apollo890 5 років тому +45

    Nice little trick you pulled there when it showed a gentleman approaching from behind and the music seemed to get ominous and I'm thinking Jack the Ripper but no this is Christmas not Halloween.

  • @lisad1532
    @lisad1532 5 років тому +27

    I love this site ;Keep using the premiere features 😊
    I am sure I speak for many who look forward to new shows

    • @calicocloth
      @calicocloth 5 років тому +3

      It’s always a pleasure to share the release of a new film with you all!

  • @EnglishVirgo
    @EnglishVirgo 5 років тому +7

    This moved me. I don't know if it is hormones or just empathy for those struggling through tough times and them having a wonderful evening away from work, but I had tears in my eyes. VERY well done.xx

  • @nordiskkatt
    @nordiskkatt 4 роки тому +4

    The production values of this series is something else! Lovely costumes, of course, but such pretty and realistic settings, and your actors are stellar. It was mesmerising, watching the maidservant get mesmerised! Thanks for your work!

  • @Hartsikasvo
    @Hartsikasvo 5 років тому +34

    These videos are so lovely! The atmosphere and the costumes are perfect!

  • @ellaisplotting
    @ellaisplotting 5 років тому +22

    These videos are absolute delights. I adore them. Marvellous work!

  • @korkronwarlord
    @korkronwarlord 5 років тому +9

    Few UA-cam videos have moved me to tears as much as this and the Tell Them Of Us - series. I've seen various film adaptions of A Christmas Carol but to have the chance to actually hear it read by Charles Dickens himself, now that would have been an artistic litterature experienced in its fullest. I do so much hope this channel will continue to produce equally fantastic videos.

  • @YT4Me57
    @YT4Me57 4 роки тому +2

    Oh my goodness, the ending made me cry. What a delightful little film! Thank you 🌲

  • @TheNinjaInConverse
    @TheNinjaInConverse 5 років тому +40

    This was charming, and I cannot wait to see a few more Christmas-inspired videos over the next couple weeks. Keep up the good work:)

  • @nardo218
    @nardo218 5 років тому +7

    Can you do a little bit later, the Edwardian era? I've read Anne of Green Gables, the whole series, several times. I'd like to know what Marilla and Anne were going around in. Especially how Anne could "run like a deer" in her cotton homespun if she was wearing a lot of underwear under there.

  • @jenjenjennyful
    @jenjenjennyful 5 років тому +1

    The George C. Scott Christmas Carol is a tradition in my family, we watch it every year! Amazing production. I married a Muslim and am Muslim now and I STILL watch it every Christmas. It's the one tradition I won't ever let die.

  • @wejdanalzaid4315
    @wejdanalzaid4315 5 років тому +28

    I've been brought to tears by this thank you T.T

  • @amandagrayson389
    @amandagrayson389 5 років тому +14

    Wow. Your videos are always so amazing. I really love how you connect the person and the clothes with the times. It all makes better sense that. And gives us just a little glimpse into a window of the past.

  • @sadiedavenport
    @sadiedavenport 2 роки тому +1

    Oh my goodness these are just so gorgeously made 😱😍 thank you so much for these!

  • @libellle
    @libellle 5 років тому +17

    Keep this series up. I love it. It's so beautiful, has a really nice atmosphere and you can really see that you put a lot of work into it.

  • @pinkbunny6272
    @pinkbunny6272 5 років тому +4

    I have great memories of the traditional German Christmas, because of my grandmother. The party described in this tale is the same. It makes me so happy.

  • @emsuckz
    @emsuckz 4 роки тому +1

    I played bell the maid in a school performance of a Christmas carol last winter and not only did this being back memories it brought a smile to my face considering i can’t be in school rn and can’t preform I really miss all that but seeing this really made me happy 🥺

  • @s.g.p.4925
    @s.g.p.4925 5 років тому +11

    I wish I lived then...
    I love your videos they are spectacular!!! They really put me in the mood

  • @emilyb.8219
    @emilyb.8219 5 років тому +4

    This was so peaceful and pleasant. It made me want to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol (that's the best version of A Christmas Carol, don't @ me)

  • @wejdanalzaid4315
    @wejdanalzaid4315 5 років тому +21

    your production is just so amazing

  • @marieb3525
    @marieb3525 4 роки тому +3

    That was amazing, first the dressing and then the walk in the snow (which actually made me feel cold) to the reading. I felt like I was been put in their shoes. For the first time in my life I felt the true weight of A Christmas Carol as it would've been to the poor of the time. Truly fantastic!

  • @pay1370
    @pay1370 5 років тому +29

    Amazing production as always!

  • @brandonphipps4755
    @brandonphipps4755 5 років тому +14

    Whoa!!!! The lead actresses name is Kate Fenwick! That's interesting because one of my favorite actress is Katherine Hepburn who lived in her entire life in Fenwick CT. Interesting!!

  • @akaymac1
    @akaymac1 5 років тому +1

    Every year we go to a show where Charles Dicken’s great-great grandson, who is an actor, does the same performance. It’s absolutely magical! The highlight of the Christmas season every year!

  • @rosaliecrawford1841
    @rosaliecrawford1841 5 років тому +5

    What a great video, as always, beautifully done... I know it was a hard life and time to live in, but I still think it was a special time and place to be. Imagine seeing Dickens reading his work, live? How wondrous it must have been.

  • @annakoszegi5176
    @annakoszegi5176 5 років тому +11

    This put me in the mood to do something good for a random stranger tomorrow!

  • @justanotherreader
    @justanotherreader 2 роки тому +1

    That was so beautiful. I loved the reading and the reactions from the audience.

  • @akaneh1989
    @akaneh1989 3 роки тому +2

    I have watched this video several times as it is one of my favourites but only now did I notice the baker giving the young maid a sweet biscuiz or muffin of some kind. It melted my heart again, just as this video always does. Thank you for it and the others❤

  • @FreakShowKirby
    @FreakShowKirby 5 років тому +13

    This was beautiful

  • @MichelleOsorio
    @MichelleOsorio 5 років тому +5

    This is your best one yet. So well done. I have tears in my eyes.

  • @satapon4129
    @satapon4129 5 років тому +26

    This is so magical, thank you!

  • @andreacarpenter8824
    @andreacarpenter8824 5 років тому +5

    Dickens's reading his own work, "A Christmas Carol", was wonderful! It was nice he remembered his roots snd charged such a modest amount so that "working stiffs" could here a great work by a grear writer!
    I also liked that the clothing was for average, workaday women. Keep 'em coming, please!

  • @Rednesswahn
    @Rednesswahn 5 років тому +15

    Awesome! It great getting immersed in the Christmas Carol and the winter scenary, thank you and Merry Christmas! :)

  • @traceej4685
    @traceej4685 5 років тому +5

    Oh Crowseyesproduction you make it really hard to choose a favorite every time you upload a new video. My new favorite!

  • @berylgilligan9287
    @berylgilligan9287 3 роки тому +5

    Wow just watched this and I suddenly feel extra Christmassy 🥰 I love dickens and all his books 📚

  • @rosacisneros9184
    @rosacisneros9184 5 років тому +17

    I loved it !! I literalky felt being transported to victorian era. Just discovered you a week ago and I love your videos :)

  • @Persephonemybff
    @Persephonemybff 5 років тому +14

    Beautiful as ever!!! Absolutely adore ur videos, the production value is just stunning!

  • @houseofballet
    @houseofballet 5 років тому +2

    I was so teary eyed during this-- how much we all need to remember what we have versus all those who did not. And they kept going, always, with joy for the simplest things, and being comforted by fleeting moments of beauty and warmth. Such amazing ancestors we all have.

  • @josuadinkelkorn5613
    @josuadinkelkorn5613 5 років тому +5

    I really have no idea how I ended up here. This kind of video is actually not what I use to watch but I enjoyed every single minute of it.
    What a heartwarming tiny, little movie.
    And what a wonderful homage to the beauty of fashion and the beauty of a women. And isn't she lovely?
    And lets not forget the sweet tribute to christmas and solidarity. Very Dickens-esk indeed.
    Well done, CrowsEyeProductions, I'm going for more videos of yours!
    Many greetings from Berlin.

    • @nielubieinceli
      @nielubieinceli 5 років тому

      no, this dress is simply ugly and uncomfortable :)

  • @JosieAreSee
    @JosieAreSee 5 років тому +4

    Awww. This whole Dickens re-enactment made me feel warm and fuzzy

  • @kimquinn7728
    @kimquinn7728 2 роки тому +1

    You know, this was a fantastic video and the clothing and sets perfect. I do not, myself, celebrate Christmas, however, the spirit of kindness, generosity, selflessness, I do appreciate. I love Dickens Carol for all those lessons AND that man made me cry. I want a video of his performing the entire book,, to listen to at any season of the calendar. You don't need to be a celebrant of the holiday to appreciate the story. It is timeless. Thank you so much.

  • @karlyross2871
    @karlyross2871 2 роки тому +1

    These videos are just so aesthetically pleasing.

  • @sloanemeyer1606
    @sloanemeyer1606 5 років тому +2

    I absolutely adore this video! Well done! I've watched and enjoyed many historical 'Getting Dressed' videos. The added touch of Dickens' performance was just perfect. Thank you so much!

  • @Elemiriel
    @Elemiriel 5 років тому +2

    Even just the clips of the book in this made my get all misty... A beautiful reading!!

  • @crenner07
    @crenner07 5 років тому +4

    I always love it when something has pockets. But I have never had a dress have such glorious pockets as that gown!

  • @beverlyjones4020
    @beverlyjones4020 5 років тому +11

    Absolutely beautiful.......thank you for bringing this to my day.

  • @spinstercatlady
    @spinstercatlady 5 років тому +11

    So beautiful! It's snowing here, so this just made my cozy afternoon even more perfect ❤❤

  • @clairecaubre1558
    @clairecaubre1558 5 років тому +1

    This has to be my favorite video you’ve ever produced. I love the fashion side and the informational clips, I love seeing the clothing of times past. But watching the Dickens portion, I got emotion, all misty eyed. Thank you for this video