Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford (1902) | BFI
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2008
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It's good that historical footage like this has been preserved. It looks like it was only filmed yesterday.
The film negatives were found in old barrels in 1994 in the basement of a building. They were then successfully applied to film, taking care to regulate the speed because cameras those days were hand-cranked. So basically this was filmed over 100 years ago and with today's technology able to see the film almost as if it were yesterday.
A real treat and wonderful insight into life over one hundred years ago. I enjoyed this more than I can say. Must mention the fitting background music which actually enhances this clip as opposed to the usual overpowering explosions and drums with their cheapening qualities that mostly dominate media presentations these days. Finally the narrator was as clear as a bell and I didn't have to strain to hear one word.
Absolutely amazing I'm here in Bradford 2023 watching these people going about their daily life little did they know that someone will be watching them 120 years in the future on a handheld electronic device halfway around the world,
ive lived here 35 years and my father 49years, man it has changed even in 1960 things still had some vintage to them, it seems to have all but disappeared.
Wow...I was born in Bradford in 1997. Still here now in 2015. It has changed so much.
Thank you Mitchell and Kenyon wherever you are.
Love the old feller on the tricycle!
And not a single takeaway in sight...
I have to stop watching these old nostalic clips... Makes me so emotional, it was a time when you got a good salary for driving a tram and you had a job for life....
All this is so beautiful..!! Awesome nostalgic a view past from the our lives..!!
The quality of this is amazing. It must've been remastered, because I didn't think they had the technology to make a film of this quality until about the 1920's.
Everyone in this clip are long gone. A sobering thought.
Just like gazing through a window into another age.So sublime.
Hauntingly lovely. Just lovely. Thank you.
Strange how many people walked on the road in those days
i was there not long ago and was shocked to see what kinda ppl are bases there now.
to bitterchew: yes, many films of the era looked abnormally fast because the cameras were hand cranked.....no electric or spring driven motors in them....also i believe there were less frames per second.....that would also tend to make them move faster
Those guys would be pissed off if they saw bradford today, i live there.
The 4 well dressed women with the hats looked so classy. The assistant at 0.30 made a good decision to get them to walk back and film them again.