Reminds me of the TV series of Wind in The Willows when I was young. It ended with Mr Toad making a film and Badger said something like "He's ensured that after we are all long gone, a little of who we were will linger on"
I had to keep reminding myself while watching the remastered version that it is indeed genuine and I’m watching footage from the 1800s and I’m staring at genuine people just testing something out with authentic historical clothing and not just actors wearing costumes being goofy
@@mrsticky005 a lot of people in that era never thought motion picture would catch on the way it did. For the first few decades it was treated as an object of ridicule with how successfully talkies had been integrated. I can agree on that they all look out of place, but who are we to criticize? To remind you this is the first know video recording, EVER. I’m pretty sure most people, in this situation, would also not know what to do. They would also more than likely not have been anticipating some random persons critique 130 years in the future. I’m also pretty sure there was no script for them to follow here either. This IS a significant piece of history due to the hold it has on our civilization today
What’s crazy about this is that the older lady was born in 1816. When this was filmed, a man born in 1781 was alive, and a child who was already born got to see the year 2001. Two hundread and twenty years connected. My great-great-great grandfather was celebrating his 14th birthday. This isn’t just an old peace of footage. Or the first. It’s one of the greatest achievements in the history of humans, of mankind. Your restoration is a contribution, and it makes that eighty times more mind blowing. If I were to grade this, it would be 101/10. Thank you for doing this.
@@i.pezzotti853 So you are not talking about people who are in the film, but people who were alive at the time of this footage and they went on to live until 2001. I wasn't sure at first what point you were making.
In the old days of 8mm home movies, often everyone froze when the camera started rolling. Thus the old lament you can't get people to hold still for a still picture or to move for a movie.
Oldest surviving motion footage, from 1888, and it's still higher quality than the latest security CCTV stills published in a bid to find crime suspects, LOL.
RoadRash NT Oh yeah duh, that makes a lot of sense lol. Why can’t they just buy a terabyte or two and just delete he footage every few days unless they need it though
Ar Hent I think it’s the earliest known SURVIVING video. I believe there were several transitional prototypes between this and the old arcade flip books, which, while not technically “videos”, ARE definitely a kind of animated photography. No originals older than this survive, however. Arcade Flip books had a poor shelf life, naturally wearing out quickly after hundreds of uses.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the Roundhay Garden Scene is the first film, not video. And you only have to read the other comments here to see that people are so young now that they weren't born when film was used in cameras. The originals are films, not videos.
@@cbnewham_ai i'm from a hispamic country, i know it was a film but here we just call it a Video. Sorry if i didn't express well but thanks for eth correction btw lol
and I just can't believe how hundreds of years before henry tudor and Sultan Suleyman existed. Especially Suleyman he was so brillaint and smart his people knew him as the law giver and the Europeans knew him to be the magnificent. And he had the realest poetry having love story ever.
I couldn’t help but imagining people from the future taking our old videos and transferring it into some hologram that you can interact like you were there.
Watching a moment in time 100 years before I was even born. All of human history and events after 1888 didn't happen yet. Seeing people exist so long ago in a brief moment really makes you think of life forgotten to time. All the struggles and difficulties being alive so long ago is something we cannot comprehend. Books and drawings of our ancestors can only give us a clue to life back then, but photos and videos bring out the true life now forgotten. Seeing old videos being brought back to life makes it more fascinating to watch because it makes it more believable to be actually there, witnessing the world around you. It wont be long until these old videos will look like they were filmed yesterday.
It's so weird people in 2152 will look back on us like this. Like knowing people born in the 1900's is normal to us, but by the 2100's people are gonna think it's fascinating to know people born in the 1900's. Heck, even the 2000s (2000-09)
It's so uncanny. With all the improvements it looks like something we could have recorded with a phone just any day in anyone's garden. It looks so modern. Like people in costumes.
In 200 yrs from now these UA-cam and phone videos may look just like those ......that's if they last that long, one thing in those old videos and pictures is they can last through decades, can we say the same for our current technology ?
@@twinkitten1 I doubt if people in 200 years will be very interested in our videos. Our era is creating so much stuff that I think they'll think we were a bunch of narcissists who spent all our time pulling faces, arguing with strangers and dressing cats up.
Driver Jay Always remember time is short. We must repent of our sins (sin is transgression of The Turah) and believe on The Master Yahusha. We must believe on Yahusha. In Hebrew, the word "believe" means to "trust and obey" so we must trust and obey Yahusha Faith saves you. TRUE faith will produce obedience. If we have genuine faith, we will obey YAHUAH’S Law (Turah). We will repent when we stumble into sin (sin is transgression of The Turah) and trust in The Master Yahusha. Grace is what allows us to be the men and women that YAHUAH The Father in Heaven called us to be. It allows us to obey through His SET-APART (HOLY) RUACH (SPIRIT). 🙂
"Only ten days after filming, Sarah Whitley died at the age of 72. Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished just before unveiling his new technology to the public.[4] Louis's son, Adolphe Le Prince, was discovered shot dead around two years after he testified about his father's inventions in court against Thomas Edison.[5]" Yeesh. Ya think Edison might have had them whacked? The more I hear about the guy, the more I begin to think he was some kind of James Bond Supervillain of the 19th Century. It'd be interesting to write a story or make a video game where that is the big twist...
Edison was pretty much a thief. Research what he did to George Melies and his films. The first incandescent light bulb was demonstrated circa 1823, underwater. Edison didn't invent the incandescent bulb, he invented a way to mass produce it. He's been wrongly glorified for many things.
Probably mourning dress, the mourning for women was very strict, and some women when they became widow they kept their mourning clothing until their own death. For example, Queen Victoria.
Imagine for argument"s sake she was 70 years old at the time this was shot. That would make her born in 1818 only 3 years after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena ....
@@mirandagoldstine8548 Ya but given the piles and piles of evidence that he was directly responsible for screwing over so many other inventors it's not a stretch to assume he did the same thing to Le Prince.
I can actually FEEL the awkwardness of the young lady as she shyly turns. Absolutely amazing! An emotional connection brought forth 132 years into the future. What wonders do the future hold? If only we can work together long enough to get there...
Useful Idiot sadly, you’re absolutely correct. We’re living in an era where everyone thinks they deserve to be famous and live in a mansion, their “followers” give them worth. No one is content with living a normal life anymore, very sick.
@@007Julie well if you wana destroy society then the best way to go about it is make society worship money and these things people say are women, is be pretty content with affording rent on my own living alone in some small apartment by myself and having internet and video games but as usual unless ur making money like a porn star that life is pretty unaffordable alone but roommates suck and getting a partner to split the cost would only make sense if ur a millionaire and don’t mind losing most of ur money and belongings when the ho leaves for some other loser
Probably a very very long shot because life expectancy back then was shorter. Can't imagine someone being over a 100 years old when that older lady was born. Maybe first half of the 1700's is more likely, which is still insane to fathom.
@@troymeredith521 so if this was filmed in 1880 and let's say she was 60, if she spoke to a 60 year old when she was little that person would have been born in 1760, if that person spoke to a 60 year old or older then that person would be born in the 1600s, it is a long shot I admit but definitely possible
I don't think this is a long shot, she was 72 in this video ie born in 1808. So she could have known people early on born around 1750s. They in turn as children likely knew people born 1690s. Life expectancy was short but living to an old age wasn't unknown if you had money, I live in Britain and you only have to walk round our cemeteries to see 90+ ages on many tombstones going back to 1600s.
@@troymeredith521 There were some very old people back then remarkably. Not as many as now but if you managed to survive the childhood disease and remained free of accidents and disease you had a reasonable chance of living to a fairly old age. Odds increased if you had good nutrition and lived in a safe environment. Living to the 90s and 100s was likely not as common as today but people could reach the 70s and 80s in many situations. One of the oldest people living in the early 1900s was Margaret Ann Neve. She was born somewhere in France in 1792. She died in 1903. Here is a good article from the BBC explaining the difference between life span and longevity throughout the ages: www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity
I lived close to Oakwood grange in Leeds, I remember the house when I was young, Roundhay is still an affluent suburb but rather sadly the house was demolished along with all the other stone-built houses nearby and the area was redeveloped, however the location of Le Prince's second film "Leeds bridge 1888" remains, including the building and the actual window he filmed it from
Where were these houses, graham? I have lived by Oakwood clock and now up in Roundhay. I walk the area frequently and would be interested to know exactly where this was filmed. Cheers.
@@benc640 you know when you drive past oakwood clock coming from Roundhay park, go straight through the junction and it was somewhere on the left near that junction...
clothing was usually made out of fabrics that allowed the wearer to be somewhat cooler. also i bet summers were colder back then due to effects of global warming :) ive always been so interested in clothing from back in those days!
The house in the film is in Oakwood, Leeds. It was an old folks home in 1997 and I worked with a team who helped to restore the interior. The place was creepy.
I am surprised, if the spot is still there and still known, it hasn't been recreated. Granted, only a few seconds of anyone's time, but it would be a lot of fun to see.
Life was so simple back then in terms of technology, an electric light was cutting edge technology. Having your photo taken was something which happened probably once a year, not everyday. The idea of trying to capture motion and being able to watch it back must have seemed like science fiction to everyone.
in 1880 you would be lucky as a normal person to have your photograph taken once in your entire life. It was cutting edge tech and extremely expensive, almost on par with having your portrait painted.
It indeed feels like time travel, especially after you hear those immersive garden sounds and then see that one corner of the house, can't help but think how they lived in that house and what must be in this place right now.
Hahahahhaha I can relate, I have a vhs player, a DVD player, a combo of both, a record player that’s is so old it plays off the wind, a cassette player, and other fabled gadgets. When people come over to my house they don’t expect that, cause I’m gen z. Cool to have all that stuff that has the “New Films coming in theaters soon.” Like the lion king or Bambi or turner and hooch, and those are just the ones I can remember. You get an experience like no other when your in my falling apart 70’s house, watching an ancient obscure Disney film snuggled in three layers of blankets in a big cozy bed with a cat at the end of your feet.
Having made THE FIRST FILM proving that Louis Le Prince made the worlds first film in Leeds, I really wish I had met you before I locked picture. I could have used what you did within my documentary. Brilliant work. It looks as if it was filmed only last week. I recreated that scene using a replica camera exact in every detail and we used 70 mm film stock which we found in Russia and cut it almost in half to fit the camera. We recorded it 125 later to the very hour on the same spot Le Prince shot that historic footage. Thank you for doing this.
Dear Mr. Wilkinson: your film is a wonderful one. More than anything else, it has the great virtue of having put historic - and well-researched - information out into the world. Thank YOU!
@Straight Razor Daddy The film can be ordered on DVD - or streamed: smile.amazon.com/First-Film-Michael-Harvey/dp/B01LZGMGG7/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=first+movie+wilkinson&qid=1589300697&sr=8-1 Perhaps you were asking, "How can I see your film without paying you a cent?" In that case, you need to look for an illegal download that ignores copyright and ownership laws. I hope you don't, though. That's what jerks do. :)
Louis Le Prince has probably made the very first film in history….. The problem is that he decided to leave France for the UK…. And that's according historians the Reason he's been killed by the french secret service… Like his son killed in New York city...
I know this was a long time ago but it’s still truly insane how far we’ve come technologically since then. Think how far we’ll be in another 100 years?
Flenchentia Music oh 100% dude, I agree it’s just made society more & more hostile as well. I’d be curious if we even have 15-20 years left sometimes. Feels like sh*ts getting ready to hit the fan in some way or another soon
And after doing this, they probably went back in the house, had some tea, and forgot all about it. They would have had no idea that what they'd just done was of historical significance, it was just a young man playing with a new toy.
Maybe centuries from now someone will say the same about us. Future generations will be staring at our videos and wondering what it was like to live in the 20-21 centuries.
Probably looked at the paper on the table and talked about who this Ripper fellow thought he was. And of course one of the women would have said it's terrible but what can you expect if you are a lady of the evening and felt superior in their aliveness because they were not hookers.
It is truly amazing when you have someone who made these videos, however, it is more impressive when you have a person who restores the videos, especially to such a great extent. Thank you for doing what you do and providing historical moments in a more modern light. Truly amazing.
@@jamestascroft7875 Especially with the advent of Da Vinci; You can save some digital videos that were pretty bad to begin with, using that softwares capabilities. We're still not there with sound yet; bad sound will always sound like bad sound, unless it was good to begin with.
This is intellectually and artistically badass, and also emblematic of the end of “recorded ‘reality’.” When we’re muscling 230 new video frames from a 20-image still file, what limits remain to the dedicated? This is dope.
In Real Life yo see only FRAMES¡¡...So you recreate the IMAGE in your Brain¡¡...The man is Recreating the image the nearest that you saw if youre were in that garden ,that Evening....Y prefer THIS....But if you prefer you can see the Original Footage....I understand your Point...
@@chrishandsome4267 Aw,come on, can't you take a joke? After all the identity of Jack The Ripper, had never been positively established & probably never will be.
There are two more videos of Le Prince, one filmed from a bridge showing the city and another showing his son playing a sort of guitar and singing, the guy walking on this film was his son, Adolphe Le Prince.
omg this is so cool that you did this. im a huge history enthusiast and ive seen the original so many times. your restoration brings it into a whole new light and it feels completely different 👍
The earliest celluloid film was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the Le Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son, another son, Alfonce Le Prince, was later shot in New York in a hotel room tryin' to investigate his father's vanishing by meeting Edison), Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. The 'actors' are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera.
@Flimst There is actually credible evidence to suggest this, believe it or not. Letters from Edison prior to Le Prince's disappearance have some strange implications, and an unidentified body that looks LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE LE PRINCE was found days later.
@@MrMarsFargo Photo found in the French police archives in 2006, shows the body of a drowned man pulled out of the Seine in Paris shortly after Le Prince disappeared. He has a strong resemblance to Le Prince.
@@YorkyOne It's not him. When I was touring with THE FIRST FILM, in Cambridge and met with some of the Whitley family. There was a surgeon with them and he said the bridge of the nose of the two men was different. It is true. I wish I and my team had spotted this before we finished filming.
Louis le Prince was the real inventor of the motion picture camera, not that scumbag edison. I wish that the world actually knew that this was the case.
133 years later. I wish I could show these people that their footage has been viewed by us, 133 years in the future, to show them how much the world has changed, and how the marvel of technology has put us in Mars and beyond. Man I get so sentimental thinking about this.
Route 69 I didn’t think of that, now THAT would be crazy, that would be quite an accomplishment. Never get caught AND secretly be jack in THE FIRST motion picture.
What they didnt tell you is that this was only the first part of the video. After the last shuffle, the dude with the hat said "Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and SMASH the bell icon for new exclusive content from 1888 fam!"
Чем ещё заняться в двенадцать ночи, как просмотром видосов в полном смысле слова столетней давности)) Очень круто, на самом деле! Так необычно осознавать, что более ста лет назад снималось... какая мода тогда была, тюрнюры эти и шляпы... Спасибо вам за вашу работу! Это необычно и прекрасно ❤
@@JP-wx3bt If you are using Chrome as your browser, you can right click on the window and click "Translate to English". The translation may not be 100% accurate, but at least you'll get the idea on what they are saying.
It's actually crazy to think that this video was only made 132 years ago. That's a small amount of time in human history. Makes you wonder what technology we have today that is basically brand new will be in everyone's pockets (or brain, or whatever) in 2152.
Is there anything like the upscaling using AI to, say, give higher fidelity to a 1927 Louis Armstrong recording, so that the trumpet sounds naturalistic, in a real room?
The talk wasn't boring but illuminating. Its amasing how your stabilising algorithm etc. makes it come to life. We are so used to perfect film. Now all of those wonderful old films can be viewed as though they were taken yesterday. The eye gets chance to study and take in the whole picture.
Long Live Louis Le Prince! The true inventor of the motion picture!! Such a shame that he was robbed from his fortune and fame and lost to the history books! I'm glad he's finally getting the recognition he deserves! A bittersweet ending to such a shameful event, may his soul rest in peace now and I hope Edison is turning in his grave, we all finally know he was a fraud that stole inventions and claimed as his own smh
I’m fairly sure I lived in this house as a student from 2016-2018. The name of the house is Moor Grange and it has 14 bedrooms, it also had a very creepy basement.
Even though this a VERY short footage when looking at 2:40 by today's standards, for 1888, that must be a huge accomplishment when you really think about it. Recording cameras were just brand new then, so, that's a start. I also like the fact that back in those vintage times, everyone dressed REGAL.
This footage should be accompanied by a voiceover saying " Coming soon to BBC 2 , Four people walking around a garden in 1888" ! Another bloody costume drama !
It appears to me that they are actually in the middle of doing an English Country Dance. If you put an audio clip of traditional English Country Dance music in your soundtrack, you'll see what I mean. (Perhaps they were attempting a visual pun, by doing a "round hay" - an English Country Dance move - in Roundhay!) If so, then this would be an historic milestone in the history of both dance and film. It would make English Country Dance the subject of the first film ever shot. The film would also feature the first dance of ANY kind ever recorded!
I'm convinced you're right about this. Their movements only make sense in terms of dancing, which was much more culturally significant then, and the pun also seems very possible. We sometimes forget that victorians had an impish sense of humour. Good catch.
I doubt that it's any sort of pun. I read once that the title of 'Roundhay Garden Scene' comes from a gif of the footage put online in the late-1990s, and apparently this was also the case for La Prince's various other footages, such as his later film 'Traffic Cross Leeds Bridge' or simply 'Leeds Bridge'. I've since lost my source for this information, but I've also never come across any evidence that any of these pieces of footage were given any titles at the time of their creation.
@@double-u7910 But John Semper's fascinating observation regarding the visual pun is still valid. The film was shot in the district of Roundhay (I believe somewhere near Manchester) so whether or not the original film was titled, the 'actors' still would have been aware of the connection between the country dance and the location.
There is an additional processing technique that you can use to improve the video. Since the background is fixed (and there are so few frames), it would be possible to fix each frame, by hand, in Photoshop to remove artifacts (especially in the background) before applying the full pipeline of changes. I am open to helping you with that.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. As there are only 20 frames to work with at the start, a lot can be done to 'fix' these frames which shouldn't take too long before you start the video processing of them.
Something similar was done recently to yield high-quality still images from 16 mm films made during the Apollo 13 mission: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52264743
I love the fact that we are using powerful AI algorithms to improve the old footage but we also need some good old manual editing frame by frame to finish the job Would be awesome to correct those weird artifacts on the left side !
But it was a mere shadow it's former self. Instead of their large empire in South and central america they had a few islands in the caribbean and pacific along with a few small colonies in Africa.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you. I love watching these bygone era clips. They give you a glimpse into another world. My Grandmother was born in 1902 and grew up in a very different world to the one we're living in now. But then, so did ! 😉
Denis. Wow, man. This is really good work. I saw the one you did in Germany, and that blew me away also! I can only say you are an international treasure, and your effort is very much appreciated! All good wishes, sir! P.S.: I have subscribed.
I love that someone is doing this AND showing the before and after, great job and looks great! My one personal problem is that you keep referring to the film as "video", all of these old footage are FILM in their purest form! Being a video editor myself, it's just something that bugs me. I love what you guys are doing, keep it up!
I'm 24 and my great-grandma was born 4 years after this. This thread reminds me of one time when I was 19, I was at work and my coworker who was a great-grandmother was talking about her grandfather who was born in 1908, and she said that would have been long before mine was born. She was very shocked to hear that my grandpa was in fact born the exact same year as hers.
@@TheSameYellowToy I am the oldest here as I was born in 1947 , but i do have 3 grand sons aged 24 and 25 and 27,the oldest is a father already, he is quarantining with us at the moment with my great grand kids aged 7 and 5 But i did have grand parents born in 1881 and 1883 respectively, i was their youngest grand child. They were nicer to me, but deep down i knew both were ruthless disciplinarians. Unlike my older brother, i knew how to read Victorian people's minds, and not call them that to their faces of course.
![[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EQs5VxNPhzk/mqdefault.jpg)
If you want to skip boring talking, jump to the 2:40 mark.
You can suggest new videos to upscale in this thread 💖
Amazing. Thank you for your work. I'd like to suggest upscaling videos of the Romanov family, please!
Upscale some WW1 footage, I bet that would get a lot of views.
Great work. These videos are awesome.
What you say in that "boring" talking is actually what makes people admire your dedication and effort.
Denis Shiryaev
Excellent work. Which neural network software are you using?
What’s more crazier about this video is that they surely never in their lives thought that they will be watched by millions of people in 2020.
This video will be watched over hundreds of thousands of years to come, seeing this is the first video ever
This is mind-blowing 😮
That’s how beautiful life is
Yes, it's like wondering someone who's from 2152 will watch us.
It’s sad that nowadays all we have to offer for the future to reflect on our generation is Tik toks and vines 😭
These people may be long gone, but the magic of technology has made them immortal.
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Reminds me of the TV series of Wind in The Willows when I was young. It ended with Mr Toad making a film and Badger said something like "He's ensured that after we are all long gone, a little of who we were will linger on"
we are all immortals and I will explain that in my channel soon
Lol.
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I had to keep reminding myself while watching the remastered version that it is indeed genuine and I’m watching footage from the 1800s and I’m staring at genuine people just testing something out with authentic historical clothing and not just actors wearing costumes being goofy
Same here.. it’s weird.
Thought the same, my mind just cannot believe it or something
Well the clothes may be historical authentic...but walking aimlessly in a circle is kinda goofy no matter what era you are from.
And the people of 2785 will be so woke over witnessing a flat earther on tape.
@@mrsticky005 a lot of people in that era never thought motion picture would catch on the way it did. For the first few decades it was treated as an object of ridicule with how successfully talkies had been integrated. I can agree on that they all look out of place, but who are we to criticize? To remind you this is the first know video recording, EVER. I’m pretty sure most people, in this situation, would also not know what to do. They would also more than likely not have been anticipating some random persons critique 130 years in the future. I’m also pretty sure there was no script for them to follow here either. This IS a significant piece of history due to the hold it has on our civilization today
What’s crazy about this is that the older lady was born in 1816. When this was filmed, a man born in 1781 was alive, and a child who was already born got to see the year 2001. Two hundread and twenty years connected. My great-great-great grandfather was celebrating his 14th birthday. This isn’t just an old peace of footage. Or the first. It’s one of the greatest achievements in the history of humans, of mankind. Your restoration is a contribution, and it makes that eighty times more mind blowing. If I were to grade this, it would be 101/10. Thank you for doing this.
you tell em Pezzotti
Child who was already born got to see 2001 ???what????
@@i.pezzotti853 ohh now i understood i initially thought that she have seen the future year 2001 during the 1800s😂😂.
@@i.pezzotti853 So you are not talking about people who are in the film, but people who were alive at the time of this footage and they went on to live until 2001. I wasn't sure at first what point you were making.
Totally agree, ist one of the historic videos of the humanity, for sure.
Fantastic work. I can just imagine him telling everyone “Just walk around.” Lol!!
That would actually make sense because they might have wanted to show off the “moving pictures”
More like
“Ok, moving pictures. What shall we do?”
“I dunno. Walk around?”
In the old days of 8mm home movies, often everyone froze when the camera started rolling. Thus the old lament you can't get people to hold still for a still picture or to move for a movie.
I can watch him walking back and forth for hours 😌 fantastic work you did there
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Oldest surviving motion footage, from 1888, and it's still higher quality than the latest security CCTV stills published in a bid to find crime suspects, LOL.
Or any UFO’s or Big Foot evidence, which always seem to be shot with a potato.
I wonder why
Right. They have cameras that can zoom in on someone from like a mile away now. Meanwhile the police cameras be like “can u identify this grey blob”
@@C4shTheAlien lol grey blob 🤣
RoadRash NT Oh yeah duh, that makes a lot of sense lol. Why can’t they just buy a terabyte or two and just delete he footage every few days unless they need it though
The fact that you're the first preson in history to remaster the first video ever is amazing
Ar Hent
I think it’s the earliest known SURVIVING video. I believe there were several transitional prototypes between this and the old arcade flip books, which, while not technically “videos”, ARE definitely a kind of animated photography.
No originals older than this survive, however. Arcade Flip books had a poor shelf life, naturally wearing out quickly after hundreds of uses.
It's been remastered countless times by countless people.
Cool!!!
Sorry to be pedantic, but the Roundhay Garden Scene is the first film, not video. And you only have to read the other comments here to see that people are so young now that they weren't born when film was used in cameras. The originals are films, not videos.
@@cbnewham_ai i'm from a hispamic country, i know it was a film but here we just call it a Video. Sorry if i didn't express well but thanks for eth correction btw lol
Interesting how this was 13 years before Queen Victoria died, 26 years before WWI, 51 years before WWII, and 132 years from today.
House Grumpy Boys Yeah crazy to think that we have actual video footage of the Victorian Era!
And before 100 million+ people were killed in the 1900's because of Marxist Revolutions.
@House Grumpy Boys 15 years before the Wright brothers first flew.
and I just can't believe how hundreds of years before henry tudor and Sultan Suleyman existed. Especially Suleyman he was so brillaint and smart his people knew him as the law giver and the Europeans knew him to be the magnificent. And he had the realest poetry having love story ever.
Interesting how water is wet and fire is hot
I imagine this scene like:
"Sir, we are gonna test a new invention: the film. Please make some kind of movement."
"Fine." And walks.
I totally see that as well. They were asked to move around.
Look like a dance...
Kinda like when you turned on your first webcam, you stuck out your tongue and wagged your head back & forth :o))
@@MrClassic-wm2yc This is my impression too... looks like a part of an English country dance. Maybe the added soundtrack should have some music.
The guy on the left morphes into nothingness for a second though. Interdimensional travel, maybe?
I couldn’t help but imagining people from the future taking our old videos and transferring it into some hologram that you can interact like you were there.
*Execute Order 66*
WOW I CAN FINALLY HAVE A PREGNANT ANNE FRANK?
Or taking this one and turning it into a hologram which you can interact with.
If you talking 3D hologram that is highly unlikely
@@mahogany7712 DUNNO BUT U CAN TRY A VR APP DEDICATED TO HER HOUSE IN OCULUS GO (IT'S A VERY NICE APP) !!!
Van Gogh was still alive when this was filmed, wow
The last person to have met Van Gogh died in 1997.
Cabbage Guy Apparently Yes, she had the record for supposedly being oldest person to have ever lived. Van Gogh died in 1890 I think.
Cabbage Guy yeah, the oldest person EVER in fact...
So?
It's funny that I thought the same thing when I watched this for the first time
Watching a moment in time 100 years before I was even born. All of human history and events after 1888 didn't happen yet. Seeing people exist so long ago in a brief moment really makes you think of life forgotten to time. All the struggles and difficulties being alive so long ago is something we cannot comprehend. Books and drawings of our ancestors can only give us a clue to life back then, but photos and videos bring out the true life now forgotten. Seeing old videos being brought back to life makes it more fascinating to watch because it makes it more believable to be actually there, witnessing the world around you. It wont be long until these old videos will look like they were filmed yesterday.
❤️👌So true
Yes. That's the beauty of these very old footage.
Well said
what's even weirder is right now will be like this in the far future
It's so weird people in 2152 will look back on us like this. Like knowing people born in the 1900's is normal to us, but by the 2100's people are gonna think it's fascinating to know people born in the 1900's. Heck, even the 2000s (2000-09)
The first video ever is a GIF...
@Jack Hayhurst it's a short video of like 4s
No, it's a boomerang
@Jack Hayhurst bro, I know it's not exactly a GIF, it was just an "expression". Period.
@Jack Hayhurst you must be fun at parties
@Jack Hayhurst it looks like a GIF. Get a sense of humour you weirdo.
It's so uncanny. With all the improvements it looks like something we could have recorded with a phone just any day in anyone's garden. It looks so modern. Like people in costumes.
The quality kind of reminds me of a Beatles video, like something
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In 200 yrs from now these UA-cam and phone videos may look just like those ......that's if they last that long, one thing in those old videos and pictures is they can last through decades, can we say the same for our current technology ?
@@twinkitten1 I doubt if people in 200 years will be very interested in our videos. Our era is creating so much stuff that I think they'll think we were a bunch of narcissists who spent all our time pulling faces, arguing with strangers and dressing cats up.
@@macmuggo5459 you're right
“Ok gang, I’m going to try this camera out, just act normal and walk around”
“What??? Well ok.”
It's kind of a very slow gentle and peaceful harlem shake
@@devillockj it was a experimental wooden cabinet camera that you could even fit in
One of my family home-movies on 8mm from 1960 was may Father doing exactly that.
Apparently that's 19th century normal
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imagine if cameras existed at least a few centuries earlier, my goodness
Keeping Up With The Tudors
@@90sHONEY I would definitely
watch that 😂😂
sid: Cameras actually did exist a few centuries earlier, about 400 years worth. The problem was the creation of film that would last.
omg to watch 1600 the golden age, rinascimento, omg
I imagine this all the time
You are truly incredible at restoring these. I hope someone watches a video of me 132 years from now!
Wouldn't that depend on what you were doing in the video?
In 132 years they might make a cybernetic humanoid copy from your image and make your their butler robot.
Unfortunately the only time your video would be interesting :)
Me too!
@@rallok2483 your comment will definitely be in a "what people in the 2020s commented about the future" compilation
It’s so cool to know that they had trees back then.
*underrated comment*
Stupidest and funniest comment ever, lol.
Thumbs up.
36minutesAgo well they used to be black and white but slowly turned to green by mid 20th century.
@@Lymbe06 true, I saw it happen in Pleasantville
I can see viewers a hundred years from now saying that about videos from our era...
sad that cameras was invented so late in history... we lost so many things 😔
We do have books tho.
@@petr-nagy still camera would be much much better
There is no lateness in history
@@petr-nagy It's time to time travel
if only we had a time machine..
I like how they’re just goofing around in the garden, it’s adorable
When you rich and got plenty of time...
You had to make your own entertainment back then. Big up the necros!
"Only ten days after filming, Sarah Whitley died at the age of 72. Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished just before unveiling his new technology to the public.[4] Louis's son, Adolphe Le Prince, was discovered shot dead around two years after he testified about his father's inventions in court against Thomas Edison.[5]"
Yeesh. Ya think Edison might have had them whacked? The more I hear about the guy, the more I begin to think he was some kind of James Bond Supervillain of the 19th Century. It'd be interesting to write a story or make a video game where that is the big twist...
Edison also stole Tesla's ideas too. He was a pretty evil man.
theproplady
You need to read the 5 fists of science.
Edison was a scumbag and fraud.
Edison was pretty much a thief. Research what he did to George Melies and his films. The first incandescent light bulb was demonstrated circa 1823, underwater. Edison didn't invent the incandescent bulb, he invented a way to mass produce it. He's been wrongly glorified for many things.
Reckon Edison would have got on just swell with Musk and Gates
These people came “alive” before my eyes.
Incredible restoration of this film. Thank you.
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@@jesussavessinners9980 - God and Mary weren't married. Does that make Jesus a bastard?
This is 132 years old, and perfectly legible, yet all ufo footage even from last year looks like it's been filmed by Michael J fox on a Nokia 3310
Dont forgot about Bigfoot too!
And footage of God doesn't even exist!
Thankfully the Bible is legible. As opposed to film footage.
The Bible lmao. Oh wait you were serious?
@@waspjournals41 Please don't disparage the Bible, it's very absorbent...
The grandmother already had her funeral dress in the first ever video of her.
What a bizarre coincidence.
Probably mourning dress, the mourning for women was very strict, and some women when they became widow they kept their mourning clothing until their own death. For example, Queen Victoria.
Imagine for argument"s sake she was 70 years old at the time this was shot. That would make her born in 1818 only 3 years after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena ....
@@phillipecook3227 Sarah Whitley (née Robinson) was born in 1816.
She was born again in 2020 who knows she is lucky
Yeah "bizarre" what a "bizzare adventure"
Louis Le Prince deserves so much more credit. He’s the true father of film.
Yes! Buzzfeed unsolved did an amazing episode on him.
No he isnt
I agree. A lot of people think Edison played a role in Le Prince's disappearance. Unfortunately there's no direct evidence of his guilt.
@@mirandagoldstine8548 Ya but given the piles and piles of evidence that he was directly responsible for screwing over so many other inventors it's not a stretch to assume he did the same thing to Le Prince.
@@CoolioXXX52 yup yes he is 🙃
I can actually FEEL the awkwardness of the young lady as she shyly turns. Absolutely amazing! An emotional connection brought forth 132 years into the future.
What wonders do the future hold? If only we can work together long enough to get there...
Ya compare her to the little Instagram princesses of today.. we've lost so much its painful...
It’s all going according to plan, get rid of shy well to do and promote the idea that everyone is a star lol just do what thou wilt
Useful Idiot sadly, you’re absolutely correct. We’re living in an era where everyone thinks they deserve to be famous and live in a mansion, their “followers” give them worth. No one is content with living a normal life anymore, very sick.
@@007Julie well if you wana destroy society then the best way to go about it is make society worship money and these things people say are women, is be pretty content with affording rent on my own living alone in some small apartment by myself and having internet and video games but as usual unless ur making money like a porn star that life is pretty unaffordable alone but roommates suck and getting a partner to split the cost would only make sense if ur a millionaire and don’t mind losing most of ur money and belongings when the ho leaves for some other loser
You guys need to get off your phone and armchairs and see real people. The people you talk about are a minority
The old lady in the film, probably spoke to people who knew people who were born in the 1600s
Probably a very very long shot because life expectancy back then was shorter. Can't imagine someone being over a 100 years old when that older lady was born. Maybe first half of the 1700's is more likely, which is still insane to fathom.
@@troymeredith521 so if this was filmed in 1880 and let's say she was 60, if she spoke to a 60 year old when she was little that person would have been born in 1760, if that person spoke to a 60 year old or older then that person would be born in the 1600s, it is a long shot I admit but definitely possible
I don't think this is a long shot, she was 72 in this video ie born in 1808. So she could have known people early on born around 1750s. They in turn as children likely knew people born 1690s. Life expectancy was short but living to an old age wasn't unknown if you had money, I live in Britain and you only have to walk round our cemeteries to see 90+ ages on many tombstones going back to 1600s.
@@troymeredith521 There were some very old people back then remarkably. Not as many as now but if you managed to survive the childhood disease and remained free of accidents and disease you had a reasonable chance of living to a fairly old age. Odds increased if you had good nutrition and lived in a safe environment. Living to the 90s and 100s was likely not as common as today but people could reach the 70s and 80s in many situations.
One of the oldest people living in the early 1900s was Margaret Ann Neve. She was born somewhere in France in 1792. She died in 1903.
Here is a good article from the BBC explaining the difference between life span and longevity throughout the ages:
www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity
wtf that's crazy to think about
They invented the closest thing to a time machine without even knowing lol
All in their 160's by now....living in Century Village down in Florida.
Epic comment!
Omg century village 😂
LMFAO ! I live in Century Village ...Thanks
Lmaooo
Haha
I lived close to Oakwood grange in Leeds, I remember the house when I was young, Roundhay is still an affluent suburb but rather sadly the house was demolished along with all the other stone-built houses nearby and the area was redeveloped, however the location of Le Prince's second film "Leeds bridge 1888" remains, including the building and the actual window he filmed it from
Where were these houses, graham? I have lived by Oakwood clock and now up in Roundhay. I walk the area frequently and would be interested to know exactly where this was filmed. Cheers.
@@benc640 I’m originally from that area. The original house was Roundhay Cottage on Oakwood Grange lane. Now demolished sadly
@@benc640 you know when you drive past oakwood clock coming from Roundhay park, go straight through the junction and it was somewhere on the left near that junction...
@@Adam-fx1pn So just past the old library? Thanks!
@@benc640 no worries mate.
I bet that must have been such a happy and exciting day. Imagine seeing something like that for the first time, ever.
I love the way everyone dressed back then. The clothing (especially the women’s) must have been stifling in the heat but very warm in winter.
The summers were cooler back then because global warming wasn't so bad.
jm gee 🤣🤣🤣
L W You’re probably right.
clothing was usually made out of fabrics that allowed the wearer to be somewhat cooler. also i bet summers were colder back then due to effects of global warming :) ive always been so interested in clothing from back in those days!
Their clothes creepy me out
The house in the film is in Oakwood, Leeds. It was an old folks home in 1997 and I worked with a team who helped to restore the interior. The place was creepy.
How was it creepy? Also, do you have an address for us to look up? Thanks
@@jonkbaby www.google.com/maps/place/Oakwood,+Leeds,+UK/@53.8207182,-1.4902566,220m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48795b9ceeede6cb:0x522fac544ff0eef5!8m2!3d53.8268653!4d-1.505939
Wow, and here I was thinking the house had probably been abandoned and long torn down. Glad I was wrong.
I am surprised, if the spot is still there and still known, it hasn't been recreated. Granted, only a few seconds of anyone's time, but it would be a lot of fun to see.
Seems it was actually demolished in 1972 www.loveoakwood.co.uk/oakwood-history/louis-aime-augustin-prince/
Life was so simple back then in terms of technology, an electric light was cutting edge technology. Having your photo taken was something which happened probably once a year, not everyday. The idea of trying to capture motion and being able to watch it back must have seemed like science fiction to everyone.
no it was not. the technology was hidden just as a lot of it is being hidden right now.
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@@jesussavessinners9980 yo dude, you're on every comment lol
Yes it wad a huge ta do.
in 1880 you would be lucky as a normal person to have your photograph taken once in your entire life. It was cutting edge tech and extremely expensive, almost on par with having your portrait painted.
It indeed feels like time travel, especially after you hear those immersive garden sounds and then see that one corner of the house, can't help but think how they lived in that house and what must be in this place right now.
me: trying to salvage my 80's music videos on VHS. there is hope!
My hope too!
Hahahahhaha I can relate, I have a vhs player, a DVD player, a combo of both, a record player that’s is so old it plays off the wind, a cassette player, and other fabled gadgets. When people come over to my house they don’t expect that, cause I’m gen z. Cool to have all that stuff that has the “New Films coming in theaters soon.” Like the lion king or Bambi or turner and hooch, and those are just the ones I can remember. You get an experience like no other when your in my falling apart 70’s house, watching an ancient obscure Disney film snuggled in three layers of blankets in a big cozy bed with a cat at the end of your feet.
80s as in 1880s? Haha
kr4zyy no 2080’s
Ganda Gandara I’m just Gibbs roe teen I know what that’s supposed to mean k
Having made THE FIRST FILM proving that Louis Le Prince made the worlds first film in Leeds, I really wish I had met you before I locked picture. I could have used what you did within my documentary. Brilliant work. It looks as if it was filmed only last week. I recreated that scene using a replica camera exact in every detail and we used 70 mm film stock which we found in Russia and cut it almost in half to fit the camera. We recorded it 125 later to the very hour on the same spot Le Prince shot that historic footage. Thank you for doing this.
Interesting. Where we can watch your film?
Dear Mr. Wilkinson: your film is a wonderful one. More than anything else, it has the great virtue of having put historic - and well-researched - information out into the world. Thank YOU!
@Straight Razor Daddy The film can be ordered on DVD - or streamed:
smile.amazon.com/First-Film-Michael-Harvey/dp/B01LZGMGG7/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=first+movie+wilkinson&qid=1589300697&sr=8-1
Perhaps you were asking, "How can I see your film without paying you a cent?" In that case, you need to look for an illegal download that ignores copyright and ownership laws. I hope you don't, though. That's what jerks do. :)
Louis Le Prince has probably made the very first film in history….. The problem is that he decided to leave France for the UK…. And that's according historians the Reason he's been killed by the french secret service… Like his son killed in New York city...
@Straight Razor Daddy I'm glad I was able to help you decide. Have a great week! 😁
I know this was a long time ago but it’s still truly insane how far we’ve come technologically since then. Think how far we’ll be in another 100 years?
yeah, im feeling so anxious
100 years isn't a long time ago.
Hunter There will be no more next 100 years. You thought we have that much time ahead🤣
Flenchentia Music oh 100% dude, I agree it’s just made society more & more hostile as well. I’d be curious if we even have 15-20 years left sometimes. Feels like sh*ts getting ready to hit the fan in some way or another soon
in 100 years we will run out of oil, coal and other resources... things will change, but how?
And after doing this, they probably went back in the house, had some tea, and forgot all about it. They would have had no idea that what they'd just done was of historical significance, it was just a young man playing with a new toy.
No it was probably pretty exciting at the time.
Maybe centuries from now someone will say the same about us. Future generations will be staring at our videos and wondering what it was like to live in the 20-21 centuries.
Probably looked at the paper on the table and talked about who this Ripper fellow thought he was. And of course one of the women would have said it's terrible but what can you expect if you are a lady of the evening and felt superior in their aliveness because they were not hookers.
It is truly amazing when you have someone who made these videos, however, it is more impressive when you have a person who restores the videos, especially to such a great extent. Thank you for doing what you do and providing historical moments in a more modern light. Truly amazing.
Not videos, film. Video is a whole different beast.
@@briantw true
film is harder to restore and deserves more credit than digital footage
@@jamestascroft7875 Especially with the advent of Da Vinci;
You can save some digital videos that were pretty bad to begin with, using that softwares capabilities.
We're still not there with sound yet; bad sound will always sound like bad sound, unless it was good to begin with.
This is intellectually and artistically badass, and also emblematic of the end of “recorded ‘reality’.” When we’re muscling 230 new video frames from a 20-image still file, what limits remain to the dedicated?
This is dope.
dude, I'm sure everything you said was is true?
Huh?
@@iasimov5960 It isn't hard to understand man...
In Real Life yo see only FRAMES¡¡...So you recreate the IMAGE in your Brain¡¡...The man is Recreating the image the nearest that you saw if youre were in that garden ,that Evening....Y prefer THIS....But if you prefer you can see the Original Footage....I understand your Point...
In a universe where substance yielded more likes than empty pop references, this would be top comment.
For context, this video was shot between the last two Jack the Ripper murders.
With all the bad things we now know about Edison,I would almost believe he was Jack The Ripper.
Hubert Walters …except for the minor detail that Edison was in New Jersey at the time of the murders, not London. 😂😉
@@DrFranklynAnderson You are right,but they way some are committing about him,you could almost believe he was.
Hubert Walters that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
@@chrishandsome4267 Aw,come on, can't you take a joke? After all the identity of Jack The Ripper, had never been positively established & probably never will be.
There are two more videos of Le Prince, one filmed from a bridge showing the city and another showing his son playing a sort of guitar and singing, the guy walking on this film was his son, Adolphe Le Prince.
Just think... they were thinking. "Isnt this cool?" The same exact way we saw the first cell phones and the first internet video...
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They more than likely were thinking "I say, this modern contraption is delightful!"
@Altoid Bazingá don't ruin it child 🙄
omg this is so cool that you did this. im a huge history enthusiast and ive seen the original so many times. your restoration brings it into a whole new light and it feels completely different 👍
look how elegant people in those days looked! absolutely loved this, thank you Denis! ☺️
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..crap, holes in the pants clothing nowadays, yeah...
@@jesussavessinners9980 stop no one asked
And right now the year 2023 …millions of people are watching them in their smart phones, smart tv’s, laptops everything ❤
The earliest celluloid film was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the Le Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son, another son, Alfonce Le Prince, was later shot in New York in a hotel room tryin' to investigate his father's vanishing by meeting Edison), Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. The 'actors' are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera.
@Flimst There is actually credible evidence to suggest this, believe it or not. Letters from Edison prior to Le Prince's disappearance have some strange implications, and an unidentified body that looks LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE LE PRINCE was found days later.
@@MrMarsFargo
Photo found in the French police archives in 2006, shows the body of a drowned man pulled out of the Seine in Paris shortly after Le Prince disappeared. He has a strong resemblance to Le Prince.
He never shot on cellioud. He used glass and paper negatives. Celliuod was launched for the first time three weeks after he made his film, in the USA.
@@YorkyOne It's not him. When I was touring with THE FIRST FILM, in Cambridge and met with some of the Whitley family. There was a surgeon with them and he said the bridge of the nose of the two men was different. It is true. I wish I and my team had spotted this before we finished filming.
Louis le Prince was the real inventor of the motion picture camera, not that scumbag edison. I wish that the world actually knew that this was the case.
Say👏🏼 it👏🏼 louder👏🏼👏🏼
the man on the very left seems to jump through a loophole into another dimension :D
133 years later. I wish I could show these people that their footage has been viewed by us, 133 years in the future, to show them how much the world has changed, and how the marvel of technology has put us in Mars and beyond. Man I get so sentimental thinking about this.
The year Jack the Ripper did his ripping, folks.
Route 69 I didn’t think of that, now THAT would be crazy, that would be quite an accomplishment. Never get caught AND secretly be jack in THE FIRST motion picture.
*OKAY WIKIBEAR*
@@lofiwackpainting7439 he wasn't in Leeds 😂
November 1888. Ironic.
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Amazing work! I’m sure The Science Museum and several historic groups in Leeds would be fascinated by this.
You can sort of tell the personalities of each of them after the restored footage. Amazing.
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What they didnt tell you is that this was only the first part of the video. After the last shuffle, the dude with the hat said "Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and SMASH the bell icon for new exclusive content from 1888 fam!"
Чем ещё заняться в двенадцать ночи, как просмотром видосов в полном смысле слова столетней давности))
Очень круто, на самом деле! Так необычно осознавать, что более ста лет назад снималось... какая мода тогда была, тюрнюры эти и шляпы...
Спасибо вам за вашу работу! Это необычно и прекрасно ❤
132 летней,мать его, давности видос! Ааа, кто бы мог подумать тогда?!
ВОТ БЫ ГЛЯНУТЬ ВИДЕО ДАВНОСТЬЮ В НЕСКОЛЬКО ТЫСЯЧ ЛЕТ ))
Common Google, There should be a damn translator right here in the comment section.
@@JP-wx3bt If you are using Chrome as your browser, you can right click on the window and click "Translate to English". The translation may not be 100% accurate, but at least you'll get the idea on what they are saying.
People one year older than you be like:
"You were too young to remember
Tik Tok: I let people do random things in a loop
The Whitley's: Hold my footage
Just to show you that while technology always changes, we humans do not. 😅
It's actually crazy to think that this video was only made 132 years ago. That's a small amount of time in human history. Makes you wonder what technology we have today that is basically brand new will be in everyone's pockets (or brain, or whatever) in 2152.
of we manage to survive global warming, internet is here to stay.
That is if we managed to live *_that_* longc sure. But I’m imagining what the people of the distant future are doing at this time as I type this.
Who's watching this in 1910? 🙋🏻♂️
I feel you. Where next?
1920 here
2033 here
Bahahahahahahaha I burst out laughing when I read this comment.
J T 😂😂
Quite literally, indistinguishable from magic.
This is amazing stuff. I do a lot of what I call "audio archaeology", transferring from old tapes and acetates, but it's nowhere near this involved.
I've been doing audio restoration for many years.
I have an audio-recording of my Mom from 1930. It’s on a Speak-O-Phone disk in excellent condition, so no restoration was needed.
Is there anything like the upscaling using AI to, say, give higher fidelity to a 1927 Louis Armstrong recording, so that the trumpet sounds naturalistic, in a real room?
This movie was nominated for 24 Oscars that year and won them all.
This is so amazing. Upscaled to 4K 60 fps!
Hello again
Why does this have so less likes
Wow less likes
Dude get a life
I was looking for one of your comments. You never let me down.
I envy the descendents of these people. I can't imagine seeing my great great grandparents on video!
director and his son was killed 1year after this video by Edisoin hitmans who want title of the first movie director - so i guess no descendents
@@alternatereality7301 he had 2 sons ...the one here lived
Love your work man! Real time travel!
The talk wasn't boring but illuminating. Its amasing how your stabilising algorithm etc. makes it come to life. We are so used to perfect film. Now all of those wonderful old films can be viewed as though they were taken yesterday. The eye gets chance to study and take in the whole picture.
Little did they know they would live forever on film. Excellent job.
only 80s kids remember. 1880s, that is
Long Live Louis Le Prince! The true inventor of the motion picture!! Such a shame that he was robbed from his fortune and fame and lost to the history books! I'm glad he's finally getting the recognition he deserves! A bittersweet ending to such a shameful event, may his soul rest in peace now and I hope Edison is turning in his grave, we all finally know he was a fraud that stole inventions and claimed as his own smh
He himself almost certainly got the idea, and some of the plans from Wordsworth Donisthorpe also from Leeds who was 10 years ahead of him.
Something about the music and the quiet footsteps on the gravel was super unnerving. This is a true work of art.
I’m fairly sure I lived in this house as a student from 2016-2018. The name of the house is Moor Grange and it has 14 bedrooms, it also had a very creepy basement.
No. The house has long gone.
There's a guy above in the comments who claims to have worked on the restoration of this house
Amazing and brilliant.It is incredible when I realize this was shot just yards from my home.
Oldest recorded film found in the archives at the Mistry of Silly Walks.
Immediately what I thought of ! 😄
There are certainly older films than this but they didn't survive the course of 100+ years making this the oldeest surviving film..
This is definitely the most surprising video I found on UA-cam. Thank you so much!
Even though this a VERY short footage when looking at 2:40 by today's standards, for 1888, that must be a huge accomplishment when you really think about it. Recording cameras were just brand new then, so, that's a start. I also like the fact that back in those vintage times, everyone dressed REGAL.
This footage should be accompanied by a voiceover saying " Coming soon to BBC 2 , Four people walking around a garden in 1888" ! Another bloody costume drama !
Followed by "Heil Honey, I'm Home!"
It appears to me that they are actually in the middle of doing an English Country Dance. If you put an audio clip of traditional English Country Dance music in your soundtrack, you'll see what I mean. (Perhaps they were attempting a visual pun, by doing a "round hay" - an English Country Dance move - in Roundhay!) If so, then this would be an historic milestone in the history of both dance and film. It would make English Country Dance the subject of the first film ever shot. The film would also feature the first dance of ANY kind ever recorded!
I'm convinced you're right about this. Their movements only make sense in terms of dancing, which was much more culturally significant then, and the pun also seems very possible. We sometimes forget that victorians had an impish sense of humour. Good catch.
I doubt that it's any sort of pun. I read once that the title of 'Roundhay Garden Scene' comes from a gif of the footage put online in the late-1990s, and apparently this was also the case for La Prince's various other footages, such as his later film 'Traffic Cross Leeds Bridge' or simply 'Leeds Bridge'. I've since lost my source for this information, but I've also never come across any evidence that any of these pieces of footage were given any titles at the time of their creation.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I wouldn't have caught it, since it's not my culture. Future edit will have to feature the music 😝
@@double-u7910 But John Semper's fascinating observation regarding the visual pun is still valid. The film was shot in the district of Roundhay (I believe somewhere near Manchester) so whether or not the original film was titled, the 'actors' still would have been aware of the connection between the country dance and the location.
@@GrimHovelStudios It's in Leeds, other side of England.
Thank you for just letting it run on repeat so many people show after videos for a couple of seconds
There is an additional processing technique that you can use to improve the video. Since the background is fixed (and there are so few frames), it would be possible to fix each frame, by hand, in Photoshop to remove artifacts (especially in the background) before applying the full pipeline of changes. I am open to helping you with that.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. As there are only 20 frames to work with at the start, a lot can be done to 'fix' these frames which shouldn't take too long before you start the video processing of them.
What an awesome idea! Hope he lets you help him!
Something similar was done recently to yield high-quality still images from 16 mm films made during the Apollo 13 mission: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52264743
I love the fact that we are using powerful AI algorithms to improve the old footage but we also need some good old manual editing frame by frame to finish the job
Would be awesome to correct those weird artifacts on the left side !
@Ganda Gandara Only Americans.
Your work is amazing, mind-blowing even sometimes. Thank you Denis!
The Spanish Empire was still around when the video was filmed.
But it was a mere shadow it's former self. Instead of their large empire in South and central america they had a few islands in the caribbean and pacific along with a few small colonies in Africa.
@@jasonlee6227 I know, but it still existed.
Brits were smarter about their empires.
This video is absolutely incredible, being able to see their style, it’s just so fascinating
This is fantastic! I love how they look awkward, especially the two in the back haha
Imagine what they would think of the devices we now watch them on......great work :)
"We will time travel to the year 1888"
Hmmm... let me take my yellow raincoat.
Oh my lantana, I could watch this all day. I love seeing his historical find.
Ronnie Wood was only 10 when this was filmed. Incredible!
🤣🤣
And Keith Richards was still mortal
haha brilliant
Lol
and the oldest person EVER was 13 years old. She lived until 1997.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you. I love watching these bygone era clips. They give you a glimpse into another world. My Grandmother was born in 1902 and grew up in a very different world to the one we're living in now.
But then, so did ! 😉
Denis. Wow, man. This is really good work. I saw the one you did in Germany, and that blew me away also! I can only say you are an international treasure, and your effort is very much appreciated! All good wishes, sir! P.S.: I have subscribed.
amazing work! one can time travel with your videos
I know I’ve watched one too many scary movies when I can’t bring myself to finish this meticulously-created restoration
I love that someone is doing this AND showing the before and after, great job and looks great! My one personal problem is that you keep referring to the film as "video", all of these old footage are FILM in their purest form! Being a video editor myself, it's just something that bugs me. I love what you guys are doing, keep it up!
I can resolve this: It's a video on UA-cam recorded on film.
I still dig the trenchcoat of the guy on the left. I'd wear that today...
Just came across your videos and had to join your chanel.... Absolute genius can't wait to see what's next!!
amazing how far photography, motion pictures and technologie has come since then
My great grandma was born like 3 years after this and I'm only 17...😳
Haha, my great grandpa was born in 1892 and I am 19. My family mostly have kids in their 30s and 40s
Whoa, seriously?
I'm 24 and my great-grandma was born 4 years after this.
This thread reminds me of one time when I was 19, I was at work and my coworker who was a great-grandmother was talking about her grandfather who was born in 1908, and she said that would have been long before mine was born. She was very shocked to hear that my grandpa was in fact born the exact same year as hers.
@@TheSameYellowToy I am the oldest here as I was born in 1947 , but i do have 3 grand sons aged 24 and 25 and 27,the oldest is a father already, he is quarantining with us at the moment with my great grand kids aged 7 and 5 But i did have grand parents born in 1881 and 1883 respectively, i was their youngest grand child. They were nicer to me, but deep down i knew both were ruthless disciplinarians. Unlike my older brother, i knew how to read Victorian people's minds, and not call them that to their faces of course.
My Great-Great Grandmother was born in Ireland in 1890s. She died young tragically in 1919
Man, this whole thing is really messing with my head right now.
What a privilege to be able to see this historic footage. Thank you again!