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My favorite part of these old videos is that people haven't learned to act or pose in front of a camera. You see them act like no one is watching which is more interesting from a historical standpoint
@@thermaldetinatorsonly8857completely unnatural frame rates, exposure completely different from normal vision, fleeting colorization with a mind of its own… much like dreams
Several observations: 1. Watching the couple having at their meal rather ordinarily is a total revelation - as if we expected people from the past to eat and drink any differently. 2. The wife looks to have bound feet (which would indicate they were people of some status). It is interesting to see her physical relationship - the slight movements and non-movements of her feet - to what must have been a devastating impairment. 3. The male opera player giving the other male actor a peck on the cheek with no qualms about it at all! Beautiful!
"the male opera player giving the other male actor a peck on the cheek with no qualms about it at all!" This is still at a time when women were prohibited from performing because a woman performing on stage was considered a "danger to public morality". So the fact that it's not an actual woman giving that man a peck is more a product of oppression than anything progressive.
I remember being show pictures of foot binding in school and the teachers never described it as torture. Clearly it was and also a means to control women like today's burka in Muslim society. I wonder why teachers are still forbidden or reluctant to tell students the truth about things, including the entire history of racist practices in us society that have lasting effects still to this day. Why is CRT so threatening to certain parents and politicians ?
I also found the western military training interesting. They would have already had some sort of military discipline in place, so the awkwardness of what appears to be ordinary citizens practicing new procedures caught my attention. If they wanted to introduce a new concept I would think they would use already trained persons. Just a thought. Also, the well-to-do woman didn't appear to want to be filmed eating.
I watched in another documentary that the tallest performer (near the end) was a very prominent figure in the Chinese opera scene back in the day. I just forgot his name.
I watched it without sound so I could get a better feel of what the original viewers saw. It was interesting. Also, the video must be flipped because all the "actors" do everything with their left hand and I doubt every single one of them was actually lefthanded. Great video, though.
right!...its amazing how a civilization can advance so rapidly..the main factor why the west develpoed faster was the use of 16 million black slaves...so they had a lot of "help"
To me: Finely decorated Qing dynasty era tea cup To them: Everyday tea mug Also, tall theatre guy has more camp energy than Lady Gaga and the last 20 years of Eurovision put together.
Some things that stand out to me: It's cool to see scenes of "old fashion" China. That is probably what things looks like for hundreds (thousands?) of years before this was filmed. Also, and I realize this is stupid, but it's funny to think that all these great cities and civilizations across the world were made by people that were probably 5'4 and 80lbs. If I had a friend that size, I wouldn't think to ask them to help me move a couch up a flight of stairs, but they built the Great Wall.
Not really. Qing-era clothing are somewhat very different from the earlier dynasties. I'm not a Hanfu purist tho, they're all Chinese regardless of Manchu influence, just pointing out it's very distinct from the styles of earlier dynasties.
@@x-a- The average height is very accurate. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information around about the average weights of peoples throughout history. Perhaps you have some insight on the subject?
@@mattjames112 People were indeed way smaller in the past, the ignorant part of yours is think someone short cannot acheive anything. History would like to disagre. I wouldn't ask an overweight person either to help me move something with your logic.
@@mattjames112 I mean you are litteraly trying to argue short people can't acheive anything with you last sentence. Guess conquering lands from Greece to India isn't "that much of a thing"
The prominence of people doing things left handed in this video and the historical bias toward "right-handedness" in China leads me to believe the film is mirrored
The reality of ancient china is a shoke for those who dreams of the ancient mysterious middle kingdom or as chinese called it the celestial empire and themselves , the celestials
How medieval China was in 1902 seems to have stuck in the 15th century but what surprised me was that physically the Chinese of that time were very different from the Chinese of the 21st century, they seem darker, being more similar to current Amerindians instead From being pale like the Chinese now, and looking more masculine, even the noble Chinese lady with makeup looks more manly than the current young Chinese men.
because of assimilation of mongolian DNA that make the skin darker and most people in power at 1902 were mongolian descent so in a way they look much darker than real Chinese lol
@@cinemint Either mirrored or these soldiers were untrained to the point of not caring for such things as sides, we see them struggling with basic moves.
I was thinking untrained guards or militia. But, they show the man and woman eating chopsticks with their Left hand, which is a big no no in China, specially in that era. So yes, the film was Mirrored or Flipped to be exact.
It’s done by AI automatically. If you want something more accurate like what Peter Jackson did in They’ll Never Grow Old, those things are very expensive.
Man- "You cook the rice different this time? Its kinda dry, isnt it?" Woman- (knowing damn well she cooked it different and now its dry) "Nope. Same rice dear." Man- "Hmm. Well it seems dry to me."
This looks like a 1965 recording.... At some point it will possibly look like a recording from the 80's at another point it will look like a recording from 2000 or maybe 2010 and then it will look like a 2015 - 2016 type recording until it looks like a recording from 2022, how long will that take, we filipamos to see the rtx 4090 running the game GTA v with raytrancyng the day technology gets it in a matter of second with a regular computer or even on the web itself, I will be impressed
These people have been colored in too darkly, I think. This is not the skin color of the average Chinese (unless this is a specific region where people are darker?)
1:40 what did they eat tho? If it's rice, there would be other side dishes. Something that didn't need side dishes, noodle🍜? Or just some light snacks?
looks like they just asked them to start eating once the film was rolling judging by the shot adjustment a few seconds in by what looks like the cameraman, probably just bowl of rice for the camera and went back under the shaded area to eat.
I don't know the specific context in which this film was made, but given the time period I'd have to guess that films like this were generally made by Westerners for a Western audience. Especially things like the inclusion of the somewhat unprofessional looking militia marching in a circle, this couple eating what does not look like a very complete meal in a somewhat awkward position (who eats facing away from the table?) and the theatre group at the end makes me think this is most likely some Europeans walking around paying people to do exotic looking things so they can take it home and sell it to people as, "Look at these barbarians with their strange uniforms and terrible drill! Look at these weirdos eating with sticks! Look at these crazy costumes!" Honestly pretty seedy and exploitative but this is the age of imperialism we're talking about.
Actually, the term Footage is more on the length of Film exposed or used, since filmmakers would would buy these film from film company like Kodak in Feet. For example in a standard 35mm film that ran 24 FPS is 16 frames per foot. Which is 2/3 of second. Directors and Editors would edit these films according to number foot of film per scene. Filmmakers would sell their movie to cinema by the number of Reels and the actual length of film per Reel. Usually a Reel would ran around 7 to 15 minutes.(that’s why old Cartoons and Newsreel shown before the Movie ran around in 7 minutes)
Those are some extra long chopsticks look more like the ones used for cooking rather than eating. Or maybe I'm just used to my shorter Japanese chopsticks or my stainless steel Korean ones. Also the young woman's bound feet made my feet hurt just by watching her sitting there.... poor gal.
4k, 60 fps, really? on footage that was never filmed at 60 fps, at a time when pixel resolution wasnt a thing. how? did you use AI to add extra frames between the real ones? that explains why the dirt and scratches last longer than the one frame they usually would. if youre gonna do this kinda thing, at least clean it up, and colourise it properly. clothes kept changing colours, especially on the dancers. it was dreadful.
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It‘s just fascinating what cinematography is able to give us. We can watch people from 120 years ago.
My favorite part of these old videos is that people haven't learned to act or pose in front of a camera. You see them act like no one is watching which is more interesting from a historical standpoint
Love these old videos colorized. They have a dreamlike quality.
Why?
@@thermaldetinatorsonly8857completely unnatural frame rates, exposure completely different from normal vision, fleeting colorization with a mind of its own… much like dreams
Watching this kind of footage makes me wonder on the insane amount of people who already lived on this planet.
yet we are led to believe that people died alot because of the lack of vaccines or medication drugs lmao. Imagine believing in that.
Its estimated 100 billion
Several observations: 1. Watching the couple having at their meal rather ordinarily is a total revelation - as if we expected people from the past to eat and drink any differently. 2. The wife looks to have bound feet (which would indicate they were people of some status). It is interesting to see her physical relationship - the slight movements and non-movements of her feet - to what must have been a devastating impairment. 3. The male opera player giving the other male actor a peck on the cheek with no qualms about it at all! Beautiful!
"the male opera player giving the other male actor a peck on the cheek with no qualms about it at all!"
This is still at a time when women were prohibited from performing because a woman performing on stage was considered a "danger to public morality". So the fact that it's not an actual woman giving that man a peck is more a product of oppression than anything progressive.
I noticed the feet too an$ came to comment on that torture.
I remember being show pictures of foot binding in school and the teachers never described it as torture. Clearly it was and also a means to control women like today's burka in Muslim society. I wonder why teachers are still forbidden or reluctant to tell students the truth about things, including the entire history of racist practices in us society that have lasting effects still to this day. Why is CRT so threatening to certain parents and politicians ?
@@tcurr0309 I have taught 30 years this year, always have not pulled punches. Oh and teach history.
I also found the western military training interesting. They would have already had some sort of military discipline in place, so the awkwardness of what appears to be ordinary citizens practicing new procedures caught my attention. If they wanted to introduce a new concept I would think they would use already trained persons. Just a thought.
Also, the well-to-do woman didn't appear to want to be filmed eating.
The soldiers struggling with their guns kind of remind me of reenactors.
I watched in another documentary that the tallest performer (near the end) was a very prominent figure in the Chinese opera scene back in the day. I just forgot his name.
I watched it without sound so I could get a better feel of what the original viewers saw. It was interesting. Also, the video must be flipped because all the "actors" do everything with their left hand and I doubt every single one of them was actually lefthanded. Great video, though.
Amazing how in only a short space of time that they look nothing like they do now
right!...its amazing how a civilization can advance so rapidly..the main factor why the west develpoed faster was the use of 16 million black slaves...so they had a lot of "help"
@@nonyabiz8855 cringe.
@@zoltanperei4789 It’s true, though. A lot of the most powerful people today can be traced back to the slave owners of yesterday.
@@nonyabiz8855 when and where?
@@nonyabiz8855 every civilisation used slaves, including the Chinese.
Putting Bach's Two part Inventions nr. 11 and 6(originally for piano but here transcribed for Lute and Cello) is a wonderful idea. Bravo.
Uhhh. Calm down.
@@thermaldetinatorsonly8857 Uhhh.What?
The Beijing Opera is so beautiful! Love the costumes❤️
This channel is a treasure trove
Amazing how much color adds to these old movies
To me: Finely decorated Qing dynasty era tea cup
To them: Everyday tea mug
Also, tall theatre guy has more camp energy than Lady Gaga and the last 20 years of Eurovision put together.
and he kissed the other guy, the first chinese gay kiss ever recorded?
@@bossabrasileira What a incredibly stupid comment.
@@ikariameriks stupidity is homophobia!
@@bossabrasileira in chinese opera, the male sometime would dress up and act as female or those two are goofing around.
Incredible part of history
I’m hooked on these now, thanks. Btw I love the music in all of your videos sir.
Some things that stand out to me: It's cool to see scenes of "old fashion" China. That is probably what things looks like for hundreds (thousands?) of years before this was filmed. Also, and I realize this is stupid, but it's funny to think that all these great cities and civilizations across the world were made by people that were probably 5'4 and 80lbs. If I had a friend that size, I wouldn't think to ask them to help me move a couch up a flight of stairs, but they built the Great Wall.
Not really. Qing-era clothing are somewhat very different from the earlier dynasties. I'm not a Hanfu purist tho, they're all Chinese regardless of Manchu influence, just pointing out it's very distinct from the styles of earlier dynasties.
You last sentence about size and weight shows how ignorant you are.
@@x-a- The average height is very accurate. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information around about the average weights of peoples throughout history. Perhaps you have some insight on the subject?
@@mattjames112 People were indeed way smaller in the past, the ignorant part of yours is think someone short cannot acheive anything.
History would like to disagre.
I wouldn't ask an overweight person either to help me move something with your logic.
@@mattjames112 I mean you are litteraly trying to argue short people can't acheive anything with you last sentence.
Guess conquering lands from Greece to India isn't "that much of a thing"
No wonder they had trouble in the early 20th Century fighting wars, they taught their soldiers to shoot left-handed.
They invented guns and gunpowder, I suppose they can shoot however they want lol
@@Junksaint sure they did...
@@Junksaint no Europeans invented guns, its like saying the caveman invented nukes because he discovered fire.
The prominence of people doing things left handed in this video and the historical bias toward "right-handedness" in China leads me to believe the film is mirrored
@@kingswing00 I'll have to download and flip it to see, but I bet you're right. You'd make a good detective.
I seen the foot binding ouch at the 210 mark the lady who is seated
A scene from Dad's Army about 40 seconds in 😃
The reality of ancient china is a shoke for those who dreams of the ancient mysterious middle kingdom or as chinese called it the celestial empire and themselves , the celestials
They literally danced to the background music 😂😂😂
Boy, we sure did change the cultures of the world didn't we?
0:45
Last guy on the left:
"Shit...hope anyone hasn't saw me"
*Me 120 years later*
Cina bellissima!
How medieval China was in 1902 seems to have stuck in the 15th century but what surprised me was that physically the Chinese of that time were very different from the Chinese of the 21st century, they seem darker, being more similar to current Amerindians instead From being pale like the Chinese now, and looking more masculine, even the noble Chinese lady with makeup looks more manly than the current young Chinese men.
because of assimilation of mongolian DNA that make the skin darker and most people in power at 1902 were mongolian descent so in a way they look much darker than real Chinese lol
0:30 Qing recruits practising Manual of Arms. Nice!
is it mirrored?
Huh?
@@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 All the soldiers are shooting left handed
Because they're all left-handed? That's a good observation.
@@cinemint Either mirrored or these soldiers were untrained to the point of not caring for such things as sides, we see them struggling with basic moves.
I was thinking untrained guards or militia. But, they show the man and woman eating chopsticks with their Left hand, which is a big no no in China, specially in that era. So yes, the film was Mirrored or Flipped to be exact.
1:40～
So cute!
Strange choice of music . Why not use Chinese music?
Do Mexico. I wanna see Mexico
Some of the men seem like they've never touched a gun!
So interesting .
👏...! Gracias.!
Amazing!
The bootcamp those soldiers went through must have been hell.
post boxer rebellion, things were bleak
When did the practice of foot binding stop? My first guess would have been before 1901, but perhaps I am incorrect.
look at their army now, they really nailed it down that military walk
I have an old video and I search how I could revive its colors.
incrivel, são todos canhotos, nessa vila, até os soldados
Eu acho que o video esta espelhado.
nice
Shouldn't they be yellow? Who colorized this???
It’s done by AI automatically. If you want something more accurate like what Peter Jackson did in They’ll Never Grow Old, those things are very expensive.
Ohhhhhh is Amazing uwu
Back when China was free
Foot binding and men forced to wear the Manchu queue hairstyle or face death definitely looks like freedom.
Good thing its not smellerized.
🤣
What kind of tea cup are they drinking from , or is it soup ?
Wow. Very interesting.
Instructor is dressed like a kung fu coach
The true China.
Did they have brothels?
directly from the middle age
That lady still has her feet bounded.
The woman eating seems to have the bound feet
Man- "You cook the rice different this time? Its kinda dry, isnt it?"
Woman- (knowing damn well she cooked it different and now its dry) "Nope. Same rice dear."
Man- "Hmm. Well it seems dry to me."
remember guys: back then there were no such thing as modern standard Mandarin among commonfolks.
This looks like a 1965 recording.... At some point it will possibly look like a recording from the 80's at another point it will look like a recording from 2000 or maybe 2010 and then it will look like a 2015 - 2016 type recording until it looks like a recording from 2022, how long will that take, we filipamos to see the rtx 4090 running the game GTA v with raytrancyng the day technology gets it in a matter of second with a regular computer or even on the web itself, I will be impressed
Looks fairly peaceful and like the people are happy.
Communism: let me introduce myself
shudder shudder SHAOLIN MONKS
Cool footage. Total fail on the colorization though.
I hope those riflemen received a LOT more training before seeing the field... 😬
More more more!
This music isn't Chinese
Awesome and insighful. Dude's with rifles obviously still in training.
Great stuff.
Preußischer Stechschritt?
Far East Prussian goose step I guess ... 😂🤣😂
@@marklee3587 Very far east, yes 😄
Around 1900, the Germans had a colony in China.
looks like white is blue
珍贵的镜头，那时的中国真的太落后了。
These people have been colored in too darkly, I think. This is not the skin color of the average Chinese (unless this is a specific region where people are darker?)
Театр
Thanks for posting, great as usual!
Do y’all notice the womens feet?
Why AI made them black? They are not afrikans.
Lotus feet
🕵️🇨🇳✨✨
Nasty zips
1:40 what did they eat tho? If it's rice, there would be other side dishes. Something that didn't need side dishes, noodle🍜? Or just some light snacks?
looks like they just asked them to start eating once the film was rolling judging by the shot adjustment a few seconds in by what looks like the cameraman, probably just bowl of rice for the camera and went back under the shaded area to eat.
Yeah, maybe it's just for the shot.
I don't know the specific context in which this film was made, but given the time period I'd have to guess that films like this were generally made by Westerners for a Western audience. Especially things like the inclusion of the somewhat unprofessional looking militia marching in a circle, this couple eating what does not look like a very complete meal in a somewhat awkward position (who eats facing away from the table?) and the theatre group at the end makes me think this is most likely some Europeans walking around paying people to do exotic looking things so they can take it home and sell it to people as, "Look at these barbarians with their strange uniforms and terrible drill! Look at these weirdos eating with sticks! Look at these crazy costumes!" Honestly pretty seedy and exploitative but this is the age of imperialism we're talking about.
@@laturnich9507 "I don't know the specific context in which this film was made" should just stop at that
En tout cas, leurs chaussures n'étaient pas ouf
It's called footage because that's what you would have seen if you were stood there fyi
Actually, the term Footage is more on the length of Film exposed or used, since filmmakers would would buy these film from film company like Kodak in Feet. For example in a standard 35mm film that ran 24 FPS is 16 frames per foot. Which is 2/3 of second. Directors and Editors would edit these films according to number foot of film per scene. Filmmakers would sell their movie to cinema by the number of Reels and the actual length of film per Reel. Usually a Reel would ran around 7 to 15 minutes.(that’s why old Cartoons and Newsreel shown before the Movie ran around in 7 minutes)
@@inisipisTV Cool, but you know what I mean. I'll climb this ledge to get better footage etc.
Today's China is very strong economically and its magnificent buildings are very impressive. I want to go to China to see Xinjiang.
Look at her feet 1:58
Those are some extra long chopsticks look more like the ones used for cooking rather than eating. Or maybe I'm just used to my shorter Japanese chopsticks or my stainless steel Korean ones. Also the young woman's bound feet made my feet hurt just by watching her sitting there.... poor gal.
everyone in this vid is dead
4k, 60 fps, really? on footage that was never filmed at 60 fps, at a time when pixel resolution wasnt a thing. how? did you use AI to add extra frames between the real ones? that explains why the dirt and scratches last longer than the one frame they usually would. if youre gonna do this kinda thing, at least clean it up, and colourise it properly. clothes kept changing colours, especially on the dancers. it was dreadful.
Men in women's clothing.
is a mortal SIN
@@asintonic well, I guess all the early Shakespeare actors are in hell then, since all the parts were played by men 🙄
Theater. Women weren’t allowed to be actors.
@@Alice-ov3rd Okay.
120 years later they rule the world.
Terrible military parade, bored rich people, terrible dancers... Weird footage
Why not fully stabilised?
China? looks like Uganda.
horrible remastered from 3 minutes onward