The Early 20th Century Seen in Real Color
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- Color photography began to be widely popularized during the 1960s and 70s, and we're used to seeing history before that point in black and white. But color has been reproduced for much longer than that. Early experiments were made shortly after the invention of photography itself in the early 1800s, and one of the most successful and beautiful methods, the autochrome, was launched on the market in 1907. In this video I tell the stories of people and places that appear on some of these autochromes.
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I hope you enjoyed this video! I certainly had fun making it, and I'm fascinated by these more personal views into the past. Might do a similar video about daguerreotypes sometime in the future.
It's always a delight to watch your videos. Keep up the good work! :) could you give a hint of what the next video will/could be about? :)
Very much, indeed. Can you also make video on Spanish Revival Architecture?
was a very beautiful experience, thanks!
A brilliant set of Photographs and great narrative, well done!
Please do!! 🙂 And thank you for this one 🙂
Once you pass the age of 50 your perspective on 100 years feeling like a long time ago changes dramatically.
Amen brother.
I'm at 26. Quarter century is all I've known, but I can relate it back to how I wondered what life would be like at forty when I was ten.
I passed fifty 13 years ago. My perception of time is compressed. For example, last summer just flew right by. Realistically and good Lord willing, I have about 30 years left on Earth, possibly less. Several of my oldest relatives have recently passed between ages 90 to 92, others in 70s to 80s. My recollection of 1992 does not seem all that distant, especially in terms of technology and daily life, discounting internet, smart phones, automotive, and with medical it's the high cost of which is the profoundest change in 30 years. But 1922 still seems like a long time ago to me.
i realized this not long ago, and im only 17. i realized how its been 5 years since 2017, which was really the last time i really cared about what year it was, and not 5 years of my life passed somehow.
ever since ive wanted to squeeze as much things into my life as i can because i will literally never get the time spent doing nothing back
@@ithaca2076 that's a good attitude to have, also spend time exercising and reading. Your future self will thank you.
Makes me think... what's 100 years? That's nothing... it's such a short time. This was practically yesterday. And the older I get the more I feel that way. Time flies
Truly! 2002 is 20 years ago but feels like the blink of an eye. 100 years ago is just 5 times that.
It is very little time, it's just the lifetime of one person with a long life span.
DIFFERENT CULTURE. They didn’t have airplanes or cars. They walked everywhere. No TV or even radio! No connection to the outside world except newspapers. WE have less in common with those 1910 residents than with a modern Japanese or Korean citizen of today
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@@electrictroy2010 are you offended or something?
That wasn’t "practically yesterday", that’s longer time than almost anyone’s life. How can you, as a human, say that’s a short time? You literally cannot experience more (or much more) than that.
Sure you can feel connected to it in various ways and learn history and study the time period and events that happened since then, but to act like it wasn’t an incredibly long time in which countless events happened is ridiculous. That’s just not understanding how long 100 years truly are.
Otherwise you’ll have to extrapolate that on everything. The history of humanity? Oh that’s just a short time in the history of the entire evolution. Multicellular life? That’s just a very recent development in the history of the entire earth. You see how that makes no sense to say either? You have to properly grasp how long a century really is
I wish photography was invented 500 years earlier or even further back. Imagine if we have pictures of each century. It's like a real life time machine.
future humans will have this privilege
@@laemmeelagi I know right. In the year, 2400, they'll have 500 years of footage available. They'll be so lucky.
I was thinking more to the times of JC so we can what he looked like
everything you use was invented by a handful of white men. who do you mean by 'we'?
chronoscope
It's such a strange and melancholy feeling, looking into the faces and lives of people that lived more than a century ago when they're in full color and looking just like us and our families. When you look at black and white or sepia photos there's a distance to them, like they're not quite real. But seeing them in full color like this really hammers home the fact that they were real people who loved, felt pain, struggled through life, and then died. It reminds you how fleeting we all are and how quickly we can be forgotten but also how we can assume no one will know we existed in a hundred years only to have millions looking at our private family photos and speculating about our lives. How strange it is to be human with our ever progressing technology.
0.40 - Man with mobile phone left of photograph.................nooooot ! Gosh I miss the old days, tuberculosis etc.
Have you ever seen the re-creations if qorld war 1 photos in color?
It blew my fucking mind.
Those photos looked horrible without the color, add the color and suddenly you realize, "Damn, this must've been the worst time of these soldiers lives."
Beautifully done
Beautifully written
As above so below
Seeing Cristina in those photos makes the present and past seem so interconnected. Instead of being a distant shadow in the past it drives home that she was a person just like you and me.
We in the modern era have this wrong idea that the past is something that is disconnected from us and that we're different people while the reality is that those days are just the days that passed by like yesterday I experienced so many emotions while watching this ❤️
It's like that Doctor Who episode with the old and young Amys. Or the image of the Beatles as these four twenty-year-old moptops when they are now around 80 and one of them having died over forty years ago.
Its so bizzare how 'normal' it looks. Just so .. natural? Not staged, not stiff, just a girl who looks like she coulve been born in '99 like me and my friends. Like we could've been in the photo with her and it'd make perfect sense, not like someone born a century earlier as an alien. I hope she had a lovely life.
@@mspaint93 sadly she's has full of hardship. She was married and divorced trice her sons all died in ww2 and later in life living off street
@@Agent-ie3uv Which girl are you speaking of? The narrator said the girl in red, Christina Bevan never had any children and that very little is known of her life.
I was born the year Christina died. Yet, it is crazy to think that even though we've lived for a moment at the same time, we saw and lived the world in a very different way.
I was born January 2nd 1981. So your comment struck me! I definitely shared the planet with Christina for a bit of time. Remarkable!
@ThePeej I was born on January 2nd, 1987! I always get such a kick when I find others whom I share a birthday with!
@@metaldiscipline3955 if you celebrate Christmas, did you often get combo gifts? “Here’s the left sock for Jesus’ birthday, and the right sock for your birthday!” 🤣👍🏼
@ThePeej Lol, no I never did on Christmas. However, as I got older, we would celebrate it on New Years eve due to having to return to work on the day of!
A relative of mine was early Autochrome pioneers. We inherited boxes full of Autochrome negatives including picture of my great-grandmother from 1907 in vivid colors. The glass negatives came straight from the Lumiere brothers who were helping him in his early attempts. Later he became very active and at least nationally famous color photographer.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
And his name was?
@@videovedo36 albert einstein
it would be incredible to see those!
@@videovedo36And his name was John Cena
These coloured photos, just like the film “They Shall Not Grow Old”, bridges the past to the present for sure.
And the youthfullness of those WW 1 German soldiers is So horribly Sad to think of what may have become of them if not then, the following twenty and on.
@@constitution_8939 such young men getting sent to slaughter before they are really are able to do anything with their adult life it's been like that for a long time just ww1 was different
@@damikey18 Yes, it was different, it was a First for the Most people dying in the shortest amount of time in human history until WW 2 though I'm not sure which War claimed the most casualties.
These are not colorized. These are actual, original color photos. The real colors, not what some computer program decides they might have been.
Seeing Christina as a young woman in 1913 not even 18 yet is so surreal, it looked like it was taken just a few decades ago yet she's been gone from this world just 41 years. This drives home that she was alive at some point.
I heard elsewhere that she worked as a teacher. Granted her career would have been 70 years ago or so, but perhaps records or an ancient former pupil are still out there?
Wasn't she born in 1870?
@@NoosaHeads no that was her moms birth year
@@NoosaHeads She was born in 1897(died 1981, aged 84).
She's literally less than 2 months older than me in this photo. This is really weird, beautiful, and kinda sad at the same time
Christina was only a year older than me. You would think that she would look completely out of place posing like that for portraiture, but no. She looks like someone who could very well be my classmate. Crazy to think that if I was born at a different time period, and in a different body, we could've been friends. Seeing her and everything else in color is INSANE
Were you born in 1914?? Oh wow that's 109 years!!
@@Merluch I believe he/she meant that in context of Christina's age at the time her pictures were taken
@@ASillyBeing ohhh
Agreed, the first thing I thought when I saw those photographs was "wow, these people look.. normal."
For years as a kid I literally thought there must have been no colour in life back in the 1800's, and imagined how dull it must have been!
It's wonderful to see how vibrant these images are after so long.
I thought the same thing as a kid...people's lives back then were just black and white. How foolish I was...LOL
I’m in this club too 😂
Wow y'all must been some dumb kids.
me too lol
I used to ask my parents, “What was it like in the black and white days?”
The architecture back then was truly divine.
Brilliant. So sad that man was German and was forced from doing brilliant work in his lab. Went to a rough place where his wife died. All because of war. Damage from war extends far beyond the trenches.
to think all the mathematics with engineering had to be done on paper....
Jews “invented” contemporary architecture and ruined everything.
It was magnificent. It's heartbreaking to see beautiful, amazing structures being replaced with the ugliest buildings...😓
some of the buildings look like they inspired Theed on Naboo in Star Wars so even though they were temporary they've been immortalized and people will walk through them virtually in games for decades to come
These pictures are beautiful. If I didn't have any context I would of assumed these were taken in the 60s or 70s.
Yeah it’s interesting the clothes in the Christina pictures don’t seem to be too old fashioned
@@monicarenee7949 looked like she was wearing a hoodie in the first photo
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Would have( would’ve) assumed
The "hoodie" led me to assume it was taken this year using filters if not for the title and context
Christina looks like someone you'd see today. So much different than what you usually see in most B&W photos from that time.
Very much so, almost as if she were part of modern Insta trends
@@_staaa325 I thought exactly that - particularly the photo of her with the red hood on looking into the distance.
@@_staaa325right? Christina looks like she’s posing for her insta acc so all of her envious friends give her likes. What a incredibly beautiful picture!
Exactly
i totally get you, it almost looks like a photo shoot for a indie album over! beautiful nonetheless.
My grandparents were born in 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903... which makes them 2-5 years old when many of these photographs were taken in Paris.
They all died over 30-40 years ago.
This is really heartbreaking to think about... that they were happy small kids then, and are just gone now.
back when paris was french and not african and arab dominate like today
Dust in the wind.
Well be like that someday… I just turned 21 two days ago :)
@@darko714
Yes. Poetically and sadly.
@@JesusDoBem666
You're too young to worry about that 🙂
Christina in and of herself was a work of art. I'm so glad that man took the time to capture her beauty.
Yes she’s like a human oil painting.
Some of the photos of Christina Bevin look amazingly modern. They could have been taken last year.
The photographer would have to pry her smartphone away from her to get her to pose first.
It’s still just absolutely baffling to me how we can live in an age where the people in these photographs are veeeery distant memories, yet each still existed with the same amount of humanity as everyone alive today does… thank god for these photos, seeing the past in color-photography is so unreal and fascinating, and it’s just unbelievable how much the world has changed
Not all that distant. People alive today will have known some of them personally.
@@hellfirepictures I had a great-aunt who was born in the 1860s and lived to 102. I talked to her when I was 7 or 8 years old, shortly before she passed away.
Two people, 150 years. Mind-blowing!
I love colorized photos. They really give one a feeling of connectedness with those from the past. Also, as I get older the more I realize how little people change. Teens from 100 years ago were much the same as teens today. At least in how they felt and in the heart.
People in 1900 were just like us today, at the core. Clothing was different, society, etc, but at their core, people never change.
These photos are not "colorized", where some recent person arbitrarily decided what the colors would be. These are actual, original color photos. The colors you see are what they actually were.
I’ve seen early videos that have dogs in them. The dogs seem even less different than the people. Their body language is exactly the same as today while the people are a little stiffer and more reserved
These aren't colorized, they are actual colour photographs from a century ago. Colorized photographs are lies, an imposition of our modern values on a past era. Teens 100 years ago were entirely different from teens today
No trust me teenagers and people in general are way way different today than they were in the past. Microplastics, chemical poisoning and general dysgenics have turned the average modern human into a hollow shadow of their ancestors, fat, stupid and ugly, the perfect cattle for elite to manipulate and use, no internal monologue, no higher purpose in life than consumerism and hedonism at any cost. Comparing modern humans to the people of old is an insult.
@@TS-ef2gv Nope, for sure not all are really original colors. Can you not see the difference between real colors (in the photos) and colors, what have been restored, sometimes too strong? It is like you take a color-print, 30 years old, where the colors are faded, and you restored them digitally.
My father came back from WWI and began his career in photography in New York. At some point he jerry rigged a camera for aerial photographs. Eventually he moved back to Chicago where he earned his living in advertising art. He was noted as one of 10 best in that business and began teaching advertising art at Northwestern University. Arm and Hammer was one of his clients. We owe so much to those who forged development of photography. Thank you for taking the time to document these innovations!
My maternal grandfather was born around 1860, and grew up to become a physician whose main hobby was photography. We still have many excellent black-and-white photos taken by him. I have a picture of his wife (my maternal grandmother) taken when she was in her teens; she was photographed standing beside her own mother. My mother was born in 1914 (the second youngest of thirteen!) and I have pictures of her as a toddler.
On the other side of the family tree, my paternal grannie died in the1960's, at 102. I have a nice photo of her on her wedding day, sometime in the 1890's.
I am presently scanning these photos in order to have a permanent copy, but I cannot help wondering what will happen to the originals after I die. I have quite a few relatives but they are mostly not interested in old things.
That's precious to have those memories from the past still LIVING with you!😎👍💙
With large families stories can be back 100 years
My paternal great grandfather signed with Nebraska calvery at 14
Then he wandered the west
Not many people can pass family stories over 150 years ago
Please write them down
At least you can give them to museum
Colorado state museum has some of grandpa's
You have to be in your 80s by now. My great-grandfather was born around the same time. And my grandfather was born around the same year as your mother, but did not age well, and died in 1993.
@@tomrobertson3236 Problem with writing things down is they are not always true. I have a whole slew of stuff my grandfather stuff put down on a typewriter, and some of it turned not to be true thanks to easier to do research online.
@@knerduno5942 partial truth is better then nothing
Academics know how much weight to give it
Mine rode shot gun on Platte river stage l
When and how long. ..???
the idea that the San Francisco Exhibition buildings were temporary astounds me. They are so impressive!
True. But they were no more real then a old Hollywood set. Chicken wire plaster and plywood.
The Eiffel Tower was also meant to be temporary.
The entire neighborhood they were built on was created for the expo. Every inch of it was filled in from the bay. It's now the Marina neighborhood, one of the nicest and most beautiful in the city. Out of everything at the expo, the Palace of Fine Arts was the most loved. San Franciscans actually staged protests to prevent it from being torn down, so the city kept it while tearing everything else down (some other buildings survived, but they were relocated). As the decades progressed the Palace of Fine Arts began falling apart, as it was never built to last. So eventually they decided to rebuild it, taking meticulous details into account to basically duplicate it, but with classic materials that would last. So we have it today, in better shape than it was 100 years ago.
The city went even grander a couple decades later building an entire island in the bay for another expo (Treasure Island), that one celebrating the building the of Golden Gate and Bay bridges. If you're not familiar with Treasure Island it's worth reading about and seeing some satellite photos. Once again the buildings weren't meant to last, but 3 were from day one, and still stand unaltered, while everything else was torn down and a Navy base was built. Then those buildings were torn down, and the plan is to build a whole new neighborhood there, but "building 1" and the hangers are still there from the expo.
@@Mirokuofnite I'm shocked they killed chickens for just some temporary hollywood set, like wtf
Labor was so cheap those days
I happened across this video purely by chance, and I found it most wonderful, it is totally different from the more usual (mostly technical) videos I watch.
The images, the thoughtful commentary, and the whole concept of using very old photographs to take us back to a previous time was totally absorbing.
Thank you so much for the effort you put in and for posting it for us!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I found myself pausing the video multiple times in order to just appreciate what I was seeing, it's just so intriguing to see.
I love how modern, yet timeless Cristina looks! If she time slipped into London today, she wouldn’t look a bit out of place!
Historic photos in color simply feel more “real” to me, than black and white ones do.
I know it’s dumb, since the people/places/situations ARE real…but when they’re in color, it immediately closes the time gap between us and makes it far easier for me to understand just how recent those eras actually are to our own.
It helps me to actually feel connected to that moment in time -instead of it feeling SO distant and borderline “unreal” (almost like it’s a picture from an old b&w movie, instead of being a genuine snapshot from history).
Sorry for the rambling comment…the feeling is nearly impossible for me to find a way to describe/explain (and it also doesn’t help that English isn’t my first language😂).
Nicely said
I think your ramblings are quite thoughtful! I agree! 💗 it does make you realize how real it truly was.
Yes. She wouldn't look out of place in a modern day Instagram or Tik Tok. The years pass in a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of life.
"she wouldn’t look a bit out of place" she would completely stun everyone.
Your musings are "right on the mark", as they say. And, I might add, you express yourself in English better than MANY Americans! 👍
It is incredible that so many architectural masterpieces have been built for World Fairs, just to be demolished after said fairs were over.
Meanwhile nowadays you couldn't have architects/companies/governments make beautiful buildings even if you pointed a gun at their head.
Telling them they would have to live in it could work
Have you visited any recent world fair? They still construct amazing buildings for the pavilions.
@@Gilotopia Souless crap. Nothing more.
@@Kretek i mean depends on which pavillion
They were basically theater sets made out of plaster and balsa wood
You can also look up Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky autochrome photos from the Russian Empire, which are highly detailed. It's amazing how the early photographers understood the importance of documenting national minorities and lifestyles to be preserved in image.
It's amazing how much emotional depth colour adds to these old photographs. Black and white photos feel detached, it can be hard to relate to the subjects (at least speaking as somebody who grew up long after the age of B&W photography). But these old high-quality colour photographs of people who lived well over a century ago feel positively modern. That expanse of time fades away and you can finally perceive the subject as a true individual, not an intangible ghost of the distant past.
What a beautiful young woman Christina was. The pictures of her truly seem like they could have been taken yesterday, dispelling our conceited belief that we are somehow different- even "better" or "more evolved" than those from a hundred years ago.
Thank you for all these stunning photographs, for their beauty, for showing me how wrong I was.
we are more evolved, those ppl of the past were dumb and backwards
Well, we are "more evolved" in the sense that, politically/socially, women can now vote and such, casual racism is unacceptable in 'polite society," some of our technology would be indistinguishable from magic to them (Arthur C. Clarke), but they may have been less scatterbrained, more "whole' and "solid" in their senses of Self than we are today. And of course, ANY random one of US would be EXACTLY as racist, sexist, etc as THEY were if we'd been born then.
@@joescott8877
1. Thanks ever so much for bringing your politics in here. I don't know how we made it without your beneficent wisdom.
2. How evolved of you to presume to tell me the depths of my character, whatever the time period.
You'll understand, of course, when I decline to converse any further.
"young woman" she was a teenage girl. most likely abused by the photographer, males always act like males act you are a proof of that
@@scapegoat762 LOL, sure, i understand your declining, but i was just responding to your own cultural assumptions! sorry, i thought that was allowed, lol.
I don't know why but there is something about this channel that is just so beautiful and soothing. The calm music, nice narration and great imagery always inspire me to imagine myself in a more idyllic world that inspires me. Thanks for always doing this and keep it up!
Try making a video on fictional landmarks in each us state.
@@iamarizonaball2642 me or him?
I completely agree. I just woke up a little early before my alarm today, so I thought I'd spend a little time and watch something on YT. This video almost made me nod back off! In a good way, I should probably mention. Not because it's boring 😄
@@victorymansions yes
@@victorymansions 1
I'd love to have heard Christina discuss these photos in an interview in the later years of her life during the 80s.
All of my life I have taken photographs. I am 54 now and I find that when people die known to me, those old photos take on a new meaning. A snapshot memory of a moment gone. As the person taking them, I often can recall that moment. I try to take images of my local surroundings. Shops and buildings seem to come and go and I have them, captured. This is a beautiful and well presented video of moments that would otherwise be lost forever. As we grow saturated with mobile phone images, we will no longer have gaps in history. Colour gives warmth to an image, but monochrome images can be just as powerful. Thanks to these great pioneers in photography, we now have technology that was unthinkable even 10 years ago, let alone 50. It’s almost too much to comprehend.
i think it’s really beautiful seeing all of these pictures and lives of these people 100 years ago. it’s crazy to think that everyone in these pictures had lives as intricate and fleshed out as we do today
I don't think it's crazy
@@wa-bu3ke well when you think about it then yes it's pretty obvious but the lack of colour makes these photos feel disconnected from us, without colour it feels like it's from another world. When you add colour it's all brought to life in a way that some people haven't considered before. Tl;dr: colour wow
@@glompert7390 It’s the same as Ancient Greek and Roman busts. All those philosophers, warriors and kings seem like they don’t have much to do with us, save for the superficial. But there is a channel that, through those busts and information about their physical appearance, has PhotoShopped them into what they probably really looked like. And it’s incredible, they’re just like people you could see walking down the street from a local coffee shop.
That is a realization known as sonder. Puts things in perspective
@@alexman378 Use your imagination more and history will come to life.
I didn't think I would be interested, as I assumed it was going to be colorized photos. But when I realized they were original color photos, I was all in! I had no idea these existed. Thank you!
I never understood why the exposition buildings were meant to be destroyed. They were always so beautiful and it would've been great to have them around still.
They were often built cheaply of wire and plaster
@@glenncordova4027 I guess I just wish they could've been made as permanent buildings
It would've been amazing if they were permanent
How long were they up, made so cheaply? @@glenncordova4027
I was brought up on black and white photographs. When color came out by Kodak for public use that was a huge deal. The pictures could only be developed through Kodak and not any other place. You dropped off your pictures and got the pictures back a week later. Other types of film sold at stores made it easier. Polaroid also made cameras that you could see the outcome after a few minutes. They cost about $8 for a few pics around a dollar or two per picture..
And that’s why the guys who went to the moon only took like eight pictures but the girl who goes to the bathroom takes thirty!
@@barneyboyle6933 IIRC it had more to do with the fact that the astronauts were limited by the need to use bulky film, which took up precious space on the lunar modules. They couldn't just pop in another terabyte of digital memory.
Being a descendant of Nicéphore Niépce, I am very touched to see my ancestor at the very beginning of your beautiful video. His name and memory never passed to posterity as he should have deserved. Many thanks for mentioning him.
The colors of Autochrome look beautiful, artistic and still somewhat lifelike. I love to see the early 1900s like this
I have loved old photographs all of my long life. I can not say how many times I have looked at an old photo and thought to myself "I wonder what the colors were?" The photos you have shown in this video are atr least a partial answer and I thank you for solving just a bit of the mystery!
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
5:04 Cunard liner RMS "Mauretania" inside floating dry dock. This ship was the fastest ship in the world for 22 years and also sister ship to Cunard's RMS "Lusitania." The two sisters were launched in 1907 and had been built with steam turbine engines, a radical idea at the time, as most ships during that period were still equipped with reciprocating engines. During WWI Lusitania was destroyed by a German U-Boat in 1915 with a loss of 1198 souls. However, Mauretania sailed until 1935 when she was finally sent to the ship breakers and scrapped after a long and illustrious career. Many people considered Mauretania as the most beautiful ship in the world.
The art nouveau style, and era is just so damned fascinating. Another commenter mentioned that they thought these picture would have been taken sometime in the 60’s, and given that eras own take on the art nouveau style, I would be inclined to believe the same. Truly an incredible opportunity that we living in the 21st century get to experience times long ago in hi fidelity, with all the knowledge of what horror was very soon to come. In viewing these photographs we are all truly time travelers. Thank you so much for the video.
@Evan Hodge that is a matter of some debate between my wife, and myself.
In all seriousness though, you are correct. Seems like we’ve all been born in a world making history so much faster. Although I supposed many of these people in the photographs would have felt the same. The human condition being such that it is, could almost be entirely defined by the bewilderment that we all seem to experience indefinitely even as we are supposed to grow away from the childhood amazement at the world.
Sometimes these memories of people and places in the past serve as such shocking reminders of how beautiful life was and is and probably will still be even hundreds of years down the line. Truly an ethereal experience--thank you for this wonderful video!
I'm an old man in my 70s now but growing up I was very close to my grandmother and grandfather. On their farm in the Deep South was an old barn that had at one time been a home. It was what I call a clapboard home with a pair of chimneys and I would wager that it had been built back in the mid 1800s. My grandfather used it as a barn to keep his tractors out of the weather and on the long outside of the home he had added 3 horse stalls. The interior of the house had been filled up with family 'stuff' from long, long years gone by.
I was always curious and I would prowl around inside that old place. In one of the rooms was an old trunk that contained what I would now classify as treasures. There were dozens of old lace doilies, all of which had been made by hand and there were photo albums filled with stuff went back to the 1800's, probably back to the years of the Civil War. I remember photos of old men with beards and beaver hats, horses and cattle, people in old Model A cars and on and on. There was also a box of tintypes and old, old letters.
Over the years all of those things dry rotted in that trunk, then leaks in the roof permitted water to fall inside of the house and it didn't take long for all of it to become dust. I have always regretted not insisting, even through I was a child, to have all of those old things brought into the light and preserved. Now, some 65 years later all I have is a memory of those things.....so, if you have things like that do remember that future generations will be asking the same questions that people have always asked about their past, lost relatives and what life was like back generations ago. Keep your treasures, even if you don't care for them, safe for the benefit of others.
Stunning. Imagine figuring out how to take a snapshot of life itself. Not only that but the photos are beautiful.
When we look at old people it's sometimes easy to forget we are just looking at young people with the passage of time. Fascinating, knowing very little about Christina apart from the photos makes her very intriguing.
Everyone that you see that's old today was at some point as young as you are now. Think about it, it's just fascinating. A reminder we shouldnt be quick to judge old people like we do in modern society. One day, you might be them.
This is the first time I'm learning about the autochrome process. I never knew there were color photographs taken with such high levels of detail from this era. It's fascinating to see some of the vibrancy the world had back then. Though I'm sure a lot of it was grey and brown from factory pollution, if you were out of those area, you could really see how colorful the world was.
Have learned not am learning.
One of those images of Cristina and her family appears to be a stereoscopic image. They were 3d cards designed to be looked at through a stereoscope, like the old VuMaster. I've got a couple of cards showing the immediate aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Dead horses and wrecked buildings and women in long skirts out in the street watching the fire coming. It's impressive, considering those cameras weighed a ton and the town was burning down.
Thanks so much for the video! I had seen the pictures of Christina, wearing that red bathing suit, but I didn't know her story! I love autochrome, the colors are so vivid and beautiful!💕
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This was fantastic! Clair de Lune tune is my favorite tune since quite young - felt like I have always known it. I noticed on the left, at the Pantheon pic, at about 13:05 my FR ancestry surname, one of them, on the exterior of a bldg., though the first letter was cut from view, Durant.13 is a number that figures in many facets across my life. Wild! Thank you for the interesting and colorful look back at time. l loved the accent too. Namaste. 💖🙏💫🌱🌎
As much as I love these old color photos.....I'm also beginning to appreciate the other- worldly effects of black & white. There's something ethereal, even mystical about black & white that color doesn't capture. So I like both. Also the autochrome color and technicolor of later films was like a Rembrandt painting....just beautiful.
Yes, I love to watch old black and white films. It's captivating.
Teaching photography to teenagers in the late sixties on, I found students when pushed, nearly always preferred black and white, but loved colour for landscapes etc. Examining my family collection of 1930 colour farming slides of France and the south of England, you can see the dots of DUFAYcolour. My grandfather and father were both keen photographers and my darkroom is in use. Some equipment dates from the WW1 era. now. These photographs are stunningly good in composition and context; of the young lady especially.
But in the end it was something artificial and "fake", because that's just not how the world really looks/looked like...
These photographs only presents a tiny fraction of the world that once was. I am over 60 and in my youth I had lived in 4 countries and travelled almost around the world. I can tell you that many wonderful and beautiful places I've seen are gone or changed and not for the better. The destruction of so much beauty in our world is truly frightening and the sad part is that so many young people have no idea.
60 and every timeline has its own beauty depending on where you search for it. And one thing is for sure when you get older and look in the mirror of life ... WOOW, that went fast. 😄 Sadly to many younglings today try to change the world or themselves by force to fit in, in some form of emergency state in a system they usually cant control more than their own living who runs fast by in this history. 🤔You take care. 👍
Truly magnificent! I loved how you added small bits of history through the presentation of photographs too not just shown a heap of beautiful old pictures but given us context. I adore history and putting all of this into context for me has been really meaningful. I want to know more on the history of photography now, you’ve whetted my appetite! 😍😊
Wow, those Lumiere Brothers were something else. That colour technology is so amazing for it's time, it must have genuinely seemed like magic to see for the first time
This was a true delight to watch. Thank you.
That was amazing! Never knew there were any color photos from that far back, bravo!
It's mind-blowing to know that the first experimental color photo was taken in *1861* and the first color landscape photo was done in 1877!
It took AN HOUR to watch this video as on every photo, I kept pausing to study the life and fashion shown in such great detail. I'm going to see if I can duplicate the photographs when i go to Paris next year. Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I'll look out for more. Just AMAZING!
Cristina's jacket looks like something someone would wear on the street today. If I saw that photo on a girl's Instagram page I'd just think she put a filter on it to make it look a bit older. Never would guess the photo was from 100+ years ago.
Right it looks like maybe from the 70s
Those photos of Christina could just as easily have come from a 1970s fashion shoot. Just absolutely stunning.
I would love to know more about her. Pretty sure I read another article which suggested she had become a teacher, which was a very popular profession for the unmarried at that time. I know someone who died recently aged 92, she had been a teacher and never married either.
It's intriguing how a beautiful, apparently well heeled woman in Edwardian times (or just after) never found anyone. Perhaps it was a question of timing, as people married younger back then and scores of eligible young men were wiped out during the war. Maybe she did have a partner who died on the front and she never moved on.
Perhaps we'll never know.
A generation of potential husbands for these girls died on the battlefields on France and Belgium. Maybe her early experiences as O'Gorman's model awakened a desire for the bohemian life, as did lot of people her age in the postwar years. Maybe she was gay, maybe she just ended up taking care of her elderly parents, or she found the postwar world harshly different from the world of Edwardian England she grew up in, and she retreated from life. As you say, we'll never really know.
yeah its none of our business anyway who she married or who she screwed
My sister (a history student) has told me it wasn't uncommon for women (probably upper class) not to marry in the early 20th century
an older man takes an interest in a teenage girl and she ends up never marrying. yeah i wonder what happened there
@@__________________________9140 probably nothing. Not every man is a sleazeball. And not every unmarried woman has something wrong with her
These photos especially Cristina and then the french family sitting outside their home. I realized that even that baby has lived a long life and is gone now. In color this sent shivers down my spine. It's incredible. So happy I noticed this video.
these pictures are amazing and the history lesson is a great cherry on top lol. keep up the great work! also it's surreal to think that the languages spoken during these times, and by each country, have changed so much. dialects, and nuances used. everything is different.
Those photos of Christina remind me of pre-raphaelite paintings.
Exactly! It looks like it was straight of Waterhouse's imagination. Also my favourite kind of art next to victorian classicism.
What an amazing journey through time. Thank you for gathering so much detail about the places and people in these, a delightful tribute to those and to the art of photography.
This was profoundly moving to watch.
Well researched and beautifully paced, well done!
Christina looks so beautiful. To think she lived just a few miles away from where I live myself feels hauntingly amazing somehow. I’ve walked the cliffs leading to Lulworth cove behind her myself. She looks like a hippy girl from the 70s or 80s. To think she died as an old lady few years after I was born feels really sad for some reason.
Maybe you are the reincarnation 😁
I absolutely love these videos. These images, combined with your calm voice and fitting music, really evoke in me a special feeling probably best described as "nostalgia or longing to a time I never experienced".
I always love B&W photos, but seeing the pictures turned into colour, it's amazing.
They weren't turned into color - these were original color photos, taken using processes available at the time. Autochromes were some of the best quality images.
What an amazing journey! Thank you for taking the time to put it together! Cheers from Brisbane Australia!
When you see the first Christina Bevin photo 1960s is the first time frame that pops into my head and definitely no later than the 1980s.....Never would 1913 occur to me........The colorful storefronts are really great to see too.
Visual sources from the past of a higher "quality" than that which we generally associate with their period of origin are always quite striking. It shows the extent to which our subconscious perception and understanding of the past is moulded by visual sources.
Thank you for this priceless view into history!
I loved this video. It was like going way back in time. Also, you have GREAT voice for narration. So calm and soothing, yet still very informative.
You truly cover material that is arcane to most. Thank you.
To think that picture of Cristina in Lulworth Cove was a century before I visited it myself, seems so near in time but a century has elapsed. To think we've only got a small sliver of history where we could see people and places first hand and not a painting, sketch or engraving.
The photographs of her on the beach were taken at Durdle Door, and are reversed. The limestone arch is clearly visible in one of the pictures.
Every now and then UA-cam comes up with a jewel, this one of them. What a fascinating video! I have some knowledge of early photography but this such a surprise and pleasure to see.
All this time, I have only seen old photos in b&w and sepia. So to see it in colored as if all of it were taken just yesterday, is too astounding for me.
1:01 That photo of Christina would've fit right in the 60s-80s era.
I don't know what to say other than I was in love while watching this it's absolutely amazing and I really wish if photography was invented even earlier like in the middle ages because I would go crazy for photos of this era
Me too!
Closest we can get is Meiji Japan. They have a few with the earlier color techniques he describes at the beginning of the video. The color is pretty dull because of that unfortunately, but they do exist, and it's wild seeing color photos of real samurai and old wooden Japanese architecture.
The oldest photo is from the early 1800s. Italy if I recall correctly. It’s a selfie ;-)
@@electrictroy2010 The oldest surviving photo is from France, 1826 or 1827 IIRC. The oldest selfie was almost accidental, with the photographer's face showing up in a mirror - almost like today!
Delightful! When I think of what it was like before the 1970's I almost always imagine it in black and white. It is only with some effort that I can imagine interiors, clothing, and even street scenes in color. So few photos from the days of black and white show ordinary people in ordinary clothes doing their ordinary activities. Thank you!
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It's always so fascinating looking at older photographs, moments captured forever. Makes you think about which photographs of our time will be looked at by future generations.
These are beautiful and so comforting. It’s so hard to believe how long ago these pictures were taken.
5:21 that guy didn't know it but he managed to save his life by being very impatient.
The people look so chill back then. Sure they have hobbies and things and work that keep them busy but time seems slow then. Also, I find it fascinating to look at those pictures with colors. It's like I could feel the ambiance of living in those times.
they werent dumb and low iq like today. white women today sexualize themself like its a game and lust after black dude like its their duty to breed with them
The girl look like young girls today on Instagram shot.
Even the clothes, her hairs, the fall back like style, is extremely modern. It seems Incredible that it's dated from 120 to 130 years ago.
This has given me a completely different approach to people and siblings living in that time period, and to human evolution as a whole.
It is also very interesting to see buildings and how people lived back then.
But so very familiar at the same time.
Passed 54 years old, the long past, that I never knew, such as 2 centuries ago, late 1800 and early 1900, seems closer.
Closer than the near future.
I confess it's like a shift occured after the 90'es.
Something in life was cut off as we entered the 21th century.
And now the bridge is gone.
The climate changed completely and Earth survival as a blue planet with oxygen, and all its livings is threatened.
So many laughed at people speaking for the environment and animals causes, and nature, and temperature changes in the 70'es -80'es, even 90'es.
Young people now and even +30 years old, have no idea of how it was for us, early birds of what was coming, who were living following rules and preaching what today is very obvious to all, and spoken about everyday on TV by authorities and people who back then were mocking us as idiots.
Looking back at 120 years ago, we were the same, but time and the world were so very different, yet already molding itself into now.
I don't have much knowledge about the things in this video, so as a layman, lemme just say that color really does bridge a gap that old photographs have.
What is normally viewed as cold and distant turns into something personal.
Spectacular video! This is the first time I have seen these early color pictures, and they are nothing short of extraordinary, and I am grateful to have seen them. Thank you. I couldn’t help but feel a sense of sadness, though. Something about seeing images of the past deeply moves me, something about the loss of time or innocence, something about the march of humanity into yet another century of war and into progress and inevitable change. Paris, my God, Paris was so spectacular
I've just discovered your channel. Brilliant piece of work. I took my first photographs more than 70 year ago and seeing those Autochrome pic's got me quite emotional. I knew of the process of course. I'm now 80+and still image making. You have inspired my to go back through my fathers and uncles Negs. I know there is nothing in colour, I was the first in the family to use it (Kodachrome), but the glass plates may have something of historical value 📸
Absolutely wonderful and superbly articulated. Thank you for taking the time to share these stories and beautiful photographs
Thank you for covering these. It is such a shame that no one appreciates the value of days past. I worked in Black and White for a number of years and never learned to work in color. Though I loved the B&W (and still do) the color gives a whole new meaning to how things were in the history of the world. Thank You again for shearing them
This was simply amazing. Thanks for sharing these videos, they give us a feeling of being more connected to our history than black and white photos do.
Thank you so much for this! Wonderful to see these photographs, and well narrated. I love how softly you speak, makes it very enjoyable and relaxing. 😊
All these wonderful photographs bring us, people from the 21st century, closer to this past that we tend to think as farther away in time than it really is. Thank you for your passion, effort, time, and perseverance in putting together this compilation that makes this possible!
This is beautiful, amazing video and such an eye opening look into the past. As often as we forget, the world was always colorful.
Jan Zeegers (1872-1937)
Jan Zeegers had an agency in textiles and draperies. He was also a fanatic sportsman: he sailed, swam, rowed, boxed and fenced and in 1892 he became Dutch champion in diving. And he had another hobby: photography.
Thank you so much for a glimpse of the previous century in colour. A photograph is a wonderful thing. It catches a moment in time
and freezes it for posterity. Of course, with advancing technology, this becomes easier. However, these ground- breaking photographers
and inventors played a major role in securing a fascinating slice of history that could have been lost, but was saved in coulour!
This was incredible! I was glued from start to finish. Thank you for all the work you must have put into making this compilation for us. It's very well done and so is the narration.
Beautiful video and music!
God, the world was so beautiful back then, Paris looked gorgeous, Paris has still kept a lot of it's beautiful architecture, but it's not even just the buildings, it's the simplicity of the roads that compliment them, and the accent colours popping to such a degree, it's beautiful.
The cars too, I mean the cars of the 1910's didn't look like too much but the cars of the past in general were a lot more beautiful than they are now, I sorta wish I could create my own world, because whilst physical objects, cars and buildings were pretty, many of the attitudes and societal norms of these times were not so, and they lacked the technology that have improved a lot of parts of people's lives, I just want to pick and choose the best bits out of every era and make a perfect world lol
If the information taught in history classes had been presented in the same calm, thoughtful manner as this video, I would've retained a great deal more .. thanks!
Amazing! I just now realize how important colors are to capture the moment. Subconsciously, I always thought the past was dreary and gray, but it wasn’t at all. Thank you for those photos.
Cristina was very beautiful, and Gorman a talented photographer. Also, funny how it is so easy to think of the past as a black/white/grey place due to old photos, and before that it was sepia-toned! Thanks for showing this video.