Absolutely beautiful. However, it is a crying shame that the identities of so many of these women have been lost. These daguerreotypes would have been treasures to their living descendants.
Absolutely! The oldest photographs I have of my ancestors are from the 1920s and THEY are treasured possessions! Imagine having something from the 1850s, wow!
I agree fully with you and some of those unknown women were very beautiful. It is sad but history is very harsh with people like those lovely women and men and once they die, unless well documented, they will soon fade away....
@@danielaf1487 I've got two photos that I'm pretty sure are pre-Civil War, and one tintype, which was common in the 1860's. Most of the really old family photographs were not labeled. My grandmother thought it was a sin to write on photographs, even on the back. But fortunately as a child, my father and grandmother taught me the identities of those family members. I put all the old photos on Ancestry.com where they will NEVER be lost. I can rest easy now.
@@paoloviti6156 I've been working on family history in earnest for the last ten years to avoid that from happening. My paternal grandfather and father were both photography enthusiasts and took many, many family photos. My grandfather in particular had my dad take a picture of himself and his brothers and sister together in their later years. When my grandfather developed the film and made the prints, he made exactly twelve copies of the photo. There were exactly twelve of us grandchildren. That told me right there how to carry out his final wishes by posting his work on Ancestry.com. I only wish my father and grandfather could see this new technique shown on this video. They would have been so excited.
It’s so odd how everything is changed!! The girls came to life for the viewers..the color made you see the beauty each had that, somehow, didn’t show up in the black and whites. Thumbs up on this one. I love it!!!
These lovely 19th century ladies wouldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams that people from the 21st century would be admiring their colorized and moving images using hand held devices !
@@middler5 I think some day the technology will be able to have the pictures speaking and even more movement of the body like a motion picture. Its just a matter of time.
I know they're real people from two centuries back but when you make their eyes blink and their mouths move it almost makes you feel like if you met somebody from that era really cool
Rather have the elegance of these women portrayed in these pictures then the current generation of man /girls out there being a ex doorman. Of many years experience first hand the current crop of women (not everyone ) who act no better then drunken male louts swearing fighting. And the utterance that's cones out of there mouths that's directed against the workers and door staff the language of the gutter that would blush a old seadog sailor And the girls wearing next to nothing on a night out sadly the the die is cast Unfortunately mores the pity
Without plastic surgery, fillers or silicone, every one of those women were beautiful. But more importantly they were all different and individual. So many women today spend time, money and pain in a huge effort to look just like the woman standing next to her. What a pity that individual beauty is no longer prized.
Yeah, when Alicia Keys stopped wearing makeup I could actually tell what she really looked like. When I see her old photos with all the eye makeup I have a hard time knowing who it is. Of course not everyone can look that good sans makeup, but they could go a lot lighter on it!
@@josephdockemeyer6782 Oh my god, I was just about to say that! You read my mind in advance, hehe. Those huge black eyebrows are especially incompatible on people who have lighter hair and complexion. But they are downright scary on everyone!
Capturing a picture of ourselves for our future memories was seen as something to be done with some effort. Much like even poor people dressed nicely with suits and hats and shined shoes, even children. There was a sense of value in ourselves and in our relations to one another as part of one society, even if we were unequal in status. A certain pride in humanity itself and those who came before, and for those who would follow after ourselves. Consumption-driven and individualistic society has thrown it all away.
I was about to say the exact same thing. I will add.photography being in its infancy must have been a very special occasion and so people made the effort. These ladies look so elegant. but we mustn't forget there wasn't the distractions we have to day. Dressing up one could say might have been a hobby of sorts.. I'm not detracting from the Elegance...
My late father asked me why I collect antique and vintage photos. It's because of images like this. I don't have any daguerreotypes (they're expensive!), but I have three ambrotypes (their successor), as well as cabinet cards, tintypes, real photo postcards (RPPC), etc. I prefer looking at images of that earlier world than the ugly one we have today. I'm not idealizing it, but things are just so vulgar now.
I was able to restore (actually just retouch) some old photos from early 1900s because of Photoshop where I worked. I loved doing that. I can't access the files anymore, alas. Peace and good health to you! ⭐❤
It's easy to romanticize or idealize the past, but the world is no uglier now than it was then. Most of these women were probably alive during Bloody Kansas and the Civil War, and there was certainly plenty of vulgar attitudes toward and mistreatment of women in the 19th century.
I've always been told I have a "Victorian era" face, meaning my cheeks are fuller, softer features, etc. Never appreciated them til now, because society convinces us that we need sharp features to be beautiful. Thank you for bringing these women to life, capturing their natural beauty before silicone valley and social media took over, helps me love my own similar face 😊
There are a good amount of celebrities with fuller faces that are well liked like Jennifer Lawrence. Most ppl find her attractive, as well as mila kunis, Emma stone, kaley cuoco.. oh and gigi hadid. You can deff have a round face and be considered conventionally attractive by current standards. Sharp faces are only popular within modeling industry. Soft features are also preferred on women by straight men. It’s mostly women who like sharp faces on other women. I like sharp faces too, but I’m also a woman with a soft face who likes what’s different from me. I like sharp jawlines on everyone
It takes me back in time. And i look at these beautiful women and wonder how they lived there lives. Its truly mesmerising. Thank you so much for sharing. Love your videos so much.x💕❤😌🇬🇧
Whenever I look at this astonishing work I often wonder what the sitter would think about the result. I would imagine that they would be very emotional. The addition of colour and contrast really brings the image to life and reveals the beauty that the photographer saw at the time. The only negative thing here is that, the hairdressers of the day have a lot to answer for.
Really. The 'do would had to have been done the day before the photo was to be taken. Some of them were quite detailed (#7) that it would have taken the whole day to construct.
LOL. Yea the hairstyles back then kinda sucked. I noticed they were all parted down the center, draped wide around the ears and then gathered up in the back. All said, women didn't wear their hair down and flowing back then as it was considered trampy and unsophisticated.
I agree, I can't help but have an emotional response to those smiley, shining eyes. They look full of life and hope and maybe that's the reason. It is always such a pleasure to view this work, but makes me greedy for more!
There's an eerie beauty to these wistful, melancholy images; almost as if these young women are longing to somehow connect with us, more than a century-and-a-half later.... 🤔 Beautiful work! 👍
As a lover of the past centuries, I admire your works in here. There was this quote I read somewhere, where it says "It seems like I was born in a wrong century, and I felt cheated." and by looking at these photos makes me feel really cheated - I wish I have seen them myself! 😭
Your videos leave me wondering, who were these people, what did they do in their lives, did they marry and have a family...so many questions. Thank you for opening a door to the past.
Beautiful ladies, I've never seen anything like this, they smile, and came to life!, it gave me goose bumps. I have a collection of am bro types and dugerrotypes, I'll definitely appreciate then more now. Thanks for sharing an amazing walk with the beautiful ladies. ♥️😊🌺
While these people are long passed, you are re-incarnating them into people who seem alive. Their clothing, hair, jewelry, expressions are brought back to life with music that makes us feel we know them. Your work is simply exquisite.
Exposure time for these portraits was about 15 minutes or more. To keep the people still long enough, a clamp affixed to a standing rod held the head from behind. Smiling was not as in vogue in those time anyway, but holding anything other than the stolid facial expressions seen here would have been very difficult. Street scenes captured on daguerreotypes would have been eerily vacant, with only buildings plainly seen and the human, animal, and vehicle traffic captured in strange blurs. Occasionally, a human image might have been captured lounging against a wall. It was customary to immortalize the images of children and young people after their deaths by posing their bodies as though sleeping.
Exactly, in early years but than the timing improved... I read somewhere when Louis took picture of a busy road, because of exposure time, you can only see one person polishing his shoes, the rest disappeared, could not be captured, unless you stay static for a long time, like this man did...
@@MysteryScoop Not really. The earliest pictures - including the famous one with the shoe-shine, was for the purpose of proving the possibility of capturing the image formed in what was still known as a camera obscura, with landscape (i.e. single combination) lenses working at around f/15, which would have led to very long exposure times. Soon afterwards, developments from Vienna brought about "portrait lens" working at around f/3.6, which cut the exposure time substantially, and sensitization method was further developed to increase sensitivity. During the time these pictures were taken, studios were on rooftops with glass ceilings and huge reflectors, coupled with improved plates and lenses, exposure time for these pictures would have been no longer than just a few seconds.
@@queensrule4450 it was one minute for a photo but holding still is more difficult than it seems. Smiling was considered undignified as well. Even so trying holding a fake smile a full minute, not easy at all. Stands were to assist the living to hold a pose the full minute required. Landscape photos took much longer to expose, not people.
@@irisheyesofbelfast also the teeth of these people couldn’t have been very nice. They didn’t have veneers and braces. So smiling wasn’t popular for a long time. I have see candid photos of people smiling, but portraits were more somber.
Beautiful as always!! I've always had a fascination for this period of time. One can't help but wonder what their lives were like. Thank-you for sharing these beautiful women!!
Hoping not to be redundant from my past comments: Your "bringing them back to life" stirs my soul....yes, all IS well with it! Have to say that misty eyes are a definite given when looking and being taken in by the awesomeness of your works! I cannot get enough of these joys. Thanks MS!!
As always, I'm in awe. These beautiful women look so serene. I would absolutely love to know what they themselves would have thought and said about seeing themselves " brought to life",. Stunning. Thankyou
the way AI is going; we're likely to see any historical figure in virtual life. that's why you can't believe anything you hear or see without serious critical review. And especially more modern times where voices were recorded as well, I'm sure the ai techs will be able to create the absolutely most realistic virtual personalities.
Bear in mind, though, washing the hair was infrequent and "shampoo" was lye-based soap. Pomade often consisted of wax and fat mixtures. Uncurled, hair length often went below the knee. "A woman's hair is her virtue" was a big thing at a time when piety was the fashion. And it all had to be combed, yards and yards of it, and then twisted up in rags to achieve the sausage curl or the small, tight curls. The first curling irons were heated in a fire and if you didn't know what you were doing, the likelihood of burning the hair was high. Not to mention the weight. All that greased-up hair pulling down while you're corseted to a point where breathing is compromised and bending the torso was impossible. It's a lovely thought from the modern viewpoint, but the reality was another thing altogether.
@@queensrule4450 there's always this one comment as if people don't know the realities of the time. lmao. You can appreciate the fashion and fashion alone without being so PC.
Mi rattrista un po' quella col vestito nero, perché dal modo in cui è vestita e dai gioielli neri direi che fosse una giovanissima vedova. Ciao dall'Italia anche da me!!
This channel is awesome! I look forward to every new episode. As a lifelong history fan I thank you for your channel. The episode showing what famous historical figures would look like in modern clothing was mind blowing.
Quite moving. There is so much to be seen in these photos. I have never had any interest in fashion, jewellery, etc but captivated by the photo at 4:20. Everything had been arranged to perfection from hr folds of her dress to the strands of her hair.
Beautiful. Well done. Life expectancy at that time was around 36. It could be that a lot of these women died at a young age from disease or childbirth and therefore had no descendants. So sad that they are mostly unknown. I half expected them to speak - their faces say so much - but like the era they lived in, they had no voice. Thank you for sharing.
Life expectancy was not around 36 lol This is a common mistake made that assumes the average person didnt make it past 36, when what is actually being discussed is life expectancy at birth and because many babies were born and many died, this caused the life expectancy at birth stat to go down. But remove that and the average person that survived infancy made it to their 60s and 70s principia-scientific.com/debunking-the-life-expectancy-myth/
You have created a heartbreaking artform. I can not look away even though I find it difficult to view, knowing for how long they have been gone. Do I say thank you or damn you? Still, thumbs up.
Whenever I watch this video, what immediately comes to mind is the 1980 movie, “Somewhere in Time” starring the beautiful British-American actress Jane Seymour. 😍
How right you are , one of my favourites imagine a remake in hi def with a real budget. Great film Great story. So hard to believe these girls have been dead for so long ,,I believe history is not what we've been taught.
Yes, covered but still beautiful. You don’t have to show everything like people do today🤷♀️. After seeing this I realize just how nasty we dress these days.
Thanks for this video it's very tender, Recently I've found a photo of my mother when she was about 16-18 years old, she was really beauty and joyful (now she's 92, and very sick) and she's still beauty, perfect cheek bones, all her teeth, watching her photo I started to cry, thinking what a hard life was prepared for her, anyway she never gave up, and of course no stetical surgery, natural beauty, -
Truly makes me want to cry.....they are beautiful, they lived and they died, and are now forgotten except for these wonderful portraits. Thank you...this is amazing.
I am so enjoying your presentations, and wondering when and if we will ever have this process reasonably available to the public. Perhaps in the future, even an app? Thank you so much for bring these enhanced images to us.
I absolutely love seeing these historic pictures colorized and come-to-life movements! History teachers everywhere should show these videos in their classrooms. Keep em coming.
It's extremely creepy the way their heads move but their hair (especially braids or ringlets going down the side of their face) do not. Sometimes their earrings don't move either. I'm guessing that the technology will advance in the next couple years to make them more realistic. I hope.
God, what a beauty..i' m a 19th century literature specialist and all i can feel is silence..thank you😊Greetings from Serbia💖
When the faces in these pictures soften and smile, I can’t help but smile back.
Me as well. I wish I could sit down and talk with them!
@@QueenBee-gx4rp me too. I am fascinated by their mystery
@@harpersmythe658 I’m astonished by how beautiful they are! And without makeup...and the sheen on their hair!
@@QueenBee-gx4rp yes, I think I may have to research the beauty routines of 1850’s ladies. Watch this space ..... 😊
@@harpersmythe658 Well please don’t try arsenic-a popular use for making your skin pale!
Absolutely beautiful. However, it is a crying shame that the identities of so many of these women have been lost. These daguerreotypes would have been treasures to their living descendants.
So very true
Absolutely! The oldest photographs I have of my ancestors are from the 1920s and THEY are treasured possessions! Imagine having something from the 1850s, wow!
I agree fully with you and some of those unknown women were very beautiful. It is sad but history is very harsh with people like those lovely women and men and once they die, unless well documented, they will soon fade away....
@@danielaf1487 I've got two photos that I'm pretty sure are pre-Civil War, and one tintype, which was common in the 1860's. Most of the really old family photographs were not labeled. My grandmother thought it was a sin to write on photographs, even on the back. But fortunately as a child, my father and grandmother taught me the identities of those family members. I put all the old photos on Ancestry.com where they will NEVER be lost. I can rest easy now.
@@paoloviti6156 I've been working on family history in earnest for the last ten years to avoid that from happening. My paternal grandfather and father were both photography enthusiasts and took many, many family photos. My grandfather in particular had my dad take a picture of himself and his brothers and sister together in their later years. When my grandfather developed the film and made the prints, he made exactly twelve copies of the photo. There were exactly twelve of us grandchildren. That told me right there how to carry out his final wishes by posting his work on Ancestry.com. I only wish my father and grandfather could see this new technique shown on this video. They would have been so excited.
It’s so odd how everything is changed!! The girls came to life for the viewers..the color made you see the beauty each had that, somehow, didn’t show up in the black and whites. Thumbs up on this one. I love it!!!
👍...
I've noticed that with all the videos from this channel. They give life to all the old photos and statues, and they do a wonderful job with each one!
Nothing's changed...Really...
@@RickOshay...
Fashions and hairstyles have changed dramatically, but that's about it.
@@RickOshay... Morality has changed drastically.
This is so magical... Their life.. their stories... fall short of words.. great work!
This channel is the number one reason why I watch videos on UA-cam. So authentic, and aesthetically intense. Just amazing! Thank you
Wow, thank you!
@@MysteryScoop use different music please, it seems like funeral music, use happy music , so it doesn’t seem so sad
I enjoyed the music it went well with the presentation I enjoyed it all😊😊
Technology is bringing back details never noticed before
These lovely 19th century ladies wouldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams that people from the 21st century would be admiring their colorized and moving images using hand held devices !
My brother used an app to bring some of my childhood and adult photos to life. It was creepy at first but I love it.
I’d love it if you could give these beauties a peek with a modern hairstyle!
People always say that.
It's strange to realize, that these women, once so full of life, are all long gone.
Someone in the future will have the same thoughts about the people of today...
@@MysteryScoop True! Time will make memories of us all....
all we are is dust in the wind, our turn will be coming one day
I wonder what medium theyll be looking at us through.... Something incomprehensible to us now.
@@middler5 I think some day the technology will be able to have the pictures speaking and even more movement of the body like a motion picture. Its just a matter of time.
Held in eternal beauty never to age .
I know they're real people from two centuries back but when you make their eyes blink and their mouths move it almost makes you feel like if you met somebody from that era really cool
They where all so naturally beautiful, and so elegant
It's unbelievable, like looking through the lens of time machine
These pictures are spectacular. There's an essence present here, that is sadly lacking in todays vulgar selfies.
Steady on Penny Lane, get back in your studio album
Just like the barber showing photographs of every head he's had the pleasure to know
100 years from now...people will wonder if girls were born with their tongue hanging out...or their mouth puckered up.
We need people like this back in the world. Today's generations dont appreciate it because they never experienced it.
Rather have the elegance of these women portrayed in these pictures then the current generation of man /girls out there being a ex doorman. Of many years experience first hand the current crop of women (not everyone ) who act no better then drunken male louts swearing fighting. And the utterance that's cones out of there mouths that's directed against the workers and door staff the language of the gutter that would blush a old seadog sailor And the girls wearing next to nothing on a night out sadly the the die is cast Unfortunately mores the pity
Gone but not forgotten with this work. The music goes beautifully.
freaky how u bring these people back to life with the slight facial movements...
Without plastic surgery, fillers or silicone, every one of those women were beautiful. But more importantly they were all different and individual. So many women today spend time, money and pain in a huge effort to look just like the woman standing next to her. What a pity that individual beauty is no longer prized.
Also, the nasty Groucho Marx eyebrows that women draw on today are hideous. Emulating porn stars needs to go away, too.
Yeah, when Alicia Keys stopped wearing makeup I could actually tell what she really looked like. When I see her old photos with all the eye makeup I have a hard time knowing who it is. Of course not everyone can look that good sans makeup, but they could go a lot lighter on it!
@@josephdockemeyer6782 Oh my god, I was just about to say that! You read my mind in advance, hehe. Those huge black eyebrows are especially incompatible on people who have lighter hair and complexion. But they are downright scary on everyone!
Don't forget the big, exaggerated lips.
@@mosart7025 alicia keys? Lol even with makeup she didnt wear much...tf u talking about😂
Sometimes with B&W photos everybody look plain...but the colorization brings them to life and you see the beauty.
you have to look into the eyes..
B&W motion pictures required special makeup. So, photography in this medium can look less "alive".
@@statesrights01 they have to stay expressionless.
A lot of someone's attractiveness comes from personality and expression.
@@statesrights01 Everyone looks into their eyes.
these daguereotipes are incredibly realistic ! And your work takes us to these young women in a poetic way…
A real delight.. thank’s and bravo
The detail in the photos was amazing. The amount of effort, artistry and work that went into this presentation is truly a wonder. Fantastic!
Thank you very much!
That is the meaning of Time... You die in life but you live forever if you capture one instant moment of it!
You live on through your children, and grand children. Literally.
Lovely sentence
Actually you dont, because those photographs will be gone one day. Just like all human life. Nothing lasts forever except your soul.
The concept of esthetic and detail , better that today
Capturing a picture of ourselves for our future memories was seen as something to be done with some effort.
Much like even poor people dressed nicely with suits and hats and shined shoes, even children.
There was a sense of value in ourselves and in our relations to one another as part of one society, even if we were unequal in status. A certain pride in humanity itself and those who came before, and for those who would follow after ourselves.
Consumption-driven and individualistic society has thrown it all away.
I was about to say the exact same thing.
I will add.photography being in its infancy must have been a very special occasion and so people made the effort.
These ladies look so elegant.
but we mustn't forget there wasn't the distractions we have to day.
Dressing up one could say might have been a hobby of sorts..
I'm not detracting from the Elegance...
I don’t see any fake eyebrows, eyelashes, and heavy eye makeup. You can see their natural features.
Lots of details & quality in fashion, architecture. long hair up, etc! All simplified in 60s or 80s with extreme mass production.
What you do is a sort of time machine. It’s like meeting them face to face. Thank you for bringing history TO US.
My late father asked me why I collect antique and vintage photos. It's because of images like this. I don't have any daguerreotypes (they're expensive!), but I have three ambrotypes (their successor), as well as cabinet cards, tintypes, real photo postcards (RPPC), etc. I prefer looking at images of that earlier world than the ugly one we have today. I'm not idealizing it, but things are just so vulgar now.
I was able to restore (actually just retouch) some old photos from early 1900s because of Photoshop where I worked. I loved doing that. I can't access the files anymore, alas. Peace and good health to you! ⭐❤
It's easy to romanticize or idealize the past, but the world is no uglier now than it was then. Most of these women were probably alive during Bloody Kansas and the Civil War, and there was certainly plenty of vulgar attitudes toward and mistreatment of women in the 19th century.
I've always been told I have a "Victorian era" face, meaning my cheeks are fuller, softer features, etc. Never appreciated them til now, because society convinces us that we need sharp features to be beautiful. Thank you for bringing these women to life, capturing their natural beauty before silicone valley and social media took over, helps me love my own similar face 😊
Me, too!
Faces are the same as today. Only there wasn’t pink blue purple hair back then and their arms and faces weren’t covered with tattoos
There are a good amount of celebrities with fuller faces that are well liked like Jennifer Lawrence. Most ppl find her attractive, as well as mila kunis, Emma stone, kaley cuoco.. oh and gigi hadid. You can deff have a round face and be considered conventionally attractive by current standards. Sharp faces are only popular within modeling industry. Soft features are also preferred on women by straight men. It’s mostly women who like sharp faces on other women. I like sharp faces too, but I’m also a woman with a soft face who likes what’s different from me. I like sharp jawlines on everyone
@@march9177 I guess I'm a little out of the loop because I thought soft faces are desired because it can appear more youthful.
Blame the drag queen makeup style, aka contouring.
It takes me back in time. And i look at these beautiful women and wonder how they lived there lives. Its truly mesmerising. Thank you so much for sharing. Love your videos so much.x💕❤😌🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it
Photos meant so much more back then. It meant someone cared enough to want your picture. Photos mean nothing today. How sad.
To think they've been dead for 150 yrs The past will always be our guide
Whenever I look at this astonishing work I often wonder what the sitter would think about the result. I would imagine that they would be very emotional. The addition of colour and contrast really brings the image to life and reveals the beauty that the photographer saw at the time. The only negative thing here is that, the hairdressers of the day have a lot to answer for.
Really. The 'do would had to have been done the day before the photo was to be taken. Some of them were quite detailed (#7) that it would have taken the whole day to construct.
LOL. Yea the hairstyles back then kinda sucked. I noticed they were all parted down the center, draped wide around the ears and then gathered up in the back. All said, women didn't wear their hair down and flowing back then as it was considered trampy and unsophisticated.
But what would our hairstyles look like to them? Their hair was “dressed” every day, and ours??
@@QueenBee-gx4rp I look like I crawled out of a bush most days haha, especially this past year.
@@l.j.7982 Me, too. I didn’t even bother to comb mine today.
For some reason I have tears in my eyes. 💕💙❤️
I agree, I can't help but have an emotional response to those smiley, shining eyes. They look full of life and hope and maybe that's the reason.
It is always such a pleasure to view this work, but makes me greedy for more!
Me to it’s wonderful to see but sad at the same time 🥲❤️
Me too!! Touched some part deep with in me. Maybe because it is woman to woman! Unspoken things that only another woman could ever understand!!
Me too
Because our heart and soul wants back this innocent times...
Fascinating!!! Please do more of these.
There's an eerie beauty to these wistful, melancholy images; almost as if these young women are longing to somehow connect with us, more than a century-and-a-half later.... 🤔
Beautiful work! 👍
As a lover of the past centuries, I admire your works in here. There was this quote I read somewhere, where it says "It seems like I was born in a wrong century, and I felt cheated." and by looking at these photos makes me feel really cheated - I wish I have seen them myself! 😭
Omg, loved your quote, thank you! 🥰
I have a distinct love and feeling as though I belong in spirit to that era as well...I have a "Victorian " facial type and maybe in a past life...?
This posting is so magical. So well done.
Your videos leave me wondering, who were these people, what did they do in their lives, did they marry and have a family...so many questions. Thank you for opening a door to the past.
Little did they know that their images would last so long. Being digitalized, this may last centuries.
Beautiful ladies, I've never seen anything like this, they smile, and came to life!, it gave me goose bumps. I have a collection of am bro types and dugerrotypes, I'll definitely appreciate then more now. Thanks for sharing an amazing walk with the beautiful ladies. ♥️😊🌺
While these people are long passed, you are re-incarnating them into people who seem alive. Their clothing, hair, jewelry, expressions are brought back to life with music that makes us feel we know them. Your work is simply exquisite.
Another masterpiece Sir.
Thank you kindly
Exposure time for these portraits was about 15 minutes or more. To keep the people still long enough, a clamp affixed to a standing rod held the head from behind. Smiling was not as in vogue in those time anyway, but holding anything other than the stolid facial expressions seen here would have been very difficult. Street scenes captured on daguerreotypes would have been eerily vacant, with only buildings plainly seen and the human, animal, and vehicle traffic captured in strange blurs. Occasionally, a human image might have been captured lounging against a wall. It was customary to immortalize the images of children and young people after their deaths by posing their bodies as though sleeping.
Exactly, in early years but than the timing improved... I read somewhere when Louis took picture of a busy road, because of exposure time, you can only see one person polishing his shoes, the rest disappeared, could not be captured, unless you stay static for a long time, like this man did...
@@MysteryScoop Not really. The earliest pictures - including the famous one with the shoe-shine, was for the purpose of proving the possibility of capturing the image formed in what was still known as a camera obscura, with landscape (i.e. single combination) lenses working at around f/15, which would have led to very long exposure times. Soon afterwards, developments from Vienna brought about "portrait lens" working at around f/3.6, which cut the exposure time substantially, and sensitization method was further developed to increase sensitivity. During the time these pictures were taken, studios were on rooftops with glass ceilings and huge reflectors, coupled with improved plates and lenses, exposure time for these pictures would have been no longer than just a few seconds.
@@kenoneill8783 Rather than doubting it, perhaps some edification by way of research is in order.
You may be surprised.
@@queensrule4450 it was one minute for a photo but holding still is more difficult than it seems. Smiling was considered undignified as well. Even so trying holding a fake smile a full minute, not easy at all. Stands were to assist the living to hold a pose the full minute required. Landscape photos took much longer to expose, not people.
@@irisheyesofbelfast also the teeth of these people couldn’t have been very nice. They didn’t have veneers and braces. So smiling wasn’t popular for a long time. I have see candid photos of people smiling, but portraits were more somber.
Beautiful as always!! I've always had a fascination for this period of time. One can't help but wonder what their lives were like. Thank-you for sharing these beautiful women!!
This an unusually poignant and powerful link to the past. It is quite moving.
"Unidentified.' How sad. Think of how much their descendants would treasure these full-color animations.
Hoping not to be redundant from my past comments: Your "bringing them back to life" stirs my soul....yes, all IS well with it! Have to say that misty eyes are a definite given when looking and being taken in by the awesomeness of your works! I cannot get enough of these joys. Thanks MS!!
Such haunting photos...these beautiful young women had lives, perhaps children, and are long gone. It’s sad, but wonderful to see at the same time.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.
Giving these lovely women a "new life." It's almost miraculous. Thanks for sharing these with the world. 😊
Absolutely wonderful! Their eyes spoke a million words x
As always, I'm in awe. These beautiful women look so serene. I would absolutely love to know what they themselves would have thought and said about seeing themselves " brought to life",. Stunning. Thankyou
It must be a real delight when you see the result of animating an old photo. Spectacular work!
the way AI is going; we're likely to see any historical figure in virtual life. that's why you can't believe anything you hear or see without serious critical review. And especially more modern times where voices were recorded as well, I'm sure the ai techs will be able to create the absolutely most realistic virtual personalities.
most of us women today would kill for hair like those darlings had.
I was thinking about the beautiful tiny ringlets that were so glossy. I wonder how they achieved it.
Bear in mind, though, washing the hair was infrequent and "shampoo" was lye-based soap. Pomade often consisted of wax and fat mixtures. Uncurled, hair length often went below the knee. "A woman's hair is her virtue" was a big thing at a time when piety was the fashion.
And it all had to be combed, yards and yards of it, and then twisted up in rags to achieve the sausage curl or the small, tight curls. The first curling irons were heated in a fire and if you didn't know what you were doing, the likelihood of burning the hair was high.
Not to mention the weight. All that greased-up hair pulling down while you're corseted to a point where breathing is compromised and bending the torso was impossible.
It's a lovely thought from the modern viewpoint, but the reality was another thing altogether.
Every single photo the girl looks under 18, though. None of these are fully grown women.
@@queensrule4450 there's always this one comment as if people don't know the realities of the time. lmao. You can appreciate the fashion and fashion alone without being so PC.
Bear in mind that women during this time wore extensions and false hair, too.
Donne bellissime!!!! E pensare che questi daguerreotipi hanno quasi 170 anni. Grazie mille per aver condiviso tanta bellezza. Ciao Dall'Italia 🇮🇹
Mi rattrista un po' quella col vestito nero, perché dal modo in cui è vestita e dai gioielli neri direi che fosse una giovanissima vedova. Ciao dall'Italia anche da me!!
The beautiful details you were able to define by adding color was just amazing. I could see details that may have been missed. Just wonderful!
i wonder how all these people would feel about having their likenesses seemingly brought to life centuries later.
This channel is awesome! I look forward to every new episode. As a lifelong history fan I thank you for your channel. The episode showing what famous historical figures would look like in modern clothing was mind blowing.
Makes us wonder about ourselves, our own life time as those wondeful women had theirs.
Quite moving. There is so much to be seen in these photos. I have never had any interest in fashion, jewellery, etc but captivated by the photo at 4:20. Everything had been arranged to perfection from hr folds of her dress to the strands of her hair.
Beautiful. Well done. Life expectancy at that time was around 36. It could be that a lot of these women died at a young age from disease or childbirth and therefore had no descendants. So sad that they are mostly unknown. I half expected them to speak - their faces say so much - but like the era they lived in, they had no voice. Thank you for sharing.
Life expectancy was not around 36 lol
This is a common mistake made that assumes the average person didnt make it past 36, when what is actually being discussed is life expectancy at birth and because many babies were born and many died, this caused the life expectancy at birth stat to go down.
But remove that and the average person that survived infancy made it to their 60s and 70s
principia-scientific.com/debunking-the-life-expectancy-myth/
@@savioblanc www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/#:~:text=Over%20the%20past%20160%20years,to%2078.9%20years%20in%202020.
@@mattieb7348 yes, the link pretty much confirms my point. Thanks
Breathtaking!
You have created a heartbreaking artform. I can not look away even though I find it difficult to view, knowing for how long they have been gone. Do I say thank you or damn you? Still, thumbs up.
Thank you.... I understand the feeling!
These pictures evoke emotions like nothing I have ever seen; and even though they are haunting, I feel somehow obligated to view them .
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Every single picture was absolutley stunning!! What a fascinating process.. I'm going to educate myself more on it... thank you for sharing
Gracias, Mystery Scoop wonderfull job! from Chile.
Many thanks!
Très bien fait, bravo !
Whenever I watch this video, what immediately comes to mind is the 1980 movie, “Somewhere in Time” starring the beautiful British-American actress Jane Seymour. 😍
How right you are , one of my favourites imagine a remake in hi def with a real budget. Great film Great story. So hard to believe these girls have been dead for so long ,,I believe history is not what we've been taught.
One of my favorite movies, except the past in Somewhere in Time is 1912 and not the mid 19th century.
Their style is very stunning… especially their hair.
This is beautiful but made me feel so so sad...
You make these people come alive. Brings tears to my eyes every time.
I love how they dressed and decorated themselves.
No#2 is possibly sharing her wedding day with us. Look carefully
Yes, absolutely beautiful.
Yes, covered but still beautiful. You don’t have to show everything like people do today🤷♀️. After seeing this I realize just how nasty we dress these days.
Wow für ein kleiner Moment sind die wieder am Leben. Toll gemacht 👍🏼
For me, the most beautiful Mystery Scoop is that of # 05.
Thank you!
I agree
Yes, she's lovely. Number 4 (the widow) is gorgeous, too.
Wow, yet again! Your videos and work are so beautiful, I cried on this one. Thank you for what you do!
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for this video it's very tender, Recently I've found a photo of my mother when she was about 16-18 years old, she was really beauty and joyful (now she's 92, and very sick) and she's still beauty, perfect cheek bones, all her teeth, watching her photo I started to cry, thinking what a hard life was prepared for her, anyway she never gave up, and of course no stetical surgery, natural beauty,
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Truly makes me want to cry.....they are beautiful, they lived and they died, and are now forgotten except for these wonderful portraits. Thank you...this is amazing.
Every time I see your picture they give me so much joy as if I could talk to these people thank you so much outstanding
Beautiful portraits... impossible not to fall in love with some of them...
This Is one of the most amazing channels in youtube. I've never seem before.
Wow, thank you!
Your channel is a gem!
Thank you and welcome!
Makes one realize how fleeting beauty and life are. 150+ years ago, these lovely ladies epitomized both. Makes me wonder where they are now.
The detail in the clothing and the incidental props” are really astonishing....the eyes .... so alive.
It is so sad that we do not know who these young ladies were, forever lost in time.....
These are fabulous!!! This whole technology is a gift to our time!! Please keep them coming!
Lovely. The natural beauty shines through. I was thinking how the late actress Jennifer Jones resembled Sarah Hawkins.
Great compilation and a wonderful work!!! Thanks for sharing this look into the past!!!
I am so enjoying your presentations, and wondering when and if we will ever have this process reasonably available to the public. Perhaps in the future, even an app? Thank you so much for bring these enhanced images to us.
You can do similar things, Matt can do it at www.mycolorfulpast.com/
These are breathtaking. You did an amazing job. Glad to see when history comes alive again.
Those Victorian hairstyles really didn’t do any lady a favour. The colouring on these portraits are amazing and beautiful!
We used to do 1840s reenactment. My wife’s hairstyle was definitely a passion killer.
The hairstyles are amazing
What are you taking about...
#5's hair is stunning!
I can't help but wonder if future generations will look back at the way we wear our hair today and think the same thing...
These images are unbelievably beautiful. All the effort put into hair and jewelry. You are putting something wonderful out into the world
Many many thanks
I'll bet none of these women ever realized that a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup advertisement would be interrupting their photo gallery.
Very true!!😊🌺
Lol
Some of the girls look so young. Beautiful work.
The colonization is gorgeous. The music really captures the time!
I love hope you have brought these ladies to life once again !! Brilliant
Wonderful, as always. Thank you.
I absolutely love seeing these historic pictures colorized and come-to-life movements! History teachers everywhere should show these videos in their classrooms. Keep em coming.
OMG thy are so beautiful, They deserve to be immortalized
No tattoos...no ridiculous piercings...modestly dressed......I'm certain, little if any vulgarity....What an epic era...Beyond captivating....
It's extremely creepy the way their heads move but their hair (especially braids or ringlets going down the side of their face) do not. Sometimes their earrings don't move either.
I'm guessing that the technology will advance in the next couple years to make them more realistic. I hope.
It's amazing that just enhancing neatness and add color make them pop back to life. It almost gives me goosebump !
Fascinating technology and just a tad creepy. Bravo and compliments to the "chefs."
just gorgeous. the faces of them all look so..current..in color! well done. Wish we knew their names and stories