Surreal Old Timey Film Of New York City In 1911
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- More Old Film of Cities Around the World here - • The 1890's ~ Amazing R... ...Rare Footage of New York City in 1911 shows everyday life in New York City over 100 years ago. The film features famous landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and the Flatiron Building, and showcases what life on New York streets looked like. The early 1900s were a period of rapid change for New York City. The city's population was ballooning as an influx of immigrants passed through Ellis Island. Massive skyscrapers began popping up seemingly overnight, many of them among the tallest in the world at the time. And new technology such as automobiles and elevated trains made the city more accessible than ever.
In 1911, Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern produced a nine-minute film showing everyday life in Manhattan. The remarkably clear footage, released by the Museum of Modern Art last year, includes recognizable modern-day landmarks like the Flatiron Building and the Statue of Liberty, as well as buildings that no longer exist, such as the New York Herald Building.
"Produced only three years before the outbreak of World War I, the everyday life of the city recorded here - street traffic, people going about their business - has a casual, almost pastoral quality," the museum wrote.
The film shows a boat arriving at New York Harbor with the Statue of Liberty in the distance.
The harbor is still used by cruise lines, commuter ferries, and tourist boats. And the Statue of Liberty is as popular a tourist destination as ever.
The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, was one of the tallest buildings in the world when it was built.
Today, the Flatiron Building isn't among the tallest 1,000 buildings in New York City. But its distinct appearance has made it one of the most popular and photographed landmarks in the Big Apple.
#blackandwhite #film #timemachine
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Just think. When that was filmed, none of us existed and now as we sit watching it, none of those people are alive anymore in this world. Makes one reconsider what is really important in this life. There was a time when I wasn't here and there will be a time when I am not here again. We are all just passing through and the only thing we leave behind is the influence we had on those around us.
horseman528 so perfectly said.
Yes indeed..great understanding
@@dgcmusi And for me, the saddest thing is in 100 or 150 years, no one will remember us. They won't even know we were here.
@horseman528: Very dramatic and sympathetic comment . . . except that it's also completely untrue. Einstein and most modern physicists agree that all of these people are in fact alive right now . . . and will continue to be alive right now . . . eternally. Just google "block theory of time" . . .
You missed the whole point of what I said. I didn't say they are not alive eternally; I said they are not alive in this world. The Hindu faith believes souls are reborn over and over into this world which I do not because of Hebrews. 9:27 where it says it is appointed unto man ONCE to die, and after death the judgment. Enuf said.
When someone in this film looks directly into the camera I say hello to them...from me to you through space and time...
Me too. 😊
Are you The Doctor?
Same plus if they wave i wave back
These people aren't really dead.
Lord Burlap they’re going to haunt you in your sleep now
My grandfather immigrated from Sweden in 1911 to Ellis Island, thank you for giving me the opportunity to see the world he witnessed as he passed thru on his way to Nebraska
Trump says we shouldn't have let you guys in.
@@harrylangdon491 your an idiot
@@harrylangdon491 Bud says you should shut the fuck up, buffoon.
@@harrylangdon491
No, he didn't say that!!!!
People who came around that time from all over the world they did work and build America.
They didn't live on taxpayers money.
My Maternal Grandfather was born May 1911, in Iowa.
My great grandpa was 15 when this was filmed. The transition in society he got to see. Amazing
Interesting to think that every man, woman, child, and horse, are all dead and gone. We just saw a small snippet of their lives captured in time on film. None replaceable, each individual unique, never to see this world again. Well maybe, but not in physical form.
How many words spoken in a lifetime, how many steps taken, how many relationships come and gone. How many amazing sights seen, thoughts thought, emotions experienced, happy and sad....and for a few minutes we got to see a moment in time, human beings that experience the same things we do, live out their lives. Just in a different time.
This is closest we have to a time machine. Film. Time, captured and kept for all too see in the future, who weren't present in the past.
If only we learned from it.
Shane Roper Well said! It brings perspective to contemplate about these things
WOW! You're absolutely right. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I must say this is one of the best comments I've read so far.
Poor horses
You couldn’t have said it better!
That thought went thru my mind as well, surreal.
Notice how not one person stopped and asked " why are you filming? Stop filming me, I didnt give you permission to film me. "
I noticed several teenagers who definitely knew what it was, knew they were being filmed and were definitely trying to be in the picture longer.
This was/is probably their only immortalization in moving pictures. That one, all to brief moment.
Mr Disarray unknown ... that is a logical fallacy. Just because you don’t see that happen doesn’t mean it didn’t. These are clips with many breaks. For all we know the photographer was asked to move and stop filming every time they started filming. You know what they say about assuming don’t you?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They probably didnt know what a video camera was
@@rbeck3200tb40 well that's for sure! But they knew what a motion film protector was and how to capture motion pictures using a film camera. Seeing one to them out on the street like this was rare and I'm sure most of them felt honored, probably thought they were going to be in a movie. 😉
What I found most interesting was the different modes of transportation systems, side by side. Horse and carriage, automobiles, trolley, trains. What an amazing time for physics and invention.
Even the tolls area, the NYPD officers, the “taxis” . Thank you for posting this video. It should be posted on a big screen in Times Square . It might cool heads and reminding us that we too are be filmed in 2020.
What dangerous streets to navigate...a free for all concerned!
And within a decade motor vehicles have won the transportation war and the horses are mostly gone.
@@yvonneplant9434 The streetcars were driven from New York by Robert Moses and LaGuardia, but one company lasted to the mid 30s, the other to 1948 and in Brooklyn to mid 1950s. Rarely were these referred to as trollies. The Long Island Railroad may still be the busiest in the world. The Els were replaced by subways. The ferries have returned. A lot of mistakes were made in transportation planning.
Every one of them are gone now. All the tears, laughter and stories lost to the ages. The same fate awaits us. Cool video. Love it
Party pooper
IMagine if they were still alive. Now that would be something to fascinate, not that people die. No news there.
My Great Grandmother who helped raise me was about 16yrs old in 1911. She always told me how she loved those big feathered hats snd my great Grandfather pulled out his straw boater hat every May until the day he died in the seventies. I sorely miss them. Thank you for the film.
My grandparents came thru downtown NYC in 1911. Now I know what my grandparents saw back then. Funny that my grandfather always wore one of those straw hats and a three piece suit. He had no money, he just wanted to look as thought he did.
U'r so blessed to hve a connection to a bygone era caught in film here...and here I ws wondering, the descendents of these ppl will b around....
Beautiful to see people living in the moment and not staring at cellphones like zombies.
I hear the hell out of that.👍👍
🤣 very true
RICH D as we stare at this video
As you stare into your cell phone lol
@Jaime Alonzo No numbnuts, Im not a cellphone idiot like you
All those Union army Civil War veterans in their 60s hopping around on one leg. ✊🏼 respect.
That made me sad.
I was fascinated by those images too
Thats right... thank you for your sacrifice
I think the timing is off for them to be civil war vets. We had no shortage of wars and battles back then. Could have been any one of them.
It's possible if he was 20 in 1865.
Everyone dressed so formally. Lady attires are elegant.
It was that area . It was their normal . My great grdmother who was from the Caribbean used to dress like that. My great uncles used to wear hats. I saw their pictures.
i just love watching them and everyone looks respectful..it's sad now a days it's seems people ignored being dignified
Going back decades women have always dress elegantly especially when they had such tiny waist
Yeah, and straw hats were all the rage.
Priceless footage: people dressed with such class back then
Down Hill you have the perfect name. America is morally bankrupt today, godless/imploding. The only fools you spoke of are the ones who reject Jesus Christ, and blame everything/one around them for their situation. You can't fix others but you can fix YOU via Faith in Jesus. ALL these ppl are dead now...how did whining about everything/one help them when they died and stood before a Holy God?
Nothing "classy" about having to take a crap in an outhouse.
Fred...or those who'd talk about it, instead of whats good about that time.
People had self respect, to be presentable in public...unlike today.
@@fazbell That was an improvement from dumping it in the street .
Seeing them drive down the road, so polite to one another and all of them driving at a reasonable speed to allow for any contingency...most of them so stoic...
Jose Salvador Hernandez We are spoiled and have become ungrateful. 😢
@Alejandro - yeah but I bet if their cars back then went 75 mph they'd still drive slow because people back then had manners & etiquette unlike people of today who are rude & think it's all about them.
Racism and sexism = people understood and knew that differences existed between the races and sexes.
Believe it or not, back then, people were actually better educated on the Truth about race and sex. Unlike today, they did not just assume that the races and sexes were equal which they are not. There was a widespread awareness that blacks, on average, had less intelligence and less impulse control than Whites and mixing the different races would produce a more fragmented and hostile world. Racial diversity is a negative and they understood it. They also understood the role of the woman as a nurturer better. Women, in general, make excellent elementary school teachers, nurses, wives, mothers, and homemakers. They don't, generally, make very good workers in the factories as all they do is bitch, whine, fuss, and complain. They would've been better off staying at home and taking care of the kids and house, as they did prior to the 1960s and the feminist denigration of motherhood. Most of them, by their nature, are not cut out for the working world. Back in 1911, all of this was common sense. Today, we deny reality and truth.
Thank you for your comment very well said !!!
You didn't go out without a hat...how nice everyone looks. Thanks!
All those light-colored men's hats with the wide black band were "boaters hats"", made of straw for the warm summer weather. In the winter they wore "bowlers", made of felt. At least that's what Google says was the fashion for 1911.
And you took the hat off when you went inside.
I noticed that also...every single person except a few kids are wearing a hat!
Yeah everybody wore hats.
It must have been a bald man's paradise.
I wish I could transport myself to this time and place, even if it was only for a day.
Did you see the Pretty Woman on 5th and Broadway,?
I agree! When time travel becomes a thing, I’ll be there with you!
Me too.
Where are all these people going? Doing?
You will say something very different to that. A lot of wealthy Afroamericans
Nice to see the masses well dressed and going about their business, politely, and professionally.
Time Travel😊
Assumptions, naive assumptions.
Before it went to shit. Everyone's posture looks so healthy too, their shoulders all squared up healthy and not hunched over like slobs.
Healthy? The average life expectancy was 39 years back then.
Jason S wow you right
@Andy Theber A life with doctors, medicine etc. is not a natural life.
@Andy Theber what ? You should retype this , your point makes no sense ,do you proof read?
@Andy Theber god is not the supreme creators name 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Someone should do a video today of these same locations and in the same sequence and play them side by side.
Absolutely right you would get mugged today.
Sentinel - What an EXCELLENT IDEA!!!!
Sentinel I'll do it when I go back to my neighborhood. I grew up in midtown from 68 to 86. In the 80s it was just getting to the point it was scary to ride the subway alone, and the whole thing with Bernard Getz happen and it made it worse. Anyone from the city knows what a mess that was. Once I left for college, i hardly ever go back because the city is so dangerous . but may be exciting to you tourists but to those who know the true pitfalls of where you are, want nothing to do with it. Like I always say, THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE CITY, JUST GUIDELINES. People may chuckle but that's reality. Try not to get killed because if you're on the 5:00 news being told by Liz Chow, by 11:00 pm, you're not even a thought. NO THANK YOU. I wish I could get my parents out of there, but they are New York through and through. I'll do the film when I go back to see them this year or next.
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Computers have been cleaning up many of these old films and running them at natural speed. The result is fantastic.
I lovd these old videos. Back then everyone was well dressed. Thank you. Times were not easy for some. But they made the best they could, with what they had.
@49jubilee until the 60s. People dressed horribly in the 70s.
Dressed well? Overdressed if you ask me. Every man in suit and tie even to go to a ball game. This was everyday everywhere clothes. They even went fishing down at the river bank wearing a tux & bowtie. WTF. And you know why? They had no shorts, no jeans, no tank tops, no sneakers but they did have those silly ass hats. Everyone looked they same. Hey Elizabeth I suppose you dress nice like the women you see in the video. Can you imagine the garbage collectors wearing a suit & tie? Pure Goofy.
Pat Calvo you're just ignorant. Shut up
LIBERATIVE how am I being ignorant?
Have you guys ever heard of evolution? That!s the way it was then. Clothes GRADUALLY changed over the centuries. The only goofy people here are you shit talkers. There was LIFE before you were born and there will be life after! Think about the clothes YOU are wearing!
No one of them living today but without their efforts and hard working we wouldn't have what we have today
My dad & mom were born in 1917& 1919, respectively. Wasn't even around yet. Wow. Such class. I miss that in today's society.
Everybody's dressed to the nines and things look so orderly the total opposite of today's new York
I think that's because the average person only had like 3 outfits back then and most of them were some kind of suit.
@@TrollingVeteran better 3 suits than hand me downs with Beevis and Butthead shirts and wife beaters😆
No vandalism or graffiti, no tent cities full of homeless drunks & junkies
Im not a rapper xxx he’s well informed and correct. Most people had three changes of clothing and it had to work for all situations. Prior to the sewing machine, most folks had one suit of clothes and maybe two shirts and two pairs of underwear. You washed these by hand nearly every day.
A lot more jaywalking though.
I bet the man on the crutches who had lost his leg probably had fought in the civil war. Priceless film, thanks for providing it.
I saw him and I thought to early for World War I, but he was fairly agile and if he was from the Civil War he would have to be in his late sixties or early seventies. I'm not sure.
If his injury was war-related, then it was probably from the Spanish-American War (1898). Also could have been from working in an industrial job; injuries like that were commonplace at the time.
@@squirefld WW1 was 1917.
He looked a bit young to have fought in the civil war.
@@drsmetal2747 1914-1918
Did those people think that they would be watched by another generation in 2019???? It’s exiting....
Vlad S We’re going to be watched by the next century’s generation in awe hopefully. Generation 2119 imagine that.
2020
Probably not 2019, but 2011, or maybe 2211.
100 years from now, ppl will see videos of us and be amazed how primitive we seemed
If we don't destroy ourselves my comment could be read by some historian in year 10.000 BCE. Hello historian friend! I'm from your past. From what you maybe call the stupid times where we almost self destroy because tribalism and greed. There was also good things like movies, rock music, freedom of speech, still some Amazonian forest and wildlife. Hope everything is going fine.
It's incredible how these kinds of films bring back these people to life...if only for a brief moment.
The Titanic was a year away from sinking. Nobody here had any idea. 2 World Wars ahead. To them this was modern times. Very interesting indeed!
The Inagural Memeorial day INDIANAPOLIS 500 Mile Race was that year. In front of 85K spectators and average speed of 74mph.
Wonder what lies ahead for us?
@@msbirdlover4705 armagedón 🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀💀
It was modern times for them. Given that this is NYC these people were the most advanced ever up to tthat point. To us we are in modern times but I wager things will be much diifferent 100 yrs from now.
Luv luv LUV the women’s hats!!! My dad always wore a suit and hat to work in the 1960s. Bring it back!!!
And many of the younger women appear to have 9" waists.
Lol! Like someone else said, there were no fast food restaurants!
No doubt , the women were amazing back then ! I was absolutely transported back in time ..........
Yeah but they were oppressed by the patriarchy, can't you see them burning their bras in the background?
I love the style of dress..I wish it wasn’t lost on this generation, it’s really quite amazing
Bring it back! 😄
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Love ur idea
I like to keep with the times, purple hair and extremely offended
Oh hell no. Corsets and bustles, long skirts, stifling collars. I don't think so
My great grandfather was born this year 1911 he passed away in the early 90s I was born in 1981 and was blessed to spend alot of time in his presence. It's amazing how different the men seemed to be compared to today's. He was a Reverend and taught me lots, miss him, he was very stern strong yet loving. A huge role model for myself to be like. A true blessing!!!
So blessed
May his soul rest in joy
I wonder if any of those people going about their daiky lives eventually sailed on the Titanic
God bless you, he sounded like a great guy and in a different league to the role models that some people have today.
Can't believe how clear this footage is!
Naturally, it was heavily cleaned-up and digitally re-processed to eliminate the scratches, dirt and lighting-problems, but it is authentic and well-preserved now as a file for all time.
I totally agree
Its digitally enhanced & remastered (*this isnt the original stock footage
None of these people knew about WWI or WWII.
I know it's an obvious fact, but it's fascinating to me to think of people having different history in their brains as they go about living.
And you think people today know anything about WWI? Shirley you jest.
@@harrylangdon491 Fair point, and don't call me Shirley.
They didn’t know about World War I yet....and they were destined to fight in it. Are those steamboats?
They knew about the Civil war, the Boer war, the Franco Prussian war, the Spanish American war, many knew a war was coming with the rise of bolshevism, certainly not everyone, but a keen few who could read the writing on the wall
Visda58: In Europe the great armament had given rise to fear of a "European War" or "General War."
The thing I notice is that people didn't have to worry about crossing the street. Nothing is going faster than 10 miles per hour. Now you're lucky if motorists obey a 40mph speed limit.
LOL.....said the same thing before I read your post. No one is looking both ways for on coming traffic.
Do you like steeping on horse shit?
Not easy to hit 40 on the busy Manhattan streets, there's too much traffic.
@@nutlover3609 I prefer that to risking my life every time I want to cross the street.
The guy at 1:54 didn't give a ____ that a streetcar was coming.
Wow Do you notice how everyone carries themselves with a sense of importance and dignity. Truly amazing.
unreal how clear the footage is!
108 year old camera had better quality that a 2 year old casino security camera
Simply beautiful. Hard to believe how crazy the world is today compared to then.
Simply Sara
It's very crazy now, but it was about to get crazy then with WWII.
Imagine 100 yrs from now.. 😬
Not beautiful. This society had the fear of God put into them. None of them were allowed to be themselves. It was pretty cut and dry back then.
It would be boring and stuffy though and 6 of your 8 kids would die before they were 5. You had no fun and you were a slave.
Shit Was Crazy Even Thin America Has Never Really Had Ppl With Good Morals This Is Just A Snip It Doesn’t Show The Ppls True Interactions. No Sound Just Random Clips Put Together
This is the most beautiful, soul moving footage I’ve ever seen. I’ve worked 12 years as a camera man, so far most of that in NYC and this is just incredible to look at! It feels like the closest we can get to time travel... for the time being... I’m truly moved by this. Thank you 🙏🏽
For the the Time being... =)
I would like to see a colored in version.😍
@@maehake2791 There is one !
Old is gold
@@maehake2791 It was all mostly black and white anyway.
Imagine telling those people in 1911 that one day their little film could be accessed at any time by anyone in the world simultaneously, for little cost, and viewed on a phone on which comments about them could be written and shared in an instant. Seriously, it's as bizarre as imagining being able to go to Pluto for a Sunday afternoon walk and be back in an hour.
Love that woman who just coolly walks past at 1:28
Such grace.
For sure. And she looked beautiful too. I keep thinking I wish I can just go through the computer screen and back into that time and just meet her and talk to her, or any other woman of that time period for that matter.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Yeah. I wonder who she was. Where she was going. She intrigues me. But the way she saunters past with such elegance is wonderful. You don't see that these days.
@@englishguy2010 Absolutely friend. You just don't.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 now its just whores everywhere
Don't be fooled by the clothes, the same if not worse vices existed then as they do now.
Notice not one person is acting like a fool.
Trump, among others. had not been born yet.
Morals were important... unlike now
@@littleprince12 very much so
You know what I'm saying! Not one!
People conducted themselves with dignity then. They had social graces. Society has declined. For me, people didn’t have their pants down to their ankles, piercings, tattoos and people are actually walking upright, engaged and being aware of others and their surroundings. Not hunched over, one hand holding a phone and the other holding up their pants 👖. Haha hope nobody drops a coin! Which hand do you free to pick it up 🤭
At 0:12, man with one leg on crutches. Maybe a civil war vet, how cool it would have been to meet or know some of them and to hear stories of their experiences.
Don Nebes , I noticed him also and thought of my great grandfather who had been wounded at Cold Creek. I wonder how hard life was back then for an injured soldier. The man in the movie looked well groomed.I hope he was happy and loved.
not old enough to be a civil war vet. Maybe any other war or industrial accident. I wondered too, what is his story.
Lawyers call their cases where client lost a leg in an accident a 'leg off'.
Don Nebes probably Civil War vet in his sixties?
@@robertsmith6068 Yeah he would have to be almost 70 or more, 50 years after the Civil War
Even my mother and father weren't born yet and my grandparents were only about 15 years old then.."and like a puff of smoke we are no longer here". be kind to one another for time is short in this human existence . Wonderful nostalgia ................
This was from 110 years ago.
That is like someone from the year 2130 A.D. watching a film of us today.
Will this forum still exist in a century? I hope the next hundred years are a lot kinder to the planet and all it's occupants (and that the human race behaves better than in the last).
@TheTpanativehe History Channel today is airing the series "America the Story of Us - Metropolis"
imagine what they'll think of creatures like Logan Paul
Gnome Crushr yea and they will say what in f$&@ happened to New York back then..There is a reason they call it zoo York..It's a damn circus
Duuude. Puff, puff, pass. 😜
People look so much healthier then, not being hampered by excessive weight like they are today! I don't think I saw one overweight or obese person.
Exactly!
I was thinking the same thing !! Not one fat person in this video... have we "progress" ?
Yeah because being eaten up from the inside by tuberculosis is so healthy.
they died earlier too
I saw a few overweight, but not the norm for sure. We're lab rats eating garbage today, food modification, lack of dietary concerns, anxiety, social norms, etc.
When I feel stressed or worried, I think of old movies and footage like this and it reminds me that in a very short time, I’ll be dead. We will all be dead. It isn’t morbid; it’s possibly the only truth. Memento Mori: remember, you’re dying.
Nothing matters except for love and what we’re experiencing right now at this moment. Death sometimes seems scary but a second after it happens, we won’t care, just like the second before we were born. Thanks for posting this video.
Tommy you are so right
Tommy God wants you to be saved.
Tommy I often feel exactly the same. We are merely passing through, my friend.
Maureen Leigh tell him to focus on the kid locked in a box somewhere within a few miles of me or you. It’s a typical response to the what I said and that’s okay. It’s easy to assume that my words equate to me feeling lost and hopeless. Thing is I generally don’t feel either one. It’s happiness that urges me to embrace the reality that we’re dying. And fairly soon. Literally no one knows about the after.
ye old train goth
The amount of effort to go out dressed like that is crazy but then again there is no fast food or technology so getting out the mail would be an affair in itself
This film is such good shape that it looks like it was made just recently 🙂
It was
Andrew Essence Really?
@@ytmyerm1477 honeslty not sure, however i do know there is a video floating around thaat was a remake of the time. not sure of this one
@@drewdown826 You idiot
The inquisitive young boy, the smiling black driver and the one legged civil war vet are seared in my memory. Great nostalgic video.
He even was wearing a suit! Imagine the values of society
I thought the same thing
Charles Morgan ...and to think that 6 years later those boys gawking at the camera were likely getting shot at in some trench in France.
so true.. I noticed all of them too.. The smilling black driver in a car with down in the mouth white people. He was a happy man ..
Charles Morgan - This is 1911. The vet looks too young to be a Civil War casualty. He was probably a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Just commenting.
They had so much class in those days. I wanted to step though time to say hello to those people and feel the energy and excitement during that time of industry and transformation. The buildings boggle my mind how they were so well made-still the strongest structures standing. The first electric motor was built only about 50 years prior. The light bulb about 30. Incredible.
No antibiotics. It was great for white upper middle class, not so great for others. Football was being modernized, basketball was still a vey low scoring slogging game, the pros practically played tackle basketball, baseball was still in the dead ball era, Sousa and Carusa was music, very staid and maybe a bit dull...
I watched the entire thing carefully and I didn't see even ONE obese or overweight person.
Can you imagine if they saw the T.V show My 600 lb. Life.
People were not starving, this was just pre fast food/junk food
There were obese people back then, just less of them. People back then walked much more than modern people. Walking usually was the first thing
they did in the morning to get to work, or school, or to get water, as indoor plumbing was not universal as it is today in the developed world.
No junk food and a lot of walking.
@@tigrotom7312 - If you want to lose weight, you're talking about a lot of walking, as in 10 to 15 hours per week. If you are interested in losing weight, of course, cutting out junk food and walking are involved, but you also have to reduce calorie intake. The exception is the person who exercises in copious amounts, like a surfer or water polo, etc.
How many civil war vets walked right by and being filmed. How many actually seen Abraham Lincoln alive...RIP y’all🙌🏻
Looks better than now!!! I’ve lived there 22 years and never saw so many elegant people! Wow when men were men and women women and not gender confused people!as we have now. Looks so much more sane and dignified! I love how people dressed back then.
0:56 That young man lol,
yes love you'll see yourself on you tube in 100 years time. I love this. Thanks for posting.
He was totally unaware of the wonder that was happening to him. What a strange feeling for us!
this is unreal. this music is wonderful and really goes well with this beautiful movie. instead of playing some ragtimey piano music, this almost makes the viewer feel like a time traveler. thank you
...time traveler...'zactly right!
I think the music didn't fit well with the video. A melancholic song would be better.
The music is abysmally mismatched
I almost always turn off the sounds. Don't fit at all. But fake sounds are worse.
Wow, this collection of scenes from the past had more impact on me than the previous ones I viewed for some reason...
PRICELESS insight into another era: thank God for film
didn't know god invented film. what history book did you get that from?
@@tomitstube I got it from Smartass Press by Cheeky McNasty, copywright 1900
. .and Thomas Edison. .
Kirk Barkley
His name wasn't God, you're mistaken,God is the one who killed ALL the persons you see there,he is desperately wanted,dead or alive.
Kirk Barkley
Thank God for the person who filmed it. Some of those people looked like they wanted to kick his or her ass!
Horse and buggy era was ending and cars were the next big thing in traveling.
Everyone were all dressed up and looked so nice..
How we have faltered over time.
This was the same year as the inaugural Indianapolis 500 mile Sweepstake as it was called. The INDY 500.
we are good now
Faltered by design... of our masterminds, who want to degrade and debase humanity.
Multicultralism
"Where are you going?"
"Outside"
"Put on your suit and tie. Don't forget your hat"
Remember now dear: your great aunt is arriving at Pier 59 at 12:00 noon aboard the liner: Olympic. Don't be tardy now and make sure her chocolate and Brandy are in the automobile waiting .
Nowadays its jumpsuits and must not forget your smartphone
YUP, HAHAHAHAHA. MY OLD MAN WOULDN'T GO TO DOWNTOWN TORONTO UNLESS HE WORE A SUIT !!!
take good care of yourself, and please don't kick my cat. yep, an old song, ahh yes i remember it well. work that one out for yourself, clue, french
@@lifeislife5555 don't forget your new umbilical cord you mean
This is as close as we can get to going back in time!
Amazing! People in their BEST clothes ( suits, ties, hats) You rarely see this today. Most wear junky t-shirts with mustard stains and cargo shorts and dirty athletic shoes. Tattoos, beards,...…...
D Radar that’s their best clothes
Nobody is stopping you from wearing a suit. Grandpa.
@@frankgarrett9500 I will. I need to get them dry cleaned first. Thanks.
@@frankgarrett9500 wow..man, that was funny!
Yes they dressed better back in 1911. I love the hats the women wear. im 66 i used to wear a indi jones type hat when i was 7
i loved that hat.
People didn’t have time to be lazy back then. Everyone was present in the moment. It’s beautiful to see how elegant and classy people were, too. Love these old videos!
Now most dress like slobs.
Sometimes I wonder how people had the physical and mental energy for all of the hands-on work they had to do in the old days and wonder how they did it. I guess they did it because A: they had no choice and B: they lived closer to survival and didn't have all of the distractions that people have nowadays.
Incredible. A whole generation of people no longer with us. Thank you for sharing this. Loved it.
Yeah, if they hadnt died rents would be even higher/
@@harrylangdon491 I have no idea what you're talking about? I think you may have sent your message to the wrong person.
@Y2kSd4 You're right. Some time in the future people will be looking at videos of our generation long after we're gone too. Just enjoy life while we've got it, and leave it better for the next generations.
If they were still alive, that would be incredible.
Definitely. Well said
Everyone, Including the "lower" class groomed, shirts tucked in, polite, posture and a sense of self pride. My how a lot has changed in 100 years of "progression". More like degeneration.
And posture is one of the automatic effects of dressing well and nicely!
Immense poverty, disease, racism, sexism, unsafe working and living conditions. Hardly wonderful.
And with all that. Still shaved, kept clean, combed hair, tucked in shirts, dressed up with some dignity & purpose. My point exactly. People in America didnt start looking like slobs until the late 1960's early 70's. And if you were'nt alive then. You only know what someone else tells you.
@Kristie C of course!
Jeff L So a different wardrobe is stupid now?
GREAT video, love seeing history & how folks looked back then.
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Great film. Hat makers must've made a killing and fast food outlets were definitely not around yet, hence the trim bodies ;-)
Yes the town I live Stockport England was famous for its hat making. Sadly all gone now to foreign trade.
Man they loved their hats thats a trip😀
Saddle makers and blacksmiths also cashed in. proves what?
@@samboggs3499 they were also piss poor and didn't have excess money to over eat.
@@leeetchells609 So how are you fat when you are on welfare?😁😁😁🐵🐒🦍👽👽🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
I really admire how ladies and gentlemen dressed to go outdoors. Men with coat and hat, ladies dressed elegantly. Everyone going about their business with purpose.
@Katarina G there was no concept back then of not wearing what they wore already to cool themselves down. Besides, they had to remain formal and be closer to the law of God than government by remaining decent.
I remember an English woman in the 1970s well over 100 years saying how an entire bus nearly stopped and people standing up because a woman lifted up her dress too far , of course exposing above her ankle to not dirty her dress as seeing a woman's ankle was rarer than mostly things back then.
*with purpose. Exactly!
@Katarina G here in the UK, the elderly still dress like that to a degree, especially on a pub visit. 90f doesn't happen often but it gets very warm and muggy(hot even). Never known anyone complain unless for attention. I don't think it was an issue back then, like the cold, I don't feel it but my southern European friends do!!
@Katarina G that was the whole purpose for undergarments, to wick away moisture when things heated up.
Well, they didn't ride their horse because horses, especially in the city were expensive. The had a purpose, and it was to walk where they were going.
Today, not so much. The kids get driven to school. The parents drive to where they are going, with purpose, and the walking is done between car and building.
You see people looking for a parking space as close to the building as possible, to reduce walking. I've gained 30 pounds during this Chinese Communist virus,
so I have to get up early and walk for 40 minutes, if I want to be successful in losing weight. (Gotta cut out the sugar, too,...and surf the hunger hormones properly).
I guess the most stunning aspect is how the buildings were essentially the same and modern type and day to day functions/travel were similar
They all helped build America into what it is today, thank you to you all and Rest In Peace.
Fantastic footage ! Thank goodness somone knew to keep the films in cold storage before they deteriorated into dust.... Thankyou .
No chaos, no garbage on every corner, years of greatness
No tents of homeless pepple. One reason for is little or no drug addiction.
@@ronalds.658 More like there were enough homes for everyone.
And little children running freely on the streets of New York City. I raised my son in Hawaii. Same thing, you don't have to worry about some freak taking your child on an island.
Chaotic Housewife are you kidding me!New York was a rathole in those days they rarely bathed compared to today and poop was thrown out of the window!Don’t glorify things you haven’t experienced
@@celestialdiscord2716 poop?? You must be thinking of Europe.
When looking at the children...I can't help but think I may be watching my Grand Father...?
No traffic lights. No stop signs. No traffic cops. No traffic tickets.
Ahhhhh ... those wete the good old days.
Lots of horse crap, dead animals, unbearable heat and cold, death from simple infections, etc.
You left out horses exploding in the heat.@@wholeNwon
Polio, toothaches, aching joints.
There were actually traffic rules, traffic cops (or rather cops in general), and definitely traffic tickets.
But it was a different roadway dynamic than today.
There was no internet. Rock and roll had not been invented. It was many decades before space ambient and new age music were invented. The golden ages of blues, jazz, country, and folk had not begun. Porn was probably extremely difficult to find. The options at a drug store were pathetic compared to what we have now. The surreal art movement had not started. None of the great movies had started filming. The television had not been invented. I prefer to be here and just look at videos of back then. It would be interesting to travel back in time and check it out for a bit, though.
One year before the *Titanic!* Great video.
Thanks for a wonderful glimpse into what is now a passed culture.
Show the sister ship arriving at Pier 59,Spring 1911.
I was like,these people were alive when the Titanic sunk
@@elcabezon5487 The General Slocum disaster was in 1904. The Titanic does not define history.
Fantastic I didn't want this to end amazing thank you!
3:00 A UA-camr traced the registration plate of the car,and found out the whole history of the family
Loved everything about this, inc. the horse apples in the street. Music choice was genius. I was transported.
Someone has done an amazing job restoring this or it has been kept in pristine condition! Wow!
Life wasn't easy back then, but look how relaxed everyone seems.
The pace was slow even in NYC.
And everyone dressed up in public.
Gy Bx T shirts and shorts were undergarments. Now we wear them outside of other undergarments.
People weren't so fussy about everything back then I guess .
Back then folks use to take pride in their tradition. These days so many people make fun of people who dress traditional, statements like "oh that is so the 80's or what are you from the 70's " .... These days the hearts are smaller , wrists are thinner ,courage is less, the songs are shallow , believing in god is a sin , simplicity sucks, more about rights and less about responsibilities, adultery not a crime. However back then the parents used to set aside their differences to save their family and kids. These days the kids grow up watching their parents constantly fight infront of them , leave each other in their differences and find other partners that keep changing and constantly asking the kids to accept these changes and grow up at an early age and that's how I guess the tradition and values are being lost .
@@subm2455 actually the other way round I guess u didn’t pay attention in history and English class lol
@@subm2455 if hearts weren’t smaller back then why did 2 world wars happen 🤔
@@reedabrat1165 wars are started by power hungry leaders not by commoners. Of course there are exceptions everywhere but there has been countless wars even after 1945 but I guess you did not study about them.
Starting from war in Chechnya to war in Vietnam to annexation of Tibet to 6 day isreal war to Azerbaijan and Armenia war to south and north Korea war to India Pakistan war and so many many more.
So the thing is my friend don't judge the character of common men by power hungry higher officials....
How beautiful to remain forever in a movie even if you have been gone from this world for more than 100 years.
Almost every person wore hats then. I wonder when someone said " let's not wear hats anymore"
Mark Younger Men stopped wearing hats in the 1960’s because President JFK did not wear one to show off his “amazing “ full head of hair...made him look young and fresh to voters.
@@wheelchairhousewife sorry but nope
Now That's funny.
One reason men stopped wearing hats in the 60's is because cars had lower roofs. You could wear a hat in a '58 car but by '63 you couldn't.
@@wheelchairhousewife it's all his fault if now men dress sloppy ok
Everybody with their best clothing, the women's dresses were stunning!
Still wouldn't want to live back then though...
Rationing in Britain included clothing, I recall coupons. The tax was 100% I believe and you could probably buy 4 different items a month depending and that's if you slaved away at work. Buy cheap buy twice as they say and you couldn't buy cheap as you'd regret it. There'd be old women drawing lines at the back of their legs to fool you into thinking they were wearing stockings. This generation needs to feel shock, maybe they'll get their priorities together.
Diego Fernández A lot of people....that was their only clothing
At that time, casual clothing (athletic leisurewear or t-shirt and jeans) did not exist. Upper class people had formal wear for certain occasions but average Americans living in the city dressed like that everyday.
Beautiful look back into another place and time. The music used with it was perfect. To see this same footage in full living color would make it truly surreal.
Interesting I thought the music didn’t fit at all. I think it needed something a little more relevant to the times
Someone with money and time could remaster that video into color. Been done before.
Expensive, though.
The music was perfect.......
@@whatsup7202 The need to see it in color is infantile and there really wasn't so much color then anyway.
Around this period was when my grandparents immigrated from Slovakia (Bohemia) and entered Ellis Island with everything they owned in their suitcases. Very interesting to see what New York was like from their perspective.
This window into a day from the past is immensely valuable thanks for the opportunity to look back
My God! What a wonder of images! It's exciting to know that these people lived in such a distant time, and the proof is in this video! New York, so beautiful!
I wouldn't be so sure,, in 127 the guy in the hat, walks across the camera he looks like he on the take..
Did you think only amoebas lived at that time?
Nice to see everyone wearing hats, caps, etc. over their heads.
Movies and TV killed the hat. Before movies, you had a variety of hats to choose from, including bowler hats, straw hats, top hats, and a huge selection of Fedoras,
as well as the wool cap and big, ol' nondescript felt hats that cowboys, farmers and workmen wore. But, every time an iconic movie star made a hit movie wearing a hat,
like the gangster hats, or Laurel and Hardy with their bowler hats, or W.C. Fields with his straw hat, or Cary Grant with his short brimmed Fedora, hats were associated
with those movie parts. If you wore one of those hats, it appeared like you were trying to look like a gangster, or like Indiana Jones. Frank Sinatra and coach Tom
Landry were the last to wear the Cary Grant hat. The hippies and rock stars sometimes wear those old hats, but only to be different, and only temporarily and not on
a daily basis. I suppose it's true of women's hats, too. Women's hats have always been so weird, that they were happy not to wear them. Hair became more important.
Yes cuz everybody nowaday cap all the time and dont even wear a cap smh
@@mu99ins Cars as well, because the roofs were so low
Relatively clean looking bunch considering the lack of facilities that must have been uncomfortable at the time.
Yeah they maybe bathed once a week, not much deodorant used back then.
@@johnmccaughan4195 or decent shampoo.
Wow. In many cases, weve really de-evolved. How clean the streets were, a sense of pride out in public...
&covered with horse shit
"how clean the streets were" are you looking at the same video i am?
@@Silligk appearently youre not.
@@farahahmed100 Where? Now NY is covered in a HUMAN shit.
@@fleaflicker1451 No it isn't.
If these people came back now, they'd be disgusted with how we all turned out morally.
Some of them would be relieved that they could finally divorce their spouses.
Well, ask to women and black people... They won't for sure
you mean after WW1 and WW2
@Shufei calm down, I know plenty about that time period...I was making a general broad statement. Yeah, there was a lot of shit going on behind closed doors, but for the most part, people were decent moral human beings.
That's right, women are no long the property of men, they can vote, the can go to University, Minorities can talk directly to a white person without being put in jail or lynched. Yes pretty disgusting!
0:27
Straight ahead is Central Park, that last building you see if off of 58th, I work right down that street at the Plaza Hotel lol
ziggy morris ... Hook us up with an inexpensive hotel room.
So
I saw St. Patrick's cathedral in there somewhere, too
This is the actual "time machine"...what else? I LOVE It.
The little girl in the front seat at 2:34 is hilarious she's got that "I hate my life" face on
And completely ignoring Morgan Freeman...
You actually tell the difference between men and women
Pat Metcalf what ever you mean!!!🙄🤔
Good point, Patrick. Or Patricia. Or whatever gender you are.
🤣 I love this comment, this is true
@@posysdogovych2065 it seems you're the one with the identity crisis
@@TheKonga88 That's what stood out for me
Guess this is before the underground metros? Love seeing how everyone is so smartly dressed--all before the Great War 1914-1918
The first subway was operating in New York in 1904.
Carol Wong people including the working class always generally wore suits outdoors and probably owned no more than 2 pairs hence them looking smart. If you saw them close up you’d see many were actually quite threadbare so not as smart as you’d think.
Fantastic film! Imagine, all those people living their lives in NY in 1911 and now they are gone. What did they think and feel in their time; it’s facinating to watch them like they were still there....
Would have been great to have been a hat salesman.
Richard2003 or a shoe shine man !!
Literally EVERYONE is wearing a hat (one man is carrying his). As common as wearing shoes. Thank goodness we have these videos to shine a light on what it was really like to live 100 years ago.
Hell, it's like everyone is in their sunday best. Even the one legged beggar. We typically wear burlap sacks in comparison.
Now we have smartphones
@@lifeislife5555 ... and dress half naked
It always amazes me how absolutely packed the streets always are in these early 1900 vids. A very busy looking time.
Thanks for posting this wonderful contribution to the history of the past, very worthwhile! 👍🏼🙏🏻
AfricanFlightStar
"History"??? 1911 for you is "history"? It's just my grandpa's youth time, my grandmother then was already 12 years old. In general "history" regards things of the past at least 200 years before, and that's called "recent history" by any academic. This is just "beginning of the '900s".
@@sandrobindelli5607 get a "current" life
I can imagine someone watching me on video footage 200 years later
Isn't that amazing