500 years ago was 8 old guys ago. 1000 years ago was 15 80 year olds in a row. 15 lifetimes. We get to live about 25,000 days +/- in a single human body. 72 years is 1 arcsecond of the sun traversing through the Zodiac. A single human lifetime is 1 second in the Great Platonic Year of 25,920 years.
Considering when I was born in '91 there were still tons of people running around from the 1900's, you are very correct. Young people think a few years is a long time. In my 30's now and 100 years ago seems like a blink in the scheme of things
And in 99% of mankind's history, things would basically stay the same in just 100 years. Hell, some nations involved in constant wars pretty much for that long. The development began to escalate at lightning speed arguably after the industrial revolution.
Absolutely great to see the Pilatus Cogwheel Railway in the 20s. Then, the tracks were 30 to 40 years old. Now in 2024, which is 135 years after construction, we still use the original tracks and rack. They are still in fantastic condition with almost no wear. It's unbelievable, what the engineers and workers left for us. I was a train driver this season and it's beautiful to see , that there are constants on earth, like all the characteristic rocks, that are laying there like untouched until today. Some things are modified nowadays, like the middle and crossing station and the last tunnel on top the mountain, which is now longer because of rockslides and avelanges. And of course, the railway was electrified in 1937, therefore there are power lines now. Thanks for sharing this beautiful film.
I live in Switzerland and I‘m STUNNED. It is CRAZY how many things still look the same. It felt like I was just watching a modern video, bit the people just put on old costumes. The buildings in many places are still quite the same.
Amazing work! I've immediately recognised the tracks from the Pilatus cog railway (the steepest in the world!). It's eerie to see that when it comes to us Swiss, apart from different clothes, tourism and modernisations, everything could have been shot today. Same houses, same mannerisms, same vibes.
What a wonderful historical record is found in this video for the people of Switzerland! A “then and now” statement shows the advanced development of Swiss society! Thanks!
That train ride is daunting. Imagine what it took to lay and maintain those tracks And what a payoff, so remote. Where there's a will there's a way. Impressive.
9:48 This is in Meiringen. I went to the same secondary school as these children. The building still exists in its original shape. Although its not used anymore as the primary schoolbuilding as there has benn a modern one built next to it. But when you were in the old school for some lessons, you could really imagine what it was like a 100 years ago.
An der Ausweichstelle sah es schon aus wie die Route zum Pilatus. Und als ich dann das Hotel hinter der Tunneldurchfahrt erblickte war ich fasziniert - wie heute noch ... Merci für das Hochladen des Films! 😊👍
Amazing film. Sad to say but with being around a 104 years old nobody you see on this film is alive today. Shows how precious life is and how quickly it goes by. Within a short time we are all gone and forgotten.
Absolutely breathtaking video. One of your best on Switzerland. The views and I also was so inspired to look up the Pilatus Kulm hotel with G-maps. Absolutely wonderful. The charming little town almost want you to reside there! Thank you, NASS.
I love the sound of the train,no matter is designed,it reminds me my young years. The footages bring sense of tranquility compared to present times.Thanks!👏👏👏
Wonderful to see these films! I see the houses and many of them are still there. My grandparents married these days, I know how hard their life was back then.
Einfach brillant dieser Film. Besten Dank und gerne mehr davon. Aus den 60er und 70er gibt es ein paar Videos über das Dorfleben in St. Margrethen, wo ich aufgewachsen bin. Da habe ich einige Menschen gesehen, die ich noch kannte. Der Herr der die Filme machte hat so gut es ihm ging, viele Personen mit dem Namen, im Untertitel erwähnt.
Lovely video. Switzerland would be on my top ten list of countries to live in during the 20th century. Quiet, prosperous, managed to stay out of the two world wars, stunning scenery, good standard of living.
Children act the same way when presented in front of these cameras regardless of the location. Some look with confusion while walking to they're job/school/home, boys tend to be the more outgoing as they stop in amusement with a big grin. Kids looked much hardier back then, and I always notice the unique way youth would fidget or keep they're hands buisy. The youth as much a product of their time like any other. We're lucky to have so much footage. Edit: 17:10 absolutely stunning footage
And these children filmed in the 1920s, probably occupy the graveyard also filmed here. And so do their children, their children's children, and their children's, children's, children. Human lifetimes are short.
@@rubies200Many of their children will be alive, my parents are and their parents were born pre 1900. Some of the children in this were likely born around 1910 and could well have lasted until around 2000
Di automatisch Öbersetzig uf Änglisch vo dim Kommentar heds ned ganz breicht haha: "Just nice for aluminum! I can now imagine better how my grandfather died in Switzerland. Thanks for the Ufelade..."
Greetings from Laos. Switerzerland is a beautiful country. I love the snow. We don't get snow in tropical Laos. But I wish we did. I want to learn how to ski in the snow.
@@LaoSoftware Bonjour de la SUISSE 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 au LAOS 🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦 Merci pour votre aimable commentaire. 🌹🌹🌹 Je vous souhaite une bonne journée, ici en Suisse il est 02:06 de la nuit.
Most of the persons in this video likely lived long and happy lifes, since the country didn`t participate in any war and always had relatively good economics... what a smart people! 😊
@@jenmu7870! comme les ricains qui vivent en faisant des guerres dans les monde entier car cela donne du travail a l industrie americaine aux depends des pays qui n ont RIEN demander sinon que l on foute la paix mais ces ricains sen melent de tout et se croient superieur aux autres en voulant jouer a la " police" du monde ! ce ne sont que des voleurs, pilleurs et tueurs !
People didn't participate in the wars but suffered the same as the rest. Switzerland wasn't a rich country back then, it was very poor in fact. Some of the children were used as forced labor by many farmers (verdingkinder - that practice only stopped in the 1960's.)
@@mikatu my grandmothers family had a small farm in Ober Ehrendingen, they often had Verdingkinder stay. the Town also didnt get electricity until 1924. one of my grandmothers recollection was the lack of heating in winter, how that they had thick blankets and in midwinter in the morning much of the room had frost in it,and she was mesmerized by the ice crystal formations on the windows
yeah unless they didn't have enough to eat and had to emigrate to North- or South-America which they did in the thousands back then but yeah, totally good economics...
Thank you. I particularly like the city scapes. It's amazing to think that these videos are a century old. I could only afford a video camera in the 80s
Great video! Many things look the same as today but the country was quite different back then. A lot of poverty is clearly visible in the movie. Switzerland is a country that knows how to preserve one part and modernize the other. That is why the country is so beautiful.
Ich nehme an, ab 11.30 werden Bilder einer Landsgemeinde gezeigt: die ursprünglichste Form der Demokratie und der wichtigste Grund für den Frieden und Wohlstand der Schweiz. Tragen wir Sorge zu unserem System, dem Föderalismus, der direkten Demokratie und der Neutralität! Viele Grüsse aus dem Kanton Zürich
@@_whatnext_9319Switzerland was very diverse in 1920. Four distinct language regions, 25 cantons, each one with its own customs and politics. I agree 100% that our direct democracy and the will to work together that underlies it are a big part why the system works. That system has been changing since its inception in 1848! Also remember the conflicts of the Landesstreik in 1918. Switzerland in 1920 was not a democratic harmonious paradise!
hello I would like to congratulate you for your remarkable work, I am Swiss I am 54 years old and have known and discussed a lot with my grandmother and great-grandmother, just one thing the colors of the clothes were black, gray, brown and white all the other colors come from the years 50,60,70
@@candyapple7445 No really, it's the Swiss Franc. Some places you can pay in Euro, but they normally give you a terrible exchange rate. CHF 300 is about EUR 320
Grazia par quisto video! Lan diferenza città-pais-muntagna l'eran inura tanco isa (thank you for this video! The differences city-town-mountains were there then how they are there now). I love that kind of videos, many thanks for colors, sounds... it takes me back to the storyes my grandmother used to tell
Great video. I rode the Pilatus cog railroad with my family and stood atop the snow covered mountain in summer 1978. I have seen more recent summertime photos on Pilatus where there is little to no snow.
J’aimerais tellement que mon pays qu’est la Suisse 🇨🇭 reste intact de toute ingérences néfaste pour son futur … Merci pour ce merveilleux film et d’avoir fait revivre nos aïeux dont mes grand parents en faisaient partie
Great work. Especially the 60fps makes it real. I always thought people from that era moved around in a kind of jerky way, what a relief they move just the same as we do! 😄. That's most fascinating I think, watching how people moved, interact, play, walk. Does anyone knows what the gathering in the improvised amfiteatre is about?
Very well produced. You got the sound perfectly. I can't think you'll have any copyright issues. In Switzerland it's life +70 years and as you write Albert Kahn died in 1940.
The beginning with the train didn't even look real. Looked like some kind of claymation from the 60s. I was waiting to hear Goliath say, "Daaaavieeee" 😂also I've never seen train tracks with that steep a grade. That ride would be absolutely beautiful and terrifying all in 1. Thank you for all the work you do to bring these gems back to life. ❤
Thank you for this video, I was able to see Switzerland as it was when my grandparents were children. It hasn't changed much 🤭 Greetings from Neuchâtel 👋 🇨🇭
@@gordonramsheesh1188 how the government opened the floodgates of immigrants. Biel and Geneva resemble morocco now, and Zurich looks closer to a Balkan or Turkish city. its rare to see actual swiss people now in the northern industrial heartland of the country which i find sad. i grew up in 1990s switzerland, and had been overseas for 20 years. when i returned it was like a totally different country. even certain mannerisms vanished. people used to greet eachother when getting on a bus, now nothings said at all, and in places like Dietikon or Spreitenbach you hear other languages such as albanian far more often than Swiss german
@@tramlink8544 shut your hatemongering xenophobic mouth and go live in Grindelwald if you don't like it in the cities. oh no wait a minute it's full of a different kind of immigrants there, they are called tourists.
@@tramlink8544agreed, the mannerisms got worse due to the many immigrates we got. This has to stop otherwise the real swiss people will be gone and rot out….
I live in Switzerland. I am a professional historian. This is very interesting source material. Sometimes, I think that there are places that still look like that. But when you see the gathering, almost everything has changed. There are only men in the inner circle. Women were not allowed to vote in the 1920s. There may be other differences in that scene, but I cannot decipher them. I know very little about clothing history.
the front row seems to be seated a group of gentlemen with walking sticks. I cant decipher if they are elders or just a fashion statement. Interesting to see that the opening ceremony was accompanied by armed guards.
Bonjour de la Suisse. 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 On voit ici, en partie quand il y a un 3 rails, des chemins de fer conçus pour les trains à crémaillères. La locomotive a sous son plancher une roue dentée, actionnée par le conducteur de la locomotive. Donc quand un 3ème rail apparaît, le mécanicien de la locomotive abaisse une roue dentée, pour qu’elle vienne s’insérer dans le rail du milieu . Ce système est prévu dans les pentes, pour éviter que la locomotive « patine » sur les rails. Et je peux imaginer qu’au retour, ce système « retient » la locomotive, pour éviter une « glissade ». C’est encore utilisé aujourd’hui pour les,trains qui vont en altitude, mais ce n’est pas courant et la vitesse est fortement limitée. Merci de m’avoir lu 😊
I wonder what the dialects sounded like back then. With how distinct the dialects are even given short distances (I'm talking as little as 20km to sound very noticeably different) temporally, they must have changed a lot too.
@@WIISTERIAAAAAAA its a common misnoma, life expectancy was low because of the many child deaths to diseases such as polio or stillbirth, this naturally dragged down the average life expectancy. youll actually find many made it to 70s and 80s
@@NiKokaKolaevait says 😅something about Defense, thats the title and then it shows the wooden stems placed so that no boat could easy come ashore like a defense zone
Indeed they are. Must be lake Biel or Neuchatel. Those stubs appeared after the first big intervention in the water system of those lakes in the 19th century. The water level was lowered by several meters and reached the same level it had during the bronce age.
@@HansGrobThere is a declaration in french at the start of the sequence at 16:10. At the top left of the declaration it says Canton de Fribourg. In the description of the video it says Lac de Morat. Sihlsee was flooded in 1937. Of course it's bronce age dwellings that showed up during the drought of 1921.
These people had no idea that we would be watching them laugh, talk, and go about their day hundreds of years later. They had no idea that they had been immortalized and their random moments captured for an eternity. Keep posting please 🤍💚
At 11:30 starts the coming together for a "Landsgemeinde" (in this film in Altdorf in 1927, I found out) a political voting assembly, partly still in existence in Switzerland.
@@fiedelmina I'm not Swiss, so I'll have to ask. Do they vote all the time during a lands Gemeinde, or are there times where thy do other things like discussing or explaining the issues at hand?
Fascinating trip back in time! Wikipedia has an entry on that vertigo-inducing train, the Pilatus Railway. Do we know what that large gathering was for? At 16:08 there is a sign posted on a tree.
The male citizens and only them were entitled to vote, which they did four or five times on Sundays. The sign on the tree, in French, is about some rules concerning fishing in the lake of Murten/Morat, I think.
@@michelescola3840 its a interdiction (Défense) to dig for archaeological objects in the remainings of the pile dwellings (Pfahlbauten) you see in the following sequence.
are you talking about the itchy wool vests, shoes that gave you frostbite and trenchfoot or just the lack of availability for all but the rich in general? Maybe it was all the hand-washing and ironing that was sensible? A whole day was spent for washday, and many evenings repairing and darning.
Thanks for all the energy spent in remastering such nice and old films. However, I would be glad If some subtitles were added to frames, explaining where and what they show.
Impressive footage and restoration, although the sound that you added is of a train that goes much much faster than the one in the footage. Regardless, it is impressive.
16:16 I did my best to decipher and translate that sign, in the French-speaking part of the Lac (Lake) District of the Canton of Fribourg, where I live: "Défense -- Par ordre de la Préfecture du Lac, l'accès au lac de Morat et les fouilles sont absolument interdits. Tout objet trouvé ayant un caractère historique doit être déposé à la Préfecture du Lac. Les contrevenants seront dénoncés à la Préfecture. Au nom du Conseil communal (?), Arey (?) Moerand (?)" Translation: "Forbidden -- By order of the Lac Prefecture, access to lake Morat and excavations are absolutely prohibited. Any object found of a historical nature must be deposited at the Lac Prefecture. Offenders will be reported to the Prefecture. On behalf of the Municipal Council, Arey Morand"
Its funny how much of it is of my hometown and that many buildings still stand and havent changed! The only thing that makes me a little sad is that the railway car isnt there anymore and got replaced by a street, but they are thinking about closing the street which would make a huge change for the better lol
Not to rain on anyones parade but the sounds are all added afterwards. I dont oppose the noise, it makes the video more enjoyable. I watched WWII in HD on history channel and i felt a little betrayed when i found out the noise was added post production lol
in which city in the world do you want to live in 1920s????
I want to live in the Department of Redundancy Department
Chicago as a service maid.
1920 Berlin
1930 Kathmandu
1950 Istanbul
1960 San Fransisco
cairo
Moscou ✊
100 years seems like a really long time, but the older you get, the more you realize it's really not. Crazy.
500 years ago was 8 old guys ago.
1000 years ago was 15 80 year olds in a row. 15 lifetimes.
We get to live about 25,000 days +/- in a single human body.
72 years is 1 arcsecond of the sun traversing through the Zodiac.
A single human lifetime is 1 second in the Great Platonic Year of 25,920 years.
Considering when I was born in '91 there were still tons of people running around from the 1900's, you are very correct. Young people think a few years is a long time. In my 30's now and 100 years ago seems like a blink in the scheme of things
And in 99% of mankind's history, things would basically stay the same in just 100 years. Hell, some nations involved in constant wars pretty much for that long. The development began to escalate at lightning speed arguably after the industrial revolution.
What's crazy is that there actually is one or two (brothers) still alive today, whose grandfather was born in the 1700's - and they can prove it!
Its not that long, im 71 seems like its only been about 20 years, went by so fast
my Dad was born around the time of this movie.
Absolutely great to see the Pilatus Cogwheel Railway in the 20s. Then, the tracks were 30 to 40 years old. Now in 2024, which is 135 years after construction, we still use the original tracks and rack. They are still in fantastic condition with almost no wear. It's unbelievable, what the engineers and workers left for us.
I was a train driver this season and it's beautiful to see , that there are constants on earth, like all the characteristic rocks, that are laying there like untouched until today. Some things are modified nowadays, like the middle and crossing station and the last tunnel on top the mountain, which is now longer because of rockslides and avelanges. And of course, the railway was electrified in 1937, therefore there are power lines now.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful film.
Truly incredible!! I am constantly in absolute awe of our people.
Amazing it's still the same track.
One hears sound, the wind and the rattling on the rails. But then there were only mute films, hence added. Do cogwheel-trains rattle?
@@HansGrob They don't sound like in this video. ua-cam.com/video/_KOj6vJ-DKU/v-deo.html
This is the PILATUS rack railway, the steepest in the world,
SINCE 1889 ! 👀🚂🚂🚂
I live in Switzerland and I‘m STUNNED. It is CRAZY how many things still look the same. It felt like I was just watching a modern video, bit the people just put on old costumes. The buildings in many places are still quite the same.
Keep it that way
I'm so glad that people had the foresight to record these videos. I bet they had no idea we would be watching them 100 years later, though !
Hopefully they won't be watching Tiktok videos in a century. 🤣
They thought, accurately, that they were the modern people who had ever lived, with the most modern technology. Just like us.
Не надо меня хоронить, я живой, сам смотрю на себя на рубеже 100лет
With no evidence you're making an assumption that the film maker had no idea someone would be watching their film 100 years in the future.
@@Hall-Ex I will be seen twerking in 2124. A timeless classic
Amazing work! I've immediately recognised the tracks from the Pilatus cog railway (the steepest in the world!). It's eerie to see that when it comes to us Swiss, apart from different clothes, tourism and modernisations, everything could have been shot today. Same houses, same mannerisms, same vibes.
long may that continue too!
What a wonderful historical record is found in this video for the people of Switzerland! A “then and now” statement shows the advanced development of Swiss society!
Thanks!
thx!
That train ride is daunting. Imagine what it took to lay and maintain those tracks And what a payoff, so remote. Where there's a will there's a way. Impressive.
Those tracks still exist and you can still ride it. It still looks exactly the same😉 only the trains are modernised.
Kleine Scheidegg, at the base of the Jungfrau?
This old footage is incredibly nostalgic , amazing and eerie !! Thankyou for this 😀
thx!!
9:48 This is in Meiringen. I went to the same secondary school as these children. The building still exists in its original shape. Although its not used anymore as the primary schoolbuilding as there has benn a modern one built next to it. But when you were in the old school for some lessons, you could really imagine what it was like a 100 years ago.
These children holding each others arms are so cute. It reminds me of my friends and me. We were also walking around like this.
Danke, darum kam mir das so bekannt vor. 😃💛
Can relate. It feels exactly like home 😉
I visited Meiringen last year on holiday. I knew it looked familiar
e schöni gschicht wo si do erzählend. in Grenchen i de 60er johr hets au no so usgseh.
An der Ausweichstelle sah es schon aus wie die Route zum Pilatus. Und als ich dann das Hotel hinter der Tunneldurchfahrt erblickte war ich fasziniert - wie heute noch ... Merci für das Hochladen des Films! 😊👍
Amazing film. Sad to say but with being around a 104 years old nobody you see on this film is alive today. Shows how precious life is and how quickly it goes by. Within a short time we are all gone and forgotten.
I guess in theory it is possible. The oldest swiss person currently alive was born in 1913.
Not everyone dies
Absolutely breathtaking video. One of your best on Switzerland. The views and I also was so inspired to look up the Pilatus Kulm hotel with G-maps. Absolutely wonderful. The charming little town almost want you to reside there! Thank you, NASS.
Thank you!! ^^
I love the sound of the train,no matter is designed,it reminds me my young years. The footages bring sense of tranquility compared to present times.Thanks!👏👏👏
hii!!! Thx!!
Wonderful to see these films! I see the houses and many of them are still there. My grandparents married these days, I know how hard their life was back then.
Einfach brillant dieser Film. Besten Dank und gerne mehr davon.
Aus den 60er und 70er gibt es ein paar Videos über das Dorfleben in St. Margrethen, wo ich aufgewachsen bin. Da habe ich einige Menschen gesehen, die ich noch kannte. Der Herr der die Filme machte hat so gut es ihm ging, viele Personen mit dem Namen, im Untertitel erwähnt.
My grandparents could be amongst those children in the footage from Altdorf.
Thank you!
I love to go time traveling!
Thx!!!^^
@@NASS_0❤
Gotta love the high-speed train/subway sound on that slow-ass rack and pinion rail.
Nass, Hi my friend. Great job as always! Starting at 1:54 love those train track scenes! All the scenes were good!
Thanks for the upload. 😊❤
hii thxx bro^^
You also see a kid with (likely) polio (Kinderlähmung). Not all was great back then.
...I was looking for your comment before written the same..scene 7:35...🤝
Lovely video. Switzerland would be on my top ten list of countries to live in during the 20th century. Quiet, prosperous, managed to stay out of the two world wars, stunning scenery, good standard of living.
;)
Children act the same way when presented in front of these cameras regardless of the location. Some look with confusion while walking to they're job/school/home, boys tend to be the more outgoing as they stop in amusement with a big grin. Kids looked much hardier back then, and I always notice the unique way youth would fidget or keep they're hands buisy. The youth as much a product of their time like any other. We're lucky to have so much footage.
Edit: 17:10 absolutely stunning footage
And these children filmed in the 1920s, probably occupy the graveyard also filmed here. And so do their children, their children's children, and their children's, children's, children. Human lifetimes are short.
@@rubies200 At least they didn't have to risk their lives in WW2, as Switzerland were neutral
thank you very much
@@rubies200Many of their children will be alive, my parents are and their parents were born pre 1900. Some of the children in this were likely born around 1910 and could well have lasted until around 2000
The most noticeable thing is no illegal immigration allowed.
Eifach nur schön zum Aluege! Ich cha mir jetzt grad besser vorstelle, wie min Grossvater d'Schwiz erläbt het. Danke fürs Ufelade...
Thx!!^^
Di automatisch Öbersetzig uf Änglisch vo dim Kommentar heds ned ganz breicht haha:
"Just nice for aluminum! I can now imagine better how my grandfather died in Switzerland. Thanks for the Ufelade..."
@@stargazer0016 Hoppla 😂
@@stargazer0016 Haha, schwiizerdütsch z übersetze isch no rächt schwierig
@@Kartoffelbauer1000 Ja, google muess nochli üebe haha
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Greetings from Laos. Switerzerland is a beautiful country. I love the snow. We don't get snow in tropical Laos. But I wish we did. I want to learn how to ski in the snow.
@@LaoSoftware Bonjour de la SUISSE 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 au LAOS 🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦
Merci pour votre aimable commentaire. 🌹🌹🌹
Je vous souhaite une bonne journée, ici en Suisse il est 02:06 de la nuit.
Juste partagé avec ma famille suisse. Merciiii!
What an impressive inclined railway!
yes!! ^^
It`s propably the Furkapass, does still exist.
@@TheTimThing It's the Pilatus Bahn. It still exists.
Most of the persons in this video likely lived long and happy lifes, since the country didn`t participate in any war and always had relatively good economics... what a smart people! 😊
economics at the expense of other countries and people, yes. 😢
@@jenmu7870! comme les ricains qui vivent en faisant des guerres dans les monde entier car cela donne du travail a l industrie americaine aux depends des pays qui n ont RIEN demander sinon que l on foute la paix mais ces ricains sen melent de tout et se croient superieur aux autres en voulant jouer a la " police" du monde ! ce ne sont que des voleurs, pilleurs et tueurs !
People didn't participate in the wars but suffered the same as the rest. Switzerland wasn't a rich country back then, it was very poor in fact. Some of the children were used as forced labor by many farmers (verdingkinder - that practice only stopped in the 1960's.)
@@mikatu my grandmothers family had a small farm in Ober Ehrendingen, they often had Verdingkinder stay. the Town also didnt get electricity until 1924. one of my grandmothers recollection was the lack of heating in winter, how that they had thick blankets and in midwinter in the morning much of the room had frost in it,and she was mesmerized by the ice crystal formations on the windows
yeah unless they didn't have enough to eat and had to emigrate to North- or South-America which they did in the thousands back then but yeah, totally good economics...
Switzerland is such a beautiful place.
Majestic and eternal mountains. Humans with such short lives, bustling around vain ideologies.
my grandmother's family was from altdorf so i'm wondering if i'm looking into the faces of some of my direct ancestors here.... very fascinating
Thank you. I particularly like the city scapes. It's amazing to think that these videos are a century old. I could only afford a video camera in the 80s
Great video! Many things look the same as today but the country was quite different back then. A lot of poverty is clearly visible in the movie.
Switzerland is a country that knows how to preserve one part and modernize the other. That is why the country is so beautiful.
Ich nehme an, ab 11.30 werden Bilder einer Landsgemeinde gezeigt: die ursprünglichste Form der Demokratie und der wichtigste Grund für den Frieden und Wohlstand der Schweiz. Tragen wir Sorge zu unserem System, dem Föderalismus, der direkten Demokratie und der Neutralität! Viele Grüsse aus dem Kanton Zürich
I beg to differ... the reason it was so peaceful and secure was due to it's people. One culture, one way of life, can't say the same for today
@@_whatnext_9319agree
@@_whatnext_9319Switzerland was very diverse in 1920. Four distinct language regions, 25 cantons, each one with its own customs and politics.
I agree 100% that our direct democracy and the will to work together that underlies it are a big part why the system works. That system has been changing since its inception in 1848!
Also remember the conflicts of the Landesstreik in 1918. Switzerland in 1920 was not a democratic harmonious paradise!
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 Yes, very diverse compared to today's 100+ nationalities living in every bigger village ...
@@awax2585 Blame it on the swiss because they stopped having kids
Wow, that’s so cool - love these restored vids
Thx!!
7:09 Altdorf, Kanton Uri! Today not much changed in that part of the Town!
Great video as always Nass 👍
hello....... this is amazing , incredible awesome...........thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.............
thx^^
It's interesting to see people in the past.
Always enjoy your videos and appreciate how you get the sound perfect.
Thx!! ^^
hello I would like to congratulate you for your remarkable work, I am Swiss I am 54 years old and have known and discussed a lot with my grandmother and great-grandmother, just one thing the colors of the clothes were black, gray, brown and white all the other colors come from the years 50,60,70
Pilatus Kulm still exist, it's a big complex today. Prices for one night at the hotel is around 300 CHF. Not cheap!
Do they not use the Euro in Switzerland?
@@candyapple7445 No really, it's the Swiss Franc. Some places you can pay in Euro, but they normally give you a terrible exchange rate. CHF 300 is about EUR 320
No, we're not part of the Eurpean Union that's why we still have our own currency😊 Exchange rates differ greatly, the Euro has dropped massively.
@@mirjanazadravec Not true. Many countries in the EU don't use the Euro.
swiss trains were and still are a joy to ride on ! I love getting a Swiss card
Thank you for sharing your work.
Always amazing work, thank you.
Thx!!!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing
Grazia par quisto video! Lan diferenza città-pais-muntagna l'eran inura tanco isa (thank you for this video! The differences city-town-mountains were there then how they are there now). I love that kind of videos, many thanks for colors, sounds... it takes me back to the storyes my grandmother used to tell
Altdorf looks pretty similar today apart from the cobbled streets.
And the tram rails are gone
Yeah that's the crazy thing, there are so many places that have not changed that much
Great video. I rode the Pilatus cog railroad with my family and stood atop the snow covered mountain in summer 1978. I have seen more recent summertime photos on Pilatus where there is little to no snow.
thx! ^^
I was there this summer and the peaks were capped with snow.
Imagine being 5 years old in 1929 and watching this in 2024 at age 100...
Cento anni fa, vestiti meglio di oggi!
08:02 "Alkoholfreie Wirtschaft" - Alcohol free restaurant/pub. That's astonishing
Kein Talahonks. So schön❤
Die gehen auch nie hinaus in die Natur. Diesen Begriff gibt es bei ihnen gar nicht, ebenso wenig wie des Bewegungs-, Berg und Wintersportes.
@@HansGrobwoho wahabiiiiii warum sagst du sowas, zigenfiggen über die berge
J’aimerais tellement que mon pays qu’est la Suisse 🇨🇭 reste intact de toute ingérences néfaste pour son futur … Merci pour ce merveilleux film et d’avoir fait revivre nos aïeux dont mes grand parents en faisaient partie
The streets were full of children. Today they are full of cars. That's progress.
Is that sarcasm???
Yes
What we see at the beginning is the Pilatus Railway if I‘m not mistaken.
yes!!
Maus, Wow! I am impressed! Thanks for telling me and the rest of us who did not know this! 😊
And the “rack tracks” of the mountain railway.
@@sonnycorleone2602 thanks! I recognized it because I’ve been there 4 years ago.
I rode that railway this past summer.
Notice how everybody is nicely and respectfully attired$
Today they dress like they just got out of bed!
Great work. Especially the 60fps makes it real. I always thought people from that era moved around in a kind of jerky way, what a relief they move just the same as we do! 😄. That's most fascinating I think, watching how people moved, interact, play, walk. Does anyone knows what the gathering in the improvised amfiteatre is about?
Nice work Mr Nass
Very well produced. You got the sound perfectly. I can't think you'll have any copyright issues. In Switzerland it's life +70 years and as you write Albert Kahn died in 1940.
❤
The beginning with the train didn't even look real. Looked like some kind of claymation from the 60s. I was waiting to hear Goliath say, "Daaaavieeee" 😂also I've never seen train tracks with that steep a grade. That ride would be absolutely beautiful and terrifying all in 1. Thank you for all the work you do to bring these gems back to life. ❤
Thx!!
If you want you can go and take the ride. It‘s the Piltus Bahn and it‘s still in operation today
Thank you for this video, I was able to see Switzerland as it was when my grandparents were children. It hasn't changed much 🤭
Greetings from Neuchâtel 👋 🇨🇭
Never forget what they took away from you.
With repentant hearts, we can have it back again.
What are you talking about?
@@gordonramsheesh1188 how the government opened the floodgates of immigrants. Biel and Geneva resemble morocco now, and Zurich looks closer to a Balkan or Turkish city. its rare to see actual swiss people now in the northern industrial heartland of the country which i find sad. i grew up in 1990s switzerland, and had been overseas for 20 years. when i returned it was like a totally different country. even certain mannerisms vanished. people used to greet eachother when getting on a bus, now nothings said at all, and in places like Dietikon or Spreitenbach you hear other languages such as albanian far more often than Swiss german
@@tramlink8544 shut your hatemongering xenophobic mouth and go live in Grindelwald if you don't like it in the cities.
oh no wait a minute it's full of a different kind of immigrants there, they are called tourists.
@@tramlink8544 complains about immigration someone who has lived, as an immigrant, in another country for 20 years..ridiculous
@@tramlink8544agreed, the mannerisms got worse due to the many immigrates we got. This has to stop otherwise the real swiss people will be gone and rot out….
So many children! Today, one can see mostly old people in the streets of Switzerland. This is quite sad, in my opinion.
This is soo interesting and weird. Watching this feels like someone travelled back in time to record these. 😂
Amazing!
Thx!!!
Amazing restoration. Many thanks. Great work. 👍⬆
thx❤
I live in Switzerland. I am a professional historian. This is very interesting source material. Sometimes, I think that there are places that still look like that. But when you see the gathering, almost everything has changed. There are only men in the inner circle. Women were not allowed to vote in the 1920s. There may be other differences in that scene, but I cannot decipher them. I know very little about clothing history.
the front row seems to be seated a group of gentlemen with walking sticks. I cant decipher if they are elders or just a fashion statement. Interesting to see that the opening ceremony was accompanied by armed guards.
And no foreigner
@ foreigners like in tourists?
@@drumkick2315 I meant more like immigrants. Swiss natives are a pretty rare sight these days.
Not enough junk food on top of mountains
Bonjour de la Suisse. 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 On voit ici, en partie quand il y a un 3 rails, des chemins de fer conçus pour les trains à crémaillères.
La locomotive a sous son plancher une roue dentée, actionnée par le conducteur de la locomotive. Donc quand un 3ème rail apparaît, le mécanicien de la locomotive abaisse une roue dentée, pour qu’elle vienne s’insérer dans le rail du milieu
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Ce système est prévu dans les pentes, pour éviter que la locomotive « patine » sur les rails. Et je peux imaginer qu’au retour, ce système « retient » la locomotive, pour éviter une « glissade ».
C’est encore utilisé aujourd’hui pour les,trains qui vont en altitude, mais ce n’est pas courant et la vitesse est fortement limitée.
Merci de m’avoir lu 😊
merci!^^
Pouvez-vous traduire (ou transcrire) le panneau affiché aux alentours de 16 minutes?
@ Je vais essayer, mais la partie du panneau est assez floue. 😮
The AI artifacts make the people appear quite creepy at times 😅
Not one person put up a middle finger
I wonder what the dialects sounded like back then. With how distinct the dialects are even given short distances (I'm talking as little as 20km to sound very noticeably different) temporally, they must have changed a lot too.
I asked myself the same question🙈☺️ Being Swiss I'd love to hear these people talk😚
So strange to realize a hundred years ago they were still mostly using buggies and horses to get around that's a lot of progress in a century.
Thank you humanism. We would still live to 60 otherwise.
@@WIISTERIAAAAAAA its a common misnoma, life expectancy was low because of the many child deaths to diseases such as polio or stillbirth, this naturally dragged down the average life expectancy. youll actually find many made it to 70s and 80s
Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland 🎉
Thx!!
Can you read and translate to english the announcement at 16:15 ?
@@NiKokaKolaeva ...it's french, no problem. But impossible to read, sorry...
@@NiKokaKolaeva I think it's about fishing rules on the lake of Murten/Morat.
@@NiKokaKolaevait says 😅something about Defense, thats the title and then it shows the wooden stems placed so that no boat could easy come ashore like a defense zone
Cheers from Lucerne/Switzerland with Mount Pilatus hulking outside my window - it's not changed much! 🏔
The stomps at the End are propably ruins of ancient Shorevillages called "Pfahlbauten", up to 10`000 years old.
Indeed they are. Must be lake Biel or Neuchatel. Those stubs appeared after the first big intervention in the water system of those lakes in the 19th century. The water level was lowered by several meters and reached the same level it had during the bronce age.
Yes, you see the flat lake shore, which simplified construction
I am sure not. They have just chopped the trees before they were flooded. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihlsee?wprov=sfla1
@@HansGrob also possible yes, we have a lot of flooded valleys. I'm not sure, but in doubt now, thanks. I need to research about more....
@@HansGrobThere is a declaration in french at the start of the sequence at 16:10. At the top left of the declaration it says Canton de Fribourg. In the description of the video it says Lac de Morat. Sihlsee was flooded in 1937. Of course it's bronce age dwellings that showed up during the drought of 1921.
I bet many of these streets do not look so much different today. Great footage 👍
the people roaming these streets do
These people had no idea that we would be watching them laugh, talk, and go about their day hundreds of years later. They had no idea that they had been immortalized and their random moments captured for an eternity. Keep posting please 🤍💚
At 11:30 starts the coming together for a "Landsgemeinde" (in this film in Altdorf in 1927, I found out) a political voting assembly, partly still in existence in Switzerland.
I don't see people voting though, maybe it's a different form of gathering.
@@fiedelminaThey do though. Not seen here. I was part of a Landsgemeinde back in my childhood 😊
@@fiedelminaTo clarify to vote basicly means raising hand for yes or no.
Not ballots.
@@Slithermotion I know, I am Swiss too. I just don't see anyone raising their hands.
@@fiedelmina I'm not Swiss, so I'll have to ask. Do they vote all the time during a lands Gemeinde, or are there times where thy do other things like discussing or explaining the issues at hand?
Beautiful
;)
Great video!!
Fascinating trip back in time! Wikipedia has an entry on that vertigo-inducing train, the Pilatus Railway. Do we know what that large gathering was for? At 16:08 there is a sign posted on a tree.
I'd love to see a zoom in close up of those men in the center of the ring. I guess they would be defined as ringmasters. 🤔
The male citizens and only them were entitled to vote, which they did four or five times on Sundays. The sign on the tree, in French, is about some rules concerning fishing in the lake of Murten/Morat, I think.
@@michelescola3840 its a interdiction (Défense) to dig for archaeological objects in the remainings of the pile dwellings (Pfahlbauten) you see in the following sequence.
Very nice ! What a beautiful country ! 🌲🌲🌲👍👍👍
yes!!
@@NASS_0... This is the Pilatus rack railway, the steepest in the world,
since 1889. 👀🚂🚂🚂
My beautiful country❤
Fabulous…the Swiss have had no conflict for decades so the town we see must surely be the same today…
Almost ... the streets are filled with cars, no more children anywhere.
Altdorf looks pretty similar today apart from the cobbled streets. And cars/clothing/shops/etc.
@ altdorf,of course - the William Tell statue!
Just remember the Swiss sent mercenaries into most of the European wars.
Centuries!
They had way better dressing sense back then.
are you talking about the itchy wool vests, shoes that gave you frostbite and trenchfoot or just the lack of availability for all but the rich in general? Maybe it was all the hand-washing and ironing that was sensible? A whole day was spent for washday, and many evenings repairing and darning.
Thanks for all the energy spent in remastering such nice and old films. However, I would be glad If some subtitles were added to frames, explaining where and what they show.
Thx!! ^^
1920 Switzerland was more developed than many countries 100 years later 😂
Except for political gatherings without any women.
Impressive footage and restoration, although the sound that you added is of a train that goes much much faster than the one in the footage. Regardless, it is impressive.
Beautiful restoration.
Thank you
Back in the days when we had snow 🥲
Looks like claymation! Very interesting!
Beautiful old video old ice old is gold very nice
16:16 I did my best to decipher and translate that sign, in the French-speaking part of the Lac (Lake) District of the Canton of Fribourg, where I live:
"Défense -- Par ordre de la Préfecture du Lac, l'accès au lac de Morat et les fouilles sont absolument interdits. Tout objet trouvé ayant un caractère historique doit être déposé à la Préfecture du Lac. Les contrevenants seront dénoncés à la Préfecture. Au nom du Conseil communal (?), Arey (?) Moerand (?)"
Translation: "Forbidden -- By order of the Lac Prefecture, access to lake Morat and excavations are absolutely prohibited. Any object found of a historical nature must be deposited at the Lac Prefecture. Offenders will be reported to the Prefecture. On behalf of the Municipal Council, Arey Morand"
J'ai passé 10 min à faire exactement la même chose avant de regarder si autre nerd avait déjà posté ça en commentaire. Je valide haha
@@ffxim rests of prehistoric pile-dwellings (Pfahlbauten).
Wow. What amazing footage! I wanted so much to take that train ride!
thx!!^^
You can still do that.
This looks a bit like an animated pop up book. 😂 Regardless, love & appreciation for your work as always Nass. ❤
Its funny how much of it is of my hometown and that many buildings still stand and havent changed! The only thing that makes me a little sad is that the railway car isnt there anymore and got replaced by a street, but they are thinking about closing the street which would make a huge change for the better lol
Not to rain on anyones parade but the sounds are all added afterwards. I dont oppose the noise, it makes the video more enjoyable. I watched WWII in HD on history channel and i felt a little betrayed when i found out the noise was added post production lol
My opinion about old Swiss : 8/10.
2024 : 5/10.
got the govt to thank who let in all the balkans and moroccans
@ Swiss only for Swiss ethnic people.
🇨🇭🫸🏻Moroccans and Balkans.
Great Sound design
Thx!!!
Very nice to look at this now, thx!
Does anyone know what are all these logs around the lake at the end of the video?