Plus little girl eating some peanuts and a cute lil puppy dog at the end.
tinyurl.com/yeta2z7
Bonus vid (for those who haven't seen it yet):
tinyurl.com/ylmhqvj
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It is amazing seeing the thames landscape before they allowed Skyscrapers to be built. I get told a lot of stories about this era of London by my 90 year old Grandpa who has lived there until he was about 50.
It looks more like York in some of these pictures.
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This one is great too. And, as the description suggests, there is something really quite interesting in the film at around 3:53.
tinyurl.com/ydj3tdr
Ah, the good old days...
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The aspect which fascinates me the most in this kind of old footage is the fact that bus and lorry drivers were usually completely open to the elements. Not only did they not have a heater (?!) but they didn't have a windscreen, no side windows, no protection against the weather at all.
Imagine trying to get anybody to work in those conditions today with the recent weather we've had
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Thanks for posting those films - takes me back to my childhood in the 50's & 60's as I used to live within walking distance of Tower Bridge and used to hear the cannon being fired on the Queens birthday from where we lived.
Funny how most peops wore hats in that shot of Petticoat La. even on a Sunny day.
Most of the brand names on those 1903 London busses are now owned by foreign multi nats.
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Plus little girl eating some peanuts and a cute lil puppy dog at the end. tinyurl.com/yeta2z7
Fascinating stuff. Just wondering whether the colour is real or added?
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Friese-Greene used a system which added colour after the film was shot - just green and red were added, but it is quite effective. If you look at the original link still image you can see the red and green. It looks like an early 3D film - a couple of colours slightly out of focus.
IIRC a few years ago the BBC did a series featuring his Lands End to John O'Groats film - a long trip now, imagine doing it in the 1920s!
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Plus little girl eating some peanuts and a cute lil puppy dog at the end.
Kids sure had hearty appetites in those days eh!
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My favourite retro transport film of the moment is 'the Elephant will never forget' from the London Transport site:-
www.ltmcollection.org/films/film/film.html?IXfilm=...1
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My favourite retro transport film of the moment is 'the Elephant will never forget' from
the London Transport site
Watching the video, those trams took their electrical power from a third rail embedded in the ground. Must have made life really interesting for the pedestrians!
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The earth? (third rail)
Edited by FotheringtonThomas on 10/02/2010 at 12:36
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Trams aren't a specialist subject of mine but I think there was a live third rail embedded in the road, which had a slotted cover over it to provide a degree of protection;the earth return connection being the outer rails via the tram's wheels.
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>>> 'the Elephant will never forget' from the London Transport site <<<
Amazing stuff, even in white & black (more so) - all I need now is some pies & mash :)
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Copy/pasting my thoughts from a railway modelling forum where we've had the same discussion about the same films:-
I think 'The Elephant will never forget' is a superb piece of art, irrespective of the transport content. Gives me a strong feeling of nostalgia for an area I've never visited and was filmed 9 years before I was born, so I'm not at all sure why I find it so moving.
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Spammers...Is that the Hornby forum ?...I 'm on there regularly. Mosty gricing !!
Ted
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Nah, RMweb in this case guv. although I do hang out all over the place;-)
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>>> Gives me a strong feeling of nostalgia for an area I've never visited and was filmed 9 years before I was born <<<
I was born the year that film was shot - the year of the great pea souper.
I used to hang around 'The Elephant' as a kid + there were 2 picture houses (cinemas) right opposite each other.
I reckon the film would give many folk a strong feeling of nostalgia - for all our yesterdays.
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I have some videos of William Friese-Greene's motoring journeys around Britain in his Vauxhall....probably the one in the last clip with the puppy.
There was a series on the telly a couple of years ago.
I think Friese-Greene invented the process that he used, with either chemicals or filters.. He was the first person to put moving pictures on to celluloid.
A stunning archive of life in the 1st 20 years of the century .
The man himself is buried in Highgate Cemetery. He never made any money from his invention and died penniless in 1921.. His Gothic memorial was designed by Sir Edward Lutyens. ( Ref ; Highgate Cemetery, A Victorian Valhalla )
Ted
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