these days not many people walk about wearing a hat but back then it is like spot the person not wearing a hat.
I saw one car
I wish hats would be that normal again
Oh man, that guy crossin' the road at 1:27, tips his hat, fuckin' alpha gentleman
I wonder how frequent traffic accidents where back then.
i mean look! there's people walking bloody right next to these huge carriages that show no sign of slowing down other than for other carriages. eventually there has to be some dude who loose focus and gets hoofed!
It's weird to think that until very recently horses were our only form of transport, as they had been for thousends of years and suddenly they become obsolete.
[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;39394485]I wonder how frequent traffic accidents where back then.
i mean look! there's people walking bloody right next to these huge carriages that show no sign of slowing down other than for other carriages. eventually there has to be some dude who loose focus and gets hoofed![/QUOTE]
except horses are sentient and can stop if they want and cars are not sentient and have to be controlled to stop
Cant believe rush hour existed back then.
Videos like this are marvelous, I'm glad that this was converted to a none-degradable format, lest more of the detail be lost to time. Hell, a single hair could wipe a number of people completely from photographic records.
Just looking at this and being able to see actual moving footage of life more than a century ago is quite amazing, it humbly reminds me how I'm viewing it, and how I'm typing this to people all over the world instantly through wires and satellites.
The idea that every single living thing shown here is now dead is quite a feeling, that all the memories, thoughts and ideas from this day are long gone, only [I]they[/I] are the lucky few who are immortalized in grainy film, yet they may not have even realized it. Perhaps the day was logged from the point of view of a single person, in a dusty old diary locked away somewhere. Perhaps the odd horse shoe or even a carriage has been kept in a museum, colours faded, paint peeling and rust creeping in, but here we see them in their prime, a desirable way to traverse the chaotically organized city of London.
It's like a whole different planet, only the barrier is time rather than distance.
I saw a car zip by!
3:50
[QUOTE=The mouse;39394960]It's weird to think that until very recently horses were our only form of transport, as they had been for thousends of years and suddenly they become obsolete.[/QUOTE]
Me and a friend were talking about that the other day, it's so rare (for me) to see a horse nowadays, something so common for any previous generation.
Must of been great being in the hat business back then. Literately every head has a hat in that video.
[QUOTE=Uglehs;39398095]Must of been great being in the hat business back then. Literately every head has a hat in that video.[/QUOTE]
Robin Walker would have a field day.
Wow that was a clusterfuck of horses. I had no idea it was that crowded back then.
I find it very amusing to notice so many of the now world wide known brands.
Imagine all the shit they had to put up with
[QUOTE=Midas22;39394210]Oh man, that guy crossin' the road at 1:27, tips his hat, fuckin' alpha gentleman[/QUOTE]
He has a cane too, oh [i]shit[/i].
And the vast majority of these locations were either bombed by Germans, replaced by horrible thatcher architecture or something made of glass.
[QUOTE=Vasili;39399597]And the vast majority of these locations were either bombed by Germans, replaced by horrible thatcher architecture or something made of glass.[/QUOTE]
It's a goddamn shame, isn't it? All that gorgeous Victorian architecture.
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