[60 fps] Laborers in Victorian England, 1901

Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken by Mitchell and Kenyon in North England, 1901. In the video various films have taken in 1900-1901 displaying some of the grittier nature of work in those days. As you can see, source quality is really important to make a decent upscale video.
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Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery /
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Workforce Leaving Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood (1901) /
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Workforce of Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham (1901) /
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[@Tarkus_H]

They stare into the camera, having no idea people from a century later are staring back.

[@jasongray7611]

Nothing is better than your comment

[@SelectorJohnson]

Solid comment

[@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173]

Like mine

[@brunesi]

@Sharron Clark I got your point, but you're being gracious with poor and poorer. What a f*cked up zeitgeist to be in. All things considered, many of us are having a many fold better existence.

[@devilsfog]

와 지렸다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@pathologicallyfriendly]

Some of the older people in this clip met individuals who were born in the 1700s when they were younger. Some of the younger ones heard The Beatles

[@Exoneos]

I find those contextualized sentence mind blowing. For us human even a time frame of 100 years is so huge so to see you put into perspective a person of the 1700 all the way to the Beetles is amazing. 300 years of history in one comment.

[@lovedicedtomatoes9653]

Now that is just incredible to consider.

[@gurditrehal3348]

It is an interesting thing to think about. If you were born in 1995 then the oldest person alive at that time would've been Jeanne Louise Calment who was born in 1875 (who would've been alive during the recording of this film). If you live for 81 years then you'll pass away in 2076. Now imagine someone born in 2075 and will live for 125 years (which may be likely as medical science improves) then that person will pass away in 2200. So in your lifetime, there will people living in both 1875 and 2200 which directly connects you to 325 years of history despite only being alive for 81 years. This one person's lifetime contains people that experienced the Victorian lifestyle and people that will go on to experience an unfathomable futuristic world.

[@TopStrikerMaverick]

This is all so confusing 😨 Imma dip

[@bradleyeric14]

@@gurditrehal3348 Some people were born when their fathers were old. Three Generations of that can produce surprising result.

[@audi5000]

The kids are fascinated by this new technology but most of the adults shy away from it. Some things never change

[@James-zu1ei]

😂😂😂😂

[@n.b1434]

The children being silly making faces at the camera. So innocent and adorable. Wonderful smiling faces. Can't help but smile back.

[@user-rx2vy2ch4n]

the same kids sadly will go fighting during WWI ...

[@evildeed90s]

they wont be smiling for long 1914 is around the corner

[@pOpCoRn0531]

The one behavior that hasn't changed: people goofing around in front of the camera.

[@senyuhero]

I wonder how the Camera looked like they seem to give quite a stare at it If you ask me they must not see a camera alot imagine if they seen the technology we have now it would blow their minds how this world changed

[@pOpCoRn0531]

SenyuHero basically looked like a giant camera lolz

[@eminence_]

Bullshit. You get punched if you film people nowadays.

[@baldbearded349]

Lol

[@TheKruxed]

@@senyuhero It'll be a big box on a tripod the size of a man

[@lafosse64]

I can't believe all those faces are dead today. They would have never imagined that in 2020 some random peruvian guy sitting at his COMPUTER at 11pm would be watching them with awe.

[@gordonferrar7782]

@DATING HARLEY QUINN imagine.

[@b-ballkidvlogz9944]

Some people in this film is alive just older than every single comment and creater on here

[@Utars]

@@b-ballkidvlogz9944 do you know anyone from this footage being 119 year old right now ?

[@wildernessandme1744]

@@Veckler Yes and he is not a British.

[@dutchybag]

There was a couple babies, who theoretically could be alive today...a lot more probable in the year 2000...imagine, most of those young boys got mutilated in France 15 yrs later

[@goki8838]

It’s hard to imagine that these people actually existed a hundred years ago. No one knew that two world wars will brake out during their time. Some of them died during the First World War, some on the second. A lot has changed in just one century. There’s a lot to take in from this video. Thanks.

[@LordofFullmetal]

I know, it's weird. Every single person you see in that video is a real person just going about their life. These aren't actors, or cartoons - these are just normal, everyday people. This is what their world looked like. And a lot of them lost their lives not many years after this was taken. If we ever invented time travel, I would love to just go back to older periods of human history and ask: What is your life like?

[@robertwilson3866]

It will be great if they get similar footage from Egypt. Will be great to see the pyramids being built and the pharohs(?) enjoying life

[@Zuck699]

​@@robertwilson3866yeah that would be great

[@Perkin84]

Break not brake

[@MillillioN]

​@@robertwilson3866You'd die of the spooks if you watched it.

[@shiro4095]

I love how despite the horrible living conditions everyone remains to dress elegantly, and also I love how everyone acts either classy or goofy when the camera is pointed towards them 😭

[@LiveInTravel]

especially women wearing hijab , and today the British say that these clothes are alien to them,

[@moon_0207]

@@LiveInTravelI don’t think it’s hijab. It’s just a shawl.

[@AzelVonAzrael]

​@@moon_0207whatever the name is, they are literally covered head to toe... Doesn't seem too much different than the hijab

[@moon_0207]

@@AzelVonAzrael not necessarily. There’s more religious meaning behind the hijab

[@AzelVonAzrael]

@@moon_0207 of course but my point is if westerners are complaining that the concept of a woman covered head to toe is alien to them then this video is a proof it isn't...

[@rogeriopenna9014]

"Those poor children workers had no childhood" Considering a good part of them probably died in WW1, they had no adulthood either.

[@Vibrantly_Monochromatic]

No childhood or adulthood Makes you wonder what they lived for

[@cridr]

who knows what future people will say about our small children if corona mutates in a monster ...

[@Big-Show1]

They probably had a better childhood than most these days.... No junk food, computer games etc Just coal dust and whisky

[@mynameisdrpat]

childhood or not, they are better dress for sure. look at them style!

[@lilliillliiil-_-5707]

Armoured Rat bruh y u hating on everybody take a chill pill and relax while u enjoy this video

[@fearlessandfar]

It’s wild to realize that all these people, every single one you see, the adults and the kids, have all passed away. Damn.

[@nillehessy]

huh the film is 120 years old what is weird about it? you know what is really weird? i see dutch people outside en i see them everywhere and they don´t know that they´re dead they move around and act like they´re zombified or as a clone at some point they just unplugged ´the thinking processor´

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

@@nillehessy Whaaaaat

[@nillehessy]

@@MargaritaMagdalena no noho not Whaaaat it´s going on right now they don´t have their own thought-out views ´n opinions anymore they just quote state program catch-phrases and msm propaganda and stand by it it´s happening in my own family for God´s sake they´re gone scared and numb cannot be reached anymore believe me i tried ´n tried till i got a speaking-ban from certain family members given without blushing or blincking people i grew up with and knew as individuals who knew where they stood and why well they´re gone it´s not new going on for 10-15 yrs now

[@mybedcavour8104]

And many of them killed soon, in the IWW

[@austinisacson5825]

I was just about to comment about that myself. This was almost 120 years ago. It's crazy!!!

[@rcadium]

As history buff and gamer, I wish in the future they'd make VR of you walking around in the 1900s and see how it was back then.

[@JimmyHistory]

And then use this footage for it?

[@louuj6058]

That would be fascinating. There wouldn't need to be any 'missions'. Just walking around the streets with sound and visuals. Someone clever do it now 😞

[@kojinaoftheinvertedeye810]

This is 1,000,000 times better than any book or lecture, you feel infinitely closer to the people in the film, chances are that some of us watching are even related to them and I think it's really nice that all these people are immortalised in such a way!

[@thedarkknight727]

Almost every child looks like a mini adult.

[@erenjaeger1738]

Ik probably they didn't eat healthy or stress so much 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@jimmyjoejoeshabado]

well they were...the kids went to work in factories because no child labor laws.

[@oozarusama]

at that time children's fashion was for rich people and for the people the clothes were always the same model either man or woman with some variation so they look almost the same

[@georgivanev7466]

The Dark Knight Because as soon as they are born they were acquainted with the life of the grown man, working in the factories from an infant age. There was no such a thing as a "childhood" we know today.

[@arnljot9030]

They had to grow up faster back in the days.

[@edwilliamson956]

This is amazing. At 4:59 in the bottom right of the screen there are 2 friends walking from the workhouse who, to seemingly entertain themselves, decide to start punching the shit out of each other. These people were hard as nails... the children have the aire and comport of grown men. Their eyes are disturbingly world weary for such tender years... Mad to think all these people are long dead... feels like we are staring at legions of ghosts and they are staring right back at the future

[@DetonateK]

What’s crazy do me is how everyone in this footage is no longer here. I’m hoping more videos like this keep circulating around.

[@evgeniam685]

And I see also that English people were really proud of their empire for some greatness but on videos you can see poor labours with acting and faces not highest IQ. I don't mean to be mean, it really striking that how brainwashing can make people proud. I guess it was only empire for royalty, the rest was living not so good

[@alandoust551]

Also we are lucky that we can see on film exactly how things were 120 plus years ago whereas they would not have been able to.

[@nayd.p7999]

And one day our generation won't be here either.

[@nackjicholson1940]

​@@nayd.p7999 No shit Sherlock

[@shiro4095]

Same will be said about us

[@moonshapedabsolution]

This feels like two audiences observing each other across time. One from 1901 England staring through the strange device at the one that is worldwide from 2021, who are staring back through their own devices.

[@MisstressMourtisha]

Surreal

[@beeaira_]

Omgg yess

[@D00DM00D]

120 years apart

[@stevebailey5591]

That's so well put - I'm glad I'm on this side of the temporal fence.

[@DrAdityaReddy]

Underrated comment

[@CanadianPrepper]

When the most popular diet program was trying not to die.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

1901 was not a bad time for food in the Victoria era. It was much worst in the 1950’s in England then the early 1900’s.

[@stevethea5250]

@ArtieKay BLACK GUY PLAYING WITH WHITE GUY 1:10 *WHOLESOME*

[@CheeseBae]

@@stevethea5250 I don't think he's black. He's in a group of men whose faces were all blackened with soot. If you look at his arm you can see it has splotches of soot on it as well.

[@katovomkozies]

So much White Privilege in display

[@braid834]

@@katovomkozies feel bad for you mate.

[@Black1968Sabbath]

The Austrian Painter was only 12 when this was originally filmed.

[@Matt50gt]

Imagine for a moment that someone in these videos could have an email address. My great grandfather was born in 1901 and when he passed in 2002 he was on the internet.

[@aea9420]

I love how everyone starts smiling immediatly when they realise that they are being filmed

[@user-nv7pb9co2u]

Привет!

[@princesskayla1400]

@@user-nv7pb9co2u penis?

[@dhalsim-1]

They'd be doing a lot of smiling today

[@mazeppa1231]

My favourite is that guy in 4:23 .. he gave the cameraman the finger, lmao.

[@staypress]

@@mazeppa1231 ye I saw that .The thought that they were all so polite back then has now been erased.Maybe he was scared of the camera

[@anna-rexia]

A lot of those youngsters went on to fight in WW1.Imagine the horrors those poor kids had seen thought out their lives. Bless them

[@whizzy9315]

@SharkTank Leave

[@humbertoamorimjr]

Many them died in WWI

[@shadowjack8]

Thought or through, which was the word you intended?

[@anna-rexia]

@@shadowjack8oh no! The grammar Gestapo are out in force 😂😂😂yawn...zzzx

[@poopstainhotdog1]

So crazy what that generation lived through…WW1, plague, WW2. The sheer amount of death which took place around the world from like 1914-1950 is staggering.

[@judahsmall3023]

Frank Buckles was born the same year this was filmed. He died in 2011 at the age of 110. He was the last American world war 1 veteran.

[@TheRealKillak]

Sooo much anxiety watching this video , it’s crazy to think that each and every one in this video is no longer alive . To have the footage from that time period and to be watching it in the very distant future is beyond Amazing and definitely unimaginable. Thank you For this Piece of Gem 💎 of history . To witness a time period we never will experience , I’m forever grateful to be living .

[@eastboundbeanhead6637]

Crazy when you realise how many of these kids would have ended up in the trenches in WW1

[@now591]

yes and all for nothing!!!

[@lewislongmore]

I see...another white rose...good

[@alves6465]

Or in the Titanic

[@derekflores3089]

Crazier that they would be working before then as children

[@yeyosilver7067]

@@now591 not exactly

[@thehighgroundde1571]

This is so fascinating, all these people didnt know that they are looking straight into the faces of people who are living 120 years after them, so epic

[@hasan2198]

Wow

[@Tengri_COD]

The crazy part is people 120 years later are going to look back to our KZbin Video's livestreams etc etc..

[@labuse2712]

@@Tengri_COD yea thats exactly that what i am thinking about:)

[@manueldejesustamayo-jimene6544]

@@Tengri_COD same here

[@goblinkillahd8396]

@@Tengri_COD not if susan has her way by that time all the video's will be removed for hate speech due to wokeness.

[@Mishina375]

It also shows how little matters who you are, what you have or need, and what you're going through right now. You will be completely forgotten in the next 100 years and there is almost nothing you can do about that. There´s only today and a little bit of tomorrow to enjoy...

[@thoughtevolve2942]

I like that the women are not naked, but they were respectful

[@humanbean1424]

This is uncomfortable. Feels like they're staring into the future at us while we stare into the past at them.

[@haky6737]

Yup. Strange af

[@seniphos]

its wigging me out & i dont know how to feel

[@Anth4044]

Exactly for a minute I actually felt like they were looking at me looking at them it was so freaking wierd😨,But I really enjoyed it amazing what great job he did to clear up the pixels.

[@S_wicked]

yes, like a window to other age

[@indiawest2025]

"So enjoy your time, travel experience HUMAN..."

[@masonb9788]

The adults are all like "I want to be in this, but I don't want to look like I want to be in this"

[@Sonia-dg7ux]

Thank you for this footage wow amazing

[@user-br5wg3sk9s]

منذ 120 عاماً. 😢 من الغريب أن ندرك أن كل هؤلاء الأشخاص ، كل شخص تراه، الكبار والصغار ، قد ماتوا جميعًا😢

[@dustywoood]

01:18 - The man with his sign advertising it on camera was a marketing genius well ahead of his time

[@gota7738]

I know whose Passion Play I'm seeing when I time travel to 1901.

[@julien5371]

4:24 lol u wot mate

[@Shilgne1]

That's probably the first television ad ever

[@dustywoood]

@@Shilgne1 I think you're right, an unintentional coincidence which results in that man literally taking that position in the history books forever, yet he probably never will be recongized for it officially on any Wikipedias.

[@sixstanger00]

Ad duration: 119 years Impressions: 1.6 million Now that's what I call an effective ad campaign!

[@YureiZenSakura]

I like how shocked everyone is towards the camera.

[@SabinaVamp]

Yeah, I feel so strange when I look at them and see their reaction on camera

[@matjuwang2250]

1900 - headcover 2020 - facecover

[@matt.willoughby]

The camera was probably as big as a telephone kiosk!

[@sambenjamin7843]

it is 1901 you dumbass

[@sambenjamin7843]

@@SabinaVamp sex?

[@CherokeeBird]

A moment caught in time. How extraordinary ❤

[@ardenalexa94]

Love the smiles from the people in the video and all of them looking at the camera.

[@Thedeso18]

It’s kinda creepy lol it looks like they are just astonished to see us as we are to see them.. feels like they’re looking right back at us... wow

[@Nick-ky5yn]

That’s exactly how I felt too.

[@ralfslays1921]

@dread true obviously they know that goofball they were just pointing out how astonished they were looking at it

[@kataisa3]

Seeing this video in color, instead of the usual black and white film, makes these people more real, or alive, to me.

[@pecfree]

Yes! From the other side

[@pecfree]

@dread true dughhh. No one is disputing that you jack ass. But now that thawi are all dead, who knows if they are actually there looking at us the living

[@Simonsvids]

The boys we are looking at here are the 'lost generation', the ones who would die in the green fields of France upon reaching adulthood.

[@pho3nix-]

#RIP

[@rezadroidjr]

#RIP😭

[@TheFirstGroover]

Victims of the spanish flu as well

[@bassman1ism]

That’s the sad part of it.Little did they know what was coming.

[@AramiMedia]

Janice Granville The world is turning itself inside out about this pandemic, but could you imaging living through the world wars. ~100,000 people have died due to COVID19 in 4 months in America. ~500,000 soldiers died during the 3 month long Battle of Passchendaele along with 850,000 casualties. ~300,000 soldiers died during the Battle of the Somme, with ~19,000 British dying on the first day. In total ~1,300,000 casualties. Bless them.

[@aidendrinkwateroldaccount]

4:23 That was a "piss off" if I've ever seen one

[@mcgoo721]

The variance in size and height especially is amazing

[@tbonesviddyzone]

damn, life was hard. those kids don't even look like kids.

[@The_Last_Pants_Youll_Ever_Wear]

That's just England lol.

[@Cristinact]

Many must have perished during the First World War...

[@angloirishcad]

@@The_Last_Pants_Youll_Ever_Wear Working class kids looked great in Moscow or Naples did they?

[@Cristinact]

@nasim whitehouse It is very unfortunate but true...

[@jelijones4205]

Well, that's White "privilege" for you.

[@kabamaru_Iga_No]

- Police officer, there was a robbery - Describe to me what he was wearing

[@TheConorsmithusa]

Lol

[@rewjik7998]

exactly, really brings to light how much more diverse clothing is these days.

[@friedchicken1]

-Person: Officer, there was a robbery ! -Cop: What was he wearing? -Person: Yes.

[@ricardosv9702]

@@friedchicken1 -Cop: Say no more, let's get that son of a b*tch

[@maniniescobar244]

Therefore they needed Sherlock Holmes

[@ashJayden06]

Oh how time flies… Beautiful footage.

[@javeedhokersar779]

Beautiful people all over the world back 19 hundred, womans fully covered boy's fully covered, the modern we became the more we became char*cterless and a generation with manners!!

[@foppypoof5195]

Oh shush. People back in this era also had people like you calling their generation characterless. Times were not better back then.

[@kevinmiguelramos7506]

Who else got this recommended 120 years later?

[@ajrwilde14]

lol!

[@burntisk2996]

120 likes too, who's gonna ruin it lol

[@welley6]

lol now 210 likes 😜

[@AssassinJay]

@@welley6 376*

[@azom5577]

stfu

[@barakhalla5338]

5:00 This is probably the oldest street fight footage shown in 4K

[@yep7162]

That’s how you know this time age is rough when not a single person steps in to stop just lets them get on with it until one of them is knocked out....

[@arturmatik]

Worrrrldstaaaaarrrrr 🤣🤣

[@pvtperkins1455]

@@TheodoreGrevers-bg3zw thats it, im just gonna carry a massive tripod around with me everywhere so i never end up on r/killthecameraman

[@Jay_199]

Eddie hearn would have stuck that on PPV

[@Mecha120]

Bum Fights: The Prequel

[@gauravkulkarni673]

Even the small kids in this video are older than my great great grandfather. Fascinating to watch!

[@christopherlawrence6815]

The man flicking the Vs at 04:22 is the earliest proven and documented use of the Vs as a swearing gesture. Still to this day, it’s only offensive in the UK. The french archers story is pure myth

[@ahronthegreat]

Ha just saw that bit lol we definitely aren’t that different still the same lol that’s awesome

[@Crucian1]

But why was he so angry I wonder? He then points at himself.

[@ahronthegreat]

@@Crucian1 ???🤓

[@nafeliqbal6888]

@@Crucian1he’s joking bruh you think he cares he’s probably dead now anyways

[@prostofil]

Just realise the fact that all young people in this footage with a curious look looks exactly like we all watching this video. )

[@mavis1108]

True that, this video mesmerises me

[@yosha_ykt]

Возможно люди будущего тоже будут на нас смотреть так.

[@mrorangepeel659]

I would imagine a lot of these boys and men died in WW1.

[@swfcocs1]

Indeed, though one lad at 4:21 ish sticks two fingers up, which if you're not British is the same as giving the finger everywhere else

[@dennispetrov9628]

@@swfcocs1 I kind of guessed that by his look, but what really surprises me is that - according to Wikipedia - sir Winston was totally unaware of that as late as in 1942. Which is even more surprising considering he had been running the Home Office for almost a year.

[@andrewraymond3657]

I can’t help but wonder how many of the boys in the video perished in the trenches of France and Belgium.

[@caligariwulf788]

It seems I'm not the only wondering the exact same thing... I really wish we could live in a world where there had not been any world wars

[@Alderite]

@@caligariwulf788 Sadly wars exist for a reason to reflect what we are as a human being. If we ever didn't have wars, human beings ceases to exist.

[@purplereign84]

I was thinking that myself.

[@hellman9655]

Unfortunately, probably a great many. I'll admit I thought the same thing as you.

[@jonnoleum]

That was my exact same thought too.

[@kathbartlett9334]

Amazing footage from over 120 years ago. Love the boys poking their tongues out at the camera - some things don't change 😊

[@earlprinsloo9632]

Living in 2023, often I long to have lived in a time with no social media or email, as it keeps sowing divisions between us as humans. It may have seemed like a simpler time back then. Writing letters, reading newspapers and just being out in nature, reading a book. However, imagine catching smallpox, the flu, or needing penicillin. Even with classism, it was still prominent in those times. I guess it's all relative to the times. Learning to appreciate life as it is right now.

[@foppypoof5195]

There have always been divisions sown between humans, even back in this era. There was still a lot of political toxicity back then too, and believe it or not social justice warriors and anti social justice warriors existed too. It just took a different form.

[@Waterwine]

I want to see the 14 act Passion Play all animated just so he knows that his advertising from 1901 reached me here in 2020.

[@richardkodai]

This.

[@atticussawatzki]

Mel Gibson, perhaps?

[@Londonfogey]

Interesting to note that Passion Plays were the earliest form of theatrical performance in Britain, a tradition dating back to the middle ages.

[@jackwatson3944]

How would he know.

[@blairansellfraser]

I want one of those ‘Lantern Seats’!

[@chrislopez5287]

All those kids just looked like tiny old people.

[@BoopSnoot]

And now they are dead people.

[@cinderellacomplex7]

Not surprising. Working class children were forced into labor as soon as they could be, even as young as 4 years old. Naturally they'd look 'grizzled' and 'worn' before they're even teenagers, especially since they worked long hours too. Just as much as the adults. All that plus poor nutrition and hygiene.

[@Hobiemyhubby]

Idk why but, for me I always find Caucasian guys in this era more attractive than now 😅 the kids are very cute and charming

[@swisschoklate736]

YES!!! i was like why do they move so adult like. that was intense conditioning of hardship

[@swisschoklate736]

GIwillo no no they look very mature one child looked like a 45 year old man

[@jaredmaangi]

This footage leaves me with a lot of questions, life is so mysterious...knowing that these people are all gone, and we who are watching this in this era will be gone not very long time from now. We can learn one thing though, that we need not to worry about so many things after all everything seems to be vanity.

[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

My family payed above average wage for our servants on the estate in 1901.Loyalty to the family was important all treated very good.They were treated part of our family and their family are still with us today.

[@mastomasto6197]

Vc tem parentes nestas filmagens??

[@cardiffwilly]

See that kid flicking the V's at 4:23? That's the first ever documented incident of someone using that hand gesture. I read it on Wikipedia! "The first unambiguous evidence of the use of the insulting V sign in the United Kingdom dates to 1901, when a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham used the gesture (captured on the film) to indicate that he did not like being filmed." (The idea that bowman in the middle ages flicked the V at their enemies to prove that they can still fire arrows is apocryphal.)

[@MrBannystar]

Well, Wiki may not always be the most reliable source, but regardless it blew my fucking mind reading that.

[@vestraegir]

Amazing, thanks for this tidbit.

[@LinhNguyen-tb9lc]

kid looked aggressive as fuck lol

[@DualStupidity]

Looks like he's saying "Piss off." haha

[@YourOwnDa]

Linh Nguyen I would be too if I had to work that hard, for that long at that age

[@jackofswords7]

The young man at 4:24 giving an F+++ Off 'V' sign made me smile and his reaction a few seconds later leads me to believe the cameraman commented on it.

[@ianharwell7500]

is he saying "Wan_er" ?? or Back off?

[@DrAdityaReddy]

😂😂😂😂

[@ianharwell7500]

He looks like a nasty piece of work to me. Cold hard people in cold hard times. If he's 16 then, in 1914 he would have been 29. Did he see & survive WW1?

[@Ben-zb8pq]

@@ianharwell7500 very good point unfortunately. These boys had no idea of the absolute horrors that was about to befront them. Even after their damn hard youth.

[@jack6995]

He threw a piece sign and then the cameraman ask him if he a time traveler

[@wadayatalkinbeet]

So much time has passed since...i'm delighted to have this window into the past

[@bootlegapples]

The people had a tougher life yet were full of life and belong with one another. *That* is what we are missing these days - the connection.

[@eddyr1041]

But we do come a long way for women and children... The men look more well off in here.. And the pollution smog is insane.😅

[@jonjohnson2844]

I wonder when people started saying, "you know what, I'm not wearing a hat any more"

[@FAMEROB]

I'd say late 40's

[@HopeSprings33]

Basically when people started using cars, before then people walked, it rains a lot, so you put on a hat, it wasn't an overnight thing but as more and more people had cars, more and more people didn't feel the need to wear then anymore.

[@2013Arcturus]

The 60's

[@epicnipple8746]

This made me laugh probably more than it should have.

[@lucidrootsart]

😂😂😂

[@ErcanAbraham]

Feels like I actually traveled back in time and everyone saw me.

[@aiquesono]

I felt like some of them were staring right at my soul😳

[@zackbarkley7593]

Maybe u did.

[@DrLove911]

I see dead people

[@mamindhive]

@@zackbarkley7593 this ain't a scfi netflix movie though Lunatic

[@zackbarkley7593]

@@mamindhive open your mind..

[@emmajanewatts4388]

Someone needs to show Sadiq Khan this

[@ShadowTheEdgeKingFan]

I love watching these !

[@sozeytozey]

My brain is having a genuinely hard time convincing itself that these aren’t just actors in costumes on a movie set

[@ansikkk]

Even women covered their heads

[@sionnachs_workshop]

For me it shows shines a light on just how old our social habits/instincts are! Lots of basically the same mannerisms you'd see today

[@EngYounis]

@@ansikkk why they do that?

[@sozeytozey]

@@benzdr502 Humility goes a long way boss, you should try it some time

[@ansikkk]

@@EngYounis back then people still had God in their heart

[@goldtrapp]

I get an odd feeling that they're staring into the future at us as much we're staring at them in the past. They seem completely captivated by this strange thing called a camera!

[@christianeweckop4507]

That´s very poetic...well put. My sentiments exactly

[@ellxxe_chxsingdreaxmzz4480]

Cameras back then were massive so im not surprised

[@kathypiazza7228]

And many of them would die in the 1st & subsequently called for a decade &1/2 the last war. From either trench warfare, mustard gas or the various diseases that spread so quickly in the trenches including the Spanish Flu. But the youth in 1901 sure look like they knew the new century was going to be fantastic.

[@GhGh-sj4wb]

Deep words💔😔👌🏼

[@darkheart3044]

Yes!

[@ethansquish6208]

And to think some of the kids, would fight in WWI, WWII come back to the Great Depression and still work. These kids would have worked and lived a thousand lifetimes of pain while we sit here and just watch.

[@sharon8464]

When I started work in a care home aged 16 in 1985, there were several residents over 100 years. Eldest was 105, so born in 1880. He'd be 21 here. It really is mind blowing the changes they must have seen. I feel privileged to have spent time with them

[@garbeal2397]

I used to look after a bloke who was 106 when he died born 1906 George Nicholson he was called used to think when helping him get ready all the memories he would've had from growing up in the 1910s and 1920s.

[@karchata7123]

I’m 1990 when I was 3 my gma was 100- that would have made her around 11 then. She lived a little longer than that so hearing stories back then I just couldn’t comprehend. I still can’t in my older age how amazing it is to see how time flies yet seems so far away

[@PrincessYonna1]

My great great grandmother was born in 1885 and lived to 1983, she was a slave . My great grandmother born 1926 lived to 1992, she wasn’t a slave but she had to pick cotton as a kid. My grandmother born 1960 is currently still living I love to hear all the stories she tells about her mom and grandmother, only just about 30 years ago they were still here , this was not a very long time ago as there’s many people living past 100

[@clairefordzetterstrom9973]

Nice!

[@lawtraf8008]

@@PrincessYonna1 Thank you for saying it. The racist whites descendant of those evil slave owners be trying hard to act like nobody alive today has remotely a connection with slavery where your grandmother alive today was alive in the same timeline than her relative that was a slave.

[@maxvonminkwitz4218]

Probably most of the young boys in this film had to witness the horrors of the trenches years later.

[@melloangelwolf8611]

Most definitely or WWII

[@jijibebe3084]

🥺😢🍁🇨🇦.

[@agnieszkawojak4081]

And the elderly in this video may have witnessed the Jack the Ripper case.

[@medmondsr]

@@melloangelwolf8611 Too old for WW2 since England entered 38 years later. You had to be between 18-41 yrs old to get drafted.

[@ianh1984]

@@agnieszkawojak4081 Jack the Ripper was only a decade earlier.

[@evertontoffee9763]

There's a lot to take from this video, but one thing that stands out to me is how happy some of them look. They hardly had anything, yet we're happy. These days we have so much more and a better way of life, yet most of us struggle to crack a smile.

[@shaanchaudhry5719]

Who would have thought that 120 years later kids would be hearting twerking videos on TikTok off their phones. We’ll be colonizing other planets before you know it!

[@Manamonke]

Imagine not knowing how cool you’re gonna look in a hundred years

[@K-Riz314]

Hundred and twenty, even!

[@MichaelJOneill333]

Cody Sherry 119 odd

[@zampieritto]

Yes. People look humble

[@orlandotouristtraps7410]

That is simply erie. They look like they had a rough life but they seem happier than many people today. I guess because they had a lot less free time to fret over pronouns or cook up more reasons to be a victim.

[@michaelarojas]

They're all dead now which is the weirdest thought

[@_s_9920]

These poor boys would've fought in two World Wars and suffered Spannish Flu if they survived that long. Absolutely tragic.

[@lahri8124]

Damn. Didn’t think of it like that...

[@oldgordo61]

True but some of those kids could have been still alive to watch the Apollo Moon Landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s on live tv..

[@killeruploadz9037]

@john smith Did you not read the first paragraph of the article???? Spanish flu CAUSED the bacterial pneumonia by depleting the cells that line the bronchial tubes...which allowed bacteria to invade the lungs (causing pneumonia). The cause of death was, ultimately, Spanish flu. I agree that CNN and other mainstream media outlets are l3ftist propaganda, but your lack of any sense of reading comprehension is making you look like a buffoon.

[@Kwanglebeh]

Not to mention Tuberculosis and Polio. BTW notice the wooden shoes?

[@nicolasdesautels2848]

endless parade of stinkpots

[@DanT2406]

Gotta love the fight near the end lol, this was a wild video to watch

[@improbablywrongabouteveryt6781]

That brawl at the end was fierce

[@chrisfrombeyond4240]

The crazy thing is, watching all those boys laugh and point at the camera, you have to wonder which of them would end up dying in WW1. This would be the first and maybe last time their faces would be seen through a lens.

[@Mark-0O]

My grandfathers 4 uncles died in British army in WW1. They were Irish Catholics and a few years later the British army were fighting the Irish in the war of independence

[@apsert]

wow JUST WHAT I WERE THINKING!

[@mauic3884]

Wow. Deep 👌🏽

[@MyFairDiva]

I was thinking the exact same thing, many would have enlisted and probably died fighting...

[@chuckcribbs3398]

I thought the exact same thing. They have no idea what awaits them.

[@Cesar-pq2ck]

Why do I find this addictive? I’m fascinated by it, as fascinated as they are seeing the camera. It truly feels like time travel, like we’re looking at each other.

[@yannahamou5115]

ME TOO...

[@yannahamou5115]

Because the Time not exist perhaps..

[@jerryking45]

It's very hypnotic. I suppose because of its elusiveness.

[@tigercarings]

Yes!!! It's crazy to think that they had no idea their lives for a moment would be archived and watched by people all over the world on their own little devices more than a century later.

[@nverikyaghoomian6967]

me to same thought

[@steveliveshere]

That fight towards the end. I think I've seen that somewhere else passed off as the 1st Street fight ever filmed.

[@glenowenman]

It's crazy to think that every single person in that film is not here no more. And then again to think that every single person on earth that day is no longer with us.

[@herniebadlautner.7340]

there's something incredibly otherworldly about this. i've dreamed of time travel all my life, as i'm sure many people have, and this is the closest thing to it that i've ever experienced.

[@univuniveral9713]

Meditate harder.

[@doberman2yk]

i know what you mean...i get mesmerized looking at videos like this. good to know im not alone.

[@johnshort5003]

I agree it is like time travel. Absolutely fascinating. My grandfather was six at the time so theoretically he could have been in a film like this. They had such crap clothes, especially the trousers. Life was tough for the poor.

[@GuildfordGhost]

Old 19th century stereoviews are a great way of time travelling as well, so long as your eyes can work with them.

[@ElBadriano]

What r you smoking?

[@schmides9896]

"Mom, I can't find my hat." "Yeah, you're just gonna have to stay inside then."

[@panther9265]

t s 😂😂

[@danapertile106]

Yeah. In my country, it would now be: "Mom, I can't find my face mask." "Yeah, you're just gonna have to stay inside, then." We have been facing the coronavirus and the people that we can see in the video were facing the Spanish fever about 17 years later. And their grandparents had been facing cholera and the grandparents' grandparents had been facing the plague. It seems there is a pandemic every third generation or so... I wonder what our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will have to face...

[@panther9265]

Dana Patricia Mary my guess they’ll face Zombie Virus 🦠

[@rezadroidjr]

Corona viruses

[@onestraystay8756]

At 1:49 That one woman, holding her scarf looks so happy. I wonder what happened, but it must be good❤

[@davitk.]

It will be crazy that 100 years from now, people in the 2100s will be looking at videos of us now and having the same reaction. Not to mention looking at these vintage videos too (200 years ago). Crazy!

[@grubbybuggy]

The most interesting thing I take away is how people react to being filmed. Such curiosity displayed by many of them, and caution by others.

[@dmitriytimofeyev5428]

They always look confused as hell, like most of them think that they are taking a picture

[@temporarymomentary]

I've been in India and Africa. They've behave in the same way.

[@Filmesmaravilhosos2024]

😂

[@grubbybuggy]

@justice start YES EXACTLY

[@chtvonline]

We look the the same when a google streetview car drives by.

[@JubeProductions]

what I find amazing about all these old videos is the way people dressed back then. Almost every male person is wearing a suit, even little kids are wearing a 3 piece suit.

[@scotte85_54]

There was no such thing as children's clothes back then unless it was for the rich or babies. It was just different sizes of the same clothes.

[@wordsofcheresie936]

The clothes are pretty grubby and everyone probably smelled pretty bad since clothes were only washed once a week. Most of the women are wearing large aprons to protect their clothes and I'm guessing that those were washed and changed more frequently.

[@sharllllly]

I have noticed that most women were wearing head scarf like Muslims women do.

[@Ronnie-Jones]

most forbidden documentary.,. Europa The Last Battle at archive . org

[@mrsmariamshah]

And women are all dressed up modestly

[@lovejetfuel4071]

People acted so different back then, no question that technology has altered behaviourism

[@Rocco296]

1:24 Even in 1901, people were interrupted by banner ads...

[@MikeHalk100]

And at 1:26: "Come on, lads. Let's go block that pop-up."

[@intheplums]

3:29 (standing on the left) 3:38 (standing on the right) 3:49 (following the camera) 4:16 (smiling at camera on the right) 4:50 (walking away from the camera) 5:19 (bottom right corner) That boy was following the camera all day.

[@justgrand3429]

I think he may have been related to someone associated with the filming. He looks smartly dressed compared to the other children.

[@NosyFella]

Good catch!

[@hamitfistikci9084]

İ've noticed too.

[@Funeeman]

His behaviour towards the camera seems almost professional. If he was a local who dressed up in his Sunday best and followed the camera all day you would think he would fool around a bit , pull a face here and there, but his manner does suggest he was with the film crew.

[@dnajournal4321]

Maybe he was related to the camera man. The clips look like they were taken on different days.

[@stevec6965]

The best part of this film is No I-Phones. People are actually looking up and are aware of their surroundings.

[@naturewitch8687]

Just amazing 🤩 capturing the children’s faces 😊

[@mdhs8248]

Imagine telling these people at the time that in the year 2020 people would watch this

[@mdhs8248]

@@c7uk yeah some dodgy phrasing there lmao

[@c7uk]

mdhs 😁 Maybe you just missed “on miniature handheld picture-houses” at the end 😉

[@ervicito77]

Some of us watching them on mobile phones too. 😂

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

What if I told you 100 years from now, a new generation would be reading through these very comments we are submitting today?

[@rontv7747]

@@1LuvMLPFiM What if I told you 100 years from now, a new generation wouldn't give two poops about these very comments we are submitting today?

[@totalbread7603]

When your grandfather told you, at your age he was already working, literally.

[@TheChrisEMartin]

My Father started work at 14, my Grandfather started work at 10.....These days it would be called child exploitation.

[@Kingfisher1215]

I’m not that old and I started working at 8. I raised 14 acres of corn. Dad was busy so he had me do it. I worked every summer from then on, either on our place or with others. At 13 I was living in a hotel room with three other guys who were about 18 while working on a hay crew. That was about 40 years ago is all.

[@gfdchugh]

@@TheChrisEMartin actually in some countries its still happening even though its not legal

[@LecraneJ]

@@TheChrisEMartin because it is!!!!

[@vio3366]

Absolutely, my family was still poor but my grandmother at 10 years old was already working.

[@redwandennaoui4508]

Found this clip fascinating,

[@louise7552]

This is the very END OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND. She died in 1901. Then it was the Edwardian era. Amazing footage 👏

[@foreignparticle1320]

The profundity of this footage, for me at least, is how recognisable all the faces are - the reactions, the expressions, the stares. "Victorian England" feels so alien as a concept, like a different world. But no, it's the same world, with the same people feeling the same things as I do. People are the same as ever.

[@oldman1734]

Depends on what you mean by “the same”. In Uxbridge shopping area (Boris’ constituency) today I would say only 10 percent of the very busy place were white British.

[@markofsaltburn]

Don’t kid yourself we’re the same. I don’t think you’ll ever know how it feels to pick which of your children will have to become a prostitute so that the others will have food in the table.

[@markofsaltburn]

@@oldman1734 A significant number of these people would’ve been the children of Irish migrant workers.

[@oldman1734]

@@markofsaltburn. I’m not sure of the significance of your comment.

[@AlbPerNil]

Same as I thought, people’s emotions don’t change

[@ChrisGurin]

I look at the kids in 1901, then think where they'll be thirteen years latter: the trenches of France, engaged in the nightmare curtain raiser for the 20th century.

[@IE-sc8bz]

If they make it to 1918 they will then experience the Spanish flu pandemic. We have had it pretty good in modern times, hopefully our generation can look back and say we met our challenge with dignity and honor.

[@ChrisGurin]

IE 87 it’s a bit depressing when I look around and wonder if this might be our “golden age.” There’s always some who rise to challenges, but too many who don’t dominate the story. Sorry to be such a pessimist.

[@Fratton368]

My father was born in England 1901, volunteered for WWI and served as a horse boy in the artillery. He went on to survive the flu and the depression . Got called up for the BEF in 1939, was picked off Dunkirk beach, patched up and sent to northern Africa. He made it home, died 1972.

[@ChrisGurin]

David Porter He was an amazing man. Looks like we may have to go through our own fires, and can only hope to measure up to the same standards.

[@lorenzor4024]

Yes, it's shocking when you think of the future looming over of these people. But it's also mind-blowing that we do not know what the future has in store for us 13 years from today.

[@ritamarchenkova1148]

Muchas gracias 👍 me encanta

[@tankiwolf]

the black and white guy at 1:10 seem really nice

[@catfordkat]

I thought he was black initially but look at his hands, its probably soot on his face

[@lattemacchiato858]

Their clothes for today's standards make them look stylish, even the children

[@shadowshadow2724]

really ? not backwards?

[@leonmeyer3136]

I'd say more of SMOKING SEXY SYTLE !!!

[@maiorian4668]

@@shadowshadow2724 Backwards?Srsly?bruh people these days just wear t-shirts and plain clothing on the streets.In the video,even the children wear suits and vests lmao

[@prussianbluephantom3968]

@@Martin-km4sl Those were the older ladies. The younger ones wore loose fitting dresses. Non-provocative but still really pretty.

[@Lytton333]

@@Martin-km4sl It was known , at least at one time, as 'modesty' wear, but the woollen scarves covering the head and shoulders were also protection against moving machinery parts as all women had long hair, even though it was worn up a lot of the time. Also, the scarves provided warm protection from the biting winter winds and rain. So a dual function really.

[@itsbeiko]

The fact everyone just stares at you really makes you feel like you travelled back in time and they are all scared but curious of this person who looks so different than everyone else

[@ainanmdjr8512]

Lol thats what Ive been thinking

[@dmv_jmoney3446]

Sad thing is that most of them or all of them are dead

[@thebomber5028]

@@dmv_jmoney3446 no shit lol

[@GuitarBillCurran]

I think part of why they stand so still and stare is that they're used to having to be very still to get their picture taken and they've probably never heard of video before and can't quite wrap their head around it.

[@laobok]

@@dmv_jmoney3446 Gee, what an original thought.

[@British_Protestant]

Modesty of the women is astonishing