Earliest surviving film and sound recording 1888

1888, the year of the death of the composer Charles-Valentin Alkan (Chopin's friend and neighbour) is also the year of the earliest surviving recording of music and earliest recorded film. Combined on this video is the earliest surviving recording of music (a live performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt conducted by Sir August Manns, recorded by Edison engineer George E. Gouraud at Crystal Palace, London, England, 29th June 1888) and the earliest surviving recorded film (shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in Leeds, England in October 1888): Roundhay Garden Scene (filmed 14 October 1888) and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (filmed late October 1888). In the Roundhay Garden Scene (filmed in the garden of the Whitley family home in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, Leeds, England) are the following people (from the left at beginning of sequence): Adolphe Le Prince (the film maker's son), Miss Harriet Hartley, Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (the film maker's mother-in-law), and Joseph Whitley (the film maker's business partner). The original film was shot at 12 frames per second and lasts 2 seconds. Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge was filmed in Leeds, England in late October 1888, at 20 frames per second. For more information on the 1888 Crystal Palace recordings visit the following excellent youtube page: watch?v=-qDwz3JdD1c

[@alyctus]

Imagine if recording was invented 2-3 centuries earlier. It would be so fascinating to see famous historical people, footages of battles, kings and queens, cities, famous composers in operas.

[@jannisdavidzwahlen]

Silmarien Ingoldo ez pz.. A stone camera..

[@WayPastCrazy2525]

Silmarien Ingoldo ... "If man is still alive...." centuries from now, they'll be able to look at this very day and time we live in now with all the clarity as if they were here with us.

[@rosedawsoncalvertiv5003]

That would be us...200-300 years from now

[@stevedavesteve4224]

Worm Hole Camera..... Read 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C. Clarke. It's a fictional story about scientist developing wormhole technology where light can be passed instantaneously between points in the spacetime continuum. Great book!

[@savedbygodsgrace.9058]

We're creating our own history. .

[@glor4330]

Watching this is like looking into a other world

[@bhonor12]

this sounds like my fucking sleep parallis nightmare dream...💤

[@JamesIrwins78s]

+Nibblet At that time we did not have that stuff On other hand I was born 1906

[@nat_lol4428]

+bhonor12 fkin sleep paralysis is creepy as sht i get it almost everydat

[@snuffmeister6720]

+James Irwin pfff hahahahahaha

[@Vector_Ze]

+Nibblet I bet you're right. But, how does that matter in any way? It's like saying they couldn't imagine any of thousands of things which have been invented in the past 127 years. You can live without cell phones, you can live without television, etc. It could easiy be argued your life would be better without them.

[@funforsameer1769]

Just imagine their reactions if they knew we would be watching this in the year 2017.. Almost 130 years ago.. The fact that we have something so old and footage of it blows my mind.. I'm 20 right now, I wonder what the world would be like in the year 2100. That's 83 years from now. I hope I can live up to the age of 103 to reply to this comment!

[@ianrobson9601]

I`ll be long gone by then

[@sotirpetrov95]

there wont be a you tube in the year 2100.:D

[@riddlers91]

If i live that long, ill come by and like that comment too

[@Jotari]

I hope youtube alerts me to your reply 80 odd years from now.

[@janesmith3287]

I agree. I have been going through some family photographs from the 1890s and feel the same and an 1865 family letter - that as a family we have kept these things so long! it is quite a responsibility to keep it going.

[@GlenJ57]

I suspect two hundred years from now, people will be seeing videos from our era. They might all say "Everyone in that video is long gone dead."

[@Walkercolt1]

Not likely at all. Have you got a Beta-Max player? How about a 5 1/2" floppy disc that is floppy? Will any 35mm movie projectors still be in existence? I have a working Amperex 2" reel-to-reel video recorder and the stuff it takes to make it work in my garage, but it doesn't use a TV format that's in use today, so, unless you have a pre-1989 NTSC TV, you can't watch the tapes. The CD and DVD are sadly dying. No known digital medium is archival, that is, known to last for 100 years without deteriorating. B&W photographs are archival, but only them and granite tablets are. Maybe the gold records on the side of the Voyagers...but it will be 53 million years before anyone will be able to hear it. Our Sun will have super-nova-ed Millions of years before that...

[@sage_silvestris]

Watching the videos currently on youtube they will wonder if all people were insane in this period.

[@dorlow3765]

Followed up with "thank goodness....all those shit tic-tok videos"

[@owowhatsthis._.6943]

Maybe

[@mattbrawner7888]

All of our stuff has been converted to digital now. It definitely will be viewable just as it is now. Yes they will see our videos.

[@Onmysheet]

Fascinating how the people in this film never had their minds crossed that somebody like me would be watching them in 2016 on an iPad.

[@duvu308]

Nope, they knew their film was one of the poineer motion pictures to be saved, copied for wordwide publicity.

[@tylerjonhson2986]

You don't know what they knew. Plenty of odd things cross my mind that no one would seemingly suspect

[@ryanthompsonthompson820]

Onmysheet well said and wonderfully put, right on.

[@blackhawk32b4]

Didn't think anyone even used IPads anymore

[@bryant7542]

1800s man revived: By God, portable moving pictures! Alfred have a gander! "Seems as if they've contained film in a hand-held contraption" And what of this 'screen'? Something of supreme engineering I would wonder.

[@TopLists]

Even in 1888 people enjoyed making gifs

[@arryo2365]

😁

[@rajenderkumar752]

very nyc

[@thankunext1625]

lmao

[@obscurelyvague]

Now that is a good point

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Now that’s funny.

[@joseguerreroneri18]

I'm watching this at 4 am with the lights off and the window open in my room. Feeling the breeze and it being played on Bluetooth speaker, this is an eerie and yet beautiful sensation.

[@Kalaxian80animations]

You almost described my eXPerience! Except the bluetooth speaker

[@glowinggold9488]

it has a creep feel to it. Watching it early Dec 26 2020

[@Chanticlair47]

My great grandmother was born that year. She died in 1976.

[@billybletsos4758]

So sorry for your loss then.

[@Chanticlair47]

@Billy Bletsos she’s been dead almost half a century, but thanks anyway.

[@billybletsos4758]

@@Chanticlair47 I know I'm just saying my sympathy now for all those years ago

[@Chanticlair47]

@@alexvalenzuela508 My great grandmother did have a mouth on her like George Patton! LOL!

[@biggiesmells6931]

amazing what happened in "just" 128 years

[@BiscuitGirl9154]

But just think, people back then thought their technology was impressive compared to 1768

[@Native722]

Just think in 2216, they'll be laughing at us 2016.

[@planetX15]

+Native722 Why not 2116?

[@adeadaccount.30]

+planetX15 why not 2016?

[@adeadaccount.30]

+Kay Cray_108 why not 2017

[@mykneecapshurt]

this video is honestly so surreal and dreamlike. the repeating, simple films being looped over and over, the crackle in the recording, the weird "chugging" sound, and the music itself. it feels like a dream.

[@HwoarangtheBoomerang]

Imagine it with "Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium": kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSldZ95ZbNriMU

[@MalliTrAxxZz]

I don't think dream is the word here, nightmare makes a whole world of more realistic to describe it.

[@despicable9326]

it fells like a ARG

[@catherinemay9997]

You are right, surreal...it doesn't feel like a nightmare, but I surely agree it might to some.

[@fanfam]

Until the discovery of an 1860 recording of “Au clair de la lune” in 2009, this haunting excerpt from Handel's oratorio recorded in 1888 was the oldest known recorded human voice in existence. A note on the cylinder reads: "A chorus of 4000 voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away". It was recorded by Col. George Gouraud, a foreign sales agent for Thomas Edison on June 29 at The 1888 Ninth Triennial Handel Festival at Crystal Palace, London, only a few days after the death of the German Emperor, Friedrich III. The conductor is August Manns.

[@lryoung3655]

This was filmed in the same year as the jack the ripper murders..

[@wagiecagie]

The mighty Mr Ronson holy shit, thats true

[@terrysigmon3119]

Great Fun Fact.

[@JMartinez351]

Maybe he's in the crowd :/

[@lryoung3655]

@@JMartinez351 maybe he is.. it's an interesting thought.

[@knobhead5756]

@@terrysigmon3119 not fun but interesting

[@victorlinge92]

Amazing to think that Beethoven was composing music only 61 years before this was recorded....

[@rustykoehler2789]

It is really neat.

[@Jotinko]

This was closer to the Civil War than World War 1 (23 years before and 26 years prior).

[@afxm-1190]

Liszt died 2 years before this

[@RowanT]

i don't know why but this video gave me a very weird vibe. its kinda eerie

[@General1719]

Yeah, the background sound is terrifying.

[@RowanT]

Weijian Ge that too i think all of it is unnerving

[@SockFullOfCatLitter]

On Mystery Science Theater 3000 once they were watching a really old sporting event clip and Joel said "Kinda creepy but everyone in this is dead." :P

[@RowanT]

***** lol also i love mst3k too

[@adeadaccount.30]

it's creepy

[@Cz1w_]

The internet was so slow back then it took him 122 years to upload this😂

[@knobhead5756]

Lmao right it's so bad

[@jiMinizer49ers]

Also no 60fps and 4k. I'm dissapointed

[@64powers]

Cziw 😂🤣

[@ElementiaYT]

Waiting for the r/woooosh

[@Carson_TK]

Lol the internet was that bad in 1888 😂

[@Ryan_2112]

You have to remember... all those people shown in this video are now dead. Not a single person during this recording is alive today. That's crazy.

[@jermfanaccount]

Holy shi-

[@wisdaniel]

You do realize that they've most likely died 70 years ago, especially the adults. The child seen on the street would be over 120 years old, so likely has been dead at least 20 plus years.

[@Shwee113]

@@wisdaniel 2018-1888 = 130 (extra dead)

[@joesmiththedon4792]

No that guy with the hat on is still alive. I saw him last week.

[@ShaunMoore]

Everybody knows that.

[@smarthawk9373]

Wonder what people in 100 years looking back at us will think ?

[@anotherkat4u]

+Smart Hawk they will think " those people were 'tards.."

[@sleeping_giant0620]

+Smart Hawk "MY EYES! EVERYTHING IS COLORFUL!"

[@elsakristina2689]

I wonder what our ancestors from the 1800s would think of US?

[@danielh9252]

+Smart Hawk "Man, they *loved* booty videos!"

[@pure_dominator3378]

I wonder what futuristic music will be like

[@tonytuffers]

Scary to think these people are long dead. It's like watching ghosts.

[@tonytuffers]

***** Not me, I'm immortal. I'm going to live forever

[@Keith9698]

The first clips filmmaker went missing and 2 of the people in it died within a year or so. Do not quote me on this, however.

[@tonytuffers]

Keith Whitaker There are tales regarding the people at the beginning, at the very spot where the house once stood, to this day, ghostly figures have been seen walking around in a circle as if trapped in a perpetual cinematic loop .

[@adamsyed5535]

***** I wonder how many thumbs up your comment will have in 100 years.

[@SuperCabrito14]

tony tookie I wasn't planning on sleeping anyway

[@Fevertorium]

Every time I see old video or photographs like this, it always strikes me that each and everyone of us living at this moment, had a direct descendant somewhere on the planet at the very minute this media was taken.

[@jelly7310]

Maybe even in that choir.

[@GEOFF0906]

antecedent

[@chazzat3113]

it's creepy to thing every single person on this video, even the youngest of babies are dead now

[@teomartini1105]

No, it is just nature, Mr. Einstein!

[@Walkercolt1]

Yes, and no one who fought in World War One is alive, or was in the US Civil War, or the Spanish-American War, and only one person who was an infant is alive from the sinking of the Titanic (as of 5-20-2020).

[@nordleuchter3041]

Everyone alive on the entire planet when this video was recorded is long dead now.

[@StormOfMaat]

@@nordleuchter3041 Are you familiar with the novel The Name of This Book is Secret? If so, what if Mrs. Mauvais found all those people from these clips and gave them the immortal Midnight Sun spa-treatment? o_o

[@marabras4959]

Some random bacteria there is probably alive

[@cpufreak101]

there is something pretty eerie about watching/listening to stuff this old. because the people who made it, produced it, recorded it, were in it, everyone that had to do with it, are all dead.

[@changoloboperro]

and we. you and me are the next ...in one century another random guy go to watch us

[@alexanderraul6728]

they will say " like if you are watching it in 2150"

[@George-ie1si]

Alexandren Raul The world won't last that long.

[@swebb5142]

That's what all these people said... And it's what people 125 years from now will say... Earth is almost 4 billion years old... It could last a few billion years more ya know!!!

[@cpufreak101]

***** surprisingly not really, at the rate life expectancies are going up, some of us (primarily below 25) have a good chance of living to 100, and they say the first person to live to 150 was already born

[@star_gazer2967]

it's funny bc you can tell right from the very first clip they were fascinated just by seeing the movement on the film, it's like they almost didn't know what to do with themselves when testing it out... I'm sure you all remember trying your first video recorders and how we all just kind of did something dumb and random and unplanned to test it out, and over time turned into a pro... just like how far the "art" has come in the past 138 years. Was fun to see ت

[@bryant7542]

Imagine being a part of something so new and fascinating like a motion picture. I imagine the cameraman told them to act and move normally and they'd be happy in being a part of something so new and amazing. Looks like a blend of having fun and an act of what they would normally do in action. People did have a stranger walk pattern back then, a lot of times more bounce and elegance. Not sure if that was on purpose in the first clip or them having fun with it. The clothing was so beautiful back then, I like that lady at the garden scene's dress.

[@bryant7542]

The filmmaker told the man walking "To do something silly" for the camera. The man walking is his son and the other man was the filmmaker's friend.

[@johnalfred8319]

Star _gazer 129 years not 138

[@planetX15]

+Alyssa Isn't it 130 years now? Depending on which month this was filmed in.

[@danbam3411]

Star _gazer and within 100 years later (1988), that said technology would be used to make major movies like Die Hard or Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Can you imagine how puzzled and dumbfounded in amazement these folks would have been to see these movies? Complete culture shock.

[@adandelahoya2815]

This gave me chills... of how scary it is to see recorded footage of Life that long ago... that's 120 years ago!!!!...

[@penelopeboivin3191]

Imagine being part of the choir, or orchestra playing this. Knowing that your the sounds you currently make will be one of the first to blend trough time, for future generations to discover. You, and hundreds of others next to you, finished the play, and then you listen to the recording, the immortalized sounds that will be kept forever to be hurd by everyone. Then you realize that it sounds absolutely terrifying, you don’t hear any of your music and barely the choir, the only sounds playing is a creepy thumping noise, and it sounds like it may be the cries of satan himself. And it was the only recorder available for the next 40 years. "Well it’s better than nothing I guess..."

[@strictmizu]

._. Dang that's umm something

[@SparkySINN]

Dats da Devils train

[@DoomKid]

Most people wouldn’t be so negative. They went from having nothing at all in the way of audio recordings, to having SOMETHING. With no basis of comparison, the fact that it is able to be played back at all, even very scratchy, would be mind-blowingly cool. They recorded this scratchy audio back then, paving the way so that we may one day have HD audio recordings. That’s magnificent!

[@Tessa3yearsAgo]

It sounds so very creepy!

[@mrhaha.]

it didn't sound like that originally

[@user-uz4cc6qz1q]

0:44 I like re-watching this street scene and just focus on different people each time. It's literally a window into the past, an everyday in the 1800s. I wonder what people were thinking about while they were walking along the street. idk it just fascinates me lol

[@cpufreak101]

i agree, especially considering all of these people are now dead, yet they remain immortalized as numerous backups of the footage probably exist now. live even if we were preparing to set up a mars colony, i'd bet money a backup of this would be sent up to our future space colonies.

[@theodoresquires9528]

What really blows my mind is that all those lamps probably burned whale oil shipped in from the United States.

[@myomadd]

It's amazing to think this comes from a time still classified as the Victorian era. Even more amazing to think that "jay walker" was a horrendous word, and even more amazing to think that the people in these scenes could possibly have grandchildren who are still alive to this day.

[@changoloboperro]

me too :')

[@abluesman55]

changoloboperro m

[@SuspiciouslyDLicious]

The only super-power that I ever wished for was the ability to travel trough time. That being impossible, this will have to do......

[@lewisjohnson3218]

I have the same wish

[@Keewaf]

+SuspiciouslyDLicious When I was a little kid I always thought I'd be able to time travel when I got older. I realize the only way I could get the same feeling of time travel is through dreaming, specifically lucid dreaming.

[@jocoolor1]

traveling to the past wouldn't be as great as you think. It would stink...literally.

[@SuspiciouslyDLicious]

joce - it literally stinks now, depending on which chemical plant or oil refinery you live next to. - oh, and people are still being poisoned by lead! In San Francisco and other cities, the stench of urine and feces on some streets is overwhelming. I know, because I live in the big city.....

[@jocoolor1]

+SuspiciouslyDLicious come join us in the country,we have room 😊

[@c.m.5804]

No, the earliest known sound recording was in 1860 of a person singing "Au Claire de la Lune"

[@Walkercolt1]

No sorry. No sound recordings before 1874 were made. Goggle it. Even Wacky-pedia is semi-correct.

[@alexisdougherty2652]

@@Walkercolt1 Actually he's right. The catch is that the device used to make that early recording wasn't really a phonograph like we know today but more like an oscillograph. It simply traced the audio waveform as a wiggly line on a piece of paper and was used for scientific research. The technology to actually PLAY BACK such a recording did not exist until recently.

[@kristianferencik8685]

Earliest sound recording demo was made in 1835-1836 in France though there are no known surviving records. The first known official sound recording that exist is the guitar strum made in 1853/4. The misconception is that Thomas Edison created the first audio recording device in 1877 but it was actually inspired by the phonautograph patented in 1857 by Edourd Leon Scott that was based of another early prototype made in 1835/6 that didn't see much use.

[@Mattthemangler]

@@kristianferencik8685 interdasting

[@jrexx2841]

Send link pls

[@stickman2846]

My favorite part was when he walked across the lawn.

[@MinamuTV]

Does anyone else find this video rather scary?

[@baseballaddict2838]

I do. It's just weird to hear the music with it as well. It's crazy to think about.

[@SubtenkoGaming]

Yep...but lets try to think of cool happy thoughts, like what if we had a time machine and showed these people GTA V Online. They would flip out!!!!

[@MinamuTV]

SubtenkoGaming I don't know if you're being serious or satirical...if it's satire, it's brilliant.

[@SubtenkoGaming]

MinamuTV If you dont want to know the truth, dont read any further... . . I'm serious, I can imagine it, but not fully cause its so radical.

[@Onmysheet]

It's down to the errie music. It reminds me of Smashing Pumpkin's 17, it's not similar, but close enough.

[@livsangelsvensson4666]

I can´t stop wondering who those people were. What were their oppinions about things, were they very religious, what was their sense of humour like. Stuff like that.

[@livsangelsvensson4666]

I was curious about who they were.

[@livsangelsvensson4666]

But I would compare them to today´s people. I think that happens more or less automatically.

[@Punki80]

Read the Diary of Samuel Pepys, it´s from the 1660´s. I read it and it was a real eye opener. People were always the same basically. Only in those days they were much tougher and braver, it seems. But mind you, they had no choice in the face of the plague and harsh every day life.

[@mrsbrownandhercat]

They were the Whitley family, Le Prince's in-laws. His wife Elizabeth was the sister of John Whitley, who ran the family business of brass-founders and engineers. Le Prince and his wife, a celebrated artist, started the Leeds Technical School of Art, and the Whitley company developed a method of printing photography on to brass and pottery. They would have been well briefed and rehearsed before this "shoot", which was time-limited by the system of rolled paper that served as film, before celluloid was available.

[@threedragonstalk2123]

You know there are books on Victorian values and lifestyle you don't have to just wonder, you can read up on it, it's not an unknown thing.

[@dillanbrownbp]

these people lived their entire lives without any video or audio recordings, just books

[@ilbftman]

Look how far we've come since then and in a mere 132 years. Imagine even 50 years from now?

[@KK-pq6lu]

Wonder what the dinosaurs REALLY accomplished over a million years.

[@bax323]

And little did they know who would be born in Austria a year later.

[@changoloboperro]

LOL...

[@BiscuitGirl9154]

No it was ur mom

[@fuqupal]

Lil' Adolf!

[@fuqupal]

Yes!

[@SonicMatrix64]

A man who would do nothing wrong

[@revenueeeeeee]

The sound almost leaves a smell of an old book,an ancient flower lies flat between the pages with a daguerreotype wrapped in an old frayed Victorian wedding veil,kissed by the coldness of death long ago.

[@randyplatz5121]

Well someone’s been brushing up on their writing technique

[@RabieM]

The camera! Man's greatest invention

[@charlie8970]

It's like looking through a window from now into the past would love to spend a day with these people

[@tardigradegaming2132]

Imagine that videos where so expensive to make. Now it is pretty much a part of our daily lives.

[@brandicrans7381]

Wow... Filmed during the same time as the Jack the Ripper slayings in Britain... Filmed just a bit over 20 years after the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination and the abolishing of slavery in America.... Filmed just a few years before the infamous Lizzie Borden murders... Filmed barely 20 years before the Titanic sinking and World War I... Filmed almost 30 years before the Great Depression and approximately 50 odd years before World War II... Just some interesting things to think about when watching this video!

[@dayzofreckoning3154]

That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas so your saying random tradegies are uncommon and only happen at this era?

[@brandicrans7381]

John Meli I didn't say that. I just find it interesting that this video was taken around the same time as those events that happened years ago. I just find it neat. I dunno why... lol. XD

[@dayzofreckoning3154]

That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas lol

[@MikeGreenwood51]

+That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas Filmed the year before the birth of Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin.

[@brandicrans7381]

Michael Greenwood That's right! How could I forget that? Thanks...

[@Enzo012]

The guy walking in the foreground died like a week after filming this. They thought his soul was then preserved into the film.

[@friendlysky7674]

Really?

[@IchbinSchalker]

Everything is so fascinating! I could keep watching this repeatedly for hours.

[@besweetcandyco]

this almost makes me want to cry. it looks so scary yet so beautiful and simple idk.

[@matthewthomasjames]

Sidemen Vines What's scary is live nowadays.

[@Curi0u50ne]

Sidemen Edits just daft or what?!

[@PoliticalprisonUK]

it seems strange to look at lives long gone echoing across the sea of time , Only to realise that is our fate to.

[@rocketstoat152]

Capn Birdseye deep

[@12345678900987659101]

Time is a man made thing, do bears and other animals care if it's the 23rd of April or 2:30 A.M. They only want to survive. Man made time as a way to perceive things, in a sense time both exists and doesn't from different perspectives, animal and man. That's my theory

[@PoliticalprisonUK]

they care about the onset of winter

[@Vector_Ze]

+Capn Birdseye And Spring, and night time, and daylight, etc. Yeah, it's not just a human thing ... we gave it names. But, even for us, a 'thing' doesn't have to have a name to exist.

[@fonzy2469]

+smart451cab Exactly. I hate when people say time is just a concept made by humans. Dig up a grave and look at what time does to the body. Leave a car unattended for for years and look at what happens to it. Leave milk out past the expiration date and drink it.... >_>

[@Stellaluna88]

The older lady on the right died ten days after this film was recorded. This fact makes it even more spooky for me.

[@jasong6967]

I just realized that video cameras are time machines 🤯

[@zopbdq3215]

dude what have you done to my brain ?!?! this is crazy!

[@ConyCees]

Still has better picture quality than my phone's camera.

[@ThePranav325]

LMAO

[@Onmysheet]

And today's CCTV.

[@memmoman]

Cons oha

[@friendlysky7674]

and chinas fake iPhones af

[@nariko47]

so haunting, so beautiful, and nostalgic

[@numberninety-five9212]

they are all day

[@Zen-sx5io]

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr You mean "dead"?

[@rayrose4961]

What an awesome comment to leave it is very very cool

[@mohsen2327]

Nostalgic? Lol

[@JINSEN1]

mohsen bugemskii right 😂 aint nothing nostalgic about this

[@rednovember2205]

When video quality from 1888 is better than some from 2017.

[@h.t.awesome3822]

Still better than KZbin rewind 2018

[@ajricherson1099]

It's better quality than half the bigfoot recordings.

[@GreenLightMe]

I can't wait until they do a re-make of this for Summer of 2018!

[@veto1087]

Xyoung818 y

[@schifahrer123]

lol

[@john-wo4rv]

L0L

[@donotpress5729]

ool

[@billypoppins9138]

GreenLightMe not long buddy

[@wierdsmabob]

The actual shortage looks very short seeing several loops of each scenes.

[@tomholland2425]

2020? Im on quarantine and i just love watching old videos

[@porridgeenjoyer]

Same here

[@porridgeenjoyer]

From Kenya

[@jbs901]

Cell phones had crappy video quality back then.

[@662wc5]

It was really hard to get a signal then, too

[@SockFullOfCatLitter]

It was also edited on a 386.

[@leipapuska101]

well then they had no color, it was not invented yet.. can you imagine a life without color ? I'm so glad that Edison Einstein invented it, we should all thank him !

[@jbs901]

...and Ben Franklin for inventing electricity!

[@Jinaria101]

Dorast i think we'd still be ok and maybe kids who didn't know any better would be able to tell apart a fantasy to reality just by seeing footage in black and white

[@foskeight8]

All I know is there was no air-conditioning and those people are all wearing some heavy-ass clothes...

[@cpufreak101]

you see the beginning? it was late October when the recording was made.

[@662wc5]

So if it was July 1888 they'd be in t-shirts, shorts, and flip flops??

[@SockFullOfCatLitter]

No Crocs?

[@MrProguitarist123]

Air conditioning outdoors duh? How are you sure what temparature is it anyways

[@MrProguitarist123]

Air conditioning outdoors duh? How are you sure what temparature it is anyways

[@Ihelpanytime]

This film is older than me, aged 129 years (As of 2017)... I feel young.

[@stronkblyat6435]

This film is older than my Great Grandfather, who born in 1905

[@scratchpad7954]

How they were able to preserve the developed film for the last 130 years is utterly astounding.

[@Onmysheet]

Imagine if you went back in time to this day dressed as you are today. You would be famous in seconds.

[@clairee4939]

You'd probably be sent to Bedlam if you told the you were from the future!

[@Onmysheet]

Claire E Or probably hung.

[@clairee4939]

Indeed! Such better simpler times hey! ;-)

[@Onmysheet]

Claire E Famous in a bad way.

[@Rudolph1722]

More like horribly ridiculed

[@eclecticjon1019]

Must have been awful, like you're trapped in a 4 second groundhog day. Those poor people.

[@Groggreg]

I really hope your being sarcastic, you can't be that thick

[@maxharrison9681]

welcome to the internet

[@Groggreg]

It's saddening

[@eclecticjon1019]

+Greg Brooks Come on, really guys? You didn't get that it was a joke? How saddening, oh well, welcome to the Internet!

[@maxharrison9681]

Haha exactly my thoughts, I think if took even 1% of what I see on the internet seriously then I would have lost faith in humanity much sooner.

[@amandaknox6344]

To my relief, the phone didn't ring and tell me I have 7 days 😂

[@BusterMaxwellTV]

Fascinating, and a very eerie mix! Thank you, Mr. Gibbons.

[@chrisrob722]

wow I remember this like yesterday.. that was me walking on the right

Yep, that totally happened.

[@yungm0n3ym0vi3star]

+Chris Lo fuk em once shame on u, fuk em twice shame on em, fuk her 3 times might as well fuk her again

[@chrisrob722]

+y0ungm0n3ym0vi3star wow you're right. . never thought about it that way before. ..

[@observeandreport2011]

Pepridge farms remembers

[@adamsyed5535]

+Bender Bending Rodriguez Nat Geo as well...

[@DanielSloane]

These two videos were made the same month that Jack the Ripper was stalking London.

[@Chancelander]

Daniel Sloane Yikes, that's an interesting footnote!

[@DavidGriffithsTweetUwrite]

Daniel Sloane he may have been on the camera. lol

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Most of the evidence suggests it was the other way around- Alice had a crush on HIM.

[@JamesIrwins78s]

+David Frigault That's true but I remember doing a different type of thing at that time when I was a little kid when someone or something died we did not take a picture in 1911 my dog died I was only five years old

[@deckofcards87]

+David Frigault You know a lot about human perversions and serial killers. You study psychology ?

[@williampalenik7306]

Very neat to see very old video footage of the late 1800's when it was just starting to come out and most people think movie /film started in the twentieth century as silent film, but it is nice to see what life was like back then

[@johnd8892]

A lot more movie footage from 1896 onwards with the much more practical Lumiere Brothers film reel breakthrough invention that movie film still uses, with refinements, to this day.

[@sharadbagadi6382]

What may be more beautiful than it !! I thankful by heart of him/her who upload this video !!....superb video 👌👌

[@Phaedrax2]

My grandfather was born in 1888 (died in WW1 age 26) - which is why this film caught my eye, It's interesting to see how the world was then, for my great grandparents.

[@sebas5703]

Wow so young sorry for your loss

[@bobsilver3983]

looks better quality than some of the Potato digital cameras in the 90's

[@Rilumai]

Because it used film. It even looked a lot better back then before the film degraded.

[@carftyrl487]

Time goes by quick it been 3 years since you've wrote that comment

[@bobsilver3983]

@@carftyrl487 I know, I forgot I wrote that comment

[@JackBradley07]

Idk why but the audio is giving me chills

[@maryreilly5092]

Simply astounding to me. I am awestruck that we have this to listen to. Despite the awful static, I can hear their voices singing ...from 1888! I only wish we had a recording of Jenny Lind. I would love to hear the most famous singer of the 1800's but unfortunately, she sang 20 years prior to this very first recording here. Thank you for posting this

[@desify6393]

All these people in that film are dead.

[@desify6393]

***** :P

[@shandevin5417]

+John@HF lol everyone alive on planet earth during 1888 is dead

[@shandevin5417]

Dmitriy Shepelev lol so 1 person i knew that too 1 person isnt shit wouldnt matter if 100 are alive still basically everyone on the planet alive then is dead 99.99 percent

[@chestosneakoinc]

+Astro Not only they're dead... but they're in Hell too!

[@euronymid]

There are two people from the 1800s left in 2015 wow

[@slyc00p29]

worlds first gif?

[@nathangoedeke694]

It's pronounced "gif"

[@slentzz]

nope its pronounced "gilf"

[@slyc00p29]

Nathan Goedeke jif*

[@infinightsky]

im sure i could get a porn version out of it.

[@bryant7542]

Well back then film was developed by basically taking pictures rapidly in frames and that would be condensed onto film reel type things making the motion picture.

[@suaiman4263]

I wonder what strangers will be watching us 200 years from now and what 'yet to be created' technology they will be using.

[@GOKU_868]

IMAGINE PEOPLE WATCHING US FROM THE YEAR 3019 WHAT WOULD THEY THINK OF US😕

[@friendlysky7674]

They’ll think of this video scary, us quirky lol:)

[@ededos478]

Interesting, this must have been phenomenal back when people first watched it.

[@alicelee2829]

why am I scared while watching this.

[@Riuki19]

because everyone in the video is dead

[@McMurphyMillions]

+Alice Lee uncanny valley

[@elliewallwork4]

You're not the only one

[@ragerun5692]

I was home alone at 2 o'clock watching this

[@jessica8646]

right kookie !! 😉 everytime I feel weird watching this, as if some kind of screamer will pop up and scare me (btw, it's nice to see some fellow kpopers on here, we're everywhere ☺✌)

[@fstover5208]

Your description is a bit misleading. In 1888 there was no way to synchronize celluloid with audio on the same reel. At best, the audio was made on a wax cylinder and roughly timed with the moving images using two playbacks. Granted, there were a lot of experiments between 1888 and the advent of 'talkies', but actual sound movies in any commercial sense didn't come about till the late 20's.

[@commandoslayer]

Time passes so fast.

[@MalliTrAxxZz]

Yet so slow.

[@1cmman]

Amazing. It was another world entirely.

[@stan5990]

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

[@kobeyballer]

I know seeing this is just awesome

[@stan5990]

Funny thing is I find that if the pictures are in colour all the distance in time seems to disappear and it doesn't seem nearly so remote then. Do you find that? It's a bit unsettling.

[@bryant7542]

Some things amazingly remain the same after all that time. A fountain in new York comes to mind. This bridge that they walk across in the video is virtually the same now as it was in 1887 when it was built.

[@neonflashsparkotron5435]

Martin Sorensen creepy too!!

[@way2muchNFO]

forever dancing

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

Best comment ever!

[@aydenstockham1143]

So far for 132 years

[@Tinyoak2]

Imagine if they had actually caught THE Jack the ripper on film just walking the streets here and didn't even know it.

[@MMDAMV]

There is nothing quite as humbling as peering into the distant past. To see all of these individuals, all who have passed on, truly makes me appreciate my time here and how I am but an infinitesimal piece in time.

[@Langdell1989]

still better than the new ghostbusters movie

[@macho8240]

Charles Higgens amen on that

[@juniourst3ven596]

The 2016 GARBAGE FILM!

[@Quaronna]

💀

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

Any film that treats women as a subset of men is an absolute shitheap of a film.

[@knobhead5756]

@@ARCtheCartoonMaster they had to make it all about feminism

[@fukkyougod]

For some reason this makes me think everything was black and white back then.

[@giocogames]

I used to think everything was black and white before colour tv's... (fucking google telling me that i'm spelling colour wrong)

[@kdeckner]

Everything is STILL black and white!

[@shaolintemple6886]

Patrick Deckner Well Said.

[@TheOldOakSyndicate]

giocogames Set you KZbin language to English (United Kingdom), I think that should help.

[@readingthroughhistor]

I've literally had students ask if people used to see everything in black and white.

[@squishygrapeschannel2227]

The video about the train arriving in 1896 even has more pixels than this video.

[@Sperry411]

Little did they know that in 2018, every human being on earth owns a gadget that records a video like this and 1,000 times better.

[@Carphonic]

To think all these people took their last breath in the 1940's

[@XRunNGun]

chanctonbury63 Hey means that judging upon their age and life expectancy, it is likely the last of those people would have died around then

[@LuWyndaful]

Carphon And the sun shined on their faces...

[@BamberdittoPingpong]

The woman walking in white and turning around died 10 days later..

[@scp7802]

How did she die?

[@bullock4211]

Nolan Cain What was life expectancy back then 40's maybe 50's depending on your tax bracket?

[@ayofrtho7014]

Keep in mind, everyone in the video is dead. So are their children, and grandchildren. Possibly even their great grandchildren.

[@changoloboperro]

we are ghosts ...in a pause call life...in one century we will be history

[@BiscuitGirl9154]

Not necissarily, some of the grandchildren of Civil War veterans are still around

[@fuqupal]

Their great grandchildren are most likely in their 60's now and probably very much alive.

[@ayofrtho7014]

Logan Nix I said "possibly"...

[@BilisNegra]

I must say I feel for your lack of sense of humour. It must be real hard to start a new day in a world like yours

[@RetroRogue.]

Just amazing to see old stuff like this especially videos. Everytime I watch old stuff I instantly think of the other side of the camera. Usually most see old black and white but when I watch I feel like I am watching an alternate parallel universe where even though it’s a recording it is still live. When you watch think of being there picture it being live in front of your eyes it’s a crazy feeling.

[@billybletsos4758]

So rare to hear this from 133 years ago. It's basically walking back in time but way further than the previous century. It also feels very haunting and creepy to hear this choir coming from people from 1888.

[@dollayx8]

2100 history : 2006 first hd tv broadcast

[@RingoYote]

actually the first HD tv broadcasts were in 1996

[@dollayx8]

Kevin Lemburg really ?? i never heard about it, first time i know about hd when i bought gamecube and it got explanation about how to upscale up to 720p for hdtv and i had no idea about it on that time year 2002

[@dollayx8]

hahah i dont believe that

[@enriquesanchez2001]

***** I watched an HD Television Set showing a video at the Smithsonian back around 1989...of a stream. It was so crystal clear to my eyes, I'll never forget that moment!

[@davebourke7719]

Actually, the first HDTV wasn't even called HDTV. It was normal analogue transmissions for France. 1042 lines were tested, but they settled on 819 lines in 1948 while the UK decided on 415 lines and later went up to 625 on UHF like the rest of world except the USA. Wikipedia has quite an informative piece on the history of television. Check it out. I'll start with the bit about France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#France Just to clarify, our standard definition these days is 576 digital terrestrial or 625 analogue (obviously now switched off in Australian territories unfortunately), or 480 for KZbin. HDTV standard is now 720 lines, with 1080 being ultra high definition. I would have loved it if we didn't go digital and stayed analogue, going up to 1250 lines somehow. Analogue is a better terrestrial transmission medium. Digital would be fine via fibre optic but our stupid imbicile recently installed government didn't go that way. In fact, Australia's switchover wasn't very well thought out at all. Is that the same for the rest of the world? I have no idea why the frequencies needed to be surrendered. The ACMA doesn't say much about it. I can only assume digital was forced due to some ridiculous agenda.

[@icemachine79]

This video makes me really glad that I live in 2016. Of course, I suppose at least some of the people in this video probably felt the same way about their "present" versus the year 1760.

[@redawg61877]

Well said! So people in the year 2099 are going to be like " how the hell did people live in the year 2017 it must have been really hard?"

[@BilisNegra]

As a matter of fact, I wonder if the word "technology" existed at all in the 18th century at all.

[@matthewthomasjames]

icemachine79 I'm not so sure, I've read about people throughout the ages talking wistfully about "the good old days."

[@janherrmann3320]

I think about the people in our later years.like the town you live in is going to be so different..what is going to look like..The building s that exist now are no longer going Standing especially where I live. Can you imagine that.whats going to built there..

[@marcusporter9006]

icemachine79 l wonder how l lived in 1989 without a cell phone

[@Carson_TK]

It’s hard to believe EVERYONE in these videos are now dead. Even the newborns are gone.

[@aydenstockham1143]

Likely even those newborns children

[@chevon1920]

What happens next, damn cliffhangers! 😐

[@tonitones6053]

Quality sucks! No HD or even DVD standard! I am very disappointed.

[@tonitones6053]

***** Yes, in some videos these people are movin very fast. Must have been a very hectic time.

[@Fiilis1]

+captmitty you are wrong, it's just that people were lot faster and was partially superhuman, now all humankind is lazy and fat

[@AdamReis]

the ironic thing is, one of the first cameras made was actually shot at 40 frames per second...but then someone (i forget the name) discovered that recording at 24 frames per second would suffice so that's like the standard for today

[@metallica66625]

+Cellar Door 18th*

[@baddriversofeurotrucksimul5759]

It's 19th century. 18th century was the 1700s.

[@michelledalenaa]

This is a privilege to see. Thanks for posting.

[@onweed3626]

Seeing the past brings tears

[@jermfanaccount]

That music... its so creepy and in such bad shape.... I think I love it

[@JoeyRivers]

Would be interesting if the people in that Round Hay scene could be identified.

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

They are identified, in the video note.

[@comrademartinofrappuccino]

+JoeyRivers that would be incredible difficult but you could try it

[@marksusername]

+JoeyRivers Why would it be interesting?

[@comrademartinofrappuccino]

bescause if they still lived you could interview them

[@JoeyRivers]

interesting because someone today may say, hey that's my great great grandfather. as Jack Gibbons says in his post they were identified, I didn't read at the time.

[@TheOldOakSyndicate]

This footage, and sound recording will probably outlast current digital media. I say this because the majority of digital media out there is only backed up virtually on a hard drive, or flash drive. If a major solar flare hit earth, or a major EMP attack launched all digital media would be gone forever, unless it was backed up for some reason on VHS or audio tape. Most analog circuitry is EMP resistant.

[@charlottesophia]

That's a worrying thought. I assumed that anything plugged into the mains when a solar flare strikes would be fried, but that the rest would be fine. Do I need to start keeping my CD collection in a Faraday cage? ( I saw instructions once on how to make one out of a metal dustbin- no idea if that would actually work.)

[@bernardogey8280]

Verty What, everything? I hope you are right.

[@AvalonMorley]

Verty Pretty rude comment, and I would have thought, almost certainly inaccurate (but I hope I'm wrong about that). The answer to your question is: yes, many people are that stupid. I'm certainly stupid, regarding technical computer matters, and I certainly haven't backed anything up on analog tape in many years (and that wasn't really 'backing up,' it was just recording from the radio onto cassette). But I'd genuinely love for you to be right, so could you please explain how most everything gets backed up on analog tape, who does it, and what exactly 'most everything' consists of? I'm not being snarky, I'm actually interested, and am looking for some reassurance. Thanks.

[@ldchappell1]

VHS tape doesn't last forever. In 2011 my sister moved into a house and found a bag hiding up on a closet self. Inside the bag was a brand new VHS tape of the movie "Psycho." It was still in wrapped in cellophane and there was a receipt in the bag dated May 11, 1982. We opened it and popped it in the VCR. It looked really strange. There was all these black dots on the screen and the picture looked like it was melting. The audio was still good but the picture was really shot to hell. I was surprised how heavy that tape was.

[@bernardogey8280]

ldchappell1 Apparently shellac is the only sound recording medium that is totally stable over time. Vinyl degrades over a long period and your tape experience shows the limitations of that format as well. Very interesting anecdote about the factory sealed Psycho- most of my VHS tapes either got worn out or chewed up by the VCR so I never got to do the experiment of playing an unused tape years later.

[@vizkiz.4431]

And yet security cameras have less quality than this?

[@user-eb5cb6ud1p]

Security cam footage is heavily compressed.

[@makaylanunez1547]

Sooner, in the future the people will be like “Wow I can’t believe it” and will think we’re the old generation😖