Life in Trinidad 1926 1929

From the camera of Charlie Pereira of Port of Spain, Trinidad, with the kind permission of his family. Life in Port of Spain, cricket, household pets, swimming, islands, carnival, children playing.
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[@SAM-iy7vh]

🤠😥😱 I would love to meet one of those ppl ..............the stories they can tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the video.

[@bigshot102]

Yes, what a trip back in time.

[@intergalatic8mango]

This is priceless. Thanks for sharing.

[@Ishta318]

One of the best videos I've seen on youtube

[@tainogirl44]

Enjoyed that short clip of Lorry Masquerade.

[@hc3282]

The owner of the equipment gets to chose what they wanted to capture on film. The heading though could have included the area. Whether Woodbrook,St Clair, Westmoorings etc. But to go back to my first point, the choice is solely that of the person who uploaded it😅 Fascinating footage. Love it!! Doh mind it doh look Trinidadianish😂

[@tropics8407]

Dare say they had no westmoorings yet in those days 😅 😂

[@joanalinewickham3487]

Just Amazing

[@murtlandjardine8716]

WATCHING FROM GUYANA. NICE VIDEO

[@bigshot102]

Thank you!

[@user-xm7ig6kp7n]

So now you know. This should at least help ungrateful trinis to appreciate the late great "Dr. The Right Honourable Eric Eustace Williams." May his soul R.I.P.💝😇

[@deomaharaj404]

NOT REALLY!!!😮

[@jerardnijel]

To be realistic, back in the 20''s the lower classes on the island would have been largely invisible or seen only in subservient positions in service to the upper class.

[@ramishrambarran3998]

Only the rich would have afforded a movie camera. Why use it on the lower classes ?

[@estherrajballi247]

I enjoy it too

[@keithrai]

Feels so much more like CUBA.....!!!!

[@marciaosuno8919]

Totally agree

[@user-ir5we9wu1g]

Thank God for the late great Dr Eric Williams for taking us out the British rule and for us to be a free and independent republic .

[@rali-cassim2733]

Nice video. The music does throw off the culture of the island a bit though. We were Spanish before 1797.

[@deomaharaj404]

We didn't INVENT...OR CALYPSO AN SOCA YET😂😅

[@DMajikMan]

The calypso historian George Maharaj played some ole time kaiso on CHIN-FM Toronto back in the mid 1990s. He started with the first calypso recorded by a Trinidadian, right around the turn of the 20th Century, then worked his way up to the 1920s. Interestingly, the earliest recordings were all in French and Patois, with the transition to English recordings beginning around the WW1 years into the 20s.

[@rali-cassim2733]

@@DMajikMan thank you. I didn't know that. I noticed patois is almost gone from our culture now. My grandma spoke it but didn't pass it down. Now, it's a different sound again.

[@Ishta318]

​@@DMajikManvery interesting!

[@carapo66]

@@deomaharaj404 no sir, calypso by then had been around for a very long time.

[@edmundjoseph8828]

The population of t&t up to 1930 was around four hundred thousand of that about one hundred thousand that was American and British. Major services were held in French.

[@moviesync3131]

Which Trinidad is this?

[@bigshot102]

The one you see here.

[@jerardnijel]

I feel this is England oui.. Oh Well!!!

[@michaelsamuel9917]

The idle planter class...

[@rainajones3806]

Are you sure this is Trinidad

[@bigshot102]

100% positive. I added the music myself which may have given the impression it wasn't.

[@yamhead79]

Lol

[@gera-k1t]

Lorries driving around the Savanah

[@pamjob]

This is Life in Trinidad for the White and expatriate community. Shows the place and position of where the African descent, and the East Indian descent. In the shadows. Just labour for the whites and factories and the plantations😢😢😢

[@WestIndianAK]

Remember, this was the *colonial* era. There might've been more white people in T&T back then 😉

[@MyStudio-io3so]

I was looking to see if they were going to show the whipping of slaves and indentured workers. As well as the horrible oppression of the non Brits. AHHHHHHH Shocks they didn't show, but Trinidad was nice in those days.

[@truthseeker8429]

Slaves and indentureship in the 1920's? Which history class did you attend?

[@MyStudio-io3so]

@@truthseeker8429 The same one you should of attended. You would of been more inform

[@carapo66]

Uhm, you're joking, right?

[@kerronmcsween6095]

Ahhh you sure you got the right country? 🤨🤔

[@bigshot102]

I am, indeed.