The X Rays (1897)

[@HowtoBasicinIT]

123 years old now woww

[@stefansnellgrove]

Turned 100 when I was 2 funny how this was considered horror back then

[@HowtoBasicinIT]

@@stefansnellgrove I am referring to the number of year, don't you feel awkward that year number is turning to 123?

[@stefansnellgrove]

@@HowtoBasicinIT what’s so special about 123

[@HowtoBasicinIT]

@@stefansnellgrove it's a symbol of cleaning up the mess when it comes to love

[@stefansnellgrove]

@@HowtoBasicinIT wow never heard of that the more you know

[@PhilWithCoffee]

Really amazing. I'm surprised at it, to be honest. I'm currently studying physics and as I've been reading I discovered that x-rays were only discovered in 1895 by Röntgen, who didn't receive the Nobel Prize until 1901. It's funny how this video would be posted, seeing as I just read about this yesterday. Well, I digress. Marvelous video.

[@jsl151850b]

X Rays were considered a hoax at first. (British physicist Lord Kelvin) That may explain the delay. Several of Edison's technicians died and he discontinued X Ray research.

[@calfman3333]

This was “The Conjuring” to people of the 1890’s.

[@stefansnellgrove]

If this really scared them The Conjuring would’ve killed them

[@myth8334]

The conjuring is trash. at least make a comparison with a horror movie, recent but worthy.

[@GrumpyMustard]

This movie does not deserve to be insulted like that.

[@Chalwa]

The limited scope of your movie knowledge is showing.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

I'm glad this and similar pieces of early film have managed to survive all these decades

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

I like the "X-rayed umbrella" trick. Clever.

[@ravikonidena9161]

125 years ago! I wish I can go back in time to know more about that era

[@vaishnavikonidena1532]

Me too

[@snuzzgrott5504]

If only there was a way of learning more about what happened in the past!!

[@guitarhole]

Get ready for no cars, no air conditioning, no Internet and no showering for months at a time. All while wearing the same clothes everyday. But yes, me too.

[@MeaghanEdwards]

Haha, cute. Cleverly done. I have a fondness for movie history.

[@antonionikolov662]

Hello from Bulgaria Thanks,Thanks,....,Thanks,..😊

[@elgeneral5279]

To 1890s people this was probably the most horrifying thing they'd ever seen.

[@Line...]

nah their reality was more horrifying

[@ricarleite]

There are anecdotal testimony stating patrons shown this film back in 1897 would violently vomit, scream in pain and fear, run away, go mad, suffer days of fevers and delirium or have rage bursts, all due to the fact these images were too horrifying.

[@squirehaggard4749]

@@ricarleite also stunt growth, cause blindness, depravity and hairy palms. Oh wait, that was something else....

[@stefansnellgrove]

@@ricarleite if that’s true then today’s horror movies would’ve killed them

[@ricarleite]

@Andrew Johnson I have a bridge to sell you

[@64mung]

1897....amazing!

[@OriasX]

Top 10 anime couples

[@SammiSin69]

Omg this is such beautiful art in a moving picture . Ty for sharing this . I'm in awe ... Truly

[@mar10ssj1]

4/5 stars. The acting was phenomenal but the pace was a bit much. The cinematography could have used a bit fixing and the editing was chompy at best. In a hundred years this might be a classic.

[@MDthornton83]

1897 was the year when Bram Stoker wrote the Dracula novel. And it wouldn't be until 25 years later when the novel was adapted into a feature film in 1922 with the release of Nosferatu. And then almost 10 years later with the first official Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi.

[@xbrandi12345x]

Nosferatu is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

[@pumpkinzer0]

Cant wait for part 2

[@ms89honda]

This is now my favorite movie!

[@klausspohr8654]

Funny, special, .. and quite a good short story...

[@AMALINALLINEFTHALIMEJIARESENDI]

Beautiful!

[@stefansnellgrove]

If this was horror back then horror movies today would kill them

[@PtahHasSpoken]

Funny! I can just imagine the earliest audiences in the most primitive storefront nickelodeons howling at this one. It's still funny today. The man's little pout at the end once he's no longer a skeletal image is a fun touch.

[@DougEStile-gj7wy]

Still a better movie than Twilight.

[@stefansnellgrove]

Weird how short movies were back then

[@carlosmarx2380]

Longer than most tik tok videos There are way longer films from that time period, many of them around 10 minutes

[@zach11590]

As an x ray technologist myself this is awesome

[@lynnbell6353]

Ha!! Except for styles of clothing, things don’t seem to change a whole lot in life. This is a very well-acted little comedy! So glad I had the chance to discover it!

[@blade0954]

incredible footage thanks

[@susanmoran5226]

The x Ray's. My favourite band.

[@LoganMcCarthy]

Best film ever made.

[@jmason2838]

😄😄😄😅😂🤣🏆🎉🎊🎂🎖️🎯🎭

[@joer-tard2821]

THAT WAS TOM GREEN?! did he sing the bum bum song?

[@Mannex17]

this is gnarly

[@TheonlyaviableID]

His intetions is pretty transparent.

[@JunaidWolf3]

I’m still waiting for The X Rays 2 to come out

[@akanecortich8197]

back when everybody wore a hat

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

Does anyone still wear a hat?

[@johnnycash4034]

Two years after it's discovery.

[@iac4357]

Better than a lot of so called Entertainment made nowadays !

[@jeffdougan491]

I find this glimpse into life in the year 1897 to be just fascinating The year my grandmother was born.

[@lucasbachmann]

Nearly a century later Total Recall had Arnold run through an X-ray security scanner.

[@PkmariO64]

The sound seems a bit off

[@lifewriter7455]

Wow! This is Absolutely Amazing. 🖤😃👍

[@crisli7395]

R.i.p

[@PaddyPaddy2by4]

That is pretty good for that day and age. Haha I loved it kinda funny

[@iconaus]

Is it possible that you don't have a better quality copy?

[@KIdsworke]

THIS SPECIAL EFFECTS :O :D No, seriously. It's totaly amazing what we can do today on computer (I mean effects) when you watch stuff like thaht

[@anomaliterbawamati6373]

This is hilarious! I love it! 🤣🤣

[@InvaderTK]

This is the spookiest shit I have ever seen in my entire existence.

[@melk8220]

You I only finish if you tell me who wrote the book of Amos

[@InvaderTK]

Mel K Amos the Prophet?????

[@melk8220]

TK Nyarlathotep correct now you get to hear what I was going to say you have got to be kidding me

[@InvaderTK]

*sobbing*

[@melk8220]

TK Nyarlathotep why

[@ylst8874]

Historical video. Imagine 100 years later people can watch all millions of todays videos. We can only watch a few of 1900s now.

[@pointlessfailure]

AH! FUCK! How'd they make their bones appear?

[@carlosmarx2380]

Its obviously fake, the video is CGI from the early 2000s Skeletons weren't invented until the 1920s

[@ashtabulareviews1800]

This was Tom Green's more subtle humor. He didn't really start getting wild until his 130s

[@phantomstrider]

*looks at cardboard toilet roll labelled "x-ray"* Man, 1890's film budgets makes KZbin poop look like Disney.

[@toastrave7820]

Out of all the videos on KZbin I 100% didn't expect to find a comment from you on here.

[@phantomstrider]

@@toastrave7820 Yeah I see you're a fellow film historian 🙂

[@planetX15]

Was that supposed to be Abraham Lincoln on the right, carrying the X Ray Camera?

[@valentinanderson535]

Wow I can't believe it was made in 1897

[@Capybaraism]

Romantic!

[@cindylira9503]

wowww....amazing!!!

[@samhouston2800]

this goes hard

[@verdew8181]

Men sure haven't changed since then, alas.

[@elgeneral5279]

You're a sexist

[@don8244]

I have a hunch that one of these guys is still alive

[@Lidocaine7445]

Muhteşem bir vizyon

[@nigelcarren]

If you freeze the video at 0.20 and zoom in as large as you can. Then with one eye one third the way up the screen, slowly draw an imaginary horizontal line from left to right... you REALLY do have too much time on your hands!

[@LegendaryOPS]

wonderful!

[@planetX15]

its reel-to-reel

[@xbrandi12345x]

Damn it looks like she wore a corset quite a bit. Her waist is really tiny. I hope this didn't cause health problems for her like it did with many other corset wearers.

[@planetX15]

acting as him

[@rodneysammons5544]

2.6 to 6.8 billon preformed each year world wide $$$$$$$$$$$

[@kurtb8474]

Magnificent! How did they do it!?

[@carlosmarx2380]

Stop trick

[@themysteriouscrumpet]

I sincerely hope that early x-rays did not incinerate the flesh of their subjects, as depicted here.

[@rangerfanboy1710]

In today's world, one would guess they got the skeleton costumes at Party City, but back then, that was top notch stuff!

[@carlosmarx2380]

They literally painted black overalls and used a stop "trick", even then, nothing special. Still a cool idea tho, given that the x-ray was invented just two years before this video

[@wiiztec]

Now that's what I call Edgy

[@sachinaudiolibrary3656]

12-6-2024 😊 India Kerala

[@JonasClark]

@hargohargo Debatable... Roentgen discovered x-rays. Others got radiation-exposed plates before then, but didn't 'get it'. Around 1921 or so is when x-ray tubes, previously used bare, started to get protected with lead, but at first it was only lead glass. Until the early sixties, nearly all diagnostic x-ray machines had fluoroscopes, which had much higher dosage rates since you left the beam on for a while rather than less than a minute for still shots.

[@notdefeatable5699]

i didnt even know they had X Rays in 1897

[@LylyCSM2]

Why did she slap him?

[@GeorgeCostanzaisCorrect]

If the man in this film (Tom Green) was still alive today he would be 167 years old.

[@akanecortich8197]

he still is. the xrays made him immortal.

[@jmason2838]

@@akanecortich8197 ☠️~~~~~💀👀..........😔

[@WestOfEarth]

Is this the earliest 'sci-fi' film?

[@marcelomarquez2089]

NO THIS IS NOT WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR -1

[@mandalovescatspandas1781]

Haha that's cute!

[@24AngelChild68]

hahaha :) So cute! so very amazing what films are in the ancient era (a.k.a. 1890s)

[@EdwardianTea]

Should see the footage in WW1. Cracking footage, its brilliant how much they could capture. Remembering my uncle George Brooker born 1895, killed aged 21 in 1917 in the battle of Kut Al Amara during WWI 🌺

[@dylanmartin3102]

and the first assault on camera

[@dylanmartin3102]

okay should i take that as a threat

[@Jogead]

its weird thinking they will be in an olds people home now

[@Hamoshekabeka]

They aren't even alive...

[@theroundone4943]

Joe Gilberthorpe They’re dead lmao

[@youngsteph1]

I should hope so as both of them would be the wrong side of 150 if alive today.

[@jmason2838]

...They are dust now... 🏜️

[@billbob7444]

First horror movie

[@montajedelespectador]

the firts horror movie, whas the firts movie too, train comes to the people XD

[@garden4232]

That was not the first movie or the first horror movie (yes I am taking your "joke" seriously.) There was actually a movie before that which would be considered a horror movie. It is The Execution of Mary Stuart which was released on August 28, 1895. L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat was released on 25 January 1896. However, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat finished production on 28 December 1895, which is the date most commonly associated with the film. It is still not as early as The Execution of Mary Stuart, even when I am being generous. I'm not even going to get into your claim it was the first movie, as many people dispute that question. But, there were also many non-disputable movies before that too.

[@alexferrari6053]

The first film ever made is Rounday Garden, 1888.

[@ВатнаяфабрикаимениКрасныхпарти]

Видимо, Толстой такую же чушь посмотрел, когда первый раз попал в кинематограф)))

[@takerapoel]

The hangover is dope. And sure , great respect for such an old movie but saying that it's better than today's crap is overshitted. You people over do it with these stuff.Ya we get it oldies are better but this one is ancient.

[@rangerbradchaplin]

Here's your latest 1897 clip LOL

[@ДианаАлексеенко-х8я]

So creepy

[@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637]

i was making a joke about bone but better not

[@Altos_Entretenimentos0955]

👍😃😄😀🙂😸😁😆😐 lol

[@freeidiot]

A very interesting short film, I was kind of expecting some Charlie Chaplin type music (with a piano and stuff).

[@jmason2838]

Just my humble opinion..Too early for that.. plus done on the cheap...🎬🕯️🎥👀🕯️

[@SatanRomps]

Looney toons still usin the same gag 100 years later. Lol

[@WinterandNoodle]

not really

[@z2oxid]

lol

[@ubik5763]

there dead mate do the math

[@theroundone4943]

ubik5763 no shit

[@user-yf8br4xm3d]

They had video cameras in 1897

[@pantherz9103]

They had very primitive black and white film. The first 'video' camera was invented in 1918.

[@carlosmarx2380]

@@pantherz9103 this is literally a video, so video cameras obviously have been around before 1918 Or do you mean colored?

[@ingridmayo]

[@thewiseone629]

wtf did I just watch?

[@OriasX]

The Unnoticed Profile history

[@coopersteves]

A lost film rediscovered

[@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich]

2spookie4me

[@vtecivicsib18]

only if your seriously insecure

[@TheCorkon]

Don't you see a filming camera from 0:09 - 0:32?