I love old footage of people just being people. We kind of have this idea that they acted more "properly" in the past, like they did in old movies, but they were just as goofy then as they are now.
Ha! Here I am watching this, thinking "what color? I don't see any color! What are they talking about?!" LOL, my phone is still on night mode. š¤£š¤£š¤£
It used to be considered a huge social misstep to be caught in public with a "bare head" and hats also had social inflections. Straw hats in the heat of the late summer were acceptable for all, but wear one in September and you were a country bumpkin. Newspapers at the time would embellish stories about accidents by mentioning how many men lost their hats in the process.
That's the first thing I thought of.....the second being the scene in The Caves of Steel where Elijah Baileys and the robot try to shake someone tailing them in the moving roads.
If you're ever "restoring" old footage, the most important thing is sorting the frame rate so people move like humans. Sharpening it up can be ok too. But for the love of all that's holy, please leave out the shitty auto-colouring. It's so bad and inconsistent it actually distracts from what we're supposed to be looking at.
Hygienism had already been going on for more than half a century in 1900. New sewers, hot water, dedicated bathrooms even for workers. The hot shower being a french invention, I doubt they were really as dirty as you imply.
Nay mate, instead of electrified sidewalk you get car-centric city designs. And instead of a common basic living standard we need these trillions for military adventures in Middle East.
There were anti-maskers during the Spanish Flu epidemic (which wasn't actually Spanish, apparently) in the early 1900s. I wonder who had bigger numbers, proportionally, between them then and them now.
criticalmassdriver
I see dead people.
FromTheBeyond
"But the industry my friends, that was a revolution."
Magnasplit
Nurses on site to take care of those overwhelmed by the experience
igorbarenschlager
Hat fashion was way better back then. Our collective hat game has grown weak.
LarvaLamp
I love old footage of people just being people. We kind of have this idea that they acted more "properly" in the past, like they did in old movies, but they were just as goofy then as they are now.
FallingStar7669
Have you seen the well-to-do up and down Park Avenue?
VincitQuiSeVincit
With their dashing pearls and pelts, riding the conveyer belt?
DrPhillipMahmoufWifarts
Hey! I was born in that century!
SirBobby98121
Le slidewalk.
QT3pt141592653
Ha! Here I am watching this, thinking "what color? I don't see any color! What are they talking about?!" LOL, my phone is still on night mode. š¤£š¤£š¤£
forsteri80
Jesus Christ, I literally just did the same thing
sandymount
124 years and still no moving sidewalks in my city. Typical.
ViewDriver
Well thatās just the neatest thing Iāll see all week
ReusableBastard
Babes for miles.
nlmaya
Even with a separate fast lane.
edasm
Artificial booty was already a thing!
ViewDriver
mmmerf1
She got some hustle in her bustle.
ursusaurus
Why does my mind go directly to āevery single person in this video is deadā every time I see this kind of vid š¬
CompressedInfo
Now they just need an airport for it
Tajik
Kinda weird to think that everyone in this video is dead. Like 100% guaranteed.
chumpacabra
It used to be considered a huge social misstep to be caught in public with a "bare head" and hats also had social inflections. Straw hats in the heat of the late summer were acceptable for all, but wear one in September and you were a country bumpkin. Newspapers at the time would embellish stories about accidents by mentioning how many men lost their hats in the process.
Fedotia
People had such high hopes for the future. Then we decided to build everything around cars and spend trillions to bomb Middle-East.
Megamastermetamememaker
They like that in the Middle-East.... since 3000 years...
CompressedInfo
First Europe had to decide to bomb itself a few times....
jasenp
Is it really restored if you add color that was never there?
jalapeBeast
PequodCaptain
Reminds me of a great Heinlein story https://classicsofsciencefiction.com/2022/11/27/the-roads-must-roll-by-robert-a-heinlein/
modemjockey5772
That's the first thing I thought of.....the second being the scene in The Caves of Steel where Elijah Baileys and the robot try to shake someone tailing them in the moving roads.
PeachesTheDestroyer
Does anyone know the background music?
Eyehavejaundice
Here you go: https://open.spotify.com/track/2IvnDjlgH8yy70Nz99UdcJ?si=88c2WW4FT0SHW-lzj2t5ww
vmos
If you're ever "restoring" old footage, the most important thing is sorting the frame rate so people move like humans. Sharpening it up can be ok too. But for the love of all that's holy, please leave out the shitty auto-colouring. It's so bad and inconsistent it actually distracts from what we're supposed to be looking at.
bekindtoanimals
Even back then people were lazy as fuck
vegivamp
Notice how the slightly higher one in the back also moves a little faster.
BryanTenn
Many layers of clothing worn for multiple days between washes + weekly bathing at best = good thing we can't smell this video.
Megamastermetamememaker
Lemme guess...you're american, right ?
GordonFreeman59
Hygienism had already been going on for more than half a century in 1900. New sewers, hot water, dedicated bathrooms even for workers. The hot shower being a french invention, I doubt they were really as dirty as you imply.
KipperFillets
I bet Paris as a whole didn't smell too good either, judging by the current fragrance.
drduffer
I like the 2 guys running back so they can mug for the camera again.
robertdoobies
And all the people on the left clogging up the passing lane
thegarts
Influencers. Amiright?
GordonFreeman59
Des enfants
gaggmaggot
they set the camera up
jt42
Look like they are 50, but probably 18.
TrilithonStone
Influencers.
JustSomeDoodWhoWantsToUseThisWebsiteToInteractWithFellowPeople
"Affix your approval upon the parchment and await further telegrams my fine afficianados! In today's drama we're going to..."
Fedotia
They were probably having the time of their lives, enjoying all this scifi machines.
ChocolatePizzaMemes
"Look what we have now! Imagine what it will be like in the year 2000! Flying cars? Abundant resources for everyone?!"
Fedotia
Nay mate, instead of electrified sidewalk you get car-centric city designs. And instead of a common basic living standard we need these trillions for military adventures in Middle East.
NaiyaSparkleHero
The British were fighting in the middle east in 1900s
ICantThinkOfAU
And owned a quarter of the planet. Turns out fighting wars all over the globe is profitable for those in power, who knew
KoalaOnTheJuice
The combination of this and floor length dresses and petticoats is fantastique n'est pas?
ViscousCousCous
your ending has STRONG Pauly Shore vibes
HandoB4Javert
Hence the sudden invention of the shorter skirt...
TheSilverSeraph
Vraiment
TheCarolingian
Magnifique (Avec un chef's kiss)
EekumBokumEekumBokum
Fromage du French fries
ztygs
Qui qui baguette, hon hon hon hon.
IUpvoteFuturama
Good show
JohnEricWinger
N'est ce pas? (sorry to be the French grammar nazi)
firlefranz
YesPleaseSomeMore
Or, n'est-il pas ?
Gyom
N'est-ce pas ? with a dash between verb and subject, and with a space before the question mark. (sorry to be the actual frenchman :-)
ManguPixel
I'm from Quebec and had never heard of the space rule. Apparently it's different in Europe.
JohnEricWinger
You even added the space before the question mark, I take my beret off to you good monsieur
Fistouille
VoiiiiilĆ !
trapdoorogre
It's ok. It's not your fault.
bnuihj
the space before the question mark is not a french thing, it's just your personal preference.
ManguPixel
You must be from Quebec :-)
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Quebec arenāt real French anyways.
Doismellbacon
Merci beaucoup !
Asadsadsadclown
And a merry Chicken coup to you too
jfitz
They probably had doctors on hand in case the unthinkable velocity unbalanced their bodily humours
bekindtoanimals
HAHAHAHA!!!!
Jerupitus
Belly laugh from me, +1
Neurisko
Or women might lose their uteruses. https://www.womansday.com/life/real-women/a55991/no-women-allowed/
IStoleALoafOfBread
unthinkable velocity...lol, oh how the times have changed. I was thinking about how slow that thing moves.
barbarian818
Oh, just spend an hour or two driving the courtesy mobility scooter at Walmart. This thing will feel like the autobahn in comparison
NickRivieraMD
Or in case it caused inflammation. [yes inflammation is real but we seem to have been marketed into a collective hysteria about it]
LarvaLamp
Hysteria, you say? A hysterectomy is in order! Hurry, man, before the new moon drives her to lunacy!
NateintheNorth
Yes, with jars of leeches!
oldguyexlurker
And cocaine.
zafner
It's easy to make fun of previous generations, but I feel like we have a higher proportion of flat earthers now than they did then
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
There were anti-maskers during the Spanish Flu epidemic (which wasn't actually Spanish, apparently) in the early 1900s. I wonder who had bigger numbers, proportionally, between them then and them now.
jfitz
Hard to quantify. My gut feeling is that there's always the same percentage of wilfully ignorant people.
starhawk
We just gave them a louder voice now a days.
GratuaCuun
Not really - they seize it themselves with social media
JB4T5
That's the thing 'we' gave them that gives 'em the louder voice.