About three quarters through you see a gasometer, they're still a fairly common site around the UK.
Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
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Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#12The article says the film was bicolour, but wikipedia [1] states Friese-Greene invented the biocolour, where red and green frames are alternated (hence the flickering that had to be removed).
Here's another article on the same subject [2], which seems to be the source for OP.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Friese-Greene
[2] http://urbanpeek.com/2013/05/13/rare-color-footage-shows-wha...
Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#13One thing that struck me is how uncluttered the streets look. There is very little street furniture.
Interesting that this is being returned to now.
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#14I think the lack of lines in the road stood out to me the most. It seems this was a time of trying to figure out how to share the road with pedestrians, bicycles, vehicles, and other modes of transportation.
We are still working on this, but seeing all those people in the streets with nothing but a traffic cop there to direct things made me very happy to have the rules of the road we have now. They aren't perfect, but they look a lot better than what those people had to deal with.
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#15Perhaps most astonishingly, in 1927, the world was still mostly sepia toned!
Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930's and it was pretty grainy color for a while too.
The truth is stranger than fiction...
Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#16in case someone is interested: here is a side-by-side video with similiar recordings from 2010
Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#17I think the lack of lines in the road stood out to me the most. It seems this was a time of trying to figure out how to share the road with pedestrians, bicycles, vehicles, and other modes of transportation. We are still working on this, but seeing all those people in the streets with nothing but a traffic cop there to direct things made me very happy to have the rules of the road we have now. They aren't perfect, bu…
That's definitely the case for me too - mostly, London looked incredibly similar. The skyline has obviously changed, but it's obviously recognisable.
Interestingly, they're continuing to play around with sharing the road - Exhibition Road (which probably also looks very similar to how it looked then) being the leading example. No lines down the middle, no obvious pavement. As an experiment it seems to be going pretty well - it seems like we've figured out the main problem isn't segmenting by size, but ensuring most users move at similar speeds.
Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#18in case someone is interested: here is a side-by-side video with similiar recordings from 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76s4a4amJ8
thanks for that - it does add to the original! :)
Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
#19Have to say: I'm so sick of that 'teal and orange' colour grading that's so trendy these days.
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#20That's fantastic, the very first shot is of my street, filmed next to the building I live in. I can't quite make out the sign on the building corner - but I'm pretty sure it's the exact same pub that's there now. It's also odd seeing trams in London.
What is your rent like?