Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
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Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927
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#2This is absolutely beautiful, and thought provoking. Thanks for uploading this!
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#3I'm more surprised by the frame rate than the color. It seems to have been enhanced. Everything looks smooth, but there's something peculiar about the way people walk, for example, notice the pedestrians' feet at 1:54. Either way it's beautiful.
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#4I'm more surprised by the frame rate than the color. It seems to have been enhanced. Everything looks smooth, but there's something peculiar about the way people walk, for example, notice the pedestrians' feet at 1:54. Either way it's beautiful.
From the original article: The British Film Institute have used computer enhancement to minimise the flickering and low quality of the original bicolour film.
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#5This one was on HN only a few months ago, it's beautiful, so much so I saved it to my phone.
It's very interesting to see similarities and differences, and I get chills at knowing this is before it was bombed asunder.
England was and is a truly remarkable country.
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#6I like how color makes everything contemporary.
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#7I love old pictures. Just recently, I discovered a picture of my office building from 1890 on Wikipedia – and it still looks about the same today! )
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#8Blogspam. More original link: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows...
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#9That'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.
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#10So... England won a test match?
Jokes aside, it's a fascinating study into a world riding the wave of the industrial revolution; a strong sense of pride and optimism seemed to exist.
It's saddening to think that basically all of the people filmed were affected in some way by the Second World War. It also brings mortality into focus to also think that the children pictured so carefree here are now either very old or dead.
How will the future look back on us? Will they dig up early 3D scanning attempts and think the same? Will they attempt to 'restore' their findings to modern standards? "Oh, it's missing smells, humidity, air pressure and breeze so we used environmental cues during 'restoration'"
A lovely piece of footage.