Colour film of London in 1927

[Brookert]

I love how smartly dressed all the gents are. Puts many a modern person to shame, turning up to maccy d's in grubby pyjamas.

 

[Lil old me]

I love how smartly dressed all the gents are. Puts many a modern person to shame, turning up to maccy d's in grubby pyjamas.

I wish it was still okay to wear flat caps without being a pretentions ********

 

[Mad old tory]

Funny how some shots would look completely different now (thinking around Tower Bridge and London Bridge) and yet others look almost identical.

 

[Raikiri]

Good video, I don't really have much to compare to though as I'm rarely in London.

Clearly a monstrous time of racists before we were culturally enriched.

Pretty much the same but now with just black and brown people.

Was awesome back then and not a foreigner in sight.

No wonder UKIP are doing so well

 

[NZB]

Quite right, 100 years from now people will be viewing footage from the 2000's and it will look just as dated as this to them.

Probably not. Quality footage from back then is rare whereas there is an abundance of it from our own time. Today will be more familiar to the people 100 years from now than 1927 is to us.

 

[Shayper]

Good video, I don't really have much to compare to though as I'm rarely in London.







No wonder UKIP are doing so well

I just ignore Guile & PooBrain now.

 

[scorchisio]

It's better now that we are more multicultural.

Best sarcasm ive seen in my 4 years on these boards

 

[haz_pro]

Found out my grandad was born the same year as this video. In a way I kind of imagined his childhood to be a lot different to mine, however some aspects seem quite similar.

 

[scrlk]

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, then the Look at Life from the 60s series is pretty good:

(I guess Heathrow hasn't changed that much, even back then it was said we need a new airport )

And finally, this:

 

[FeFiDoh]

That video was fantastic thanks! Would love to time travel back to that time just to explore it would be fascinating to see how life has changed. I would be doing a Booker Dewitt in Bioshock infinite and going in and out of every building/trash can I came across.

 

[titaniumx3]

People looked so much more classy back then. Men didn't look like women and women didn't look like whores.

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

Wow this is pretty cool!

 

[Feek]

That's amazing but I find this just as interesting even though it's monochrome, simply because it's even older, back from around 1900.

/edit - And here's some more Edwardian stuff with colour.

 

[R-evans]

I know this sounds stupid, but you kinda forget it wasn't actually black and white back then. Great vid.

 

[Winky_The_Winking_Turtle]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

 

[alex20000]

Nice share

 

[beachBOYken]

nice video , anyone know the music at around 4.40 ?

cheers

 

[regulus]

Awesome.

Amazing to think that 99.9% of all the people in that film are long dead now.

Exactly what I wanted to say. Even the same percentage figure

My great grandmother would've been 24 and just qualified as a music teacher. She lived down south but they often travelled to London for entertainment. She died in 1994 and her youngest sister born in 1911, died two years ago age 99.

I can't help but watching the people in that video. Regular people that looks like anyone you see on the street today. Yet they're all dead now. Just like we'll be one day.

Makes you feel small in the great scheme.

 

[regulus]

I know this sounds stupid, but you kinda forget it wasn't actually black and white back then. Great vid.

Very true.

 

[Curio]

Great stuff. I was surprised by the amount of leg the women were showing - I thought it was all strictly down to the ankles in the 20's.