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Absolutely AMAZING colorized footage from 1937 just posted on YT.

The first part is all on boats, which is pretty fucking interesting.

THEN @ 4:50 - London. Not just the normal draggy scenes of Trafalgar Square & Piccadilly but a real look at London back then.

A real timetripper!

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by Anonymousreply 63September 19, 2020 5:40 PM

Cool, thanks OP

by Anonymousreply 1September 15, 2020 10:09 AM

Enjoyed that - thanks!

by Anonymousreply 2September 15, 2020 12:02 PM

So the double-decker busses were the color of orange marmalade back then?

by Anonymousreply 3September 15, 2020 12:11 PM

Interesting but lord have mercy that's some bad colorization. Clearly none of the Hollywood technicians had anything to do with it.

The description at YouTube pretty much tells it all.

[quote] The original film has been restored, upscaled, motion-stabilized and colorized by means of the latest A.I. software. The "DeOldify" colourization A.I. still has a lot to learn, among other that London's double-decker busses should be red and not orange-ish.

by Anonymousreply 4September 15, 2020 12:30 PM

By and large, I don't think it's bad AT ALL. It brings the past up much closer.

by Anonymousreply 5September 15, 2020 12:37 PM

But yes, reds and yellows seem to be tricky.

by Anonymousreply 6September 15, 2020 12:38 PM

No, it all looks dusty and faded. Why does it look so drab?

by Anonymousreply 7September 15, 2020 2:59 PM

No, OP, it starts with TRAINS not boats.

by Anonymousreply 8September 15, 2020 3:33 PM

Trains transporting people to BOATS! It's about the BOATS....the first part.

by Anonymousreply 9September 15, 2020 3:51 PM

Interesting how the color does seem to "wake up" our seeing about this past. I did note that a lot of folks looked sorta fat... conventional wisdom has suggested that previous generations were so much thinner. Also, women with tightly curled/waved hair... was there hairspray in the 30s?

by Anonymousreply 10September 15, 2020 4:15 PM

[quote]Also, women with tightly curled/waved hair... was there hairspray in the 30s?

They did all sorts to make it wavey.

My grandmother wore curlers to bed I think until she died in 1992. She said she told my grandpa when they married "If you want me to look nice in the day you'll have to accept I look like this at night".

No wonder he played away from home.

by Anonymousreply 11September 15, 2020 4:20 PM

OP this is great! Thanks for posting.

And r10, fat folks were around during those times. I have pics of my grandmother and great grandmother's and they were all chunky.

by Anonymousreply 12September 16, 2020 4:00 AM

Colorized film never impresses me, it's always too orange.

by Anonymousreply 13September 16, 2020 4:27 AM

People dress like absolute slobs these days.

by Anonymousreply 14September 16, 2020 2:21 PM

Why do all the women look like trannies?

by Anonymousreply 15September 16, 2020 3:32 PM

Let’s lay out in the sun in a suit.

by Anonymousreply 16September 16, 2020 3:43 PM

Every last person in that video is DEAD!

by Anonymousreply 17September 16, 2020 3:52 PM

It looks very similar today, the buildings are not quite so soot-covered. Amazing to think a lot happened since then including WW2 and the Blitz.

by Anonymousreply 18September 16, 2020 3:54 PM

You just want to tell them, "A dark storm is coming".

by Anonymousreply 19September 16, 2020 3:58 PM

r10, they used to perm their hair and also use setting lotions if they used curlers:

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by Anonymousreply 20September 16, 2020 4:01 PM

Yes r19 Whenever I see anything dated late 1930s I die a little inside knowing the horror that was coming..

by Anonymousreply 21September 16, 2020 4:02 PM

r7, I think it's to approximate what colored film would look like back then.

by Anonymousreply 22September 16, 2020 4:03 PM

I say, top hats, fedoras and panamas! Very fine survey.

by Anonymousreply 23September 16, 2020 4:10 PM

At the beginning, love the musical accompaniment of Rogers and Hart's Mountain Greenery.

by Anonymousreply 24September 16, 2020 4:17 PM

Fascinating, OP, thanks so much! Without the grey fogs of time these people look much more similar to us than I expected. And everyone is so neat!

by Anonymousreply 25September 16, 2020 4:24 PM

Look at the adverts on the buses: some products still with us 83 years later like Schweppes and Cointreau.

by Anonymousreply 26September 16, 2020 4:27 PM

They are all "nicely" dressed (as opposed to today's tank tops, shorts, and jeans) but they also look cheaply dressed.

by Anonymousreply 27September 16, 2020 4:37 PM

R27 Or at the very least the spectrum of quality clothes and cheap versions seemed to be more noticeable than today's fashions. I thought that too - that "class" was much more apparent.

Related, the man in the top hat getting off the bus in the middle of the day... what was that? Almost a kind of cos-play of "elegance"... but looked kind of shabby.

by Anonymousreply 28September 16, 2020 4:50 PM

r28 - He's possibly an employee of an undertaker.

by Anonymousreply 29September 16, 2020 5:01 PM

My grandparents weren’t even good enough to work on a train or a ship in 1937. They were poor, poor, poor. They had too many children because of their religion. Drunk husband + no birth control = hungry mouths to feed. Making the lowest classes wear uniforms at their jobs was a good thing because they couldn’t afford to dress as nicely as people getting on that boat.

My grandparents got the furniture that was in their house from the Salvation Army in the 1930s. It looked really creepy & old fashioned to me when I was a kid p, but looking back in it, it would probably cost a fortunes these days. It was all ornately carved & oiled solid wood from the 1890s & 1900s.

by Anonymousreply 30September 16, 2020 5:01 PM

R29 Ah, smart. You're probably right.

by Anonymousreply 31September 16, 2020 5:08 PM

Those two handsome gentlemen at around 0:53 can stamp MY passport any time!

by Anonymousreply 32September 16, 2020 5:19 PM

Nothing amazing about a country that at the time was colonizing half the world and became responsible for majority of the current world crisis. Absolute piece of shit country. Killed millions of innocent people.

by Anonymousreply 33September 16, 2020 5:22 PM

Disappointed. I was expecting to see Flushing, Queens!

by Anonymousreply 34September 16, 2020 5:27 PM

Don’t trust that Hitler fellow. He’s up to no good.

by Anonymousreply 35September 16, 2020 5:33 PM

Interesting ads on the bus exteriors: Australian Currants on the side and Canadian Lobster on the rear.

by Anonymousreply 36September 16, 2020 5:41 PM

Interesting ads on the bus exteriors: Australian Currants on the side and Canadian Lobster on the rear.

by Anonymousreply 37September 16, 2020 5:41 PM

The guy in the top hat and tails probably worked the door at a hotel or a gentleman's club, something like that.

Interesting to me that many of the cars had sliding sunshine roofs. I'd love to have a go at driving a car of that era, wouldn't YOU?

Still plenty of horse and carts, there were still quite a few left in 60s London even, I remember them, kiddies like me would give them lumps of sugar or an apple.

by Anonymousreply 38September 16, 2020 5:58 PM

One of the reasons this footage is so good is because the photographer was really creative. He shoots from all sorts of angles, from above, from the ground looking up at people etc...this was not usually the case back then.

by Anonymousreply 39September 16, 2020 6:07 PM

[quote] Don’t trust that Hitler fellow. He’s up to no good.

He speaks his mind! And he's making Amer.....I mean Germany great again!

by Anonymousreply 40September 16, 2020 6:25 PM

I'd love to eavesdrop on the conservation the lady with scarf and sunglasses is having with the guy smoking the pipe.

by Anonymousreply 41September 16, 2020 8:25 PM

This is shortly before Hitler and WW2 made everything all go to shit.

by Anonymousreply 42September 16, 2020 8:38 PM

Nice film OP the color is bit washed out which reminds me of old B&W photos from that era which were colored by hand. Its a nice peak into a time and lifestyle gone forever.

by Anonymousreply 43September 16, 2020 9:02 PM

#LondonSoWhite

by Anonymousreply 44September 16, 2020 9:05 PM

this was showing at the cinema

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by Anonymousreply 45September 16, 2020 9:54 PM

The ground isn't littered with trash.

by Anonymousreply 46September 17, 2020 12:57 AM

And it remains unlittered. In 2019 I was in London shopping one afternoon in a busy area, and the streets were immaculate. They give fines for tossing your cigs around. Impressive for such a densely packed area.

by Anonymousreply 47September 17, 2020 2:22 AM

I'm sure I saw Old Mr. Grace...

by Anonymousreply 48September 17, 2020 5:38 AM

"the conservation", OP?

by Anonymousreply 49September 17, 2020 5:41 AM

Sorry...not OP, should have said R41

by Anonymousreply 50September 17, 2020 5:42 AM

Maybe you should have said nothing at all.

by Anonymousreply 51September 17, 2020 5:55 AM

Fascinating how women all sat having lunch wearing their hats (3:34) - whereas men did not.

by Anonymousreply 52September 17, 2020 5:59 AM

So many landmarks just black from coal soot. St. Paul’s looks so beautiful and creamy now after being cleaned a while ago.

by Anonymousreply 53September 17, 2020 6:35 AM

And people complain cars looks samey NOW.

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by Anonymousreply 54September 17, 2020 6:58 AM

R33 sorry, could I just get by your feet to pick up my eyes from where they’ve rolled out of my head and onto the floor?

by Anonymousreply 55September 17, 2020 8:53 AM

I saw Erna prowling Piccadilly Circus. She looked quite young.

by Anonymousreply 56September 17, 2020 10:11 PM

This deserves the color treatment. A lot of this footage was shot as inserts for movies.

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by Anonymousreply 57September 18, 2020 7:22 PM

^^ Really don't NOT BOTHER clicking on R57 if old film of real 1930s city life interests you. It's 5 ⭐️

by Anonymousreply 58September 18, 2020 7:26 PM

R57

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: “Stetson!

by Anonymousreply 59September 18, 2020 9:14 PM

Colorized from 1901!!!

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by Anonymousreply 60September 19, 2020 2:30 PM

All the children have the faces of 40 year old people.

by Anonymousreply 61September 19, 2020 2:31 PM

Fisticuffs at the 5:00 point.

by Anonymousreply 62September 19, 2020 5:24 PM

What a bunch of FUGs. They all look inbred.

by Anonymousreply 63September 19, 2020 5:40 PM
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