Snowball Fight, 1895-1897

[tmacjeeebs]

they all throw like girls hahah

[Chris09181972]

Nowadays, everyone would have to wear a helmet, elbow pads, knee pads, and the fight would still end in a lawsuit. Thanks useless ambulance chasers, now we can never have fun like THIS again.

[nextmovebestmove]

Shows how people, even then, liked to have a good time.

[Clint945]

Everyone in this film is dead.

and some of their kids will also have died of old age, although a few may be around.

And Their Grandchildren may have grandchildren of their own now.

:)

[khyron62]

Hey bike guy! you forgot your hat!!!

[Izkzmach]

They weren't following the Standard Procedure of Snowgrenading, and neither using Standard Issued Snowgrenades.

[Ndylnoble]

present day ghosts

[MxC1337MxCsh43d]

Anyone els eshocked at how brutal this is? I mean three people ganged up on the guy on the bike and lacerated him with snowballs...

[KaltiMark]

Haha the guy in the at 0:07 evaded the snowball like agent Smith

[SkewedLogicShow]

Took down that random biker.. poor guy

[Mattwad]

Thank you for uploading this.. truly amazing.

[JAD3889]

Bicycle rider: World's first "jackass". Lol "This is sir Jonathon of Knoxville, and this is 'get hit in the face while riding a bike on top a thick layer of ice I say".

[youraverageuser]

looks like just plain ole fun! i didn't see anyone loose there cell phones in the fight? ;)

[macroevolve]

This is why there were no fat people then...they had to actually excert energy to have fun, unlike sitting in front of video games for hours

[Clint945]

@macroevolve

Well, that and the lack of any real workers unions as well as the fragmented class structure of society stopped most people from earning enough to feed themselves...

Oh and plenty of diseases such as dysentery and cholera to keep you Thin/dead.

Sincerely,

A fit, athletic video-gamer.

[XsAviR]

0:13 boom headshot.

[skylilly1]

I'm glad we we get to wear pants now and not long dresses to play in the snow..

[Hypsan]

That is one SERIOUS snow fight!

[onlythewise1]

to be a time traveler , anybody want to help me make a time travel machine. would take over a billion dollars.

[SmellySocks19]

The first fail ever filmed!

[goback3spaces]

The guy on the bicycle gets knocked off by snowballs, then gets back on and bikes away in the opposite direction.

[Berddog]

that is NOT the 1890s

[afternoonsister]

@Berddog Wikipedia: Bataille_de_boules_de_neige

[macroevolve]

@Berddog When is it?

[OmegaWolf747]

These days, the guy on the bike would probably bitch to the cops and have the snowballers arrested for assault, or would call his lawyer and sue them.

[SirDamned]

1895-1897? That must have been one long ass snowball fight...

[PompousPreacher]

@SirDamned I wonder how they managed to keep up the snowball fight during the summer months?

[TobiasMuray]

RIP

[mjwinger1]

Everyone in this video is now dead.

[DodgeMagnum13]

I liked the part when that guy gets hit by that snowball.

[62636263c]

I love the technology today, but I would almost trade it for the simplicity of yesteryear, almost.

[thesonybluray]

Did you see that man get knocked from his velocipede?

[NowPleaseReadThis]

I like the way everyone presented themselves to others at the sidewalk 'pavement' level back then. That was it. If you don't go outside then no one see's or thinks of you except from memory of their prior contact with you. No phone,email, or internet.

You'd better dress well, you reputation largely stands on it before you step out the door and get anything done.

[BookerBird66]

@NowPleaseReadThis I couldn't agree more, even with all this technology we have today, people seem to be more disconnected than ever. There are streets now where people know less than three of their neighbors or even care to. The people in this film come from a time when people took the time to talk to and get to know other people. Also, to bean them in the face with a snow ball.

[NowPleaseReadThis]

Fast forward to now: do I change out of sweatpants before I drive my sheetmetal box enclosure to a large parking lot and walk into Walmart.

[BmxRZESZOW]

113 years!!!

[JRproduction101]

I want to time travel so I can go in this time and join the snowball fight!

[2lasiiJAkuppi]

lol this was staged for the camera, bicycle guy is going one way but turns around the same way he came from after falling off the bike. Also he fell off very easy and left his hat behind like it was nothing of value.

[RealShover]

Какое же хреновое качество видео было у ютуба в 1895-ом :)

[CameronEwart1493]

why dont they stop throwing snowballs and go inside to play some reach

[StephonWallace]

@CameronEwart1493

lol

[Koenstuurwold0]

war is upon them

[bootyplus]

Im sorry this has fake written all over it..the quality is just to good

[nichotom]

What happened to that poor fucker on the bike? LOL

[rockyrigby]

Proof people were just as immature before the Entertainment Age.

This could be you Father's Father's Father!

[nognilk]

because there was not cure (flu shots) for the flu back then...they all died within two days.

[handal1973]

I cried without reason .

[DeliverTheWord1]

@handal1973 Thats because the combination of the music and the knowledge that these souls are long gone makes for a melancholy feeling. Life is incredibly short.

[samo6300]

Beautiful time

[pezcore68]

lol i cant believe they almost jacked that guys bike :P

[IriaVintage]

this is just beautiful..

.. Fun those days!

[ryanmshepard92]

They massacred the guy on that bike.

[MrAaaaaaaaa1350]

LMAOOOOOOO 0:14

[refuseit]

The most incredible thing is that this snowfight went on for 2 years!

[purpleyurp]

HAHA the guy almost got jumped for his bike

[altoids79762]

guy on the bike was thinking

"it's ok only these guy would know"

little did he know he would be the laughing stock of future generations

[altoids79762]

that tall guy with the hat must have been the neighborhood douche, but with my sense of humor.

[altoids79762]

im going record random areas with a high quality camera and tripod so future generation can enjoy films of past generations like we are doing.

[theendofit]

@altoids79762 the only thing is how bad will it look to them???

to us we hear sound and see video and think..."man thats realy close to being real"

...

but so did pepole when my grand parnts were my age about the stuff then

[XxBl3nderxX]

i bet they never played call of duty =p

[menacinghat]

guy on bike got bullied,he left his hat.

[laura20022004]

they just totally whomp that guy on the bike. hahaha that was funny its like watching dead people play snowball fight

[0nethatisQUEER]

It's real amazing to see just how similar to us the last generations were... except, we're nicer to our cyclists. Maybe.

[scottianmacleod]

Ummmm its obviously fake are you people serious?

[menacinghat]

@scottianmacleod

no,this is real. the films were taken by some french brothers i believe.

[scottianmacleod]

@menacinghat The quality just seems too good for it to be 19th century, no?

[IsThisLife09]

The guy on the bike...damn, they had no mercy! :)

[macroevolve]

0:25 Guy in top hat is very proper after hitting him with a snowball....the way he moves.

[macroevolve]

0:24 He nailed the bicycler in the back of the head! lol

[macroevolve]

The good ole days when you didn't have to worry about muslim terrorists

[LokiV]

@macroevolve well said ;)

[macroevolve]

Did anyone else laugh when they knocked the guy off his bike? 

[altoids79762]

@macroevolve hell yeah

[lenamay521]

LOL Awwww they knocked that guy off the bike! Very cool video! :)

[vinylrecordcollector]

This is one of the most entertaining and intriguing videos I've ever watched. I've always wanted to travel back in time to the 1800s. Unfortunately, this is the closest I'll ever get.

[lawl495]

i tought in 1800 they didint know to make snow balls..

[Xchrstian4Agnostism]

The music is ideal for watching a bunch of dead people having fun... its hauntingly beautiful.

[pphilmalo]

wish i could go back in time and give them all wedgies

[whiskeyspray]

FAKE! the guy on the bike was wearing earphones.

[leumas351]

@whiskeyspray probably earmuffs

[menacinghat]

@whiskeyspray

ear muffs perhaps? you people are so silly. This was only 100 years ago. You will be the same as them,very,very soon.

Time marches on

[MckilemWorks]

And they say that today's youth are hooligans - take a look on that poor fellow who fell of the bicycle.

[crazyknight2008]

poor guy on the bike, awsome, now if that happened today the gy on the bike would pull out a knife or a gun, sad, i want to just jump into this film and go back to those days/

[CHAMPIONES09]

Back then they would even suit up for a snowball fight. Barney stinson would'v loved to have lived in those days.

[starvetodeath123]

The guy on the bike at 0:13 is the most hilarious part. Who knew people in the 1800s had humor that could make me rofl.

[RoninAvenger]

@starvetodeath123 people were actually much more funny back then than we are today. Especialy in the 1930s and 40s, people actually were human.

[MrDetroitmofo]

1895-1897 ? the snowball fight lasted that long ??

[KingIguanza]

Dude at :06 seconds is an epic throw and epic dodge!!

[KameleonOfficialTv]

I don't know why but im scared when im watchin this old videoz...

[artmonkey24]

@KameleonOfficialTv Haha I feel the same way when I watch old videos. I try to explain it to people but they just don'tunderstand! I guess it's just knowing that all of these people are dead...

Anyway despite me being scared, I thought it was a cute vid :)

[KameleonOfficialTv]

@artmonkey24 that's what im sayin,knowin they are all dead...it is amazing seeing this but also scary as i said.

[tehmattbookpro]

Everyone in this video died of pneumonia.

[phadedlife]

guy on bike gets fucking OWNED

[inkey2]

I have seen tons of old film footage and I doubt very much this is from the late 1800s. The speed of the film and the clarity is too good. I am thinking closer to 1912

[creamyfilling102]

man ppl in 1890's were mean. he knocked that biker on his ass and tried to take it from him haha

[CarlOlav]

@creamyfilling102 People were tougher back then.

[arsforsa]

at the beginning, tall man in the hat is Segei Rachmaninoff. great Russian composer and a pianist!

[jerreeee]

Alright who the fuck hit dislike!!?!

[Crey2237]

Watch closely at 0:19 I think the other man was trying to steal the other persons bike!

[BlackNGoldRules]

Wow, that's excellent quality for a film so old!

[DocWyoming]

then everyone died of influenza

[D2Rockz]

dude on the bike got p*wned

[BiologicalUnit2380]

i love authentic old vids. yt rocks.

[ricarleite]

These people are all dead for sure, for at least 30 years.

[Ostebrix]

=((( the man on the bike got so scared that he even left his hat....

[xmimoza]

hooligans

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

Eerie. I want that guys bicycle.

[pecosism1]

personas que stan bajo la tierra, como es la vida

[NYTimesreporter]

0:14 boom Headshot :D

[Zardoz99]

This is how the French fought all their wars.

[m1grand70]

@Zardoz99 now, don't underestimate the snow ball, in an experts hand it can be a deadly weapon effective at 8 feet.

[lumpyroc]

wow1895-1887 thats gotta be the longest snowball fight ever!

[soSUBURBIA]

@lumpyroc Bwahahaha

[ghfdjghjfdghkdfjghfd]

@lumpyroc lmao

[coolcoolcoolest]

oh and that poor guy forgot his hat! poor guy, i wonder where it is now? and where was this film taken?

[coolcoolcoolest]

see how nice people were back then? see that guy that got knock out of his bike! he just went away smiling. now if that happens today, there's going to be war-.-' and i love how everyone dress up like they are going to a wedding. I now understand why old people are so disgusted with my generation :l all the swearing, porn, drugs, gang. I bet none of those peopel in this film has even ever heard of gang and drugs

[JudgeJulieLit]

@coolcoolcoolest , the film "Gangs of New York" is about violent ghetto gangs in Manhattan in the 1840s (perhaps long before the people in this film short were born, so they may not have known of such incivility). As for drugs, in the nineteenth century (in the West as East) opium, laudanum, morphine, cocaine and other hard drugs were not yet illegal, but were widespread used medicinally. And most sexuality was not public.

[GriffinNary]

@coolcoolcoolest I love how nice they were about it too! Nowerdays, you'd just get shanked by some uptight pikey.

[Mikebmc]

It just shows how in some ways people never change. 

[chincheek1]

how long ago was it that you could record sound as well?

[chincheek1]

its amazing i have never seen a video this clear that long ago

[wasp9]

Its so crazy to think that 115 years ago people were having snowball fights just like we did.

[zaacattack1990]

the guy on the bike forgot his hat!

[DetonatingPasta]

man...that makes me feel like my time is out of date and getting old...fuck the 2000s and also lol at dude on bike he got jacked

[centralscrutinizer9]

over a 100 years later snowballs have been replaced with knives and guns

[Dylax16874]

lmao at the dude on the bike.

[foilseal]

i doubt this snowball fight lasted for three years

[fleuregyptienne]

u bring beautiful feelings by this video ...thanks

[wodji]

Wow... that's amazing...

Look at the clothes they were wearing!

It would be so cool to be able to go back in time just for 1 day.

[foilseal]

@wodji so stop talking and do it

[4543563]

One day, my friend. One day...

[waterdrawn]

Wow, the music is beautiful and this clip got me mesmerized. To be able to see a moment where they enjoyed a exhilarating event and I got to share it with them. This feeling is stuck in time.

[truephilosopher]

before 1900? tha's so awsome!

[shinesthrudarain]

@truephilosopher yeah i was 5 then, miss them days

[truephilosopher]

@shinesthrudarain and how old are you know? You are the older usser on youtube???????? you got 115 years old??????

[shinesthrudarain]

@truephilosopher im 116

[truephilosopher]

@shinesthrudarain it's hard to belive but if it is so, i want to have friends who lived on time of Franz Josef and Kaiser and so on, so pls send me your mail and messanger adress, i want to talk with you about that times.

[shinesthrudarain]

@truephilosopher i dont know a messenger. but my email isastheangels@aol.com

[GeneralPaccepa]

What song is that?

[cthutqitcnfrjd]

Anouar Brahem - Leila au pays du carrousel (cd "Le Pas Du Chat Noir" - ECM, 2002)

[GeneralPaccepa]

Thank you very very much!

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@GeneralPaccepa Anouar Brahem - (English) Leila country carousel

[dag7299]

ha ha ha the guy on the bike

[GeneralPaccepa]

@dag7299 He lost his hat tho...That's the first lost object ever video recorded in history. Cherish it.

[gogugogu]

nice :D