New York Subway

[mod69]

time travel...i love this

[handal1973]

What year is it !?

[AlienBusDriver]

The most progressive state in the World?

[BeorhtFrognostic]

I love old footage like this...

[nigel36r]

no graffiti hmmmm.....

[streetvan1997]

Amazing footage. Was there a lighting train to the left to light the back of the train? U can see it towards the end of the footage. Very early, very cool video.

They are all ghosts now. It's weird to think about time. We are all ghosts living now. It makes you think of what level of life we are at now. Maybe we are already " dead". There could be levels of life.

[Doublex776]

lol 100 years later and people still run down the platform magically thinking the train is 10 cars long

[CentinelThe]

the sound is fake

[IsaacSal]

Forgive me if im wrong but sound in movies did not existed in 1905

[Headcheezonium]

@IsaacSal It existed, but it wasn't used very often because filming in sound was VERY expensive.

[Headcheezonium]

@IsaacSal However, This particular video is not using the original sound. It was added in later.

[mer191]

Pretty cool - the trains sound the same as they do today

[eyeofhoruszero]

Thats very interesting!"

[wongleebruce]

Great ole video love it, question: what is the name of the station if you want to go see Letterman (Ed Sullivan theater)?

[VTVMEXICO]

COOL VIDEO, I LOVE THE OLD VIDEOS

[scscorinthians]

this is how its look like in sao paulo brazil

/watch?v=lw4ddC69R5w

[Harry7784]

what year was this made? 1601?

[jdgator95]

@Harry7784 I hope you're joking....

[Hac110]

What is this movie? In one scene this guy speeds up the subway and one dude got flown back on the wall by the g-forces

[ansre12]

its so sad and happy at the same time.just think over 100 yrs ago men and women were allowed to ride the same train. also from the children to adults everyone seem enthusiastic about riding the subway. btw the fashion was dressy on a regular basis. no graffiti or slander nowhere.andanother thing im glad that the ppl arent moving fast like other photoshots :)

[INDAspect]

This is FANTASTIC. That 42nd Street station is none other than what is now the Grand Central platform of the 42nd Street shuttle, once served by the line IRT line. Amazing.

[Kai0nTheMoon]

This is footage from over 100 years ago, from a camera with mediocre audio quality, uploaded to a website, and yet the subway announcement (which is in the background no less) is still more audible & comprehensible than the MTA announcements today. Amazing :) No filth, no graffiti, i love it!

[jdgator95]

@Kai0nTheMoon I completely agree, but as for the sound and announcement, it was added on later. How do I know? Because there was certainly no sound film in 1905 and also if you listen closely they mention Amtrak in the announcement, which DEFINITELY wasn't around in 1905 ;) Other than that, it IS amazing just to see how much we have changed.

[orangie84]

That is true.lol

also you can hear the loop in the track and someone who has been around the NYC train system soon learns you can count the wheel sound going over the track divitions

The first car goes over (boom boom) followed by car two (ba boom ba boom) car three (ba boom ba boom) all the way up to car 8 or 10.Or 11 cars on the 7 line.

If its 8 cars car 7 to car 8 will pass Ba boom ba boom last car ba boom.

So count how many cars pass in this vid.. 8 but they only used 4 cars back then

[orangie84]

Also the sound you hear of the wheels sounds completely different when riding in the train as to one that is passing by..

The sound you hear in the vid is of a train that is passing by..

Not one that you are riding in..

The sound is totally wrong for this vid altogether..

[MPL029]

Love the woman at the end wearing the white/beige outfit..once she notices the cameraman..she turns around..then sort of gets her kids to pose with her.

Wish this hadnt contained sound. Everyone knows there was no sound film in 1905..takes away from the era-piece that it is.

[SilentWarrior85]

@MPL029 Dude, there is a button next to the play button that switches off the sound. Awesome, isnt it?

[tryithere]

@SilentWarrior85 lol

[Blokechest]

Photo of construction shows 1 black person out of thousands. Yet they claim to have built it.????????I love how these grab asses always take credit for something they know nothing about.Typical Knee-Grows.

[sabbirsa]

No but then again White House was built by Black slaves. Instead of coming to YT and make such racist remark the easier thing to do would be to go to a therapist because clearly you are a cruel result of a defective gene. Otherwise why the fuck would anybody come to a subway video and make such remark is beyond me. If everything else fails then maybe you should kill yourself.

[Razorblade12161216]

how did they take the camera from behind? did they use another train from behind to capture this? and btw 5 star

[luciferx8]

Great unique movie

[LumierexCosmic]

AWESOME from 5:10 on....and the rest is wonderfully spooky.

[julieluvpink]

in the back of my mind i was thinking that there was no sound in 1905, either this had to be the wrong year or they added the noise.

the clothing style definitely indicates 1905....

but the intercom you hear, definitely is out of place....so i guess they did add in the voices.....

but the video is still good, its got a kinda chilling feel to it.

[xliver4]

yeah i think they added it

[dmc081]

it's just a addon to add sound effects

[maandac2]

it sounds like the Train is Exploding when it stops at every Station

[dmc081]

it's just a addon sound effects

[as97ir]

WOW HOW DID U GET THIS

[diverse01]

not a video from 1905 as there was no sound camera invented then.

[7wine]

you are right "diverse01"

I had a copy of the footage years and years ago, but it never had audio. Te least the poster could have done was remark that the audio was dubbed in

[Evilmonkey1214]

yeah but they probably put the original video but added the sounds later

[cadrolls]

@diverse01 They recorded sound along with the video and then incorporated it together after it was done.

[TheTurnOfTheCENTURY]

nice bit of history!

[MarcelloTomas928]

those trains are simular to the one we have in toronto, the T1's

[Dancing4Forever]

Everything and everyong was so proper back then, now everything is so ghetto as fuck.

[waymon88]

I could not agree more, and I am from the ghetto!!!

[Dancing4Forever]

Know what I'm sayin lol they really REALLY make us look bad lol.

[TigerRocket]

D4F-

So one would think. A book titled 'Gilded City' lays the myth of a "more proper people" to rest. It wasn't as visible as it is now, but it was there nonetheless.

A history of the Bowery and the Tenderloin districts at the turn of the last century make the Times Square of the seventies look like the Disney it became believe it or not.

Drugs, prostitution, gambling dens, homelessness, child labor.....on and on. There's nothing new under the sun. Especially in New York.

[Dancing4Forever]

Whatever - I can't wait to move the hell on outta here anywayz lol. Time to live in another state and raise my future kids there, because fuck it they will NOT be raised here in Nueva Jork.

[Dancing4Forever]

Wow that's interesting, now our trains are COMPUTERIZED :).  and from Japan.

[DJMiKieJaY]

impossible dats edited

[crazyshedlife]

its blatantly not...

[harrislive07]

More than 100 years! I heard this kind of  sound in 2008, and it never change!

[santyrush]

ooooooo  no graffiti, hahahahaha

[siyawax]

Yes, the sound is obviously dubbed into the video because in 1905 there was no sound in motion picture.

[lylehsaxon]

Very interesting! As a long-time subway rider on lines old and new (in Tokyo - oldest line begun in 1928), I can tell you that the sound is definitely fake. It's much too uniform for one thing, and notice how the station sound comes magically in full force ever before opening the doors! Whatever - but it's something I dislike about historical films, why do people have to damage archival material with fake sounds? - LHS

[russphilly]

Notice how 100 years ago society would dress in stylish clothing,,,not like the slobs of today!..hahahaha

[SPS148669]

RUSSPHILLY-Now "Asians' dress in stylish clothes while riding ther new hi tech subway systems. ha ha ha ha.

[russphilly]

//Hey..nice job adding the authentic audio track!!!..fine job!

[bluechao]

"rrrright but they certainly had the ability to record audio and play it alongside the footage."

In 1905 sound recording was done with a stylus cutting into a wax cylinder. Much like playing later phonograph records (essentially the same basic technology), you needed a stable surface to record the sound. You could not have done this on a moving train without the stylus skipping and ruining the recording.

[GunnyWoods]

Nice footage, had a ghostly feeling.

[danger0usknowledge]

Bless you Emily Swinton, that must have been an

unforgettable ride.

[Jmcsby5]

The little girl is ALIVE. Her name is Emily Swinton and she lives in Trenton, NJ--107 years young!

[chicobangs]

How do you know that? They didn't exactly have release forms back then, and New York was a big enough city even then that she can't have been the only little girl on the train.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just asking.

[JustinDejong]

As the saying goes, dress for the job you want. Back then people dressed to look rich, now we dressed as if our aspiration was to work at McDonalds.

[phdphdphdphd]

Why the fuck were people so formally dressed? Imagine the dry cleaning (or hand washing and pressing) it would take to maintain those stupid 3-piece suits every single one of those men was wearing. WTF?!

[JustinDejong]

People back then had standards. Unless you were a hobo or a janitor you dressed like you gave a damn about yourself. Sometimes even the janitors and hobos would try and look presentable. We've fallen a long way.

[zz811]

They all look the same, seems insecure to me.

[amazindan]

@JustinDejong

Ya ya right about the way people dressed than but hygiene wasn't a big part of life as it is today. People would bath once a month back than.

[JustinDejong]

@amazindan Um... no people bathed daily back then. People started bathing daily around the 17th century. Running water and indoor plumbing has been around in America since the 1800s, earlier in other countries like England. They also had shampoo, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Not much of our hygene stuff of today is new at all. It's a lot better then what they had back then, but still.

[jacquel12376]

@JustinDejong yea...everybody was wwearin a suit back then...even just to go borrow suger..they still was presentable...like a interview...

[FiyerEater]

The audio was mixed in 2006, according to the credits at the end of the video footage.

[ac661]

The station at the end is the "S" Shuttle station underneath Times Square... still looks the same. (It was the original 1/2/3 stop)

[AxelQC]

Where did the sound come from? They didn't have sound pictures in 1905.

[MikeTorrez83]

rrrright but they certainly had the ability to record audio and play it alongside the footage.

[Maserati7200]

no they didn't. This sound is fake. The train in this video does not even sound like this.

[TenacityEnt]

Fascinating! I love finding old film footage like this from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

FYI, a few of you need to study up on BASIC history. This film footage was recorded DECADES before films had sound. The sound you are hearing here was likely added later. In fact, I'm pretty sure I heard the PA system mention "Amtrak" at the station; Amtrak wasn't formed until the early 1970s.

[VirtualDementia]

You need to get your BASIC centuries right.

"Late 18th and early 19th centuries." = Late 1700's and early 1800's.

Perhaps you were thinking late 19th and early 20th?

[johnmasterson]

Around 5:57: Two men walking together, one holding onto the other's arm.

[Kwiksilver83]

ya....this was the silent film era.......

[bigboyhomer93]

dudes its sounlike a bomb and the R142A noise when it stops

[markochris]

Billy Bitzer is perhaps the father of Cinematography. He was the director of photography on the movie "Birth of a Nation" and was on hand to cinemagraphy the Spanish American War

[ibook133]

Wow, it's CLEAN!!!!!!! *passes out from shock*

[RickyUK100]

Why am I watching this, I need to get a life!

[Feazellm]

I think the subways in Boston still look like this

[a8avexp]

That film was made with another train directly behind the one seen. Lighting was provided by a train on r=the express track pulling a flatcar with a light or lights mounted on it.

[embassyspeakers]

yeah, you can see that flatcar with the light rig right at the beginning - pretty cool...

[screeningroom]

The sound is actually a lot different for this period than what is inserted here.

You can hear it by going on a trip on one of the Nostalgia trips run by the NYC Transit Museum every year. The audio would be square gear noise sort of a continous ra ra ra sound and the hissing of air brakes when the train stops.

[RogerJack]

man, can you imagine those stations actually smelled like new then?? the people probably stunk though. no a/c.

[d0usuck]

i wanna tag up that station

[cosmicdreamdust]

Cool!

[GedMpBasS]

How the hell did they get this footage? With another car behind it?

[Comwhiz2002]

I have seen the original of this clip somewhere on the internet. There is no sound in it.

[lees6178]

were suits and derby hats imposed by government mandate back then?

[internetguruking]

At least people had some style when they went out, not dressed like bums or hobos!

[wysjounommer]

wow. Would there be a chance of sending me a better quality version? I need this kinda footage for a project im doing. Thanks.

[RogerJack]

if you haven't, checkout the New York Public Library website. they have lots of stills and movies clips like this. i think that's where i saw this one originally.

[dispatcher484]

Whats scary is that the little girl and little boy seen at the 42nd St. platform would today be both over 100 years old now. Astonishing!

[rubenc83]

I don't see what's so scary or astonishing about it. They're probably dead, along with everyone else who was waiting there.

[johntgr]

unbelievable video! I ensume that the sound was added later, cause there was not sound in movies until the late 20s.