Blackfriars Bridge (1896)

[MasterSystem90]

0:31 the guy who turns and looks at the camera. Creepy son of a bitch. 

[darrenburnfan]

And in the background, The City of London School, 76 years before Darren Burn started there at the age of eleven in 1972...in fact, 65 years before he was even born!

[Revolva8891]

Astonishing how the background of the scenery still looks the same 115 years later.

[rayygun]

This is when youtube comes into it's own.

[ForkieUK]

Truly marvellous!

[crazyknight2008]

wow i love these films of the past, its sad in a way thou,when you know the people of that time will never know the marvels of today, mobile phones,credit cards, computers, music , lady ga ga (well the last one is debatable lol ) but on the plus side they lived in a more simpler era, and yes i would love to go in time and spend a few days there. thumbs up for this vid and for london screen archives. just awsome.

[realmann777]

200 years from now, people will look amazed at videos of us walking in the streets....

[Tyszka7]

Just think Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Paul Cezzane and Henri Rousseau could have just walked by, I doubt it but you never know

[MrGezamo]

by god, i wish i could travel back to some of these periods, if only for a day

[colew8g]

And to think about it, in only several years those peoples lives will be revolutionized by the invention of cars.

[EJWhitton]

The guy who turns around at 0:31, clown face paint?

[VOXS2]

@EJWhitton lol and i gues today if someone did that to the camera, they would look like a freak tomatoe

[usagicullen]

@EJWhitton

what a creeper!

[a4Audi2153]

@EJWhitton i know right! exactly what i wa thinking...

[Csforce]

@EJWhitton its a pipe

[mossfitz]

Nowadays we can easily think that this chemical tracing of light is close to past reality - but no amount of research could turn up anything about who these people really were at the ime of filming or what their lives were. We have a moving picture but its easy to forget that we know almost nothing about what we are seeing.

[RonRicho]

I have become obessed with this film. This is taken from the south side of the river I believe and that biulding in the background is (I think) the London School on Victoria Embankment. The building was only twelve years old when this was shot.

Amazing!.

[RonRicho]

Thank you for posting this. It is amazing! As mentioned the people just look like us. But the main thing is that I am fascinated by public transport of the past and this gives me plenty to look at. Especially the Hansom cabs. I will be watching it many times. I only someone films me and people in the next century see it.

[wownouser]

What is great about these films is that pace of the people - walking, moving, the carriages, horses, is almost right, not like in other silent movies where the pace is unnaturally faster, which makes everything unreal. Here you can see people move and look just like us. I feel like jumping into their streets and tell them - "hi, I'm from the future, I'm from 110 years in the future. So many things have happened that you don't know about". It's amazing. really like being in a time machine.

[darrenburnfan]

@wownouser Well, the cinematrograph is the nearest we've yet come to having a time machine.

[wownouser]

@darrenburnfan

Indeed it is...

[av1708]

very very fantastic

[THUxFilms]

this is accually interesting

[scoringthepsyche]

even the horses are checking the camera out...

[mickeymoo26]

You couldn't bring someone from that era to the now, they'd be shock.

[hofnerman1]

You actually see in the faces of some of these ppl that they are curious as to what the person filming is doing. Great stuff. I could watch this stuff for hours.

[plobzzz]

just wonderful

[jerrymail]

I have always been interested by Victorian and "Belle epoque" era. Thank you for this awesome video!

[goatshredder]

Sigh.

[trigga1uk]

fantastic,