First Ever Video Footage (1893) of New York Fire Brigade

First Ever Video Footage (1893) of New York Fire Brigade. Filmed nearly 120 years ago, this is quite possibly the first ever footage of the New York Fire Brigade. The film is very grainy but it clearly shows firemen rushing through New York on horse drawn engines. Behind them, you can see some sort of electric powered streetcar or trolley system with 'Clinton Avenue' on the back.

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[otaklub]

Vsauce Army not dead.

[HCDHR]

First video footage even in HD

[mujawooja]

this is first ever film 1893 not first video footage

[Klinkerklunk]

I wonder if anyone there is still around today?

[CJReviewz]

1936

[TigerRocket]

The trolley marked 'Clinton Avenue' places this scene in Brooklyn a.k.a. East New York, an independent city until consolidation in 1898.

[crasher1in]

I did this too, i red dead redemption.

[smellthedailyfresh]

@Chillagher Film also has something similar to pixels, depending on the speed of the film, the faster the film, the largerer the photoreactive particals, less clarity of definition. Slower film means more detail. They can probably do the same thing with digital, but you pay more for more expensive equipment.

[ColoredStripes]

@HCDHR  WHAHAHAHAHAHA GOOD ONE XD

[Chillagher]

@itsGdublan Remember getting photo negatives before the invention of digital cameras? Did you ever wonder why your 8x10 prints were so well defined coming from such a tiny negative? Film can be enlarged quite a bit without losing its fidelity. Unlike digital photos and videos, it isn't limited by numbers of pixels. (like for example, a blu-ray movie or a youtube video.)

[itsGdublan]

what i dont understand is the quality of these videos. how did the camera's of that time film in such hd?