At the Movies in New York in 1915 - Enhanced Video [60 fps]
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2022
- This was filmed on March 18, 1915 in New York City. The movie showing that day was "On the Stroke of Twelve" starring Gertrude McCoy and Bigelow Cooper.
This is a glimpse back in time when "movies" were called "photo plays." Also, notice on the sign above the entrance, the word "today" was still written as two words, "to-day."
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Little did they know that 107 years later, people will be watching them on devices smaller than their hands!
And 107 years from now, people will be watching our time probably on devices IN their hands 😳 lol
@@FruityLizzy What do you mean? I don't get it.
@@wifinet8838 meaning in the future the devices will likely be in our skin/body
It’s a little surreal to get to a point in history in which we can watch film and be absolutely certain that every single person in the film has lived their lives and is now dead
A baby in this film would be 107 so still possible kinda
@@Mitjiva but barely and i think youd be in the 10000 oldest ppl or less by that point lol
Pure assumption. World is a crazy place and we learn more about it everyday. Who knows where whom has been? Truthfully, nobody.
Many died 3 years later from the Spanish flu.
@@stunnayyc6531 theyd be 107 if they were a baby. they dead
This might be the most underrated channel in all of youtube.
100% it’s filled with literal treasures of human history
@@poopstainhotdog1 hopefully it's real
I hope more ppl like history. I think the thought of time travel is always an interesting thing for random viewers so the closest you can get one is by watching videos from the past. The more you watch the more you slowly appreciate history.
I agree. I'm glued to my screen lol
All those people walking out would really appreciate a modern day movie
I felt delighted watching the kids passing by and smiling to the camera over and over again
I have to say that It's somewhat endearing to watch the videos that depict the past. So wonderful!
It's not a depiction, it's real
@@B1u35ky Thanks, Sherlock, that's what I meant.
Nice to hear the original FULL version of the national anthem!
Come to think of it... All of these people are probably dead by now....
@@James-en1ob You need Jesus
3:20 seeing the two boys play-fighting combined with the bittersweet music and knowing that these two lads are long gone makes me sad😢 reminds me of me and my brother when we were kids
You never really think how wonderful films like this are until you live in another time to appreciate the purpose of when and why it was made today, even though the film was likely used for different purposes like creating their own movie, we now get to see history in motion in moments we take for granted. Awesome!!!
Crazy that these were just regular people like us, and they didn’t realize just how beautiful and amazing their normal life was to us. What I wouldn’t give just to people watch for 5 minutes in that age 😍
Sometimes I think, when we end up like this with people from our future rewatching footage this current day will realise how lucky we are that we have the freedom to wear and dress whoever we want, maybe one day they might not have a choice?
@@Purzify Certainly people in the future will romanticize parts of our lives. Not everything of course, at least I hope so, but there will definitely fascination with our time because we do live in a very interesting time. The dawn of the Internet, in the transition phase to a hyper modern society.
Just in the last 10-15 years the world has changed so much and the rate of technology advances is still increasing. In just 60 years when I'm in my early 80s and hopefully have grandchildren the world will be so much different and I have certainly some interesting stories to tell.
We live in an age people will look back on the same way. We are at the start of electric vehicle infrastructure. The phase out of fossil fuels will be in our lifetime. It will be as significant looking back at our time as we look back at the end of the steam powered era. The last model of combustion engine we use will look like the horse and cart to people 200 years into the future. The James Webb telescope is going to give us a huge jump in further understanding the universe. We are living in a time where our identities are now all on a digital platform. I guess we are going through a big revolution in our own way, just not the industrial kind from 1800/1900s. A lot is going on in our time.
@@Jez3134 Yes exactly. We are also at crossroads right now in terms of what our species will experience in the next few hundred to even thousand years because of the challenges we face like climate change and soon learning how to live with AI etc...
@@ballislife9924 climate changed since the beginning of time though its not all of a sudden lol
This stuff really shows just how short life really is.
I am a vampire.
It also shows that 100 years ago was a long time but not really that long in the grand scheme of things. Cherish every moment because like the people in this video, a hundred years from now we'll be long gone
@@STTDB1990 unfortunately…
@@STTDB1990 now just imagine them seeing life in 2022 a hundred years from now 😂🤦♂️ it would be a big contrast, definitely not as spectacular as what we see here in the 20s lol
@@KoldAsHell Exactly. We're looking at these people on horses, wearing old style clothing, in dull black and white (though there is a lot of great restoration and coloring on a few channels recently), and they just seem so different from us. But in 2122, people are going to watch us in high-def color, with our cars and technology, and they probably won't feel that different from us.
We are living in and observing a very strange but fascinating mid-point in human history.
These people are just living in the moment, all happy and smiling. Now they're all gone, and we're watching the last memory of them 107 years later from our home. This is the closest we'll get to a time machine.
They aren't gone, we are they're decendents.
There's an Edison Moving Picture theater at the Edison Museum in my hometown, Port Huron, Michigan, where Thomas Edison grew up. It uses the kind of equipment he invented to show movies -- I don't remember how much of the tech is original, or if it's all reproduction. It's pretty nifty. One set of my grandparents grew up when all this was still new, but my grandmother's cousin didn't go to a movie theater until 2004 or thereabouts. She was more than 100 years old, and always had bad eyesight, so she was never interested in going to the movies. The only reason she finally did is because The Nativity Story was playing and she heard it was quite good. She died in 2008 at just shy of her 105th birthday. It's pretty amazing that relatively speaking, this film wasn't all that long ago.
Cool I never knew and I drive through that area occasionally, gonna have to make a stop to check it out
Oh truly mate! Even the civil war, and certainly the founding of this great country is modern history. Our species’ lifespans are just so pathetically short, it feels long ago, but in my mind, anything from antiquity through the Roman Empire up is the beginning of modernity for humans.
Great story. She would have been 12 when this film was made. She could have easily been any one of the kids we see running around. RIP
What really amazed me was how easily the mom around 1:35 got her baby’s pram down the steps! My stroller never would have made it without me picking the whole thing up.
Her stroller wasn’t made in China lol.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 and plastic is used now where metal should be used.
Bigger wheels are more efficient for that. The stroller wheels now are so tiny 😂
This was the year my grandmother was born. I like to think that might have been her in one of those baby carriages somewhere in America and that is what my great grandmother looked like pushing her. Also, I thought it was curious that there was such a wide range of ages in the people exiting the theater. These days, you wouldn’t see that in most theaters..
Very true about the age ranges! It shows a lot of how values have gone down, in my opinion. Older people have no interest whatsoever in the garbage they are showing to younger people, and I don’t blame them in the least!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 True. I’d rather watch a stop motion, black and white, silent film. Instead of Spider-Man, flying through the sky, entering different dimensions, and fighting futuristic beings, with cool explosions.
@@oldthug7624 😂
I think that was the year my grandmother was born too. She lived for 75 years and has been passed on for 32 years !
@@oldblackstock2499 My great great grandmother was born in 1904, and I had the privilege of knowing her for 10 years after I was born. She passed away in 2007 at 104 years old.
I'm writing a film set in 1917 and this is so valuable, it's one thing to read about the era but to see people's faces and behaviour is amazing, thank you.
What is your movie name
It's amazing how they got the entire population of New York inside that theater
Hahaha
Thank you to the person that had the foresight to record this social document. I believe they used to show them at the next weeks cinema before the ‘big picture’, to get the people to come back as well.
Ahh! What a terrific old film of the days of yesteryear! I so enjoyed this! Thank you so much for sharing a piece of our history!!
Wow They Certainly looked very Happy coming out from there movie ! loved the Grand clothing on the ladies & the naughty little boys how they kept coming back in to the camera view for another shot, really made me laugh definitely looked like they were having allot of fun 🤩👍💕
Hahah! I didn’t even notice that some of the young boys would go out of the frame and then come back to pretend like they were coming out of the theater for the first time again, just to get on camera one more time. I’m glad you posted that comment. :) How adorable of them! And now, when people see cameras, they freak out and yell at you! Nobody gave any sort of negative vibes whatsoever at seeing the camera back then. I miss the world before the internet/social media myself, because nobody cared about cameras in a bad way before then! It was always all smiles for them. Pure innocence and happiness.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 I totally agree the Camera back then definitely did not scare them, I love these old films there so entertaining to watch & I feel it’s a glimpse into the past.
@@hippyshake29
Well, it literally _IS_ a glimpse into the past. Haha.
So nice to see these old video clips being restored and seeing how people were like way back then
Claremont Theatre, Manhattan, New York
Located at 3338 Broadway on the corner of W. 135th Street in the West Harlem district of Manhattan, New York City. This theater opened in November 1914 and had a seating capaity given as 1,500 (later fugures give 1,104) and it was designed by architect Gaetan Ajello. It closed in the 1930's and was first converted in a car salesroom. It has had many uses since then, mainly retail furniture stores etc. As of June 2006 it is used as a storage facility in the front section and a supermarket in the back.
Thanks , I was wondering where in the city this was .
I came in to comment, and noticed others said the same thing I was going to say. Granted they’re leaving a show, but how much *happier* everyone seemed to look compared to today’s faces. It’s organic and real, not staged, and yet they all seem naturally ebullient. As we enter a dark 2020s of pandemics and politics and war, we could sure use some of that spirit and light coming from within.
Also notice how many people are holding hands or walking arm in arm. Something you rarely see today. At 1:18 there is even a couple of men arm in arm.
Within? No. A maybe yes. From above? Definitely...
we can't because our culture doesn't promote simple joys of life and togetherness. It's all worship of celebrities and riches pushed in our face 24/7. Ironically, all made possible by the evolution of the moving picture :/
@@scienz That's part of it. But hatred of God and hatred of others and jealousy is the main cause.
That idol worship is going to stop. We will need to, instead, look out for the well being and caring for other regular humans. It's going to be a huge shift into the new age.
I’m in love with your channel.. really nice to see these random people somewhat immortalized on the internet.. videos depicting life in 1915, 107 years ago, you know pretty much everyone in this video has passed away. Keep this stuff coming
I bet non of those people thought they would be in a video over a 100 years later. And would last forever
It’s amazing how captivating something so simple is. Thinking about them leaving the movies and us watching them 107 years later in “movie” on a tiny gadget we are holding in our hands. Could they have imagined how much the world would’ve changed in just over a century? They look so much happier than current day ppl leaving an event. I think I’m simpler times in ways ppl had deeper appreciation for things.
I think your channel is really really amazing. Thank you for sharing history straight from the lives of everyday people. I wonder what they’d think of me watching them on a phone? 🤔
Please share more like this! Just everyday life of years past. To learn, remember, and pass forward to others. Our history is so important!! 😊
At first I thought wow! That place was really packed until I kept seeing the lady with the large feather 🪶 in her hat coming out. Finally it dawned on me the film was on a loop. 😆 That was very interesting to see movie goers from that long ago.
There were many women that had feathers in their hats… Point to a timestamp where you think it starts looping. I don’t think it did.
It wasn’t on a loop.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Thank you. I stand corrected, but that was one packed theater.
"Photoplay" was a classier term to use, brought on by the Uplift Movement starting in 1909. There was even a contest in 1910 to find a word to replace the slang word, "movie". "Photoplay" was the winning word but the slang has stuck with us this whole time.
Every time I watch one of these I always feel like a timer traveler and always think about the kind of lives those people lived back then and how they are all gone now
The irony! People from over 100 years ago leaving from watching a film. Here we are watching them! Watching in digital format to our modern times!
Think about the comparisons between 1915 and today:
1. The clothes these people wore vs. what we wear today
2. Automobiles being a novelty then vs. commonplace now
3. How clean everything looks then vs. today's strets
It's just so incredible to watch.
Dang 25¢ for an egg? New York was hella expensive even back then!
Some things never change
Where are you seeing $.25 for an egg?
Unlikely that even that baby in the carriage would still be alive at 108 years old! Wow. Look at how dressed up everyone was. Beautiful dresses, coats, and a lot of furs (unexpected but may have been in Winter or late Fall).
Mans close never changed , still the same for centuries
Seemed like a good show most came out smiling.
I think that's when the first Rocky movie came out.
@@Monster_Mover_Stocks either that or Rambo 3 based on the reactions
I can’t believe just how many people came out! That theater must’ve been absolutely _MASSIVE!_
Thank you.
It’s funny how the fashion and tech changes but the experience is relatively the same.
Interesting that the younger the person, the more aware they were of the camera filming. A camera, I assume, being operated by an Edison Co. employee. Still, the now famous 1906 SF pre earthquake film seemed to have more people noticing the camera as it made it's journey down Market St. Perhaps it was more a matter of human curiosity 9 years earlier.
It's like the Google Street View car, since 2008. People are captured staring, gesturing, running after the car!
Perfect. Circular history
It feels so nostalgic
Brilliant. Fab channel.
The lads that keep running around over and over again made me laugh! They must be nipping out of shot and going back in through doors we can’t see and leaving over and over again. Kids were hilarious then as well👍
Very cool!!!! Interesting that all the guys had super long coats and everyone had a hat
Men wearing hats when they dressed up, was a way of life right up until the 1960s.
@@michaelmckenna6464
It really is a shame that that went away.
Notice all the hats. Amazing.
All nameless people, life is short.
2:18 I never knew they already had Heelys in 1915
Just simple skates.
More videos ! 🤩
Great footage! Could you tell me who is playing and what is the song?
Ah yes back in the early 1900s the movie camera was a novelty, people were in awe. Now over a hundred years later people record themselves acting like jackasses on Tictoc. We've progressed beautifully ☺️
Well said!
It's sad.
Did you misspell TikTok on purpose? Just curious.. I'm personally on a lifelong ban, self imposed. That app is inane drivel at it's best.
Well said! Wonder what people in 2122 will think of what's on Tik Tok. I doubt with the same awe.
People acted like jackasses in the early 1900s, too.
My girlfriend always laughs at me for watching these type of videos.. asking Why.. I find Our History very interesting & just a joy to watch
I just think it's a sign of intelligence and high class that you can take an interest in other people's lives by trying to understand their feelings and thoughts no matter what age they lived in. It is unfortunately a more and more rare trait in many people from our generation (guess we are in the same age group). Never let the wisdom of the past go into oblivion so that we only make the same mistakes over and over again. Thank you for being open minded and sharing that gift with the world!
You need to laugh at her dumb ass when she's on the tok and ask if she will ever grow up.
How many people did that place accommodate? Wow...they never stopped filtering out! Is it me, or did people back then just seem a lot happier in life? I watch these old films and the first thing I notice is true joy in people. If I sit and watch people today doing the same things you barely see anyone crack a smile. Our world has become too complex and the stress levels trying to keep up is enormous. Just my humble opinion. We need to get back to living simple lives.
A trip to the flickers
It's just amazing. Today we all are watching this and discuss about those people are gone, but after 100 years next generations will discuss we watched these video and we have been gone long time ago.
Look at all these dead people!
That's probably what THEY said when seeing silent news clips of the Titanic three years earlier, and the current on-going war in Europe!
People in 2122:
That's what people will be saying 100 years from now when they watch the dumb tictoc videos people post now
@@chrisboyer4194 Yes.
@@chrisboyer4194
And sadly, they will be even dumber then! But to be honest, they won’t even be allowed to watch a percentage of what is on there.
It took me a while to realize people were coming out of the theater multiple times without the clip being on a loop. First I noticed a girl in a distinctive coat, then a woman with a wild hat decoration and the baby carriage all came through the door several times.
back entrance or different people having same look
Mucha gente saliendo de ese cine. Unos niños captan la comicidad de esta pequeña narrativa. Enternecedor.
Nice 👍
The fashion trend of the day hats,hats, and more hats!
People are exiting that theater for three and a half minutes straight. Must have been a pretty big place.
It wasn't a loop but you see the same boys over and over because they were running back in so they could exit again. As someone stated, they enjoyed being on camera.
It's so sad to think that just about everyone in this film is dead😔... I want to hear their stories,I want to know what it was like first hand
Well, they weren't gonna live forever. You people are making it seem like they're gone, when in actuality; we are they're descendants.
I wonder if the movie was the Great Train Robbery. 1915 the year my dad was born, he was 14 years old when Wyatt Earp died. I remember when I was a kid all my old relatives dressed like these people in the film.
The Great Train Robbery was 1903 but it could have been early Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle or Birth of a Nation. 1915 was another turning point for film entertainment.
@@chuckstuart about 12 or 15 years ago I seen birth of a nation one night I couldn't sleep. What a movie, very impressive.
@@chuckstuart
Birth of a Nation was such a timeless classic!
@@danpatch4751
Indeed, it was awesome!
so classy
Wow... for these moviegoers, it's the future!!!
All the people you see here are dead. How grim is this reality.
Every single one of them are dead. Voices never to be heard again, stories never to be told, entire lives worth of memories lost forever. For the lucky ones, all that's left of them are a tombstone six feet above their resting place, where they lie in silence for eternity. Shower thoughts.
Best hat goes to the lady at 3:24
wish i go back in time and witness this, one of my favorite era is medieval wish i could see how life was back then. imagine what the sun and moon witness thousands of years ago
Yeah right but there was also much pain in live back then
@@ichchefdunix9317
Like there isn’t so much pain in life today?!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 there is but back in these days you could die on evrything and you lived on 1 dollar per day so these days much better also with pain
@@ichchefdunix9317
Do you have any idea how inflation works? Lol. Do you see how nicely they are dressed? Do they look like impoverished people to you? Hungry beggars that could all afford to go to the movies? /facepalm
And no, they couldn’t “die on everything.” You have a very skewed perspective of history.
Everyone has a hat. The men, the women, even the boys were all wearing hats.
I'll bet the babies in the strollers had little hats...
They were called bonnets, but, yeah.
Have to keep their little heads warm in the cold.
Back when you dressed up in your furs and pearls to go to the movies
EVERYONE wore hats! I think i saw 2 people without any. I wonder what changed…
Love this. Every one has a hat even a kid saw one person without a hat.
Life without cellphones looked so damn fun!
THis is so cool
Everyone wore hats back then
a time when people actually dressed up to go out. everyone wearing hats too-- love it.
They were uncomfortable. Try wearing all those layers in the summer.
Black & white .. you’d only want to be one of those back then. The romanticised idea of better times, the good old days when everything would’ve been harder
That's...a lot of people leaving the theater. How many people could that place hold? 100?
An average movie theatre auditorium is around 100 today. Back then, these were just single screen palaces that could hold 1,500 seats.
I would've been in the hat game if I was alive in the early 20th century lol.
What's the music called?
So crazy how we have evolved from this to what we have now…. Self driving cars that you can control with a wireless piece of glass that slides in and out of your pocket.
@1:25 what in the Adventures In Babysitting Thor hat is grandma wearing?
all these people, all these many stories.
Did all these people sign release forms to have their likeness filmed and posted to RUclips? Someone could sue.
Does anyone know when they changed "To Day's...." into it's current one-word "Today's" format?
I don't know when but I remember reading somewhere it was due to newspapers printing it that way
0:28 They flipped the ads too. "Show- Now Going- On" is currently "Now Showing." Maybe they changed because of word inflation rates, ha ha! Two words, now one word reduces the sign making budget expense, and four words into two does the same. I bet newspapers/publishers got the ball rolling, liking "today" better than "to day," just to get proportional spacing alignment, or something like that. Less verbiage ("nouniage?"), no more to-night, to-morrow, etc.
Fascinating to think that everyone in that film lived and already died. People are basically the same in every generation but constrained by what's available to them. I'd have carried a scissors with me to the cinema to cut those too high features blocking my view.
Quite elegantly dressed people then. Almost everybody wearing a hat!
the sheer level of formality makes you wonder if only very wealthy people would’ve lived in manhattan at the time
There were a lot of horrible slums then as now, but who would've wished to film it?
A lot of the worst neighborhoods were also being cleared by then. The Five Points, once declared the worst city block on earth, had been bulldozed to the ground by city officials ten years prior, replaced by Columbus park.
Ive always said If I get my hands on a time machine 😊 I’m going strangely get to the mid to late 1800’s to visit. No interest in any other era much and definitely none in visiting the future. So you’re making it a l’il possible in a small way for me. Thank you! Great channel
Pretty wild to think every single person even the kids are all dead
Moving pictures.. they’re the way of the future I tells ya!
Can't help but think all these people are dead but hope they had a good time.
People back then were well dressed.
Hard to imagine this was over 100 years ago.
imagine going back in time and showing them the Avengers Movies
What street was this on? I live in Claremont
Never mind! It was 135th at Broadway! Knew it looked familiar!
Those steps coming out would be a code violation this day and age…
Some of the young kids would later see Steven Spielberg movies and Rocky Balboa at the cinemas.
They sure wore a lot of heavy clothes.
Fall/winter. Cold in the theater too maybe.
Seems like almost everyone in that time and place had a hat on their head.
My Grandfather would have been 19yo. He died in 1978. I had PLENTY of time to ask him about "What was it like....?". I didn't.
I believe I was born in the wrong century. I would gladly and without hesitation trade the current times for this time any day of the week…
Though of course the ongoing World war 1 would be a great issue. A whole generation was lost to that, either dead or mentally broken with shell shock.
Then as now there were the great societal issues. Lynchings were on the rise (peaking a decade later), and segregation had peaked.
So I'd imagine the quality of life would vary greatly on region. That said, there was no Facebook/"Meta" and not every movie was going political.
"Watch your step" signs weren't invented until 1918.
People in 1917: *levitates over a sewer*
Not sure how those kids got back in the place so many times, but you can tell they wanted to be recorded as many times as possible. Funny.