I absolutely love this video. Takes you back in time and shows so much. I grew up in the 80s but the way the boys were playing so rough back then reminded me of my childhood compared to most children today. Most boys don't play nearly as rough and aren't nearly as active.
I love how they show the children right after the old people... cause 80 year olds today were born during WW2, and in their childhood (during the time in this video), they were living alongside 80 year olds who were born during the Civil War era. Just two lifespans connect the 1860s to today and they both meet in this video!
Good afternoon reelblack 🙋🏽♀️ The kids playing in the johnny pump-or hydrant as its called nowadays- took me back to my youth in the city. I recall Spanish Harlem as somewhere near 116 th str. Summer street festival & carnival was still held there before the plandemic of course. Thanks for the memories 💞
Elle Brown: my mother and uncle were raised right there. I was born a year later in 1949. I remember visiting my grandmother on those very streets. It was a community. It was a place where mother’s could send young children, who couldn’t even read, to the butcher or grocery store with just a note. It had more life than the sterile suburbs in which I grew up.
A lot of those kids are in there late 70's early 80's now. Hell a lot of those kids are no longer with us anymore and the adults have long been gone. The cycle of life
My parents weren't even born yet when this was recorded. My mother would be born two years later. This is the silent generation and the infants are the start of the era of baby boomers. It's a long time ago but not really feeling like a long time, if you understand what I mean. Most of the people in this video are probably deceased.
Luved this .goes to show u how it was backed then the kids r all havein fun as kids. no mindset on conditions n poverty and no color barriers. Just fun as kids in the neighbourhood .laughing one scene that kid rideing on car bumper as car is moving done that as a kid. we. were kids 2 at 1 time to now 7o yrs old .thanks 4 showing this .
@@marshinz5696 Well we certainly have the technology and the land to build homes for many people that live on the street why we don't do this is beyond
Financially speaking things may have been worse for most, but their families were more intact and stable. Communities were more stable back then. See how people were out in the streets and adults could tell children what to do? Most adults wouldn't even try that today unless a child went so far they HAD to step in and do something.
Rare piece of filming. Rare too, in America, are the golden and cinnamon skinned on film. This is the New York Malcom X walked in his Zoot suit, and somewhere, at this time, James Baldwin is smashing a glass into a Caffe window, before sailing to Paris. Poor people, moving in from the Islands, up from the South, and history of Galicia, Liverpool; and the ports of Old Calabar, Benin, and the Arawak, the Kalinago, and Seminoles in their veins, and on their faces, and in the ability to smile and laugh, in spite of all that.
Galicia, Liverpool? Arawak, Kalinago & Seminole? Where's your head man? This is New York City, specifically Spanish Harlem, according to the title. What are we seeing here? MAYBE... 1st or 2nd generation Jewish & Italian immigrants, African Americans, internal migrants from Puerto Rico and who knows where else? Romantic utterances of old world cities (?) means dick. Malcolm in a zoot suit bopping down 125th is some Spike Lee artistic license. Nice words Brown, but facts? These were simply street scenes. And some of these fux needed an ass kicking...
@@bennibfronabronx200 Get your history game up. Spanish Caribbean was full of people from Galicia, in Northern Spain, and Fidel Castro's dad was from Galicia. Most of these kids have Spanish, African, and native ancestry, and from the peoples listed in my pretty words above. Black Americans usually arrived in America on British Ships sailing out of Liverpool, and their white heritage is from the British isles, and their ancestors were sold in Old Calabar, a sea port in Nigeria, as most of Virginia got their slaves from there (mainly igbos) or sometimes they were shipped up from Barbados. These kids are a product of those historical forces, as I am. Maybe you are too.
Yea I noticed that too. It was so strange as though some of them were street kids, and or orphans, I wonder if those older woman there were kind of playing as the mother role for them.
Back in those days, women looked like women and men looked like men. The women wore dresses and the men wore suits and ties. Today, they got it all twisted.
@@darlene9894 🤣😂🤣 They weren’t saying you “gotta” wear them Per say… I believe they were just stating that you definitely could tell who was who back “those days” and won’t too many people trying to look like something there really NOT
Yes... I sometimes do the math... and I realize that I met people a child that were in their late 80'and mid 90' ..... I was 6 7,8,9, born in '62' .... # Do the math!🖤💯
How strange the LOC has these old reels; what were they intended to do? Were they just random candids of certain communities? Or were the filmmakers people who donated their self-made films to the library?
My wifes grandfather lived there around that time. Came from Russia had 10 children and was a Baptist minister ! ( i think they lived in the BRONX?) My wifes father ran away with is brother at the age of 15 !!
Theblue eye model type he is called Zeaser Boija, is Julius Zeaser nephew & was given permission by the Vaticant Pope , to play the part of Jesus christ .,
Priceless footage!! Really wonderful! Thanks for sharing this
I absolutely love this video. Takes you back in time and shows so much. I grew up in the 80s but the way the boys were playing so rough back then reminded me of my childhood compared to most children today. Most boys don't play nearly as rough and aren't nearly as active.
🧐 funny how this is on film and watched in a digital devise , yet still called 'video' , though no video is involved . time for new terminology .
The "flour in the sock" game looked like something I would have played with my friends!
How great documentary of Helen. She's likely the best street photography that caught the reality of Harlem. Wonderful!!!!!!
Absolutely love this footage. You can almost imagine their conversations.
I love how they show the children right after the old people... cause 80 year olds today were born during WW2, and in their childhood (during the time in this video), they were living alongside 80 year olds who were born during the Civil War era. Just two lifespans connect the 1860s to today and they both meet in this video!
That is so profound to me both generations meeting from such different climates.
Beautiful observation.
AMAZING 💪❤🇺🇸
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Good afternoon reelblack 🙋🏽♀️
The kids playing in the johnny pump-or hydrant as its called nowadays- took me back to my youth in the city. I recall Spanish Harlem as somewhere near 116 th str. Summer street festival & carnival was still held there before the plandemic of course. Thanks for the memories 💞
Elle Brown: my mother and uncle were raised right there. I was born a year later in 1949. I remember visiting my grandmother on those very streets. It was a community. It was a place where mother’s could send young children, who couldn’t even read, to the butcher or grocery store with just a note. It had more life than the sterile suburbs in which I grew up.
Wow so much history and diversity in this video.
Ohh. Silent version. Wish it had the sound with it. Thanks for sharing thou 🥰🥰
Oh. I thought it was just me...adjusting volume controls, checking wire connections...wondering why I can't hear anything.
LOVE IT, this old footage is amazing thank you for sharing
A lot of those kids are in there late 70's early 80's now. Hell a lot of those kids are no longer with us anymore and the adults have long been gone. The cycle of life
My father was born in 1947 and is celebrating his 75th today. Wow, to think, how he was probably doing a lot of the same things back in Louisiana.
Enjoyed very much, going back in time⏳⌛🌎
I love this video. The kids are having so much fun.
yup no playstation or xbox iphone. the streets were their social media.
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Out of bed and out to play it was back in the old times
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This some "Classic Footage" right here, fire 🔥🔥👌👌
I enjoyed watching this film.
My parents weren't even born yet when this was recorded. My mother would be born two years later. This is the silent generation and the infants are the start of the era of baby boomers. It's a long time ago but not really feeling like a long time, if you understand what I mean. Most of the people in this video are probably deceased.
Real good stuff right here
I Really appreciate the visuals ReelBlack!! U be coming up with Steady Bangers 💥 💥 💥🙏💯
Wow! That was painful to watch! The poverty, very young children out on their own, the dispair in the faces of the adults, this was raw.
Poor but happy. Still were more pleasant & safer times.
I see children outside socializing and enjoying themselves
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Children looked happy though despite the poverty, free and playing.
I’m proud of you reelblack❤️🎞
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Luved this .goes to show u how it was backed then the kids r all havein fun as kids. no mindset on conditions n poverty and no color barriers. Just fun as kids in the neighbourhood .laughing one scene that kid rideing on car bumper as car is moving done that as a kid. we. were kids 2 at 1 time to now 7o yrs old .thanks 4 showing this .
Nostalgia 😔🙏
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Yay for 16mm film!!!
At 9:00,
Mama cleared the block of those boys Popping each other Upside their heads.☺️
🤣🤣
Yeah that was so funny. The older man stepped in to and started snatching them left and right and straightening them out.
@@thepioneer8985 yep
All these kids and older people on the streets, all this life and experiences they live .. interesting
Love watching 😍 home made old history films
This video is amazing.. I like the part how when the kids were playing that game and got in trouble lol.
It's almost as tho we died then come right back to this planet, very strange to watch!
incredible
And not a single cellphone.
The good old days!
Great film!
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10:20 is so cute to me cause kids still act the exact same way
Wow, 72 years ago.
That demographic looks drastically different today. Can’t tell who is and isn’t Latino as of today💀
You are so right.
@@NicNacPTac01 already know😏
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This shows that poverty was far worse back in the day
Poverty is worse now because we now live in a World where it doesn't have to exist. Yet it does.
@@marshinz5696 Well we certainly have the technology and the land to build homes for many people that live on the street why we don't do this is beyond
I believe poverty is poverty if anything it has gotten worse for black people
Financially speaking things may have been worse for most, but their families were more intact and stable. Communities were more stable back then. See how people were out in the streets and adults could tell children what to do? Most adults wouldn't even try that today unless a child went so far they HAD to step in and do something.
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Rare piece of filming. Rare too, in America, are the golden and cinnamon skinned on film. This is the New York Malcom X walked in his Zoot suit, and somewhere, at this time, James Baldwin is smashing a glass into a Caffe window, before sailing to Paris. Poor people, moving in from the Islands, up from the South, and history of Galicia, Liverpool; and the ports of Old Calabar, Benin, and the Arawak, the Kalinago, and Seminoles in their veins, and on their faces, and in the ability to smile and laugh, in spite of all that.
Galicia, Liverpool?
Arawak, Kalinago & Seminole?
Where's your head man?
This is New York City, specifically Spanish Harlem, according to the title.
What are we seeing here?
MAYBE...
1st or 2nd generation Jewish & Italian immigrants, African Americans, internal migrants from Puerto Rico and who knows where else?
Romantic utterances of old world cities (?) means dick.
Malcolm in a zoot suit bopping down 125th is some Spike Lee artistic license.
Nice words Brown, but facts?
These were simply street scenes.
And some of these fux needed an ass kicking...
@@bennibfronabronx200 Get your history game up. Spanish Caribbean was full of people from Galicia, in Northern Spain, and Fidel Castro's dad was from Galicia. Most of these kids have Spanish, African, and native ancestry, and from the peoples listed in my pretty words above. Black Americans usually arrived in America on British Ships sailing out of Liverpool, and their white heritage is from the British isles, and their ancestors were sold in Old Calabar, a sea port in Nigeria, as most of Virginia got their slaves from there (mainly igbos) or sometimes they were shipped up from Barbados. These kids are a product of those historical forces, as I am. Maybe you are too.
Lies 🤡 black American ain't no Igbo that been debunked all ready
So, I see that they a toddler running around the street back then.
Born in Manhattan this was my diversity training.
@5:51 I had no idea Ghostface was a time traveler.
I wish there was a description of the streets, like where exactly are these streets located.
All these kids would be between the ages of 75 and 95 today.
Amazing how such small children are just roaming around... unaccompanied by an adult. It would be so easy for them to get lost :-(
Different times where kids learned to be independent early, no daycare or electronics like now adays.
The entire community was the day
Or, stolen🤷🏽♂️
Yea I noticed that too. It was so strange as though some of them were street kids, and or orphans, I wonder if those older woman there were kind of playing as the mother role for them.
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Back in those days, women looked like women and men looked like men. The women wore dresses and the men wore suits and ties. Today, they got it all twisted.
The men were about their business back then!!
It's all twisted
Damn near the entire block is light skinned😂
bruh why I gotta wear a dress
@@darlene9894 🤣😂🤣 They weren’t saying you “gotta” wear them Per say… I believe they were just stating that you definitely could tell who was who back “those days” and won’t too many people trying to look like something there really NOT
Yes... I sometimes do the math... and I realize that I met people a child that were in their late 80'and mid 90' ..... I was 6 7,8,9, born in '62' .... # Do the math!🖤💯
How strange the LOC has these old reels; what were they intended to do? Were they just random candids of certain communities? Or were the filmmakers people who donated their self-made films to the library?
Kids today wouldn’t survive the way it was back then🤣🤣🤣
My wifes grandfather lived there around that time. Came from Russia had 10 children and was a Baptist minister ! ( i think they lived in the BRONX?) My wifes father ran away with is brother at the age of 15 !!
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This is the east side Spanish Harlem, FORMERLY (Italian Harlem), in this footage you will see, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Black Americans.
Is there more
Before the internet 😁
What happened to the sound?
So Spanish Harlem is what Houston, TX is today. Predominantly Hispanic with few African Americans still living in their original community.
Those blacks could be latinos. Many black cubans lived in Spanish Harlem.
Already know😌
Where's the sound
Is this 1800’s. Where’s the sound?
Be thankful for the video footage!! This Shyt was ALMOST 80 years ago!! 🤦♂️
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Theblue eye model type he is called Zeaser Boija, is Julius Zeaser nephew & was given permission by the Vaticant Pope , to play the part of Jesus christ .,
No sound
Sorry the word is he.