A Day at St. Christopher College and School (Chennai) (c1920s)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Part of India on Film: 1899 - 1947
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Behind the scenes at a Christian training college for women teachers in Madras (Chennai). The school was founded in 1923 and still exists today, now known as St Christopher's College of Education. The film, an amateur production on 16mm by the London Missionary Society, contains a wealth of fascinating details including the trainees giving lessons to Indian children in several age groups.
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How graceful the girls look, carry themselves so well.
Proper vocational courses, rest time, excursions, co curricular activities, so many types of fun-filled outdoor slides and swings...
Seems that education system was better in 1920 as compared to 2018
Why 2018?
However, there was a lot of societal pressures even during this time.
A visual feast to watch. My mother was born in 1920. Some are grand mother's age. I am 74.
You saw how the world looked 100 years ago. Great !
Thanks British pathe for your valuable video
They taught children of my mother's age initially.
More mannered and well disciplined than today.
i hate to tell you but we live in a worse world in everyway than the one 1 century ago. Every thing has gone downhill. In the future they will call this age the liberal individualism gloom era.
3:08 - 3:22 British lady enters the premises with shoes where all indians leave their chappal outside
Ravidas Foot Wear Leather products maker This observation of yours made me want to buy some footwear from you.
@@puneethwrites Ahahah.. who else can better detect that..
@Mill Maroon that's rude...
@Mill Maroon is foot wear maker has no respect in the society
@@puneethwrites brother i am not foot wear maker....ravidas foot maker is one of my best friends shoe shop and i named my channel with that name....and i am checking the responses from the society but to my surprise 90% of the people quoted negative statements looking at the name....people want to wear chappel but at the same time they do not respect shoe maker....SURPRISINGLY MY FRIENDS SONS NAME IS PUNEETH
There was a time when Americans would say that Indians spoke better English than Americans.
They still do. They just go to the top schools and you won't see them come to America for better life like the Apus of the world, but for their masters.
Can't imagine even today in other parts of India how women facing hurdles to have education.
Tamilnadu always ahead of other states
It is mentioned that infrastructure is poor! But I feel those sheds are best! No need of fan and AC! It’s natural!
Infrastructure is poor as in, has a chance of collapsing, and bad flow of air, bad foundation, no proper water pumping system, no proper toilets, etc. the sheds also become very unhygienic in wet conditions, bacteria growth, moss etc
Bro 100 years before no concrete in india.
@@mrsgamer9181 For tropical countries which is sunny year around, there’s no issues! But now, the infrastructure is there, but everything is dumped in the ocean!
Bro it was a different time
Just wait till monsoon!
So many of them would be no more today
@vivek ananda true
Ghost Video ........
All of them?
Koi nahi bacha hoga bhai sab khataam chuke hain
Yahi to jeevan hai mere bhai.. sabne jana hai ek din.
Great memories see my fellow human of same land
It is pleasure to watch this treasure 👍
RIP to all.
One of the small kids could still be alive ...
Wonderful film.Must have been taken in the late 1930's as the college moved to this campus only in 1933.I lived close by. Further down the road towards the end was the Tram shed where all the Red trams plying Puraswalkam and adjoining areas were stationed. I think in the 1960s Trams were taken off the roads and the Tram shed became Periyar Thidal.That road was full of Bungalows where a lot of Anglo Indians lived.Vepery was a nice place to live in those days.
What a wonderful footage 🎥 thank you bfi 🙏
Thanks BFI 🙏 , it is very pleasant to see the older days
Good informative video. Thanks. It was a peaceful, simple but vibrant India at that time.
Every one are slim and beautiful 👧
That's a good catch. Obesity started through fast food and change in quality of life
That is indeed a good observation.
Yes. No one was obese .
Yeah. I noticed it too. Obesity only emerged after we started living modern life with all those junk foods and fast foods. People were healthy and had unadulterated food in those old days. Those were good olden days.
The practise of eating one sandwich or pizza once in a year is safe anything more than that and you have to control your diet or exercise.
My god ,they r playing games .
really awesome..swings ...ooowowo
It's great to see girls so simple . and we'll cultured .
Girls are the same today.
I just realized it has been 100 years since making of this film 😳,,,,
These were the days with very less competition forjobs..now 1 vacanacy and thousands of employers..
Population brother population
The need to pop out babies as if it's an important duty in earth is the cause, unless your child can be a guaranteed Einstein based on your your genes and intelligence, one shouldnt be having babies at all.
india will be the paradise when the indian population is within 40 - 50 crores.
Overpopulation is the reason..
in 1967 my village with 20 houses and less than 120 people ,was a heaven.
Today 1200 houses ,population nearly 7000.Drainage canal, village overtank, a clinic,a medical shop, a police station,20-30 unemployed, caste factions, 10 - 12 different colour party flags, 500 feet dug borewells,autoes, noise pollution smock..............
Excellent system for students
The playground
The technic of teaching
The healthy environment
The most humble teachers
The discipline
The time schedule
Just outstanding
We can not mathch this system today
NOW EDUCATION IS ONLY BUSINESS TODAY
NO DISCIPLINE
NO RESPECT FOR ELDERS
ONLY INTOXICATION (SIGARATE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL )
ONLY ILLICIT SEX
AND BECOME A DEMON AT THE END
ONLY
So true
Cigarette*
Education dosent mean bowing to elders
Lol you have no idea what you're saying, do you? 😂😂😂
Most of the families of these children might have well settled by now ... Thanks for their quality education
And they might be having names like Tamos,Smith,Joh etc.
Beautiful seeing all those education system 🙏🙏
lol that game the kids are playing 8:25 xD haha
much fun!
That's heavy workouts
I thought the same, they need to recreate these.
oh my.. I love British India and its school system.. sports and physical fitness given equal importance. school looks neat and clean, with trees and lot of play ground. I can relate to how African rural and under developed areas are being educated and built now.
And 3 million farmers died in famine engineered by the lovely british, africans were enslaved and sold in slave market by britain, dont say these things to an african, in india we tolerate, they will put u in jail for ur arrogance
@@abhi739 no doubt, what about our government ? They are worse than British
@@pravin7619 it's not govt! It's democracy that's at fault
@@abhi739 basically most people in India are corrupt and selfish.we need a government like Singapore.
@@pravin7619 or china
Old school is so good
அந்த காலத்தில் வாழ்ந்த உணர்வு.. இது என்ன மறுபிறவியோ?
உங்களில் எத்தனை பேர் இதை உணர்கிறீர்கள்??
Me..
Mee also
I kinda liked Padmini.
She's beautiful.
Do you know padmini
@@JessiE-vm5mb No
Thanks for replying my grandmas name was also padmini and i was little bit confused 😁
@@JessiE-vm5mb oh.. that's nice.
It's sad that
All these beautiful names gone extinct..
@@JessiE-vm5mb omg found an army here too😍💜😂...
St. Christopher college is in Madras(now Chennai) not Madurai. Please let people know, is ther any Christopher college in Madurai.
அன்புத் தமிழர்களே!!, நீங்கள் கட்டாயம் படிக்கவேண்டியது:-
நீங்கள் இடும் கருத்துக்களை முடிந்தவரை தயவுசெய்து தமிழில் #தமிழ் எழுத்துக்களில் மட்டுமே இடுங்கள்...
இது ஒரு தாழ்மையான வேண்டுகோள்...
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ஏனெனில், [கூகுள், பேசுபுக்கு, யூட்டியூப், துவிட்டர், இலிங்டின், இன்சுடாகிராம், ஆமேசான் போன்றவை நிறைந்த] *இணைய ஞாலத்தினுள்*, தமிழானது, எந்த அளவிற்கு நம்மால் நாள்தோறும் *புழங்கப்படுகிறதோ*, அந்த அளவிற்கு தமிழின் முதன்மையையும் இன்றியமையாமையையும் உணர்ந்து, அரசுகளும் பன்னாட்டு நிறுவனத்தார்களும் தங்களது சேவைகளை தமிழில் அளிக்க முன்வருவர்..
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காரணம், இன்று அனைத்து முடிவுகளும் '#பெருந்தரவு'கள், #செயற்கை_நுண்ணறிவு மற்றும் #புள்ளியியல்_கணக்குகள் ஆகியவற்றின் அடிப்படையிலேயே எடுக்கப்படுகின்றது, என்பதைத் தெளிவாக அறிந்துகொள்ளுங்கள்...
நாமெல்லாம் தொடர்ந்து இணையம் வாயிலாக எழுதிடும் இடுகைகளானவை, பெருநிறுவனங்களுக்கும் அரசுகளுக்கும், நம் மொத்த மக்களின் விருப்புவெறுப்புகளையும் நம் எண்ணப்போக்குகளையும் கணிக்கப் பயன்படும் பெருந்தரவுகளாக அமைந்துவிடுகின்றன என்பதைப் புரிந்துகொள்ளுங்கள்..
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மலையாளிகளும் வங்காளிகளும் பஞ்சாபிகளும் இந்தப்புரிதலோடு தமது பெரும்பாலான இடுகைகளை தத்தங்கள் மொழிகளின் எழுத்துக்களிலே இடுகின்றனர்..
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விழித்திடுங்கள் தமிழர்களே!!..
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[..அதற்காக, பிறமொழிகளை வெறுக்கவேண்டும் என்பதல்ல இதன் பொருள்..]
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இதில் உடன்பாடு கொண்டவர்கள் ஒரு "விருப்பத்தை" 👍 இடுங்கள்... இச்செய்தியை (பிற தளங்களிலும் உள்ள) மற்றவர்களுக்கும்/நண்பர்களுக்கும் தவறாமல் *பகிர்ந்திடுங்கள்*...
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மற்றொரு வேண்டுகோள்: உங்கள் வட்டார வழக்கிற்கும் முதன்மை அளியுங்கள்..
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யாராவது இதைப்பார்த்து தங்களை திருத்திக்கொள்ள மாட்டார்களா என்ற ஓர் ஏக்கம் தான்..
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. ௩) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
. ௪) www.oneskyapp.com/blog/top-10-languages-with-most-users-on-facebook/
. ௫) speakt.com/top-10-languages-used-internet/
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திறன்பேசில் எழுதிட:-
.௧) play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.hindi
.௨) play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mak.tamil
௩) play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.murasu.sellinam
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கணினியில் எழுதிட:-
.௧) chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-input-tools/mclkkofklkfljcocdinagocijmpgbhab
.௨) wk.w3tamil.com/tamil99/index.html
.௩) download.cnet.com/eKalappai/3000-2279_4-75939302.html
.௪) www.arulraj.net/2011/01/type-tamil-in-ubuntu.html
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தாசெ,
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I am sadened to see the hatred..the dirt...ignorance..the arogance..the pride..selfishness...the blindness...and finally no fear of God...despite being well educated as they sound. Its evident that Love and compassion for fellow men does not originate from intelligence and literacy but out of a good heart.Feeling helpless to understand this so- called -delligent-debate but to pray for their peace of mind.May God help you...brothers and sisters.
Yeah...... Converting the masses hook and crook... Destroying the native belief, culture and traditions.... By converting the entire country the Vatican or other church can get a hold in the politics...... Which God said this ????? In the video it's very clear that this was shot to raise FUNDS...... making some one believe in the same god as you believe by money is something else......
@@gK-xd6jn It is because of you sanghis the cow belt states are fucking themselves...😂😂
@@gK-xd6jn ur native belife did nothing to india
100 years old 😊
7:22 is that Ida Scudder the founder of CMC Vellore?
this is gold!
Yes
How you recognise her photo ?
Expressions of the lady at 13:52 are so real and warm...Our ladies r the most beautiful...Full of grace...
She is Padmini.
@@prashantsingh4941 In the starting itself u can see the lady is introduced as padmini & her birthday is celebrated by distributing flowers
@@prashantsingh4941 it's literally mentioned everywhere in the video lol. What did you watch?
How good was that life , mobile has taken some time really good shit from us
13:50 Look how old Indian map looks like . Comprising Pakistan and Bangladesh .Seems we were a pretty big country back then
beautiful documentary ,print quality very good, British India and its school system.. sports and physical fitness given equal importance. school looks neat and clean, with trees and lot of play ground,from Chennai thanks bfi.
1920 s video s are running faster than today's.i think the video was 1940.
No bro see there are making Indian map with Pakistan includ
How delightful! We also got to see the upper echelons of Indian Society as most families wouldn't allow the women in their family to get educated (even upper castes), it's the very Rich even amongst the upper castes who probably allowed the women in their family to get education or those who had the resource to spend money. I mean this as no shade, just that irrespective of castes, women weren't allowed to get education until after Independence.
No. That's not entirely true. It depended on the families. Women living in cities and towns had access to education, it was the villages and rural areas that had such orthodox practices. My great grand mother was an educated lady, went to school and also got education at home. It is however somewhat true that most of the higher education was limited to upper caste women and ladies that belonged to aristocracy and landed gentry.
Superb.. Superb.. Superb.. Thanks for uploading this beautiful video. Very useful.
All baby girls and teachers deid now . Feeling sad..
Peaceful, wise, disciplined Life, free from ambitions and wants.
Girls have nice black hair ,, Tamizhnadu stands for their own culture.....
We have come a long way within a century
Looks like India was better when British ruled.
Video is staged
And you look better with your head up your ass.
you lowlife ...colonial slave
fuck off
@Celestine Nathan are you a slave of british??
I wish there would have been an audio on this 100 year old video. Outstanding though.
This is 102 years old it's from 1920
I want to get olden days life. After the void all will start this type of life only i think. All are very simple. In teacher training everyone must be like that only. Without teacher qualities many are becoming the teachers. Many teachers are talking in the schools also always about the ornaments and stares. Completing the syllabus is important now. There are no moral stories.in the schools. After seeing this teachers training school I am remembering my B. ed training days in Mysore.
Those who studied under westerners directly had better moral qualities, those are the days gone.
I don't think this is from 1920, and is most likely from a later date. Something about the clothes, and also the modern style of school bus, and also the rickshaws, seems to indicate that it might be from later, perhaps the late 1930s or 1940s. Regarding the clothing, the modern (Tagore-style) of sari was rare before the 1930s. The style wrapped between the legs was the norm. Also, younger girls and the boys are wearing Western style clothes. That too, was very rare or unknown in conservative towns such as Madurai. The BFI should check its dating of the reels.
Ther are all our Christians . And hindus and muslims., how are studied in our prestigious st . Christopher college Madurai, how women is using her freedom in a proper way in those days finding true faith and god in st . Christopher college Madurai.
Where is Christopher college in mdu?
Only Tamil community one
How calmed and composed they were
in a video i have notice lack funds ,lack of funds how would you have funds when where stilling Indians wealth and building London
Stealing
absolutely. The whole of the main british island is build from stolen Indian blood money.
No mobiles only happyness
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ from Tamilnadu...
send all Christian education before independent to modi and bjp leaders
very successful strategy for missionaries for converting indians still.
@Ranjit Tyagi christians in india is shameless morons and liberals like you too.
Oh my god love to see
American mission educated Indian people, and medical care also .today 's people who know about the truth 💯 🙌 👌 ✨ 👏
Much much better than venomous 2020
Amazing amazing! Really graceful. Each one knew their role too well. Sitting on the floor and eating in a more disciplined manner. Simplicity at its best. Teachers sitting along with students for lunch and students serving other students is a great initiative at that time. The dresses of girls and staff looked tidy and neat. I think the student Padmini must have been a school leader or some thing. I Makes me wonder and curious as to What Padmini might be doing now?
Playing with your great grandma in the heaven or somewhere unknown😀. It is a 100 yr old video.
probably dead for almost 20 years if not more???
Perfect School Environment with Study and all extra curricular activities
yeah just for the top three classes! No muslims, christans or shudras allowed
@@CaptainGeek5 even better!
@aintnotroublebigenough That's the reason why India is still so backward. There needs to be healthy competition in a society for it to develop. Have some shame or just a little bit of humanity!
When the British left I think they blooy took the rest time with them!!!
100 years Back no one alive now I bet.
Yeah
Yes so sad painful.
True
@@ahmedmahsin5833 it is not sad bro it is life everything will come and go but what lasts are our legacy and our memories
What a beautiful life
I was expecting to see more positive comments in this section but found out quite few negative comments about how this institution might have been a place of conversion.And my first thought was,here I am watching a video women getting college education during 20s tamil nadu (one of the most conservative state) and the people giving attention to a speculation over this almost miraculous condition.This literally shows how constant criticism of minority religions in this country has affected it's generally population.Instead feeling happy for those empowered women,these people cared more about a abstract concept.Did any one of these "conversion hunter" commenter thought about why these girls had to to church oriented college?? Because most Hindu/UC funded Colleges were men's only college during those times.This college-St Christopher's is actually a part of American College of madurai,which was one of the first college which permitted women into it. And it was the one of the first college to allow transgender people as it's students too.This college has given our country a Pulitzer prize,a Padma award and many such awards and recognition from its alumni.And yet , instead of concentrating on its efforts to provide quality education to Indians before and after independence ,all these naysayers concentrate on was it's name. Such people need to grow up and stop being so insecure.
So much negativity in the name of pseudo nationalism. Sad to see so many good things been buried for petty politics. To hide their incompetence, Politicians spreading this nationalism after 70 years of independence.
Is this a reference video on how christianization of educational institutions started by British in India?
LOL,No. These college exist even now and 80-90 percentage of students who study there are regular Hindus. These colleges were famous for their etiquette and bringing people different and caste and religion together,if anything this colleges were reason why castism based segregation was reduced amongst the young people in pre-independence india.
While watching this video only black and white suddenly advertisement came i don't know how to express myself.
123 years video❤❤❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳👍😔
I don't know why but I have a very strong desire to know how the daily lives of different people looked like in the past, in the stone age, in the nascence of agricultural revolution ,in mediaeval period.....
Anyone suggesting any literature that describes the lives of 15-16-17-18th century is welcome.
Old is Gold
outstanding
So... In 1920 everyone have been to the college and schools only to study 😱!!
Only for study... 😀😁😀.... 👌👌👌
Most of them having flowers on hair. But some of them missing Bindis in forehead! That's the beginning.
13:51 her smile from 1920
That swinging looks dangerous as hell, how do they do that casually?
All girls look gorgeous 😍
Well organized 👍
In this message type mistake. After thecovidmeanscarona
Love all..beyond knowledge religion and fortune...we live once in this world.
They have humanity, they did not discriminate on religions , castes, genders , race . India in today's perspective are full of hatred, Could anybody think in so called free India!
Wonderful
good environment.
So this how they converted people to Christianity, by offering free education, free food , free boarding etc, just like Amazon discount offers
There is no Christopher college in Madurai. It is situated in chennai.Christian training college for women teachers in Madras (Chennai). The school was founded in 1923 and still exists today, now known as St Christopher's College of Education. Chennai EVK sambath Road near to Thina Thanthi office Chennai
theyre talking about madurai american collage
@@AngelinaVitto Is that so? It is my college. Pride of our Madurai. I am a student of this college in 1988
I Love Padmini. ♥️
All the curriculum activities are good which would be possible today in school to make overall development of students
Video looks great and informative but it seems this school was only for rich people, because it looks so sophisticated on that time.
This is clearly a promotional video for more fund raising. Very well staged show. Nothing more.
Wow...
Hows the government schools today 2019 In india any guess
This wasn't a Govt. run school rather a Missionary run one. Note how this film is all about Fund-raising. A 100 years ago that too! But I love how happy,. healthy and confident these young women look.
all the girls are so beautiful i wish i could have married anyone of them for a happy life together
A full century now..
அருமையான பதிவு
It is madurai which placed at tamil nadu
South Tamil Nadu very famous
Minatchi temple city.
Good old days when mobile phones are not around
हे पद्मिनी मैं आपको सत्र 2020 में देख रहा हूँ आशा हैं कि कोई इस टिप्पणी को 2120 में भी पढ़ेगा।
Andharu sannamgane unaru ,,,,
The school itself open in 1923. How come you shot the video 3 years back that is 1920?
Yeah. That threw me too. I'm guessing late twenties, judging by the model of school bus.
it was much cleaner