Rare Colour Film Of London In 1927 Has Been Discovered

[Kromovaracun]

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows-what-london-looked-like-in-1927/

There's about 5 minutes of footage in all. Does anyone else find this strangely beautiful?

[maggiebee]

I don't know London very well, but recognised most of the places and buildings. I'd forgotten that most men wore hats of one kind or another - as did the women. My dad would never have gone out without a hat on. Much gentler pace of life.

[jno]

it is; your parents or grandparents might have been there, and it's their world you're seeing. It's also a world set free from the sort of things we actually learn about in "history" - pre war, pre depression - and we'd have to truggle to find anything in it that did reflect history (any post-Great War rebuilding, for instance)

There was a thread a while ago

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History/Question1242656.html

[daisya]

Brilliant film, thanks for sharing it.

[Kromovaracun]

Ah, sorry jno, I didn't realise it had been posted about before.

[jim360]

Not a problem really -- I missed it first time round. Thanks for sharing.

[patsyann]

Thank you . Oh for those good old days. The lull before the storm .I would love to be able to go back in time just for a visit to a few times before and also in my lifetime.
Pat. (73)

[jim360]

I found it quite amusing how interested everyone is in the camera. Although there was some restraint people were smiling, trying to get in shot, all that sort of things. Very little has changed in that respect although some people these days are far more blatant and rude about trying to get in camera shots!

A very interesting film. It's weird to see the world at that time in colour. I'm used to thinking of it in black-and-white -- which I know is silly really, but you can't help it.

[carrust]

Thanks for sharing the film. The street scenes are just like Norfolk 2yrs ago:-)

[EdmundD]

Yes, it is. It's interesting to think people in that time probably thought London was a busy crowded metropolis. I wonder how they would react to the London of today.

[jno]

I think London was crowded at rush hour, less so at other times, much like today

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/people/Crowd%20Crossing%20London%20Bridge%20in%20the%20Morning%20Rush%20Hour%201935.jpg

http://www.englishheritageimages.com/image/ludgate_circus_london_cc97_01518_674576.jpg

The roads are actually quite a bit emptier now since the congestion charge.

[snags]

6 wheeler buses in your first link jno...

[tonyav]

There would have been plenty of horse crap then.

[boxtops]

Love its gentle presentation - a different era

[wolf63]

Why aren't the people walking really fast like in other old films.

It is weird to think that this was filmed the year before my late father was born.

[emmie]

brilliant, shows her in all her majesty, not much has changed really, except the people. Thank you,

[jno]

before the age of motors, London streets would have been deep in manure, yes. That's why you had crossing sweepers like Jo (was it?) in Bleak House

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894#axzz2UhZy8YNN

[emmie]

i know every inch of that footage, what a trip down memory lane.

[emmie]

yes it was Joe from Bleak house, paid a copper or two to sweep the horse manure and mess so people didn't step in it.

[Peter Pedant]

people are walking around Marble Arch - which you couldnt do even in the seventies.

My mother commented about life in Little Scrottsville [Dead] in the eighties:
it is now so hectic it reminds me of life in London in the Thirties

and I looked at the flock of sheep and the bolting horse and cart and thought god bloody hell !

[emmie]

it was busier then,

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Petticoat-Lane.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2010/09/03/london-street-markets/&h=401&w=672&sz=69&;tbnid=rm9lB-mUgTyiwM:&tbnh=74&tbnw=124&zoom=1&usg=__4_mQ6KXvXSoxjgiU8nwNytLFpNM=&docid=OBWUj3yxCQPYKM&;sa=X&ei=QjWmUdPnBJS10QWS8oHoBw&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg&dur=429