Colour film of London in 1927

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DRuM
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Colour film of London in 1927

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This is a really cool film (nice soundtrack too) and made the very same year my mum was born. And erm.. 32 years before I was born. That's right kids, I'm almost as old as geoff :)

http://vimeo.com/7638752

London in 1927

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with. It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving.
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scared? wrote:Old...
Old? Methinks you're too young :smirk:
I always say you're only as old as you feel.

That was excellent DRuM. Thanks :up:
Make you wonder sometimes, if you were alive in those days how you'd cope :smirk: with living in general. I think we're pretty spoilt today.
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90% of q3w would perish.
Because you actually had to be useful in those days to survive.
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You hardly spot a single person NOT wearing a hat or cap...
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scared? wrote:Old...
Yeah, about 85 years
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nice vid, shame about the annoying music
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Traffic laws = driving slow
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scared? wrote:Old...
Image
Thick, solid and tight in all the right places.
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DRuM, you are older than my Dad. For real.
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LawL wrote:
scared? wrote:Old...
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Holy shit! He looks exactly like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia...
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Don Carlos wrote:DRuM, you are older than my Dad. For real.
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xer0s wrote:
LawL wrote:
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Holy shit! He looks exactly like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia...
:olo: :olo: :olo:
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you can imagine Geoff driving a tractor in Somerset

at least, if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to imagine that he has a job
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xer0s wrote:
LawL wrote: [img]-[/img]
Holy shit! He looks exactly like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia...
lofl
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DRuM that video was amazing. Thank you :)
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all those guys in flat caps

glad i wasn't around then. country looked even more fucking miserable than now
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