The 1890's ~ Amazing Rare Footage of Cities Around the World

That moment you realize a 1890 video camera quality is more clear than a 2020 gas station security camera quality .

And not one of these people even once considered that 130 years in the future, someone will be awake at 3am watching them walk down the street.

This was absolutely fascinating. I was struck by one particular thing that most all these people in all these places seemed to have in common - hardly anyone was overweight.

It's actually crazy to see how different the world was back then. Those people led such different lives than we do nowadays and yet in many ways they were also so similar. It seems so far away by now but 140 years really isn't such a long time. Incredible!

I can’t believe that their casual daily outfit is so grand and royalty.

One might see his great great great-grandad without even knowing about it.

everyone looking directly at the camera lens, having seen one for the very first time. it's really amazing how it feels like making eye contact with someone who has been dead and forgotten for decades as they go about their day in such a familiar yet alien way. i am glad this footage has been preserved.

Looking at old pictures of every day life always makes me wish time travel was real

Just imagine that you watched one of your Ancestors in the video without knowing it

Guy at the 5:38 "Nobody saw me falling". Millions of People in 100 years future- "Hello"!

Every-time I see these type videos I'm amazed all over again at how everyone recorded in these videos have all passed on from this life! They were all headed somewhere on these particular days. Work, home, church.... just fascinating

I find old slice of life footage old this fascinating, but it also makes me melancholic to think that everyone you see, even the smallest and most lively children, are now gone. Movies hit different than still pictures or paintings. To me the people seem more alive, like you could almost step into the video and get to know them if time wasn't standing in the way. I wonder how they lived their lives? Were they happy? Did they have family they left behind?

There's something so moving about seeing all these people smiling and waving to the camera, it's like seeing them smiling and waving to us despite the 100 + years time difference

It’s weird that statistically everyone of these people full of so much life have long been dead now.

0:50 love how the guys waving their hats at the ship notice the camera and start waving their hats at the camera...

Many thanks for uploading this video. I'm an Indian. I have never visited abroad and cannot be able to visit abroad in the rest of my life. But it seems that I, myself, was travelling in various countries of this world in 133 years ago through time machine. It's a real but dream travelling. Extraordinary ! Extrabrilliant ! Picture quality is outstanding. Please try to upload more old, amazing and rare footages of cities live round the world of 1800s if possible and permissible. (Dated the 19th day of February in 2023).

Youtube's getting a bit too comfortable with these double non-skip ads...

When I watch it, I think about that people, their lives, who they are, what did they think at the moment... Inventing recording stuff is big achievement. Once recorded, you will be never forgotten.

This is amazing. The past brought to life. Thank you for making this incredible footage possible to be viewed. My favorite were all the horse scenes especially the fire engine

Massive respect to the cameraman for going all these places