[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1916) Shoes (excerpts), by Lois Weber. 

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Not just a poignant look at poverty, but also a surprisingly realistic depiction of depression. Done more accurately than most anything I've seen nowadays.

3:53 I've never seen 100-year footage that does camera work like that. That's beautiful.

You can feel her sadness and despair at 4:51. The actress portrays her role so well.

To me, it is just fascinating to just look at the chairs and all the old antiques. just all the old things, and see how the style was and just imagine living in the same time period! Really can make you dream how things were!

Took me back to 1994, when my younger brother was 15, and I was 17. We lived as refugees in Kiev. Each of us had a pair of shoes (with holes on them),but we could not afford new once. We only had 40$,and nothing else. We were quite embarrassed going out. Our lives have improved since. I work as an immigration lawyer, and my brother has his own business.

My Greek mum.....who was 10 when WW II broke out ...... kept putting newspaper in her and our shoes for warmth well into the 80s !!! She didn't see why we had to buy insoles when newspapers would do just as well. She also never threw anything away.... eg. our old jumpers were turned into quilts with the help of some crochet. Our old skirts transformed into aprons ....etc The war generation let nothing go to waste. They couldn't afford to.

No words, more touching than many high budget movies.

Great actress. That face she had on at 1:17 is so realistic. Really, everyone in the film was very good. I found myself hoping she would get the shoes, hating the woman who was standing with her as she looked in the window, and wanting to beat up the creepy guy. This was so well done. And I never watch movies because they're just not this good nowadays.

In the ‘30s during the Depression, my father remembers his father, my Poppa, collecting cardboard, tarpaper, linoleum, etc. to make soles for shoes. He cut out the first innersole of something somewhat water resistant, fit it in as tightly as possible, then turn the shoe over and fill in the holes by various means, a plug glued onto the down side of the innersole with rubber cement, or wax, plaster, or force it in and hope it stayed. (Usually didn’t!) Then another innersole of something more comfortable or warm, like felt or stacked newspaper sheets, moistened with water and flour paste, allowed to dry, and placed in the shoe. Shoes were always kept clean, polished, and rubbed with wax. When not being worn, they were kept on a shelf in the closet. The shoeshine kit was in a wooden box in a lower cabinet of the kitchen. One of the first skills my Dad learned as a boy was how to clean and polish his shoes, and he did that every Saturday before bedtime well into the 1980’s. These were the times where a working class person had only one pair of shoes, so they were precious and well-cared-for. Children passed shoes down to either siblings or even neighborhood kids. In summer around the house and neighborhood, kids went barefoot.

This was absolutely fabulous, it's amazing how colorization brings so much life into the old films and photos. I kept pausing it just to look more closely at everything and imagine the world that my great grandparents lived in. Thank you!

Nice director and beautiful actress. So expressive in her sad mood. About the story, what a disgusting man he whoo took advantage of the poor lady. Heartbreaking seeing her mother receiving the news.

I'm not sentimental, but I feel an overwhelming sadness and a feel like I was transported back in time. Beautiful

So sad how it wasn’t even a fancy pair of shoes just literally a new pair of the ones she already had. Makes you really appreciate the things you have.

This whole movie was on TCM Sunday Night Silent Films last summer. Not colorized, but the movie was very touching. Thank God for TCM!

One of the best old restored video's I've ever seen on YT.

Filmed during WW1. I love historical old movies like this.

In the early 1930s, my father was putting folded up newspaper in his shoes. People really did this.

Mesmerized. I can't believe the quality of this restoration. I watched without stopping, frozen in place. Sublime.

She's so beautiful and very talented.

Hasta llore cuando vi que dibujaba las suelas de carton para sus zapatos. Este fragmento sirve para mostrar la frustracion, impotencia y tristeza que tiene la gente pobre ante sus carencias.

That dude at the shoe shop with a cake on his head was creapy af!!

Mary was a wholesome beauty with a very expressive face. I like her!

6:12 where she starts to look in the mirror…every time I see an old photograph that looks like this, I’ll remember this film. I love old photos as I stare and wonder what the person was thinking when it was taken.

Poor girl had to work in a shop to help support her family, and didn't have enough money just to have one pair of decent shoes. I like how the AI enhanced the film so the details of the ladies clothes are visible. Love the fashions of 1916-1920.

Those were modern times to those who lived them. This work brings those times back to our modern world. Thank you.

I find amazing that my granny (long gone now) was 12yrs old when this was filmed.

Вся суть ненасытного капитализма в этом фильме. Женщина честно трудится продавцом в магазине, а её зарплата не позволяет ей купить таких элементарных вещей, как обувь! А так как она - женщина, у неё, кроме работы в магазине, есть ещё работа по дому: уборка, готовка, стирка. Итого - женщина пашет круглые сутки, но ей приходится носить рваные сапоги. Что же с ней будет, когда она родит ребёнка, что будет с её ребёнком, если будучи свободной и имеющей оплачиваемую работу, она нищенствует?! Концовка разорвала мне душу 😳

I remember my father using cardboard to line my brother and his shoes. He would trace around the cardboard using the shoes and then cut It out.

Apparently this is Imelda Marcos favourite film.

Very beautifully colorized and digitized. Thanks so much!

Phenomenal job restoring and colorizing this silent film clip. It's just the right amount of color. I remember the earlier days of colorization on some of the monochrome film classics. Some of those movies, as I recall, became almost technicolor, which wasn't a good result and it rather ruined them.

Incredible. Years ago I went to a film festival screening of Lois Weber films, each one a masterpiece.

the shot at 3:52 is amazing for the time.

Poverty is hard when you aren't a thief

Beautiful! My husband's grandmother came from Poland and was married that year. I think the clothes are to die for! Interesting how different styles are shown on some of the better dressed people. Things are changing and she is stuck in an older style. Very tenderly portrayed. Pulling out the warped dresser drawer....

Beautiful young lady. Even in poverty she still dressed and acted like a lady. My grandmother looked much like her in 1916. I felt her sadness and overwhelming desperation without hearing a word. It brought me to tears. I've got to find the full version of this film. Thanks for posting this.

Perhaps the first theatrical narrative style in the history of cinema. Dramaturgy is at its peak.

Like peeking into the past with all this footage with color pretty cool

As someone who's also lived a pretty desolate life, this still hits home in a lot of ways.

I was hoping for the gentleman to buy the lady a pair of new shoes.

Not gonna lie: I've wanted shoes so badly I would sell my virtue to have them. Funny how this 100+ year old film is so relatable today.

You hear a lot about the poor condition of footwear in the olden days. I guess it's because they were all handcrafted and made of leather and were probably quite expensive compared to the rest of your wardrobe. I suppose one of the good things about everything being made in a factory overseas is that even if you make minimum wage, you can still buy a pair of shoes at Walmart for an hours pay instead of a weeks pay.

Imagine your future life depending on a pair of shoes.

If the boy in the thumbnail could talk he would be saying, "Oi, wot u lookin at?"

This is so interesting to watch, Mary MacLaren was born a year before my grandmother... really gives me an idea of what her world was like.

Girl been there. This is so good.

Simply wonderful!!

Lois Weber - unfortunately, her life did not go very well and ended rather tragically...Too often, great personalities are only recognised long after their death.

I can't believe it, just a few months ago, I came across a channel with few subscribers, called Pablo Martín, but it has a beautiful and super interesting video that shows some of the first forms of short and feature films, or rather, the evolution of the cinematography, from 1874 to 1929 (it says it's part one and I'm still waiting for part two but it doesn't come out, XD) and I saw it several times (AND I WILL CONTINUE DOING IT)... AND ONE OF THOSE FEATURE FILMS WAS "SHOES". And now I can see it in a color that was recreated! FANTASTIC!

I had to rewatch several times to notice the dancing girl had kicked the napkin out of the man’s hand. It reminds me of Isadora Duncan’s autobiography “My Life” where she describes doing an audition for a dance requiring a flouncey skirt and high kicks.

The heroine is what was called a "shopgirl" at F. W. Woolworth & Co. This was a respectable job but considered sometimes to be a dead end for young women who couldn't do better.

Thanks once again for the time travel

I saw this on TCM about a month ago. "Silent Movie Sunday Night".

My grandmother born in 1888 used to tell me why her toes were all curled over each other toward her big toes. She said living in a small coastal town in Trinidad California, they got their shoes infrequently so whatever size the shoes were they had to still wear them even when their feet grew too large. She said once she moved to San Francisco in the early 1900s she was able to get proper fitted shoes that felt great but damage was already done to the growth of her toes. She lived to be 99 and passed in 1987.

Wonderful musical composition to accompany the film.

$2.50 back then was like $67.

The man (nor anyone else) wouldn't have had blue eyeliner. They only used black eyeliner back then to accentuate the eyes for b&w movies.

I am not afraid of death itself, although I have something to lose. After death, the world will continue to live without me. It's like I never existed. I don't care about big or small problems. I won't be able to feel any pain. I'm afraid to disappear as consciousness. As it was before birth - I was not there and I did not realize it. I am afraid of these thoughts. I'm afraid of aging. I am afraid to silently watch as my young body becomes sick and weak. I am afraid of articles that talk about the total aging of the population of the Earth and the demographic problem (I am childfree). Time is a terrible force. I also don't have space time in my head. When on one planet time goes differently than ours. I can't understand and accept it. Light years, too, I can not admit to awareness. The black hole and the depths of the oceans are one of my worst nightmares. The vast and the unknown is terrible. I don't want to disappear absolutely from this matter of the Universe. I believe in some kind of life after death. This thought calms me down. Let me be wrong. However, I need this faith very much.

It's painful that all has died! 😪

I'm sorry, I cannot recall exact name and date, but I stumbled upon a sermon, given by a respected pastor in pre WW1 Los Angeles. At the time, women were paid such low wages, that they could not afford to purchase a pair of sturdy shoes. He said that unless women are paid a living wage for their employment, that young attractive females will be tempted to prostitute themselves in order to sustain themselves financially. I was so impressed that a respected pastor back then was willing to address such a sensitive subject.

Hermosa película documental de 1916 está película te transporta al pasado

Lovely! Thank you.

We will never know if she got the new shoes as probably this is the only surviving film reel.

10:31 That guy looks like Chuck Schumer/Dracula.

Better definition than the cameras at any gas’s station😂😂😂😂

That window into the past.. I love film

Friends, the resolution of the main, key plot point that is inexplicably left missing from these clips, is affirmative. Answer to what you are left wondering is "yes, she did". I watched the whole film elsewhere, it's like 4o min long. My guess as this channel was more interested in how good the colouration is rather than the plot.

So nice to see designer bags were not a thing back then, women travelled light it seems not weighed down with all the modern ephemera we find so necessary today

Que vídeo lindo! Amo vídeos antigos!!!

Beautiful

Though I do really appreciate colorized photos and videos of the past, the excessive amount of blue and fluorescent orange and red really detracted from this film.

Very nice

Can't believe this is from 1916.

At 8:00 that big guy sitting with the cigar looks like it could be Fatty Arbuckle, the one with a napkin

American Dutchess makes those exact shoes she was looking at today. I must admit, I gaze longingly at their website... wishing to have those button up shoes one day.

This is beautiful 🙏.....I always wanted a pair of those since I was really little still do... might look into it someday 🙂

Absolutely 'LOVELY'!!! MMM

Incredible.

@3:53 is a really advanced shot for its time

Poor girl, she was poor and overworked and her feet ached and were probably ver cold in the winter. 😕 The man that used her was also wearing a wedding ring. 😡

Loving the hat at 9:07.

Just Fascinating!

Wonderful!

Obrigada

Heartbreaking.

this gave me crime and punishment vibes, as if the film was produced by dostoevsky

Ah! Did she get the shoes!! I want to see!

Aww they look so pretty ^^

Super! Need a full version. Will it be?

Misery loves company... The handy Andy lusty waiter was priceless... But he needed a big swirly handlebar moustache to twirl... Tie that lady on a train line for more heart stopping action... Perl White was always being tied to train lines by big twirly mustachioed villains. I think she liked it.

Very interesting window to a past that doesn't exist, but I have to say that I have been in shops that look like the one in the video, with shelves like that, and in rooms with similar furniture and, more importantly, wallpaper. Very old ones, very rustic, but the fact is that the style died hard. Places owned by people the age of my grandparents, that is, born around the time this video was made, so that was the aesthetic they knew from their childhood, and that lasted until the 90s for some reason, unchanged. I wonder if by the 2060s there will be places looking like the bedroom of a 1980s child, with Knight Rider posters and all that, and what will children then think of them.

Well done. Was it colorized with Photoshop? DeOldify does not usually colorize well the white part of the eye, (Photoshop does it better, especially when faces are close to the screen). DeOldify does not usually colorize the reddish tones well either. I believe that artificial intelligence will come to totally replace man in this field of colorization of films, it is a matter of time, that artificial intelligence comes to colorize a black and white film and the result is so good that it is difficult to know if it was colorized or if it was shot in color.

"Zapatitos de charol" Encarnita Marzal (Regal 1927)

😢😢😢

All the accessories, were most likely, from 1800’s.

What are THOOOOOOSE

The person in the thumbnail looks uncannily like the comedic actor Peter Serafinowicz in drag.

Had I not read the synapsis, I'd not have known exactly what happened with the father getting a job....also i never saw her buy new shoes.

Men haven’t changed much either!!!So sad!!!