![A Day in Old London in 1920 in colour! [AI enhanced HD]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
A wonderful A.I. enhanced and colourized film about old London a century ago.
The duration of this film is 10 minutes. All the famous points of interest come into focus in this very old film. Here is the time line:
00:00 Victoria station
00:20 Old St Andrew Church down Ashley Place
00:30 Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral
00:50 Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral
00:55 Imperial Institute
01:15 Westminster Abbey
01:45 Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
02:02 Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Little George Street.
02:10 Foreign Office
02:42 Downing Street10
02:50 Cenotaph War memorial
03:07 Changing of the guards at Horse Guards
03:35 Cleopatra's needle, Thames Embankment
03:46 Thames Embankment
04:08 Temple Church, followed by Fountain Court
04:40 Fleet Street at Temple Bar
05:05 Entrance to Lincoln's Inn in Chancery Lane
05:21 Courtyard off Chancery Lane Station
06:12 British Museum
06:28 Lovely lady selling flowers *)
06:46 Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market
07:00 The Garden of Allah, A play in four parts at Theater Royal in Drury Lane
07:10 Admiralty Arch, The Mall
07:23 St. James’ Park
07:38 The Pelicans were already there a century ago!
07:58 Victoria Monument, The Mall
08:18 Chelsea pensioners, might have fought in the Crimean war
08:28 Buckingham Palace
09:00 Trafalgar Square
09:38 Nelson's Column
09:45 The four famous lions statues and fountains
09:58 King George V salutes you goodbye.
The music is by Harry Davidson & his Orchestra:
- Chinatown My Chinatown
- Yoo Hoo
- I'm Looking over a Four Leaf Clover
- Baby Face.
- When You and I Were Seventeen
- The Naughty Waltz
- Lovely Lady *)
- Wonderful One
- In Apple Blossom Time
- On the Mississippi
- Swanee
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee.
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NOTE: Please DO NOT comment about the influx of foreign nationals into the UK! The aim is to keep this channel free from hatred and inflamable debate and in stead to be a joy to watch, friendly and respectful. So just enjoy this old footage! Hatred comments will be removed.
By all means DO share your own or your (grand) parent's experiences of how life was in London in the 1920's!
*) It is a big mystery to me why the song "Lovely Lady" coïncides with the exact moment when the lovely flowerseller appears in this film. I definitely did not chose the music for this reason, didn't even know this song, was not aware that it was part of the medley, chose the description "Lovely Lady selling flowers" in the timeline out of the blue, and did not edit anything to make this coincidence happen.
Out of the billion of songs on Earth there are only half a dozen with "Lovely Lady" in the title. 'Something' made me chose this song by Harry Davidson & His Orchestra. There is more between heaven and earth....
Furthermore, out of all the scenes in this film, the Google algorithm chose this moment to generate the default thumbnail. I still can't get over these two events. Coïncidence ?? What do you think?
Source: BFI - Free.
22 сен 2020
