I really appreciated your collection of wedding photos. This was so helpful and encouraging to see the ideas and ways people dressed for their weddings. It is absolutely beautiful!
You are my absolute favourite channel on RU-vid. I can imagine the arduous and timely work it takes to share these amazing photos with us...thank you so much! I honestly could have watched this one for hours, more please!
Slow shutter speeds meant that people had to hold a pose and facial expression for a period of time. It's very hard to hold a smile for more than a second or two. Also, early portrait and group portrait photography took its cue from traditional portrait painting, which rarely ever portrayed the subject smiling.
When photography first started, you had to hold perfectly still, or you would be a blurry image. So for a long time after that part of photo history people still didn’t smile. My mom said they also didn’t smile because a lot of times her teeth were really bad.
Wow 🤩 it’s amazing I never saw it that navy world war 1 uniform 🥋 color light blue, I would turn it around rolling back from past 😄thanks for sharing enjoyed bast from past 👍🏼👍🏼👀🎃
The picture of "Wedding of Lady Dorothy Cavendish and Harold Macmillan London early 20th century"..... time stamped 5:26. They weren't as happy as their picture may seem. She had an affair that last 30 years. What an interesting story. Thank you for the video.
I love looking at wedding pictures, especially the brides because I feel if no other day than that day they feel the most beautiful than ever. But I swear they and their spouse AND their entire party including guests look pissed. What's with that? There was only like 5 happy looking couples. Always fun to look at though. Thank you.
@ 5:28 Harold Macmillan's marriage was a disaster. His wife detested him and was serially unfaithful. Macmillan was in politics in an era when divorce would have ended his career. That, coupled with his own religious beliefs prevented him from ending the marriage. By the late 1920s they lived apart and only rarely appeared together. Her behavior was an open secret and it scandalized society, though the press refused to report on it so ordinary people generally did not know. Harold Macmillan was alternately an object of pity and scorn. Despite his wife's behavior there is no record of him ever having a romantic relationship of his own, and he lived a very lonely life. People who knew him believe it hardened him and gave him a level of ruthlessness that helped him rise to the highest political offices in Britain.
I especially like the animations and wonder what the subjects would make of them. The British sailor shown at 2:30 was serving on the destroyer HMS Winchester which was launched in 1918 and was scrapped after the Second World War. Where he was from I don’t know.
Princess Mary's wedding was in 1922. She married for good of the Royal Family and to give the British people something to celebrate after the end of the Great War. Wonderful pictures, it's just a pity it was still the done thing in not smiling.😢
People in the olden days did not smile for photographs for a reason. It was hard to hold a smile in a natural way for the time it took to expose the film. These were not snapshots. It took many seconds to expose the film and if you smile, and then moved your face, your mouth would look like a blur. My father was a photographer, and he had one of those old fashion cameras. I even have a picture where someone’s mouth was blurry because they moved it.
