Exactly so fantastic I only noticed that some of the street especially from Kongens Nytorv down to Fredrikstaden seemed much more busy than compared today.
It's funny how we think of black and white lacking vitality... There's a silent feature film simple called "It" from 1927 and I was blown away by how alive the characters and actors were. It was the first silent film that felt just brimming with life, almost contemporary - quite different from most of the other silent black and white films I have seen. It's a lovely movie which I would highly recommend
"All those people, all those lives, where are they now? With loves and hates and passions just like mine They were born and then they lived and then they died It seems so unfair I want to cry"
Depends on how old you are. If you were born 10 years ago, then that would only require a 105 year old person to have been a baby in that video. 20 years ago, 95, etc.
You have no idea how weird yet fascinating it is to see my hometown like this... I grew up in the apartment on the right side at 1:20 Thank you for uploading this :D
Have you ever thought that one morning when you leave the house you will open the front door to find everything like that ? Amazing video and good that you can see the difference with those days. Blessings to you. .
That's so cool-incredible footage. This is mostly around Christiansborg (the Parliament building), Thorvaldsens Museum (20 sec), Børsen with its characteristic spire, and Kongens Nytorv. The 'ladies selling fish sit down in the left-hand corner if you freeze at 24 sec. On your left is the 'Kanal which is the waterway around Christiansborg, which is just to the right of the building to the right (where you've just passed Thorvaldsens Museum. Looking straight ahead is the old Hotel Royal, which is - I believe - at that time the headquarters of some newspapers and still hosts the first telephone central in Copenhagen (founded in 1884, I believe). My great-great-grandmother owned the hotel for a short period of time a couple of decades before this footage was taken. Hans Christian Andersen has had tea in the restaurant in the cellar of the building. The tower to the left is the Skt Nicolai Church, without the spire which it has now. The statue of the knight on a horse, which can be seen in the left edge halfway up, is Absalon, who - legend has it - founded Copenhagen around 850 years ago (archaeological evidence contradict this bug beneath the present Christiansborg, you can see the remnants of what's called 'Absalons Borg. At 27 sec, you can see the small fishing boats in Frederiksholm Kanal, with the statue of Absalon just to the right behind the cinematographer. The boats were there for centuries - if not a millennium. This is very close to where the origin of Copenhagen must have been, and the last boats left less than half a century ago. The shots of the ladies selling fish (30sec - 1min) are all taken there - at the small fish market. The next shots of Børsen (the old 'stock exchange') are taken looking south towards 'Christianshavn,' which is where you'll go to find Christiania today. The building at 1.10 is Holmens Kirke, the church where many of my ancestors were baptized, married, and buried. At 1.20 were at 'Kongens Nytorv' looking north towards 'Frederiksstaden' where the Kings (now the Queens) Palace 'Amalienborg' is. To your right is 'Nyhavn' - a tiny 'harbor' with wooden ships, where people go and have a beer now. When this was shot, you would find less 'affluent' clientele there. At 1.30, you're on what is now 'Strøget' the central pedestrian street, looking towards where 'Storkespringvandet' now is, and with 'Højbro Plads' to your right (where the Absalon statue is). The building in front of you is where 'Café Norden' is now. Hope this gives a little perspective if you're going to Copenhagen someday. .'
Tak for den udførlige beskrivelse.Jeg er fra Vendsyssel,har dog været i Kbh mange gange,men det er alligevel svært at orientere sig uden en guide.Fantastiske optagelser og vildt dygtigt lavet af Nikolai Dahlsen-Jensen.
Clothing was very expensive back then. So you had 1 or 2 sets of clothes and they had to fit any occasion hence why its mostly very dull and boring looking. I get that its a joke but just had to point it out.
i want to add on that these are probably not the original colours (first colour film was in 1918) so whatever computer program filled in the blanks from a variety of grays, does seem to choose neutral colours like blue and gray. For all we know they might have been wearing quite colourfull clothing in deeper shades that read as black or dark gray. We know from extant examples and advertisements of the time that they did like bright colours, especially as they moved towards the 1910's.
Ahh, you all seem to forget that they are Scandinavian. And not only that, they are danish! Danes wear black or gray coats. That’s a fact. They might wear colourful clothes underneath, but that is for the private few selected to see, not for the other people on the street. If you wear a colourful coat, people will stare at you. Or even worse, the people who want to sell you stuff will notice you and single you out. I should know, I’m danish, I wear colourful coats, I’m being commented on regularly.
01:03 Would have been interesting if the man with the camera had made a right turn after filming the stock echange Børsen. Christiansborg Castle would have been under construction. The work started 1906. 00:20 Strange to see the Sct. Nikolaj Church without the giant spire.
I've seen plenty of old city videos, but it hits differently when you actually live in one of them. I recognized almost everything, and it was touching to see how life in Copenhagen looked back in the day with a hint of color. Wish I could see a colored video of Vesterbro, the neighbourhood I live. Hope many Danes get to see this piece.
Dang, I've seen a lot of restored/enhanced videos but a lot of them are kinda messy looking with inconsistent, barely recognizable, shifting colours and lots of motion artifacts. This is one of the best ones I've seen so far, great job!
Incredible to see that the city is still so recognizable. At this time my great great grandfather was working as a cook in the royal navy at the ship Ingolf.
I lived in Denmark for 1 year (in Aarhus) and I visited Copenhagen several times. And that street with the dragons' tails building was kind of my favorite one! Amazing!
Wow! I’m a Dane and this is absolutely insane to see! Amazingly restorated. Can’t believe this is all the way back from 1906. 6 years prior to the Titanic sinking, lol :-)
@burteriksson it was more just me saying that we’re only ruining our world across the board, more and more, thus, Copenhagen looked more beautiful in 1906.
I grew up very close to those places shown in the clip. Fascinating that many of those buildings which are today 'classic architecture', were rather new then. A lot of them are much older - but quite a few were build around the end of the 19. century
I am from Copenhagen and i must say im surprised how recognisable it is. Most of the buildings still stand to this day. infact the house i live in was build around 1901, outside of Copenhagen (but is now considered the inner part of the city) Great restoration for sure!
This is crazy! My great grandfather was a gold smith/jeweler in one of those buildings in the video i wish he was on the video i would probably cry from happiness 😅 i have one picture of him in the late 1800s i found on a ancestry site that showed all my family since 1820 only they had pictures taken sadly, but it might have been expensive to get pictures taken back then.
I lived in the Kongens Nytorv neighborhood, three blocks from Rosenborg, and I recognize the area. It still looks the same if you don't look at the awnings over the windows and doors. The amazing restoration has this clip looking like it was shot last week.
Trip around Copenhagen is an overstatement. Circling the "Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn" would be more accurate. But that aside, a really impressive work restoring it.
My childhood home, where i was born and raised. A lot of the buildings are still there, and still looks beautiful. In fact i will go take a walk in them streets right now.
It's crazy to think that this was shot back in 1906 (the same year my grandfather was born), and I can still recognize many of the streets and buildings there.
Det er fantastisk godt lavet! Det er enormt spændende at se.De gamle fiskekoner vi kender så godt fra malerier er også kommet til live.Virkelig facinerende.Jeg er fan af dig Nikolai Dahlsen-Jensen.
As a dane, growing up in Copenhagen - amazing, and most of the buildings are still there - it looks the same Only thing gone is the street vendors - but a statue of the fisher women is there
Veo estos milagrosos videos, y me vienen deseos de hacer mi obra genealógica, armar mi árbol genealógico y enterarme de las vidas de mis ancestros, de mis antepasados que me dieron la vida. Unir mi familia de generación en generación. Magnífico tu trabajo. Simplemente, magnífico. Saludos desde Uruguay🇺🇾 𝖛 𝖎 𝖐 𝖎 𝖓 𝖌 ø 𝕮𝖊𝖑𝖙å 🔥ᛚᛗᛟᛈᛋᛏᛉ🔥 Gracias⚔️
@@turkmen8594 The difference between the modern usage of "hijab" and the northern traditional usage of the "huckle" or "huvudduk" is that the purpose of the hijab is to cover the hair as to not entice the men, whereas the huckle was simply to protect yourself from the cold, the wind and the sun (and perhaps some dirt). Showing hair would be of no significance. Although in some countries lately, like that of Saudiarabia, apparently, it seems like showing some of the front hair is "OK".
@@awegahn the hijab is not worn to refrain from “enticing” men. It’s a devotion to God and a way of leading a modest life, where the outer garment is merely one aspect. For some it may be worn simply for that reason, but for the vast majority it holds a spiritual significance, such as the head coverings of nuns.
While it's the same everywhere, I still wish people would dress up like that when they do go out, it's just amazing seeing them so classy and dressed up !
well, you can still dress up like that if you want, i personally like to wear historical clothing, but at the same time i´m sure very few of the people in the video would think of themselves as "dressed up", especially the working class people selling fish and such. I think the reason people nowadays tend to see these clothes as "classy" is basically just because of associations we´ve formed growing up from real life upper class old people and from historical movies depicting mostly upper class people from these times, etc. if you want to delve into the world of historical clothing i would highly recommend Bernadette Banner as a good starting point, and you will soon be recommended videos from a bunch of lovely creators :)
@@2big2betrue100 those two words mean two different distinct things, so no, actually. You might be trying to convey something more substantial, but saying "Modest = classy" doesn´t really convey much of what you might be trying to say and is just factually wrong
@@2big2betrue100 not necessarily, everyone has different standards for behaviour and different ideas of what is good and bad behaviour. Also, i am the same person when i´m covered from head to toe with nothing but my face showing as i am when i´m naked or wearing a bikini. Modest clothing is for a lot of people part of their identity and a way to be mindful of their morals, but i don´t think it makes sense to judge other people than yourself on their clothes, because you don´t know what their clothing means to them and why they´re wearing them. People can wear modest clothing without having a modest mindset, and people can wear non-modest clothing and have a modest mindset or other good morals.
That first picture has to be the fish market in Copenhagen. Famous for decades. Interesting. Best fish in the nation. In 1984 they still had those farmers markets in Paris ,France. And proud off them too. 🇩🇰🇺🇲📬🌊
All the buildings look the same today. How the kids look at the camera reminds me of the village in East Africa where the kids were not used to cameras too. I realize that I am old when I think that my grandfather was 44 years old when the film was taken.
@@marjanp Maybe. My thought was also, that European colonial empires were a thing in 1906... Most of the world was governed by royalty dating as far back as 900s. It was a different world. And here I am watching good quality footage from that era.
