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Experience the Crawley family and their loyal staff grapple with the relentless march of technological progress in the 20th Century. From the arrival of the telephone to the invention of the wireless. While these technologies are so common place today, how will the inhabitants of Downton Abbey react to these novelties?
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00:00 Season 02 Episode 05
00:40 Season 03 Episode 04
01:21 Season 01 Episode 04
01:45 Season 04 Episode 05
02:11 Season 01 Episode 07
03:04 Season 01 Episode 01
03:33 Season 01 Episode 07
04:20 Season 04 Episode 01
04:50 Season 01 Episode 07
05:25 Season 04 Episode 05
05:56 Season 05 Episode 02
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@bhinoyj 2 месяца назад

The way the dowager speaks on the phone. Brilliant acting by Maggie Smith ...

@m.layfette6249 2 месяца назад

"Is this an instrument of communication or torture?!?"

@wchopkins6653 2 месяца назад

The Leeeeds Gennrall Infuuuuurm'arry... lol

@coyotesayswhat 2 месяца назад

Edith thought so too I was watching her expression.

@sunflowerz54 2 месяца назад

I totally agree. She is a Marvel

@Circa1628 2 месяца назад

why do british lords and ladies have such funny nicknames?

@petermacleod5710 2 месяца назад

Dame Maggie was given absolutely the best lines in the history of scriptwriting

@m.layfette6249 2 месяца назад

"Well my lady, I wouldn't mind getting rid of me corset."

@Robert08010 2 месяца назад

And the patience in Cora's eyes... it was priceless.

@Kelaiah01 2 месяца назад

"Well I daresay the things you do sound stupid to other people!" True words, Mr. Carson. True words.

@danielvanr.8681 2 месяца назад

2:33 "The telephone is not a toy!" .... Och, Mr. Carson, if only you were still around to see the year 2024... 😂😂

@volkmar9638 2 месяца назад

Just think how people in 2124 will be amused by watching us and our technology ;)

@Hannari-xt6nr 24 дня назад

I doubt what we use today can still be called a phone. It is a computer.

@danielvanr.8681 24 дня назад

@@Hannari-xt6nr True story. The phone function has become more a technical formality now. And those few who still make calls do so veeery strangely. What's this crazy idea about holding the phone horizontally in front of you and then yap on for dear life into the microphone?

@Hannari-xt6nr 24 дня назад

@@danielvanr.8681 The funny thing, is that exactly 100 years ago the dowager was doing the very same thing. In 100 year we went from talking into a piece of wood and metal without a single piece of plastic in it, to being able to call wirelessly from the space station orbiting around the earth to a piece made of minerals, metals and plastics in anybody's home. I don't understand why people are so nostalgic to this era. I mean the house and the clothes are gorgeous but we live a millio9n times more safely and comfortably today than they were. And yet we look at this period with envy ! I don't get it.

@12classics39 2 месяца назад

You can tell Laura Carmichael is trying with all her might not to crack up watching Maggie Smith on the phone and who can blame her? 😂

@nicolasdiez7688 2 месяца назад

Specially in 0:20; 0:25 you can see she was about to laugh but held back with all her might 😂

@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc Месяц назад

In fact she said she corpsed in that scene but they thought Edith would find it funny so they left it there

@momo-castella 2 месяца назад

How lovely Granny is ,struggling with a telephone! I love her so much!

@kellicoffman8440 2 месяца назад

Not much has changed “is this a instrument of communication or torture “

@Bergen98 2 месяца назад

If you think about it, the servants had difficulties with it because those technologies posed a literal existential threat to them. With electric mixers you didn't need a lot more extra kitchen maids, with telephones - extra servants/hall boys to run small errands and with refrigerators, all those dairy maids and even cooks were becoming obsolete.

@nicolasdiez7688 2 месяца назад

"Why does every day involve a fight with an American?" 😂😂😂 Poor Violet, every day she has to struggle with Cora, also when Mrs Levinsons goes for a visit, and now an american invention 😂😂😂

@tobynsaunders 2 месяца назад

"Daisy, may I ask *why* you have purchased a vibrating massage instrument?" -"It's... for me shoulder. I think I've pulled it." "I see. Well, I shall hope that this device will suit your needs." -"Yes, Mr. Carson. I'm sure it will. Thank you."

@Robert08010 2 месяца назад

I seem to remember a similar scene in MadMen when a certain young woman was asked to test a product. It didn't at all behave itself in an appropriate manner.

@Robert08010 2 месяца назад

Carson reminded me a bit of the Bucket Woman... oh pardon me, Mrs Bouquet answering her telephone.

@kellicoffman8440 2 месяца назад

it’s bouquet 💐 lady of the house speaking

@morbius109 2 месяца назад

I can imagine such battles happened on a regular basis in the post-Victorian Era as older people tried to understand such newfangled devices as the telephone or the electric light. I remember how my paternal grandfather was completely befuddled by the desktop computer my parents bought in the early 1990s. He was born in 1918 and the closest thing to a “computer” they had in those days was an NCR cash register, haha.

@xr6lad 2 месяца назад

The first scene is totally not believable. By the time this is set, 1915ish plus. Phones had been around for 20-25 years. They were hardly new. And the Dowager would have used one by now. We even had them in Melbourne, Australia in the 1880’s.

@catherineball5071 2 месяца назад

@xr6lad phones in private houses weren't widespread in the UK until the 1950s and 60s. People mostly used payphones in the first half of the century. My grandmother didn't have one when she first got married in 1955 and they weren't poor.

@XSilver_WaterX 2 месяца назад

Before WW2, everyone in Europe was CONDITIONED to be an Imperialist and Traditionalist as they saw technology fairs as waste of perfectly good servants (slaves) and honor-bound ideals (lethal sword battles on pettiness).

@ctheflower7818 2 месяца назад

Downton's Entire Cast is Absolutely PRICELESS ❤👍❤

@nicolasdiez7688 2 месяца назад

Carson and Lady Grantham's fightd against technology were the best of Dowton Abbey 😂😂

@Annamac22 2 месяца назад

The fact that I can quote everything they say as they say it should tell me I've watched this show way too many times

@apryll48 2 месяца назад

Don’t feel bad! I’ve watched this entire series an ungodly amount of times 😂

@m.layfette6249 Месяц назад

I boast to quoting the script better than Julian Fellowes himself.

@johnking5174 Месяц назад

Electricity in 1912 (season one) was actually rare to have in the countryside. Big British cities and towns had their own electricity companies, but smaller towns and villages didn't have it until after the first world war. This is why Downton has it's own generator to light the electric lights there as mentioned by Robert at 3:15

@themermaidstale5008 2 месяца назад

I love the excitement displayed by the ones who are embracing this exciting new technology.

@m.layfette6249 2 месяца назад

"I wouldn't touch that thing with a 10 foot pole."

@jayt9608 2 месяца назад

They young always embrace technology and drag along their unentusuastic elders, at least until such a time as the young are the elders and being dragged along. The older I get, the more my sympathies lie with the elder members of the house.

@princessofarchetypes3870 2 месяца назад

Amen to that!! I’m 56 and it took me years to get a smart phone

@rustythegreatandpowerfulla2676 2 месяца назад

Well, when you realize that the inventions of that age will likely be the end of us, you aren't wrong.

@Robert08010 2 месяца назад

That's as it should be. Carson would definitely tell you that.

@amethystanne4586 2 месяца назад

@@princessofarchetypes3870my first cell phone = $24.95(USD)/month for 30 minutes/month. It’s a better world in most aspects.

@amethystanne4586 2 месяца назад

Watching Downton Abbey gave me an idea of the life style of my grandparents. They would have been age peers of Mary, Edith, and Sybil, having been born in 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1901. My mother’s parents were married in June 1912, 2 months after the Titanic’s sinking. My Dad’s parents married in 1917, just before Grampa was deployed to France.

@carolineandrews7231 2 месяца назад

Love Maggie Smith as the Dowager, I've watched her and all Downton over and over and see their brilliant acting every time. Edith-Laura said she had to fight to contain her laughter in the phone scene, she did well to hold herself together!

@momo-castella 2 месяца назад

So true! At the same time I envy Laura, who had a chance to see such a wonderful acting in person. My grandmother is nearly 100 years old and she talks exactly like the Dowager did on a phone, even my grandma is a Japanese!

@mygrammieis 2 месяца назад

Awesome Show 👏👏👏

@suzannequinlan1129 2 месяца назад

Fabulous series and movies 👍👍👍

@chuckfinley4757 Месяц назад

I'm watching this on my useful and valuable tool preventing me from going back to work.

@ctheflower7818 2 месяца назад

I ADORE Maggie Smith 😊

@georgeprchal3924 Месяц назад

Carson: Well what are you wearing? Them: A cardigan? Carson: Get off my phone!

@Marist_Chanel 2 месяца назад

The older I get, the more I seem to relate to Carson.

@Awesomeautisticgirl 2 месяца назад

Mrs Patmore was never keen on modern changes

@m.layfette6249 2 месяца назад

"But she can take it over to the laundry, or Better still chuck it out all together."

@thomasplinguidy4588 2 месяца назад

As Thomas pointed out: She is not exactly a futurist 🤣🤣🤣

@Awesomeautisticgirl 2 месяца назад

@@thomasplinguidy4588 Exactly

@rustythegreatandpowerfulla2676 2 месяца назад

She wasn't wrong about most of them being out of a job though.

@Shadowkey392 Месяц назад

Love those old candlestick phones. I actually have two, one of which is genuine (sadly it probably doesn’t work)! The other is a more modern phone from the 70s or 80s designed to LOOK like a candlestick phone.

@tomjardine-smith2793 Месяц назад

Laura Carmichael does so well to keep it together in that first scene. Passing off what looked to be developing into a fairly catastrophic break of character as a smile of exasperation in-character. Oscar-worthy 😂

@Hannari-xt6nr 24 дня назад

Carson was smart, he could see that all this technology meant that all those jobs were in jeopardy and that the more modern downton became the less it would need staff. And he was right. The smartest of all was Gwen. She saw it coming and evolved and a while later she was eating at downton as a guest, while everyone else was scared for their job.

@WomenofWealthLuxury 2 месяца назад

3:07 Our favorite moment. Long live the Lady Dowager Countess of Grantham!

@Mandelbrotmat Месяц назад

"Darkness called!!!!... But I was on the phone, so I missed him. I tried to *69-Darkness, but his machine picked up. I yelled "Pick up the phone, Darkness!," but he ignored me. Darkness must have been screening his calls."

@wrenchinator9715 Месяц назад

Love how, despite being resigned to having to deal with an American invention, she's damned if she lets them beat her (with a chair no less)

@Wcianetworksupporter 2 месяца назад

Torture yes Telephones turned out to be the Dark Mirror! What cha think Lady Dowager? Frightful ? Yes!

@kellicoffman8440 2 месяца назад

She was spot on it still is

@user-ix1rp9ff3p 2 месяца назад

never realized an electric Singer was already realized in the early 20th century, thought it was still either foot-pedaled or hand-cranked

@oldmanjim2376 Месяц назад

Singer introduced the first practical electric machine in 1889

@rick0e295 2 месяца назад

What is this insipid device? It is most provoking and vexatious and frankly makes us Quite Cross! 🎉 🏆. LOL from DownTURN abbey 😉

@diannaclarke2758 2 месяца назад

When Carson came in at the end. Even Lady Rose left.

@ADRIS_CSC 2 месяца назад

❤❤❤❤

@PrincessGirl8908 2 месяца назад

I'd like to see a video of William Mason. He was pushed around badly by Thomas.

@edwardcatt2399 Месяц назад

The older you get the more you empathize 😅

@chasegordonn Месяц назад

Vapors seeping about.

@ladyanime100 2 месяца назад

I can certainly relate to their resistance. I don't like the current tech in the 21th century. I still don't have an alexa in my house. It also took me years to get used to DVDs and ipods.

@Diamondelle84 2 месяца назад

Imagine If Carson was around for the TV 😏

@hpavalferr7201 2 месяца назад

😊 💙 💯

@asteverino8569 2 месяца назад

I am happy that we still use phones, for now.

@TheWolfHowling 2 месяца назад

2:30 And now we are using our telephones to look at photos of people's pets or argue with other people on the Internet while we're, shall we say, biologically required to sit down for a few minutes.

@tomb7942 2 месяца назад

And people think I'm backwards because I won't buy the latest cell phone.

@user-ix1rp9ff3p 2 месяца назад

can relate

@muhammadrashid6699 8 дней назад

😂😂😂 U will only get a shock when u r going to listen it

@xr6lad 2 месяца назад

@rafaelyaguaro2842 2 месяца назад

You could argue that it was how Downton was run, trying to remain as it was. I find that the series has a lot of those themes of the future creeping up on people who are afraid of change. Also, I don't remember, was it said how many year has passed since the former Earl, Robert's father, has passed? It could be that Robert and Cora were the ones who brought change to Downton, and that's why the telephone is a new thing in the House. The Dowager seems like the kind of women who wouldn't like her life to be disturbed by the "silly" things as the telephone.