Jamaica 1913 ~ 111 years ago ! (Silent Film Footage.) 

My great-grandmother doesn't even born yet. She born 11 years later.

@@Footballsissue Are you serious, man back in dem days people didnt even have radio fi tell them storm a come it just blow over the island.

@@Footballsissue I do remember a time when there were industries like the bauxite and sugar cane doing well. Ford Motor company actually had places there and they were making money, my family worked there and my own father was a successful business man. We moved through the mid 70's and Manley was talking crazy. When I left that place in 78 I was allowed to take $50 dollars per his policy. Looking back at it i see how the place went down hill.

​@@tonyrebel63Well it not worst than the Red States in the US, so...

​@@blackqueen164 I was making no such comparison, simply put I am fascinated to find these videos. I am a history junkie

Steve Miller f26

Thank you i thought i was the only one that can claim my heritage as a true Israelite. (Let me clear this up...I'm not a Hebrew Israelite.)

@@J3nJ3n13 what is the difference 🤔

@@J3nJ3n13 what's the difference and im seeing alot of this comment on RU-vid. .pls elobrater more

Probably a white oppressor. Black people couldn't afford that equipment that time.

Pray for the island. It's turning into a hell hole with evil politicians selling it out to foreigners.

I was born in Jamaica and raised right here in bushwick bklyn.and o how i love the history of the south gods blessing to everyone's stayed safe💝💝💝😍

Wow! Your comment is everything. I agree, it made me feel emotional! To think that someone has saved this amazing footage and has now published it for everyone to see. I'm so truly moved and grateful! But next time I beg them not to take so long! :-D

How? Aren’t we living better now

@@Ijaf98 I would ask some of these naysayers the same. I see we living today experiencing remarkable progress. I just imagine the pestilence that was in abundance. Poor black folks see a bug in his cup of chocolate and he just remove it and continue to drink. The rejected sugar was sold locally while the refined one was exported. I look at these videos when I want to live and feel progress.

Maybe u shouldn’t cry too much, because these people were happy in the hard foundation setting works.. now we see big buildings n nuff things But people not as happy or healthy like in those days... me jus a say

Tears ?......For what...?.....

Honor the ancestors , by honoring their resilience and strength.

I’m only 14 and I love watching and learning more about my history

Damn 1913. My Great-grandmother doesn't even exist at that time. She born 11 years later. She passed away last year September. RIP🙏

@BP is the revolution Oh that's sad😔. So that mean you and your mother/father doesn't even know her and I guess when your grandmother was a baby she doesn't have a good memory on her mother at birth before she passed away?

+Bwoy Ruff Good research. Where can we see the rest?

+Berthon Powell I'm not too sure who has the entire set of film right now but the Canadian section is in a UK archive and i'm sure the rest is available as the above video is proof of this! i do wonder where it came from but likely one of the major archives, no official release yet that i know of anyway, i have lots of info on this particular film including a copy of a letter written at the time from the man who made it, with it being one of the earliest films shot in JA but the very earliest Jamaican footage on film i personally i have referenced is 1898 then another shot in Spanishtown from 1903! i've been researching JA films a very long time! The film segment above is 'Montego Bay to Williamsfield', the production company which setup in 1907 specialized in the production of educational, travel & scientific films and they also did a photo sets of the sugarcane plantations and many other locations in Jamaica, they produced short films throughout the British Empire during the 1910's, with the release of a ten-reel film titled "The Building of the British Empire" in 1917 which this footage comes from, nice to see it turn up on youtube!

This is an amazing footage! My parents originate from Jamaica, I wasn't lucky enough to meet my grandparents before their passing.. I am trying to figure out best way to go back in time and dig up my grandparents and great grandparents info in Jamaica.. Could you give me some pointers? Many thanks!

MRS. BERNARD The Registrar General in Jamaica is the place to check. They will be able to trace your ancestors in Jamaica.

Mrs. B where in Jamaica are they from?

Yes. I hope life will be better in the next 100 years and not worse. No wars please. There are several of these historical films on RU-vid. Amazing.

What has England done for Jamaica other than strip it of its natural resources and impoverished it?

Only seem that way to us. For her her it would have been a hard life

I don't believe that Jamaicans were ever slaves.

@@Junior-yt6cxwho built the tracks then? Do you think the British sent there posh men to go do hard labor in the boiling sun?

@@BuggsOp We were never colonized. It was a partnership.

Thrust into modernity....?.........Everything must change......lost our compassion ?.......how.......?

Wow!! Are you going to release/publish your 1930s film on travel in Jamaica?

Upload

I know some of the places too

Happy to be alive to c

Hello

Nasheka Medley my grandmother told me about the first time she saw a car how scared she was...awsome memories dat

Andrew Irving you mean to say how far we have designated

That is interesting. Thank you for sharing about what happened to the Jamaican railway system.

the system did all the wrongs the oppressors they know we are apart of the chosen persons of the earth ....so they break us dwn mentally, physically, spiritually

and this is world wide it,s slavery same way they use to break us dwn......but the clock has change it's hand they falling....so we should support each other n stop supporting there businesses ....all there products are gmo or chemically made to mess us up ....so it's time we get awakened

they probably did that cuz they were done taking resources out of the country... they didn't want the natives to have the same mobility as they had when extracting wealth to the ships for export... thats what was done in other places for that reason

It's because they are worthless

Slavery was never abolished! It has only been upgraded in a diplomatic way to make us believe we are free, instead they have expanded slavery in a broader way, the system has been set up so that the black race especially, should never reach any where, and those who did look like they reached somewhere, are still been control by the white man, who later buy out their business or they are left in such terrible bankruptcy, they looses it all. Do not be comfortable and feel safe or try to attached yourself to your property or anything you have for slavery is soon to repeat it self in this so-call modern day world. The only deliverance from slavery is Jesus the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the King and His Kingdom of righteousness is soon to come.

About the 1913 Jamaican Silent film - yes, the vegetation looked so natural. I wonder what it would have looked like in colour.

Yup

100% employment back then!!

Slavery to deal with

@African Union African people sold out their own people to the white men.

Shut u fucking mouth idiot the real criminals was and still is our politicians the ones who create the lower level criminals u have to deal with daily wake the fuck up simp sheep

@African Union hahahaha come on I get to understand lately a African girl from Nigeria said her great grandfather was a slave trader . So how you answer that?? Believe me African people is no joke.

***** The place is impoverished

+Lenny Sharke FYI IT ISNT.. YOU ARE JUST IGNORANT TOWARDS THE ISLAND.. DO ME A FAVOUR AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM YOU SPEAK

+kwacou My thoughts exactly

I don't know about barb wire fence that's out dated and unattractive way in creating boundaries for such a beautiful Island

PLEASANTGIFFT and zinc fence is better?

Now the Chinese own it with the help of our traitor politicians like Holness.

My grandfather was two years old when this was shot, he was born right in MoBay!

What was your grandmother's name?

Clarice Anglin

Colin Yappmy great great or great great great grandmother was born in 1891 so she would be 22 when this was shot

+Colin Yapp I believe I found her birth records. She was actually born on November 17, 1904 in Seaford Town, to Thomas Anglin and Alice Sliper.

Did you see how forested Montego Bay was back then?

Rob, we haven't all gone, we deh ya still, it's in the blood

@@jamaicashirtsco2681 alright!!

Djembé, without penicilin i don't think so and these people's own parents were born enslaved.

Two sides to a coin

Now we have klansman, gangs and thugs shooting us up. Don't you just like it better?

Thank you

​@@GieCampbel-ug9jlNone of these things are any better than the other. Very demonic

Hi, with the ways this world is moving now, if you can please try & visit and meet your family. Life is too short. Love from a citizen of Jamaica 🖤🖤💛💚💚

I did not know that at all. We live and from the video above, we learn don't? :)

All praise due to the most high. This brings tears to my eyes. Look at the clothes that our people was wearing. We are the people of the Bible. The Hebrew Israelites.