Unseen Color Footage of England 1918 | Remastered
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2022
- Remastered footage originally from 1918 taken in England. Several scenes were recorded in London. Among other famous persons, Winston Churchill and King George V (1865 - 1936) appear in the scenes.
Vivid History is dedicated to restoring old black and white footage and creating high-quality colorized versions to give you an authentic and vivid experience of the past.
The video has been restored and colorized using state-of-the-art machine learning methods.
The restoration steps included:
- motion stabilization
- noise reduction
- colorization
- frame interpolation for increased FPS
- upscaling to 4K
- adding ambient sound
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The source video is from the national archives. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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Absolutely beautiful and clear restoration, most films from that earlier era of film making are scratchy, fade in and out. Whoever put in the effort and hard work, thank you for bringing history even more to life!
Frame rate makes a huge difference. This was expertly done! Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” did similar good work.
Jackson's colourisation was professional, unlike today's freeware colourisation rubbish that has infected YT posts - apart from the blue of the sky and the green of the grass and the orange of the faces, everything else is mauvish grey. You'll notice that the pillar box red in the thumbnail is not in the film.
No quite there some remaining vertical black lines at times, yet they could of very easily of been removed with today's software.
The technique is highly computerized, which is great, because it means many old films can be restored now and we'll get to see much more of what those film makers had in mind despite their technology's limitations.
To think we went to war in 1918 and we still had horse drawn buses
The people who do this deserve so much credit.
It's depressing to see how the country has been ruined with diversity.
If only they'd be HONEST, and not call it "Unseen Color Footage", which sounds like it's been DISCOVERED. It hasn't.
I have the greatest respect for what they do - it's amazing! Not only the colour (it would be coloUr if of London), but the general picture improvement - steadying both in dimension and brightness. I just wish they wouldn't title the clips so dishonestly; what they do is phenomenal enough without needing any lies.
@@dudebro3250 People like you are what is wrong with modern Britain. Small minded fools did not make Britain what it is, these people have consigned Britain to the dustbin of history. The Victorians didn't hark back to the Elizabethans. People like you have nothing to do with the former greatness of the UK.
@@dudebro3250 ... 😂😂... You're having a laugh, life today is so much better than it was for those poor unfortunates back in 1918.
I love how far technology has come. This is as close to time travel we've got so far and it stuns me.
Your comment is so true!
This is just mesmorising footage. Quite overwhelming but fantastic. It reminds me that life here is so short, we are really a mist that appears for a short time. A gentle reminder to be kind to those around you.
So true. Your reminder sadly still goes unheeded by so many...
Sadly in the time this was made there hadn't been much kindness in the world for four years, over 670,000 British soldiers were killed between 1914 and 1918 and over one and a half million were wounded.
I did some research and found this Baseball match take place on the 4th of July 1918. It was called the Great War Baseball Match, the Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July the 4th 1918, by Anglo-American Baseball Project. So those of us who thought the Lemon Squeezer hats belonged to New Zealanders, like me, are wrong as the Americans also had a Lemon Squeezer hat similar to ours.
Wow, thank you for the effort :)
Played at Stamford Bridge, home of chelsea fc.
Yes I thought it could have been Stamford Bridge.
My God, I have seen George the V in pictures, but to see him that clearly, and a young Churchill with that detail...I am speechless.
I agree. I thought I would have heard about this footage on the news o something. Quite incredible.
Funny you say that because I only have seen him in this footage 🤣
And I believe he is chatting with an officer in the US Marine Corps. The officer is definitely not in a British uniform just by looking at the collar and the rank on his shoulder epaulets. 95% sure it's an American uniform and it looks like he has the Marine Corps globe with anchors on his tab collar. There'd be a "US" label on the collar if he was in the Army. I don't see that.
We also saw Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra.
@Jody I think this was a baseball exhibition game played possibly by US soldiers and witnessed by the King and the public. This must be during WW1.
This is simply amazing. To see Winston Churchill so young too! Thank you for the wonderful restoration ❤
Yeah, strange to see Churchill young and slim.
Who'd want to see that bastard?
@@tancreddehauteville764 He was already in his mid 40s here.
My Grandad and my Dad Fought in the same War Dad came home with Bullet Wounds Grandad Father of 11 kids Died , I m lucky to be here Aged 86
Eleven kids? No wonder your grandad died.
Common in them days
So you were only two Sir when 2nd WW broke out, were you living in a relatively safe place or did you get evacuated? Yes, and how lucky we all are to hopefully be avoiding a third WW. What does it all boil down to - devastated cities, millions of lost lives and crippled men returning, what a strange race the human one is.
@@arriesone1 Which other races are you comparing it to?
@@Audit-The-Auditors I’m not - they call us the human race.
How smart everyone looks. Amazing film . Brings the past to life.
They didn't smell very nice. They hardly bathed in those days.
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Once a week is good enough. Any more and you wash all the good bacteria away from your skin.
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb What was the reason behind not bathing ?
@@mujemoabraham6522 Cost....it was expensive to heat a bath of water. So much so, large families would share just one bath tub of water, every month or so.
My grandma was a school child in 1918. When she was an old lady and I was at school, she told me that so much had happened in her life, we went from horses and carts to men on the moon.
My Grandpa was born in 1890. He remembered reading the report about the Wright Brothers first recorded flight. Many decades later he found himself on a Concorde flight to NYC. He didnt quite make the moon, but never mind, you cant do everything!
My Grandma grew up in Magog, Quebec. In an evil nun institution. When she, (she told me stories of how it was a prison), finnally turned 18, she ran so fast away from the catholic church jail. That was my Grandma. She would have rather died than become a Nun. After growing up in a monestary. She wanted no part of church life.
but, she still went to church until she was 96.
@@carmenbrown3437 were they lesbians there ?????
@@seanodwyer4322Search on: "More than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in residential schools"
estimated 6,000 children are believed to have died, with some later buried in unmarked graves
I don’t think we’ll ever see its like again. Astounding progress made in such a short time, thanks largely to the legacy of the British empire. Such an extraordinary society, to influence the world so profoundly
Amazing!!! My Nan was 18 years old when this was taken. Born in 1900, she lived until 1994. She lived very much in the present, but I treasure her memories of her youth.
Thank you for taking the time and making the effort in restoring these films, you deserve more credit than you get. Wonderful work 👏
The quality of the enhancements is incredible.. It truly brings these people and their surroundings to life. The detail, the faces, just amazing. A time long gone….
UK before ‘the invasion’ . The liberals hate this old footage, they’ll try have your believe it’s all fake. Britain wasn’t mainly built by the indigenous British, but by foreigners!!
I agree only it needed more colors and to be a tiny bit slower. The flowers they placed I believe had several colors but because sunlight was strong everything looked white in old filming gear the same goes to ladies outfts. Great it is yes, but not incredible. Personal opinion.
Wow! That's really clear restoration work. Very nice! Thank you!
Incredible and an honour to see so clearly the people who gave so much. There's some really cheeky grins there too, history totally brought to life. Thank you.
What an incredible restoration job, beautiful!
A young Winston Churchhill and King George in PERFECT Clarity...amazing!
Amazing, very clear video of King George V and Queen Mary and the King's mother Queen Alexandra who died in 1925.
Wow incredible! I’ve never seen video of George V before or Churchill so young. Fantastic footage! I wish hats would make a comeback. They look so smart and sophisticated.
Hats have been the style for quite sometime, they've transgressed to baseball caps, but still, they are a form of hat. Personally, I have never worn a hat. Aside from my time in the military, wearing a hat just wasn't for me.
Brilliant restoration. Well done!🇬🇧
Overwhelming!!! Like looking through a window into the past. Everyone celebrating the end of the war, and honouring those who didn’t make it. Very moving.
Fantastic restoration work..I love how they are fascinated by the camera.....its like they are looking into the future at us and are amazed
And most of those cameras were hand cranked at that time. Amazing how improving the frame rate and picture clarity can create such stunning images!
My great grandparents and their three children emigrated to Australia just after the First WW. It was fascinating to catch a glimpse of the world they left behind.
Also left behind from that war are millions of corpses, amputated limbs, widows, orphans and shattered psyches. Then the leaders of the _Entante_ so fumbled the peace, that a much worse replay took place one generation later.
It's hard to see see King George and other bigwigs and not see the incompetence. Thus these restorations are valuable if they remind us of the failures, potential and lost opportunities too.
my ancestors from brit had surnames off- Fletcher/ Walton/ wathan/ Farr/ Challannor
Yes but why on earth did they think it a good idea to go to nearly the end of the world? (New Zealand is the real end)
@@seanodwyer4322 do not forget Jones and Smith. Keeping up with the Jones now the Kumars, Patels, Singhs and Amheres !
@@Simonsvids Because they could own land stolen from the first peoples.
This is amazing! You are a genius! Thank you so much.
The soot blackened buildings are worth noting . It used to be terrible in London I remember in the early fifties we had many smog ridden days when you couldn’t even leave the house and it’s incredible now how clean they all are since banning of coal fires .
It's amazing how much the world has changed in only just over 100 years, all those wars, inventions, fashion etc etc
This was England the year my mother was born (in the US.) She lived to age 97. It's like a trip to her past. Thank you.
Amazing footage. Thanks.
All the people look quite relaxed and happy at events following the First World War. There is a very sad scene at the end when all the war wounded are paraded along in their wheel chairs. Thanks for doing the restoration work and uploading.
How could anyone be happy after witnessing that carnage?
@@andrewlilley3660 Maybe they were relieved that it was all over?
@@AllensTrains It was over for a couple of decades, that's all.
@@andrewlilley3660 The title says the footage dates from 1918
@@AllensTrains Yes, that's what I mean, two decades later it all starts again! I suppose it's because they hadn't got rid of enough people the first time around.
Although there is a school of thought that is against the use of the various processes, I have to say that I cannot disagree more! The whole idea of these films was for people to see them. O K - there is an atmosphere generated by the films in their original state - and they can and should be preserved anyway, BUT, I am willing to bet that, if the original camera people were alive today, they would be thrilled to bits to see their footage treated like this! Thank you so much for , as one contributor has put it, helped us to "Time Travel"
This looks like the first post victory public game. It obviously was so important that even the king and Queen were in attendance! A beautiful restooration and colorization of this unique footage !
Great stabilisation job on this video.
Spectacular footage, as if it were taken in the 80s. Everyone dressed well, not today's vulgarity!
Right! Those ripped jeans are THE WORST
Agreed! A time when people respected one another and it was very clear that we had men and woman and nothing in between unlike the abominations we see in todays wretched society!
@@dino575 lol
Bicycles.
No truck car motor tempo bike
No ‘Sports Direct’ then !
Sorry for that harm in WWI from Germany....Saxons and Anglosaxons should not fight each other we are one blood...
Blood quantum. Britain and Germany are multicultural.
@@alanbeck7093 Since 1948 yes. Before? Not really. Now? Hellhole waiting to implode.
Not your or the current Germanys fault. I have a good few German fiends and we all have lots in common, not so many French ones!
@@tonkerdog1 Oh dear, you edited your post but still left the r out of friends.
@@kiwitrainguy Oh no, the ceiling will fall in and we will all die.
A fantastic piece of work. Well done.
Marvellous! Thank you. A great way to look at History.
Hi there sir. It's amazing picture. Sir where are you from uk
Hello from Canada. A handsome people, with style in abundance. The body language and facial expressions bring these persons, who are all gone, into our hearts. Magnificent work!
Wow No Drugs
No Stabbings
No Shootings
No Grooming gangs
When Britain 🇬🇧 was Great
But plenty of slaughter during the world war that was just around the corner.
@@johnross2924Our Blitz spirit saw us through that horror, and build a future that was real and tangible for people to experience and flourish.
People now lose their minds over nothing. It’s pathetic and an insult to the fallen of both World Wars.
@gavindouglas7020
"No stabbings, no shootings". No, no-one was ever shot or stabbed back then. It's just a modern phenomenon.
And for drugs, there definitely was drugs, just not the ones which are popular today.
Finally, while there may not have been "grooming gangs", there was without doubt, rapes taking places.
No 3rd World Invaders
Lots of 3rdworld people helped fight the war. Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Africans, Nepalese, Black Africans fought as full soldiers in the US army in WW1. Opium was legal and openly on sale in dockland areas, the rich bright young things took cocaine, murders took place. Homosexuality and sexual coercion were common just utterly taboo or spoken of in euphemisms. Your view is as rose tinted as the film.
This restoration is amazing!!
That was fantastic.....Well done. Subscribed.
omg it’s amazing remastering! Great video, thanks for sharing. 👍🏻👏🏻 like 108
Thank you :)
Absolutely beautiful and clear restoration, most films from that earlier era of film making are scratchy, fade in and out. Whoever put in the effort and hard work, thank you for bringing history even more to life! I AGREE WITH RONALD. BAKU CITY
Keep going, amazing channel❤❤❤
Thank you :)
The screaming from the crowd is a new phenomena imported from America.
In those days it was considered vulgar to scream at the top of your voice in public.
Screaming at the top of your voice in public, is still considered vulgar today. Are you the Coronation St actor I interviewed for a newspaper in 1998
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb No, not that Bruce Jones. And I don't watch soaps, or TV coming to think of it.
Excellent production. No irritating narration or incidental music. Reminds me a bit of Humphrey Jennings work
I have never seen video like this before, I'm so glad they had the mind to preserve it way back then
WWI Era. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Great Britain as it should be.
People just had more common sense than they seem to in the UK nowadays.....
@@colinluckens9591 That's because there are so many non-UK people here now.
@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb another xenophobic person, I see.
@@00lh02 Not xenophobic, just HATRED, PURE HATRED for trash ruining my country.
@@00lh02Another bedwetter I see.
Thank you for this footage, I'm a fan of Upstairs Downstairs and it's incredible to see footage from the time period in which it was set.
Same here or Downton Abbey.
Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey would be sanitised by the woke feminists and Nancy Boys ,like Wooster and Jeeves shamefully have.
Crikey they all looked so fit & well...
I was waiting for the first fat phobic comment. How dare you.
I’m shocked, shocked I say, at the despicable lack of diversity in this footage. What a load of far-right bigots our ancestors were, and I bet they were transphobic too! 😉🤣😅
Life expectancy then, was 20 years less than it is now.
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb What matters is the amount of life in those years, not the number of them. People looked far happier back then than the number of obese, morbidly obese and depressed youngsters we have now, and many of them are less active than their grandparents.
@@helmethead72 People 'looked' happier because they had no life expectation and aspirations back then. Working class people's lives in 1918 was pretty horrific. I studied Economic & Social History at University, so I know in detail how bad it was. They worked 6 days a week 12 hour days, often in dangerous places like mills and factories. They shared bath tubs of cold water and lived in cramped, damp, overcrowded slums. Working class people's lives are a 100 times better than they were then. People are far more educated now and have choices and can expect lives similar to the elite. Then, only the elite had decent lives.
When I was a first grader, I found a penny in a field. After cleaning it, I saw it read '1919'. I couldn't believe (at the time) they had money back then...let alone it still was in really good shape. Now to see that this video is older than that is so impressive! Such a different world, wish I could have been there!
??? As a young child, I remember quite well my grandparents, grand-relatives, and friends of theirs all born in the late 19th Century preceding that coin by 25 years. And my grand-uncle who served in the US Army in World War I. And my neighbor who let me come over to play on her piano, whose grandfather had fought for the Union at Gettysburg.
@@jody6851 Thank you Jody! It definitely doesn’t feel like this very old if you’ve already seen and lived with those great people! Marvellous!
Could'nt believe that they had money back then? What else could have been used for commerce and transactions, shells & beads?
@@stlbusker3025 Proposing that to what was then a seven year old, what are you wanting?
Yeah I know what u mean wish I could go back seems alot nicer world apart from the war but life was better in a funny way
My father was born in August of 1918, just months before this war memorial events. It is ASTOUNDING how the crisp and coloured enhancements give more individual character that one glimpses in the shakey B&W originals. Personalities just reach out through time. It is a powerful tool and I hope this is used on many more "antique" films.
1918 I just think about the all the boy's that never came home WW1 changed England for ever we lost so many skilled men we never recovered from it hence the state this country's now in.
One of the wealthiest and most powerful in the world, despite a relatively small population?
Beautiful job. I have subscribed and hope to see more.
little did they know we would be watching almost 100 years later. amazing.
over 100 yrs. 105
@@jatari7871 indeed you are correct. Silly me 😁
amazing the world is worse now than before.
Apart from them being in the middle of a world war which killed about 10 million men, you mean.
@@amandalorian105 The Spanish One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest!
@@amandalorian105At least people had the Roaring Twenties to enjoy themselves. The Swinging Sixties, the energy and exuberance of the Eighties; we’ve had nothing but continual war, financial catastrophes that get increasingly worse, unaffordable houses and rents, family breakdowns, depression and anxiety are off the scale, and now we have the most mentally ill, entitled and narcissistic young generation in all of recorded human history.
I’d say that the 21st century has so far proven to be a grotesque, humourless, grey and ghastly time period.
And did you notice all those obese lumps wobbling around the streets like we have today?
Me neither.
Tzar Nickolas and his family got slaughtered about this time.
and they deserved it!
WOW! Super job!! Thaaaaabks!!
Brilliant footage and great quality for the time.
Amazing restoration.King George V was 1910 to 1936.
Incredible footage though the sounds effects are a recent addition. This must be from sometime in the Spring or Summer of 1918 since the weather looks very pleasant. American troops were arriving in Europe a rate of around 100,000 a month by mid 1918. My Grandfather was in the AEF and did not arrive until the Fall of 1918 as the war was winding down. He was 19 and disappointed to miss the action but we are possibly here because of his late arrival, many of the early arrivals perished. He used to tell my Mother that the Germans heard he was coming and surrendered!
Yes, England France and Germany dissipated their energies in thoughtless mutual suspicions, tensions and WWs.
Otherwise, they could still be major world powers.
SriRam
Seems more like spring, summer 1919. Surely in 1918 the war was very much in the balance and such public spectacles would be premature. The mix of memorial respect and celebration on show was very much a post-war phenomena. Neverthless, the results are truly incredible.
brilliantly done, it brings us in the current world to vision life in the past, that should be kept alive
great great video like it was filmed yesterday
crazy how much changes in such a short time
Queen Alexandra (2.30-40) aged 73 looking about 15 years younger. Her exquisite youthful beauty lingered long into her senior years. Deaf as a post by then but by all accounts a very sweet lady
And Queen Mary
I really enjoyed that. Thanks 🙂
Wonderful thank you ❤
Even though the sound isn't authentic, it makes for most enjoyable viewing - as does the excellent colorization
Also the Colourisation.
@@christophercook723
Colorization = American
Colourisation = British
Kulurschaft = German 😁😁
@@mujemoabraham6522 coloured = English
Colorization= A made up USA word misspelled in English .
The other word is a WW2 loser expression.
How lovely. No traffic jams, no immigrants and one could walk through downing street.
More fantastic content, great job! It would (for me) to see some updated and colourised film of the Grand Fleet around WW1 if at all possible :)
Did anyone notice the beautiful Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary on either side of Queen George V? It was a lovely video to watch. Considering it was 1918 and the world was still at war it was very poignant to watch this remarkable film. On second viewing I believe it would have been in 1919. The casualties of war from the UK, France,USA, Canada, Africa, Australia etc are there in this film.
Its after the war, you can see them celebrating the armistice at 0:48 in the buses.
Amazing quality! I wonder what the people from 1918 would make of our society…
i dont.
I would hate to think
They would jump back into their graves.
Medically and health wise we have come on leaps and bounds, but I think our souls have been diminished due to our fast lives.
they would run away...
This is absolute gold👌🏻👏🏻🤩
I believe the man on the extreme left with the open coat and fedora at 5:40 is future US President Herbert Hoover, who directed American relief measures for Belgium and would manage the nation's food supply chain following the US's' entrance into the war as director of the United States Food Administration. His visit to England was probably in relation to his latter official capacity, though the close of the Great War would by no means mark the end of Hoover's involvement with humanitarian relief; relief missions to Europe, White Russia , and post-WWII Germany would follow. Though by most measures a low-ranking to poor president whose ineffective handling of the Great Depression serves as his most notable legacy, very few can credibly accuse Hoover of using the awesome powers that come with high office solely for pernicious ends like personal enrichment and self-aggrandizement, charges a great many of his peers cannot with probity exonerate themselves of.
Yes it is. HH was such a resourceful and efficient administrator early on he came to the attention of another future President, FDR, who remarked that HH “would make a fine President “
He was an engineer. His handling of the Bonus Rallies not too commendable.
Yep, his face is pretty recognizable!
Look how clean the streets are.
These are just the ones they picked out to film. They didnt go to the slums with horse shit everywhere.
Its cherry picked of course.
Excellent, given the strides in technical improvment, of the last ten years, I would not be suprised if there was more to come; but, who could not be thrilled with the current achievements.
Just one question--When was this filmed? if it's 1918, I'm guessing that , the war is still on, or the Summer that year was exceptionally long, ( it looks so sunny withLeaves and flower's in abundance. or everyones celibrating wars end, the following year. ?
To answer your question, the baseball match was July 4th 1918. A google search will tell you all about it.
thank you.@@ajthecat2
Live footage of that era amazing
Utterly amazing! What a treasure trove.
That's great footage. It's nice to see.
Great. Thanks so much!👍👍👍👍👍
Some of the scenes are in Dublin, but Dublin was of course still part of the UK in 1918.
could you tell me which part is in Dublin? thx
When Britain was beautiful 🇬🇧❤️
Except those slum houses that the majority of people lived in.
It's still beautiful. Just more crowded in the cities and towns.
@@hobi1kenobi112. And dangerous now.
@marlene5829,
More dangerous then. Life expectancy was far lower.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Indeed, unsanitary living conditions, no free health service, millions working in dangerous factories, mills and mines, and exploitation of disadvantaged children was rife. So much for the 'good old days'.
The film quality is excellent. So sharp.
Hello beautiful restorations have you created here, what programs do you work with?
Thank you all so much who made this marvellous and very moving history, after the The Great War, with colour and restored film. I could imagine I was there watching these great occasions of 1918. Thank you to all the brave allied armed forces and our own courageous boys' men and women who sacrificed so much to make this celebratory and moving memorial to the lost with hope on the faces of the injured the returned and civilians for a new peaceful future. How desperately sad to see the aftermath of the 1914 war with all its death and suffering to know another world war would follow 25 years later begin by the same country. With so many wars and conflicts in the world may peace reign supreme. Xxxxx
They haven't finished with us, yet they still want us gone.
These gems should be preserved for eternity.
I love King George V so much
What a beautiful film I could not take my eyes off it well done
Amazing to see all of these people brought back to life.
Fantastic footage of a bygone age , you can almost imagine being there the clarity is stunning wish i could lip read the conversations.
Great remastering. I don't think I saw footage of a single obese person in any of the scenes - I wonder why?
Food would still have been rationed, but there were no fast-food outlets then apart from fish & chip shops.
There's another group missing too!
They were all starving....
OMG, this is amazing 👏🙏
excellent, so interesting thanks,,
Everyone there was wonderfully white, but sadly 105 years later none of the people in the film is now with us. 😔
A time in our history when people were proud to be British. These old folks went through a lot in their life times and yet today everyone has an axe to grind. My grandfather & some of his brothers fought in the First World War. They never spoke about it. Great restoration job. 👍👍🇬🇧
This is amazing!
Thank you :)
Excellent and fascinating quality film of days gone by!!
How England use to be England.
Why were you there? If so that makes you probably the oldest person in the world 😂
@@CashelOConnolly stupid thing to say.
@@sgtted7580 your rose tinted comment isn’t exactly sensible
Must have been awful for the population who had no concept of the benefits of cultural diversity.
Life expectancy was below 50
I never knew Winston Churchill used to be so thin. What a fine gentleman.
Look at George V
Amazing restoration job. at 5.01 is that a Roston Bed Socks player?
Extraordinary work--
Wish I had been around in that England..❤