Horse-drawn carriages, immigrant boats docking, slow-moving streetcars and already a bustle that never seemed to end: this video shows what everyday life in New York was like a century ago.
Horse-drawn carriages, boats with immigrants mooring, slow-moving streetcars, ladies in long dresses and men in suits and hats: New York in 1911 looks very different from New York today. Even then, it was already a busy city where life never seemed to stand still. That is not so strange: in 1911 Manhattan already had two million inhabitants, that is even more than today. Now there are only 1.6 million people living in Manhattan.
You Tuber Denis Shirayev and engineer Guy Jones used original footage from the Swedish news firm Svenska Biografteatern and pieced it together, colored the images and provided them with matching sounds. The result is an eight-minute film that takes you to the New York of yesteryear in a very realistic way.
Horse-drawn carriages, boats with immigrants mooring, slow-moving streetcars, ladies in long dresses and men in suits and hats: New York in 1911 looks very different from New York today. Even then, it was already a busy city where life never seemed to stand still. That is not so strange: in 1911 Manhattan already had two million inhabitants, that is even more than today. Now only 1.6 million people live in Manhattan.You Tuber Denis Shirayev and engineer Guy Jones took original footage from the Swedish news firm Svenska Biografteatern and pieced it together, colored the images and provided them with matching sounds. The result is an eight-minute film that takes you to the New York of yesteryear in a very realistic way.
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