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[Senior]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k&feature=player_embedded#

This video is great(good song, too). There are two things I like about it. The way everyone is impeccably dressed. Also how cars, pedestrians and horse meander nonchalantly into the path of the street car. Not to mention other street cars crossing the tracks, just avoiding collisions.

[itaewonguy]

[djsmnc]

There are still some places in Seoul where you can experience something akin to this

[djsmnc]

And now that I think about it, that song does bring some memories. I can only imagine how many tokes were taken and women I had pressed against the headboard to that one!

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Thanks. That's really cool. And someone posted a 2005 video of the same streetcar path there. It's interesting to see a movie from that time that's probably closer to real time, judging from the flags flapping in the wind, rather than the sped-up Charlie Chaplin look of so many old films. I like the human touches, of the boy racing the streetcar. The streetcars don't seem to stop-- people just jump on and off.

I wonder too how many traffic accidents there were, with the horses spooked by cars going everywhere. The engines would have been noisy and there would have been backfire. I suppose the cars of the period just weren't able to go fast enough to generally be reckless, and would have been so expensive that whoever had a car would have to be responsible with one.

It's interesting too to see the fashions of the time. Everyone is so well-dressed, although mostly in the same black suits and bowler hats for the gents. Most people have their heads covered. I guess in one way it's a trade-off, as comparatively, people now dress so slobbily in sweats and t-shirts, but the people of the time would have marveled at how clean we are now. While everyone's well-attired in the 1905 video, they were walking through horse poop all day, they would have bathed weekly at the most, and wouldn't have changed their clothes so often. They look nice but might not have smelled so nice.

[rocket_scientist]

I like the part where the guy talks on his cell phone.

[Gibberish]

Good lord, the sheer number of streetcars, cars and horse-carts dodging perilously in-and-out of one another is ridiculous. I can't believe there weren't more accidents than there were.

And to djsmnc - Yes, it's totally true that in Seoul this level of retardedness still exists.

[teecee]

God I love Air. Check out archive.org, there are tons of public domain historic videos, including one of a war dance of some native Americans from 1894. Really incredible stuff. Thanks for posting.