What did Edwardian London look like? Well… let’s take a gander…
This footage was recently discovered in Canberra, Australia of a 1904 travelogue about London.
The footage, shot of 35mm film, also shows subtle insights into life such as the way people walked, he added.
The academic, professor of film and media history at Birkbeck College in London, said the film, called Living London, was shot by pioneering Anglo-American film-maker Charles Urban.
It was a big hit in Australia with audiences who had either emigrated or had never seen the land of their forefathers.
“It wasn’t easy to hop on a plane then,” he said.
An advertisement for the film displayed in small-town Australia read: “Sites along a route on the most important thoroughfare in London, not merely showing street scenes but incredible ‘Snapshots’ of the various human types, their different occupations and pleasures.”
That’s great. Looks a little like late Victorian to me though.