what a relief that these marvellous images were not lost forever, and were miraculously found in that shop basement.

thanks for this! human memory is so short, even two generations is about equal with the stone age! we're the first generation who's been able to see even a hundred years into the past, and that's time travel if ever there was such a thing

I wish I could show them the phones and the latest technologies of today to show them how far we’ve come & then see their surprised faces! :)

thankyou for sharing all these wonderful films.. the few i seen so far, i can't get over how many people there are.. and how busy it all seems.. thankyou again.. 🙂 x

At 2:31 when the Captain(?) is posing for what he thinks is a photo at first, you can almost hear Mitchell/Kenyon telling him to perform some kind of action (would he have understood "it's a film not a photograph"?). These films are full of such simple yet poignant moments. Thank you BFI!

Seeing the fact the peoples in the film 🎥 as well as camera 📸 man is no more and this is also the truth that after some years I will also not be there and our grand children will be seeing this message and wondering about various truth of Life ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Amusing how they can't take their eyes off that 'new-fangled camera thing'. Great post, thank you.

it's like going back in time and seeing ones great and great great ancestors. my grandparents were either infants very young children or not yet born when this came out.

Document très intéressant! Merci!

how wonderful... one of the men coming off the ship at the start looks so much like my great grandfather who lived in Liverpool at the time, would love to know if it's him!

Wow!! look at their faces just like us today!.... But different clothes style in their very old times... They were in the miserable times,but worth it!

Amazing film and the quality is incredible. The first scene shows the tender taking passengers out to the anchored Cunard liner. As for the open air bridge, that was a common design feature on ships from tha late 19th Century. That is why it is called a 'bridge'. It was an open deck supported on either side. There may have been a protected lower bridge beneath it. At the beginning of the 20th Century, most liners had enclosed or partially enclosed bridges.

@franl155 this is why its so important to take pictures and videos. this is like 110 years ago, wow.

i checked that and yes you are right,he does look very similar to him.

I just can't get rid of the feeling that people back then were humane,if that's the right word...

The tender is indeed the Skirmisher, by the way. There's another clip of it from the same collection where you can just catch the name.The very lost shot in this sequence (where the captain manipulates the telegraph handle), is also the Skirmisher.

It's like watching ghosts.

they were ofcourse pretty old and mainly just back up material in times when the ferry companies were about to replace all boats or when they were out of traffic for repair or maintenance inspection. I guess they might have been built sometime in the 30's but very much in this style.

how weird is this ? I must have taken 100 trips or more across the sounds, aboard small ferries that resembles this down to the detail so much that I recall the smell of tar, diesel and seawater,coffe and sausages, and the noise and rumble from the engines below. Especially from 1:30 , with the staff strolling down the deck, and forward you get a real good impression of exterior and the whole construction.Im refering to what I experienced maybe back in the late 70's or even early 80's.

It's not the Titanic and that is not Captain Smith. (Most merchant captains were bearded back then.) It clearly predates 1912 as one can tell from the way people are dressed. Also most of the bridge is open. By the time of the Olympic class liners the bridge and most of the various engine telegraphs were enclosed to protect the crew from the weather. Also the ship is much too small. An educated guess is that this is either the RMS Lucania or the Campania.

So,where were they going?

Does Mitchell & Kenyon have any footage of the Cunard Line, Umbria. My great grandfather Karl Hansson came over to the US from Liverpool (from Sweden) on the Cunard RMS Umbria as an immigrant, not the Peterson's. The Peterson's had tickets for Titanic but canceled because they felt my grandmother's brother was to young.

We will never know, what he said in the end...

Feels like they're looking at me😎

Interesting that the bridge is not enclosed.

The old timey kitty cat was the best......

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Luciana mail steam ship. This is about 1901.

@LMatters1 Notice how a lot of them stand still waiting for their picture to be taken? lol They didn't know that you could move about.

there was no man without a beard

Taken on Friday, February 28, 1902.

Why do all those seamen and Capts all look like Captain Smith of the Titanic or Captain Birdseye? lol. I wonder if Capt Birdseye was modelled off Capt Smith. Thats the image you think of when you think of a capt of a ship, some bloke in his late 50s/early 60s with a gruffy grey beard.

I think maybe we are closer to the stone age than the kindly folk here..... I wish I could talk with these people to see how much has changed culturally. (But We do have insight from their writings.)♥♥♥

All those women so prim and proper

I agree that looks like it is Captain Smith. I said exactly the same as you on a copy of this video on youtube.

at 1.50 is that the ships cook i wonder if he cooked the cat for dinner lol...

everyone in this is dead, even the babies of this era, my goodness

And how many Americans died in the fight for freedom in Europe? There are many US cemetaries in Europe filled with the remains of those who fell in two wars. Use your freedom and pay them a visit to say thanks. God Bless them, Europe, peace, freedom, and even you!

Captain Smith was with White Star Line, not Cunard...

When I go o to the BFI site to watch the promised 1500 films I can't seem to find a play button anywhere, on any page? Help!!!

yes he does,doesn't he?

Were go this people?

At 1.31mins I'm sure that is Edward J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic. He lived in Waterloo, Liverpool at that time.

The music is TOO LOUD and drowns out the commentary.

back when poor people knew their place.

How the tartarians used to travel around In pure luxury are the peasants use the a rowing boat 🚣‍♀️

why do people look like they move faster back in that time. every video seems like people are running or working in a very fast paste

those women at 203 to 217 while waiting for camra to roll, they looked cold and miserable...

nun w no face at 2:45

I dont know why but the commentator of these BFI films annoy me slightly

The person presenting this is depressing!