Acknowledged as the first movie ever shown in public. A film by the Lumiere brothers.
Link to the story on yahoo.
Rusty
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Acknowledged as the first movie ever shown in public. A film by the Lumiere brothers.
Link to the story on yahoo.
Rusty
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It was an interesting video but I wonder why men & women dressed up so nicely for a dirty train ride in that era. The locomotive was a steam locomotive spewing dirty exhaust & the passenger cars had open windows. When I used to pick up my girlfriend from the Amtrak station a few years ago, the passengers seemed to be wearing comfortable outfits & flip-flops. Those trains were hauled by diesel locomotives with relatively cleaner exhaust & the passenger cars looked like they did not have open windows.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen Rajan
People used to dress nicely when traveling. It was a cultural attitude that predated train travel but is now gone. Maybe one of the older members could explain the reason for dressing up to travel.
Nathan
Naveen
We take for granted our massive, in comparison, wardrobes today. A man might have only owned a pair of pants, a jacket/coat and a shirt or two for dress, in the period portrayed in the film. Unlike today comfort was not the concern when in public and only those in their work-a-day clothing, were not dressed in their best clothing when in public.
Borrowing a line from 'Zorro, the Gay Blade':
"The is no shame in being poor, only in dressing poorly!"
Dave
Before the "Woodstock Generation" changed many cultural ideas, people generally dressed up to do pretty much anything in public. In the 1930's my Dad normally wore a shirt and tie to high school for example. When I was a kid in the 1960's, it was normal to see guys wearing a suit, tie and hat at the ballpark watching a baseball game. Our idea of adults wearing jeans, t-shirts, baseball caps, and sneakers in public (outside of working in their garden or mowing their lawn) didn't exist until about 1970.
C'mon, now.
You guys do realize the film is from 1895, when only the well-to-do could truly afford to ride a train.
73 years before the social upheaval that occurred with the 1969 "Woodstock generation."
Rusty
When I flew to New York in 1980 for my Grandparents' 50th anniversary, I wore a three-piece suit and tie.
Times were different in the past...
They all also had hats on, and a lot of mustaches in the group.
Well thanks for the enjoyable video, Rusty, even though it seems to have started a generational war!
I used to do a lot of travelling back in the 80s and people on planes were for the most part fairly well dressed and behaved. Fast forward to about 5 years ago I made several trips by air for my company, it was like a Greyhound bus with wings!
Jerry
Mebbe I should start a thread about 19th century fashion and the talk will morph into trains and the early cinema.
Rusty
Mebbe I should start a thread about 19th century fashion and the talk will morph into trains and the early cinema.
Rusty
Not a bad idea. One thing's for sure, the folks back then didn't wear those stupid "shower flip-flops" out in public!
Dressing up to travel was common up until the 1960's. Note that all the passenger service ads in the 40's and 50's depicted "Dad" wearing a suit and "Mom" in a dress (and Junior in shorts and a pinwheel beanie.).
I lament the fact there may be no good sources for pin-wheel beanies anymore.
EDIT: I stand corrected.
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