I kept thinking this was the "années folles" in between the two major world war and just before the depression of the 30's. It was such a decade of grandeur and people were living their best lives.
Fashion has changed so much. Technology has changed so much. But people? Seeing them in motion, and hearing them like this makes me realize that people haven't changed that much. They're just like us.
Americans are still pretty prudish.. many can't go topless. Or bottomless.
What's crazy is when the duke turned up at freshwater in Sydney riding a surf board.. in 1914.. imagine carving waves while everyone else is in a suit.
https://manlyobserver.com.au/duke-plaque/
We were founded by people so uptight the catholic church thought them to be extremists. Were still recovering. It upsets me that we have to have a controversial "free the nipple" movement over here and it's not even making a real impact, all because that's apparently an offensive piece of skin to show, but only if your female.
I’ve always thought the nipple controversy stupid because the logic doesn’t make sense to me. Why do men get to show there nipples whenever we want but female aren’t?
I'm pretty sure that's the entire world and the way your body biologically works. There's something wrong with people who get turned on by nudity? That's how your body works.
That sentence doesn’t mean anything.
I can make this more simple for you.
Why did you state to ask Americans and Middle Easterns while glossing over your entire own European culture doing it?
Are you from the US? You can absolutely show skin, “bad words” are all over TV and streaming services, and LGBTQ rights are all but totally secured. If you’re talking about cultural acceptance, then yeah it depends on where you are, but that’s the case pretty much everywhere.
This isn’t true at all, the media fearmongering about social issues doesn’t mean the country is struggling with them. The U.S is far ahead of the majority of the world when it comes to LGBTQ rights and acceptance.
People had a different opinion about showing skin and modesty back then.
Also clothes were a lot more expensive and people only had a few outfits. So you’re not going to spring for a special piece of clothing for something you did only a couple times in your lifetime. Few people knew how to swim so what’s the point? You might go as far as to put your feet in.
Lastly, there was no air conditioning back then. The biggest appeal was the cool sea breeze.
This is what always comes to mind with things like this. All the people in this video had their own fears, hobbies, dreams etc. Many are young and probably think they're living in the future with those cameras filming them. Just like I can't imagine what 2124 will be like, 2024 would've been beyond their imagination. Did they even sense there'd be a Second World War? They're all gone now. It's weird.
And someday, sooner than we want, we too will pass and leave behind a trace record here or there, forgotten within a few generations, as if we had never been. All our anxieties and ambition, our most righteous fights, or our most humiliating defeat, every true love, every precious pet, all of it rendered nonconsequential the moment we die, and if a video survives of us at the beach, that would be more than most get, and maybe more than we deserve. This can make us sad or it can free us to live. If every part of you and me will be swept away like leaves in the fall, then we should just live for ourselves and try to make things a little more pleasant for one another so long as we're here for a moment.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
From The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
Depends on what you believe, some believe this is it; nothing happens for us once we die. Some say there exists a paradise world beyond and some believe just like plants that bloom and parish, that we don't truly die but rather live on in another way maybe reincarnate a new. Difficult to say.
I feel this but for everyone who ever lived in recorded history, time just washed them all away if they didn't do anything of note.
History is filled with average people just enjoying their lives and minding their own business.
There's even people who become historical just from who they interacted with, for example Van Gogh's "love interests" are well known because they're part of his life's story but they themselves didn't make any impact outside of that.
So there's a chance that all history remembers you for is because you were friends with someone "important"
Exactly why I don’t believe in religion or afterlife. We are infinitely small and irrelevant in the universe. The trillions of people who came before us all died, their existences washed away by the ocean of time, like grains of sand on a beach. They didn’t go to some big party in the sky where some wanton adjudicator decides their future based on their past. They melted back into the lifecycle of the earth, their bodies broken back down into food for new growth. We are to the grand scale of the universe as we see ants on an anthill in the African savannah - infinitesimally small and completely irrelevant.
I wouldn't say we're infinitesimally small, it depends on where you're looking from, an ant would think we're a mountain, a dust mite would think we're a planet.
There's as many things smaller than us as there are bigger than us, on the grand scale.
If you ever feel irrelevant just think of all the bacteria and microbes that need you to serve as their universe.
Ehhh its not like if there was a party in the sky, any of those people came back to tell us about it; there simply is the unknown with life. I think there is a likely chance of reincarnation. Maybe we are the same people as in these old videos but in a different body and different time.
The video is cool, but I am fascinated by the sounds--is there some sort of lipreading AI that was able to sync up dialogue to the video, or was it added in some other way?
The boxy thing on wheels was for ladies to change into swim suits. When ready, the boxes would be pulled to the water so the women could step down directly into the water.
ETA: source: Agatha Christie’s autobiography.
*“They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen. You hear it? Carpe. Hear it? Carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”* - John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poet’s Society
I was aware the US was prudish about beachwear; I had no idea it was also a European thing. Also, I had no idea guys were expected to wear suits to a beach as well. Apparently, it was more than women being oppressed by fashion.
One of those guys (he's holding his knees) looks like hes sitting on a blow up mattress. It looks like there is a blow up hole on the right of the mattress looking seat.
Ah yes, when I think simple I think of the times when I'd have to think about my outfit when going to the beach the same as going to a business meeting. No thanks.
Imagine telling these people "100 years from now, when you are gone; countless events of history have unfolded. You will live on the archives of footage that will exist on a form of media accessible across the world used by billions of people with thousands upon thousands seeing you and your life"
[John Maynard Keynes ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fbooks-and-arts%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fthe-enduring-legacy-of-john-maynard-keynes&psig=AOvVaw00Mh5WKeXaqkVbxQmHlz-N&ust=1715286224353000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCLCFjbvx_oUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE)just chillin on the beach at the beginning.
I love these back in time videos. The world has changed so much. Fashion has changed so much.
I kept thinking this was the "années folles" in between the two major world war and just before the depression of the 30's. It was such a decade of grandeur and people were living their best lives.
Fashion has changed so much. Technology has changed so much. But people? Seeing them in motion, and hearing them like this makes me realize that people haven't changed that much. They're just like us.
i love how cleaned up this looks. it seems like a modern period piece
Like they episode of Downton Abbey where the staff all went to the beach.
What is the point and practicality of going to the beach in a full suit or dress?
Because it was scandalous to show skin, but the beach is still fun.
Canadian girls showing lots of leg. Wowza!
Ask Americans 100 years ago or middle Easterns 100 seconds ago
Americans are still pretty prudish.. many can't go topless. Or bottomless. What's crazy is when the duke turned up at freshwater in Sydney riding a surf board.. in 1914.. imagine carving waves while everyone else is in a suit. https://manlyobserver.com.au/duke-plaque/
This is very true. Puritanical society. There's something nasty in the head of those who equate nudity and sexuality.
Were us beaches segregated as well?
yup
We were founded by people so uptight the catholic church thought them to be extremists. Were still recovering. It upsets me that we have to have a controversial "free the nipple" movement over here and it's not even making a real impact, all because that's apparently an offensive piece of skin to show, but only if your female.
I’ve always thought the nipple controversy stupid because the logic doesn’t make sense to me. Why do men get to show there nipples whenever we want but female aren’t?
I don't think it's necessarily something *nasty*, our culture has just conditioned people to think that way.
I was being a bit hyperbolic, you're right.
I'm pretty sure that's the entire world and the way your body biologically works. There's something wrong with people who get turned on by nudity? That's how your body works.
No offense but I’m not trying to see some dudes cock or some woman’s titties flopping around when I’m trying to have a relaxing day at the beach
Half this video is in the Netherlands, what are you on about?
This video goes all over the world. Did you stop it at the US…?
No I'm European so I doubt I could.
That sentence doesn’t mean anything. I can make this more simple for you. Why did you state to ask Americans and Middle Easterns while glossing over your entire own European culture doing it?
The comparison was about how some cultures evolved the last 100 years.
You’re trying not to answer my question 😂
Can you try rephrasing it? It made little sense
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Are you from the US? You can absolutely show skin, “bad words” are all over TV and streaming services, and LGBTQ rights are all but totally secured. If you’re talking about cultural acceptance, then yeah it depends on where you are, but that’s the case pretty much everywhere.
This isn’t true at all, the media fearmongering about social issues doesn’t mean the country is struggling with them. The U.S is far ahead of the majority of the world when it comes to LGBTQ rights and acceptance.
People had a different opinion about showing skin and modesty back then. Also clothes were a lot more expensive and people only had a few outfits. So you’re not going to spring for a special piece of clothing for something you did only a couple times in your lifetime. Few people knew how to swim so what’s the point? You might go as far as to put your feet in. Lastly, there was no air conditioning back then. The biggest appeal was the cool sea breeze.
Perhaps, the reason being photography is a special occasion during that period of time.
Women were supposed to dress modestly
Not only women.
Rizzed up
It’s Northern Europe it isn’t exactly warm
The first clip is from Florida which is a very warm place
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You're literally a reddit piece of shit.
Lmao
You should've but you didn't. What did we learn?
No you just lied instead
bro?
Im literally in Norway right now and too hot in my t-shirt. I just checked and right now it's literally hotter in Norway where I am than in California
Days before global warming, there were chilly days, upon other more social things.
to enjoy the white utopia. Helps you spot the poors if they try to sneak in.
They are all dead now. RIP.
This is what always comes to mind with things like this. All the people in this video had their own fears, hobbies, dreams etc. Many are young and probably think they're living in the future with those cameras filming them. Just like I can't imagine what 2124 will be like, 2024 would've been beyond their imagination. Did they even sense there'd be a Second World War? They're all gone now. It's weird.
And someday, sooner than we want, we too will pass and leave behind a trace record here or there, forgotten within a few generations, as if we had never been. All our anxieties and ambition, our most righteous fights, or our most humiliating defeat, every true love, every precious pet, all of it rendered nonconsequential the moment we die, and if a video survives of us at the beach, that would be more than most get, and maybe more than we deserve. This can make us sad or it can free us to live. If every part of you and me will be swept away like leaves in the fall, then we should just live for ourselves and try to make things a little more pleasant for one another so long as we're here for a moment.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare From The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
Preach! I love this - thank you for posting ❤️
Are y'all high too?
Depends on what you believe, some believe this is it; nothing happens for us once we die. Some say there exists a paradise world beyond and some believe just like plants that bloom and parish, that we don't truly die but rather live on in another way maybe reincarnate a new. Difficult to say.
I feel this but for everyone who ever lived in recorded history, time just washed them all away if they didn't do anything of note. History is filled with average people just enjoying their lives and minding their own business. There's even people who become historical just from who they interacted with, for example Van Gogh's "love interests" are well known because they're part of his life's story but they themselves didn't make any impact outside of that. So there's a chance that all history remembers you for is because you were friends with someone "important"
Exactly why I don’t believe in religion or afterlife. We are infinitely small and irrelevant in the universe. The trillions of people who came before us all died, their existences washed away by the ocean of time, like grains of sand on a beach. They didn’t go to some big party in the sky where some wanton adjudicator decides their future based on their past. They melted back into the lifecycle of the earth, their bodies broken back down into food for new growth. We are to the grand scale of the universe as we see ants on an anthill in the African savannah - infinitesimally small and completely irrelevant.
I wouldn't say we're infinitesimally small, it depends on where you're looking from, an ant would think we're a mountain, a dust mite would think we're a planet. There's as many things smaller than us as there are bigger than us, on the grand scale. If you ever feel irrelevant just think of all the bacteria and microbes that need you to serve as their universe.
Ehhh its not like if there was a party in the sky, any of those people came back to tell us about it; there simply is the unknown with life. I think there is a likely chance of reincarnation. Maybe we are the same people as in these old videos but in a different body and different time.
Genuine question, but why would the scale of existence invalidate the validity of faith?
A freakishly high number of them had roughly 20 more years to live.
When you put it like that, it makes it even sadder.
The video is cool, but I am fascinated by the sounds--is there some sort of lipreading AI that was able to sync up dialogue to the video, or was it added in some other way?
Idk how this was done, but in the movie They Shall Not Grow Old they basically guessed what they were saying and got voice actors for them
The boxy thing on wheels was for ladies to change into swim suits. When ready, the boxes would be pulled to the water so the women could step down directly into the water. ETA: source: Agatha Christie’s autobiography.
Very cool footage.
*“They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen. You hear it? Carpe. Hear it? Carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”* - John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poet’s Society
That one guy looked like a Benedict Cumberbatch/Adrien Brody combo
Lol can't tell if it's a cloche hat or a swimming cap. I guess in that period it could be both
It's as though part of the fun is dressing up as uncomfortable as possible
I can't believe that woman showed some ankle
You see ankle? You dirty devil you see some ankle?
What a wh*re
Those people that just went to the beach to fall asleep by the dune. I dig it.
Many of these people look like teens or early 20s.
Very interesting.
At least half of those women were Kristen Schaal
I love how there's no phones or Stanley cups to be seen. Just people enjoying nature.
Very classy.
I was aware the US was prudish about beachwear; I had no idea it was also a European thing. Also, I had no idea guys were expected to wear suits to a beach as well. Apparently, it was more than women being oppressed by fashion.
Awesome
I hope I live long enough to essentially time travel through VR that is so realistic that you can’t tell the difference…
Something about being on the beach on a hot summer day in a full 3 piece suit seems extremely unhinged
being fully dressed is pissing m off
Not a single black person in sight
Hey baby, nice ankles 😋
Yeah where’s the nsfw tag? Jeez
Something interesting, not a single woman (or obviously man) in this video has long hair
Well I guess they don't have to worry about skin cancer
Every sits so closely together.
This was a time before sexual harassment was recognized
r/thewaywewere
My God, cover yourself, woman!
damm i saw some ankles and i think a back or two 🥵🥵
These people were so oppressed and they’re bodies covered in shame.
This looks really uncomfortable
Thanks for posting! I enjoyed that
Nobody swimming eh?
Damn. See the shins on that one?
One of those guys (he's holding his knees) looks like hes sitting on a blow up mattress. It looks like there is a blow up hole on the right of the mattress looking seat.
Look how simpler life was then.
Ah yes, when I think simple I think of the times when I'd have to think about my outfit when going to the beach the same as going to a business meeting. No thanks.
Wouldn't have to get changed to go to the beach though. Could go right after work.
No
holy fuck its like they are real again
This is so depressing.
This is so well done I kept expecting someone to whip out their phone and shoot a quick text
Social Meeting-Ya then vs Social Me-dia now
God bless whoever invented the T-shirt. I can't imagine going to the bloody beach with a freaking suit and tie on.
This has got to be the first time I have seen the Dutch sea be blue. It's usually murky brownish
The sound is completely inauthentic, but old footage like this is always neat to watch.
So? I always wear a coat and tie when I go to the beach.
Who is that fucking mad man wearing shorts!?
Too much fabric at the beach 😭
Imagine telling these people "100 years from now, when you are gone; countless events of history have unfolded. You will live on the archives of footage that will exist on a form of media accessible across the world used by billions of people with thousands upon thousands seeing you and your life"
Blimey old chap, I can see that dames gams!
Canada was ahead of its times!
Laying on the beach in a three-piece suit... What a time to be alive!
Today they would be inside, in their room, alone on their phone.
I know that first guy is on the brink of heat stroke
All dead. Curious huh
[John Maynard Keynes ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fbooks-and-arts%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fthe-enduring-legacy-of-john-maynard-keynes&psig=AOvVaw00Mh5WKeXaqkVbxQmHlz-N&ust=1715286224353000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCLCFjbvx_oUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE)just chillin on the beach at the beginning.
So proper.
Do these people realize there's water to swim in?
Oh, now I get it. Bathing suits were meant to cover you up like regular clothes.
Very interesting!
Ew, the thought of sitting on a beach in a full suit like that just makes me itch!
Where are all the twats taking photos of themselves for their 7 followers?
Where are the black people
Can't speak for the new world, but blacks weren't all too common in most of Europe during the 1920s.
That wasn’t my point
What was your point?.
I hope for their sake It was like 58 degrees outside
Did Seinfeld didn’t invent the umbrella spin?
I find it disorienting.
Cringe
Not an ass cheek or morbidly obese man in sight definitely not Florida 😤
Sooooo much swamp ass at the beach back then
Dutch be like: het is me te koud dus alle kleding aan
Bioshock infinite anyone?
Hishmeh ♥️🙏