In the early twentieth C , a Swedish yield fellowship called Svenska Biografteaterndispatcheda camera gang to capture footage of five hotspot in Europe and North America : Niagara Falls , Paris , Monte Carlo , Venice , and New York City .

TheNew York Cityreel , filmed in 1911 and known asNew York 1911 , was gently colorized and remastered in 4 KB by YouTuberDenis Shiryaevin 2020 . The consequence is an 8 - minute - long journey through a bygone edition of theBig Applethat we typically only see in grainy photographs and Hollywood recreations .

The year 1911 was part of an interesting intermediate period in the city ’s chronicle . TheGilded Agehad end , thanks in large part toTheodore Roosevelt’strust - wear out policy , but theFirst World Warthat would arrive to define the decade both culturally and economically was still a few eld off . The television is a portrait of a metropolis mid - evolution : Cars and horse - drawn carriage incessantly track track , and trains co - subsist with tramcar ( thesubway systemhad just opened in 1904 , andtrolleysweren’t phased out until the 1950s ) .

[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911

Banners advertize some products that are still useable today ( Mark Cross leather good and United Cigars ) and others that are n’t ( Washington Crisps , which are corn fleck , not chips ) . And while plenty of landmarks are more or less the same as they were in 1911 — for instance theStatue of Libertyand the Flatiron Building — some have undergo noted changes . No longer , for model , can you ride a train over theBrooklyn Bridge . At least one early-20th - century fixture in the video has ceased to exist all : The windup shot have theRosedale , a steamship that ferry passenger to Rockaway Beach and other local spots for years . Aftertransportinggoods for the Navy duringWorld War I , the vessel was destroy in a 1922 fire .

research old New York for yourself above , and see Shiryaev ’s other television restorationshere .