Jamaica 1913 ~ 111 years ago ! (Silent Film Footage.)
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- Today, 6th August 2013, celebrates Jamaica's Independence Day; 6th August 1962 - 51 years ago. Here is a glimpse of what Jamaica looked like 100 years ago!
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Jamaica 1913 ~ 100 years ago ! (Silent Film Footage.))
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brotherwhitelion
Jamaica 1913*
1. Montego Bay - The Market Square and Main Street.
2. A Logwood Forest.
3. Leaving Montego Bay. (...by train!)
4. The Bogue Island where Oysters grow on Trees. (sic.)
(bogue; a stream or waterway.)
5. Banana and Sugar Plantations.
*Historical Artifact. - บันเทิง
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My great grandmother was born in 1912. It’s a blessing to be able to see what it looked like back then when she was a baby. Thank you 🙏🏾❤️. Sweet, beautiful Jamaica 🇯🇲.
My great-grandmother doesn't even born yet. She born 11 years later.
@@Footballsissue Are you serious, man back in dem days people didnt even have radio fi tell them storm a come it just blow over the island.
@@Footballsissue I do remember a time when there were industries like the bauxite and sugar cane doing well. Ford Motor company actually had places there and they were making money, my family worked there and my own father was a successful business man. We moved through the mid 70's and Manley was talking crazy. When I left that place in 78 I was allowed to take $50 dollars per his policy. Looking back at it i see how the place went down hill.
@@tonyrebel63Well it not worst than the Red States in the US, so...
@@blackqueen164 I was making no such comparison, simply put I am fascinated to find these videos. I am a history junkie
I thank you for posting this remarkable video; I am amazed that the person who actually shot the footage over 102 years ago had preserved it through his or her generations so that we can enjoy it now. blessings.
Steve Miller f26
Thank you i thought i was the only one that can claim my heritage as a true Israelite. (Let me clear this up...I'm not a Hebrew Israelite.)
@@J3nJ3n13 what is the difference 🤔
@@J3nJ3n13 what's the difference and im seeing alot of this comment on TH-cam. .pls elobrater more
Probably a white oppressor. Black people couldn't afford that equipment that time.
I don't know why I am drawn in about Jamaica history so much and I am not even a descended of the country I just love the rich history and the proud people
Pray for the island. It's turning into a hell hole with evil politicians selling it out to foreigners.
I was born in Jamaica and raised right here in bushwick bklyn.and o how i love the history of the south gods blessing to everyone's stayed safe💝💝💝😍
Bring tears to my eyes when I see history like this compared to how we living now.
How? Aren’t we living better now
@@Ijaf98 I would ask some of these naysayers the same. I see we living today experiencing remarkable progress. I just imagine the pestilence that was in abundance. Poor black folks see a bug in his cup of chocolate and he just remove it and continue to drink. The rejected sugar was sold locally while the refined one was exported. I look at these videos when I want to live and feel progress.
Maybe u shouldn’t cry too much, because these people were happy in the hard foundation setting works.. now we see big buildings n nuff things
But people not as happy or healthy like in those days... me jus a say
Tears ?......For what...?.....
Honor the ancestors , by honoring their resilience and strength.
I can't even cry to Backfoot😭😭😭 Jamaica has undying beauty and timeless charm. May god bless you and the original owner of the video eternally for the work put in to pass such an amazing video down to this and future Generations.
Wow! Your comment is everything. I agree, it made me feel emotional! To think that someone has saved this amazing footage and has now published it for everyone to see. I'm so truly moved and grateful! But next time I beg them not to take so long! :-D
silent but loud great to see my country a 100 years ago wish more youngsters could view this and be inspired for us to stand and save whats left of it so a 100 years from now our offsprings can view it and be proud
I’m only 14 and I love watching and learning more about my history
Damn 1913. My Great-grandmother doesn't even exist at that time. She born 11 years later. She passed away last year September. RIP🙏
@BP is the revolution Oh that's sad😔. So that mean you and your mother/father doesn't even know her and I guess when your grandmother was a baby she doesn't have a good memory on her mother at birth before she passed away?
RIP to everybody in this video
That's was just magnificent. 105 years difference takes my breath away. And I'm just 19 yrs. I love to live the next 100 years in God's will and see what direction people choose to live.
Yes. I hope life will be better in the next 100 years and not worse. No wars please. There are several of these historical films on TH-cam. Amazing.
my grandfather was able to identify some of the places...wow
I know some of the places too
Happy to be alive to c
Overwhelmed with emotion...thinking about our ancestors who layed those train tracks maybe at the hands of slave owners they really did paved the way for us. Had some memory of riding on a train from town (Kingston) to mobay with my aunt as little girl and seeing this countryside always thought it was a dream . This video really is a treasure. Beautiful jamaica
I don't believe that Jamaicans were ever slaves.
@@Junior-yt6cxwho built the tracks then? Do you think the British sent there posh men to go do hard labor in the boiling sun?
@@BuggsOp We were never colonized. It was a partnership.
Beautiful beautiful what a beautiful country and still beautiful today let us pray for the and full of hope and glory god bless Jamaica 🇯🇲 from London England 🏴 Jamaica has done so much for England 🏴 let us remember this and pass it on to our children 👶 children 👶 thank you for this footage
What has England done for Jamaica other than strip it of its natural resources and impoverished it?
I check my database and found more info on this film, shot in 1913 had a release in 1917!! as a ten reel film set of films from all over the world titled "The Building of the British Empire", this was one of the first glimpses the world had of Jamaica via moving images and was shown in many parts of the world.
+Bwoy Ruff
Good research. Where can we see the rest?
+Berthon Powell
I'm not too sure who has the entire set of film right now but the Canadian section is in a UK archive and i'm sure the rest is available as the above video is proof of this! i do wonder where it came from but likely one of the major archives, no official release yet that i know of anyway, i have lots of info on this particular film including a copy of a letter written at the time from the man who made it, with it being one of the earliest films shot in JA but the very earliest Jamaican footage on film i personally i have referenced is 1898 then another shot in Spanishtown from 1903! i've been researching JA films a very long time! The film segment above is 'Montego Bay to Williamsfield', the production company which setup in 1907 specialized in the production of educational, travel & scientific films and they also did a photo sets of the sugarcane plantations and many other locations in Jamaica, they produced short films throughout the British Empire during the 1910's, with the release of a ten-reel film titled "The Building of the British Empire" in 1917 which this footage comes from, nice to see it turn up on youtube!
This is an amazing footage! My parents originate from Jamaica, I wasn't lucky enough to meet my grandparents before their passing.. I am trying to figure out best way to go back in time and dig up my grandparents and great grandparents info in Jamaica.. Could you give me some pointers? Many thanks!
MRS. BERNARD The Registrar General in Jamaica is the place to check. They will be able to trace your ancestors in Jamaica.
Mrs. B where in Jamaica are they from?
My great grandmother was just a teen in Mo. Bay during this filming. It warms my heart to see the untouched natural beauty she enjoyed as a child.
Only seem that way to us. For her her it would have been a hard life
I honestly believe that we as a people lost so much as we were thrust into modernity, we lost our compassion for each other.
Thrust into modernity....?.........Everything must change......lost our compassion ?.......how.......?
I is the oldest motion film I have seen of Jamaica.I use to travel on the train from Old Harbour to Mo.Bay and I recognized some of the places it see. I have seen 30's film on Travel Jamaica on TH-cam.
Wow!! Are you going to release/publish your 1930s film on travel in Jamaica?
Upload
Most of these train tracks has disappeared due to the new highways and the illicit scrap metal trade.....some of the towns and settlements are also gone & some of the district names have changed.....great to look back at the past to see how far we've come....Thanks for sharing Brotherwhitelion
Andrew Irving you mean to say how far we have designated
That is interesting. Thank you for sharing about what happened to the Jamaican railway system.
Undeveloped, must have been nature at it's best.
About the 1913 Jamaican Silent film - yes, the vegetation looked so natural. I wonder what it would have looked like in colour.
Yup
This is truly amazing!! My grandma would love to see this
Hello
Nasheka Medley my grandmother told me about the first time she saw a car how scared she was...awsome memories dat
Shame the JA government tore up the railway system that was built years before independace.
I know that it was possible to get a train from May Pen in Clarendon for example all the way to Kingston.
Now the car and bus is the only way.
They should bring back a state railway system. Jamaica is such a beautiful island to see and driving on the roads in some places is quite an experience!
the system did all the wrongs the oppressors they know we are apart of the chosen persons of the earth ....so they break us dwn mentally, physically, spiritually
and this is world wide it,s slavery same way they use to break us dwn......but the clock has change it's hand they falling....so we should support each other n stop supporting there businesses ....all there products are gmo or chemically made to mess us up ....so it's time we get awakened
they probably did that cuz they were done taking resources out of the country... they didn't want the natives to have the same mobility as they had when extracting wealth to the ships for export...
thats what was done in other places for that reason
It's because they are worthless
Slavery was never abolished! It has only been upgraded in a diplomatic way to make us believe we are free, instead they have expanded slavery in a broader way, the system has been set up so that the black race especially, should never reach any where, and those who did look like they reached somewhere, are still been control by the white man, who later buy out their business or they are left in such terrible bankruptcy, they looses it all. Do not be comfortable and feel safe or try to attached yourself to your property or anything you have for slavery is soon to repeat it self in this so-call modern day world. The only deliverance from slavery is Jesus the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the King and His Kingdom of righteousness is soon to come.
Once I found this video I tried to share it with everyone I could.I could watch this video over and over.Dont know if I can recognize any of these places but they say remind me of places I've seen.These are such treasures.Life must have been simple quiet and peaceful back them.I love Jamaica my Homeland so much and I pray for the peace of Jamaica.
Extremely humbling; to know that you are looking at a time and space which has given birth to you! Very moving! Thanks for sharing this gem.
If only we could go back to wooden post and barbed wire fencing instead of the nasty zinc. I hate zinc, just makes the place look disheveled and impoverished.
***** The place is impoverished
+Lenny Sharke FYI IT ISNT.. YOU ARE JUST IGNORANT TOWARDS THE ISLAND.. DO ME A FAVOUR AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM YOU SPEAK
+kwacou My thoughts exactly
I don't know about barb wire fence that's out dated and unattractive way in creating boundaries for such a beautiful Island
PLEASANTGIFFT and zinc fence is better?
I love the look back in time.
This is two years after my Grandfather was born.
Heartwrenching visuals; a breathtaking experience. Many tanks for sharing this.
Thank you so much for sharing this timeless video. I left as a child only 11yrs old in 1971. But I love my country, the people and the culture. God bless Jamaica.
wow...paradise....no crime to deal wit
100% employment back then!!
Slavery to deal with
@African Union African people sold out their own people to the white men.
Shut u fucking mouth idiot the real criminals was and still is our politicians the ones who create the lower level criminals u have to deal with daily wake the fuck up simp sheep
@African Union hahahaha come on I get to understand lately a African girl from Nigeria said her great grandfather was a slave trader . So how you answer that?? Believe me African people is no joke.
My grand father was born in 1913, this is truly an amazing footage of life back in those days.
I am hooked on this video.I have to watch it again with my daughters.Thanks ThanksThanks.
These are some of the knowledge utube should be sharing about our beautiful country, such grace and beauty when you looked at the women how they attire their self. God’s creation was preserved for the next Generation. Thanks so much I was too young to travel on the train but my appreciation is overwhelming.
That's the Jamaica where we are coming from. Nuff love to the person who preserve this flim R.I.P
Jamaica the land we love!
Thank you for posting this video. I can imagine everyone was nice to each other in those days. Everyone dresses so lovely no one is exposing their butt. I love to see my beautiful country.
Crazy video, thanks for finding it an uploading it
Mind blowing, my grandmother was 5 years old when this was shot. She was from Westmoreland.
My grandfather was two years old when this was shot, he was born right in MoBay!
What was your grandmother's name?
Clarice Anglin
Colin Yappmy great great or great great great grandmother was born in 1891 so she would be 22 when this was shot
+Colin Yapp I believe I found her birth records. She was actually born on November 17, 1904 in Seaford Town, to Thomas Anglin and Alice Sliper.
Isn't that amazing even due I didn't born yet but it's a blessing to see how great God is for we to know where those who was before us coming from so we can only imagine those that was before them and what they been through only God can show their pain and suffering and their sleepless nights I always pray far those who was before us from generation to generation from everlasting to everlasting in Jesus mighty name we pray amen praise the Lord
Now the Chinese own it with the help of our traitor politicians like Holness.
Wish I had seen this when my grandmother was still around she would had been in her late teens or twenties in 1913.
Give thanks for sharing such a lovely timeless piece of history
Jamaica then and now is beautiful. . . It is surreal to be looking at the lives of ancestors from now more than 114 years ago!
I have always said that i would have loved to see how jamaica looked in the earlier years ! And to have travelled on the train system, this film made me see and do both , thanks!!!!!! Im only sorry the film was not in color to see the true beauty., but its still very beautiful
Going back down memory lane l remember as a little kid taking the train to see my grandmother in st Mary ...the one thinks as a kid and most who lived in the country is to hear the sound of the train when its getting close the locomotive..and putting my ears on the track it was such a beautiful sound and when he engineer blow the horn...wow l remember those days l can never forget ....and seeing this historical pic...just let me realize that l actually was a part of that era in history ....its nothing but sweet blessing miss jamaica...
Moving ...glad it was posted ..this maybe by a family member of the person who shot the video. Jamaica was the first to get rail way outside of England and North America only 20 years after England. It was touching to see the ladies in long skirts my grandma dressed like that. She looked like these ladies with their market loads and long dresses she is always at the railway.
Looks nicer and much cleaner no plastic thrown everywhere. It's amazing how things change some for the better and some for the worst
Did you see how forested Montego Bay was back then?
Thank you for this video.My uncles and aunts was born during this time.
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us :)
My Grandmother born 1912 ...watching this video Reminiscing about her growing up in those time ...
Thanks much for this peice of history
I'm Jamaican and I find this video amazing and wonderful. All those people are all gone but we see them 100 years later. The house/ buildings so close to the rail lines unless they were stations.
Rob, we haven't all gone, we deh ya still, it's in the blood
@@jamaicashirtsco2681 alright!!
Thanks for sharing this, WOW!! Love it
This video is extremely touching humbling and beautiful it gives me chills to see what life was back then.
I imagine my great grandparents in this video very nice thanks
What a precious piece of history! I found this, even in its silence, emotional.
Jamaica looked much nicer then than it does now!
Really, am in awe right now...am so proud to be a Jamaican right now.. we've come along way.
Beautiful footage! I bet life was much healthier, especially the food and the soil!♥️♥️♥️😎
Djembé, without penicilin i don't think so and these people's own parents were born enslaved.
I wander what kind of camera they have in those days. Are videos. Bkack and white look so good.back then.good job.
My farther was born in st Ann's, Jamaica in 1920.
He died 5 years ago. He moved to England in the 1950s.
I have never been and really should go. I have family there that I don't even know.
As life goes by, you realise what are the most important things🤔
Hi, with the ways this world is moving now, if you can please try & visit and meet your family.
Life is too short.
Love from a citizen of Jamaica
🖤🖤💛💚💚
I'm congratulating this person for such amazing Vedio in those days , rate him r she a hero .Thank u from the depth of my heart, your memory will b forever.
It's very touching..and gave me goose bumps look at my beautiful country ☺☺
So amazing to see this unique look back into time over a 100 years ago .. every corner you look its productivity and hard working jamaicans
This is incredibly interesting footage. Do you have any information where the video originated?
gday luv
amazing footage and like the fact it has no sound
lived in Mobay 4 years so nostalgic
So much beautiful history ..natrual ..lovely .Jamaica....its sad and one gets emtional to see how its changed ..
We have come from far. Love this thou.reminciscening on stories i was told.
Don't think we would want to go back to those time as romantic as this may seem. It not showing what our ancestors really had to deal with from the massas or masters.
Two sides to a coin
Now we have klansman, gangs and thugs shooting us up. Don't you just like it better?
Thank you
@@GieCampbel-ug9jlNone of these things are any better than the other. Very demonic
Although I am in the twilight of my life, I feel privileged to be a son of such an enchanted land. Jamaica forever.I hope future generations will treasure and protect our blessed land.
This is amazing!!! 😍❤💛💚
🤔 *THE FACT THAT SOMEONE TOOK THE TIME AND ENERGY TO FILM JAMAICA'S LANDSCAPE OVER 100 YEARS AGO, SHOWS IT MUST HAVE BEEN REALLY A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, SO THEY HAD TO FILM* 🙂
Wow! This is fantastic. The times may have changed, but the body language remains the same LOL! I saw at least two women in the footage who reminded me of how Jamaican women behave today. Where did you get this gem? The train lines have been replaced by the highway, but it would be awesome if someone could traverse the route today with a HD camera. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks for this historical record. I wonder where the first scene was downtown? I am proud to know there are archived items for us to evaluate. Blessings.
What a beautiful country. Jamaica, so serene and tranquil. So peaceful. What happened. Thanks for taking us back in time, if we could only turn back the hands of time to live in this era. Dem just mash up wi'likkle'island.
Beautiful ! Not do long ago I rode on train to mountpelier.
Wow good to see.Very interesting. Thank you.
Pure Awesomeness ☺👍💚
Wow! What took sooo long to share this video to ppls of Jamaica and so many culture never talk about their true identity and the way of life in Jamaica. Many are black from Africa through slavery until later in 20th century become Caribbean ppls.
Even though no sound I enjoy watching it 😊😊
I wish they would reopen the line from Montego Bay. At least there are still several portions of railway used to haul bauxite.
All praise due to the most high. This brings tears to my eyes. Look at the clothes that our people was wearing. We are the people of the Bible. The Hebrew Israelites.
Bitter sweet experience watching this.
This footage is truly amazing to see
Very interesting. It would have been helpful for the various train stations along the route, from Montego Bay were named.
thanks for sharing
My Grandmother was born in Coleyville Jamaica In 1900, and my grandfather was born in 1894 so beautiful to watch ❤
Wow to know I have relatives that once walked that very same street 😇😇🥰😍😍 🇯🇲
Really, oysters use to grow on trees in Jamaica, wow, just saw it in the video, the historical background of Jamaica always seems to amaze me.
I did not know that at all. We live and from the video above, we learn don't? :)
I love history especially it's about my homeland country
Wow! A peek back in time of Jamaica!
This is so lovely.
I remember me and my bredda jason r.i.p. used to take the train from downtown to. Portmore early 90s. Comin from Aloysius primary everyday. Good ole days.
That's amazing.maybe my grandfather was in the square.
I often tell my kids that when l was about 14 years old l travel on the train from Kingston to Portland. Nothing like it!! I have been on buses .airbus. plane. And trains .there is no memories like when l travel to the country in Jamaica. Back then the people would come abourd and sell there stuff. And get off when it was time to go....wonderful memories
this remind me of the cowboys movies Jamaica looked peaceful then
Wow!! Thanks
Just imagine the size and weight of that camera a d all the huge equipment Needed to make this film and the process involved.
While me, I'm watching it 106 years after on a s8plus galaxy.
Who would have thought 100 years ago that this was possible. I salute all the great people who have simplified our lives.
#and
Simplified our lives and turned my people into slaves, my slave relative has a name it is signed X
mr. kawcou, l don't understand what u mean about zinc?
Wow, that's amazing! What a treasure
I recognize a lot of these places....so beautiful
Thank you for the video, dnt live there but this is real history
These b/w films makes the scenery look dreary. Do you have any of the old Knutsford park race course or marlie race track?
Ferdi expected a 2k crisp image. well it ain't gon happen.
Wow !!! Amazing.
Amazing to see this film back in those days my grandmother was born 1910 can u imagine
anyone notice a person in the trees at 4:07 ?
Shared on my FB tagged a few radio stations and people