http://closetofheroes.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] closetofheroes.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] indeedsir_backup 2009-11-14 05:37 am (UTC)

Amazing. I didn't know there was any colour film from that period. The quality of the film was incredible!

What struck me most was how very slowly everything seemed to move. I thought at first it was just the film speed, but the movement of the pedestrians seems quite natural, so I think they must have actually driven that slowly.

Weird too seeing people looking at the Cenotaph (war memorial). I've walked past it plenty of times but never even considered trying to actually get at it since there's a steady stream of fast traffic. (They close the street for Remembrance Day).

The crowds on Petticoat Lane were not much more busy than Oxford Street is now!

Thanks so much for this.

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