Living London (1904)

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

How it feels

This is a short documentary showing scenes of daily life in London in 1904. It captures people going about their ordinary activities in different parts of the city.

observationalnostalgichistoricalinformativeslow-pacedquieteverydaygentle

What happens

Living London is a 1904 English documentary film of life in London. It was produced by Charles Urban. The film was released in Australia in 1906 and was a sensation, being seen by over 500,000 people. It was distributed by J and N Tait, and their success with the movie encouraged them to make The Story of the Kelly Gang. The film was thought to have been lost, but ten minutes of footage was discovered in the Corrick Collection in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive in 2007 and restored. The website charlesurban.com, however, claims that the footage is actually from Urban's 1906 documentary The Streets of London. New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh created a mythic picture in her fiction of England, which she romanticized from seeing Living London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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