{"id":13878,"date":"2014-01-14T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13878"},"modified":"2014-01-14T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:55:02","slug":"wonderful-colour-film-footage-matches-up-london-views-from-1927-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wonderful-colour-film-footage-matches-up-london-views-from-1927-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful colour film footage matches up London views from 1927 &#8211; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13880\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wonderful-colour-film-footage-matches-up-london-views-from-1927-2013\/london-1927-2013-film\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wonderful colour film footage matches up London views from 1927 &amp;#8211; 2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13880\" alt=\"Wonderful colour film footage matches up London views from 1927 - 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s a man after my own heart!\u00a0Film maker Simon Smith has carefully matched up the wonderful 1920s colour footage of London&#8217;s streets captured by\u00a0cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene with his own contemporary scenes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13881\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wonderful-colour-film-footage-matches-up-london-views-from-1927-2013\/london-1927-2013-film-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,244\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wonderful colour film footage matches up London views from 1927 &amp;#8211; 2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13881\" alt=\"Wonderful colour film footage matches up London views from 1927 - 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film-1-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">As he\u00a0<\/span>explains<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsimonsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Since February I have attempted to capture every one of his shots, standing in his footsteps, and using modern equivalents of his camera and lenses. This has been a personal study, that has revealed how little London has changed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The resulting video highlights how much (and how little) London has changed over the years. It is fantastic stuff.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/81368735?portrait=0\" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can view the video above, although I strongly recommend watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/81368735\" target=\"_blank\">full HD version at the Vimeo site<\/a> and selecting the full screen option.<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsimonsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mrsimonsmith.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, here&#8217;s a man after my own heart!\u00a0Film maker Simon Smith has carefully matched up the wonderful 1920s colour footage of London&#8217;s streets captured by\u00a0cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene with his own &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[234,60,10],"class_list":["post-13878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-film","tag-history","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/london-1927-2013-film.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13883,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878\/revisions\/13883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}