Top 5 oldest Videos Ever Recorded - 1888?!

These are the oldest videos ever recorded and published. All of these videos were recorded by Thomas Edison, who invented one of the first working motion cameras.

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National Archives (CC), Thomas Edison (CC PD)

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[Rcky]

dear audience in 2200, when you read this, I could probably be long gone, but I'm passing my love, bless, and best wishes to you and your future generations. peace!

[freshbrewedasmr]

These people probably thought back then, "What will the future be like?" Now the future is looking at them thinking, "What was the past like?"

Edit: wow thank you so much for all the likes! I’ve never gotten so many on a comment before!

[ninjacrazy]

Just imagine one day, people will look at the comments section of videos like this and see comments written by people who lived and died 100 years ago.

[ToxPhy]

It’s crazy to think how easily these could’ve just gone missing, destroyed, or unpreserved but we’ve managed to keep them all this time.

[AzakielRuns]

It's strange to think that in 120 years people will probably watch videos from 2019 and think: "Everyone in this video are dead"

[jago]

These people never know that someone would be watching Them in 2020

[forexdragon]

This footage is more interesting than most of what is on TV today.

[LisaGaming]

Moments I never lived make me feel nostalgic

[Vici-keli]

its so emotional. its crazy to know that they are all gone and that one day it will be the same with us too. Life is so strange and beautiful.

[MinimusMaximus]

Feels so sad that all of those people, their families, their laughs, cries, memories, belongings are all gone.
And nothing remains from them but these simple clips taken by those simple cameras.

Love, and respect to you all human who lived and died on earth. 🤚🏼

[proto-nmhr]

I often day dream about what would it be like to travel back in time and see how people lived how they interacted with each other . Its actually my biggest dream

[joelgonzales]

Seeing moving images like this for the first time must have been mind blowing for those people back then.

[SS-lvto]

People are going to see this comment (in the future), and realize I could be dead.





Hi! It's nice to meet you. Bye, it was nice meeting you. 👋

[KfarShakshuka]

The real amazing thing about this is that modern security cameras are worse than some of this footage

[shubhampreetsingh]

Who else as a kid thought that in old times everything looked black and white.

[jamalbenthall]

I have not seen one accident. It's like organized chaos.

[VilleAbr]

Still better quality than ufo sightings..

[khehraharmandeep]

One day we all will be the part of History like them🙏🏻👍🏻

[marylolol]

hi people from the future

i love youuu
july 26, 2019
2:49 pm
in ontario, canada

edit 1 ; omg its been a month already and im almost forgetting about this video
edit 2 ; i love u guys sm 🥺

[Lossy]

Can you imagine in about 100 years, nobody knows who you are, and all the things you did doesn’t matter. You’re just forgotten. Live life, enjoy every second of it.❤️