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 🇯🇲.

@alexshazam5482

2 жыл бұрын

My great-grandmother doesn't even born yet. She born 11 years later.

@tonyrebel63

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@tonyrebel63

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@blackqueen164

10 ай бұрын

​@@tonyrebel63Well it not worst than the Red States in the US, so...

@tonyrebel63

10 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@eddysteph

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Miller f26

@J3nJ3n13

5 жыл бұрын

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.)

@elizermiller9816

5 жыл бұрын

@@J3nJ3n13 what is the difference 🤔

@tanshievlogs

5 жыл бұрын

@@J3nJ3n13 what's the difference and im seeing alot of this comment on KZread. .pls elobrater more

@YoungVenchy

5 жыл бұрын

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

@GieCampbel-ug9jl

3 жыл бұрын

Pray for the island. It's turning into a hell hole with evil politicians selling it out to foreigners.

@yvonnewhite1903

2 жыл бұрын

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💝💝💝😍

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.

@evemason3456

5 жыл бұрын

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

RIP to everybody in this video

Bring tears to my eyes when I see history like this compared to how we living now.

@Ijaf98

5 жыл бұрын

How? Aren’t we living better now

@hphinn

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SouthCoastAudio-BlackFireSound

3 жыл бұрын

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

@glenoneill3950

6 ай бұрын

Tears ?......For what...?.....

@glenoneill3950

6 ай бұрын

Honor the ancestors , by honoring their resilience and strength.

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

@nnekarichards4325

3 жыл бұрын

I’m only 14 and I love watching and learning more about my history

@alexshazam5482

2 жыл бұрын

Damn 1913. My Great-grandmother doesn't even exist at that time. She born 11 years later. She passed away last year September. RIP🙏

@alexshazam5482

2 жыл бұрын

@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?

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.

@sharonbartley808

6 ай бұрын

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.

@glenoneill3950

6 ай бұрын

Thrust into modernity....?.........Everything must change......lost our compassion ?.......how.......?

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

@Junior-yt6cx

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe that Jamaicans were ever slaves.

@BuggsOp

23 күн бұрын

@@Junior-yt6cxwho built the tracks then? Do you think the British sent there posh men to go do hard labor in the boiling sun?

@Junior-yt6cx

22 күн бұрын

@@BuggsOp We were never colonized. It was a partnership.

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.

@evemason3456

5 жыл бұрын

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 KZread. Amazing.

my grandfather was able to identify some of the places...wow

@winstonblack7108

5 жыл бұрын

I know some of the places too

@winstonblack7108

5 жыл бұрын

Happy to be alive to c

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

@4abrownafrica939

5 жыл бұрын

What has England done for Jamaica other than strip it of its natural resources and impoverished it?

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 KZread.

@evemason3456

5 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Are you going to release/publish your 1930s film on travel in Jamaica?

@natural_law

5 жыл бұрын

Upload

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.

@berthonpowell7366

8 жыл бұрын

+Bwoy Ruff Good research. Where can we see the rest?

@reggaefilms

8 жыл бұрын

+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!

@mrs.bernard5415

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@patrickagraham6455

5 жыл бұрын

MRS. BERNARD The Registrar General in Jamaica is the place to check. They will be able to trace your ancestors in Jamaica.

@paulam1596

4 жыл бұрын

Mrs. B where in Jamaica are they from?

My grand father was born in 1913, this is truly an amazing footage of life back in those days.

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

@abuafrica

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Irving you mean to say how far we have designated

@evemason3456

5 жыл бұрын

That is interesting. Thank you for sharing about what happened to the Jamaican railway system.

I love the look back in time.

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.

Undeveloped, must have been nature at it's best.

@evemason3456

5 жыл бұрын

About the 1913 Jamaican Silent film - yes, the vegetation looked so natural. I wonder what it would have looked like in colour.

@phabebarcelona863

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

This is truly amazing!! My grandma would love to see this

@larrylewis7567

6 жыл бұрын

Hello

@digoravas1986

6 жыл бұрын

Nasheka Medley my grandmother told me about the first time she saw a car how scared she was...awsome memories dat

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

@andepenn71

10 жыл бұрын

100% employment back then!!

@akeemewilliams4728

5 жыл бұрын

Slavery to deal with

@paulrichards4888

5 жыл бұрын

@African Union African people sold out their own people to the white men.

@iPhonekingGrezz

5 жыл бұрын

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

@paulrichards4888

5 жыл бұрын

@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.

Jamaica the land we love!

Wish I had seen this when my grandmother was still around she would had been in her late teens or twenties in 1913.

That's the Jamaica where we are coming from. Nuff love to the person who preserve this flim R.I.P

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!

@allmediavevo3505

5 жыл бұрын

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

@allmediavevo3505

5 жыл бұрын

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

@mikesuniverse1789

5 жыл бұрын

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

@paulrichards4888

5 жыл бұрын

It's because they are worthless

@daisynelson3312

5 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

My Grandmother born 1912 ...watching this video Reminiscing about her growing up in those time ... Thanks much for this peice of history

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.

@hearthrob300

9 жыл бұрын

***** The place is impoverished

@Truecrimeaddict

8 жыл бұрын

+Lenny Sharke FYI IT ISNT.. YOU ARE JUST IGNORANT TOWARDS THE ISLAND.. DO ME A FAVOUR AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM YOU SPEAK

@janetcousins8287

8 жыл бұрын

+kwacou My thoughts exactly

@PLEASANTGIFFT

7 жыл бұрын

I don't know about barb wire fence that's out dated and unattractive way in creating boundaries for such a beautiful Island

@pumpkin0096

6 жыл бұрын

PLEASANTGIFFT and zinc fence is better?

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

@GieCampbel-ug9jl

3 жыл бұрын

Now the Chinese own it with the help of our traitor politicians like Holness.

Mind blowing, my grandmother was 5 years old when this was shot. She was from Westmoreland.

@gatheringleaves

9 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was two years old when this was shot, he was born right in MoBay!

@gatheringleaves

9 жыл бұрын

What was your grandmother's name?

@ColinYapp

9 жыл бұрын

Clarice Anglin

@deseanbarrett1975

9 жыл бұрын

Colin Yappmy great great or great great great grandmother was born in 1891 so she would be 22 when this was shot

@gatheringleaves

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

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

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.

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.

I am hooked on this video.I have to watch it again with my daughters.Thanks ThanksThanks.

Jamaica then and now is beautiful. . . It is surreal to be looking at the lives of ancestors from now more than 114 years ago!

Looks nicer and much cleaner no plastic thrown everywhere. It's amazing how things change some for the better and some for the worst

@opensprings

5 жыл бұрын

Did you see how forested Montego Bay was back then?

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.

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.

@jamaicashirtsco2681

3 жыл бұрын

Rob, we haven't all gone, we deh ya still, it's in the blood

@rlinton123

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamaicashirtsco2681 alright!!

Give thanks for sharing such a lovely timeless piece of history

Really, am in awe right now...am so proud to be a Jamaican right now.. we've come along way.

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.

Bitter sweet experience watching this.

What a precious piece of history! I found this, even in its silence, emotional.

Thank you for this video.My uncles and aunts was born during this time.

Crazy video, thanks for finding it an uploading it

This video is extremely touching humbling and beautiful it gives me chills to see what life was back then.

Jamaica looked much nicer then than it does now!

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.

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...

I imagine my great grandparents in this video very nice thanks

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.

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🤔

@jamaicanprepper1820

Жыл бұрын

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 🖤🖤💛💚💚

My Grandmother was born in Coleyville Jamaica In 1900, and my grandfather was born in 1894 so beautiful to watch ❤

So much beautiful history ..natrual ..lovely .Jamaica....its sad and one gets emtional to see how its changed ..

Thanks for sharing this, WOW!! Love it

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.

@jamaicashirtsco2681

3 жыл бұрын

Two sides to a coin

@GieCampbel-ug9jl

3 жыл бұрын

Now we have klansman, gangs and thugs shooting us up. Don't you just like it better?

@sharonbartley808

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@sharonbartley808

6 ай бұрын

​@@GieCampbel-ug9jlNone of these things are any better than the other. Very demonic

Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us :)

Beautiful ! Not do long ago I rode on train to mountpelier.

gday luv amazing footage and like the fact it has no sound lived in Mobay 4 years so nostalgic

We have come from far. Love this thou.reminciscening on stories i was told.

🤔 *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* 🙂

This footage is truly amazing to see

This is incredibly interesting footage. Do you have any information where the video originated?

I love history especially it's about my homeland country

It's very touching..and gave me goose bumps look at my beautiful country ☺☺

Pure Awesomeness ☺👍💚

This is amazing!!! 😍❤💛💚

That's amazing.maybe my grandfather was in the square.

this remind me of the cowboys movies Jamaica looked peaceful then

Wow! A peek back in time of Jamaica!

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

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.

@celeyd2562

5 жыл бұрын

I did not know that at all. We live and from the video above, we learn don't? :)

Beautiful footage! I bet life was much healthier, especially the food and the soil!♥️♥️♥️😎

@PHlophe

Жыл бұрын

Djembé, without penicilin i don't think so and these people's own parents were born enslaved.

thanks for sharing

I recognize a lot of these places....so beautiful

Even though no sound I enjoy watching it 😊😊

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.

This is so lovely.

Wow!! Thanks

Wow to know I have relatives that once walked that very same street 😇😇🥰😍😍 🇯🇲

I feel like crying, amazing

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.

Wow good to see.Very interesting. Thank you.

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.

My grandfather was 4 years old in 1913

Fantastic, the ‘logwood forests’ made me think, there was a company WICW, West Ingres Chemical Company, in SPANISHTOWN, , just across the RIO COBRE , from the RAILWAY station there m y paternal grandfather & dad worked in the office there , LOGWOOD Wes used to make BLACK DIES for the LEATHER INDUSTRY, & BROWN, was from FUSTICK TREES, this was exported WORLDWIDE, I used to help DAD by typing out shipping papers, for him, as Irecall, lots went to FRANCE LE HARVE,all that died years ago due to ‘SYNTHETICS, nothing natural anymore Thanks Bless you all, Cheers from USA🇯🇲🇺🇸

Wow, that's amazing! What a treasure

I wander what kind of camera they have in those days. Are videos. Bkack and white look so good.back then.good job.

Wow !!! Amazing.

The 3 one is point hill my family live their

This is so fulfilling

Lawdy! Didn’t even know Jamaica had a railway.

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.

Wow! I didn’t know Jamaica had a railroad. I’ve visited there many time and no has mad mention of this

@kayfeathers7209

5 жыл бұрын

Sweety_Pie 11 my friend said there was a terrible train accident that could have wiped out her family, she wouldn’t have been here today

@angie4406

4 жыл бұрын

Jamaica was the first country in the western to have railway,even before America.

@angie4406

4 жыл бұрын

My grandmother talks about the kendall train crash.

Amazing to see this film back in those days my grandmother was born 1910 can u imagine

love the tiny houses makes more sense than the mansions these days

@zacksmacks

8 жыл бұрын

are you mad, the Tiny houses are a sign of how poor we were, the fact that the size of a regular Jamaican house has expanded is good

@lexirhee3738

7 жыл бұрын

How do tiny houses make more sense tf? 😂

I had visions of my ancestors watching this. #inspiring