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00:00It's taken me, and it's gone right to the core of my being.
00:07Meet the Bona family, Royal Marine Paul, School Inspector Joyce, 11-year-old twins Ruth and Hillary, Catherine, 16, and 9-year-old Joe.
00:19They volunteered to go back in time to wash, dress, eat, and live every intimate detail of domestic life in the 1900 house.
00:40The Bona family's Victorian odyssey is coming to an end.
00:48With two days to go, they're keen to reflect on the experience, with the help of historian and creator of the 1900 house, Daru Rook.
00:59It's now three months since the family moved into 1900 house to start their first days of the experiment, which we created,
01:07to see what would happen if you put a modern family in a house of yesterday.
01:12Now I'm back to find out what experiences they've had.
01:14This experience, for me, has been enormous, much more than I thought it was going to be.
01:24I think I'd seen it on a superficial level, and it was going to be me indulging in my own little time travel fantasy.
01:30And it's not that at all.
01:32It's me discovering raw history.
01:36It's me discovering advances in technology.
01:41I think we just take so much for granted these days.
01:43We don't realise what's actually happened in the last hundred years.
01:49Morning, I'm collecting on behalf of the widows and orphans.
01:52Oh, do come in.
01:53Do come in.
01:55And we have lots of widows and orphans in here.
01:57How are you doing?
01:57Daru is eager to discover what they've found hard to live without.
02:01I've missed modern detergents, shampoo, washing up liquid.
02:10And I've missed my weekend newspapers.
02:14Using their telephone, contacting people, putting on comfortable clothes.
02:21You know, bottles of shampoo and conditioner and all these different things you can put all over your body and your hair and your face.
02:27Um, sweeties.
02:30Well, shut up.
02:31When I get back to the 20th century, the first thing I'm going to do is to listen to some music because I've really missed music here.
02:38Yeah, because it's been so quiet.
02:44Before the bowlers leave, they're throwing a summer party for their new friends and neighbours and are determined to do everything the Victorian way.
02:52Daru has brought a 19th century punch recipe.
02:55The recipe is incredibly complicated in that we've got to hull and wash all of those.
03:00And then we've got to rub them through the sieve into the punch bowl.
03:04And then we've got to add sugar, lemon and one or two other liquids.
03:08It's really strawberry puree with a bit of water added.
03:12No, you're not doing this without an apron on.
03:14Strawberry stains.
03:15OK.
03:17I want you to look really nice this afternoon, not a big pink mess.
03:20I'd like to be able to say that living in 1900 will change the way we live in 1999.
03:29I would hope that we would take more time over things, which is something that you have to do here.
03:36I think that's why it was so difficult at the beginning, because it was a real slowing down process for all of us.
03:42It was much more deliberate about things, lots more thought, lots more time for each other.
03:47It was getting to lumps then, weren't it?
03:48This is such an enormous thing that's touched our lives.
03:52I think it will change us.
03:55Is that your medicine?
03:56Make me like a man.
03:57It's just like squash strawberries.
03:58Is it?
03:59Well, isn't that incredible?
04:01What were we expecting?
04:03But before she can party, Joyce has an urgent appointment to keep.
04:11I have a problem.
04:12I have lost a feeling, therefore I need to go to the dentist.
04:15I mean, I think I've got an image in my mind of somebody who's just...
04:20I don't know, a Victorian dentist, somebody who pulls your teeth out, really.
04:25I just hope he hasn't gotten lots of nasty instruments and a scary apparatus.
04:30In 1900, there were no regulations covering dental practice.
04:35Anyone could be a dentist.
04:37A hundred years ago, you'd had your teeth extracted and you'd have been gummy.
04:42Now, they could make you a denture, but you'd have to have been very wealthy to have a denture.
04:49The other thing that was tried was tooth transplantation.
04:53So they'd take somebody fairly young with reasonably good teeth, bring them in,
04:58take out those good, healthy teeth and put them into the area where you'd extracted a tooth from a wealthy person.
05:06So they got new teeth, as it were.
05:08So rich people bought other people's teeth?
05:11Poor people's teeth.
05:12Poor people's teeth.
05:14Dental transplants were rarely successful.
05:17Fillings were possible, but painful.
05:20Molten metal was poured into the cavity and left to set.
05:23But much of the equipment has barely altered.
05:27This tray here is 100 years old.
05:29What we need is an appliance to get a tooth out.
05:32This was designed.
05:33It still works really well, so why change it?
05:37I mean, even the drills.
05:38It's foot-operated.
05:39It is, yeah.
05:40It's like a sewing machine.
05:42Although Victorian drills could cut through a tooth,
05:45they revolved 1,000 times slower than drills today.
05:48Now, obviously, I've never worked on a patient with one of these before,
05:54but you can see...
05:55I'm not going to let you work on me.
05:57You can see where the origins came from.
05:59It's not a million miles away, OK?
06:01It's a similar idea.
06:02Yeah, yeah.
06:03You know, if you had it hanging there.
06:04Just apply it on.
06:05With only two days to go before Joyce rejoins the modern world,
06:09she decides not to have her teeth done the 1900 way.
06:12This will just isolate the tooth.
06:14The thing that I find most amazing is that 1900 is just really a short time ago
06:19from us on the scale of things,
06:21and that technology's changed so much in such a short time.
06:24Well, then, it makes you realise how good our technology is today
06:26and how far we've come.
06:28I suppose we should just be grateful.
06:30I think we'll have Dad here.
06:32Come on.
06:33100 years ago, even something as simple as taking an indoor photograph was difficult.
06:38I think I won't have you standing this time.
06:40To commemorate their stay,
06:42the bowlers have hired a professional photographer
06:44to take their portrait using a turn-of-the-century camera.
06:50To create a flash, he has to use highly explosive magnesium.
06:55It's not something I've done before.
06:56I think Paul might be more about armaments than I do.
07:00Yeah, I'd like to have a go as well, then.
07:02It's dangerous.
07:02I'll do it outside the garden or something.
07:04Many 19th-century photographers lost their sight, or a limb, using this method.
07:10And caps off, firing.
07:14Well done.
07:15Excellent.
07:16Thank you very much.
07:17Another good morning.
07:18Nice.
07:19Oh, thank goodness.
07:20The sandwich is at last.
07:21Do you want to come through to the dining room?
07:22From their household budget of £4 a week,
07:25the bowlers have managed to save enough money
07:27to employ caterers for their party.
07:28Like 1900 families, they've hired local costermongers to provide simple food.
07:35Victorians preferred to entertain a large number of people at small cost
07:38than a few extravagantly.
07:40Can we throw with ice, please?
07:42Can you move out of the way?
07:43In Victorian London, ice was delivered in large blocks.
07:47It had come a long way.
07:48In 1900, 500,000 tonnes of ice was imported to Britain
07:52from the frozen wastes of Norway and North America.
07:55Although the technology existed to keep it frozen,
07:59ice could not be made in Britain until the 1920s.
08:07One of the things I've really learned about the families living in 1900 House
08:11is what hard work it was in the past.
08:14We read the books and magazines of the time,
08:17but actually seeing them doing everyday things like making a cup of tea,
08:20well, you realise what an absolute slog it must have been.
08:23It doesn't do to get too romantic about it.
08:25The other thing I've realised is really that the magazines of the time
08:29give a very one-sided view of what life must really have been like.
08:32If you look at Mrs Beaton, for example,
08:34she has her middle-class families out there doing strange things to quails
08:38and preparing ten-course epic meals.
08:41On our little cooker, you just wouldn't have been able to do the Mrs Beaton type...
08:45Sorry, Joyce.
08:48I wanted it to be a lovely cake.
08:52It smells like a cake, but it just doesn't look like one.
08:55It's just so much hard work.
09:06Everything is so much hard work.
09:07Physical hard work.
09:08I mean, you're probably dying to get back to your own place, but...
09:12It's all too much, isn't it, really? It's all happening.
09:16You're probably thinking it's gone ever so quickly.
09:18The last time I spoke to you, you were absolutely desperate.
09:20Oh, no.
09:21You were counting the days, actually, weren't you, to get home?
09:24With the Millennium Dome only half a mile away,
09:36the bowlers have built their own monument to mark the end of the century.
09:41Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Millennium Shed.
10:13Catherine has been counting the days to freedom
10:30and is celebrating with more than her fair share of pins.
10:35I know what it takes, like neat, but you should have some lemonade in it.
10:39I'll read my button box.
10:41They're fancy and they're neat pins.
10:45Well, there you go.
10:45There's Victorian for you.
10:52Come back, Fortnum.
10:53Fortnum.
10:54Fortnum.
10:54Patricia and Charlie.
10:59Patricia and Charlie.
11:00Yeah.
11:02You all remember that?
11:03Yeah.
11:03The party's over, and it's time to start saying goodbyes.
11:12Poultry historian Fred Hamms has come to take away the chickens.
11:17Back to Kent for you, my son.
11:19George and I said we're very sad to leave this house.
11:36We've created our little world here, be it good or be it bad.
11:42And people said, would you continue?
11:46There are some times when I've said, no, there's no way I can stay.
11:50But today, I could stay forever.
11:52I'm really going to miss it here.
11:55It was something that was just amazing to do.
12:00It was so brilliant.
12:02And it's just one of those things that you just want to keep forever.
12:09At the beginning, I was desperate to become a good Victorian and agonised over whether I
12:18was a good Victorian and felt like every day I was failing to be this perfect woman.
12:24And then I started, I think I started to get to grips with what a woman at the turn of
12:28the century was like.
12:29She wasn't a stereotype.
12:31She wasn't a cartoon cutout.
12:32And once I stopped setting myself up to fail, then I think I felt as if I'd become as realistic
12:39a woman of that time could possibly be.
12:43Can you hear?
13:03The heavens have opened.
13:04The most spectacular thunderstorm, thunder and lightning.
13:20Extremely fitting.
13:23It's been waiting to come all day, really.
13:32I don't want to go home.
13:34Just when I start to get it right, just when I start to know what I'm doing here,
13:52I have to go home.
14:04Morning, sweetheart.
14:22You all right?
14:24No.
14:24A bit tired?
14:26Yeah.
14:27There you are.
14:28Good sleep.
14:29I'm good.
14:29I've just been sick in the toilet, so I've flushed.
14:36It's the bowler's last morning at 50 Ellescombe Road.
14:40Yesterday's party has taken its toll.
14:42How many times of this have we had since we left?
14:51This experience has taught me loads about life in 1900.
14:55I think I just did accept that stereotype, that caricature of a person that wore certain
15:01clothes, ate certain food, did certain things.
15:03Yes, I'm sure there were people like that, but it's made me realise that everybody living
15:09in this street, in houses, they were all as different as we are today, and it's made me
15:13want to dig deeper, to know what it was really like then, and not just to accept what's between
15:21the pages of a history book.
15:23Where shall we go next time?
15:24Well, we couldn't find Everest as a family, couldn't we?
15:27Yeah, no, no.
15:28First family on Everest.
15:30In Victorian costume.
15:32You're joking, don't you?
15:33It's going to be shorts, t-shirt and suntan, that's what it's going to be.
15:40From tonight, it'll be back to toothpaste.
15:44Double dose today.
15:46Horrible.
15:48Hard to get for anyone.
15:49Now it's bicarbonate of soda for the last time.
15:52And one thing I will not miss, is our lovely heart.
16:02Sorry.
16:09We're not taking that with us.
16:13Oh, these are bent.
16:15No, so turn the other way, so they're facing outwards.
16:18The time has come for the family to shed their 1,900 personas, starting with Paul's moustache.
16:24I don't know what you're doing.
16:25I don't like to.
16:27Joe will do it.
16:28Why don't you go.
16:28Go, no.
16:30Look at Daddy's face.
16:31Careful.
16:33Careful of Daddy's lips, Joe.
16:35Is that it?
16:36Actually, it doesn't look too bad, does it?
16:38It's no, it's trimmed it off.
16:40It's a bit neater.
16:41There's one little thing I would like to take with me, is my razor.
16:48It's been with me right from the beginning, from day one.
16:51Right at the beginning, it cut me to pieces, but I've mastered it, and we've got through it together.
16:56So it's a significant thing to me, for me to take away, and perhaps put in my bottom drawer for a memory.
17:02Have you looked at yourself?
17:06Yes.
17:07Are you ready?
17:08Are you mad?
17:08I am the dad.
17:10No screaming.
17:10Are you cut yourself?
17:11Yeah.
17:12You look a whole lot cleaner.
17:14Who are you?
17:16Look at me.
17:16Just do a normal face.
17:18What?
17:19No.
17:20I don't think you looked like that before.
17:22That's not you.
17:23You look like a squirrel.
17:26Oh, that's better.
17:29That's better.
17:30That's better.
17:31My first kiss in two months.
17:35If mum and dad said to me, you know, would you like to do this, come back and do this in two years' time, I'd definitely say no.
17:42I'm sorry.
17:44I've done it.
17:44I've been there, bought the t-shirt, and I don't want to do it again.
17:48I think it'd be nice to see somebody else do it, though, you know, watching somebody else suffer.
17:56But now, for Catherine, the suffering has come to an end.
17:59The family's 1999 clothes are returned.
18:02Oh, my fleece.
18:10It sucks.
18:11My paper out.
18:12I can't take that.
18:16I can't take off.
18:17It's a horrible, horrible sock.
18:19The most difficult aspects of 1900 life was sharing a room with my two younger sisters, which I didn't enjoy.
18:29And I thought it might be a nice time to get to know my little sisters much better, but I didn't.
18:35I can't believe how small my underwear is.
18:46Look.
18:47All I need to do.
18:50Oh, God.
18:51They're nice.
18:52They're the best.
18:53Let's do a comparison tomorrow.
18:55And then here we are, lookers.
18:56That's what I've been wearing for the last three months, and now they expect me to wear these.
19:01There you go.
19:03It doesn't look like enough clothes.
19:05I know.
19:05It's like...
19:05I'm going to be cold.
19:06So where's the rest of it, then?
19:07The girls are now wearing clothes that wear a third of their 1900 outfits, and Catherine has taken off her hated corset for the last time.
19:20It's moulded to my body as well.
19:22Yeah.
19:23Taking it with you.
19:24You're in it, haven't you?
19:26Yeah.
19:27It's really dirty.
19:30Here we go.
19:32I'm free.
19:34Come on.
19:35I'm free.
19:36Ah!
19:37Ah!
19:39That's your body.
19:41Remember me?
19:42Oh, God.
19:44You got a leg!
19:45Yeah, I got a leg.
19:48I was still here all along, look.
19:50You're all right.
19:51You go wherever you want to go.
19:52Joyce and Paul take one last look around 50 Elliskam Road.
19:59It all felt real.
20:01No, it doesn't seem real at all, does it?
20:05I feel like a visitor.
20:06It sounds ridiculous.
20:09It sounds like I'm making it up or I'm being silly, but I honestly feel like I will leave part of myself here.
20:16No, I think it's definitely the clothes, you know?
20:21Yeah.
20:22I feel like a completely different person.
20:25You're not taking this?
20:27It has been your incarceration, hasn't it, for three months?
20:30Leave it here.
20:30OK.
20:34Bye-bye, 50 Elliskam Road.
20:41Go, my good man.
20:42Bye!
20:42Having arrived by horse and cart, the bowlers are leaving by transport, boasting the power of 85 horses.
20:53Oh, I think I'm going to be sick.
20:56All right, Mum, every time I'm sick.
20:57I know, it's like...
20:58Car sick.
20:59I know.
20:59Oh, God.
21:00Have you heard of it straight?
21:01Yeah.
21:01I do.
21:02Yeah, I do, too.
21:03Are you sure it's safe to travel with a speed?
21:05The family's first taste of the modern world is a motorway service station.
21:14I've never been very fond of service stations at the best of times.
21:17We would like...
21:18Three whoppers, but can we have them without anything on them?
21:21Yeah, would you want three whoppers for a while?
21:22Yeah.
21:24That's four months' wages.
21:28£11.34.
21:35Look at this.
21:39Look.
21:40Essential shopping guide for your Victorian home.
21:42Oh, that's it straight down the shop.
21:44What's wrong?
21:45Go on.
21:45What's wrong with these pictures?
21:47It's too light.
21:48Yeah, exactly.
21:50It's too light.
21:51It's too clean.
21:52It's too...
21:53No.
21:54Pristine.
22:00I can't work.
22:01That one does.
22:02Ow.
22:02It rings.
22:04I've got a headache.
22:04I hate all this.
22:05I do.
22:06I hate it all.
22:07You've got mail.
22:08It's time to go now.
22:09We're trying to go in.
22:11Come on.
22:12Let's just go home, everybody.
22:27Since coming back, I appreciate more things like my hairdryer and my make-up and my choice
22:34of clothes that I can have and, you know, being able to wear clean clothes every single
22:38day, that just like cleanliness and things like that just really make me feel much better
22:42in myself and I appreciate that a lot and I do think about, you know, how bad it was
22:48in the house.
22:48I don't care what anyone says about that house.
22:50It was quite clean.
22:52We didn't catch anything and we managed perfectly well.
22:56I mean, if the toilet got blocked up, those soda crystals would have done the job.
22:59We washed the floor with them.
23:00We washed the dishes with them.
23:01By the end of the three months, that hadn't become an issue.
23:04So, it makes me wonder why, when I came back, I then filled this cupboard here with all
23:10manner of things that I now think I need.
23:17Do I need them?
23:18I mean, do I heck?
23:20Oh, Horseman, no!
23:22Horseman, no!
23:24Oh, I need two.
23:25Never mind.
23:26I do what you care.
23:27I took over them.
23:28Having shaved with a cut through a rover for three months, this is sheer bliss.
23:37Right, if you want to know what I really miss most, it was the washing machine.
23:42Because, look, minimum effort, maximum result.
23:47In it goes.
23:52Magic.
23:58Magic.
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