Double nostalgia, as this 1930 newsreel looks back at a London landmark in earlier days

"Only the shadows remain" - this newsreel from 1930 already looks back at the Victorian era with pronounced nostalgia. The horse-drawn traffic, ankle-length skirts and top-hatted cab drivers were already signals of an almost forgotten past - one that only the invention of film had preserved across the decades.

Hyde Park Corner, with crowds and horse-drawn traffic, at the time of Queen
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

Note: From PATHE PICTORIAL No. 624. The film is also contained in PATHE
PICTORIAL No. 631.