Edwardian England

What's striking about these film clips is how interested people are by the camera. In scene after scene people star it it, and in a lot of cases you see people walk closer to it as if they are examining the process and equipment of the filming. 

How different from the street scenes we see today, where if something is going on it seems that every other person holds up their cell phone to shoot a quick video while ignoring all the others who do the same.