Spooky somehow

Agreed.
Every last living soul there, including the horse, are dead now. Back then they were fascinated by the camera filming them there. Imagine if they could see our technology today how they'd react.
Besides being shocked they're back to witness that of course.

... none of them imagined that the Great War was just a few years away. they seemed hypnotised by the camera. Very simple folk.

I like these clips of our earlier generations.
I have loads of them saved on my hard drive.

I had never seen them before slowed down to real time and some coloured too .

Did you see Peter Jackson's documentary - They Shall Not Grow Old ?
(released in 2018)

Nah I don't keep up with films but I do check out all the documentaries and have studied the wars in depth. I find it hard to understand how they got men to do and to bear the 1st world war. Just people who did as they were told. I also deep study disasters like the titanic.

I am not morbid [honestly] but I study to see how situations arose, what people did about them ... mistakes they made. I love all history and church history.