A recently recovered, early color film of London in 1927 by British cinematographer Claude Frisse-Greene, not long after Eliot wrote The Waste Land. It also makes an interesting companion to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), which hops around London in time and space.

At 1:00 you can see a mild version of a "crowd flow[ing] over London Bridge, so many" (OK, so maybe you can imagine how it would have looked during rush hour). At 4:15, though, you can see a jostling street that really evokes Eliot's sense of the brown uniformity of modern urban crowds.

I was also struck by the number of horse-drawn carts and the lack of traffic lights; instead, the "all powerful hand" of the police officer maintains order in a metropolis not completely used to motorized traffic.

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.