Original recordings

I watched some half of a youtube.com video of Peking some hundred years ago. It tasted like life, so it could have been among the first filmed things. There were available also other youtube videos from some time later years but those looked like as if the people in them  were either actors or had watched the original film and wanted to take part in such, so that it no longer was a documentary of ordinary life to make people's pictures of the world better and to teach about life.
Years ago I heard one of the first recordings of music and it was just like a dream, charming, not self-conscious, like the later recordings were always listening to what kind of sound they now produce via the equipment. It was just sang for the beauty and enjoyment of music.
I guess that the internet is somewhat overcoming that problem of lower quality, since in it those interested in appearing in recordings get widely the chance for that and some audience too. That is like a performance of some kind, searching for something fine, like looks, enjoyment, high skills, interesting things to offer. So in a sense it has become a matter of skill or of enthusiasm.
Documents on the other hand are a different kind of thing. Instead of appearing skiulled and offering view to something dream like, they tell about life in practice, which is a more well working ground for the audience to build upon.
The cahrm of a recording like an original recording comes from it giving room to things themselves. Instead of filming just about everything that appears to have a chance of success in the media, having manyfold amount of those things in one's life, having them in a spirited way, with skills and life skills backing themup, and using only tiny fraction of what appears to be good enough quality, so that the recording is just some glimpse of some richness of life and some areas of life of which there is lot to offer in practice for a wide group of people, and preferably for animals too since pets can rise some quality and skill and enthusiasm, some liked things to higher, more magnifient looking level, ordinary pets that is, not overused.