Paris 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- I colorized , restored and applied face restoration and created a sound design for this video of streets of Paris 1920s, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ Face Restoration
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to Prelinger Archives share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Holmes (Burton)
B&W Video Source from: Prelinger Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/6113_Seei...
sound design resource: freesound.org, other
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Which is better: Life in 1920s or Life in 2024?? Which city would you like to live in in the 1920s??
Both, I like stuff from both eras!
1920’s
Rio de Janeiro
1920s is way better
If i was a man I’ll stick with 20s but as long as I’m a woman no I’m happy being in 2024
Crazy to think all those people staring at the camera had no idea they would be getting watched 100 years later on a thing called the internet. 🤔
Wow , great observation .
Think of all the food, butt, cleavage stuff they will be seeing 100 from these days.
Thru a device you hold in your hands.. 😳
why would they even care? most of them, if not all, are long dead anyway 😉
And we have no idea how and where future generations will access our comments either...it's life.
I wish Cameras were invented hundreds of years earlier. This footage is like a time machine. Imagine if we also had footage of the 1600s and maybe further.
That would be so cool!
We would see slave getting whipped tho
Well the earliest born person to be photographed was a lady born in 1746. So she could have known people from the 1600s. Its not the same as a footage but still close enough.
Maybe AI will advance enough to reconstruct video from archaeological artifacts from ancient eras. This, to some extent, is happening with reconstructing the behavior and appearance of dinosaurs. Yes, most of the evidence in that case is from bones, but the idea might be able to be applied to human artifacts with super advanced *singularity* AI. Who knows?
@@scrimes hmm
The lack of ads on the streets make the city much more beautiful
So true it is a city not scarred by capitalism
I don't wanna burst your bubble but it would have absolutely stunk with those cars, and been really loud
@@minimushrooom and the galloping horses!
@@minimushrooom Apples oranges...
@@WillStephensArt capitalism has always excisted in europe poi
I live in a small city that’s been around since the early 1800s, and maybe I’m just weird but I regularly imagine the people walking around back then, especially when I go down to the river, I imagine all the different kids through the years that used to hang out there and skip rocks. It touches my heart for some reason. And seeing videos like this makes me feel so connected to these people. It almost feels like this is just a movie
oh, I can relate ! Imagining the generations of people who were living their lives just like you creates a sense of connection to the world, to the reality
J'ai aperçu Jeanne Calment petite😄
Not weird just sentimental
If you wonder how clean the city is and how well everyone is dressed: These films usually show the best parts of town and the richest people. Nobody back then would waste expensive film to show common people and the terrible conditions they lived in. So no, everything was certainly not nicer 100 years ago.
Good reminder!
I was thinking the exact same thing! These are the rich people not those who are starving and raggedy and looking for jobs
If you look at other remastered videos like this, they do have footage of the working class as well
Not to mention this place probably reeks of cig smoke. Still quite interesting to watch!
And don't forget this was just a couple of years after the horrors of ww1 and 20 years before ww2
Gosh, just imagine how modern these people felt. Perspective is everything.
my thoughts exactly
they all wear suits.
Lol, compared to the current state of Paris, they weren't wrong.
@@Kronos0999 🤣
@@Kronos0999 💯😂😓
These people are civilised and beautiful to watch. We've definitely lost a lot over the past 100 years.
yes! 100y ago!
Наверное потому что там одни белые
03:28 it's kinda surreal to think that I'm looking into the eyes (and he's staring back at me) of someone who was most likely born in the mid-1800s. This is the closest we can get to a travel-time. Simply amazing.
seeing Paris in colored gives a completely different perspective of how things were. for some strange reason changing from BW to color brings us closer to historical events
You’re right. The people seem more relatable and less different than us.
@@SinaAla yes
It separates that difference, this being in colour is more what we're used to seeing, makes it all feel real as black and white film feels like we're looking into some other world.
Maybe because in B/W we have more consciousness that they are far in the past and detached from us. In colour instead it seems to be so close, as we are there with them, in the same real life
It makes it more relatable to daily life when in color
I am French and I live there ... It is crazy because the streets looks exactly the same as today yet these old cars and people clothes makes me feel I actually watching a video footage from a different country ... Beautiful work with the colours by the way
now u live in little africa lol
Mais la perspective de l'Arc de Triomphe a pas mal changé. Sinon le reste pas trop en effet.
Regardez bien: Vers 3:00 on aperçoit Michel Drucker à la terrasse.
The population makes it look like it’s a different country. Even around central Paris you easily get 1/3 of people who are African/Arabic nowadays.
@@plackiplicki3531 in Central Paris the Black and Arabic people are the locals, every white person is a tourist. Central Paris is dead... From April to October at least, central Paris is not a place where people live... It has nothing to do with immigrants and everything to do with capitalism.
They all look very elegant.. very well dreesed..
Those are the nicest parts of town. Not everyone seen here is rich, but they are at least well off, or middle class. They can afford looking nice.
@@blooddragon805 the point is what is fashionable and looking good was much better back then compared to today, ppl dress like clowns today.
Not a mobile phone in sight. People truly living in the moment 😍
I love how the people look into the camera and smile as if something special is happening, makes me smile too. I guess this is as close as we can come to time travel. Thank you.
They look into the camera and smile, and stay still, probably because they think it is a still camera, so they need to remain still for the exposure to be taken. Unlike todays cameras, some antiquated cameras would require, even in good light, exposures taking over one second, not the instantaneous ones we know today from our iPhones
@@benclarkson4205 They're not "instantaneous" at all, try moving the camera while you take a pic and see if it's instantaneous.
Exactly because no cameras yet existed back then makes you wonder
Just look at the stars at night if you want to time travel
Imagine a thousand years from now people will be looking at videos about us.
I can't believe this was over 100 years ago. I'm so glad someone preserved these moments in time for us to have a living history of these events forever.
they are all gone. maybe except enfants , who are of course so old right now. life is fucking short . same will happen to us who are living today.
it's crazy how these places still stand to this day, walking by them daily makes it mundane. watching this made me realize how lucky i am to witness paris so well preserved.
Paintings are just as good
The roaring 20's. The Paris is the undisputed center of the art world. The pandemic had passed as well as "The Great War" of WWI. Hitler had been rejected to art school here twice in '07 and '08, Germany was a huge political and economic mess. Woodrow Wilson was the POTUS and women get the right to vote. Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
Yes!!!! And how one day people may probably be looking back at us and saying the same.
it’s really hard to fathom that this isn’t a movie
Such a clean and peaceful place
Before mass invasion
@@bravefastrabbit770 😭😭😭😭❄🤡
@@bravefastrabbit770 It's beautiful to see a person glance at the world through the lens of retardation. Peace x
@@bravefastrabbit770y’all invaded other peoples countries, enslaved their people, pillaged there resources and left them to pick up the pieces. You don’t get to talk about invasion
@@stonehengemacathe demographics changed and the culture changed for the worse. Don’t be a ❄️
I’m holding a window into 1920’s France in my hand 100 years after this was filmed.
Mind boggling.
@TH-cam Commenter
Lol ok Marx
@TH-cam Commenter
Yes, that is true but given how old this footage is that’s a little beyond the point.
People were very classist in the 1920’s. And film was (as you said) a limited commodity and they used it to film the beautiful parts of France at the time.
*"Light of other days"* by Bob Shaw (1966)
@TH-cam Commenter I was personally looking at the architecture, which is for everyone
Intelligent Design is Amazing.
I love the curiosity in their eyes when they see they're being filmed. To know that these images have survived 100 years when these people have not, is so touching!
They had no idea they would get replaced by africans with EU laws. There's barely any white, christian, french people now. It's so weird to me to see this footage, now there's burqas and thugs everywhere. I'm extremely sad...
I think the look in their eyes is more like "the heck is that guy doing" they didn't have the "are you recording me?" face. Which probably culturally didn't develop until film cameras were much more common.
Which would mean that this is TRULY a day in life in Paris in 1920. No acting or "cutesy" play alongs for the camera. The look, the eyes, the emotions expressed all real, authentic, and in the moment.
I've never seen him anywhere before... but if he's everywhere, and you're noticing he's everywhere, that means you're everywhere, too... so should I be cocnerned about you? lol@delachelli
They live eternally through these kinds of film 😄
Wenn die wussten dass in nur 10 jahr die Nazis dort spazieren wurden schrecklich
The sound design makes this perfect, I feel like it's really happening, the recording I mean, I'm taken back in time yet it feels now!! Love it.
When Paris was a clean and safe place
Yes
Especially the parts they chose to show on camera!
Yes because crime wasn't invented yet.. 🙄
@@stonehengemaca Crime existed in that time, but massive immigration had not started yet
@@niogos Nobody evolved in France.. EVERYBODY in France migrated there.
its still wild to comprehend that these people will never be able to see or meet us, but we remember them, see them clearly and watch it on a screen. Its like a whole different world back then. Technology and cameras are the closest we have to time travel currently in my opinion
Crazy how we’re the start of a whole no era, people 1000s of years from now can be watching this video too or us, heck it would probably be easy for government to document a whole family tree
@@jessicao-o165 I wouldn't hold my breath for that one. The way shit's going now, I'd be surprised if we lasted 5 years.
Do u believe in reincarnation
@@smackskurd nah
Exactly. Its like they have all passed on to the other side. Maybe have bene reborn. Heck, you might be one of them ;)
I love how she smiles when she realizes the camera is pointing towards her (4:58), so far away from thinking one day 100 years later she would still be visible and distributed around the world as restored digital data!
By the looks of it I think she's smiling at her man as he sits down beside her, she doesn't really look at the camera to me. Maybe he made an amusing remark as he was sitting down that made her smile.
@@MBM1117727 No she looks the camera, you have to place yourself in 1920, cameras were very rare, huge things on a tripod everyone were obsessed about. They had to be operated by a professional rotating a handle on the side to roll the film. It was not something you could easily hide, a rather amusing thing.
You can see she is literally looking towards the image with curiosity and then when she feels like a star being casted in a movie she smiles with shyness and starts to arrange her hair to show her best image. (her husband next to her is also looking the camera with no words)
@@OddAntSounds I know all that stuff, it just didn't seem to me when I watched it that she stared into the lens. Either way she has a lovely smile, she definitely could have been a movie star back then!
@@MBM1117727 I think it's because it has been remastered. AI tries to recreate some details that the quality of the film couldn't catch. Therefore sometimes you can see the expression or the eyes making the overall face of a person rather unnatural.
The guy on the left of that same lady is a good example, I bet he is also watching the lens but his eyes are quite not there.
The guy with a cigarette on right is like: Dafuq is that box with a glass in the middle? 😧
Once upon a time France was a great country
Advertising has existed since time immemorial, but in the main city of mainland Europe and in one of the most important cities in the World there is almost no advertising! This is amazing!
Main City ? Main Land??????? Are you DUMB? there is No Main Land in the EU. Go visit the Countrys
Wow, I just love seeing them dressed so nicely and in fashion! Color really makes such a huge difference in these old videos. It feels like I’m watching something more recent than the 1920s.
You realize there was color way back then and even a thousand years ago.
@@senatedocument2646 no there wasn’t lol it was only implemented less then 100 years ago
@Zaethat’s not what we r talking about tho lol
The black and white makes me think its a recording while the color makes me think im there living that moment with them. Much diff feeling. If they only knew that recording would make it to youtube years. Sad. But they still had cameras in there faces like today. Thats something i learned. Just we have those moments more. The camera man did great camera work
Color makes a difference in modern-day Paris, too
Today no one would even know these people ever existed if it weren’t for this video. And my heart goes out for so many of them. The man with the dog puppet. The guy who seems to think to himself “oh screw it” before he kisses the lady on the shoulder. The lady who just got kissed on her shoulder but remains sprawled out like she didn’t even notice. The man in uniform getting his shoe polished as well as the shoe polisher (that was a thing!). The incredibly stylish women and girls as well as the older lady selling newspapers with the Victorian era updo.
A moving portrait.
"Victorian era" apply only for anglophone countries. In French speaking countries it was "la Belle Époque"...
@@jadawin10 Victorian is also a style of architecture in anglo-saxons countries. In France this style is named Napoleonian. (this type of style which modernize ancient greek and rome architecture, came from first french Empire).
@@inhocsignovinces1327 The "Napoleonian" style doesnt exist in Francophone countries. Ils called "Empire" style and it was not the same period.
@@jadawin10 Style Napoléon III, style Second Empire, its exactly same thing... Also this style has been much more used under second Empire because of great renovations in all country, but it was already this one during the first Empire.
Pas une poubelle dehors, pas de déchets. Ces images montre une belle ville qui donne envi d'y habiter. Seulement 100 ans pour tout saccager.
En effet. J'ai été éduqué par feu mes grands-parents nés à cette même époque. C'est une civilisation entière qui a disparu. Une sorte de crime contre l'humanité.
Oh oui ils étaient tellement heureux, les hommes qui avaient connu l'horreur des tranchées et leurs enfants qui connaitront le n*zisme. Tout n'était pas si beau!
C'est plus une question ethnie le problèmes 😂
@@Shirodinii Assurément.
Votre propre faute. Vous pillez l’Afrique depuis des décennies et ce que vous voyez aujourd’hui en est le résultat. Sans les matières premières que vous avez volées, vous n’auriez rien eu. Vous méritez TOUS les migrants qui provoquent des troubles dans “votre” pays. Zéro pitié et ces « moments si formidables » ne reviendront plus jamais. Deal with it !
Great replacement
This is the closest we have to time travel. you can feel the atmosphere when watching these. incredible
Yeah, it's indeed a form of time travel. Even though you can't interact with these people, you can still see them on their daily lives.
it funny when we watch an old movie from the 50's about places like this and to them it was only like 20 years ago and most of the people involved in the movie lived it.
Can you imagine this in VR?
@Not Convinced just say it.. I bet it hurts to hide it
I would love to watch these in 3D. I've been to France twice, and in Paris had coffee at a magnificent old restaurant like in this film, but our modern jeans and tourist clothes just killed the atmosphere for me. I'm glad I went through, the architecture gets me every time.
It’s crazy to think that they never imagined this will be on a thing called the internet, viewed by more than a million people, over something named TH-cam, using a device that is able to play videos without any cables and receive information from satellites.
um pouco específico mas compreensível
Nice original comment love to see it
Yeah as another comment stated 11 days ago.
Someone who would say such a thing is an idiot.
What is it that we will never have imagined occurring in the next hundred years?
My God, people were SO CLASSY back then!!! Everyone is dressed-up and looks great....no thugs anywhere!!
I wish everything with my soul to go there
I love how intrigued the people are by the camera, it's a novelty to them. How times have changed.
Not completely. I did a silent short film on a 16mm Bolex camera once; When I filmed the streets there were a few instances of curious people approaching me to ask what kind of a project I was doing. It's mostly just phone cameras that people have come to ignore.
Not the same. That’s more like a curiosity. What these people are looking like as they see a film camera for the first time ever, is called fascination. You can tell because there’s also a strong displeased look on many of their faces because they’re uncertain what it’s intentions are. Some are thrilled because they know what it means, others are not even phased and don’t pay any attention. The last ones of the bygone eras before all this new age surge of tech. Not disagreeing or anything either, just my opinion and take on it all. Either or, unbelievable we get to watch this all this far down the road.
@@dontask6863 I'm pretty sure everybody in the 20s knew what it was.
@@viharsarok You are missing the point it’s not like that FILM camera was everywhere
@@dontask6863 Not everywhere but educated people must have known what it was. Like drones today. They are not everywhere but you know what it is when you see one.
5:07 that moment he moved her jacket so she wouldn’t sit on it, such a simple but sweet gesture! And him giving her little smooches afterward, I hope they had a good life.
bro's probably dead already lol
@@ilyesk.340no way …
@@labmar7243 lol sarcasm?
@@ilyesk.340 nooooo, surely not
@@ilyesk.340Your point? Strange to put the lol in there……
It looks so beautiful it's crazy.
Боже мой какие красивые хорошо одетые люди и как мило улыбаются, люблю Париж. Раньше жили красиво,элегантно.
Париж, который мы потерял :-)
i like how chill and relaxed everyone looks. Truly a different era compared to todays world.
The vibe in Paris is still very much chill and relaxed today. Cafe culture is still alive and well.
Oh they had plenty of things going on NOT to be relaxed about
@@theaarongarcia except that everyone is staring on his smartphone 🤣
@@theaarongarcia Tu vis à Paris ???? Parce que c'est clairement pas le cas
@@LIL1KAR Elle existe toujours, mais seulement après minuit… 😉
It's honestly really terrifying how much everything and everyone has changed in 100 years
Think how much different it'll look in another 100 years. Very few white people will be left.
you can be terrified in today paris , its the third world now !
yeah and not for the better lol
@@missingno88 not really, theres always going to be issues in our society because human beings are flawed by nature. its easier to look at the negatives more now because of the internet and media being in your face 24/7
Immigration will do that.
Just found your channel, am obsessed. Thank you for your beautiful & hard work 🎉🎉🎉
This is some kind of miracle! Traveling by time machine. Thank you for the opportunity to admire this. Paris was beautiful then, and it is beautiful now! From Russia with love. ❤
Thank you
I love how they were cautiously looking at the camera then smiled. Watching it is soo nostalgic.
Right? Now people would get mad!
Some smiled and one couple kissed. It was cute to see.
Nostalgic? Were you even alive in the 1920s?
@@finalfantasy3808 why ask a stupid question?
@@finalfantasy3808 it's obviously not from my point of view. Its from the people living in that era. Lol🤪🤪
Idk why, but I was watching this video for about a minute and then was all of a sudden shocked that there were no phones in anyone’s hands. They must really have been able to enjoy each other’s company, because there was nothing else to entertain!
A lot of people in the bars, so calm and respectful without a smartphone, yes I would have liked to live in that era.
When they look into the camera and smile at you from a hundred years ago, feels very human and relatable. Great work on the footage.
its mad to see how they alll stare at the camera, its so new and strange to them.
I wonder what they would think if they could see us the world we live in now, when politicians say we're destroying the planet "no" you've done this and your kind have done this, and here's the proof.
I don't get the same response when using my smartphone video camera. 😕
But they are human?😂
@@maneatingtiger8676 people back in 1922 are the same people in 2022
The most valuable aspect of these restorations is the motion cadence. I don't care if the colors are off. But to see people moving in life-like fashion is what makes this feel like time travel.
I think any American who believes in racial equity and diversity would find this uncomfortable to watch.
@@chamade166 what?
@@maxpis4412 I think he is trying to say that seeing a homogenous France is off putting to a modern American who believes white = bad
😅That makes more sense as black Americans were moving to France in this time period because they could live on terms of greater equality than in the US.
@@maxpis4412 Hahaha ... that's exactly what I was thinking when I read your comment. Maybe they can do some further colorization for those Americans losing sleep about racial diversity in 1920s Paris :)
Thank you so much for preserving this ❤️
I love watching how everyone turns around absolutely fascinated and curious 😊
This was the Paris that was so romanticized by people… Those days are long gone though.
As a former citizen of this godforsaken city, i can say you’re damn right. Paris sucks nowadays, it’s a shithole…
@@jean-christophebriolin8989 I would be interested to know why it is a shithole and what made it a shithole. Is it the people (who?) who made it a shithole or do you not like the modern age?
@@mablesfatalfable6021 unfortunately you’re right young man…
The entire world isn’t as it once was
@@vehement. yall are acting as if thats a bad thing
Dear NASS, I have earlier stated that I find your work important but I couldn't quite explain why. Then it hit me. Because your restorations are of such incredible quality, it suddenly becomes shockingly clear to everybody that everything on this planet runs in circles. The stage and story is almost the same but the cast of characters get replaced periodically. Which also means "us" (the viewers). We always "knew" but your quality means we now suddenly also "understand". Given how briefly we are here and that we are just one link in the long chain of life, what is the point in taking ourselves too seriously? And can't we manage to be nice for this one short gig? I think everybody watching your restorations will get some variant of this sentiment. So your efforts might actually have a real peace-keeping effect and that is why I think your work is important. (and entertaining as beep)
thank you so much! 🙏
Spectacular footage! Watched it on big TV screen and was beyond captivating. Well done, want more please!!👌
could you rephrase that thankyou
Read "The mind in the making" by James H. Robinson, and you'll understand even more
Спасибо за это удивительное приключение!
5:10 this is actually so cute, I hope this beautiful couple is resting well together in heaven.
The clear and lively look in the eyes of the people, because they had no cellphones. No cellphone-zombies, that was really a great time in 1920.
Very true
It's just amazing to wrap your head around the fact that is a hundred years ago. I was born 60 years ago, so 40 years after this film was taken. And now, 60 years later, the film is 100 years old. Time is such an amazing thing, and to be able to have windows into the past like this are just utterly amazing. Thank you!
I was thinking this same exact thing as I am near to the same age.
It is crazy to think that every single one of them are now dead. Great video.
You spoke my mind
France is an islamic country now, most people under 30 are not even European.
@@wvmom2727 ; talvez alguns ainda estejam vivos!
The roads look very smooth, I can’t believe how much traffic there is already in 1920
They're so good at driving around and swerving in between each other. Weird not seeing someone control the cars and stuff. Like now we have traffic lights but back then everyone went when ever. 😂
@@R_JT69 Actually you can see there are some "policiers" doing the car traffic signalisation at some point of the video. I guess they were there where the car traffic was the most intense :-)
It's as if bicycles disappeared overnight.
What a stunning video. It really makes you look around and wonder, what around me will outlast me? Especially in today's realm of fast fashion/furniture. So interesting ❤
I've been living in Paris for 17 years now, it's crazy how the city - at least from an architectural point of view - is still extremely similar to this video. Almost no change. This is a great preservation of History.
a) Thank Emperor Napoleon III and Georges-Eugène Haussmann b) Thank the French leaders for adapting the concept of Open City and the Germans for respecting it. London was still pocked with bomb sites & temporary housing right up until the 1980s. Once a city has declared itself open the opposing military in a war will be expected under international law to peacefully occupy the city rather than destroy it. By abandoning all defensive efforts, in the event of the imminent capture the French avoided its destruction.
But only architecturally.
@@DaveHonkles What was destroyed? Perhaps c) should be, "and thanks to Jacques Jaujard who secretly removed almost 4,000 priceless art works from the Louvre Museum to protect them, and keep them away from armed conflict.
Does it scare you
R.A. - please tell me the name of the beautiful building at 2:53. I would definitely appreciate it!
There’s something about the restored footage and speed, that normalizes these people. Brings them into our time. Amazing.
I think it's just because our brain relate: Black and White image = Old
It's like looking through a window back in time. It reminds me how weird life is... How we all are just here interacting with our environment, doing what we know, and time just marches on. We don't know why.
The speed isn't restored though, put it at 0.75 and it will looks closer to real speed, might still be slightly fast.
I was thinking the same.
Is this your first video experience?
Such a cool video! I would not like to have lived back then. It looks so stuffy. I love that these videos exist. It’s like you’re there.
Fabulous footage😍! It's also funny to see that about 100 years ago, Paris traffic was already Paris traffic😂.
I always found it hard to see these people as "real", they're just so far removed from the world today that it feels like something out of a storybook, where everyone was just walking around in this silent, black and white world. But man... this video and others like it really puts things into perspective, they were just people enjoying, struggling, loving, mourning, exploring and just living their lives. I will never, ever know any of these people, I will never know their unique stories, I'll never know their names - but here I am just watching them 100 years later and they'll never know it either. And all because of a little colour - it feels more real. It is amazing and at the same time scary - especially when you realise that one day, 100 years from now someone might be watching a video of you without you ever knowing - they might even read this comment some day, when the internet gets replaced with something more advanced and they look back at it to see how we were so many years ago - and just like these people, they'll see it but they wont ever know who I am
boy i’m tripping this, nice
nicely said! I feel the same way watching them and yet somehow as far removed as we are from each other we're still connected. That's pretty incredible when you think about it
It just proves that even though these people were in a different time, at the end of the day they were still…people. They were just like us, living near identical lives to us. And I know that sounds obvious but when we look at black and white footage it makes us feel far removed from the scenario that is playing out in front of our eyes. It makes us forget that at a certain point, everyone on the earth was here and living this precise moment.
Alex jones sounds like he's constantly holding down an alcohol burp
Don’t think too much that’s for sure we won’t be there in next 70 years
I have my headphones on watching this, and the sound on this is incredible. I literally feel like I’m in a time machine, very cool.
ya imagine imagining this is real and thats what you imagined
@@kikoredog imagine that.
the sound is fake. Camera couldn't record live sounds in the 20s. It was silent
I really do wish we had the real audio. But that’s part of this day that’s just lost to time.
Bruh, this isn't the actual sound from that time lol...it was added to it to give it that extra life
Imagine travelling back in time and blending in with them...
Look how clean the streets are
I read a lot of classics, many taking place in 1890-1930s. This sets the scene for many of those novels. Its beautiful to see it in color.
any recommendations?
It is amaizing
@@somaomori7966 The moon and the Six Pence or Human Bondage both by W. Maugham take place in early 1910s France.
@@getsnapple9811 I appreciate it! I’ll definitely check those out.
@@somaomori7966 the sun also rises by Hemingway way takes places in the 1920s I believe, perfect reference video
Fascinating to see paved streets without any painted lines or traffic control
Yes
I noticed very same thing
really nicer
this proves that the more humanity does things "to make life easier" is actually dumbing people down more and more.
@@gc0009 of course
When Paris was Paris...
Because Paris isn’t Paris anymore?
@@VolvicCitronYes
@@dingus6317 Explain your point?
@@VolvicCitron Paris is intrinsically tied to the French people
@@dingus6317 I know i live there, people think that Paris isn't Paris because they think white ppl have dissappeared, and i can confirm thath no
Paris looks so beautiful even in 1920, meanwhile my country India still looks filthy in the our cities. How many more decades will it take for our cities to look as beautiful as theirs?
100 years
The most amazing thing of these videos is not the horses riding on the streets or the architecture, but the close-up view of the people. Watching a bunch of friends drinking something at the table, and that's the 1920s. You see the faces and understand that the people are the same in every epoch, what is slightly different is their moves and mannerisms.
Fascinating!’
"People are the same in every epoch". No, they aren't. Social evolution makes changes in their views and personality. Here they genuinely enjoyed the moment and the company of each other. Nowadays many are obsessed with their smartphones to chat or create video "vlogs" for their social media and care more about looking as if they're enjoying the moment than actually enjoying it. They care more about the opinion of others than living the present.
@@jameswalker6864 Now how can you prove that the desire for appreciation, showcasing and caring about others’ opinion didn’t exist in the twenties? The rest is just technology development.
@@sevchyk It's not "just" technology development. It changes the way people behave. Obviously, the opinion of others has always mattered, but with the rise of social networks people care MORE about the opinion of others than anything else, thus creating a more supeeficial society. So, in sum, technology and cultutal changes do change people. There's such thing as cultural evolution. We're not the same as we were in the Pleistocene. We're not the same we were in the X century and we're not the same we were in 1920.
@@jameswalker6864 Incorrect. The human nature is always the same, and an example to that is the ancient Greek philosophers’ studies that show the same traits, feelings, and emotions etc. You may read Aristotle’s Politics and easily recognise human’s behaviour and motivation for that, remained unchanged until now. What you get with social media, is the same desire for appraisal from others only exaggerated due to lack of real life grumpy face-to-face criticism. Outside internet, you got the same human with the same set of psychology and feelings and instincts that they had for thousands of years. For example, the women still search for a stronger and wealthier man, still maintain the household tasks, men try to find a beautiful one. And in the 1920s they had their social media, poetic and other arts societies, where they groomed themselves, attended, showed their works and appearance and cared for others’ appraisal exactly like they do now. The only difference is the internet as the new technology and a medium for that showcasing. How can human instincts change, how can, say, a desire to be rich change over thousands of years? That’s obvious, nothing changed for thousands of years. And the cultural evolution that you talked about is nothing more than a slight change of the fashion, mannerisms, moves and trends, whereas the nature and the psychology of human is always the same. And now the people of the same age as it is in the video enjoy the company just as much, despite the internet, and young people as well. No one meets with friends specifically to make selfies, they still search a company in them.
The architecture, the cleanliness and the amount of people . A simpler looking time and absolutely stunning .
I wouldn't put too much stock in the "cleanliness", I've a feeling the restoration process has smoothed out a lot of the grit & grime not just on the film stock but on the streets as well; everything has something of a flattened, painted-over look.
@@briangonigal3974 haha. I never thought of that. I could see it now . Let me live in the fantasy that it was cleaner , I demand .😂
@@briangonigal3974 Compare this video of Paris, with post-modern Paris, the current Paris is an absolute shithole now.
@@angrynorman8378 its such a shame that all the most beautiful cities are either filled with bigots, littered with ugly modern skyscrapers or absolute shiteholes now :((
They're all mostly so ugly though! Why do most of them have such weird looking faces?
thank you for prepping it up!
They really looked so elegant.
Everything is so clean and well-maintained.
You're right in saying that. I've noticed in videos from London and my own city of Edinburgh during this time that the buildings are absolutely black with soot from chimneys, factories and railways. I'm not sure if it's because Paris has a lot more open spaces with smaller built-up areas further away from the dirt but the difference is huge.
@@depechexoui c’est assez triste de voir ce que notre pays est devenu. Je suis nostalgique d’une période que je n’ai jamais vécu.
@@depechexTrue and i m french
Everything besides the people were clean.
@@won_yourheart Pas moi non me dire que 20 ans plus tard c'était la guerre et que nombreux d'entre eux ont fait la 1ère et d'autres ont péri même pas 10 ans avant, rien à envier.
It’s crazy to sit here and watch these people look into the camera and smile, a hundred year old smile from a hundred year old moment in time. I’m sure they never would have imagined us watching them
kinda makes me feel voyeuristic, like i accidentally see my neighbour come out of the shower :\
Its crazier to me that Im talking to Chandler😍😍
Its a weird thing to think about for sure
As I laugh In eternity
Nice words chan chan man
Wow impressionnant. La couleur et le son donnent tellement vie par rapport aux archives que l'on peut voir de cette époque. On est plus immergé, je crois bien que je n'avais jamais vu quelque chose comme ca. C'est hyper intéressant, bien qu'il n'y ait aucune parole.
And no garbage in the streets, especially no plastic!!!
Crazy! I've totally eaten at the restaurant location at 3:07, and it has NOT changed much over 100 yrs! Incredible!
I didn't expect to see you here, what a nice surprise
That's awesome!
What’s the restaurant called?
@@ZorexZockt Café de la Paix
Yooo it’s you! How are the ants?
I'm so happy our ancestors had the forethought of recording these, these films truly amaze me at how far we've come since then.
*400 years from now your distant relative is telepathically commenting that very same thing on a video from 2022*
@@JoshTheTechnoShaman yip...mine were born in 1908
Du chemin parcouru en mieux ou en pire !!!
You mean how deep we fall to this day
it's not "your acenstors"... it's just some rich dude... Now their grandson is probably an ig influencer taking selfies in nice hotels and yachts everyday
Wow... a whole other world.
I wonder about every person in this video. Their childhoods, their jobs, their dreams, their fears, how they died, who they left behind... sooooo many people, all of them gone now. The boys at 6:45 grinning at the camera made me grin. Imagine a smile you gave in passing one day still radiating out, long after you're gone, and making a stranger smile 100 years later! Everything we do here counts in ways we can't imagine. It's so important to be good to people while we're here.
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Unfortunately that will not happen. Too many people will remain monsters.
And we will be like them in 100 years and the cycle continues but it's beautiful to see how life was then truly amazing
A beautiful thought
My grandpa was a teenager at that time, it’s amazing to think that that was how he saw the world, it’s like I’m seeing through his eyes, Amazing Thanks for another great video
Same, kinda. I am not sure what year these clips are from, but my grandpa was born 1922. It's weird to think that one of those kids near the pond could have easily been my grandpa. He'd obviously be younger then they were, even if this was filmed in the late 20s, but still. It's heart warming :)
Is he still alive? He must’ve had some really interesting stories!
@@HM-xi5zi He is sadly not. He passed away in 2015. He was only a kid in the 20s, so I don't think he has to many memories. He is also not from France. He was from a small town in Poland :)
@@LovebugASMR222 oh I’m sorry to hear :( Even from a small town in Poland, it was a different time and so interesting in general. RIP to your grandpa xo
@@HM-xi5zi thank you kind stranger 🤍🕊
They look so impeccably dressed and groomed! Quite serious mostly, however lovely when they break into a smile. Thank you!🤩
This is wonderful what you have done.
It’s as if you’ve been contracted by the past for an editing gig. This cameraman back then had to capture all this and say “this everyday life is worth capturing. People will appreciate these little things one day if it stands the test of time.” And 100 years later you have shown your appreciation by restoring what would have seemed like insignificant footage back then. My point is the variables at play for that film to be made, developed, and survive for over a century to find its way to your care is just mind boggling.
such a thoughtful and then I looked at your pfp and just laughed at the juxtaposition
Excellent observation. I never really thought about what the person filming this at the time would have been thinking. Likely exactly what you point out. Someday, someone will appreciate this and make it wonderful.
@@futurefox635 hahaha that’s me being a goober
Nothing much has changed since than
Gah!!! 100 years ago??! Thanks for making me feel old!
I was thinking the 1920s really wasn't that long ago...
It's amazing to see the joy on people's faces when they spot the camera. Odds are they never saw the footage, but they knew for a few seconds their actual moving image was being recorded and just that idea made them giddy. It must have been mind-blowing to live in an age when this technology was just being developed, and to one day finally see footage of yourself if you were lucky. There's the other side of it though, where it feels like a new presence has emerged in society, this device that records you, and creates this self conscious anxiety.
You're a creep who likes watching people 👀
"There's the other side of it though, where it feels like a new presence has emerged in society, this device that records you, and creates this self conscious anxiety." Very true! No matter how much we try we're very self conscious.
Because they are rich people, they had seen the device before
Moving film technology had existed since the 1880s, but yes film cameras were still an exciting thing that you didn't see everyday.
Boy, the corrected speed and color make it all so immediate, after sixty years of watching b&w herky-jerky films of this period.
Incroyable, Paris avec des français s'y promenant. Je ne croyais jamais voir cela un jour.
"I see dead people"... seriously they did a great job on this video, it really feels like you're traveling back in time.
“You hear that? Ch ch ch. Ch ch ch. Ch ch ch”
I thought I may be the only one with that thought..... about dead people. Lol.
Not the only one, even the baby' hat born that day is dead and in 100 years we all dead too
What a stupid comment they had valued lives I’m sure they wouldn’t like to remembered like that 😏😏
@@santiagocarvajal2195 maybe some of children is still alive, who knows.
It’s one thing to see a historical movie replicate and realize this era, it’s another thing entirely to watch real footage of it. It just struck me how *normal* everything seems! Ik that sounds weird, but just seeing how everyone pretty much has been the same then and now, just in different clothes and different cars. I’m in Gen Z, and so eras like the 80s or 70s or 60s already just feel other worldly. This was just such a treat to see life 100 years ago, a time that now seems weirdly familiar
It's amazing to finally find someone who being also gen Z put into words exactly the same thing that I have thought since I discovered this type of old footages. Personally, I really enjoy watching them because as you said, they show that the people back then were the "same" as us, just with different technologies, clothing, makeup... (Yeah, it may sound weird, as it's of course obvious they were also humans, but meaning that that era is not as far as we sometimes may think when we talk about it or read about it in the books, those can literally be our great-grandparents, talking about age). And although with the historical movies right now we have the capacity to imagine how was the world 100 year ago, it's not the same feeling when you're *LITERALLY* watching a casual day in Paris, with people who actually existed and that were there just living their daily lives, and who had for sure a family, hobbies and their own problems (not just a bunch of "politic-socioeconomic" information as some people may think about when we talk about the "boring" history). Also, the fact that no one is talking, gives the sensation of being there as someone else looking the city, making it look as a time machine! It's a huge treasure for me :)
Totally agree with you!
@@carolinnebeauty1198 absolutely!!
@@carolinnebeauty1198 And then think about THOUSANDS of years ago. All of those people and the rest...
the men are in pretty similar attire to what's worm today
Que relíquias. É bom saber que essas gravações sobreviveram 104 anos e é triste lembrar que todas essas pessoas já se foram.
Ce qui m'a le plus frappé dans ce film, c'est qu'il n'y avait pas une seule personne obèse ou en surpoids. Comme quoi, la nourriture était bien plus saine à cette époque comparé à celle de nos jours. De plus, les gens ont l'air plutôt tranquille. Ce qui n'est franchement pas le cas avec notre époque actuelle !!!!!
The most MVP cameraman and whoever saw value in preserving this. It’s a gift for all of that you can’t put a price on.
Too bad, the people of France didnt see the value in preserving their culture. Now it belongs to somalia or whoever bothered to show up.
@@standingwhilepooping4685 just paying the price of their colonialism.
@@schmakibaki "colonialism"... in case you havent noticed, a majority of the world is non-white. Europeans are responsible for some of the greatest advances in human history. Meanwhile majority non-white countries struggle to manage to exist. Sounds like colonialism is an attempt to break free of dead weight.
Ancient street photography film restoration of the originator of the beautiful
Street photography video from Asia and Taiwan to pay tribute to the time you can come to see
@@standingwhilepooping4685 France is led by its humanism and considers itself the country of human rights. Naturally, when you want to expand your territory, you will have to accept that newcomers become full citizens with their own culture and values.
I’m from Paris and it’s mind-blowing to see that, a hundred years later, not one of these spots/streets/places have changed. Le Dôme and Le Café de la Paix are still there, even, and look almost exactly the same. Only difference is they added a forecourt in front of Notre-Dame. That’s it
C’est exactement ce que je me disais, avec une meilleure qualitée d’image on aurait dit une photo de la semaine passée, spectaculaire
A very good thing imo, seeing as the beauty and ornature of that age has yet to be exceeded
@@luckyluk2864 I'm Spanish and according to the Spanish genetic map, our halogroup is r1b, Celtic descent like all of southern Europe, including France as well. The video you just watched is proof enough, lol, tell me what sort of connection or "strong bonds" can you see there with Africa. None.
You have been indoctrinated and know NOTHING about European history, that's all.
Btw, is it racist for you to stay black in Africa and asian in Asia? Why don't you travel there and say ot? To keep your culture and traditions is racist?
Crazy.
@@depechex Most of them yes. There are some ethnic (think Chinatown or Little Italy in New York) neighbourhoods in the city proper but most extra-european people are in the Northern and Eastern suburbs, outside of the city limits. We're not London.
@@depechex no but its racist to go killing people in algeria,and africa etc in 1920 hundred of millions people of those (non caucasian) are died !! You can talk about it
Sometimes when I drive down the historic streets in my city I picture cars from different times lining the streets and I wonder what it was like to live here in different eras. Love videos like these…❤
when paris was paris
I love how everyone is mind blown having a camera pointed at them.
Even when I was a teen in the 00s it wasn't common. I'm still not totally used to it. Smart phones have only been common for 10ish years.
@@lavenderoh Plenty of phones had cameras before smart phones became a thing.
@@zaidabraham7310 and the camera quality was worse than this video and no one could post them online so easily/immediately, so not sure what point you’re trying to make.
@@lisamari941 point is, having a camera pointed at you should not be uncommon for a long time now. If you say you're not used to it, you must be living like a caveman
Yes because it was back in then rare and expensive to have even camera, while nowdays nobody is much impressed about camera. Only if its filmed for top television network.
We are looking at the past, and they are looking at the future.
What a sight to behold!
interesting perspective
Nice
Interesting Indeed
Technically they never saw the future
@@nooraqueen2716 of course they did. Unless they died the second after the camera stopped recording they definitely saw the future
There is something magical about watching retro chronicles. On the one hand, you envy such moments, that calm, simple time, as it seems to you. On the other hand, you feel sad when, unlike these people, you know what will happen in 20 years. How many small universes have we been able to photograph? You ask yourself the question - how did life turn out for these people smiling at the camera? Everyone has their own story, experiences and hope for happiness.
Есть что-то магическое в просмотре ретро хроники. С одной стороны, ты завидуешь таким моментам, тому спокойному, простому, как тебе кажется, времени. С другой стороны тебя не покидает грусть, когда ты, в отличие от этих людей, знаешь, что произойдёт через 20 лет. Сколько маленьких вселенных удалось заснять. Ты задаешь себе вопрос - как сложилась жизнь у этих улыбающихся на камеру людей? У каждого своя история, переживания и надежда на счастье.
Videos aren't more alive than photos, in fact, videos are merely several photos taken in quick succession and put together, yet they feel so much more alive.
We're observing a long gone moment in time that is forever captured on film. These people are long gone, every single one of them, unless any potentially captured newborns and toddlers have made it to their 100s, which is rather unlikely, because it's rare.
They're all humans like we are, but our experiences with life and the world couldn't be more distinct from one another. I feel like there's something deeply disturbing about being able to get a glimpse into someone's life, who's not here anymore, but we can see them move and interact with one another as if they still are today. It creates a sort of dissonance within me.
Looks surprisingly modern even from the perspective of the 2020s
Because france kept alot of its older architecture to this day so the style is relatively simillar, minus a couple skyscrapers and modern residential areas.
There's a lot of factors that makes it feel that way, the old buildings and monuments are still there, the pavement too, it's a version of Paris that's relatively new; it was modernized from 1853 to 1870 under Napoleon III.
Plus I think you can't build stuff that's higher than the Haussmanian buildings in the center, that helps too
It is incredible how Western society has devolved despite notions of progress due to technological advances and labour saving devices.
@@Muckylittleme devolved?
@@macncheese8947 Devolve, as in degenerate, worsen.
The fashion of the time was incredible. The men's suits are so classy and the women's cloche hats are a dream. That one woman sitting with the fur coat and the cloche hat, staring at the camera, looked so elegant and timeless, her makeup was amazing as well.
My favorite. The 20's fashion
Really? The men look classy but the women's fashion is atrocious IMO.
@@misterwhyte I like elements of womens 1920s fashion. I love the hats and the makeup, the patterns and materials used to make the clothing (natural fibers). I do not like the drop-waist silhouettes or the extremely short hair though. The beauty standard for women back then was a "boyish figure" which is why womens clothing from the period is so square and shapeless, which is also why it looks so unflattering, it works against womens natural curves.
The woman are beautiful. People always wanted to look classy in public back then.
@@misterwhyte the women look particularly cool. Ton opinion tu peux t'asseoir dessus, really.
1920 : Jean-Paul Sartre was a student, Marcel Proust was writing his magnum opus, Maurice Ravel was composing, Claude Monet was painting.
Great period. I wish i'd been there.