Footage of Paris recorded between 1896 and 1900 by pioneering fraternal filmmakers, Auguste and Luis Lumière, stabilised, foley sound added and slowed to natural rate by videographer Guy Jones.
0:08 – Notre-Dame Cathedral (1896)
0:58 – Alma Bridge (1900)
1:37 – Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1899)
2:33 – Place de la Concorde (1897)
3:24 – Passing of a fire brigade (1897)
3:58 – Tuileries Garden (1896)
4:48 – Moving walkway at the Paris Exposition (1900)
5:24 – The Eiffel Tower from the Rives de la Seine à Paris (1897)
Previously: New York City In 1911
wonderful!
I enjoyed that very much.
I noticed you strutting past – around the 3.08 mark
Surprisingly uncanny. I think it’s the gait.
It’s nice how this cluster of landmarks are a stone’s throw away from each other.
Stone’s throw? https://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/12/19/joyeux-noel/
Loving the moving walkway!
Look closely and you might spot Oscar… he would have been there then.
Funny the way the people on the walkway are facing backwards – no one would do that now.