A Walk in the Park - c.1900 | Bois de Boulogne Paris - AI Enhanced [4k 60 fps]

Time travel back 120 years to Paris c.1900 AI colorized and upscaled to 4K 60fps clarity with added sound.
A group of fashionable men and women go for a Sunday stroll in the Bois de Boulogne.
It was a popular meeting place and promenade route for fashionable Parisians of all classes.
The film starts at the Porte Dauphine entrance to Bois de Boulogne. Look out for an early French automobile scooting past in the first few frames, possibly a De Dion Bouton.
Though horse drawn carriages were still the main transport, automobiles were quickly making their noisy presence felt by the start of the 20th century.
The exact date is unclear but the ladies walking skirts are still long and require hoisting, so this film was probably made before 1905.
The Bois de Boulogne ( Boulogne woodland) is a large public park ceded to the citizens of Paris by Emperor Napoleon III in 1852.
It was once an ancient oak forest.There are several lakes, botanical and floral gardens, a zoo and an amusement park. It was popular for equestrian events and open air theater in the 1900's. To the east of the Bois de Boulogne is the Parc de Bagatelle. To the north, the Jardin d'Acclimatation and to the South-east, the greenhouses of Le Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil.
The film was AI restored by GlamourDaze
AI Restoration:
1. Cleaned noise artifacts
2. Increased frame interpolation from 15 fps to 60 fps using Rife app.
3. Increased resolution from 240p to 4000p.
4. Applied color using Deoldify ( notebook available on Google Colab)
5. Created ambient soundtrack.
Watch the much improved - A Walk in the Park - Paris 1900 | Bois de Boulogne here:
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[@deniro800]

You have to tell yourself that this is just a day in the lives of real people and not actors in a movie.Incredible stuff.

[@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr.]

Right, exactly what I was thinking.

[@rahan9886]

It seems staged

[@JR-vc4gm]

And all dead.

[@johnhoward3042]

@@JR-vc4gm Really? You think they’re dead? My God! What happened???

[@wariret8866]

@@rahan9886 because people know someone is recording def they'll act differently, cameras back then were very big

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

These enhanced old clips are the closest thing to time travel I can ever get. It just blows my mind.

[@GrammarSplaining]

The Foley effects is what brings it to life for me for some reason. Like you're eavesdropping. Just mind-blowing that these were actual people doing their thing that day and we're looking at them all these years later.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

@@GrammarSplaining Hey you're the grammar lady. Nice to meet you.

[@GrammarSplaining]

@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Hello!

[@gulmerton2758]

All these people are long dead but miraculously alive here forever. Mind blowing.

[@czgibson3086]

If you're ever looking for another time travel method, read literature from the past.

[@sbstorage95]

I wish this was 1 hour long not 1 min.. it’s beautiful and inspiring!

[@krane15]

I'm sure we'd be astounded by all the work that went into making this clip.

[@dtrjr6157]

Yes, I was thinking the same! 😁👍 It’s like watching a movie… only REAL! 🥰

[@endofthenight9321]

I want to be there even for 1 minute

[@MarioMartinez-tt9ly]

I mean they didn’t have a gopro or iPhone back then . Cameras were the size of a refrigerator back then .

[@williamcarrick5730]

So is a stroll through walmart beautiful and so inspiring .

[@иванпиётп]

I have a picture of my grandparents who went to Paris for their honeymoon in 1922. Those pictures say it all. What refinement. What elegance. What behaviour! A world we lost forever.

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

Not a world we lost, but a world we gave up on. We deemed it unneccessary, until we realised, that it's too late to return. Personally, I do believe that we are at a point as humans, where our decay is inevitable. It's all downhill from here. Better enjoy the ride while you still can.

[@Nemesis-sc4rg]

Yeah right non white people were treated like exhibits and exposed in human zoos what a great civilization !

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

@@Nemesis-sc4rg Yeah right white people were treated like exhibits and exposed in human zoos what a great civilization ! (I can turn that around as well, as Africans kidnapped and held whites captive as slaves as well, but that part of history is never talked about.)

[@Nemesis-sc4rg]

The video is about Paris and Europe in general why tf would I talk about that ? There were human expositions in Paris at that time. I just know you guys didn’t think those Africans were refined and classy during the same era. Just proves how racist you are like please shut up you’re a waste of human life.

[@jumanamaher3720]

😊😙

[@candysmith8724]

I was mesmerized by the little girls dressed so beautifully to play in the park. Hair done and dolled up. It must of been all about who was who and who can outdress who. It's amazing to feel like you are there with them.

[@youreallthesame1594]

And everyone said must HAVE back then too! 😘

[@sally-annparker6744]

One thing that often amazes me about the old film clips is that even though the population was significantly smaller and there were no cars (ie quick, easy transportation) the streets, parks and cafes are always thronging. Life seemed to be more social outside the home back then.

[@GrammarSplaining]

They weren't jammed around their computers... like us.

[@mattn6591]

I blame the automobile

[@leanneneville2431]

@@mattn6591 I blame tv😬

[@lolpop2118]

I blame social media, phones, and myself for getting so addicted to it

[@AardvarkDream]

Back then, once you'd tidied up after breakfast, what else was there to do at your house? No tv, no internet, no radio. Maybe you've got some books or magazines, but that's about it. May as well go outside; there's a lot more to do out there.

[@leofedorov1030]

I always feel like a time-traveler, when watching these. Thank you.

[@HumanontheLoose]

It's hard to grasp that this isn't a movie set since I've only seen pictures. Almost a surreal experience watching these. HUGE appreciation for your work!

[@cristianm7097]

The past feels like a vivid dream.

[@elvy9326]

I love the way ladies dress back thn , so elegant😍 wish we can bring this fashion trend back

[@kenerry]

their waists are so ... tiny

[@sisuguillam5109]

You can. Just go for it.

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@kenerry no, they look tiny. It's the way the dresses are constructed.

[@IamPatrickStar]

I also wished we brought back the men’s fashion in there cause they look like such a blessing

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@IamPatrickStar you can wear suits like that. Don't let people stop you.

[@nenabonita777]

Their decent fashion speaks much about their decent character as well back in the day. This is a treasure.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Decent fashion? Quite a lot of these women would have been considered quite indecent.

[@louisestubois9241]

I love the vintage and antique clothing. Much more elegant and complimentary than any current clothing designs.

[@toddz8579]

It wasn't vintage and antique at the time ;-)

[@superfluoussis6830]

I thought the women looked uncomfortable trying to sit in those tight corsets.

[@X-AEA-12]

It looked like they were dressed in bed linens. Uncomfortable and over the top.

[@sylvainrichard6679]

The men’s neck could be seriously injured with those shirts. It was a total nightmare to wear it in the heat…

[@theresedavis2526]

I favour the fashions between 1910 and 1920. They maintained that genteel sophistication and taste without so much restriction and discomfort.

[@kozykasmr]

Little did they know 100+ years later we’d be watching them in awe on our little handheld, rectangular chunks of glass and metal for education/entertainment lol such an interesting concept all around :)

[@ministryofdressing]

Exactly. And do you know that this park is now the place to be for prostitutes what a shame

[@pereiraplaza222]

@@seventus little do you know Paris in 100 years will be filled with Australians.

[@hazelwray4184]

Little did I know, even 20years ago. LOL

[@zx50]

@Kozy K ASMR Well, not everyone. I've just watched it on my computer monitor.

[@TheBlueCream]

@@pereiraplaza222 why ?..Aussies stay in Oz

[@milenmi1]

La belle époque dans toute sa splendeur. Merci.

[@hassanannabi9445]

L'époque ou on arrachait les dents sans anesthésie, pas d'antibiotique , l'époque ou on mourrait de botulisme et d'infections, ou on bossait 45heures par semaine, ou légalité homme femme était une chimère?“ L'âge d'or ? Un vieux fantasme, une nostalgie d'apparat.” Jacques Chancel

[@Az-gv4bj]

​@@hassanannabi9445 Le confort d'aujourd'hui n'apporte pas beaucoup plus de bonheur, en réalité les taux de suicides et dépressions n'ont jamais été aussi élevés

[@hassanannabi9445]

@@Az-gv4bj C'était mieux avant"... et ça fait 2000 ans que ça dure ! "Chères Petites Poucettes, chers Petits Poucets, ne le dites pas à vos vieux dont je suis, c'est tellement mieux aujourd'hui : la paix, la longévité, les antalgiques, la paix, la Sécu, la paix, l'alimentation surveillée, la paix, l'hygiène et les soins palliatifs, la paix, ni service militaire ni peine de mort, la paix, le contrat naturel, la paix, les voyages, la paix, le travail allégé, la paix, les communications partagées, la paix"... "Michel Serres".

[@Az-gv4bj]

@@hassanannabi9445 quelle paix ? ou ça ?

[@hassanannabi9445]

@@Az-gv4bj veux tu que je te parle des guerres du moyen âge, des guerres de cent ans, des pestes qui ont décimé 50 millions d'humains des massacres de masse etc etc

[@crisqwer3395]

Just unreal. This happened 120 years ago and we're here just looking at it, the closest to traveling in time. I just imagine that somewhere around the corner you could've got across to Renoir or some impressionist painter any moment!!

[@Narahari108]

It's a pity it's so short. Great video, thank you! I love, I myself lived in this era. This is my last incarnation in those years. I remember everything. Greetings from Poland

[@ritab3957]

I just love the ambient soundtrack you have created. It’s absolute perfection and makes me feel like I’m actually there in the park eavesdropping through time travel. This is such a marvelous channel.

[@ivorybow]

Oh..the clothes! I wish we could still dress as elegantly. I still have not succumbed to sweatpants, hoodies and tennis shoes. I only wear dresses. it's work but I love it. Thank you for this lovely look into the past.

[@gertrudesuzan9253]

Have you not yet found the historical dress niche on KZbin? There are people who still dress like this today, and teach us how to sew historical garments and it's wonderful!

[@aestaeticedits7998]

I aspire to be you. I just need confidence and overcome the fear of being stared at and judged. It’s wild how this kind of fashion was once the trend and norm, but now if you dare go out dressed like the wonderful ladies in this video, you get stared and judged :(

[@cattycorner8]

Me too!!

[@meep3035]

Thats multiculturalism for you

[@sisuguillam5109]

You can! Just do it.

[@lindaunger4233]

I almost can't believe it's real. But it extremely fascinates me.

[@newmankidman5763]

Linda Unger, fascinating indeed. Imagine how fascinating it will be to someone a thousand years from now watching this video, as well as the ones made by KZbinrs today

[@melianna999]

@@newmankidman5763 in thousand years mr virus eats all

[@newmankidman5763]

@@melianna999,you are being very pessimistic

[@irishcountrygirl78]

I watched how the men sat on the horses so proudly and how the ladies carried themselves when walking and sitting in corsets, how different people behaved from that time. So fascinating!!!!

[@193848663]

I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that this was once a moment in time, it looks like it was filmed in present day but it’s real footage of the past. We look at footage like this now and someday in the next 70+ some young kids are going to look at footage of us living our lives now

[@Citizen_X.]

It's so amazing and beautiful. It looks like a collection of paintings by the great Impressionist artists like Pissarro, Renoir, Monet, Manet and Degas.

[@tadcotadco6344]

Yes Yes. All inhabitants of Paris did their utmost to resemble the characters from the paintings of the Impressionists. Specially ordered such costumes, hats))

[@veinswithglitter1937]

I have an old soul!! I love watching these types of videos ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@wariret8866]

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[@niamtxiv]

Me too

[@euridicesacramentomariani6953]

So do I.

[@Chazd1949]

I just really enjoy these kind of videos where I can, if only for a moment, travel back to the time when my grandparents and great-grandparents lived. I only wished I had the foresight to have asked them more about their early life; but then I was just a kid and somehow thought they would be around forever. Thank you for posting these.

[@lolpop2118]

That's so sad

[@1967MGC]

I wish the same of my great grandmothers too- one from Victorian England and the other from 1870's Netherlands. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand the Dutch one. It's a sobering thought we'll be but a momentary memory and fade away with time.

[@Chazd1949]

@@1967MGC You can preserve your own life history in writing and video and with today's technology you can research and document that of your family's history and pass it down to your kids and grandchildren. In my case, unfortunately, my autistic brother and I are the "last of the Mohicans." He never married so I have no nieces or nephews and none of my aunts and uncles had children so we have no first cousins either. My only child died when he was thirteen, so our family blood line will be gone when we are gone.

[@1967MGC]

@@Chazd1949 I'm somewhat of a hoarder so that's not a problem. But if I don't marry my stuff will go to my nephews, surviving sisters, and friends.

[@lorenheard2561]

@@1967MGC Just appreciate those still in your life who are close to you,and tell them so!😍💖🕊☘I wish you happieness! God Bless You And Yours!!

[@CraftsbyMasmiEasyDIYs]

I watched this 5 times - each time paying attention to different things in the video. Fascinating to see real snippets of history in motion.

[@patrickfitzgerald4189]

It's hard to believe the world was so beautiful

[@chloeeemay]

I'm a historical fashion and history fanatic and ugh I love their clothing so much! I wish we still dressed elegantly like this

[@LeesaDeAndrea]

Charming. A glimpse into a different world.

[@wildbluefrontier]

Yes. A world that is somewhat familiar, but so foreign to us living today.

[@mollowgohnson7045]

Yes. No migrants or tolerant left, or woke agendas. That's why they're so happy.

[@josemiguelcarrizo7373]

The europeans were the migrants in the rest of the world

[@hauntedhighway2166]

Into a better world. Now all we have is lunacy.

[@patbaroudeur]

@@josemiguelcarrizo7373 des migrants européens à l'époque. Pas des migrants africains comme aujourd'hui.

[@kuwait411]

Ahhh, the amazing outfits, so beautiful and classy.

[@krane15]

Back then, they were still taught how to be a lady. Nowadays, 90% of women just wear men's clothes.

[@outoforder8791]

@@krane15 You got a problem with that?

[@outoforder8791]

@@Vingul But why? Shouldn't everyone be free to wear what they want and express themselves without being ridiculed for it?

[@cacatr4495]

@@outoforder8791 When someone makes an observation, why do your thoughts immediately go to the idea that they have a problem with what they've observed? People used to have the freedom to make observations. Now, people take issues that aren't even suggested. Did they say they had a problem with that? No, they didn't. They made an observation. Then, in your reply to Vingul, you brought in some assumption of ridicule. Who said anything about ridiculing people? (besides you?) No one did. It sounds like your screen-name might be fitting, as if you fuss without cause. Food for thought.

[@outoforder8791]

@@cacatr4495 I did not assume anything that's why I specifically ASKED if he had a problem with it and they said "yes". They literally said that they had a problem with it. Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, so I chose the wrong word, but claiming that women today look like they are wearing "boys" clothes when they are not in fact wearing men's clothes sounds a lot like ridicule to me. They even suggested that "social pressure" would make men and women dress more "properly" again, which is something they wish for. Maybe you should have thought more carefully about what you write, because you ended up making a faulty statement. Food for thought.

[@brooketrisano6450]

These clips truly blow my mind. Thinking about who they are, what they are up to, their struggles & goals, who’s grandparents they are and who they left behind.. just such a different time. Thanks for your work.

[@achille8545]

C 'est toujours TRES TRES intéressant à visionner. Merci à vous pour ce travail et du partage.

[@paullewis9490]

Stunning. I find myself slowing it down to half speed lest I miss something. We are witnessing some of the first people to be preserved in perpetuity. Although they are all long gone, they live forever. Beautiful beyond words.

[@julieshepherd5989]

If every one walking around had cellphones they'd be tripping and running into each other, getting angry and possibly getting hurt, ...how serene the scene is, calmly strolling along, talking to each other to their face and enjoying the beautiful day. Thanks for sharing this, 😊🌹🍭😎

[@lenageorge1686]

Oh wow, wow... phenomenal. I can’t stop rewatching and wondering about all their lives. They could never have imagined that people would be watching this 120 years later!

[@usmale4915]

I liked the little girl (toward the end) dressed in white playing with an ordinary stick/twig! Very cute, indeed! This entire video is absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@danadagostino948]

Actually, the children are playing with a toy called a "Chinese YoYo" or "Diablo". Believe it or not, these toys have been around for hundreds of years. You can still buy a 21st century version, albeit made of plastic rather than wood.

[@dceballos067]

It's amazing you're able to enhanced this footage from the turn of the century to where it's no longer just in black & white, choppy, grainy and looks like it was filmed today as opposed to a hundred years ago.

Wow....120 years ago...the belle epoque in its best days...the time machine is here...👍👍👍👍👍

[@ashgreen3574]

This is so beautiful brings tears to my eyes. 😌

[@dtrjr6157]

How wonderful to see people acting just like we do! 😁 Glorious and so respectful, to be able to see their lives as they really were, instead of through the microscope of looking backwards. Thank you!

[@cassiekay8633]

I love these film so much, but they break my heart ! The people are so alive and you can't help loving them ; you wonder how they are and you ask yourself if they are happy . You hope they are and you wonder where they are going as they walk off film ....and then you remember they are long gone ! Beautiful echos in time !

[@dnr2089]

I’m with you there 😍

[@fabienneroure9995]

Cassandra Kavanagh I also feel the same way. Your comment is beautifully written!🌷

[@cassiekay8633]

@@fabienneroure9995 thank you...it is lovely to know someone else feels the same way !

[@MariofFatimain]

1000%

[@SuperFinGuy]

It's sad they are long gone but also remember that it's been a lifetime, they have already lived their lives.

[@silverstuff182]

I don't know how you do this. It's just incredible and you posted this one on my birthday. Thanks! Love watching those horseback riders, as though it was just "a walk in the park".

[@acarnold]

Reminds me of Golden Gate Park during the shelter-in-place when large chunks of the park were off-limits to cars. People and their families just strolling around looking at each other. Thanks for these films. It really is like time travel!

[@FalloutBob33]

Thank you, your content is really good. A portal into a time I will never experience, God bless you.

[@material-cheshirekhatter2413]

I love seeing casual life back then.

[@material-cheshirekhatter2413]

@White Male go away troll

[@dertery8724]

@White Male Come on you’re attacking people just for their race and sex, that is not on. I spend so much time condemning the critical race theorists and identity politicians who hate whites and then you go and do the same thing in reverse.

[@DarthScorpio11]

I do as well. It's weird, because depending on what month this was filmed in, I'm only 31 but I may have known someone who was alive when this was filmed. My great grandmother was born in 1900. She was 100 when she died in 2000 and I was only 10 then.

[@mstyles2667]

This was the place to seen and be seen back in the day. This was where women would show off their clothes, men would show off their horses and the wealthy would show off their carriages. Such a beautiful time in history.

[@kmp8985]

I read that there is a ton of prostitution at that place now. So sad.

[@mstyles2667]

@@kmp8985 Interesting as it was a very popular spot for high end prostitutes aka courtesans to frequent back in the day. They were more there to show off their wealth as those ladies were very wealthy from the high power men who payed their bills and took care of them. In fact the average woman would go to the park to watch the courtesans on their expensive horses, in their luxurious fashions riding in their priceless carriages, dripping in jewels. From what I read it was a very classy and respectful place, so sad to hear it has turned into an actual place of prostitution.

[@pereiraplaza222]

I used to walk there a lot when I moved to Paris from Angouleme

[@alfredvikingelegant9156]

Indeed, mostly during night time with a lot of travestits, trans-gender... Prostitution existed already in that remote time, but only in some areas, and women looked more classy than today. Victor Hugo, even in his old age, used to go to Bois de Boulogne, cause he has always been obssesed by female sex, like many romantics. But this is never taught at school...

[@pereiraplaza222]

@greenbay Everyone imagines him or herself as an aristocrat in that time 🤣

[@karenbrown4524]

I enjoy your channel so so much. Thank you for forwarding us the world's everyday history. The reels are so cleverly and so gently (for lack of a better word) colorized. Beautiful!

[@alyssagorski7538]

The first time I watched it I absolutely believed that what I was hearing was from the old footage, before remembering that was impossible. You did a great job at that ambient soundtrack!

[@nigelmitchell351]

Wonderful, these awkward sepia figures transformed, brought back to life as the animated living people they really were.!

[@chriswilletts3621]

Adds so much life and a stronger connection to the past. Thank you for your hard work.

[@SpiralMystic]

One thing I notice in such clips is how people carry themselves. They’re not half as stiff as they’re portrayed in period dramas. The portrayals help us ‘feel’ the period though I think, but it’s an interesting contrast. Tfs

[@amandaarlt4948]

I was thinking that way too especially at that one woman towards the end in the chair she was just sitting in it like how we sit in chairs nowadays it looked so unusual since we’ve always thought that women in those days always sat up straight all the time I thought that was an interesting sight to see

[@theresedavis2526]

Those, we see in period films, are actresses wearing garments that they are not used to. Kudos to the movie industry for their accuracy where period fashion is concerned, but the women, wearing those costumes, cannot conceal the fact that they are not accustomed to wearing them. It's like wearing heels when you usually wear flops.

[@zzzbbbooo]

Love this! It takes distant blurry people from the past and shows how much they were like us, just in different clothes!

[@carolfreitag6847]

So beautiful in color. makes it feel like it wasnt a 100 years ago! A beautiful and simpler time , people just out enjoying the day! Wonderful to see! and to think all these people are so long gone. Bittersweet footage

[@CameoFarmer]

I adore this so much, please post more of the 1890s and 1900s. I love to think about what was happening to each of these people, what they were thinking, what was going on in their worlds.

[@RicardoLopez-co9dy]

Tal cuál

[@johnstuartsmith]

As I look at these happy families peacefully enjoying the springtime world of 1900 Paris, I'm realizing that WWI won't start for another 14 years, and that 700 miles away, in Linz, Austria, a miserable and resentful 12 year-old Adolf Hitler is once again performing very poorly in school and once again facing harsh discipline and punishment from his perpetually contemptous and abusive father.

[@laurencetitusoates6328]

The waists on some of those women look impossible, fantastic work again.

[@isabellejlv4668]

Ça ne devait pas être bon pour leur santé...

[@echodelta9]

Of corse-it was. Fashion is fascist action.

[@rechoice9010]

I love everything about their exaggerated hats, their body fitted jackets and billowing skirts..even the dainty umbrellas!!

[@zanti209]

Congratulations! Simply awesome! Restoration and enhancement were a thing of beauty!

[@FallenAngel9979]

Wonderful footage…Adore the Edwardian clothes….closest thing to time travel! Love your videos!❤️❤️❤️

[@Kurt_Outdoors]

These videos are incredible! A real insight into life 100+ years ago.....and sad to think every young person shown is long gone! Enjoy life while you can....appreciate every minute of being alive!

[@banisingh4408]

Beautiful. Thank you for bringing these to life and allowing others to see a past world in such detail

[@nonyabidness4894]

the person who gave this thumbs down must have been disappointed the film wasn't longer

[@MarcusZepeda]

I love looking at videos like this, especially looking at the women's fashion from this era. it's so beautiful and it's the reason why I'm becoming a fashion historian so I can educate people on men's and women's clothing from the 19th and 20th century,

[@kenoneill8783]

This has way more resolution and colour depth than most 1990's VHS home movies, absolutely incredible!

[@robertfunk2796]

Whenever I look at an amazing piece of film like this it evokes a feeling of entering a time machine which brings to me sadness, wonder & curiosity...one is compelled to watch & dip our lives into this.

[@kmp8985]

Like paintings that came back to life 😊

[@thelostgirl101]

I love the fashions back then, so cute and charming.

[@GrammarSplaining]

Don't you think they look like they'd be hot, though? All those layers, and how tight they fit.. I hope the temperature wasn't a degree over 60 that day.

[@dnr2089]

I always imagine how hot and sweaty they would get! You see photos of British people in India and Egypt in the 19th and early 20th century and they’re dressed in tweed suits and long dresses like the ones in this clip.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Except for creating internal organ damage.

[@aakkiirree32]

@@heliotropezzz333 Which is not true.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Women's corsets then were tied so tight they often fainted and they even tied up tight when they were pregnant.

[@brigettesmith6403]

Everyone is complaining about sitting around the computer all day but the poster of this video did just that so we can all enjoy this beautiful moment in time.

[@michaelbruns449]

Endless sublime fascination experiencing this over and over again. Magical portals upon the past. In all seriousness, whoever and wherever the people are, responsible for rescuing and enhancing this priceless footage, i thank you all sooooo very much. Stunning and amazing. So many eyes are opened, along with minds blown far away.

[@-NateTheGreat]

With their dress, beauty and mannerisms I feel like we are devolving not evolving.

[@prontsc]

Like Mozart, we are decomposing instead of composing.

[@michellepaul8514]

I don’t see why cause people don’t dress in the style of the 1800s that we are devoluving. lol And why are you only focused on how the women look? 🤔

[@ashgreen3574]

@@michellepaul8514 People were well spoken back then and had a much better vocabulary and sense of proprietary than we do now. For all of our tech they were better educated. They also had far more skioos as far as how to actually survive if you didn't have everything handed to you.

[@idenhlm]

Our social etiquette and manners have regressed.

[@Madeleine_des_Esseintes]

@@ashgreen3574 If you believe that people in the past had a better sense of propriety, you've obviously never read a poem by the Earl of Rochester or a letter by Lord Byron. They're full of insults and bawdy jokes. Sure, people in the past were different from us in some ways, but they certainly weren't the angels you make them out to be. (Just google "A Ramble in St. James's Park" by the Earl of Rochester if you don't believe me.)

[@juliancoulden1753]

Wonderful, thank you. Such a legacy to see real people doing real things over a 100 years ago. Fascinating and sad at the same time.

[@ericb5194]

Real things like walking, talking, riding horses, rolling balls to each other...ah no, you don't see any of that now.

[@katchupbottle4530]

Absolutely love this channel! It's honestly so beautiful to see simpler times in which going to the park involved socializing and not just a run or people looking on their phones. How do we ever get back to this?

[@tatalordhenry3127]

Until the pandemic is over

[@katchupbottle4530]

@@tatalordhenry3127 I never stopped living my life for the pandemic. If we can't even chat in the park are we even living a life worthwhile?

[@tatalordhenry3127]

@@katchupbottle4530 I never stop living my life for the pandemic too, but people preferred looking on their phones many years before and preferred short clothes too

[@erebus79]

Get rid of technology

[@mooldoo]

Sooo short, but so unbelievably beautiful. Really a very good job.

[@universeconsciouscitizensc592]

Wow! Such skill to bring such images to life. I bet scenes of people from Ancient Greece, or even before, would look as natural and familiar to us as these, if they existed. Thank you!

[@Siavosh9]

What a beautiful hats☺ especially with those flowers on them🌺

Spectacular. Thanks for sharing!

[@lynseychinnery5707]

Spectacular! I really do love these saved pieces that are carefully enhanced to get a better glimpse at a long ago time. I still love the dresses; but I like to wear a lot of clothes.

[@robertc.johnson310]

GD, Those scenes and the coloring are so fluid and natural that you feel that that is Really Happening In The Now. Remarkable! RCJ/LEO

[@tinag7506]

It's hard to believe that those colourized clips are the real deal and not a 90s movie set! Mind blowing!

[@herewardthewoke6333]

Europe wasn't perfect, but it wasn't a third world basket case, like nowadays. Thank you for these beautiful reminders of a more genteel time .

[@dertery8724]

The average person now earns five times what they earned in 1900. Many people in the third world now earn more than we did in those days.

[@Madeleine_des_Esseintes]

@@dertery8724 Finally someone with common sense (and historical knowledge) in this comment section...

[@dertery8724]

@@Madeleine_des_Esseintes Thanks. As mesmerising as this excellent footage is, it’s important to note the people in expensive clothes represent only the higher stratus of society. Most people wore singlets and hand-me-down items and lived with as many as 11 children in 2-up-2-down terraced houses. Today much of the third world is only slightly poorer than we were back then and is rapidly catching up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#1750-1990_(Bairoch)

[@Madeleine_des_Esseintes]

@@dertery8724 Yes! Not to mention advances in medicine and anaesthesia. I'd rather not wear fancy clothes than have limbs amputated while fully conscious.

[@dertery8724]

@@Madeleine_des_Esseintes Certainly! One in six babies still died in infancy (before 5 years) at this point; better than one in three in 1800, but still pretty terrible by modern standards.

[@lifeblikelexi]

I always miss these times and then remember I wasn’t even alive 🤔

[@yechezkelhanavi7083]

You sure ?

[@lifeblikelexi]

@@yechezkelhanavi7083 honestly… no

[@yechezkelhanavi7083]

@@lifeblikelexi read your comment again. How could you "miss" them if you weren't there ? :) .

[@lifeblikelexi]

@@yechezkelhanavi7083 it’s a feeling I get but like I said, I wasn’t even alive :)

[@yechezkelhanavi7083]

@@lifeblikelexi so maybe you were.

[@Joi_Robb]

Oh to be a carefree little girl in Paris 💜

[@Joi_Robb]

@Billy Shawmaybe getting a good therapist is best for you?

[@echodelta9]

She'd see the horrors of 2 wars, right at home.

[@francisconeves9189]

That's awesome! the background sound was recorded using portuguese voices. The woman says: "Tá filmando a gente?" that means in portuguese "Are you recording us?"

[@michaelbruns449]

Wow, like someday this kind of priceless haunting footage will be holographically projected, in super ultra high resolutions. Movement and sound in three dimensions, along with scents and flavors and feelings within virtual reality interaction capabilities.

[@mythicalirishman6346]

How far we've fallen in 120 years.

[@michellepaul8514]

We haven’t. People are almost the same back then as they are today. And the quality of life has improved a lot since then. Just cause their was a different style of clothes doesn’t mean that people are different.

[@Madeleine_des_Esseintes]

You typed these words into an incredibly complex technological device that is connected to the internet - something that no one 120 years ago (or 40 years ago) could even have imagined. Fallen indeed...

[@LivTavares]

Indeed! How absurd that women now can have rights, people of color are considered - gasp!! - people.... FYI: the world was pretty much the same except for people gaining rights and the clothing (which, if you want, you can actually still wear). Even those things are very similar to today, with both fast fashion, deadly capitalism over anything, quantity over quality and non-straight-white people suffering daily violence.

[@Krawn_]

@@LivTavares People of color invading the Western nations don't come from Adam and Eve.

[@dashoverton1963]

The trees are the same, the sun is the same, the horses too. Why have people changed? What I mean is “Is there some mysterious force that moves and changes humans forward but leaves other animals (like horses and dogs) unchanged?

[@Morgow1]

Luxury was how you dressed and not what car you drove or whose airplane was biggest. We've replaced fashion and character for technology and diversity.

[@michellepaul8514]

People haven’t changed that much. Just the clothing style has changed.

[@Madeleine_des_Esseintes]

@@Morgow1 That's not really true. People of the past also used their carriages to show off. (For instance, around 1800, the barouche was basically what a Ferrari is today.)

[@calamityjenn]

I could just cry, that's so beautiful!

[@fluor6614]

Oh my gosh. This is how Touluse Lautrec, Degas, etc, SAW their subjects....unbelievable. Thanks for the upload!!!

[@hellohello-in8ik]

everytime I see these old videos , people are very beautiful , beautiful dressed . there is something special about them , the way they walk , look. class

[@piscesgal1734]

Everything looks so simple and relaxing .. I love your videos

[@garrylarkin464]

When ladies WERE ladies!!!

[@leaturk11]

Brilliant work! keep them coming please.

[@Vailyn]

this is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@emiguerrerossantos6441]

The real French people

[@yagruumbagaarn]

These people are closer in time to the French Revolution than we are to them.

[@ericb5194]

And we are closer to the Vietnam, Korea, and Afghan war than we are to them, so what's your point?!!

[@yagruumbagaarn]

@@ericb5194 It's just surreal because we are seeing an HD color video of them, technology which we associate with the present. That they are past the halfway point with reference to a landmark historical event makes it that much starker.

[@guyinsf]

@@ericb5194 It was simply an observation to put historical events in perspective with us from the present time. It's quite amazing that the folks in this clip were closer to one of the great historical events in world history then were are to them in time and the fact that it's forever saved on film. That's actually quite an amazing observation and it doesn't have to have a point.

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

My goodness the tiny little waists 🗼

[@Stevo935]

I love these vids

[@lagomorph8951]

I used to wear sports streetwear and go chill there-.- I just read the description so now I know I need to dress up for this! Thank you, uploader 🙈😄

[@slywlf]

I am so grateful to CNN for including a link to this in my morning email! Now I am subscribed and have watched several of these delightful time trips - KUDOS for a job well done!

[@collettedumont1411]

I seem to see the paintings of Jean Beraud. Beautiful🤩

[@pangorban1]

Those young women today would be jogging or power walking with a heartbeat monitor and head phones, listening to music or podcasts, and constantly checking their phones for text messages. Those stifling corsets and massive hats and carting around a thousand yards of fabric may seem stylish and picturesque today, but it must have been exhausting to take a simple walk in the park. However, to be fair, they seemed to have lots of friends and acquaintances to talk to in the flesh, rather than over the phone.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

The corsets were not stifling - that's a common misconception. Corsets were fitted to the body properly, and only the wealthy fashion few would tighten them to extreme limits. Check out this channel for the lowdown: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbbe6ahd7-WjZI

[@sassymedea3065]

Keep in mind they would be wearing natural fibers instead of polyester so the clothes would be far less stifling than you would think.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

@@sassymedea3065 Then again, British soldiers wore wool coats over vests in tropical climates. Mad dogs and Englishmen, as they said.

[@pangorban1]

@@JonFrumTheFirst Even if they were fitted to the body, they were still restrictive. And if they fitted the body properly, why bother to wear them? I've worn a Victorian corset as part of a university history lecture. Standing upright was OK, in fact, quite comfortable. But any kind of sitting, slouching or lying down had the corset poking into me in all kinds of ways. I tried running for about ten minutes, which was OK, but when I stopped, the corset restricted the excess breathing that comes after exercise. When I took the damn thing off, I felt liberated and free. Oh, God. I can be me again!

[@pangorban1]

@@sassymedea3065 The Parisian summer is very hot. Less is more. Voluminous layers are still stifling, whether synthetic or natural fibre. Try wearing one of these gowns when you next go to the beach.

[@patfraser3869]

The beauty of European culture, lost forever.

[@daveoliver5838]

Who do you hold responsible?

[@ltgdr6298]

@@daveoliver5838 >80% of kid in north of paris and pari-suburb a non-white. White french are being remplaced

[@daveoliver5838]

@@ltgdr6298 Drastic changes like these don’t happen without government approval. Millions of the bogus refugees are also allowed to enter France on bogus passports and are allowed to pass through France to Britain. They should be stopped at the French border and returned to their countries of origin if they don’t have valid passport. Why is the French government allowing this to happen ?

[@ltgdr6298]

@@daveoliver5838 its basically legal to stay illegaly in France (illegal immigrant) just to tell you how crazy it is... Our prisons are full of stranger or immigrant descent... We are doomed, woke-ism blame every body pointing how bad it get...

[@ibeetellingya5683]

It's possible to take this genius to the next level, making it look like real time digital video, e.g., from hi-res cellphone, cam. Just a question of time before it becomes economical feasible to do so.

[@unemaindupeuple]

Tout à fait prodigieux ! Je pourrai regarder ce genre de vidéos des heures durant !