This is my all time favorite painting.
Posted on 09/17/2018 8:44:47 AM PDT by NRx
A collection of high quality remastered prints from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900. Footage slowed to a natural rate and sound added for ambiance. These films were taken by the Lumière company.
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Civilization went out the door
I think I saw Toulouse laTrec!..................
Megatons of horse manure, everywhere.
You were hot stuff if you had a bicycle. Even hotter if you could ride with no hands while checking your iPhone.
The women in the light dresses look very feminine.
And the moving sidewalk was cool.
Pre-mooslim filth.
Bkmrk.
If you are correct, I would do ANYTHING For your memory, eyesight and observational skills.
It’s obviously wintertime and there was a recent dusting of snow........CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!...............
One of the few similarities between then and now. There is still no shortage of idiots on bicycles trying to commit suicide in traffic.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Usually the viewer misses that when viewing old movies but this one was set at a slower speed plus the images were quite sharp. Paris was beautiful...but must have also stunk of horse manure.
Very interesting; thanks for posting.
There was a scene that looked like people on a moving sidewalk. How extraordinary for that time period! Do you know anything about it?
Well, it was either Toulouse or Helen Thomas..................
No fat people!
It may have been part of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 which is also seen around the 1 minute mark with people promenading.
This video looks like the calm before the storm. World War I set in motion the full-fledged destruction of Europe and its culture that we are witnessing today. It unleashed so many destructive evils - from modernist and nihilist thought, to Marxism, to central banking and fiat money.
Horse manure, flies on everything, contaminated water, no germ theory of disease, and an unsatisfactory answer to “Where is the bathroom?” most of the time.
However, it’s true that the people were tidily dressed (if not clean). I think it would be nice if we could have modern sanitation *and* tidy standards of dress in public.
This is my all time favorite painting.
And healthy gardens. ;-)
The manure issue was one of the reasons public health advocates of the time urged the adoption of motor vehicles. Today’s environmentalist wackos are too unread to know that.
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