Here's what the world looked like a century ago - thread 🧵
1. Kids on the streets of England in 1901
2. Snowball fight in Lyon, France, in 1896. Some things are timeless.
3. San Francisco in 1906
4. London in the 1930s
5. Paris in the 1920s
6. Driving through New York City in 1911
7. Egypt in 1897
8. Milan, Italy, in 1896
9. Amsterdam in 1922
10. Barcelona in 1909
11. Berlin in 1896
12. Jerusalem in 1896
13. The Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral in 1896
14. Londoners in 1931
15. Chicago in the 1930s
16. Lunchtime in Paris in the 1920s
17. Fifth Avenue, New York, 1929
18. Los Angeles in the 1930s
19. Kyoto in 1897
20. Paris in 1902
21. Dublin in the 1890s
22. Vienna in 1896
23. Geneva, Switzerland, in 1896
24. Moscow in 1896
25. Naples, Italy, in 1929
26. Detroit in the 1920s
27. Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1905
Renamed Istanbul in 1930, Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire (330–1204, 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922).
28. Broadway in 1896
29. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1909
30. Manhattan Waterfront in the 1930s
Most of these films were originally produced by the Lumière Company. Later, the footage was meticulously restored, colorized, speed-corrected, and, in some cases, sound was added to make the scenes more relatable.
I wonder what our ancestors would think of us and of our world today.
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