Thread by @JamesLucasIT

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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