Paris 1900 – a motion picture created by the Brothers Lumière

The pioneers of photography and the inventors of motion pictures, the Lumière brothers created a number of photos between 1896 to 1900 depicting the everyday life of contemporary Paris. The series of snapshots have been restored and revitalized meticulously by Guy Jones who even added an audio track to the silent film. The result is a six-minute-long, amazing voyage back in time to the Paris of the “Belle Epoque”, where one can experience the metropole’s everyday street bustle, raise a hat to the typical passersby of the era and even get a close look at visitors of the actual World’s Fair enjoying the incredible technical achievement of a moving sidewalk. Our favorite characters are Laurel and Hardy on the Concorde Square, the death-defying cyclist on the Champs-Elysées (and the pedestrian who wants to cross the same avenue desperately), the boy being “gently” tossed out of the camera’s view in the Tuileries Gardens, and of course, last but not least, barely an adolescent at the time of shooting the film, the slender young lady who has since become the symbol of Paris.