An Afternoon In París, 1900 , This video was shot by The Lumi
Tbh seeing all of these colorized videos always makes me feel thrown off??? Like you think of 100 years ago as "100 years wow so long", but you then look at somthing like this and you think to yourself
"Oh....that could be me."
Gives me the willies
It's important to me that people know this. That little pond with the sailing boats on it? I'm not 100% certain which one this is, but if you go to the parks in Paris on a sunny day - particularly the Jardin du Luxembourg - you will see kids still sailing boats pretty much identical to the ones in the video. They still do that.
You have to wonder just how many boats there have been, how many little kids. Every time I walk past them I think of this video. So much has changed since these little ones were there with their boats. But there will be a group of kids there next weekend, or the one after, maybe. They'll have their toy boats and their sunhats and their friends. They'll hold races. A dad or an uncle or some other family member will film them, to preserve the moment.
They'll never meet any of the kids in this video. Their lives didn't even overlap.
They'll have this memory in common anyway.
