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James Lucas@JamesLucasIT · Mar 28, 2025

Colorized footage is like a time machine 🧵 1. English kids in 1901, 124 years ago

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A thread of colorized historical footage from the late 1800s and early 1900s, showing everyday scenes and moments from London, Paris, Berlin, Jerusalem, San Francisco, and other cities. The collection demonstrates that human experiences like joy, curiosity, and play have remained constant across more than a century of technological and social change.

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    Colorized footage is like a time machine 🧵 1. English kids in 1901, 124 years ago

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    2. One of the first cat clips ever, 1899. "Little girl and cat" by the Lumière brothers. Everything is the same, yet everything changed...

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    3. Jerusalem, April 1897

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    4. Berlin after WWII, July 1945

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    5. A man staring at you from 123 years ago. Denmark, 1902.

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    6. Snowball fight in Lyon, France, 1896. Joy has no era.

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    7. San Francisco in 1906 "A Trip Down Market Street" is a film produced by the Miles Brothers of a cable car as it travels through the thoroughfare. It captures the city just four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, which destroyed over 80% of the city.

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    8. Workers atop the Chrysler Building without safety equipment, 1929

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    9. The Hindenburg disaster, 1937

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    10. London in the 1930s

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    11. Soldier in 1918

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    12. A newsstand in New York City, 1930s

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    13. Two kids posing for the camera in Poland in 1920

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    14. Rollerblading in 1923 In the 1920s, speeding around on wheels became a favorite hobby of hip Parisians, with cycle-skaters strapping wheels to their feet. This innovative trend served as a distant prototype of the rollerblades we know today.

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    15. American automobile leap show, 1922

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    16. Paris in 1900

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    17. Manhattan Waterfront, 1930s

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    18. England, 1901. Everyone is intrigued by the camera.

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    19. Here's what the world looked like around 100 years ago

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    20. Constantinople, 1905 Officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, (330–1204, 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922).

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