00:00 : On a river boat on the Seine in Paris in 2022
00:24 : Bois de Boulogne Paris in 1902 at the Porte Dauphine entrance. Two women walk past the camera, wearing long white Edwardian walking dresses. One has a parasol.
An early French automobile, possibly a De Dion Bouton scoots by in the background. Parisian women stroll past the camera wearing the latest belle époque styles. The walking skirts are still to the ground and require hoisting. A Parisian family, complete with attending nanny relax in the Bois de Boulogne woods. This footage was colorized using neural networks.
00:50 : Paris flea markets April 20th 1922.
Filmed along the Bouquinistes (book stalls) and Paris Flea markets, Les Halles. Today these same stalls ply their trade along the banks of the Seine. We also glimpse various artists at work along the embankment. Using AI neural networks, this silent film is colorized and enhanced to 4K 60fps and with an immersive soundtrack.
01:18 : Café de la Paix Paris in 1927. Silent film actress Pola Negri takes a seat in the now long departed treehouse bar of Robinson Pavillon Lafontaine. Le Dôme Café Paris in the Latin Quarter. Original footage taken by travel filmmaker Travis Burton. AI colorized film with sound design by Glamourdaze.
01:56 : Paris Champs Elysees in 1939 on the eve of WW2. A sidewalk café and later the gardens of Versailles. Filmed by Benjamin M Gasul. Original footage from the Holocaust museum.
02:20 : Paris after liberation and on VE day 1945. A local wedding between a French Parisian girl and an American GI Arthur Mainzer.
02:57 : Nouvelle Vague Paris in 1962. Beatnik man and woman with beehive hairstyle relax in a sidewalk café. The banks of the Seine. Browsing the bouquinistes on the banks of the Seine. Eiffel tower restaurant. Les Halles, Notre-Dame de Paris. Jardin des Tuileries and the Champs Elysées. .
03:33 : Luxembourg gardens Paris in 1971. A beauty salon along Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The fashion houses of Christian Dior and Jacques Heim. Bouquiniste Book Stalls on the Seine
03:57 : Paris along the Seine in 1984. Two young women sit at a fountain. That’s all!
04:17 : Paris in 2022. Various scenes around the Latin quarter. A pint in Teddy’s bar on the way to Place de la Contrescarpe (once home to a young Ernest Hemingway.) The bells of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont ( featured in Midnight in Paris) and outside Shakespeare and Company bookstore on Rue de la Bûcherie. Finally back to where we began on a river cruise past the Eiffel tower.
Music featured in : Time Travel Paris: 1902 to 2022 in 5 Minutes: AI Colour w/sound
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My Dreams In Reverse – P5 by Erick McNerney
Erik Satie – Gnossiene 2 – 30 Sec Piano Slow Nostalgic Vintage ( Item ID: 169229824) by Orange Bubble
Life Story – DreamnoteMusic ( Item ID: 201794846)
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Debussy Clair de Lune by pjames37 ( Item ID: 119832375 )
All films enhanced to 4k at 60fps using AI neural networks.
Colorized using Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06587
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