SNAPSHOT
The start of motion pictures, late 1890’s. Rare film of cities, towns and countries. High-quality remastered prints from the Lumiere archives and EYE Film Museum. (synopsis via Laughing Squid)
Getting out and about at the moment is a challenge for a great many people with the Delta strain of COVID-19 going out of it small but smart virus-laden mind to make life as small and contained as possible.
Thankfully while our bodies may have to stay put, we can still roam far and wide through the power of books, TV and films, with the latter being the subject of this post courtesy of musician Dhruva Aliman who has married his sublimely wonderful music with moving images from the 1890s.
Sourced from the Lumiere Archives, these small snippets of life from a far bygone age take us on quite the journey notes Laughing Squid:
“[The video is] a wonderful compilation of footage from the 1890s that shows what cities around the world looked like at the time. Included in the cities that were visited are Jerusalem, Bohemia, Moscow, London, Selkirk, New York City, Geneva, Berlin, and Paris, just to name a few.”
It’s fascinating to see how different and yet similar these cities are at that time and how wonderfully natural people are (for the most part), all to music that compliments it perfectly and creates a perfect meditative sense of time and place.