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A Day in 1920s Paris - enhanced video (Original Post)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2021
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Just_Vote_Dem
(3,569 posts)1. Really nice
I like how it doesn't seem to be "speeded up" like many videos I've seen of that era
sandensea
(23,187 posts)2. La belle epoque!
The guy at 1:10 was getting quite frisky, for 1927.
Paris does that to people - and back then, I can imagine, more so than now.
FirstLight
(15,771 posts)3. so very cool...
I'm just obsessed with Paris in the 20s !
I have read the Movable Feast multiple times
I noticed there were a few same sex couples dancing as well..!
SkeezerRedux
(94 posts)4. That's so cool! And colorized, too!
Did I catch a heretofore unseen glimpse of Brooksie* in the first dance sequence?
*Louise Brooks
dhill926
(16,953 posts)5. I swear I could sit at a Parisian cafe for the rest of my life...
sip on something and watch the world go by. Actually had a glass of bubbles at the Cafe de la Paix back in 2007....good times...
