The romanticized Jazz Age, replete with F. Scott himself has the classic footage with a soundtrack of the wonderfully exuberant music of. . .Tchaikovsky?! Nothing very jazzy, Parisian or French about Tchaikovsky. Offenbach's Can-Can could have made a better choice from the same then bygone era as the waltz. Of course, something from the Jazz Age would have been best, something signifying the seemingly endless gaiety that typified our own Roaring Twenties & that this short film cleverly captures sans soundtrack.
It may be me only but sometimes I desire being a part and have feelings of nostalgia on the moments that I never be able to belong to as the era above.
Thank you for posting this moving footage from 100 years ago! Simply amazing! Wouldn't these faces be shocked to know we were looking at them on our devices a century later!
Music by one of Les Six, or Josephine Baker singing, or maybe the Stravinsky Octet. Milhaud's Le Boef sur le Toit would have been perfect! But Tcahiakovsky's Dance of the flowers: Diaghalev would rightly have had a conniption!!! Satie and Cocteau, each for his own reasons, would have either laughed or cried.
The romanticized Jazz Age, replete with F. Scott himself has the classic footage with a soundtrack of the wonderfully exuberant music of. . .Tchaikovsky?! Nothing very jazzy, Parisian or French about Tchaikovsky. Offenbach's Can-Can could have made a better choice from the same then bygone era as the waltz. Of course, something from the Jazz Age would have been best, something signifying the seemingly endless gaiety that typified our own Roaring Twenties & that this short film cleverly captures sans soundtrack.
Folks sure dressed with style and class !!!
It may be me only but sometimes I desire being a part and have feelings of nostalgia on the moments that I never be able to belong to as the era above.
Same here brother
Me too! Sometimes I feel as though I was born in the wrong generation.
Wonderful short. Thank you!!
If they only knew 10-15 years later what would happen to their country. Love seeing old footage from the past.
Thank you for posting this moving footage from 100 years ago! Simply amazing! Wouldn't these faces be shocked to know we were looking at them on our devices a century later!
They’d just say Poh !
Oh Paris chérie que je t'aime !
Good . Thank you .
Music by one of Les Six, or Josephine Baker singing, or maybe the Stravinsky Octet. Milhaud's Le Boef sur le Toit would have been perfect! But Tcahiakovsky's Dance of the flowers: Diaghalev would rightly have had a conniption!!! Satie and Cocteau, each for his own reasons, would have either laughed or cried.