That's right…you're looking at France in 1896. Everybody's dead now! The babies, the cat, the plants, and every blade of grass would've been over 100 years old back in 1996. Thanks to the science of artificial intelligence (AI), this film looks like it could've been shot in the 1950's. There's none of the jerkiness and super-fast walking speeds we're used to in film from this era. By colorizing these images and adjusting the frame rate, everything moves at a smoother, more natural pace, so it looks more real to the human eye. Now we can focus on who they were and what they're doing, and see detail that wasn't evident in the original footage. When the Lumiere brothers shot this film in 1896, their jerky, black and white moving images were considered a miracle of modern science. Photography was still a very new technology that came into its own during the American Civil War. And now those still pictures were moving, showing people going about their day. They never imagined that the technology of the 21st century would give us the ability to see their lives in real time, the way it looked to them when they shot this film. This is a gift to those of us who love history. The baby would over 120 years old today. The elderly in these images had grandparents born in the 1700's. Their grandfathers might have stormed the Bastille or witnessed the death of Marie Antoinette. I find that fascinating! These denizens of the 19th century have been dead for decades. But artificial intelligence allows us to see the world as they saw it. We can peer into the past and see their world in real time, and in color. Seeing them life sized in VR really does feel like time travel.