San Francisco RARE FOOTAGE 1940s in COLOR w/SOUND 60fps
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2022
- Cruise down the streets of San Francisco, California in the 1930's.
Video/Film Restoration Efforts:
* Originally shot on Film
* Converted to video
* Converted to 60 frames per second
* Colorized using computer software
* Sound added for effect only
* Color correction stabilization performed
* Historical data added just for nostalgia
Be aware that video restoration efforts are not always accurate. Colorization of video/film is complex. Artificial Intelligence Tools (AI) or computer software is only as good as the algorithms designed to understand the colors. Colorization is ambiguous since we are trying to go from grayscale to a 3-D signal created around mixtures of red, green and blue. So while it may not be perfectly and historically accurate, it has come a long way over the years. So try and enjoy the efforts to colorize the past as best as we can.
Software Used
I use a variety of editing software from Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere, Avid to Edius. It depends on the project.
Black & White Source Video/Film:
archive.org/details/pet1186r5sf
archive.org/details/pet1171r3
Special thanks and appreciation to: AV Geeks
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FYI at 0.23 - "9.5 mph is the average speed of a cable car" - the blue bubble is pointing at an eastbound 9 Richland streetcar passing a westbound 31 Balboa streetcar. The 1906 earthquake ended cable car service on Market St. The electric streetcars shown in this video replaced them beginning on May 2,1906. But the 9.5 mph average speed is correct for a cable car whether it be in the 1940's or today. The 4 tracks on Market St accommodated both the Market St Railway and the Municipal Railway streetcar lines. The Market St Railway was absorbed into the Muni Railway decades ago and eventually the outer tracks removed. You can still occasionally see some of these old streetcars running on both the E and F lines (Muni's historic streetcar lines) however most of the rolling stock for the E and F are from the late 40's and 50's (PCC cars painted in the liveries of cities all over the US + some streetcars purchased from other cities (Hiroshima, Melbourne, Blackpool, Milan etc).
wow, was that telegraph hill?...looks so much better today...lotsa sailors downtown...from treasure island, alameda & hunters point naval shipyard, i'm guessing...thanks for uploading!
It’s so wonderful looking back at these areas. Especially when you know them and how much they’ve changed. Thanks for viewing
Please kill the sound FX on the captions and get rid of the balloons. Otherwise, this is really great work.
Agree it ruined the film
I really like the trivia bubbles but rather them be smaller and without the sound when they pop up. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy this sort of thing.
I'm looking for my dad. He would be out on the street corner selling newspapers.
The street car you pointed at was not a cable car, it was an electric trolley car. But otherwise a really wonderful video. Thanks for sharing it with up.
electric streetcars can go up to 40 or 50 mph if the traffic is not present or a private right of way is provided in some parts of the city---just like trains.
I lived in the best part of San Francisco and the rents there were then $4 dls a month, not $200, that's impossible, nobody would be able to rent these apts, jobs were at 10¢ a day, that was for the 30's and part of the 40's.
Exactly. There's no way rents were that high back then.
He talks about movie tickets being 55 cents, but that's a lot back in 1944. My mother gave me and my sister each a quarter to go to the movies on a Saturday. A good complete dinner was $ 2.00 or less. Bus and trolley fares were 10 cents. Kids rode to school on the trolley for 5 cents. When I was a kid, I got paid 50 cents an hour for a job !! Neighbors gave me a quarter to shovel snow off of their sidewalk. I'm not kidding.
@@Jeff-uj8xi Movie tickets were $1.25 in the 70's, so 55 cents seems pretty outrageous for the 40's
I rented an apartment in 1969 - 1973 on Sacramento St at Jones for $125. month.
@@MrStevenjv That sounds about right. My family was renting a 4 bedroom house in San Lorenzo for $250 back in 1973
It says painted on the road slow school I mean how much slower can they go unless they have a big thumping v8
NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1946 DODGE, FORD, MERCURY, CHEVY !
The movie Song of Bernadette was made in 1945 in which this home film was made.
Those are not cable cars, they are electric street cars - trolley cars - and these probably could hit 35 MPH. More modern trolley cars can hit about 50.
problem with these colorizations not produced professionally there is too much purple. what should be black is purple like the cars, when the film is shot from a moving car it's best left b&w because than it's just a colored mess & colors change a perfect example is at 9:55 -10:35 watch clothes & cars change colors because the lower end colorization programs cannot separate the colors especially ridding the purple hue from everything. this is why colorized films in hollywood are so expensive & tedious
It is not a perfect colorization. And it says that. It’s using AI technology to try to recognize every pixel and decide what color is correct. But it is not perfect. But getting better each and every year
The film shows the four streetcar tracks on Market Street. The four streetcar tracks ran the length of Market Street, the outer pair for the publicly owned Municipal Railway (Muni), the inside tracks used by its private competitor, Market Street Railway Co. (MSRy. On May 16, 1944, San Francisco voters approved the acquisition of MSRy, on the premise that it would be paid for by Muni’s increased wartime profits. The nearly two-to-one vote came after a vigorous campaign by the new Mayor, Roger Lapham, for consolidation of the systems.The two systems officially became one at 5:00am on September 29, 1944, when Mayor Lapham piloted an old MSRy streetcar out of Muni’s Geary Division. The removal of the outer two tracks began in December of 1944. So this film was probably prior to September 29th of 1944 when all four tracks were still in service.
I like the trivia
Fortune cookies were not invented there, but in Japan in the 19th century.
It was a time before the homeless took over the sidewalks. A time before open drug dealing, use and used syringes everywhere. Before car break ins, violent assaults, rampant theft and shops closing because of high crime. It must have been a great time.
At 8:35 that elderly gentleman might have been an infant when Abraham Lincoln was president.
Interesting thought
I figure he's about 157 years old in 2022
Nah,everyone looked old in these movies. He’s probably only 35.
That didn’t look like sf bay, mountains look awfully high and that didn’t look like ocean beach. Unless ocean beach was more sub tropical back then
It does look a lot different. It’s just changed so much overtime.
Ok enough with the pop up
The streets were poorly paved back then...lots of potholes and obstacles..no white street signs yet.
rent in 1940's 100 to 200 Nah..
With my salary of 2010 when I retired. I would be living like a king in San Francisco in those days before the hippies and the foolish younger generation took over the city.
The hippies and "foolish" younger generation are now senior citizens who cannot afford to live in SF because of the "foolish" tech generation and greedy real estate/developers who have priced so many (in all age groups) out of the rental/homeowner market.
bailed halfway due to the distracting pop-ups, video will turn up elsewhere...
A search says the 1st Mc Donalds opened in 1948... you need to research better.