1940s - Views of Los Angeles & San Francisco in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2022
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Los Angeles and San Francisco 1940s , we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔sound design added only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: A/V Geeks on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/ia3500000...
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/ia3500000...
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@@jovanka--------6003 やめようね！
Love love love this channel particularly san francisco
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Love your videos and it looks like the 40s but I think this video was shot in the early 50s because you can see a 1953 Ford Victoria at 3:18
Words can never describe how much I love this channel. I can go full screen on my pc and just pretend for a few minutes I'm in a completely different universe. Awesome picture quality! 🏆🥇
I've got to wonder if this is not a different reality or dimension.???
Alternate timeline maybe?
We're definitely living in
one now. Photographic
Technology back then was
nowhere near what it is in
This timeframe. I suspect
Digital cameras were in play here.
Well said!!
@@paulmaudlin7651 Nonsense. Film photography, especially black and white, could be every bit as sharp and high resolution as anything now in digital. It depended on the photographer, the camera, and the film. Only recently has digital photography equaled the best of film. And what do you mean, “I suspect digital cameras were in play here.”? That doesn’t even make sense. What has been done is a very skilled digital restoration which was then colorized.
could also play mafia 2 or l.a noire on pc maxx settings modded for the exact same effect accept youll be able to free roam it all :)
It’s crazy that this is actually real!! Man I wish I had a time machine. I know there was good and bad in every time period, but something about this just seems so classy, nice, fashionable, and more genuine.
Same here
@Mister Google Yeah . .about 80 billion times better !
I absolutely love this channel, these clear nostalgic clips give me a feeling like no other. Wish I had a time machine.
I’d go with you if you did!
In a way, this is a time machine 😉
I wonder if young people from the year 2100 will look back at early 2000 videos with a similar feeling...
@@mystic2982 probably yes! 😉
Films are the closest thing to a "time machine".
It looks like a movie set - too beautiful to be real. The design aesthetic of everything (including the signs/clothing etc as well as the architecture) is exquisite. It all looks remarkable clean as well compared to today. Things got really shabby.
Easier to keep clean when population is many times lower compared to today.
@@MultiJejje Well, that’s not true at all. Until the the 2000 or the 2010 census (can’t remember which offhand) San Francisco had its highest population in the 1950 census. For about the next fifty years it dropped, although the population of the Bay Area as a whole kept growing. You can look it up. Population has little to do with it. It’s attitude and a sense of both community and personal responsibility that make a difference.
@@MultiJejje I highly doubt California's population at that time was some sort of miniscule number compared to today. Maybe it was less but not that much less. No. I think it has to do with something else completely but I'll leave that subject alone.
@@MultiJejje yeah, make excuses for our sinful deteriorated society !!
@@MerlinTheCommenter Amen
The San Francisco film is from slightly different times. At 1:55 is a MUNI 1949 Twin Coach trackless trolley on Market Street. At 5:03, some MUNI 1951/1952 Marmon-Herrington trackless trolleys can be seen on Market Street near Powell. But at 5:54, Market Street still had four sets of street car tracks and "Iron Monster" street cars. That was before the PCC cars had arrived and before Market Street got any trackless trolleys. I'd say that was circa late 1944. The outer two sets of the four tracks were removed starting in December of 1944, after the MUNI had taken over the Market Street Railway Co. I loved those White buses. The MUNI had many Whites, but later settled on a large number of Mack buses. Based on what I've seen and with the automobiles, most of the San Francisco film is circa 1953, with the exception of the brief clips around 5:54, which was prior to December of 1944.
Wow. You seem to be an expert on this! As a native, I remember SF streetcars and buses back to 1960, and by that time none had cowcatchers, so that section of the film was definitely older.
Whoa cool. You know your SF transportation. I just remember the old green and cream streetcars we used to ride for the 5 cent student fares in the 1970s. But if it's 1953 then I would have to go over to Oakland and meet my mom who was graduating from high school in that year. Got it! Now I know where to go on the time travel journey. Cool.
I was thinking the same thing - mostly do to the lack of any military WW2 service men and women on leave in the streets or anything else emblematic of the war can be seen. For that reason- I thought the film must be late 1940's or very early 1950's.
Nice information in your comment, @jeff. Also at 1:55 the Burt Lancaster Joan Fontaine movie is no doubt “Kiss The Blood Off My Hands” a film noir thriller from 1949 as shown on the marquis sign.
Also, you can spot some 1950-1954 cars if you look closely. Since they're much newer than the rest, most will be older cars. But it does indicate that much of the filming was done during the very early 1950's as well.
That Cadillac at the very beginning was beautiful. Such a great era.
A Kaiser Manhatten police car, now I've seen everything! Beautiful restoration of early 50's city life.
01:48 The girl looking at the cop car and then back at the camera looked nervous ! She did it a few times.
Wonderful time capsule!
.10 1948 Cadillac Fleetwood
1:10 1946-47 Mercury
3.16 1951 Mercury
3.20 1953-54 Ford
3:25 1953-54 Buick
3:52 1952 Pontiac Convertible
You missed the 1954 Kaiser cop car!
@@390rambler lol. I saw it!
4:07 1950 buick
These bring tears to my eyes as what was is no more. I was born in 70s and from these videos I can see a truly remarkable era that I've missed . Course back then was taken for granted all that was , for as of today's times I see just how much was taken for granted compared back then. Maybe I'm not saying this properly. I just see the big difference from an era that was clean, respectful, trust in neighborhoods, kids could play around the neighborhoods, now they can't even go outside and still get shot in their own houses by drive by shooting. I don't cry for the today's or tomorrows anymore. I cry for the what once was, and will never be again.
В то время не было телевизора, интернета, мобильных телефонов, но люди общались друг с другом больше, ум был более пытливый в добывании информации.
I think you are overlooking a very important fact: they did not have Nacho Doritos back then
@@JustFunandGames no but they did have candy!! AND THAT I can deal with 😁
@@user-ll4rx3gk5c ??
@@midnightstarr5413 they are saying "there was no TV, no internet, no mobile phones. People communicated with each other more. The mind was more inquisitive in obtaining information."
Film starts: going north on Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, turns right onto Seventh Street (the street with the streetcars, which, later, the tracks would be removed. Metrorail subway tunneled directly under that block of Seventh Street 1988-1990)...then turns right (south) on Hope Street, stops mid-block. The rest of the film is San Francisco.
So many others are doing these videos with music backgrounds. Your videos are fantastic with the sounds you would actually hear if you were walking down the street. So realistic so accurate your videos are definitely the best. Thank you for these recreations.
My neighbor who just turned 84, said this is definitely the early '50s, maybe '54 because women's hair and fashion was still '40s influenced. She said women's hair and fashion didn't start "going down the dumper" until '55. I've seen old movies from the 40s and the 50s and I agree with her. Women in the 40s looked elegant and sexy.
great insight from her! I had my suspicious that the beginning of the crap started in 1955, with the "rebels without a cause" generation, then the hippies appeared...
@@oberon79 The "Beatniks" were the precursors of the hippies. That being said, Faye, my knowledgeable neighbor says the '60s fashion improved big time throughout the decade. My dad heartily agrees!
@@windsorkid7069 yeah I guess the "hippies" always existed in society somehow. The 20´s was also a huge break point to american society, where the modern life started.
You got a good neighbor who talks about youtube. Haha. Is she staying healthy?
Wow, my dad was somewhere fighting in the South Pacific and mom was still a kid. Thanx so much for uploading this!! My parents met at Haight and Ashbury 😊
The San Francisco of my Parents: Working Class, Civilised, Affordable, everything that San Francisco isn't now
You don’t like a good smash ‘n grab?
To the delusion degenerates they consider it "progress".
If you think the whole of San Francisco is uncivilized, it's clear you haven't been around much of it. There's some shit parts but it's not all bad here.
Affordable ... yeah, definitely not.
You don’t live in San Francisco
@@UV_Lightning We don’t, thank god.
why, its so beautiful, my grandmothers sister lived here. She was born in 1927 and came here with my dad because of they’re acting career
I enjoy your historical views of various cities, especially those of California.
I believe that these scenes of San Francisvo are from a couple of different time periods, however.
I spotted a 1954 or 1955 Studebaker Conestoga station wagon (only built in 54 & 55) and the use of White Motor city buses, would indicate prior to 1955. The Muni started taking delivery of Mack "D" series buses that year.
Nonetheless, your updated views are greatly appreciated and a wonderful look at our past history. Thank you and keep it up!
This was awesome! I love being transported back to another decade that I never lived in! Thank you for posting!
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I enjoy being transported back to a decade that I DID live in! I can show grandchildren how it was in MY childhood years and, since the footage is restored and semi-colorized, it gets their attention, especially when I cast it to my 75" screen! Thank you so much for putting the work into these archival films. They are a wonderful tool to "relive" portions of my younger life.
Wow. Your sharpest remastered video to date. It's as sharp as the eye sees it! What new technology did you use?
It's called Cameras from the time. Those existed much to all of your and everyone else's no knowledge of the time.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar I think what he means is that it is much sharper than most films from that time. Even if they were originally very sharp many films degrade with time.
@@odietamo9376 film is inherently sharp, save the early 8mm format. It's the remastering onto media that varies in quality due to the different techniques used.
@@2mikelim “Films are inherently sharp”? Not necessarily. Some are better than others. The cameras used, and how the film was exposed-the lighting, etc-also make difference. Some films are/were formulated to be sharper than others. And I must repeat that many films degrade over time; depends on the film, how they are stored and so forth.
Some vehicles were actually early 50's models. I would say this is very early 50's, not the 40's as titled. Great stuff, though. I love it!
Especially that Olds at 3:27 Or was that a Pontiac?
Thought I saw a 55 Chevy. Several early 50s cars. Nit a complaint just saying. Loved it! I lived on Tresure Island in 1965 going to Navy RDA School.
At I don't see one unwanted, uninvited, uneducated Freeloading Illegal or ANTIFA homeless Bum
Newest car I saw was 1954.
@@funfact8660 And you just made this historical video political in the most stupid way imaginable.
And everyone in this video is an antifascist because America just finished killing nazis.
@NASS: I'm sure people are wondering "who shot all this, and why?" This is called "process footage" or "production footage" and was shot by one or more of the major Hollywood studios (MGM, Warner Bros etc.) using the highest quality equipment. It is purposely as generic as possible. A typical application: On a sound stage, indoors, you have a car cut in half, Bogart and Bacall are talking in the back seat, the front half of the car is gone, replaced by camera, lights, mic, etc. Behind the car, seen through the rear window, is a rear-projection screen on which are shown the street scenes you see in these videos. It looks like the actors are having a conversation in a real car traveling through the city.
Apparently these films have found their way out of the studio's archives for us to enjoy. I recommend you visit the Prelinger Archive of ephemeral films; there is a lifetime's worth of material like this, lots of home movies and films with real color (Kodachrome doesn't degrade). The paint colors on these old cars are spectacular!
This is an amazing channel. Thank you for your hard work and for posting these.
When I was young I watched Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Vertigo" .
I still remember how I was mesmerised by the San Francisco urbanity from the 50s. And of course big American cars. Thank you for showing fantastic video.
i watched, the birds only the other day and felt the same vibes.
Love it. People dressed so well and cars had real style. Loved riding the cable cars and the streetcars on the F line.
I totally agree, especially the way people dressed. That was quite a time. Makes me wish I had a time machine, I'd go back and stay for a while.
Incredible I had no idea they manually turned the trolleys. Amazing work Loved every minute- Thank you.
imagine, you do this turning the whole day 🤔
looks like hard work!
Big WOW - kudos on the editing, restoring and rendering ♥
@NASS I really love your videos and how you remaster the film quality to show years from the past. After looking at SF, CA here where I live from the 1940's I subscribe to your channel thanks for sharing this history of yesterday's.
Started watching your channel about a week ago, and since then I at least watch between 5 or more videos a day, give or take.... LOL.... I just want to thank you for the work you do preserving part of History. I see signs in the background that I had no idea the stores were around that long? Sure a store will say " been around for 50 years." But until you watch a video, and see how small some of the stores that are big conglomerates now does it really sink in. For example I saw a sign that read ( Target) it was just a little store. Now I get a real sense of what it means to for some companies to work their butt off to get where they are today. So much more I want to say but I'll save that for another comment. Thank you again for what you do and please do not stop!
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The first 1:42 is footage of downtown Los Angeles, then all San Francisco thereafter. All great and unique footage.
Look at how smooth the pavement is.
Sound gets better all the time...you added footsteps (Foley) nice!
What wonderful footage of a wonderful looking place.
Back then, yes. I wonder about now.
@@1940limited Now? In San Francisco? As we say in NYC Fooooooorggeeeeeehed about it!
Superb quality! We need this kind of video enhancement for ww2 footage!
The first part is Los Angeles. The car stops at Hope and 5th. LA Public Library and Church of the Open Door can be see up the street.
and not one Homeless loser in sight
@@funfact8660 Cue the dumb homeless jokes.
Sharp eye. You are correct
Starts going north on Flower Street, turns right onto 7th Street (the street with streetcars), turns right onto Hope Street, goes about mid-block. The rest is San Francisco.
@@bannedheretic2971 0:12 I thought that corner building looked familiar.
from 0:00 to 1:42 --- the 1st rear dash cam and from 5:52 to 6:10 front dash cam ever in 82 years. amazing! clear picture. thank you for sharing this great video!
Absolutely stunning!
Absolutely mesmerizing! Amazing restoration!
Nice video , perfectly clear. Thanks for sharing.
I’m from the S.F. Bay are born in ‘55 and of course have visited many times. It’s wonderful to see S.F. Before I was born. Love it!! New subscriber.
Why do I suddenly crave Rice-A-Roni?
🙂👍
I was thinking ANTIFA
Cause your mama doesn't cook.
@@clintonflynn815 she spent 15c for a box and a nickel for an envelope of koolaid.
Because you’re a sucker for advertising.
00:15 Nice Cadillac.
I think it's a 49. The limo used the old body style for one more year.
At 2:40, it appears the man in the foreground and woman in the background were taking direction from someone. Both can be seen standing still, and then at the exact same moment, they both begin walking towards each other.
Very few traffic signals, every man for himself! Love the cable car segment.
The clarity is so incredible it's actually uplifting. Don't care if a couple of care were 51/52. Takes me to my happy place.
Great, clear mastery of old film.
I was born in San Francisco in 1954. And my parents lived there after WWII.
Thanks
This Channel is really fantastic, thank you
Интересные трамваи ) Без проводов сверху , и первый раз вижу такой ручной разворот ))
по рельсам токопровод.
I love seeing the old cars-when they were new! So, too, the people who built this former paradise.
Former?
NASS - nice work! Your subject film must have been well lit and added to your magic - a classic.
i love this channel so much!!! thank you nass
This channel is awesome! I love those videos from 40's and 60"s. Such a magical time. Although it's a little sad to know that every person shown in this video is now dead.
The Tonga Room at 3:20. Still serving up cocktails and going strong today!
This is the early 1950s also in some of the clips..saw a 54 Ford, 53 Buick.
At least no unwanted, uninvited, uneducated, Freeloading ANTIFA homeless and Illegal Aliens hanging out on the streets though
@@funfact8660 The liberals today wouldn't like that!
@@1940limited Liberals are parasites, but Fun Fact is a simpleton.
It’s a mix of films from both the 40s and the 50s.
@@clintonflynn815 says some emotional, mentally challenged, Simpleton and Laughingstock, playing defense for that unpopular, unpatriotic Socialist Democrat Party, Politicians and that Alzheimer's ridden, Dixiecrat Dotard, counterfeit President Biden, the international Weakling and Buffoon
боже как же тогда было красиво , такое чувство что одновременно находишься тогда и одновременно сейчас , такие же люди , такие же дома и так далее
With each video the color gets better and better. The cars are no longer changing color, and the road is not as green. I am amazed at this technology. Great work, as usual. Wow, and this one...the best yet.
So amazing and vivid video, so great experience, thanks.
OMG even greater resolution and overall visual quality! Another great ride from NASS, folks.🤩
Очень интересно, блестящая работа! Наилучшие пожелания из России, Санкт - Петербург!
What did you say?
Nass, You never cease to amaze me. I have never seen so many extraordinary videos of vintage 1930's-60's scenes and beyond in my life ! Most beautiful cars, trolley's and scenes here indeed !
In this video-The beginning Up to 1:38 it look's like 1948 to the 1950's to me. At 0:10 a most beautiful car for sure ! It's ENORMOUS !! Plus At 1:43 it look's like 1955' to 1963 ? Well done but this video is not all the 1940's. Thank's for another spellbinding and exciting upload. Please keep them coming.
The car you mention in the beginning at 0:10 is an old Cadillac Sedan 1946/47 with the opening of the video and makes the turn and the one at 1:43 that's parked is an old Ford Mercury unless you're referring to the one with the big grille that's coming toward the camera. That might be an old Packard from the mid-1930's.
@@OSTARAEB4 Thank's for telling me what kind of car model it was at 0:10. I did not know. I appreciate it. Plus at 1:43 I was just reffering to what year the setting was, not any car. Thank's very much for your reply and help. 😊😊
@@sonnycorleone2602 My pleasure. It’s downtown Los Angeles with the library in the background. At 1:44-45, it Switches to San Francisco.
@@OSTARAEB4 it's a 1931 Chysler. Honestly people get your automobile knowledge up to date. This is not difficult to figure out..your all making it out to be some impossible event.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar great scott! 1931 Chrysler was beautiful
Excellent channel
Thank you so much
Красивый город, красивые люди! И не было бомжей как сейчас на улицах
Чтобы жить надо было работать
Please change from 1940's to 1950's. A few of the cars were very early 1950's. Great job of colorization. Thanks for sharing.
A Kaiser police car! So cool. All your video's are great but this one really stands out! Awesome! The turntable amazing. You can see a lady looking toward the camera.
It’s a sobering thought to stop and think I was already born back when this was filmed, and Harry S Truman was our President!
Anyway, don’t know about you guys, but I’m always ready to time travel every time one of these remarkable films is uploaded.
Actually, I would go back in a heartbeat!
Love this! Great video!
Amazing Images , Thank *you for* the video 👏🙏
Excellent as always.
Great videos...keep up the great work...!
Such a piece of video.... you re awesome!!!
2:16 Schicke Dame. Die Straßenbahnen und O-Busse sind großartig.
2:16 Chic lady. The trams and trolleybuses are great.
Amazing film, beautiful work 👍👌😀
Yes my father lived in San Francisco when I was a child, I lived in Los Angeles with my mother and sisters. I would visit him there. He was working class, and so was the city largely. It was a wonderful place.
Wonderful work you've done, and thanks so much for sharing it with us! I was especially fascinated by the men riding on the exterior of the cable car at about the 3-minute mark. People in those days were smarter--they were able to comport themselves without managing to get killed and the family inviting a scavenger (aka lawyer) in to bankrupt the companies involved. And the cable-car turnaround at about 5:00--thanks for throwing that in!
Watching the cars I think, "I want that one & that one & that one I want them all" but to them they were on every street, about a dime a dozen. It's just what everyone had & drove.
Nice work!
4:31 It´s very interesting that the typography of that brands that for us appeared old in this footage it looks so futuristic
Great job, the colors look so natural
Very good
Thank you for the video
Как интересно: люди ходят по проезжей части,где хотят. И как элегантно все одеты! Всегда обращаю на это внимание.
Thanks for sharing.
This channel is our 'time machine' into the past.
Wow, never knew SFPD had Kaiser patrol cars. (1:48)
Maravilhoso. Obrigado. Esta filmagens é da época ou não. Porque é linda. Gratidão.
@NASS This is by far the best resolution of the 1940s!!! Feel like I was walking back in time😃🤩 Please continue doing this, would love to see you revive World War 2 videos with HD-like qualities like this!👍👍👍🤟🤘
This is 50's.
Great post, thanks.
I love the first shot, crisp and smooth. My beautiful city.
I remember as very little kid waiting in the middle of the street for an L.A. streetcar, it always seemed so dangerous.
I brought a *QLED 50" TCL* 2 weeks ago. Watching these *videos* on the TCL is the closest thing I'll ever get to *Time Travel*
From *New Zion* ☝🏾🇳🇿
Amazing!
I love this channel. Adore going back in time and these videos give you that nostalgia. I have always hoped when we go to Heaven, we can be in a different time period of our choice. 🙏. Thank you; these come close. Beautiful job!!! ☺️😁
At 3:16, what is the thing on the window of the car passing the trolly?
thanks for video. its cool experience
il y avait du charme avant , j'aime bien la californie, j'étais pas trop usa mais quand j'ai decouvert cette region j'ai bien aimé
Amazing quality. Just a pity you couldn’t colour it properly, but still a fantastic job.
Relaxing images, very cool. 🌹🍀💪🤛🤟👍
Brilliant job! Bravo! 🥳🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏👏👏
Выглядит очень натурально! Будто бы из окошка наблюдаешь прохожих и движение машин! 👍
Great Work @NASS . I have watched several videos and come to the conclusion. Drivers had patience and SUCKED at driving!
thank you so much
The color and sound make this time come alive in this video
It’s a mix of films from both the 40s and the 50s.