ESTONIA in the 1930s
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2016
- The colour films (respectively from 1938 and 1939) are the property of Museum of Estonian Abroad (VEMU - Väliseesti Muuseum).
They were shot by an anonymous American film crew and distributed in the USA by Walter O. Gutlohn, Inc., 25 W. 45th St., New York City. There are some crude spelling mistakes (i.e."Tarter" instead of "Tartu", "Kradriorg" instead of "Kadriorg" etc), which gives evidence that these films were not either commissioned by Estonian authorities or made by Estonian studios.
The parts of Tallinn and Tartu that are shown, are mostly well preserved. The notable exceptions are the Oru Castle (residence of the Estonian President) and the historical Stone Bridge in Tartu, both destroyed by the retreating Red Army in August, 1941, and never restored. Some buildings (such as the Estonia National Theatre, St. Nicholas Church and others) were destroyed in the Soviet air raids in 1944 and rebuilt after the war. Narva, a beautiful baroque gem next to the Russian border, however, was completely levelled by the Soviet Army in 1944 and has never been restored to its former glory.
The main value of these films is in the fact that they are not propaganda pieces - not how WE wanted to show our country, but how OTHERS saw our country. - Hudba
It was a great honour to have had the privilege to find this film in a basement in Toronto, to restore it at the Library and Archives in Ottawa and pay for the digitization of it. I’m surprised to see it here under the name of Mart Sander!
Kes siis veel, kui mitte Mart Sander
We are most grateful to you for the efforts you made to get this film out to the world!
It is indeed a fantastic gem, to see old Estonia through the eyes of an USA filmcrew. And in splendid colour!
Beautiful country with Scandinavian levels of prosperity at the time - until the Soviets arrived.
@ultonian63 Well, although the interwar period of 20 years independence brought a lot of economic growth - mainly because of land reforms creating an agricultural boost which formed the prosperity of Estonia, the replacement of the Czarist Ruble and the establishment of the Estonian Mark in 1918, later the Kroon in 1929 and the trade focus on Western Europe, mainly Great Britain, Germany etc -, it was also a short period of polarization, in both a political and a social level. With this I mean a few events that occurred in a minor time: The in 1924 failed Estonian communist coup d'état attempt, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the directly following Great Depression, Konstantin Päts's self-coup in 1934, turning Estonia into a
dictatorship only worsening the situation in the young republic of pre-war Estonia.
Nevertheless, I like seeing the modernization of the Estonian capital of Tallinn, back then in the late thirties of the twentieth century, taking an example of the quite modern West European cities of that time. This video is also a great source of the differences between the twenties and the thirties, showing the improvements of systematical planning and maintenance in Tallinn: czcams.com/video/AWErPyF-Xgg/video.html
Besides, this video shows the first months of Nazi-German occupation of Tallinn in 1941, between August and September? Quite interesting if you ask me: czcams.com/video/qw_id04cm70/video.html
Well they are coming back now
@@FreekZoontjes Thanks for sharing your knowledge about the interwar period. My father escaped Tallinn and Estonia in '41 and I'm very interested in this period he grew up in before coming to Sweden. Can you recommend any further reading on this topic? First choice is online, books second choice. I'm in the US.
@@simonrunge6323 Did he escape because of the soviet deportations?
@@nickcarroll5034 No. He was actually one of the very few who escaped when the German occupiers started to conscript all the young men. Most people fled during the Russian occupation. As a Baltic German, I'm sure he preferred the Germans over the Russians, but had no interest in become canon fodder, and possibly fight other Estonians forced to fight for the Russians. He was on tour playing piano in a Jazzband at the time, and had to hide in the countryside for months before he could get to the coast where a small boat shipping coal took him to Finland, and then Sweden. He never saw his family again...There is a great Estonian movie called 1944 dealing with the topic.
So peaceful... I wish Estonia and Estonians all the best in the Future! You are unique as a nation!!!
Hello 👋
Soon we are all gone. Remember us with good words...
lovely city Tallinn, indeed Estonia is one of my favourite places to be.
I could recognize some of the structures right now in Old Town here in Tallinn,it really amazing for a country to maintain these medieval structures after the communist invasion and came out strong to be a foremost leader of Technological innovations in the world,long live Estonia.A proud student of Taltech
Such a great rare views from the past. Aitäh kiitos thanks
Our Mom was born in Estonia raised in a childrens home, and she left when she reaised the red army was coming (smart!) How utterly sad what they did to this beautiful little country! its so advanced even back then! Perfect mi of old and new. Everyone here looks so peacful and happy! No wonder she missed he homeland!
thing is, music liek that makes it much more so
Still, even without the music, us Estonians have all heard stories of the “good old time”
It must have truly been a time of great advance and economic prosperity, that most Estonians remember the time as so great. Of course nostalgia plays a part, but still, there is such an overwhelming ammount of people and stories. Even from those who worked simple jobs and lived in simple appartments, they remember that they managed to get out and party a lot, sport was in high honour, education made large strides, buildings were built with record speeds, and many still stand with great quality. National pride in their works and activities must have been a great motivator in creating a good society for all.
And we see something similar today, even if there are problems, the advances made after the end of soviet occupation are gigantic. People are happy to advance the economy, culture and social life of their own nation, and are happy to work for a better tomorrow for themselves and the nation.
Really great picture in colour! Never mind the little mistakes in the text...Tartu pro Tarter etc
Happy country, happy people. It was broken by brutal soviet occupation in 1940...
I desire to visit Estonia one day. Whether it be taking a trip to the past in Tallinn, viewing fashionable scarves in Parnu, looking out at Russia in Narva, it all seems wondrous.
Eläköön VAPAA Viro! Elagu VABA Eesti!
Idän barbaarit murskasivat tämänkin idyllin.
Barbaarid idast lõid puruks ka selle idülli.
Happy times, before war and Red plague.
+kaamoshaamu In Soviet Union, Tallinn was one of the richest country in Europe, today it's awful broke country without money
onukoll Even today, your country it corrupted by USA.
Not true :). Your information is wrong.
Corrupted by USA, yes; corrupted by Russia, no. If it was vice-versa it would be even worse because Russia has a few problems that us, Estonians, dislike more than USA. Either way those in power tend to do stupid things so it doesn't matter whether it's USA, Russia, China or any other country - human nature (to which we attribute a lot of the mistakes we make in an ever so ignorant manner) tends to do foolish things once given enough power over others.
It's a little sad that many people mitigate their potential by bickering over trivial matters thinking that it's important. Backstabbing is rampant; nowadays it's just a little more subtle. At least there's hope but ever so slight and this makes me a little sad. So we either blow ourselves up or stop believing in the illusions that we create (newsflash - life's an illusion and it's what we put in there that makes it) - I predict the former if we carry on at this rate.
Go home PutinTroll
@Mart Sander What is this vertsioon of Aegviidu valss, meeldib nii palju :D
I watched it and the beach scenes were in striking contrast of those we could see on the Germans in the Thirties.
I never seen so many well built people, that it reminded me ibn Fadlan description of vikings: "I have never seen more perfect physiques than theirs-they are like palm trees, are fair and reddish, and do not wear the qurçtaq or the caftan. The man wears a cloak with which he covers one half of his body, leaving one of his arms uncovered."
Interesting fact: Estonians were the last vikings of Europe. Also Estonia hasnt had real freedom before 1918 and after 1227 were the Vikings of Estonia were defeated by Danes, Swedes and Germans. All we have had since then was occupation between many nations, one year denmark controlled a part of Estonia, in another day there were swedes, then polish, then back to the danes, then to russia, then sweden again, then germany etc (not irl order). In 1918 Estonia declared independence and won a war against german landeswere and russian red army 1918-1920. We had 20 years of peace until our "Saviour" Konstantin Päts allowed russian military to make bases in Estonia, next year Estonia was annexed and the worst time Estonia had to go through started, tens of thousands were killed because they were Estonians.
@@edusc6893 Well, although the interwar period of 20 years independence brought a lot of economic growth - mainly because of land reforms creating an agricultural boost which formed the prosperity of Estonia, the replacement of the Czarist Ruble and the establishment of the Estonian Mark in 1918, later the Kroon in 1929 and the trade focus on Western Europe, mainly Great Britain, Germany etc -, it was also a short period of polarization, in both a political and a social level. With this I mean a few events that occurred in a minor time: The in 1924 failed Estonian communist coup d'état attempt, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the directly following Great Depression, Konstantin Päts's self-coup in 1934, turning Estonia into a
dictatorship only worsening the situation in the young republic of pre-war Estonia.
Nevertheless, I like seeing the modernization of the Estonian capital of Tallinn, back then in the late thirties of the twentieth century, taking an example of the quite modern West European cities of that time. This video is also a great source of the differences between the twenties and the thirties, showing the improvements of systematical planning and maintenance in Tallinn: czcams.com/video/AWErPyF-Xgg/video.html
Besides, this video shows the first months of Nazi-German occupation of Tallinn in 1941, between August and September? Quite interesting if you ask me: czcams.com/video/qw_id04cm70/video.html
'well built people'? whtf is this
Eestlased on uhke rahvas. Ma olen nende üle uhke.(Igauņi ir lepna tauta.es par viņiem lepojos.)
Suur aitäh! Väga hea klipid ja laulud!
может там были мои бабушка и дедушка ещё молодые и счастливые.
Haben Sie schon mal ausprobiert, ob sich diese Filme für eine KI- Restauration eignen? Oder für eine herkömmliche? Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass da noch einiges Potential liegt.
Muusika on väga hea! Vastab ajastule. Hehehe, Tartu = "Tarter"
Why to crop historical footage to 16:9? It is obvious that much of the picture is missing, no-one with camera makes so ugly compositions..
Tore film! Aitäh, Mart! :-)
It feels that almost nothing changed during those years :D Most things are practically the same.
Filmi viimased kaadrid rahvatantsijatest olid millegi pärast must-valged. Ei tea, kas värvifilmi ei jätkunud?
kus on see film siiani olnud? on ääretult kurb, et nii huvitav materjal on kellegi poolt täiesti rikutud! nimelt originaal filmi kaader 4:3 ( standard kinoekraani ruutformaat ) on "vägistatud" letterbox - postkaarti formaati, millega kadunud suuresti alumine ja ülemine pildi osa! ka on ilmselt see siinne versioon kopeeritud ekraanilt ning unustatud sättida õige teravus ja ava... pool filmi on vaid udukogu, värvidest rääkimata! filmi teine osa pole sugugi parem ja samuti äralõigatud nii ülemine kui alumine kaadri osa! kurb, et materjal rikutud kas teadlikult ehk oskamatuse tõttu!
Would love to know the music please?
Hello 👋
What about digitally improving the movie?
+AlCarou , not a cheap business... I hope some day it can be scanned anew with correct aspect ratio and the colors can be improved quite a bit. Or, alternatively, the copy is already a bit tarnished.
Whitney this beautiful Musique please ? (To start)
For once, I have to agree with saying 'ignorance is bliss'. These people do not know what is about to happen to them
Tekitab nostalgiat ajast mil ma veel olemas polnudki
Tänan Mart Sander, et oled ikka ja alati meid ka harinud ja leidnud selleks muidu nägemata jäävaid lõike igast vallast ! See kõik on ju olnud sinu töö ja huvi!
Quiero estar en Estonia
kui ilus, kõik enne seda kui venelased tulid ja kõik perse keerasid
Vau ma leidsin selle kommentaari enne kui sa enda kanalile videoid tegema hakkasid
20:03 What this beautiful fun song talking about? Is this children song?
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czcams.com/video/c9taUfZp7dg/video.html
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@@ttorum
Thanks a lot!
Little Miki goes to sea, and fight with the wave.
Март Сандер, ты ли это?
i don't see fascists here ! so peaceful and full of love people !
Why would they be fascists? Estonians did join the SS and celebrate it to this day and have every reason to after the things the soviets did to them.
Laste mänguväljak on huvitavam kui paljud praegused.
Muide, selline küsimus. Kas homoseksualismi eest ennesõjaeelses Eestis karistati? NSVL-is anti selle eest 2 aastat. Kusjuures ainult meseestele. Naisi nagu ma olen aru saanud sellega sitsima ei pandud. Kuidas oli Pätsu ajal?
It doesnt look slavic at all.
Today its mixture of Finnic and slavic.
Cus it's not? Estonians aren't slavs, not culturally, geographically or socially.
Estonians are not slavic!
- from a Finn
there is no such a thing as 'looking slavic'
Methinks you mean 'looking post-soviet'. I think you're a confused american / westerner unfortunately
Не было бы свободной Эстоний если не СССР! ! Немцы порабащают...
Andrei Богатырь, miserable Soviet brainwash mentality from nation
that behaved thousands times worse than Nazis - and are still proud of it!
You my dude, are brainwashed.
There was no free estonia BECAUSE of the USSR you doofus
Read Molotov-Ribbentrop pact secret protocol, don't be a moron next time.
Don't mistyfiy history.
Defeating something created by them to simply continue takevoer also 50 years of unfreedom is a long time, and a horrible price to pay in deportations and kolkhozification/deportations. Estonia was a country of roughly equally distirbuted small landholdings in the countryside
Do you think the nazis would've been in a position to do anything without it? Leaving people alone is not enough you hearltess mf*? Do you have no shame at all? Look at the histroy of the country before you speak, before you feel a sudden urge to suddenly insult them all, their lives and the memory of all those who suffered. You should not dare speak like this, let alone because your hatred oand desire to jsutify imperial power is apparently so great that you cannot stop yourself
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