Back in those days, you didn't dare set foot out of the house in anything less than a suit/tie and fedora, unless you were a manual laborer at work. That era had a classiness that will probably never return.

@citizen1163

8 жыл бұрын

and people wore shoes instead of over priced trainers. Globalisation..Corporates...all shops look the same. Yes, culture has been lost in probably most countries where corporations have reached. If you look at colour footage of Albert Kahn's documentary taken at turn of the century, before 2 world wars and globalisation, every country had a national dress and own culture. It's on KZread...fascinating!

1939 15 years before I was born all of that was going on the the cars are amazing cities the people the clothes the music nice to see time before my time I love it thanks for the old movie keep them coming 👍

I would love to go back to that time period for a month or two and experience when NYC was really the capital of the world.

It's so remarkable how everyone is so well dressed every where they point the camera. It didn't matter if people were doing work-related things or just hanging out entertaining themselves. It's the epitome of being classy in such a beautiful city.

My late Mother and maternal grandmother left Kansas City and had both moved to New York that same year, and what an exciting time and year that must of been!!

I didn't expect to be dancing swinging from one foot to the other through the entire length of the video... but that was exactly what happened since the first chord started to sound 🎉

I wish I could visit those times. I was born in 85

@YoutubeHatesJapaneseLetters96

2 жыл бұрын

You Had Age Luck, And Me Who Was Born In 2006?

Just dig the heck out of these old vids. Back then men all wore fedoras, now they all wear ball caps. Can U imagine, they didn't have crosswalks back then. You had to cross the street at your own risk unless there was a cop there directing traffic. Art Deco is my favorite form of art and it was all over the place in those days.

I live in New York city and it was so the best time, but here in USA. In Europe it was HELL.

Absolutely spectacular! Thank you!

3:18 - That Jewish Deli in the Lower East Side must have been quite fascinating - to slow down the frame rate in the film...Probably remembers the best pastrami on rye (pickle, please) he's never gonna have back home.

Nett und tolle Swingmusik.

So cool to still see these same buildings in 2019. Built to last 😍

Really amazing footage!

Even though few modern comforts, great time to hear live music

a few years after the great depression and 2 years before the war, what a great city classic cars, nice people, clean streets, no fear of being attacked, mugged or even killed by a derailed mind like today: I wish I could have lived those years there, instead of many years later; anyhow thank you for this chance to look at the past.

@YoutubeHatesJapaneseLetters96

8 ай бұрын

The WW2 Started In 1939.

Very interesting. Music sounds like 1920's not 1939 though.

@bingola45

10 жыл бұрын

Not 'swing' enough for '39. Dorsey's clearly on his way, though!

far more elegance beheld by this smudged b&w than this decades's poxily slim supertall midtown flats

NYC must be quite an intimidating city of the future for outsiders with her monumental skyscrapers. especially for folks straight out of the rural areas

Many people who came here had to be desperate to leave where they came from, i lived in Berlin,Germany 10 wonderful years and came back my wife got sick the only reason to return, but look at things today i am looking at a 3rd world country and i am living here in Florida and watching America going down the Rabbit Hole, and thats due to the corrupt government.

I would enjoy going back to spend a day, pre war New York was a much different city.

Love this clip.

This is 80 Freaking Years Ago

Name of this song? Or band leader, lead vocals? Anyone knowledge of this?

Awesome film!

Awesome thank you

As others have pointed out, the music doesn't quite fit. "Sing, Sing, Sing" might have been a little more period correct. Still - very cool to slip back in time for a few minutes.

just to think how many of those men went to war in a couple of years

Sentimental Gentelman from Georgia

Amazing!"!!

When will someone finally show a film of old New York set to "Rhapsody In Blue"?

The Dorsey brothers were playing their jazz in the late 1930s

WOW .... 80 years ago!

Born and raised in the NYC. Hated everything about. Just never felt home to me.

My grandfather was born November 24th, 1939.

Cool music track but to me, it does seem more flapper era (post-war 1) than pre ww2. Everyone's a critic, yeah. Overall, loved it.

@lajavaantoine2796

6 жыл бұрын

You are perfectly right, this music is typical of jazz black bands (Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman ?) from the twenties. It is very nice anyway.

I luv nyc

Name of the song , please?

They built New York we let it decay

The kids you see here are probably in their 90s or 80s:)

Thank you for video. Very interesting !

i love you mom marianne inguanti

back in the day, no internet dating hookups and no online porno, yikes!

lets goi em new york

80 years ago. Wondering where are all these people buried. Ain't sure many people were cremated in that time.

While the footage is neat, the music is 10 year mismatch and out of sync with this period and senselessly dislocating. It's 'depression era', roaring twenties jingle hops not 1939/40 swing era jazz and band. Thanks for the upload.

@Jasonificatiation

8 жыл бұрын

culturehorse 1920-1935 Beginning of swing bands 1935-1945 The Swing Era

Time machine

What atreatto ride in a double decker bus of the 5th Ave. Bus Company!

Only in New York!

Just like Germans to focus on architecture instead of the lives being lived in it -- on human types. This clip has a curiously detached feel to it; only a few shots are "populated" or show any action, both of which things characterize NYC more than anything else -- esp. back then. It's not true to its subject. If we had filmed Berlin at the same time, I'd hope both the shooting and the editing would be such that we'd get a good feel for the city.

the sims house will back

The music about Georgia doesn't match the venue.

@jcb5782

6 жыл бұрын

Hp Gunther Well, it is about a gentleman from Georgia, and he is sentimental, so he may just live in New York ;P

Best time ever

1939... now imagine being one of immigrants from some village in Volhynia or another shithole, where you live in wooden hut in the middle of nowhere, and you come to New York with this skyscrapers and traffic...

Sigh.

Where is Nikola Tesla?

wory the 1939

No. Really. Best time? Maybe here in Amerika, but in the Europe it was so hard. And you do not take us to their country from hell (Europe) Why?

пореден нечуван интелект в този свят

all this people in the video are now dead. They dont live anymore.

@TheMunsters-wx6or

7 жыл бұрын

no, the kids

@burkewhb

7 жыл бұрын

A lot of people born in the thirties are alive today, stupid. For example, Clint Eastwood was born in 1930.

@davidmasarsky7610

7 жыл бұрын

CaptainBaseball No shit? Really?

@AustGamingAG

7 жыл бұрын

CaptainBaseball like WW2 soilders that died

@friendlysky7674

7 жыл бұрын

CaptainBaseball because the did drugs

Music is awful. I had to mute.