Hi, I live in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. The main purpose of this channel is to provide restored historic film footage, primarilly from before WW-II for viewers to learn from and enjoy. A lot of historic film material has been digitized with outdated scanners, resulting in wobbly, faint and blurry footage. Nowadays a lot can be achieved as regards enhancing such footage by means of sophisticated software tools, including Artificial Intelligence. This involves motion-stabilisation, speed correction, contrast, brightness and sharpness enhancement, noise reduction, dust and speckle removal, and upscaling to HD with A.I. and recently even colorization!
It is my hobby to get the best possible film restoration results, using my 15 year long experience and knowledge in combination with the latest software. Most films on my channel have undergone a paintstaking and time-consuming four-stage process before uploading the results to youtube. Many of my films are accompanied by CC captions.
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Mooie beelden. Dank je wel! Het zet me weer even stil.
HOW i wish I could go back in time and visit these places!
I look at the architecture from the Old World, Tartaria with obaliscs & pillars.
A lot of the people in the video seem very dark, but I also wondered about the colouring applied, then I noticed lighter skinned, also, further into the video. However, I also noticed the features on numerous people and all came back to me. The Chinese do have African roots. I remember a (think it was a BBC doc, some years back) called 'The Origins of Us' ... Or, something on those lines. It was really interesting, about the out of Africa theory? One of the places the lady presenter went to was China. They were in some kind of lab and talking about how some Africans migrated there. There were 1 or 2 lab technicians (for want of a better way to describe them), who talked to her about their long known findings / evidence of such, etc. There are many Africans with slanted eyes, too. I'd assume the eventual lightening of skin and hair change were part of the adaption to climate process. Enjoyed this video, was nice and relaxing to watch, thanks! 🙂
19:00 I can assure you that Chinese hairstyle in 1917 wasn’t shaved like that That episode must be before 1912
NO! Why argue about the date? This film was shot in 1917, full stop.
Ik zit constant met een big smile op mijn gezicht naar deze fantastische filmpjes te kijken. Zo mooi, allemaal. Maar jou prachtige school-engels is ook een glimlach waard!
Dank je wel. Mijn moeder was Engels. In mijn jongere jaren, toen ik nog vaak internationaal vergaderde, was mijn Engels nog beter. Als kind kon ik voor een Engels jongetje doorgaan.
Really spectacular! And indeed, what a shame that they demolished so many marvelous buildings. To be replaced for parkings and ugly hotels, too many in a row! Vergane glorie, farewell glory indeed! Still I am so proud to be a dutch, because here, on this footage, you can see that we could be compared with the faces of the Titanic-era! Thanks so much for uploading!
These people, who you're watching, are content that hitler is their Chancellor. Troops have ALREADY been sent into the Rhineland, Germany has ALREADY left the League of Nations, industry is working for the war, concentration camps ALREADY have been built. And you can continue to admire how lovely these views are and how nice these people are who brought hitler to power and starting the Second World War at the same "adorable" moment.
Als Belg geboren lang na de oorlog ken ik alleen het nieuwe Rotterdam. Beetje kil nu. Was erg mooi toen.
From the looks of this video there is no denying that the Chinese are descendants of African people the people in the video are very dark compared to modern day Chinese🔥
the dark coloring is from the coloring of the film from those times, not because theyre actually that dark
@@haroutunsarkisyan8050 no way that has nothing to do with the camera 😂I seen white people these type of vids and they still look white no matter how old the video and Asian are actually descendants of a African tribe called the Khoisan people check it out🔥
Asians are Khoisan descendants a African tribe that’s where the color comes from🔥
@@haroutunsarkisyan8050 I left a comment above on this thread. The Chinese do have African roots, anyway.
Aside from the genius and careful execution of the construction processes involved, the fact that it was all filmed meticulously is fascinating to me. We are so lucky to have these films from this era. Films like these cause me to be curious about how our cities were designed and built.. starting from the incredible foresight the planners had for fundamental incorporation of sewage, water and electrical lines underneath it all, resulting in fully functional environments on which to build these fantastic structures.
Dresden war und ist wieder eine sehr schöne Stadt. Ich persönlich finde es ein schönes Zeichen sich daran zu erinnern, wie wichtig Frieden in unserer Gesellschaft ist. Es ist wichtiger den je, Hass und Hetzte niederzulegen und sich für ein Miteinander einzusetzen, dass so etwas wie dem zweiten Weltkrieg nie wieder passieren. Aktuelle wird in vielen Teilen der Welt rechter Hass wieder größer und die Spaltung in ein "nur unser Land, die anderen sind mir egal" größer. Um unsere Kulturschätze zu bewahren sollten wir offener und freundlicher werden, nicht mehr so von Hass getrieben
Echt apart deze mensen leefden toen en nu niet meer onze generatie gaat ook zo worden na 100 jaar
I was born in the wrong time
só hora ?😃
C'è anche la lavatrice!!! 😂
People talk about war like its no big deal, they dont realize the horror and the suffering it brings
El presidente de la benemérita iglesia habla directamente con Dios¡aleluya!🤑
You could park anywhere you liked!!
Those Men were truly Fantastic Heroes 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
以當時的建築都是幾百年歷史的！當時的文明看的出來是很發達的 如果沒有英國人的鴉片戰爭 跟八個聯軍的侵華！以及日本人的甲午戰爭 中國早就在百年前就是世界第一😢
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影片是黑白的 是利用現代科技還原並上色的 所以臉的顏色看起來會比較黑
农民的会黑，经常晒。。或者看当兵也一样黑。。做官的和商人不黑。。。上面有个人说中国人是非洲人，笑死我。。什么都跟非洲混合说。。。
好多的建築古蹟都消失了😢
Thank you, it’s sad to realize that all the people in these films are no longer with us. Really enjoyed this film.
Wow they look very dark skinned too. Very interesting
That’s what I was thinking. They are very dark skinned. Allot of Chinese use skin bleaching today. So do the Indians and countless other countries.
Why do you think they become more light skinned?
The dark skinned was caused by the colouring of the film from black and white, in reality, they were exact the same skin colour as modern Chinese @@pierreaugustin-bey7612
@@michaelwong6891There were lighter shades of Chinese in the same film archive. How do you explain that
@@michaelwong6891 Read my comment on top of (well, at the moment it is, as just typed it, lol) of this thread.
Great old footage, from a time when you really could use the word Great before the word Britain, having been born in London in the early 60's I remember even years after the war, there were still bomb sites around where we lived in Islington, my father was a volunteer fire fighter before joining up in 1941and spending lots of his war in North Africa, and my mother who was raised in Kent told me she would stand watching the dog fights in the sky, and collect spent ammo casings from the planes, shame I don't still have any of those.
Boy, I wish I was around back then I would’ve invented the yellow line in the middle of the street. I would’ve been a millionaire.
WHO thinking thé city was there long time ? Becouse thé video Is rec.. 1930-1940 So they build all bulding in 30 years?
If there was a war on why didn't they all migrate elsewhere in rubber dinghies?
为生活在那个时代饱受列强欺压的人感到惋惜，不排除摄像技术的原因，每个人都被摧残得失去了原本的光彩，以至于会被评论区外国人误以为是黑人，何其可悲。但今时不同往日，只要有人类历史的一天，中华将长久屹立不倒。
Don’t skim all the steel guys
I wonder how many fingers got crushed and ripped off.
@@ClotEastwood very dangerous working conditions,,and can’t imagine what the pay was
Those cars only have 25 hp
If 1 (real) horse can pull the size of an omnibus, why wouldn't the power of 25 horses be enough for a small car? Why do we need 300 hp nowadays, just to go from 0 to 100kmh in 5 seconds?!
@@Rick88888888 I wasn’t referring to the actual power, I was just creating an analogy between the heavy lifting of metal and steel that they were doing compared to the amount of horsepower cars had, it was amazing that they could lift that kind of steel
Thank you for this wonderful documentary 🙏
The City of Dresden had to go -there was too much Old World infrastructure that would give the game away about where it is we ARE and, more importantly, where we WERE! Both the world wars were tools of destruction to bolster THEIR false narrative. Such a shame - that city was angelic looking, and probably built by angels too,
is there anything similar as this for Iran??? Great Video!!
Both of my parents were born in London in WW2 and are still alive. Their earliest memories are sheltering under billiard tables and running to the bomb shelter in the middle of the night. They had rations and first ate a banana at the age of eight. Let’s not make the same mistakes again, there are no winners in war. Clare Douglass
Mijn vader was 15 toen de Canadezen binnentrokken, van tijd tot tijd sprak hij over de bezetting, hij was zo jong toen het allemaal begon.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹wat een mooie muziek van China 🇨🇳 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Du Grand Art . Les Bâtisseurs un Monde à part .Merci 👍🎬🎞️😃
C'est toujours emouvant de voir ces images . Il y a encore quelques années fallait se preparer pour une soirée diapo dans le high tech c'etait 2 , 3 vidéos sur le magnétoscope et là boom divulgation total sur un monde qui jusque là etait statique . C'est tout simplement magique , je raffole de cette histoire en mouvement.Merci pour la conservation,la restauration et aussi les couleurs et aussi a Vous de nous les presenter😌 🎩
Hi,thanks for very interesting video!
Glad you enjoyed it
That looked like an American flag at 55 sec of video
Please read the text cards throughout the video!
Beautiful watching this! Thank you for sharing. Greetings from the Netherlands 👍
Thank you very much!
The country has come along way since 1926..I think there was a sense of identity, unity & pride then that we don't have today.. it seems to me that amongst the 'white' British population which, lets not forget is still 87%-90% in the UK, that that unity, pride and that sense of collective history still exists but is continually bashed by the liberal woke brigade and an ever growing vicious, spiteful & ungrateful immigrant population (especially non whites)who hold British passports but don't even identity as English/British...Its a disgrace & disrespectful...we should be celebrating this country, its culture, history (even if its bleak at times) & traditions and not keep allow these foreigners and Liberal idiots to continue to shame. SHAME ON YOU TRAITORS...Forever England & Britain...
was NOT an unconditional surrender...the united states agreed NOT to execute the emperor...there for that is a CONDITION
Nothing to do with "conditions". Killing the emporer, a figure with a God-alike status, would have been a barbarism which would have haunted the US for decades, if not centuries!
If I could time machine back here at this moment, I'd go to Henry Street and Catherine street, and goto see my family, fuck its beautiful, it's warm and beautiful, the people had love for eachother and helped out one another during the depression, they fed the poor kids, and helped...god bless this age
Today I found out back in the days you can bring your car onto the ferry
They still selling the furniture like in " Eating and doing the washing in the street " today
你要不要自己来中国看看？中国的发展绝对世界前列
@@user-vb1ow3xm5d I live already more then 20 years in China
好難得的紀錄片!
它的确是！太奇妙了
I was born in Dresden and grew up with the bizarre aesthetic contrast of beautifully designed architecture suddenly jutting out from vast empty spaces. With improvised attempts at modern urban planning and architectural design that were conceived as large-scale field trials, with the levelling of the organically grown structures of the old city and the creation of a new vision of the city that was very pragmatic and not well thought out. Unfortunately, even today it is an uphill struggle for anyone who wants to build cities with the aesthetic care they deserve, because we all live in them and they are part of our world that surrounds us every day and, of course, influences us for better or worse. Few people can imagine modern architecture that is aesthetically pleasing. But I don't think it's just a problem of the architectural profession, it's more a complex societal failure that stems more from unleashed, misguided capitalist interests (and disinterests). But for those of you who regret the tragedy of the destruction of something as beautiful as old Dresden and feel something like anger about it, I would like to say something else. You should not direct your anger about the destruction of Dresden at those who stroke back. Instead, make the effort to think a little further. Think back a little further and learn about all that happened in the 12 years before the destruction. Remember when an insulted, mad "Führer", with his loyal, intellectually and emotionally simple-minded National Socialist followers, spread so much hatred about past disadvantages from his perceived victimhood, and spewed his disgusting racial ideology over an entire country. He and his henchmen first burned books, mocked works of art and science, persecuted and beat to death all those who would not join his and his Nazi comrades' supposedly righteous patriotic cause. Jews, other minorities, political opponents, the disabled and homosexuals were expropriated, banned from their professions, disenfranchised and set loose to hunt. Then they invaded neighbouring countries and finally covered an entire continent with murderous brutality, bombing cities and killing millions of people, both soldiers and civilians, all over in Europe. Remember first, mourn first this tragedy, when the beauty of the intellect, the diversity of a culturary rich Continent was desecrated by these simple-minded barbarians. Do not forget that before something as sad as the destruction of a beautiful city happens (Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Minsk, Kiev, etc.), something very ugly begins in people's minds. I'm sure I speak for the vast majority of Dresden's citizens when I say that: I mourn first for the beauty of a rich intellect that was lost, persecuted and murdered by a gang of dull racists and Nazis long before my beautiful hometown was destroyed as a result of Nazi Germany's war of aggression. For it is not only beautiful houses that were hit by bombs, it is also all the beautiful people who are no longer here today, not because they were hit by bombs, but because they were chased away, deported and murdered by the Nazi ideologues long before. And the tragedies of the past are threatening to repeat themselves. Therefore: „Wehret den Anfängen!“
Какие прекрасные, одухотворяющие слова! Мне, как архитектору из России, прискорбно видеть, что сейчас творится в мире. Ведь архитектура непосредственно связана с обществом и его культурой. Мы как будто бы всё больше теряем свою человечность. Возможно грядёт что-то ужасное Будто бы никто и не думает учиться на ошибках прошлого
@@inssector It is important to keep the memory alive and to tell each new generation not about the crimes of the ‘others’ first, but to inform them about our own crimes first. I hope that we will all find the courage to be honest with ourselves and others. And I hope that we will have the courage to withdraw support and power from those who incite others to do injustice. Perhaps then people will remember how lucky they are, what a gift it is to live on this strange, rare planet that they all inhabit together, floating so lonely in an endless deserted universe. I hope they realise this shared destiny. I wish you all the best.
I'd like to see some Chinese faces from those days😕
I guess you didn't watch this film...! Or do you mean "I like to see Chinese faces from those days"...
Your love and affection for the Chinese, Chinese culture and customs and, above all, faces, suggests that Albert Einstein is your idol and role model.