Amazing San Francisco 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of San Francisco 1940s, several shots of a neighborhood in Chinatown, Sacramento and Grant Avenue in San Francisco, and some shots of the shipyards and pier in SF , Overall shots of the back and front, showing the various piers, ships and deck.
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)
✔added sound design 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.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
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Thanks NASS this channel is amazing. I love it.
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@lights of taormina Good like this Tuesday!
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Thank you, NASS, for your fine work. As a native San Franciscan and a longshoreman, I really appreciate the old waterfront footage. Matson and APL left San Francisco decades ago, but the little shack next to the pallets @7:43-7:44 still stands as Red's Java House - burgers and beer.
Good catch Mr. Flynn.
Thanks ;)
You must show them this video
Yes I recognize the first shack on the old film is now known as Red's Java House but another shack nearer to Pier 28 is occupied presently by Hi Dive bar.
I modeled “Red’s Java House” on my N-scale railroad layout. I posted the scene on TH-cam and tell a little story of how it “survived” the fire that burned down the MATSON piers back in 1984… quite the miracle!
Red’s made it!!!
At 4:47 you can see what I believe is the SS Lurline, one of the famous white Pacific liners of Matson Line. She was launched in 1932 and served mainly on the express run between San Francisco and Hawaii. During the war she was commandeered for duty as a troop ship but was returned to the line after the war ended. She served the Maston Line until being sold in 1963 to another company. These ships were very famous for their high-end service and luxurious appointments. Lurline was eventually scrapped in 1980.
whats the ship on the right?
Thanks for sharing that info. Wish I could have taken a voyage!
@@oldcarnocar The Matsonia.
Oh look, it's the know-it-all of TH-cam history channels! Go away, no one cares what you have to say!
@@rustyshackelford1483 That may be true for you, sir- but MANY of us appreciate and enjoy the historical comments!
History always adds to the presentation.
Always love coming home from work and seeing NASS has restored another gorgeous film of my old hometown. So many places I recognize. Beautifully done.......as always. Love the color and sharpness.
Thank you NASS..........You always put a smile on my face.🥰
Thanks ;)
Where’s the pool and homeless?
The Chinatown scene seems to be shot around 1946 maybe 1947. The warehouse footage probably 1949. The resolution of the earlier footage is of high quality. NASS really took it to the next level with the audio addition there..
Thanks ;)
I have to agree with you, especially with the warehouse footage. For the Chinatown footage, I was thinking maybe a little earlier, Possibly 1942-45. I saw one Chevy that could either be a '42 or a '46 model. Really hard to tell as the early post war cars were basically just continuations of the '42 models. Also, the lack of anyone appearing in uniform may verify your postwar date. I have so much fun trying to pin down the dates on these videos!
at 6:00 and 7:15 Blue 49 Ford, what was referred to as the "shoebox" Ford.
Another commenter here correctly points out that the Chinatown street scene was filmed for the 1947 movie "The Lady From Shanghai." You see gorgeous blonde Rita Hayworth in fur coat and ankle-strap pumps running along streets in three scenes, starting at 1:11. The movie began filming in October, 1946 & ended filming in February, 1947.
Thanks, that explains it!!
At 2:00 the man running across the street looks like a double for Orson Welles in the film.
@@rpgmwf Why would he need a double to run down the street? That was Welles. I just finished watching the movie.
So glad for an explanation for seeing the same people running. So that was really Rita Hayworth?!
@@beckyherbert4782 Yes, really was her. Watch the movie th-cam.com/video/ZWqoDUvduZ0/w-d-xo.html
Running in open-toed, sling-back high-heeled shoes....now, that's what I call talent! Thanks for letting me take a trip back to my beloved "City by the Bay".
I think you see her 4 separate times!
They were filming for a movie ?
Some purpose yes. OP has posted before films from old LA that were clearly produced for some reason. Blocked, staged, costumed, the works. A test of new cameras? An industrial film? Tourism board? Who knows.
Love the little 'love drama' in Chinatown. The big guy's worried she'll catch him and she's right on his heels in her heels. There was even a mechanic in brown coveralls with shined shoes. Now that's some kind of class. as always, another wonderful snippet of life in a simpler time.
at 2:20, a woman runs across the street. But then she does it again. A guy did it, too. There are two separate angles of the guy. My point? This had to have been from a movie, or for a movie. In any case, your work continues to be a haunting travel in time, and excellent.
The guy running across the street keeps looking back as if somebody is following him. Then 5 seconds later you see 2 men who look like mafia following him.
@@mrknotthall This has the look of surveillance videos to me... multiple angles to capture what was captured... a man being followed by an agent? or something of the sort...
Yes perhaps movie shooting as we can see the woman running three times
Yes, I noticed that, too. Old movies have a lot of good scenes in them.
@@js6029 I don't think it would be surveillance. they really didn't have that back then. People are noticing the camera so it must be out in the open which would be a dead giveaway for an agent or criminal. Also you notice the running woman shows up several times in the footage. My guess would be a movie studio filming B- roll or background stock footage for a current or future project. Whatever it was I really enjoy watching this stuff!
My Dad in the Merchant Marines shipped out from Pier 29 in the late 40’s until about 1971. My Mom made my brother and I dressed up whenever we met his ship. Whenever he was leaving port we would watch his ship go and then drive to Ocean Beach to see the ship heading west and disappear into the fog.
Thanks for the childhood memories.
as always sir.....thank you . your work is breath taking .....like video cams from 100 years ago
thank you ;)
First 4 Minutes: We are transported back to the corner of Sacramento and Grant in San Francisco's China Town. After @4:00 we are on Bay Street (I think), soon to make a left on the Embarcadero - @5:08 the scene cuts back and we are further South on Embarcadero headed North.
Thank you (!)...these are the location details that beg to be known when seeing these!
The street with all the buildings and stacked lumber is the embarcadero
Google street view is amazing to compare!
Thanks ;)
Always phenomenal work by NASS !
Thanks ;)
I love seeing these at more normalized speed. Fantastic job preserving thus for future generations. I recognize some of the still standing areas around San Francisco
Thanks
1.25 in this case, I'd suggest.
These videos are really cool to watch. I'd love to see ya do a video of the same streets and tour of 2022 compared to the 40's. Side by side. Now that would be amazing too.
When the Golden Gate Bridge was new. Seeing the folks in Chinatown was refreshing. The restoration was superb.
Thanks ;)
The Bay Bridge is shown in the film. It opened in 1936 and the Gold Gate Bridge opened in 1937.
@@spinsandneedles Thank you.
@@mikeyh0 Sure thing. It looks it was colorized with a hint of orange but the Bay Bridge has a steel color.
The movie was THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. The lady in the fur coat is Rita Hayworth, and the guy running may be Orson Wells.
Excellent
Totally agree... EXCELLENT!
You are correct!!! The footage occurs around 1 hour 16min into the movie!!
@@js6029 The movie and the scene can be watched on youtube, thanks.
@@js6029 What's crazy is I'm realizing from this NASS video is that the scene was just shot in public. These pedestrians, and cars can't all possibly be "extras". I don't think anyone knew it was Rita Hayworth running down the street, in broad daylight, in a mink coat - like it was some common occurrence.
You should come out with a movie length video, I would watch it as soon as it was posted. 👍
Well you kind of outdid yourself on this one it's really good love the Chinatown scenery just love the whole thing it's almost like a dream sequence for me I really appreciate this type of Photography and the way things are taken in such detail that it's like put you there...... the only thing it's missing is the opium LOL
You need to get ahold of the Zapruder film. You do some amazing work.
Thanks
I work on old cars from this time period in San Francisco, right now we have a 36 Chevy, 24 Ford, 39 ford, 40 Ford, and a half dozen cars from the sixties in the shop. Thanks!
OK, am I the only one seeing that man run across the street at different times from different angles and wondering “Was he paid to run for the camera?”? 😂
I think so too. Only I think he wants to appear on the film. Maybe he is the actual producer of the film.
No, I noticed the guy and the girl run through the scene several times. Must be from a movie. He was probably pursuing her.
The same woman (the one in heels and nice coat) ran through the intersection at least 6 or 7 times... Looked like someone was trying to shoot a street scene for a movie.
Often, it's the little things that stand out to me, like the driver waving his hand to let the two boys cross the street at 0:52. It's a nice human interaction and I motion to pedestrians the same way 75 years later (except without the window down, usually).
Wow! This one is really the 40s! Saw a couple of 49 Fords - they came out in mid 48 - and only a few whitewall tires, so it had to have been mid to late 1948.
Children walking by themselves
Children walking alone in San Francisco wow
People back then were taller and slimmer. Don't see negros though....just white, Anglo Saxon
All those walking-tour videos you find now on TH-cam will be the future's glimpse into our present day.
amazing job, dude!!....congratulations!!!
Thank you for making these video's.
Thank you
Great work--you keep getting better.
Great work! Just a tip: you can remove the wobbly edges left and right with Davinci Resolve "crop" function. If you use VirtualDub, use a "canvas" to cut out the 4 : 3 film before making it letterbox.
Joli travail NASS Merci.
Merci ;)
Watching these films is incredible. A moment of life caught on camera. Watched by us long past that moment.
Wondrous! The scenery is varied and instructive, while the restoration feels like we're right there. Superb work! I just wish you could take the time to add a few seconds with your channel info or something instead of abruptly cutting the clip.
Nice, as usual. Thanks.
Do you have some material showing the Palace Hotel in San Francisco (New Montgomery St.) or some of the neighbourhood? Today there is Moscone West and the SF Museum of Modern Art in the vicinity
All your videos have time travel in spades liked the start to this one watching the fashion of the 40s and the sound of the cars driving slowly by great colour too .
I love these colorized realistic videos with the vehicle driving with rear-facing camera and Street scenes with people who are not actors it's just everyday life captured on live camera not something you see often most is Hollywood produced from this era and I like the way the sound is added it really makes it look realistic.
What were these films originally produced for or what were they recorded for with the rear-facing camera while the vehicle is driving? Some sort of Rose survey or something?
EXCELLENT JOB! The only sound really missing in that first shot was the sound of the cable for the cable cars running. BUT....WOW!! Awesome!!!
Was the rope running? We didn't see any cars...
I love he railroad tracks running straight into the buildings. The cars in the beginning are all dubbed over with sounds of a Model A Ford. That's not what they sounded like. The woman in the mink coat and high heels runs through several different scenes suggesting they're some kind of movie takes. All kinds of neat stuff and details to look at.
Thank You for preserving and upgrading these old film clips! It looks like in the first part of the clip, in Chinatown, these clips were shot for possible scenes for a movie, with a couple of takes, the guy scurrying down the sidewalk and the woman in the fur coat who was following or chasing. In the one scene, 1:50, I thought she got on the bus. The last part of this clip, 8:06 until completion, it looks like it was filmed from a police car, as every car on the right side of the road pulled over as this vehicle approached. Thanks again for this clip, I know it takes a lot of work and effort to produce these videos, have you ever considered doing old sports clips from the same time frames of your other videos?
As a native San Franciscan by several generations, I wish my parents were here to see this footage. Naturally I thought of showing them. They would've been in their late teens at time this footage was taken and grew up just a few blocks west of this intersection. I was thinking how cool it would be if my teenaged parents happened to be in the video. Eastern Bakery, btw, is still there.
That woman in the fur coat is a doll. Wow. 😍😍 Even the camera man knew. 😂😂😂
That’s Rita Hayworth! Given the way the camera panned back and forth, that was an establishing shot for a movie. This is after the war and San Francisco’s Chinatown looked gorgeous!
@Mister Google Rita Hayworth in a film shoot.
The tall blonde running across the street at 2:19 is interesting. She does it twice back-to-back, running the same way, and after the second time, she stops, turns, and looks a the camera!
Just amazing! The embarcadero with its many port buildings still standing today.
My mom was around 18 or 19, dad was about 23-24. They married in 1950, met while they were students @ UCLA. If that's Rita Hayworth running in a couple of scenes, she looked pretty tall. Absolutely a real beauty, my god, that was truly the golden era of film, many great AND talented stars then Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda,, Humphrey bogart, James Cagney, Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford just to name a few.
Wonderful. So interesting. I like the sound and the images are easy to watch. thank you
Amazing as always! Thanks!
Awesome work as always! That tall gorgeous woman was the center of the cameraman. lol
Thanks ;)
keep up this historical excellent work. You are looking at Grant, cross Street is Clay St. The Eastern Bakery just fixed their original neon sign. The bakery is still there..not sure if it's the same owner since 1947
Impeccable remastering.
Thanks ;)
Man is running from photo model in China Town. They are both way taller than everybody else in the shots, which looks weird somehow. And all the mishaps... someone staring at the camera, or a bus blocking her way crossing the street... must have been a exhausting day for the actors.
Photo model is Rita Hayworth in a film shoot.
The NASS time machine is fantastic.
Thanks ;)
Incredible footage nass, amazing work 👍👌😀
Thx ;)
At 1:50 there's a woman who appears to be running to catch that bus. Then a few minutes later there she is again running....and again! Great video by thenway!
Another time traveling video! Good to see Matson and APL berths.
Beautifull. Memories from Brazil.
Beautiful video, like traveling back in time.
Love watching these. How cute how the little boy protected I assume his little brother when crossing the street.
beautiful video, thank you
I loved that old tall street light on the corner.There so much more character in architectural details back then.
02:40 - начало постановочной сценки: слева появляется молодая дамочка в манто, перебегает улицу - камера следуют за ней. На 02:52 её закрывает машина, она разворачивается, смотрит в камеру, кокетливо поправляет причёску и... снова идёт назад.
The first picture is Chinatown, Stockton St near Sacramento St
2. Grant St.
Can someone tell me why you see the same man and woman running across the street at various times through the video while the rest of the crowd is different? Are they edited in or were they planted actors at the time of the recording?
NEWEST CAR SEEN, THIS FILM, 1949 FORD !
I was just going to post the exact thing..
Sportsman woodie at 0:25, they were made 1946-1948. American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Pier 26 at 8:05.
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This is amazing, I lived in that era for little bit. 📽👍
Is it just me? Sometimes when I watch these videos I just feel as though as I was born in the wrong era.
I understand how you feel, but I was born in 1945. I've seen amazing things in my lifetime. For example, we didn't have computers or cell phones years ago. And great advances have been made in medicine just in my lifetime. In some ways things were nicer then and in some ways they're nicer now.
@@Jeff-uj8xi you were born during or after WW2? Do you miss your childhood? What are somethings that you miss? I was born in the early 80s. I kinda miss the 90s.
@@Hey_its_Koda The main thing I miss now is good health. I have an incurable condition. Enjoy your youth and hopefully good health. Money can't buy good health. The second thing I miss most is civility; formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech, especially among politicians. Today it seems perfectly o.k. and normal to be a liar. Years ago, a person's word meant something.
Nope! I feel it so strongly
Lol I've often said I was born in the wrong century!hang in there miracles incoming we will see a whole new beautiful world soon 🥰
War das ein Sonntag? Die Leute sind alle schick angezogen. Gefällt mir sehr gut.
WENT ON MANY TRIPS TO SF IN THE 1950S. I WAS A KID LIVING IN THE EAST BAY, WALNUT CREEK. FUN SEEING THESE MOVIES.
Thank you! Great job.
Thank you
Why do you feel the need to edit your thumbnails to increase the color? We never see the vibrancy shown on the video thumbnails in these videos.
Looks like a nice safe place where I would want to visit and bring my children and family. Are you sure this is SF? SF now is populated with aggressive zombie homeless and their tents? The people in these images would be devastated to know what happened to their beautiful safe city
Interesting film, NASS. Nice job !! Who could have imagined back then how beautiful the Embarcadero would become decades later. And who back then could have imagined that decades later, there would be a MUNI street car line down the center of the Embarcadero. Would they have believed that the Embarcadero would some day be a tourist area? Nice shots of MUNI White buses on the Embarcadero at 7:32 and 9:13. At 1:45, there is a brief shot of a rare diesel powered Yellow Coach TD-4505 bus, originally purchased by the Market Street Railway Co. in 1942. It appears to be coach # 165. But by the time of this film in the late 1940's, it was owned by the MUNI. Yellow Coach was a subsidiary of General Motors.
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what was the purpose of filming these shots?
Strange road markings. Wide roads was a plus. The pier buildings were still standing when I went to school there in 1989. Not sure if they are still standing. Pier 32 is a familiar tourist spot though.
Haven't been down that way for over 20 years, never again.😕
With the man scooting across the the intersection at 2:00, and the woman doing the same at 2:19 and again at 2:40, these scenes must have shot for a movie. Anyone got any idea which movie?
That same guy was seen 3 times running across the street
@@Knards Yep, I saw that.
Yes she is definitely following him? How interesting, I would love to know which movie as well!
@@Knards Orson Welles running after Rita Hayworth! That gives us the date - late 1946 because the movie, The Lady From Shanghai, came out the following year.
@@NormanF62 Makes sense, this appears to be filmed in Chinatown
Thank you for the beautiful video from the 1940s...but I am crying for the San Francisco of the 2020s that has died.
Fantastic job great work on the video Super cool, miss the old days, I'd be there in a heartbeat if I could go back😊👍
Enjoying your Channel👊
Cheers🍻🍺 KC 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🤝😎👍
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@@NASS_0 our pleasure Nass anytime cheers KC & CC 🇦🇺🤝😎👍😊
I think the colorization algorithm is really struggling with shiny paint on cars. The end result is this weird pearlescent effect but it's still much much better than just black and white.
yeh, the colors of the cars are way off. check old color photos and slides of the period.
Very good indeed! Do you know what streets they were shot on? Secondly early on I've seen the same women a number of times, quite tall, first time at 1:35 in the film under the bakery sign, she's almost running down the street, black dress, wearing a big fur coat. She comes down to the intersection and stops behind the bus. You see her again at 2:18 coming from the left down another street to the same intersection - the camera follows her, so I assume this film is about her or some out takes of some kind? Just before you see her there is a man in a suit almost running down the same street, and crossing the intersection - the camera follows him, she must be following him. We see the women again running down the same street at 2:39, she stops after crossing the intersection and seems to look back at the camera? We see he again very briefly at 4:00 crossing a street, from a different view point looking down from a first floor window. Fascinating film, very candid with the street scenes in the China Town area. The dock areas pass some vessels owned by the famous Californian MATSON Line of ships (note the 'M' on the funnels of the much loved S.S. Matsonia. She still looks to be in her wartime troop ship grey). Matson Lines had been sailing from California to the Hawaiian islands and the Pacific since 1882, in later years their liners even went to Australia and New Zealand - they ceased using liners in around 1977 with the growing advent of air travel. For a brief period after World War II, Matson operated an airline using Douglas DC-4 aircraft between the Pacific Coast and Hawaii. The airline ultimately ceased operations because of political pressure from Pan American World Airways, which resulted in inability to obtain federal government scheduled operating authority. Matson is still around today running a fleet of large container vessels.
This has the look of surveillance videos to me... multiple angles to capture what was captured... a man being followed by an agent? or something of the sort...
Hi - I think its something a little simpler, out takes for a movie concept using the China district as a back drop. The fact the women uses two different streets and we see the man only once and the fact at one stage once she crosses the intersection she stops and seems to turn to look at the camera and the film is cut (all of this happens on the same day as she is wearing the same cloths). The fact it continues with film of the docks etc says like so many other films like this, its film locations stuff. I assume the creators of this -NASS will know the origins of the film?
@@marknelson5929 Could be a location preshoot for a scene in a movie that will be used later for a backdrop with actors filmed in the studio in a car body. They run the film put on a screen behind the actors .
@@hestheMasterThe movie is "The Lady from Shanghai".
Films starts on Grant Avenue and Sacramento Street.
What with the guy on the black suite running and the girl with the coat, also running on several scenes... Is this from a movie?
Well of course I like this -- I lived and worked in SF from 1982-2013. It used to be a wonderful city, but before my time. This makes me think about my favorite poet, Frank O'Hara, when he got out of the navy after WW II, and the Beats, before I was born.
Hi! How are you?
Korea/Seoul has entered full-fledged winter since the 29th of last month.
Temperatures around minus 10'C and snow are falling all over the country.
It's already Friday this week.
I hope you have good health and good things today, weekends, and holidays.
Thank you very much.
These are really cool- I always wonder who these people where, what they did and where they were going. Almost wish I could jump in the video ! (Just don't close the window before I get back)
Looking forward to OP’s next video remaster will be concentrated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean from 1945 in an endless loop.
0:50 Wow, people ran so smoothly back then, not all herky-jerky like today!
GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS SUPPORT FROM CROATIA
Thanks ;)
Cars look a bit different than they do today.
What type of ships anchor at these piers today
Good beautiful very old seasons 💗 Another interesting video, simple season but the best....they lived very good,i believe it.The sadly is all of them now are dead 😔😔😔
8:06 World’s first ever dash cam footage 😮
In the 1920s is the first
I know this exact spot in Chinatown! Located in the corner of Grant Ave and Sacramento street..
How much different would historically accurate colorization be?
3:43. Sunglasses guy has the swagger of a mafia guy in a film.
I'm so confused. There's a tall blonde lady that's running down the same street in two separate shots. Here she is in one shot at 1:16. Then here she is again running to get on the bus at 1:30. Uhh wtf it's here again 2:22 is this footage originally from a film or something bc the camera is obviously following her here.
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The lady of Shanghai is the movie
@@ianhelps8334 Thank you, omg wait so that was Rita Hayworth then?!
Gracias, NASS.
thx
The next best thing besides a time machine.
There has to be footage out there with some famous people before they were famous.
Like that Lady in Memphis in 1948. She had one shot left on her camera right before she got her film developed and took a picture of a young boy....it was Elvis.
07:19 Океанский лайнер Малоло. Построен в 1926 году.
В 1938 году переименован в MATSONIA (на видео)
В 1948 году продан компании Home Lines и переименован в Atlantic.
В 1954 продан компании “National Hellenic American Line" и переименован в Vasilissa Friederiki или по-английски Queen Frederica (надпись на корме, а впоследствии - полное название корабля на носу и корме))
Именно как QUEEN FREDERICA лайнер и стал известен в будущем.
В 1965 году продан компании Chandris Lines.
В 1977 году продан греческим компаниям
В 1978 году на корабле случился пожар во время ремонта. В последний раз его корпус видели в 1981 году, на кладбище кораблей Elefsis Shipyards
1:00 watching the tall blonde running along the sidewalk I cant help but wonder, "what is she late too?" Realizing she's long been gone.
It all makes you feel extremely insignificant when you ponder such things.
Wait for her she crosses at 1:21
2:20 Female running across the street in heels... so graceful...