Visiting Hong Kong 50 years ago
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- A British couple visited Hong Kong and made a super 8 movie of it with sound track. Meanwhile viewers have helped me dating this film. I have pinned an approximate date of 1978 on it.
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Our whole family left HK in 1968 😢 went back visit in 1978. It was so different !! We love this video 👍 🙏 Thank you Michael for sharing the true Hong Kong 🤝🏻 🤗
Yes this is the Hong Kong ,this is the true Hong Kong
This film takes me right back to my childhood. I recognised all the places and this is exactly how I remember HK. We left in 1978. I know the song, too and haven't heard it in decades. Don't know if it was chosen deliberately, but it talks about time passes and will never returns; life is but a dream and who would understand your personal problems. Listening to the song and watching the film made me very nostalgic and quite emotional.
Same ,was born H.K. in 79', came to Aus in 82', quite emotional as well ,didn't realised till perusing t j e comments that all Chinese/H.K ers', feel EXACTLY the same ,even people born in the 2000s',
So did you move to USA?
Thanks.
Hong Kong is a special place. I've been there four or five times, and each time is magical . This place is very close to my heart. Hong Kong is alive in me for the rest of my life.
Another great clip of Hong Kong!
However it should be filmed in the year 1981. Evidences came from the scenes in Central (Des Voeux Road Central) with a double decker bus (appeared 02:49, reg number CL1026 which first registered in Hong Kong on 28 January 1981) so it must be filmed after 28 January 1981.
Later on the same road (03:22) showed the old HSBC Main Building which still with its flag raised, meaning it was still in use. This old HSBC Main Building was closed on July 1981 and demolished later that year, which means that the movie must be filmed sometime between January to July 1981.
As people on the street were wearing clothes with long sleeves but not with thick jackets, it should be around March and April. The commentary further describes that the weather was a bit humid, which matches the weather of March and April in Hong Kong. Starting from May weather becomes hot in Hong Kong and it's not possible to wear long-sleeves anymore.
FYI, sources of my evidences:
1. The double-decker bus: www.1005.idv.hk/info.php?id=452910
2. HSBC Main Building History (Chinese version describes the day of decommission exactly as July 1981 while English just 1981) : zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%BB%99%E8%B1%90%E7%B8%BD%E8%A1%8C%E5%A4%A7%E5%BB%88
This observation is indeed very accurate and correct. There are also blue and cream buses too which are former London Transport Daimler Fleetline DMS class vehicles which were being sold to Hong Kong CMB from 1980 onwards.
Andrew Lam
What about that terrific cover of the song Funkytown. The original was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980. Is that song part of the original recording?
Also I think 1981 Nissan blue bird and 81 Honda accord in film clip. Thanks.
wow you are quite a Sherlock! No wonder the street scenes look much more "modern" than what I expect
Michael provides us with the fond memories of old Hong Kong in pictures which is now faded away but still remembered by many aged people who experienced Hong Kong lives in that era. Thank u Michael.
If people want to recall people and lives in HK in the fifties I recommend this book by Martin Booth who passed away a couple of years back," Gweilo" was published just before his death. He spent about a decade in HK as a child going native and said he could not forget HK.
If people want to recall the old Hong Kong in the fifties I recommend
Thanks. I read that book 'Gweilo' and would recommend it to anyone interested in life in olden days in Kowloon. See also my photobook 'Hong Kong fifties' .
Thank you very much for sharing this. Memories flood back. I walked on these streets. The Hong Kong as we knew it is no more. Bittersweet memories.
Sir ,but the streets still look the same if not identical.
You bring me back to my child age........many thanks
Our history , our memories ! Thank You so much !!
Good selection of the Cantonese Song in the second half, Michael. The lyrics "光陰永不回頭" which means "Time never goes back" is a perfect match for this video
Thanks. I had no idea that even the title matched the subject !
MichaelRogge I think it's been more than 2 years since I last talked to you, Michael. So happy to "see" you！I have no idea of the title of the song since it's not a hot song then. Yet a friend Alex here did tell out the title of the Cantonese song. Superb！The song title is not about Time but the lyrics do contains a sentence saying "Time never goes back"
+raymondkkng Do you know the name of the ( funky town song)? when he's on the tram?
+Ted “TdawgVapes” Reeder
Sorry. I have no idea about the name of the Chinese version of Funky Town. I even ddid't know there was a Chinese version then. It's natural that people would rather listen to the original version.
raymondkkng What's the song name? Anyone?
This is how I like to remember Hong Kong. Thanks for the all the amazing Video Mr Rogge!
Nothing like Hong Kong, even in those days . Unforgettable times . Great footage . I was in Hong Kong 25 years ago and I have returned many times . It's best place to stop over on your Asian travels. I also liked the Cantonese music , very much .
The background song was Hong Kong of Korman record company published in 1981 by Mr Cui Zhiwei 崔志偉 song name "春花飛滿樓Chun Hua Fei Man Lou" only a personal Cantonese album. How time flies ! Thanks Mr Rogge
Binging these videos of my hometown. Thank you Michael for sharing all these with us. So vivid and lively. Time travels!
Thank you for giving me my childhood memories😄
Million thanks for the valuable clips! AND YOUR LOVE FOR THE PLACE WE LIVE.
Thank you for bring back my good old memory. I just love those years.
Thanks for the valuable clips! great memory I was still a little kid/baby that time and I've been to UK now so much thanks, it's utterly fantastic!
Those clips are valuable, thanks for uploading.
Best videos ever. Thanks
Thanks for the upload. I was stationed there with the RAF from 1976-1978, and have just found our old 8mm silent film of Hong Kong and it put on dvd. The highrise building on the island at 10.40 was nicknamed the "house of the thousand arseholes" We are going back for the first in November.
thx michael for posting this interesting video. it brings me back to my childhood, to the place i was raised.
I am glad that you share these in youtube, I am from Hong Kong, and I love my home
Our good old days...I was only 6 years old at that time, thank you so much for this priceless clip!
Thanks for sharing Michael! I lived there in the late 70's and early 80's just up the road from Stanley with my parents and spotted a lot of sights in the film that I remember.
My first 7 years of life were in HK in the 70s. Strange memories brought back by this footage. Great stuff. Thank you.
Great footage.
Thank you M. Rogge.
Another great video from you ! love it and thanks Michael !
I always enjoy watching your videos. Thank's for sharing. Missing the good old days.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Grew up in HK between 1976 and 1988 so this was smack bang in the middle of some of the most wonderful years of my life ❤. Must have been filmed in 1981 or later as the planetarium was visible and that was finished in late 1980.
Michael, it's amazing and thank you so much for sharing. It's a treasure for hk.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful memories of HK. 2021!
Good old days. Long gone and thanks for your posting.
Thank you so much for these videos! I just started watching your channel and this particular video I really like because I got to see the Hilton hotel. It was where I stayed on my first trip to HK in the early 90s. Brings back so many memories! It’s now gone but I especially enjoyed seeing it before the huge bank of China tower was built next to it. Looking forward to watching all of your videos.
thanks for sharing Michael!! brings back many memories! i still remember the sights , sounds & smells when my family visited in 1969. i was age 7 at the time....
Thank you for this footage. Hong Kong changes so much before. Good to see. Like the song in Cantonese. Love from England. X
Thank you for recording history! Awesome
Thank you Mr. Rogge, i was born in 1981 so this will give me an idea what Hong Kong was like when i was born!
i was born in 1953
Thanks again Michael for your film of old HK.
My first trip to HK was 1973 followed by 75, 77, 84, 85 ,87 and so up until my last trip in 2011. I obviously have very fond memories however I don't have the fine footage you captured.
Thank you for the great footage.
Oh how the skyline has changed. Even some of those 80s buildings have long since gone. Its like a theatre set, always being renewed.
Sir, thanks for filming and sharing them on TH-cam.
this is a very preious video! that time, that space, that feeling of the city, will never be again, but bcos of you, it last forever! thank you Mr Roggie🌹🙇♀️
真是值得回味的珍貴紀錄片，多謝提供人仕。
Thanks Michael! So much memories for me!
Thanks a lot for this. It’s very interesting to look at the Hong Kong before I was born :) I have read in a museum in Stanley that The Murray House used to be located in Central. It’s nice to see it again in Central in your video!! The tram ride was very good too!
The much shorter building immediately to the right of Jardine House (12:19) is World Wide House which was built on the site of the Old Post Office when it was demolished in 1976. The construction of World Wide House was completed in 1980. This excellent little film must have been shot in the early 80's. Many thanks for another highly entertaining piece of Hong Kong history Mr Rogge!
Thanks for posting the clip. Love to see HK in the old days
1:45 Jimmy's Kitchen is STILL around! :D
thank you so much Michael! man, i grew up in hong kong. i went to Peak school and now i go to boarding school in Sydney. Thanks for giving me so much insite to the old hong kong. You are by far the best on youtube! im doing my school art assignment and your films have influenced me quite a lot. Im taking photos of hong kong and trying to capture a mixture of contrast and nostaligia in my images. Anyway, thanks again man. ill buy your photobook when im back in hong kong and ill site it in my art diary as a huge influence in my work. :)
Hi max , where you born in H.K. by any chance ,I was born in H.K, but moved to Syd with parents years ago. Also are you British by ancestry?-cheers.
Thanks 🙏
I born in late 80s, miss the old days, simple and beautiful.
Thanks for the posting. You did a great job for us to learn more of Hong Kong when we were young. God bless you.
Thank you for the uploader. I'm HKese but we hard to find Good-O-Days videos like this.
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Michael,
My wife and I spent two weeks in Kong Kong in 1977 and your fascinating look back seems to be just about from that time, maybe a year or so earlier. No particular reason, just the Flash Back Effect your film had on us.
We made a return visit in 2011 and stayed in the very same hotel on Kowloon - The Marco Polo Hong Kong, called simply The Hong Kong Hotel in 1977
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Loved your video
Drew
This is good for replay memory sometimes, but it will be too excessive and even dangerous to look back frequently. Everyone has to look forward for future.
I am looking back because there isn't much to look forward to right now.
Very true sir ,- are you saying looking back too often can causecone to be depressed about the future due to the past ? Thanks Sincerely.
As we get older, we become more engaged with these old films ! I’m 58 but I find the “look at life “ series from the U.K. compelling !
Yeah it's so true but minds r so free now with back then
I was born around the recording of this video in Hong Kong. Thank you for sharing.
Thank You. 35 years ago,I was a primary student. 70'S to 80'S Hong Kong was the most beautiful Hong Kong.
So nice to know when I time travel back to the 70-80's HK will still be basically my HK. Greatest city on earth
Thanks for the upload!
The HK Hilton would have been a perfectly good building still standing in any other city today, but Li Ka$hing knocked it down in 1994 or 1995 to build the Cheung Kong Ctr. Interesting to see all the normal cars, instead of the luxury car showroom has become today. Victoria Harbour was huge before they went reclamation mad.
I am Korean live in Hong Kong now. Thank you for video. And I don't hope to Beijing touch Hong Kong.
great clip, thanks for sharing.
This is definitely shot in the late seventies, could be around 1977 or 1978 when you can see the tram still carried a trailer which was withdrawn in the 1980s, the second sign to make certain the date was the sun hung kai centre at 6:05 (one of the tallest bldg then) was not fully completed until 1980/1981. This film is rare and valuable since it's hard to find footage of this type taken in the 70s, it's so enjoyable to watch and with a sense of nostalgia, my deepest appreciation to Mr Rogge !
it was 1981
Great film, thanks so much for sharing!
golden days of hong kong...now totally different...thanks again for all your priceless video!!
This is fantastic history. I taught one semester there as a visiting Prof in 1998. Sure has changed since.
Just awesome ! It brings me back all the good good memories while I was in HKG from 1975 to 1990 as a BRITISH GURKHA ARMY ! Thank u so much for the uploading this ! So good so far !
machickney
Thank you so much for posting this. You should come again and take a video at the same place
wonderful. I've been to HK 3 times and loved it every time. Great window into the past
Thanks for sharing your videos. God Bless!
You can also help date it using the tram with a trailer as they got rid of these shortly after this film was made. Great video!
Also you can see the site formation works and Flagstaff House (still in HK Park, now the Teaware Museum) shortly before or at the time Victoria barracks was demolished and subsequently
Hong Kong Park and Pacific Place (and later on in the video, Exchange Square) were built. I also miss the car ferries, as even after the first two tunnels were built on occasion it was a lovely, leisurely and scenic way to cross the harbour.
You can see at about 14:30, The Admiralty Centre with MTR logo is completed. Search the Wikipedia 海富中心 "Admiralty Centre in Chinese word .
The building completed in 1980.As ckretasianman said,HSBC new HQ started in 1983, I think the video was taken between 1980 and 1983.
The background is very local to Hong Kong people grown up in 80s.
Michael, great job!
Thankyou for the beautiful memories which I will keep in my heart for ever.
Thanks for your videos of old Hong Kong. You let me know how Hong Kong looks when I was born and childhood. :)
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much for sharing!
I lived in HK from 84-87....I was 7 yrs old and remember all of it. Great video
Love that. Thank you for sharing
Priceless footage. I salute you good sir.
Thanks for posting this, I'm gonna move and live in HK in 6 months, that's really interesting to get a picture of what was HK few years ago, my wife always talks about the pre-handover era!
thank you so much sir.the old happy times
Brings back happy memories. I was 7 years old in 1975 and living in Stanley Fort.
I can still picture the green and white 'Cathay Pacific' 707's as I watched them begin their approach to Ki-Tak airport.
thank you for this fantastic insight!
Michael you are great !
Cool! Thank you very much for sharing this
Thanks for putting your films up. V interesting and remind me of my visits in summer hols in 50s 60s when my dad worked there HSBC. I am told the place is almost unrecognisable now but still very interesting to visit and of course the harbour views remain wonderful
Thanks. Of course the former HSBC impressive building has been demolished and replaced by a higher one !
I was 15 yrs old in 1980 ....... and now, my beloved city is......... 😞😭😭
thanks for bringing the memories of how HK looked like as the year when I was born.
Thanks for this Michael........I lived there in the mid-70s for a few years....wonder if I can spot myself going to work....
Oh..how i miss the old hk! This is such a precious footage, thanks to the original poster!
thankyou, Michael
Nice work sir......heads off u.....
Thank you very much.
I saw my first working place at Wanchai
Great movie of old HK in color. Thanks for sharing.
So apt the music at the beginning. Yes, Hong Kong was a funky town.
Thanks for share. It reminded me the days Hong Kong which my dad taxis and other public transportation.
Most precious film of 40 yrs ago HK, I also very like the song
this is exactly the years I grew up in HK especially the street and the stores that I know everyday when i walk by. Those were just in my dream of the old days when I closed my eyes and standing last year in central... (same street corners but different stores now)... thanks for keeping that in the video so that I can refresh my childhood memories.
Thanks. They are also part of my own fond memories 1
+Meiji Sign ....I have the exact same memories and feelings - larger harbour, noisy chaotic Kai Tak across the water, Walled City still standing. Went back in 2008 after growing up there in the seventies, and although so much (maybe too much) has changed, HK still has a real magic about it.
Same as me ,went back to H.K last year and was trying to do the same thing as YOU, trying to remember which stores was in that street corner as well, I was born in 79 ' in H.K..
Many thanks.
Thank you for a great film. I can't call it a video because this was filmed before video was invented.