Washington DC 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added
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- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Washington DC 1940s , we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight,
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)
✔sound design added 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.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
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My mom and dad met in D.C. in 1945. He was an airline pilot and she worked for the airlines. Amazing to see the world they lived in at that time.
Reminds me of my parents story. Both were from East Texas and met in Colorado. Dad was an orderly at the state mental institution and Mom was a waitress at the cafe across the street. 🙂👍🏻
Here is another reason that I am so glad I subscribed to this channel....
It's absolutely amazing. Many of us who are older (yes, I am referring to myself) really appreciate this; not many remember how things were 'back in the day'. Lots of great memories come rushing back, and complete astonishment when some of the much older footage is uploaded. I really cannot find the words...but THANK YOU.
How old are you? Are you in your 70's, 80's?
I rode that system in the Georgetown ares when my family moved to Arlington VA in the summer of1961, thank you to the channel, and I see DC drivers drove like their hair was on fire sometimes, even then.
Note that the Washington D.C. (Capital Transit Co.) electric street cars drew their 600 V dc power from a slot between the rails when they ran in the "downtown" area of the nation's capital (this avoided the clutter of overhead electric wires). Capital Transit purchased their first PCC streetcars (streamlined ones seen running in this film) in 1937. Streetcar service came to an end in Washington D.C. on January 28, 1962. Thanks for sharing!
and that was not dangerous for people ?
@@user-qd6qo2sq1w To be sure, it would have been dangerous if someone intentionally put their hand, if they could (you can see the slot is quite narrow), down into the slot to complete a circuit through their body. This practice of electric traction supply was seldom used elsewhere in the U.S.
Thanks for clearing that up. At first I thought they were cable cars like those in San Francisco because of the slot between the rails. But that didn’t make sense because of the trolley on top of the streetcars that could be used for overhead electric connection. Also the length of a cable system didn’t seem practical to me. I remember when S.F. got its streamliner streetcars, but of course they used the overhead trolly system as they still do today.
I was wondering whee the trolleys got their power from and though it might be that slot between the tracks. Thanks for clearing that up.
@@WAL_DC-6B The same was true for NYC in Manhattan for the New York Railways and the 3rd Avenue Railway. In upper Manhattan near the Bronx they pulled up the trolley poles for the overhead wires in front of the bridges. The center rail system ended in 1947, and the Railway was renamed to the 3rd Avenue surface lines.
Growing up just miles from D.C., I enjoyed this video. I remember riding the street cars from Mt. Rainer, Maryland, station to 5th and G St. N.W., where my mother worked.
If your Mom worked in 5th and G Street she must have worked for Federal Power Commission in that building
@@georgekraus9357 Yes, she worked at the Federal Power Commission, later the name changed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
One of the best videos yet.
I love watching these , this one unfortunately turned out too dark. Thanks so much!
I wonder if it could be lightened up?
From about the 2:00 minute mark (for about nine seconds), you can see, on the right side, the steel frame of the National Gallery of Art Building being erected (what is now known as the West Building). The National Gallery of Art opened in March of 1941. So, if this footage is from the 1940s, it must be from the very early 40s at that...when construction of the National Gallery of Art was in progress.
I always like these but I sure wish people would have filmed other parts of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue has looked mostly the same for well over a hundred years
That would be great! I’m sure 16th street and 14th St would look so different! I’m curious to see how that area where Florida, U st and 18th all intersect looked like!
My Dad and his brother drove for D.C. Transit back in the trolley days. I still have one of the tokens used for fare..
Back when Washington was safe and government institutions were highly trusted to do right by the people. Always great stuff at NASS.
I was thinking the same thing.
Debatable honestly, there were NASTY fights between Congress and FDR over the status of the Supreme Court, power sharing, etc by this time. Regardless of party, DC has been a mess of corruption and controversy for most of the last 110 years.
Lol there have been rights between Congress and parties since the beginning. Back then congress fought FDR on everything.
@@thunderbird1921 Since 1913 (Federal Reserve)
Its a true sh!thole of a city today. Corrupt from the Mayor on down. Sad.
I didn't spot any cars newer than 1938. Those were a couple Chevys. The taxicabs were all 1937 models, mostly Chevys , Plymouths & Dodges. I wish they'd bring back the streetcars.
I live in Silver Spring, Maryland in the border of Washington DC we go a lot around the area showing here in this video It's amazing how it all has changed😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yep...real sad.
Thanks for the lift. Great ride
People seemed to drive wherever they wanted. Passing and lane changing looked so sketchy. Interurbans looked really cool.
And not one "Karen" to be found. 😁
Pretty much how people drive here now too. It's interesting to see the lack of lane markings in so many areas
wow as usual awesome
@nass excellent job!!! A lot of public transportation (not available now due) and it was a beautiful city.
Thank you!
Hmmm, looks like it's black and white with a bit of blue and some reddish reflections. Is this a work in progress?
DC native here, and live about 1 mile north of the U.S. Capitol building. and live in the home my mother, older parent, she would have been in her 20s in when this was filmed (1921-2007), who birth me in 1996 at 44 and older brother age age 42, bought with her first husband, back in 1945 for 10K. 1912 federal style end unit row house. The house I think was vacant or being rented when she left my father and moved back into the house in 1973 after some remodel updates. I had it gutted remolded 2016/2017. I'm sure it's now worth around $900k+ - $1 million. Yes I'm blessed. 🤗 I'm so used to seeing those old vehicles in movies. They almost seem like movie props. 🤗🤗🤗
At 6:40 a sheet of newspaper on the street! For shame!!
Yes! I saw that too!
2:57 Bldgs on right now demolished and is now the location of the FBI HQ bldg built in the early/mid 70s.
Apart from the abrupt end, it was a very nice clip. Hope you find nice stuff to enhance....
Very cool................... 👍🙂
”Washington, a swamp that traded Malaria for politics” from the film Quiz Show
Now THAT Was A Good Joke A Comedian could use.
Why did they enjoy filming backward?
Rear projection footage for a motion picture maybe
The enjoyment may be that this film was intended to provide a Washington D.C. background scene for when a movie being produced needed such as scene when showing two people (actors) riding in the backseat of a car.
Fantastic!
I wish it was that easy to drive around Washington today
It has changed so much since then … it’s a round about near the Capitol with a parking lot on that side where the video starts
It’s interesting to me that there are no lane demarcations painted on the streets. Did they assume people would drive more sensibly back then?
The lettering on the license plates on the taxi's and on the side of the van is so clear. The only shame is, I don't think anybody has kept records that far back! That dear people is the Smithsonian, where I think these films are stored! 3:25
Nice historical find, but to me a very tedious video to watch. It would have been nice if the cameraman would have strayed away from the federal district and its wide avenues with hardly any people or life. I would find the everyday Washington beyond the marble halls much more interesting! (At the time there were both elegant homes and segregated slums just a few blocks from the Capitol.) At least this is a snapshot of Washington transportation in the late 1930's. In fact, it's so totally focused on cars, buses and streetcars that I have a suspicion that is why it was filmed.
I love the streetcars! I sure wish they still had them!
DCer myself. Penn crossing Con. Capitol past the National Archives, the Washington Star, The Post Office (now Trump Hotel), Willard Hotel and Treasury Department.
Awesome stuff!
I love dc ❤move from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
The first thing I noticed were way more trees along Pennsylvania Avenue back then.
It's strange to think how many people at this time came from a time before cars, planes, paved roads, electrification, and etc. Well, I guess that's like me coming from a time before home computers, cell phones, and giant flat screen TVs.
wonderful!! the city where I was born….
Some wild driving by a few motorists.
This film was likely shot by a movie studio for use in back projection JMO
Would like to think was filmed facing rearward from a rumble seat. A Packard would be nice.
Seeing the natty boh truck brought me great joy ❤
Why does this look like a video game? Is it from all of the filters, colorization, and stabilization? Looks completely fake.
El edificio en 3:57 Hotel Occidental.. Aún existe? Y el gran edificio en 4:05 es una Biblioteca Pública? Cómo se llama la avenida cuando comienza el video? Saludos a todos desde Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Gracias por la aclaratoria
Judging by the cars, film probably from 1936-37.
cool!
A cada video do Nass que assisto, dedico total atenção e admiração de uma época que não era a minha....mas que adoraria poder ter vivido ao menos alguns dias !! Porquê não inventam logo uma maquina do tempo ?? 😂😂
Superbe époque américaine 👍❗rien a voir avec aujourd'hui 2022 👎❗
Why is it so dark?
This clip is NOT from the 1940's!
I would say early 40s
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And now it is a giant ghetto
Rather embarrassing for the nation's Capitol, wouldn't' you say?
@@1940limited embarrassing is not the word i'd use for it.
Too dark. I'd rather view the original stock.
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Notice how clean it was when it wad majority white 😊
Washington, DC the year 1940
@ edwin valenzuela. Sorry. This film was Probably Taken NO LATER Than 1938. Because At That Year the headlights on cares began being mounted Inside The Front Fenders Instead Of On The Sides Of The Front Grill's. And by 1939 Virtually ALL of them were manufactured that way. Check your Auto History books before you make A False Claim.
@@davemckolanis4683 doesn't mean most cars weren't produced prior to 1938. This could very well be 1938-39. Probably not 40. If you drive around now most cars are not 2022 even though it's 2022. I would get 1937 or 1938.
@@mnews2270 The DC Capitol Area would Most Likely have the Latest Model Year Cars, Owned by Better Off Folks working in that area. Go deeper into the Back and slum streets and you'll find more Model-A's and Earlier 30's and 20's models. The Body Shapes of the Sedans and the Fat Rounded Front Fenders with Running Boards, (Even looking at them From The Rear of Virtually ALL Of Them), Pegs the film at No Later than 1938. Since the newer IN-Fender Front headlights just began being introduced on a few cars in 1937. Check your old Common Car Style books from the late 30's to the Early 40's before the War. Plymouth and Ford had their headlights in the fenders above the front wheels by 1939. I have Far More Important Things To Do than Argue About An Old Film.
Not many cars on the street. Due to gas rationing during wartime?
Probably
Back when we had a constitutional republic and elected politicians who represented us
I wouldn't say that. Sure we have more corruption today, but even back then our government wasn't the best
The good old days.....before all the smashin' and grabbin' and shootzin and stabbin'.
Ahh, back when public servants actually represented and served its taxpaying citizens. Well, far more than today anyway.
When DC was white and safe.....
I d i ot!
Absolutely!
@@hepphepps8356 BS on you!
@ B dot Allen. Kind of a Terribly Racist Comment don't you think? DC was LOADED With Suppressed Afro Americans. But this film Doesn't Go Back into the Sounding Streets And Slum areas of that time. You sound like A Very Foolish And Naive Youngster.
@@hepphepps8356 racist
The decade Trump was born and yet to become president 🇺🇸
Trump wasn't Quite Born yet in the Late 1930's. Too Bad they didn't Have Legal Abortions to Take Care Of Him Before His Madness Started At The Beginning. Then his older Brother Fred Could Have Made His Family Name Respected Instead of Tarnished, and Perhaps the World A Better Place Too.
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Richard "Limp Dick" Rogers at 2:27
This is awesome, like looking into a time machine.
Where are the Stop signs and street lights?
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Excellent video, Nass. This could be film
For the 1939 movie " Mr. Smith goes to Washington " staring James Stuart.
0:13 What looks like two Capitol Transit single-end PCC cars passing the camera in the opposite direction definitely make this 1939 on forward. Note that although the cars are equipped with overhead trolley poles, here within city limits they rely on a conduit rail located between the running rails for their power (No catenary to spoil the city's aesthetics.)
0:43 This double-end car also has its poles down.
Edit: Should have written, "...make this 1936 on forward." Apologies for the typo.
The newest cars I saw were 1937 so I'm think that's the year. I love the trolleys, too.
The beer truck, the 1/2 panel in the beginning are both 1938 Chevrolet,,, well done though
I was thinking 1938!
I don't think I saw one car with headlights built into the fender, so I agree that this video was filmed no later than 1937-38, certainly not into the 40's
Right down the middle of the Nation’s Main Street Pennsylvania Avenue. Too bad they demolished the old Raleigh Hotel in the mid to late 1960’s which comes into view at 3:45 on the left above the tree with the domed roof. It’s across from the old Post Office that became a mall circa 1990’s and then Trump’s Hotel the past eight, ten years or so. The columns of the beautiful Willard Hotel which still stands are on the left before the streetcar turns. Great video of the U.S. Capital and wish it showed more from about 1938.
Consititution avenue if you go to the 2 minute mark you can see the constuction of the National Gallery of art, I was born in D.C. in the 50's and vaguely remember riding on the street cars with my mom which ran till about 1961 great video thanks
Please let me off this bus ?I want to stay here and buy a good ten cent hot dog with a tall glass of National Beer. Said folks I can predict the future , but you won`t like it .
Ganz wunderbar, auch wegen der Straßenbahnen.
I'm not supposed to think there ain't time travel all of a sudden these videos are popping up and great quality they didn't have good quality back then I don't care how many times they cut the film you're not going to get quality like this we definitely have time travelers.
Very cool & interesting.. How different things were back then.. so few cars on the roads.. so many parks & green spaces
Washington was so uncrowded in this photo - seemed like lots of people on streetcars.
Good Bless USA
Something by these videos makes me think that in some ways there hasn’t been progress, but regress..
Exactly! When minorities step in, things go to hell. It's a proven fact. Unfortunate.
@@V1AbortV2 LOL keep crying it s only the begining
I can imagine Indiana Jones talking to Marion as they stand in front of the capital building.
LOL, that was back in the 30s.
This can't be later than 1940. The light traffic and some shadow angles seem to point towards an early weekend morning. Full seemingly green leaves on trees, would say late spring or summer. Of course NASS chose the colors of those leaves! Nice job.
Why do you think it can't be later than 1940? Just curious, thanks.
@@vecernicek2 I could not see a single car that would have been a 41
@@richmeyer2064 Ok, got to trust you on that one.
@@vecernicek2 Familiarity with the cars.
also noticed cars don't have the gas ration stickers on windshield,
A beautiful city.... with a lot of class.. thanks for sharing.
Was.
LOL! Some of those pedestrians running through traffic have squirrel-like reflexes. 😂👀
GREAT VIDEO NASS
I really love the shots starting about 6:35 of the newspaper blowing across the street for some reason, and the truck swerving to not run over it
So - this is what "the swamp" looked like in the '40's.
Ironically enough American politics was on its way to peaking Around this time
I think the video is more from the mid to late 1930s. At least from the collection of cars. By 1939, there was a trend of modernization. Not all cars, but some with more streamline and incorporation of headlights into fenders. I did not see any 1940 cars nor any of the 1939 cars that were showing more modernization. I would think the latest date for the clip is 1938, based on the cars.
The streetcars look like older models also.
Awesome work!
Thank you so much for posting this, Washingtonian myself this is very interesting to see the forties considering this is the years that my dad was a young man he enjoyed the video thoroughly and I did subscribe to your Channel have a blessed day
The world was so much less crowded back then
No duh Sherlock
@@armorpro573 lmao
the grill on the light colored Chevrolet 1/2 ton panel truck in the beginning, and the beer truck, indicates they are 1938 models. Then at 1:15, out of nowhere pops a 1935 or 36 (near identical) Chevy 1/2 ton panel, just like mine, then another at 6:56. Man I love watching these!!
I’m of the belief this is the Spring or Summer of 1937. The license plates have a dark background and the District of Columbia’s plates for that year were school bus yellow on black for 1937. In the film, it reflects white on the plates. Nice beginning from the West Front side with the Capitol in the background. I wish the one filming had kept rolling as one sees the Treasury Building with the columns and looks as if they continue to drive toward The Ellipse along the South Lawn of the White House if they turned the camera. Sadly, they closed that off to traffic after 9/11. It provided a great view of the White House for anyone visiting the small but beautiful city.
the grills on the Chevy trucks, well that light colored 1/2 ton panel, and the beer truck, are 1938 grills.
Your belief is incorrect my good sir
@@SuperAussie999 Elaborate if you know when it was made. It's definitely pre-W2. Perhaps it's 1938.
Could be October or November of 1936 when new models were making way on the road.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar It might be 1936 as my prior post in trying to identify the year by the license plates which the District and virtually all States indicated the year on their plates and changed every year back then. However, the fullness and green of the trees might possibly be October but not November given this is D.C. and autumn colors would be evident. It definitely is not 1940 yet.
صوري واحد نفس هذا الموقع لحالي سنه 2022 نفس التصوير هذا يسوي مقارنه ايش تغير
Like they say in Washington you don't know and you don't want to know
3:24 Bldg with the bell tower was the old US Post Office bldg. Its now the Trump Hotel. Beautiful bldg on the inside.
Many people say fewer cars on the road back then. Yes true! But in the 1930's to 40's the only car most families had was the one the father drove to work everyday and that was it ! . Unlike today with every family member having their own car. Plus back then more public transportation like you see in this video with the trolleys, bus, and Taxi cabs, not everybody had a car ! Thanks for the upload.
Nass, Thanks for another fabulous upload into the past. I really love the 1930's-40's cars you show and the men and ladies in their nicely dressed clothes. I know the 1940's surely was NOT all bed and roses back then with WW2, Hitler, The Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, Etc. But I love the dressy style back then better than today. Plus anybody know the year about of this video? Who was in the White house Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry S. Truman ? When this video was shot ? Guess maybe both in white house FDR President and Truman Vice President. Haha.
I would say this was filmed in the late 30s, 38/39. So FDR was in office.
@@mccuenoirfilms Thank's so much for your reply answer. Much Appreciated friend ! 😊
And John Nance Garner was Veep. Truman was only veep in the last FDR Administration.
@@chrisdarling3617 Thanks for that. Did not know about John Nance at all. Did know about Truman as vice president in FDR's last years though. Thanks.
My mom was born in 1945 in Washington, DC. She always spoke about the streetcars.
Thank you.