Chinese New Year Hong Kong 1953 舊香港

[deejayzyx]

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[angelinemartin313]

i love hongkong

[connie59do]

You always pair the video with the perfect music. Thank you so much.

[Bouncybon]

Michael - your extraordinary archives are unique. Can you assure us that your Hong Kong films are fully protected? Have you made some arrangements with the British Film Institute or similar organisation in Holland or TVB-HK to licence them or archive them for the future? I am sure the BBC would love to make a 1 hour programme on old Hong Kong, using your rare footage.

[MichaelRogge]

@Bouncybon. DVD's of most of my clips are with the HK Film Archive, University, History Museum. Hundreds of them have been distributed in HK. There is a photo exposition in the Tao Gallery and a photobook published. I have accomodated various television stations to use parts in their programs. If the BBC would be interested I am sure that know how to find me as the other stations did.

[canman5060]

The background music of this upload brings back a lot of childhood memory.I remember the good old days sleeping on those cast iron bunk bed with family of seven crowded in one tint pigeon hole.Tough old days but lots of fun too ! Thanks very much for uploading Muchael.

[hkbreastsurgeon]

Thanks for the sharing. But I think the time it is a record of how the HK ppl celebrate the 'Tin Hau Festival' (The goddess of the sea) on the 23rd of the third lunar month rather than during the CNY. BTW, swimming during the CNY season (usually Jan/ Feb) is still a bit cold in HK. :)

[MichaelRogge]

Indeed, the swimming scenes were taken later in the year.

[tikisailor]

Thanks for sharing these videos. They're wonderful.

[tangchunho]

good video!

[Mik5469]

Why the hell did the brits and pourtgess leave fuck!

[terrykuok2007]

THE ROC FLAG~~

classic~~thanks:)

[MS407]

I was born in early 80's

Now I live in Aberdeen of Southern District

But now...as I know,they don't swim in the shelter because seawater is so dirty...

[MichaelRogge]

No annual cross Victoria harbour swim either!

[MS407]

I remember it was stopped before I was born...

[eddielung31]

for haven's sake, leave politics for one moment and just enjoy the movie, guys

[TaipoRoad]

Thanks Michael.

[princessbobo910]

Those children are lucky because they can swim whenever they like. They don't have to go to the beach or swimming pool.  They don't have to think about water pollution.....see Hong Kong now is differenet water and different air, so hard to find clean water and fresh air. What a pity!

[chucky0404]

We can see the conventional fishermen life style

[snaapz]

Water's clean.

[chick5581]

Whoa what a video I cannot take my eyes off the screen! haha this is very interesting stuff to know about.

[HaxorLee]

If i would ever blame someone for pollution it would definitely not be the chinese.

[kalasie7]

Thanks for sharing this vid. I wasn't born yet, either. It's cool to see how things were.

[Civsuccess2]

lol, they still have the Republic of China flag.

[Climbatizecombat]

hmm they could swim in the harbor back then, much less pollution, Industrialization is destroying the planet

[Silverjda]

they still can today....<.< its just that, do you wanna get sucked into a cargo ships turbine?

[jclvscc]

you still can lol. cept you'd get sucked in by huge ships. the harbor, believe it or not, is actually very clean.

[wannaseesome]

I love seeing vids like this..although im not born yet at that time.. keep posting more vids.. tnx

[jerrydoubleu]

that's stupid to say.

[llllGreenFoxllll]

fyi hong kong was under british control until the 1990s

[agrious39]

actually, Hong Kong was a seperate country from the rest of China, with a British rule in this video. Please dont talk.

[opinion56]

yes yes I know that. even though hong kong isnt under the rule of the british anymore, it is still very different from the mainland. I was not speaking about hong kong though rather then china itself.

[rgw5267]

I do not agree with you. In 1953, Hong Kong was under British rule. But now is not that time, Hong Kong has returned to China, China is his home.

[HumanStrategy]

"Hong Kong has returned to China, China is his home."

You do realize that the land of what we call China and Hong Kong aren't actually conscripted to any one group of people, right?

We say we own parts of the planet. But we really don't 'belong' anywhere in particular on this earth.

[rgw5267]

"We say we own parts of the planet. But we really don't 'belong' anywhere in particular on this earth. "

I really hope you are right, but with our rational minds to think about the world today, apart from the philosophers and the so-called pacifists will say so, who else would do such a comment in the world. A country's sovereignty, is a dignity of the country. The most fundamental thing is to safeguard national territorial integrity.

[HumanStrategy]

"The most fundamental thing is to safeguard national territorial integrity."

I disagree. This is the source of much of the problem as to what you were addressing in your prior statements.

[BleepBloopKev]

Yeah we do.

[satriox]

great for nostalgia.. if only i had been born yet

[o7jimmy]

Cool! 5/5*

[dmccoig]

This is what I love about YouTube! You are able to share something wonderful from the past that no longer exists in its original form. Fantastic. Thank you so very much for putting this up here.

[googlebly]

Michael, the background music is authentic

traditional Cantonese. It lets people feel

good not today's orchestral style performance could achieve. You know music.

[jfw2006]

the taiwanese flag on 0:40, which will not be seen in Hong Kong nowadays.

[luckylychee]

Not Taiwanese, it is the flag of the Republic of China.

[leeleelee2006]

great video!support!

[johnchannetshow]

Compare to Caucasian, the local HK people are ugly. I am HK people.

[ismaelrionda]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful Hong Kong films!

Whenever I visit Hong Kong (I am writing from it now!)I always rove its streets in search of any remnants of the so-called 'world of Suzie Wong'. You surely were lucky in being part of that wonderful era: the HK of the 1950's, with its wonderful architecture and atmosphere, well before the demolition of the old and the coming of the skyscraper era.

I really envy you...all I can do is dream of that bygone era now. But you LIVED it.

[MichaelRogge]

You are right. They were the best years of my life! I returned thirty years later and discovered to my dismay that all had gone!

[ismaelrionda]

Such a huge loss!

Anyway...somehow, with the aid of your films, some books and old photographs, I kind of manage to re-enact the magic of that wonderful era. I wander some districts of Hong Kong (e.g. Sheung Wan), or I explore the heights of the Peak, and - although only sometimes - I still manage to travel back in time to that time of wonder and nostalgia.

Michael, thanks again for your enormous contribution to making my "time travels" more real. God bless you!