i live in hong kong. its so cool to see this video and to know what it looks like now!! i live like 5 mins from Repulse Bay! :D that part doesnt actually look so different.. anyways, nice vid!
@vlnctlee Just remember that the ONLY reason HKers can use YouTube (as well as the other 80% of the internet that is blocked in China) today is because of the British and their evil empire and their horrible democratic values. Chinese have no rights today either - in China.
china has all kind of evil things, so many death camp, secret police, etc etc,,,,,,,china is most hell place in the world, communist kill their against people without any permission necessary, chinese communist party killed historical amount of people, china is perfectly lawless zone for anythings
This is very precious. It shows Hong Kong before WWII. This video tells the life of HK people at that time very well. The buildings in Central, such as HK Bank, Gloucester building, Central Post Office have been rebuilt but keep their names. My father worked as customer service in the silk and linen embroideries store in the video. Thanks for preserving it and releasing to the public.
all people is not equal under the communism china,most of people is so poor,but major communist has so many privilege,car house food etc etc,,,,,,major communist in china just want to keep those privilege,so that why they killed historical amount of their citizen,its typical characteristic of communism,communist kill their against people without any permission necessary,china is perfectly lawless zone,chinese communist party killed historical amount of people for keep major communist`s privilege
"it's actually Hong Kong succeeded DESPTE the british." Because theres a magic fountain in Hong Kong which makes the people much wealthier and smarter than the rest of mainland China. Think about what you are saying dude. In a country of over a billion people Hong Kong is the wealthiest, most developed city. If the British being in charge there had nothing to do with that why would the rest of China be less developed?
@Atralis Well, if the british is the "magic fountain",how come they fail to transform their colonies in india and africa? Singapore(also a chinese majority city) used to be a british colony, but it gained independence after WW2 and succed on it own.How do you explain that? Hong Kong's success does have sth to do with british law and free trade etc, but Hong Kong is built by chinese people. Hong Kong's pride belongs to chinese people.
The peoples of those lands suffered because of stupid british imperialistic policies of the "nations-states" the british *ARTIFICIALLY* *CREATED* as opposed to the lands "naturally" or "organically" developing or coalescing into a "natural" nation.
On the other hand the policies the british implemented in India (Hindu vs. Muslim) or Sri Lanka (importing Tamil coolies and then favoring Tamils in civil service) or the Middle-East (favoring differing Islamic sects against one another - usually a minority group) or Africa (like Middle-East of favoritsm of minority group over majority group only along tribal or ethnic lines) the results were horrible ethnic and sectarian violence when the british imperialists exited those land.
Yes most hong kongers would have resisted Chinese rule in 1997. But things have changed, China's economy is now a lot larger than that of the UK and provides more opportunities and advantages to HK. If you were to ask them today whether switching back to Chinese rule was a good idea, many would say that it was a good decision. Besides it wasn't a choice per se, but the terms of the unequal treaty enforced upon China by the British. HK Chinese aside, around 1 billion Chinese support the handover.
@lendmeurears because you are living in Hong Kong island (victor city) specially in Stanley or the peak , but if you go to mainland china ask why so many China passport (Top Rich) class holder want to remove their passport to Hong Kong (British oversea)second class which mean fake Chinese (Hong Kongese) and fake British citizen (China town) still much attractive in North China! 因為你是住在香港島（維多市）特別是在赤柱或山頂，但如果你去中國大陸問為什麼這麼多的中國護照（富人）類人希望去除他們的中共護照到香港入境（英國海外）這意味著第二類假中國（香港二階級人）和假英國公民（中國鎮）仍有很大的吸引力在北中國!
To those who say it was good then. Any ppl know just one year before in 1937 2nd September a storm hit HK and claimed more than 10,000 lives. Nearly one percent of the population.
@Allawahguy Yes, it is historically and culturally a Chinese city, but in 1997 the overwhelming majority of Hong Kong people wanted to keep things untouched. They did not want to fall into Communist hands. As they were British citizens they enjoyed their culture and the privileges of Western freedom. I'm pretty sure had they were asked, Hong Kong would have never been given to China.
@pinquifrustri that was 1997, when discrimination against, and fear of the mainland, was rife. Things are very different now. They still enjoy the privileges and freedoms they had pre 1997.
tell me- have you ever lived in HK? I was born there and have lived there at various stages of my life.
Facinating. Not many of those buildings exist now - a victim of the relentless money making machine Hong Kong has always been. Two things struck me -The cenotaph aquired a lot more names just few years later - and the man smoking opium on the street!
5:40 amazing footage, would love to have seen hong kong like this... for reasons beyond the public opium smoking obviously, then again i wont lie, that has a lot to do with it haha
@kaiwkc ..well you don't NEED to be laying down certainly helps with the nodding mind you, nor do you need the oil lantern, or even the proper pipe, as long as you have a heat source and pipe you can prepare and smoke opium, not properly mind you but it will certainly provide the effects desired.I understand how it is traditionally prepared and consumed, that being said i have certainly seen people smoke opium using non traditional, even down right lazy methods
@kaiwkc he was using a gong, i'm not remotely close to an expert, was just pointing out you don't have to lie down to smoke opium, no idea what bothers you about my comment, not sure i care. take it easy man, i have no time to argue about something so petty.
@Rentonboyo You might live in Hong Kong, but you are not a Hong Kong Yun. This, without the stupid comments from you and others like you, is a good video about a very beautiful place (even in black-and-white).
"Geometric demonstration and discovery of a " geometric sacred boss " used very presumably in the construction of The Great Pyramid of Gizéh's plateau and his chance? Relation with the number "pi" (with a simple rule and / or compass) 2300 years B. Arquimedes (4600 years B.J.C.) for the farón Jufu-Keops. "
It was much better under British rule. The recent governments of the late 90's and 2000's was pretty rubbish. They didn't listen to the people at all, and just went about doing Beijing's bidding. It's rubbish now.
@Rentonboyo For your information. The government before the late 90s just didn't listen to HK people at all, and just went about doing London's bidding.
Hong Kong would certainly be much better without British rule as it would not have become such a crowded metropolitan place and would remain today as one of the many humble, calm and idyllic islands of China.
@SeventhSun what a stupid comment - there are many humble calm and idylilic islands already off China called..er ah....just like Hong Kong would have been without British rule.
The Hong Kong government should watch this track to remind them not just to reclaim more land but perhaps try to reclaim some of Hong Kong's previous charm and beauty. I am looking forward to the day when we can again swim in "crystal clear water" in Repulse Bay.
90% of VIetnamese in America claiming to be Chinese or from Hong Kong anyways. since the early 90's i notice Vietnamese ppl are ashame of their own race.
@OfficeSpace420 but it is also the truth that alot of chinese origins have been moved to vietnam in the history, so claiming as a chinese themselve is reasonable.
@niffleheim1998 most of the architecture in the past had been built with the european style, but since the economy booming during 1970's-80's and alot of people moved or immigrated to HK, the space had became narrow, which the gov consequently had to build bigger buildings.
@jocoven In Manila, architecture were European and American style in the 1930s. But now these kinds of buildings in Manila which were preserved throughout the decades are now being demolished somehow.
NYC and London have each shed their shipping/logistics sea-faring masks. HK will soon give hers up to sister Shenzhen. Just like NYC gave it up to New Jersey.
Excellent film. After visiting Hong Kong a couple years ago this film makes me wish i could see it in the 1930's. The narrator sounds like he has a Lousianan accent?
Very rare and valuable film. The landscape of Hong Kong has changed a lot over the years, especially around the coastal areas (the Central and Tsim Sha Tsui) where man-made land extension were made. Thanks for sharing this video!
To think that in just three years the Japanese would liberate their fellow Orientals from the evil white man...and then turn out to be alot worse.
As someone said earlier, it's a shame that Hong Kong is so bent on destroying it's old architecture. I suppose it's a way of cleansing an imperial past...But then HK wouldn't be what it is today if it hadn't been run by the British.
i really respect hong kong people and their achievements, their richness etc the stigma associated with hongkongese district overseas. but i cant say im attracted to hongkonese people. sadly.
Hong Kong today is much more modern and attractive than it was thirty or more years ago. Get real people.
People seem to be too nostogic. I like things modern, advanced, and properous. I much prefer first world per capita GNP now than third world income just thirty years ago.
Culture is what your intellect leads you to, with evolving predilections.
Depends on what aspect you want modern. Personally, older architecture always has more charm than modern ones, both because of the craftmanship as well as the complexity of their design. Modern buildings always seem more manufactured even though they try to stamp some artistic elements on them later on.
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Unfortunately, it looks like the real China has swallowed her up, because the new crop of women just aren't that pretty. Too bad, because it would have been interesting to see what kind of women she could have produced, if her GDP per capita was "greater" than the U.S.
Now I'm not going to say that Hong Kong should segregate from China, as that would be too drastic, but the Chinese really need to stop having so many kids and expect other people to take care of them.
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south chinese arent goo dlooking. hong kong ppl are mixed with viets. u got it backwards. the good looking chinese are in the above or north china and west regions, or the pure han chinese
Hong Kong is indeed a most interesting country. She has the highest average IQ and some of the most beautiful Asian women, like Gigi Lai, Catherine Hung Yan, Michelle Reis, and Athena Chu, who IMO is the most beautiful woman in the world. Athena, IMO, represents the pinnacle of what a Chinese girl would look like, if China's economy(specifically the GDP per capita) was somehow "approximately equal" to the U.S.
so few buildings in this era survived upto modern times. Probably the last one of which is the old HSBC building, torn down in 1985 for the present version.
Its even metion in the philippine national anthem.
"perlas ng silanganan" in "Bayang Magliw" translates to "pearl of the east" which could also mean orient. The line was was also based on jose rizal last letter in which he mentions
"Perla del mar de oriente" or pearl of the orient. He died 1896.
sad to think that in 3 years time, all those people recorded in this film would suffer famine, tortune and death in the hands of the invading Japanese army
of course not!!!!! HK was already under the British rule or why do you think it was so... developed relative to Imperial China then? China at that time was still trying to get back on its feet after the Ching Dynasty collapsed. And, if this was indeed filmed in 1938, Japan just started invading China officially. China was in a turmoil.
@steinijg not sure about that.you better ask any survivors from that time
GodOfUnbelief 1 week ago
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i live in hong kong. its so cool to see this video and to know what it looks like now!! i live like 5 mins from Repulse Bay! :D that part doesnt actually look so different.. anyways, nice vid!
britneyfannn1996 1 month ago
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Cool video thanks for sharing... :)
iampeeay01 1 month ago
the most random thing on my recommended
northernlighttt 1 month ago
Cool. Reminds me of Indiana Jones...
machidaboy 1 month ago
The Hong Kong people had way more rights under the british, than the chinese under the qing dynasty.
owardis397 4 months ago 5
@owardis397 Hong Kong can even be worse under Chinese Communist rule.
oowen2784 2 months ago
Some places don't change much as time goes by
blonchur 4 months ago
China has claim a part of her motherland, Long live PRC from Africa :)
Abdikarimelmi 4 months ago
awesome clip, I would love to tour the empire in those days.
judge105 5 months ago
3:44 Che Wing Gum is some dude's name? :)
Roodosutaa 5 months ago
@Roodosutaa Chewing Gum
BurnDuck 5 months ago
@vlnctlee Just remember that the ONLY reason HKers can use YouTube (as well as the other 80% of the internet that is blocked in China) today is because of the British and their evil empire and their horrible democratic values. Chinese have no rights today either - in China.
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china has all kind of evil things, so many death camp, secret police, etc etc,,,,,,,china is most hell place in the world, communist kill their against people without any permission necessary, chinese communist party killed historical amount of people, china is perfectly lawless zone for anythings
77777XYZ 6 months ago
This short film is gold!
lewiswan46 6 months ago
Those were the good old days, not like today where it is governed by corrupted officials!!
Rushour717 6 months ago
This is very precious. It shows Hong Kong before WWII. This video tells the life of HK people at that time very well. The buildings in Central, such as HK Bank, Gloucester building, Central Post Office have been rebuilt but keep their names. My father worked as customer service in the silk and linen embroideries store in the video. Thanks for preserving it and releasing to the public.
AHKFORTYNINER 6 months ago
非常非常好 謝謝
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all people is not equal under the communism china,most of people is so poor,but major communist has so many privilege,car house food etc etc,,,,,,major communist in china just want to keep those privilege,so that why they killed historical amount of their citizen,its typical characteristic of communism,communist kill their against people without any permission necessary,china is perfectly lawless zone,chinese communist party killed historical amount of people for keep major communist`s privilege
77777XYZ 6 months ago
what is there is argue? China without British rule is the most prosperous nation in the world today
spike378 6 months ago
is it just me or do you all feel that the vocal accent is pretentious?
ml2001 6 months ago
What a fascinating piece of footage. I notice the trams in Central still looks the same today as it did back then.
snappercarr2009 6 months ago
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snappercarr2009 6 months ago
You are a moron allawahguy
mskchang58 8 months ago
Lol, camera was an evil eye back then.
StandingRedPanda 8 months ago
very clear film, and it is amazing the footage
tsnowice12 8 months ago
好珍貴的片段!
kwing916 8 months ago
this film produce by French speaking country
QWERTYUIOP12321234 8 months ago
note similarity between the chinese chewing gum and 'wrigley's' brand.. they were still copying back then!
rowanmonkey 9 months ago
"it's actually Hong Kong succeeded DESPTE the british." Because theres a magic fountain in Hong Kong which makes the people much wealthier and smarter than the rest of mainland China. Think about what you are saying dude. In a country of over a billion people Hong Kong is the wealthiest, most developed city. If the British being in charge there had nothing to do with that why would the rest of China be less developed?
Atralis 10 months ago
@Atralis Well, if the british is the "magic fountain",how come they fail to transform their colonies in india and africa? Singapore(also a chinese majority city) used to be a british colony, but it gained independence after WW2 and succed on it own.How do you explain that? Hong Kong's success does have sth to do with british law and free trade etc, but Hong Kong is built by chinese people. Hong Kong's pride belongs to chinese people.
0003qing 9 months ago
my grandma was there...
she was born in 1910 so by that time she probably would be 20 something.
but she had passed away two years ago, wish her good in heaven.
iter68 10 months ago 2
im living proof that hk is becoming to western. I dont know how to speak chinese not even understand
15yeunghh1 10 months ago 2
The camera and videocam is the most important thing humans have invented. That's what I think when I see footage like this.
AAMLfan 11 months ago
I want our large wide harbour back! I want our safe crystal clear water back! I want our beautiful low-rise buildings back!
ccttony 11 months ago 7
Looks like a paradise!
steinijg 11 months ago 9
The peoples of those lands suffered because of stupid british imperialistic policies of the "nations-states" the british *ARTIFICIALLY* *CREATED* as opposed to the lands "naturally" or "organically" developing or coalescing into a "natural" nation.
lukebccb 1 year ago
@lukebccb Very well said.
thomaskoo 11 months ago
On the other hand the policies the british implemented in India (Hindu vs. Muslim) or Sri Lanka (importing Tamil coolies and then favoring Tamils in civil service) or the Middle-East (favoring differing Islamic sects against one another - usually a minority group) or Africa (like Middle-East of favoritsm of minority group over majority group only along tribal or ethnic lines) the results were horrible ethnic and sectarian violence when the british imperialists exited those land.
(cont.)
lukebccb 1 year ago
IN FACT if you look at the colonial legacy of the british, it's actually Hong Kong succeeded DESPTE the british.
Part of it is that Hong Kong stayed a homogenous "Chinese" or "Han" during the british rule.
(cont.)
lukebccb 1 year ago
Good film. Hong Kong was truly beautiful then. Now, it is still interesting but it sprawls endlessly and has lost much of its natural beauty.
somewhere6 1 year ago 2
Yes most hong kongers would have resisted Chinese rule in 1997. But things have changed, China's economy is now a lot larger than that of the UK and provides more opportunities and advantages to HK. If you were to ask them today whether switching back to Chinese rule was a good idea, many would say that it was a good decision. Besides it wasn't a choice per se, but the terms of the unequal treaty enforced upon China by the British. HK Chinese aside, around 1 billion Chinese support the handover.
lendmeurears 1 year ago
@lendmeurears because you are living in Hong Kong island (victor city) specially in Stanley or the peak , but if you go to mainland china ask why so many China passport (Top Rich) class holder want to remove their passport to Hong Kong (British oversea)second class which mean fake Chinese (Hong Kongese) and fake British citizen (China town) still much attractive in North China! 因為你是住在香港島（維多市）特別是在赤柱或山頂，但如果你去中國大陸問為什麼這麼多的中國護照（富人）類人希望去除他們的中共護照到香港入境（英國海外）這意味著第二類假中國（香港二階級人）和假英國公民（中國鎮）仍有很大的吸引力在北中國!
QWERTYUIOP12321234 11 months ago
@QWERTYUIOP12321234
But as far as I know, even the HK ppl ourselves abandon the British (Overseas) Passport and use the Chinese passport instead. Are you HK ppl?
Mr70867086 10 months ago
To those who say it was good then. Any ppl know just one year before in 1937 2nd September a storm hit HK and claimed more than 10,000 lives. Nearly one percent of the population.
kaiwkc 1 year ago
What a disgrace Hong Kong fell into Communist China's hands. It should still be part of the British Empire.
pinquifrustri 1 year ago
@pinquifrustri what's the British Empire?
Allawahguy 1 year ago
@Allawahguy Well, I rectify. HK should be under British sovereignty.
pinquifrustri 1 year ago 10
@pinquifrustri no it shouldn't. HK is a Chinese city. It belongs to the China, whether you like the communists or not.
Allawahguy 1 year ago
@Allawahguy Yes, it is historically and culturally a Chinese city, but in 1997 the overwhelming majority of Hong Kong people wanted to keep things untouched. They did not want to fall into Communist hands. As they were British citizens they enjoyed their culture and the privileges of Western freedom. I'm pretty sure had they were asked, Hong Kong would have never been given to China.
pinquifrustri 1 year ago
@pinquifrustri that was 1997, when discrimination against, and fear of the mainland, was rife. Things are very different now. They still enjoy the privileges and freedoms they had pre 1997.
tell me- have you ever lived in HK? I was born there and have lived there at various stages of my life.
Allawahguy 1 year ago
@pinquifrustri Allawahguy is right. Today, as long as Hong Kong maintains its relative freedom, they don't mind rule under the Chinese.
120415 1 year ago
@pinquifrustri no it shouldn't. HK is a Chinese city. It belongs to China, whether or not you like the communists.
Allawahguy 1 year ago
I think UK should be under HK sovereignty.
Kennyzone2 6 months ago
Facinating. Not many of those buildings exist now - a victim of the relentless money making machine Hong Kong has always been. Two things struck me -The cenotaph aquired a lot more names just few years later - and the man smoking opium on the street!
dbchippy 1 year ago
很對
cybb360 1 year ago
... the 20,000 Europeans who "GUIDE or minister to them". This plus the ching chong orchestra music = oyy
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rllycl 1 year ago
Always love HK , which i cannot forget . Love you Hk which has tradition , history than American cities
1006gerrard1 1 year ago
Just so everyone knows, the hong kong and shanghai bank is today's HSBC.
blueboar1986 1 year ago
5:40 amazing footage, would love to have seen hong kong like this... for reasons beyond the public opium smoking obviously, then again i wont lie, that has a lot to do with it haha
wannabesedated00 1 year ago
@wannabesedated00 , that is NOT opium smoking, it just tobacoo smoking in a big pipe make out of bamboo
kkwong98 1 year ago
@kkwong98 fair enough, could have fooled me, nice pipe either way..
wannabesedated00 1 year ago
@wannabesedated00 smoking opium need to lay on the bed with many equipment.
kaiwkc 1 year ago
@kaiwkc ..well you don't NEED to be laying down certainly helps with the nodding mind you, nor do you need the oil lantern, or even the proper pipe, as long as you have a heat source and pipe you can prepare and smoke opium, not properly mind you but it will certainly provide the effects desired.I understand how it is traditionally prepared and consumed, that being said i have certainly seen people smoke opium using non traditional, even down right lazy methods
wannabesedated00 1 year ago
@wannabesedated00 it seems you are expert, but how come you cant even recoginse the old man was just smoking tobacco but not opium.
kaiwkc 1 year ago
@kaiwkc he was using a gong, i'm not remotely close to an expert, was just pointing out you don't have to lie down to smoke opium, no idea what bothers you about my comment, not sure i care. take it easy man, i have no time to argue about something so petty.
wannabesedated00 1 year ago
I think almost of these people are now dead... I like hong kong before but God, look Hong KOng today... a small hotel room cost so expensive
sgtshendou 1 year ago
cool video. i like it....
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KateTiclb 1 year ago
LOL 06:04
wzarvan564 1 year ago
VERY BEAUTIFUL
hussainalee 1 year ago 2
ITS A VERY PRECIOUS VIDEO
hussainalee 1 year ago 2
@Rentonboyo
LOL
stupid white kid u funneh
ZhangMingXuanIsABabe 1 year ago
Are there American buildings? Or European only.
niffleheim1998 1 year ago 2
@Rentonboyo You might live in Hong Kong, but you are not a Hong Kong Yun. This, without the stupid comments from you and others like you, is a good video about a very beautiful place (even in black-and-white).
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Pirramides 1 year ago
It was much better under British rule. The recent governments of the late 90's and 2000's was pretty rubbish. They didn't listen to the people at all, and just went about doing Beijing's bidding. It's rubbish now.
Rentonboyo 1 year ago
@Rentonboyo For your information. The government before the late 90s just didn't listen to HK people at all, and just went about doing London's bidding.
kaiwkc 1 year ago
I am surprised not much changed after so many years, The people and living condition reminds me of current Philippines and Manila.
GiorniVenibato 1 year ago
Hong Kong would certainly be much better without British rule as it would not have become such a crowded metropolitan place and would remain today as one of the many humble, calm and idyllic islands of China.
SeventhSun 1 year ago
@SeventhSun and still be a 3rd world developing region.
ohemeffgeee 1 year ago 3
@SeventhSun what a stupid comment - there are many humble calm and idylilic islands already off China called..er ah....just like Hong Kong would have been without British rule.
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pizmiov 1 year ago
5:36 puff puff give
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pizmiov 1 year ago
Beautiful Hong Kong.
Nice to see this footage.
eddiehyng 1 year ago
5:37 wow did the Chinese invent the bong also?
nicko872363 1 year ago
This is great, thanks for sharing with us.
beaches159 1 year ago 2
The Hong Kong government should watch this track to remind them not just to reclaim more land but perhaps try to reclaim some of Hong Kong's previous charm and beauty. I am looking forward to the day when we can again swim in "crystal clear water" in Repulse Bay.
helislon 1 year ago 23
90% of VIetnamese in America claiming to be Chinese or from Hong Kong anyways. since the early 90's i notice Vietnamese ppl are ashame of their own race.
OfficeSpace420 1 year ago
@OfficeSpace420 but it is also the truth that alot of chinese origins have been moved to vietnam in the history, so claiming as a chinese themselve is reasonable.
jocoven 1 year ago
Nice to see this old film.
wreckdiver001 1 year ago
Now I'm confused. Are the Buildings European or American.
niffleheim1998 1 year ago
@niffleheim1998 most of the architecture in the past had been built with the european style, but since the economy booming during 1970's-80's and alot of people moved or immigrated to HK, the space had became narrow, which the gov consequently had to build bigger buildings.
jocoven 1 year ago
@jocoven In Manila, architecture were European and American style in the 1930s. But now these kinds of buildings in Manila which were preserved throughout the decades are now being demolished somehow.
niffleheim1998 1 year ago
Shut down your government.
UndeniableTrue1 1 year ago
the number of people in this footage was much larger than that in a station near my house. haha.
roygbiv330 1 year ago
5:18 ¨ma'am, i think ur babys dead¨
imrickjamesbitch23 1 year ago 3
i wish hk still looked like that hahaha
imrickjamesbitch23 1 year ago 9
we had to watch it in school hahhaha
I heart hK
danawana123 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing!
hkjazzman 1 year ago
You can see this at hk history museum
but this is a very good video makes me think I'm living there
Awertization 1 year ago
Very interesting. It is almost travelling back in time!
jafaru 1 year ago
one should also see this in youtube ' Traveltalks - 1937 Hong Kong Hub Of The Orient ' which is a high quality color video introducing hk in 1937
kaiwkc 1 year ago
The Great Deep Port of Hong Kong.
NYC and London have each shed their shipping/logistics sea-faring masks. HK will soon give hers up to sister Shenzhen. Just like NYC gave it up to New Jersey.
Phead128 1 year ago
好像小孩初長時, 到處有童真feel...
chinovince 1 year ago
好想返去以前行下。
sennheiserjason 1 year ago 3
amazing video!
although most of the things had been changed, but the tram and the peak tram are still running nowadays!
ahbunl 1 year ago
wow, the harbour was sooooooooo big back then!! now it's almost all been reclaimed and studded with skyscrapers!
joydivisionfanboy 1 year ago
好睇的片段
TheWongTszChun 1 year ago
果時既香港真係好靚
好有特式
若果有時光機可以去旅遊一下就好了
hkg8 1 year ago
舊時香港真漂亮,
現在維港填海,愈來愈窄.....
dorialee00 1 year ago
Excellent film. After visiting Hong Kong a couple years ago this film makes me wish i could see it in the 1930's. The narrator sounds like he has a Lousianan accent?
raymond08586 1 year ago
6:04
gbcow002 1 year ago
Ecology lifts everywhere. So nice if been there that time.
timyfin 2 years ago
i think 98% people in the video is now dead. Except those really small kids.
ml2001 2 years ago
Very rare and valuable film. The landscape of Hong Kong has changed a lot over the years, especially around the coastal areas (the Central and Tsim Sha Tsui) where man-made land extension were made. Thanks for sharing this video!
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hongtao1 2 years ago
the baby at 5:25 looks dead
callenishss 2 years ago 4
wow
juniperjacks 2 years ago
It looks so different now.
Idude893 2 years ago
Look at view at 07:50 onward. It very different now. Hong Kong look more like Singapore everydays now. Not a good thing I think.
Southland27 2 years ago 2
To think that in just three years the Japanese would liberate their fellow Orientals from the evil white man...and then turn out to be alot worse.
As someone said earlier, it's a shame that Hong Kong is so bent on destroying it's old architecture. I suppose it's a way of cleansing an imperial past...But then HK wouldn't be what it is today if it hadn't been run by the British.
Butchuk2007 2 years ago
Great video, thank you! It's too bad HK hasn't kept more of it's old architecture, but it's still a shining jewel.
mroliverridley 2 years ago
Wow Great Man.
MrAngrychef 2 years ago
Interesting historical scene, HongKong in the year of 1938, before WWII.
AntiDefm 2 years ago
i really respect hong kong people and their achievements, their richness etc the stigma associated with hongkongese district overseas. but i cant say im attracted to hongkonese people. sadly.
ZhangMingXuanIsABabe 2 years ago
I would love to go to HK. My boyfriend was born there...
LadySpitz 2 years ago 2
I was born there.
Hong Kong today is much more modern and attractive than it was thirty or more years ago. Get real people.
People seem to be too nostogic. I like things modern, advanced, and properous. I much prefer first world per capita GNP now than third world income just thirty years ago.
Culture is what your intellect leads you to, with evolving predilections.
betalover1 2 years ago 3
Well start by getting your intellect to lead you to write and spell properly as most advanced and prosperous people!!!!
rjpfbangkok 2 years ago
Depends on what aspect you want modern. Personally, older architecture always has more charm than modern ones, both because of the craftmanship as well as the complexity of their design. Modern buildings always seem more manufactured even though they try to stamp some artistic elements on them later on.
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sebreathnach 2 years ago
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Unfortunately, it looks like the real China has swallowed her up, because the new crop of women just aren't that pretty. Too bad, because it would have been interesting to see what kind of women she could have produced, if her GDP per capita was "greater" than the U.S.
Now I'm not going to say that Hong Kong should segregate from China, as that would be too drastic, but the Chinese really need to stop having so many kids and expect other people to take care of them.
ChuAnFanBoy 2 years ago
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south chinese arent goo dlooking. hong kong ppl are mixed with viets. u got it backwards. the good looking chinese are in the above or north china and west regions, or the pure han chinese
JiangJiaYan 2 years ago
they aint mixed with viet, viet come to hong kong as refugee when they are at war.
ericown 2 years ago 12
it's true, the statistics show that ppl up north are taller as well
cinemasia 2 years ago
HK ppl are mixed with Vietnamese? (LOL!!!) It would be wise to reference history before creating such preposterous fiction.
camomile1117 2 years ago
Hong Kong is indeed a most interesting country. She has the highest average IQ and some of the most beautiful Asian women, like Gigi Lai, Catherine Hung Yan, Michelle Reis, and Athena Chu, who IMO is the most beautiful woman in the world. Athena, IMO, represents the pinnacle of what a Chinese girl would look like, if China's economy(specifically the GDP per capita) was somehow "approximately equal" to the U.S.
ChuAnFanBoy 2 years ago
lol, Hong Kong IS CHINA!
LeThoem 2 years ago
HK isn't a country
SBACRU 2 years ago
it will be tho
lovemyself94ddezoe 2 years ago
@SBACRU that's fact
euvucan 2 years ago
@ChuAnFanBoy all this "asian women are the most beautiful" talk is very racist
999basille 1 month ago
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please! try to go on a day without China... u might have to strip naked for 24/7... and you wont have fresh water as well.
The States cant even say they can be dependent from China, how can HK. haha!
keep dreaming buddy!
joeboxer321 2 years ago
Everytime i watch old videos they come along with that old typical music, i wonder if back in that day the streets sounded like that.
SuperBigChina 2 years ago
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guzhengcalgary 2 years ago
itissobig, I suggest you stop embarrassing us HongKonger.
coolyiu1 2 years ago 5
04:14
DROPSOF198 2 years ago
The past HK so beautiful
WatermelonDummy 2 years ago 23
Great historical video. Good pictures of sailing junks - not many around nowadays
5628431974 2 years ago 4
The calm before the storm of world war II.
Akibatai00 2 years ago 6
Yes, this film really is deceitful. The mainland was going through Hell already at this time, and soon even worse to come.
Shufei 2 years ago 5
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just suck my dick bitch.
cerrutiboy 2 years ago
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可憐蟲，你是什麽東西，別放狗屁。
可見現在的孩子真無禮。
Shufei 2 years ago
My great grandmother. 18 at the time of this. 89 now. Jesus christ this stuff is valuable.
inzithaksin 2 years ago 6
It looks funny, everybody dress like that, I guess a lot of people in here already dead, may be the baby behind that old lady still alive.
tsnowice 2 years ago
so few buildings in this era survived upto modern times. Probably the last one of which is the old HSBC building, torn down in 1985 for the present version.
eddielung31 2 years ago
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hoNgkong is definitely NOT the "Pearl of the orient" up to present. I'm sorry to say but it belongs to somewhere else!
niyabyab 2 years ago
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i agree because philippines is "PEARL OF THE ORIENT SEAS"
miadlzr 2 years ago
Its even metion in the philippine national anthem.
"perlas ng silanganan" in "Bayang Magliw" translates to "pearl of the east" which could also mean orient. The line was was also based on jose rizal last letter in which he mentions
"Perla del mar de oriente" or pearl of the orient. He died 1896.
medmapguy 2 years ago
looks cool
mikelinbasher 2 years ago
Nice Video ,
Thanks for upload
Salt7kum 2 years ago
This is so not the city I live in...
HKOverlord117 2 years ago
sad to think that in 3 years time, all those people recorded in this film would suffer famine, tortune and death in the hands of the invading Japanese army
eddielung31 2 years ago
is this before Hong Kong was under British rule?
cc91801 2 years ago
1938 was british rule
frsniper19 2 years ago 2
of course not!!!!! HK was already under the British rule or why do you think it was so... developed relative to Imperial China then? China at that time was still trying to get back on its feet after the Ching Dynasty collapsed. And, if this was indeed filmed in 1938, Japan just started invading China officially. China was in a turmoil.
mlsi 2 years ago 4
omg,, that's hk!?
it's so different from now!
ayuwyn 2 years ago
nowadays the HK beautiful harbour was destroyed by the HK government. no more beautiful harbour, SAD !
hkhkhk8888 2 years ago 3
Hong Kong - The Pearl of the Orient, Gateway to China, Asia's World City....
Phead128 2 years ago 5
taiwankillschina is vietnamese. sly eh.
ZhangMingXuanIsABabe 2 years ago