Typhoon in Hong Kong 1953

[honolulu274]

Cool

[leonardphill25]

Your video is popular on Amman

[markmartinez717]

This video went viral on Bhutan

[meganstephen83]

so sad

[xXxdaguitarfreakxXx]

i would have surfed that like crazy

[EmperorChiCheung]

The year my mother was born.

[princessbobo910]

Wow! So scary! I never know that the waves can be so high. Like I'm watching "The pirates of Carribean ".

[yuetkukoihoje]

Thanks Michael.

I remember when there's typhoon signal 10 hoisted, there's no school for all children. My siblings & I would stay at home and clung to the window frame just staring at the opposite building. We felt so excited to watch the water cascading down from the terrace stairs to form a tiny waterfall.

[chucky0404]

I wonder why the typhoon in the past was much stronger than today. I think the reason was that there were not many higher buildings to contain the wind as partitions.

[stanchokaiyeung]

Michael,

I just woke up and found out that you have replied my comment from last night already. Thank you so much for your attention.

I believe that there are a few medias, especially the ones in Hong Kong like TVB or even the government of HK would be interest in you wonderfull work.

Please let us know when AETN Network's production will be available for viewing.

Again, all the best and many thanks

[stanchokaiyeung]

Michale,

I don't think there are any other clips in Utube that can touch so many people in this world. Your film clips just like treasure to us who were living in Hong Kong at one time and yet are not living there anymore. I've been living Canada for the last 30 some odd years now and been back to Hong Kong many times. But can't kick the feeling of those old memory when I was there as a youth. Please give us more if you still have any in your collection.

[MichaelRogge]

Thanks, people who know, or have known HK, are my most grateful audience in the world! I shall add a few more clips by and by, but the end is nearing! Not of my clips as I shall be adding more on different countries and subjects. Moreover a series of shorts have been made, based on my clips, accompanied by my comments by AETN all Asian Network.

[Samroat2]

Typhoon Susan

[akiraku8888]

Hi Michael, i hv just sent u an email regarding your videos to be put in our video server and a project web site. please check email. ^-^

[karmunyu]

I do have lots and lots of old photos and books about our city and I frequently search and go to places that may be demolished/gone soon. Today government and people is really diasppointing as they don't understand how to preserve and keep the good old things. I do want to join you guys and buy a copy of Michael's collection. How can I contact you Michael?

[akiraku8888]

Hi, could you please contact me if i can offer help or make use of your resources for a HK project?

[sicilianmansi]

Michael,would you tell us why you was disappointed when you back HK in 1990?

Too crowd or over development?

[MichaelRogge]

Indeed too crowded, but more that I did not recognize the Hong Kong I used to live in anymore. My house in MacDonnell Road, my office in Marina House, Queen's Road, Pol Lin Shi monastry on Lantau island, Shatin, all had gone.

[maestrovso]

@MichaelRogge

Dear Mr. Rogge. I can surely identify how disappointed you feel. I returned to HK last and this year after more than 30 years. Though all the places I lived and schools (too many as I kept getting expelled) I attended are all there, the changes are immense. There is little left of the quaint by gone era, especially the food and the people. The New Territory is the worst. I really miss the colony era.

[MichaelRogge]

@maestrovso I found Shatin the worst example of spoiling a delightful landscape!

[hkakita]

Michael,i'm the one of these 25 people, very please to see the old view of my home

[MichaelRogge]

I have another proposal: you may copy my DVD's freely, provided it is done on a non-commercial basis at a low price. One of you buys a set and copies them for other interested parties. It would save a lot of postage as well. I received a similar request from another viewer. It would save me a lot of work too!

[joejim8]

Michael, there are at least 25 people would like to buy your set of DVDs about Hong Kong (DVD 2, 3, 3A, 4A, 8).

However, most of us are teenagers and students that cannot afford the 50 euro price. We respect to your copyright so we still not consider just freely copy your DVD without giving you any money.

Can you offer these 25 people at a much lower price?

[joejim8]

Content in the forum is written in Chinese, so you may not understand it.

Many people are interested in your videos about Hong Kong.

If we all buy your DVDs together, can you offer us a great discount?

[MichaelRogge]

Indeed I do not understand Chinese responses.

I have been thinking along the same lines as to having my DVD's copied in HK. I wouldn't mind my DVD's being copied in HK and do not expect a remuneration either. It is for the good cause: a tribute to days bygone, never to return.

[karmunyu]

Hi Michael and fellow Hong Kong teenagers. I was born in Hong Kong and is in age of 31. I'm really into our own culture especially back in the British colonial time. Thanks to Michael in helping us to keep all our good memories and let all the young people and the world know how beautiful and pure Hong Kong was!

[sicilianmansi]

Will you come back HK for a walk, Mister?

Your videos on Youtube just made a great feedback in a famous forum of HK. Many people were strongly impressed.

[MichaelRogge]

I was back in 1990 and the sight of the changed HK made me decide never to return!

Please let me have the URL of the forum you refer to, I'm interested. Thank you for your response.

[boy444111]

thank you!!

[den4442524]

無價寶

[alip1980]

Thanks Mike for your great contribution to the witness of HK history!

[MichaelRogge]

After fifty years I only remember that it was taken at the waterfront at Hong Kong Central

[googlebly]

Michael,

You are right! It was The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry at the Central District

at the far right and Blake Pier Hong Kong

at the front without shelter, as we can see

at 0:05 back then.

[sicilianmansi]

Was this video clip taken in kennedy town(sai wan)? I know the place like this when the typhoons came, the sea water swelled and the offshore road were flooded.

[Samroat2]

應該是1953年的颱風蘇姍

[Prodigal318]

係 Michael Rogge 自己影既, 佢係 1950 年代香港一間荷蘭銀行工作, 佢係自己其他短片既 comment 有講過.

P.S. Michael you have done a great job, those clips are priceless.

[PrincessxLoreen]

wooooooooooooooow!

[bowen9314]

1953年都仲未有麗的喎~~!!您點得黎嫁?

[newschannel]

translation:

1953, RTV (predecessor to ATV) is not even on air yet. How did you come across this footage?

[wingkilulu]

向邊到搵到架

[BillBrd1]

I think this may have been Typhoon Rita.

[cutteraddiction]

I saw this on apple daily today ^^

[cddanny]

wow~~

[faifaisir]

You are great, MichaelRogge! Do you have any other videos filmed in HK at that time?

[MichaelRogge]

After fifty years: no. Just on the waterfront.

[eithony]

do you remember names of places or streets in hong kong where you were filming in the bad weather day?

[airgildaviss]

wht do u think hk 1953 there are flying cars???

[sunnymiu]

flying cars "飛車"?