Michael Rogge interviewed on his films of the Far East

Michael Rogge recounts on History Channel how his vintage 16mm movies taken in Hong Kong, Japan, and Malaysia came to live again by the nostalgic interest in the fifties by YouTube viewers. Encouraged by their support he had all his sixty films digitalized. By courtesy of History Channel who broadcast this and a number of vids in this series on Far Eastern TV channels.

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Travel & Events

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• michael rogge
• movies
• far east
• hong kong
• macau
• japan
• fifties
• postcards from the fifties
• history channel
• television
• interview
• malaysia

[kiroyale]

You are incredibly charming! And talented. LOVE your videos! Thank you a million times over for putting these up! (Ever film old New Orleans, Louisiana)? Or Boston, Massachusetts? Looking through your archives but they are extensive :)

[MichaelRogge]

@kiroyale Thanks. I have only been in New York and Florida, so missed the states you mention. Too late now, may be next life!

[redwhitedude]

Excellent films. BTW did you go to Korea as well in your many travels?

[MichaelRogge]

@redwhitedude No, in the fifties it was not a safe place to go to.

[tonykklam1]

I am amazed by the quality of your archives. THANKYOU so very much for the posting on youtube. I have been enjoying every inch of your clips. The problem is I want to see more if you don't mind. Watching from Perth, West Aust., they certainly bring back lots of fond memories from childhood living in Wanchai HK at the time.

[MichaelRogge]

@tonykklam1 . Thanks. Well I have more than a hundred clips on old Hong Kong on YouTube and 580 in total. So you can spend some further hours watching. And I plan to upload more as soon as I get hold of some interesting footage. In fact it is a costly business this hobby of mine: buying films, having them shipping to me, professional digitalization etc. But I enjoy it, specially encouraged by enthusiastic responses like yours.

[redwhitedude]

@MichaelRogge was it the same in the 60s?

[TheDarkCurrent]

These are amazing! Thank you so much for putting them online!

[Akibatai00]

Thank you for uploading your videos!