1919 - Groningen streets - Netherlands (Remastered, Colorized, 60 FPS)

Images from Groningen from 1919.
Panorama along Eemskanaal with sailing ships and station 32 "and along villas 30";
Herebrug with sailing ship 10 ", pedestrians and trams 34", in the background tower St. Jozefkerk;
Rider over bridge 38 ", arriving at Hereplein, street shot: many pedestrians, cyclists, tram 30";
Singel, many spectators; park, quiet avenue 17 ";
Rider through Herestraat, direction Vis- / Grote Markt: cyclists, horse-and-carts, pedestrians, carriage, two police officers, street sweeper with handcart, Hotel-café De Unie, trams 1'16 ";
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Panorama langs Eemskanaal met zeilschepen en station 32" en langs villa's 30";
Herebrug met zeilschip 10", voetgangers en trams 34", op achtergrond toren St. Jozefkerk;
Rijer over brug 38", uitkomend bij Hereplein, straatshot: veel voetgangers, fietsers, tram 30";
Singel, veel toeschouwers; plantsoen, rustige laan 17";
Rijer door Herestraat, richting Vis-/Grote Markt: fietsers, paard-en-wagens, voetgangers, koetsje, twee agenten, straatveger met handkar, Hotel-café De Unie, trams 1'16";
Stadhuis 12" en op achtergrond Akerk 5";
het Goudkantoor 9";
Panorama vanaf Martinitoren 1'40" oa stadhuis 18";
Straatshot op achtergrond Martinitoren 12" + 11";
Hofje, (St. Anthonygasthuis?): ingang met gedenksteen 10" met bejaarde bewoners 34";
Straatje, eindigend in poort, oa twee mannen met ratels(?) 9"; cu 26" poort met open koets 15", fietsers en kinderen;
Kinderen spelend in straatje 8";
Kade, gebouw, aangemeerde schepen 13";
Pan. langs gevels Vismarkt met Martinitoren 29";
Rijer 21" door brede straat, Martinitoren op achtergrond (tram, handkarren, paard-en-wagen, fietsers, schoolklasje, straatveger), uitkomend op de Grote Markt met bioscoop Cinema Palace;
Rijer 27" door winkelstraat uitkomend op de Vismarkt met (rechts) stukje Akerk.
Aantekening: Onderdeel van serie "Ons Land".
Rijer en diverse hoge shots winkelstraat;
Uitzicht vanuit straat op Vismarkt met Korenbeurs en Akerk 15";
Rijer door straat uitkomend op Vismarkt met Akerk en Korenbeurs 27";
Rijer door de Munnekeholm met op 44:46 links postkantoor;
Rijer Stationsweg, rechts Verbindingskanaal met Emmabrug 10";
Panorama vanaf toren Akerk 19", op voorgrond oa Vismarkt;
Vismarkt met Martinitoren 16";
Noorderhaven met zeilschepen en stoomschip 31";
Guyotplein met monument en Koninklijk Instituut voor Doven H.D. Guyot 62";
De Academie aan de Broerstraat 25";
Diverse ext. Academisch Ziekenhuis 1'45" o.a. ext. ziekenzaal met patiënten 15";
Ophalen en neerlaten ophaalburg Turfsingel i.v.m. passerende stoomsleepboot met geladen schuiten, op achtergrond Martinitoren 72";
Ext. Gronings Museum 16";
Gracht met zeilschepen 20";
Rijer over viaduct Hereweg 11";
Hoog shot spoorwegemplacement: stoomlocomotieven met goederenwagons 15";
Rijer over Hereweg 19";
Zondagmorgen (recreatie) in het Sterrebos 12";
Diverse shots Noorderplantsoen 64" (brug over vijver, eendjes, muziekkoepel 7", stenen waterbassin, 64";
Pan. 45" Oosterhaven met St. Jozeftoren, zeilschepen, o.a. driemaster, pakhuizen (oa "Schilthuis Handelsvereniging" 25") en overslag.

[@mrs7195]

It is just mind blowing to realize that everybody in this film is long dead. The city is the same, many of the buildings are the same, but every living thing in the city and all of it's residents - people, dogs, pigeons and all - have been replaced by new beings. And all of them are or once were equally real, living, breathing people, just living their every day lives in what is basically another world. History and time are fascinating.

[@Relax0kay]

🤯

[@-haclong2366]

I used to live in that city, I can actually recognise a lot but also a lot has changed. To be fair Grunn is always changing like any other place in the world.

[@khaartoumsings]

Agree

[@froogsleegs]

Everywhere the camera goes, everyone is standing around getting a good eyeful of it. Almost feels like they're looking directly at us from the past, but they could never have known.

[@robert.adamek]

My first thought was “wow that’s some hardcore gawking”. I’d be doing the same thing if I went downtown and someone was walking their robot dog Spot

[@frankybubbles]

They never See a camera befor... but yeah looks so freaky

[@msjulicious]

the camera is like a time machine in this way. people from the past gazing at unborn generations in the future

[@heyykenn9099]

mannn, "they could never have known"

[@khaartoumsings]

Interesting observation

[@DodZz666]

This is like seeing pictures from another world

[@johndoe2635]

Aye

[@josmoify]

don't mention the "elephant in the room"

[@CarloRossi54523]

@@josmoify racist

[@diora266]

@@CarloRossi54523 how? I don’t even understand what he meant at all. Can u explain

[@CarloRossi54523]

@@diora266 I hazardously assumed that with the "elephant in the room" he meant the fact that back then they were all white and it's sad that now native europeans are facing extinction. I definitely could be wrong, but if I got him right I agree with him.

[@ronrobertson9587]

We study this period in school (post WW1 Europe) but to see the ordinary people living there lives is just stunning. Please keep up the amazing work.

[@ludmillas2546]

*their lives not there. There means over there! Their means them.

[@fastertrackcreative]

Before the car invasion. People just walking wherever seems freer.

[@FrancoEnElMedio]

They used horses and there was horseshit everywhere I’m afraid

[@Zoza15]

We still have walking and cycling, but a bit more modernized i might add 🤣.

[@Chubzdoomer]

It's interesting because cars are so impersonal--it's hard to even see the person(s) inside, so all you generally see is the object itself.

[@AndreBeauman]

I wonder why there weren't more automobiles.

[@educationalvideos4151]

They used more bikes than horses, and you can find these streets on Google street view and still see a lot of bikes. Cars take up so much space and ruin cities. They're necessary transportation but when you get deeper into a city it really needs to just be public transit, bikes, and motorized commercial vehicles transporting heavier goods.

[@papigrande4378]

The person that filmed this had great camera work. Some of this looks like drone footage.

[@meg-oj1lj]

Fantastic quality. And so realistic.

[@CornPopWazABadDude]

"Realistic"? This ain't a video game lol...

[@R1ckr011]

@@CornPopWazABadDude it's still interpolated though

[@ariekamstra2329]

My hometown. Amazing.

[@erik_griswold]

Lovely to see what the Grote Markt looked like before WW2.

[@kalinskivadim]

The video is 101 years old and yet the quality is better than half of garbage that's uploaded to youtube every second in year 2020.

[@the-based-jew6872]

That's becuase it's a pressed image and photograph reel, video uses pixels.

[@martinayala9110]

we hope the best for you guys now in ukraine

[@jazztune1840]

this footage shows an healthy town

[@mariesmit2328]

My grandfather was from Groningen. This would have been 10 years after he came to the US.

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

why did he come to US?

[@shaggy2699]

Can I ask why?

[@mariesmit2328]

@@Mahalakshmi-Khan There were relatives who were already here. I still have relatives in the Netherlands. Not all of us came over.

[@Relax0kay]

@@Mahalakshmi-Khan US was the promised land with lots of space and sun for cheap. Europe felt way too crowded even for them back in the days

[@SpywareEverywhere]

Even back then the Dutch loved riding bikes.

[@KarlSnarks]

We actually had to protest consistently throughout the 60's-80's to keep that bike and public transport oriented infrastructure. In the post-WWII era city planners wanted to copy car-centric city planning from the US.

[@antoniog76]

Thanks for sharing. I am Italian but I live in Amsterdam for almost 20 years. It was such a pleasure to see these images and notice how people dressed and went about in those days. I have been to Groningen many times and I have loved to see it for the first time in such an old film.

[@emrecanarduc4378]

does it look same ? Groningen ?

[@antoniog76]

@@emrecanarduc4378 well, it has changed a lot. 100 years brought many novelties.... but still it is one of the nicest city of the Netherlands with a unique vibe and many students.

[@CornPopWazABadDude]

Everybody really did wear a suit back then huh.

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

And hat! Lots of hats :)

[@CornPopWazABadDude]

@@Mr.Anders0n_ noticed that

[@RisitasPolonais7335]

Streets was so clean yet

[@lauralaladarling3775]

Thank you. A wonderful film a blast from the past of Groningen. The camera and film director were masterful in creating a film of daily life in this town. Everyone is beautifully dressed, the buildings are magnificent and clean with an attractive design configuration. The wide roads are wide and grand to give free and easy movement to traffic and pedestrians and the shops with awnings are tastful; a bygone era with much interest by the town's people and children were fascinated by being filmed. Absolutely super and brilliantly restored and colourful. ❤❤❤❤ xxx

[@lifeisnice23]

Groningen has always been such a magical city, one of my favourite places ever!

[@pesiuber]

Halló

[@traceykent8864]

The work on this film gives a stunning and engrossing viewing. I could watch your remastered films all day. You should be very proud as you have a valuable skill.

[@albagomezmoreno4547]

This video is a treasure, thank you so much for your work.

[@-NateTheGreat]

100 years later and the bicycle hasn't changed and is still as relavent.

[@AndreaElizabeth100]

It looks amazing. It is strange there are no cars on the roads. I see horse and carts and horse drawn carriages. Also people on bicycles. 🚲

[@vloev]

Pretty sure I wasnt allowed to just drive a car trough the center of Groningen the last time I went there (in 2019)

[@McClellan71]

@@vloev Pretty sure huh? So you're just inputting a jackass comment? Mission accomplished.

[@heru-deshet359]

It's 1919 for Pete's sake! Automobiles were a novelty owned by the wealthy and were scarce.

[@Relax0kay]

Cars were just just invented for a few years and very expensive still and probably not so good yet

[@AndreaElizabeth100]

@@Relax0kay Thanks. I didn't know that. I just think it looks amazing and so different not seeing cars on the road.

[@nymphe8665]

My hometown ^^ such beautiful images! Thank you for posting this!

[@Leukefilms]

My laughing chimney is a creepy guy

[@MrEjidorie]

When I watch animated people in this movie, I forget that all of them are already gone, but this video produces illusions in my mind that they`re still alive somewhere in the world.

[@heru-deshet359]

You just had to go there.

[@zsoltsandor3814]

80 years later, I was visiting this town as an exchange student.

[@dxmxo9427]

thank you for putting effort in uploading these clips i love seeing historical things

[@plestj]

Beautiful film wonderfully restored. Enjoyed seeing it!!

[@carstenjensen3697]

This is magnificent

[@kevinmuzerMetalMind64]

Drone footage from the past.

[@raf.nogueira]

Who would tough to record these footage's back then. They could not imagine how precious these things would became in our age....

[@khaartoumsings]

Geeks and eccentrics. Even the camcorder footage of cities and shopping malls of the 80s by geeks are really valuable contemporary history in my view now ; ) K

[@clairerath9320]

It's nice when some walked together arm in arm.

[@savanaviolenta]

These movies are pure gift

[@YouRockProductions]

amazing footage!

[@jiji7250]

this channel.is underrated.

[@kennethmanta4409]

7:26 - They appear to be mocking the camera operator

[@amgm1996]

teenagers being teenagers

[@scarlett9750]

@@amgm1996 jerk being jerk

[@nuclear9977]

@@scarlett9750 hi honey

[@micropens]

@@nuclear9977 hi honey

[@whatsay3382]

Such peaceful life

[@CukaBeludao]

I remember this day

[@SilverPhoenix-PlazmaMoon]

Oh my gosh! I thought we were going to run into those two Bobbys! Jolly Good Ride, thank you & Cheerio!

[@bennnFR]

Amazing!

[@spookypen]

7:39 the kids in the foreground were likely told to stand there, but I think it's funny that because of the general state of photography they were probably used to having to stand perfectly still for an extended period of time for stills photographs.

[@TheBadasspony]

Did u notice the small boy behind the girl with the white blouse.?

[@tinotrivino]

MAAAN THIS IS SO CRAZY!!!!! Its fascinating! feels so now!!!

[@kurshlo]

Incredibly wonderful film!

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Imagine using your phone to film a bit , and everyone starts looking at you !

[@elisabethnadalini4193]

un grand merci pour cet emouvant moment de nostalgie

[@glockstr1]

@ 4:21 there appears to be an antenna tower to the right side of the screen.

[@lozicrazy]

How many of their surviving members know this footage exists

[@whatthehellisthisname]

Unreal knowing that all people featured in this video have died long ago... I love this early 20th century aesthetic a lot.

[@kevinmuzerMetalMind64]

The movie CARS hadn't come out yet..🚗🚙

[@giulianf3l134]

esto me vuela la cabeza , es INCREIBLE. Es como viajar en el tiempo

[@SuiGenerisMan]

Fantastic

[@clutch2827]

About 50 years before I was born. Scary.

[@GTO20122012]

So what did you do Friday night ? I traveled back in time to 1919

[@Piineapple.]

It's like nothing has changed

[@michellesanders4571]

Yet Knowing We all shall see that time Again

[@CapitainOne]

0.75x ... perfect.

[@Relax0kay]

Thankyou!

[@perciogoulart7111]

Exelente parabéns 👏👏👏👏👏

[@bardo0007]

The Duch loved to bicycle already in 1919.

[@mariadabrowska2321]

Mam takie wrażenie że jestem tam obecna.Cudownie i pięknie. Dziękuję bardzo 😊❤🌹😙

[@TheBadasspony]

@ 7:40. There’s a little boy standing behind the girl with the white blouse..I think he’s scared of the person filming.

[@cautionTosser]

civilization died when people stopped wearing hats

[@shaggy2699]

🎩 😔 /| |\ | | / \

[@al_hex99]

Civilization died ten years ago

[@scarlett9750]

@@shaggy2699 lmfaoskiwnslwka

[@scarlett9750]

Hat sucks tbh

[@muneerraza8521]

It's seems everyone is on their schedule. No one is in hurry.

[@hallucinatedovens8414]

I always wondered what people did to kill time before smartphones, now I know, they stood around waiting for smartphones to be invented

[@raainychannel2249]

Cameramen is the best

[@TentacleOne]

It looks and feels so much better without cars. The ciy is has a more open feel that way. It seems everybody has more time. Nobody is in a hurry.

[@crealix7859]

4:03 - 4:21 im thinking about the video camera was an advance technology by looking how people react of that time when the video cameraman was filming them..those people were amazed amd curious of what they saw..

[@miriamponlatetera4611]

Cuantas bicicletas!!!

[@user-fv2oz2qj3y]

💗💜💙💚🤍🖤🌟❤💞💓💕🧡♥️ 18th December 2023 ,2:55 AM

[@jaronloch2443]

Playing it at 0.75 speed makes it look normal

[@moltenlava1877]

No one looking at their phones No casuals, Everyone dressed in office wear and not in tshirts and Football Shorts / track pants.

[@dawnupton8668]

What's wrong with T Shirts and Shorts?

[@michaellennon13]

Can anyone identify landmarks? I'd like to see how it is today. Also I'm very curious what all this beauty looked like after WWII

[@holyeppie]

The same. It did not get bombed. Only city in NL that got destroyed was Rotterdam

[@kelvinsurname7051]

​@@holyeppie that is incorrect, I can name a view cities that were bombarded, or destroyed. Enschede, Hengelo, Den Hague, Groningen suffered a lot of a damage, more than 300+ were destroyed during battle between Canadians and Germans, you can see the big scar on the Grote Markt. Beauty and harmony facing ugliness and distortion.

[@crealix7859]

"Yesterday was History,..Today is the Story and Tomorrow is another Chapter".. "Past,Present and Future".. 😌 "Our World🌎🌍🌏🗺️ is like a Book📕that turning its pages📖of different stories everyday.."

[@robertanderson1788]

They watched this before you.

[@kyriacosstavrinides893]

The people riding their bikes along the tram lines obviously didn't make it passed WW2.

[@wagnerneres4196]

🤗💓

[@MonkFishTV]

Civilization has truly collapsed.

[@firecloud77]

All those bodies are rotting in the ground now, and their spirits are in the spirit world.

[@kodomotachi1]

Nah, they completed the rotting stage ages ago.

[@regosen]

Were the streets and sidewalks really green like that?

[@holyeppie]

.. It's bad coloration

[@imnotsurewhy]

This out form of time travel

[@damotheexplorer9409]

would be rich owning a hat store back then

[@htg97]

no computers, no phones, no internet, no clever software...

[@-Pheonix]

0:58 color changing man bottom left

[@jeremymyers924]

Some of those kid may still be alive today.

[@whatthehellisthisname]

doubt unless they‘re still alive with ~110 years

[@jonathanfreedom1st]

I really do feel like this could be older than 1919. Where are the automobiles. This looks more like earlier 1900s 1905ish perhaps

[@elias7748]

It's not the US or germany. I'm not a fashion expert but I think 1919 is accurate. And judging from the very few cars I saw, they certainly don't look 1900 - 1905. And I doubt you'd see that many back in the early 1900s.

[@kurtrobertson495]

The bikes have hoop wheels no rubber tires

[@crealix7859]

8:53 - 8:54 its The Flash.. 😅

[@TheBadasspony]

😨💦

[@ronniemacdonald2768]

needs more diversity

[@Grandizer8989]

Isn’t this during the height of the Spanish Flu?

[@khaartoumsings]

No, that was 2020. It 'disappeared' last week in 5 days in the UK last week. Magical phenomenon like this film ; ) K

[@coraandhernicebangs7703]

people were walking very fast no??

[@soltanalosmi475]

And then .. the war came

[@TerminatorT-T-]

Mien stad

[@SoftAsFur]

Just after the 'first' pandemic.

[@leamichele2535]

and the first world war

[@kodomotachi1]

The what pandemic? Spanish Flu was far from the first...

[@SoftAsFur]

@@kodomotachi1 that's why it's in quotes. 😁

[@crealix7859]

PLANdemic..

[@manpretty5816]

In the heart of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Interesting to see how social interactions have changed. Not saying anything either way. Just interesting to see.

[@rbragante]

speed 0.75 is better

[@RoBert-on1kb]

More bicycles than cars yep its holland

[@williamrubinstein3442]

Not a single car- not one?

[@fokiat]

1919...when the last pandemic was going on...

[@crealix7859]

PLANdemic

[@rubered3692]

Beautiful, it's 2024 and my 3rd world country doesn't even look close hahahahha

[@Matlockization]

Europe was a lot more white back then.

[@jonglewongle3438]

Yes, but that is all an illusion. We now know with hindsight, and it should have been predictable to anyone with a knowledge of historical trend, that, unless the Nazis won then the colonial and dynastic allegiances of the Dutch and Western Europe would bring the melting pot into Europe.

[@Matlockization]

@@jonglewongle3438 Nothing was possible like that without the spread of democratic socialism throughout Europe and with the fall of the iron curtain no one could have predicted this.

[@jonglewongle3438]

@@Matlockization " democratic socialism ". Thus, Social Democracy. Therefore Hitler would have predicted it. And I believe that he all but did in Mein Kamof. But he was too carried away with eastern living space. But your parochial bozo would be clueless. He'd be " Yay ! Hollywood regarding the war. Beat the Nazis, got our Queen Beatrice back. Our way of like is saved. Gotta settle in and support our Hollywood allies.". Then the next Hollywood flick is poor idealistic Third Worlders defy the Dutch ignorance as they settle in Rotterdam. Then your parochial ditz is " Err ! What ! That's got me fooked. ". And he wants to be the White Aryan, of course, the windmills and clogs and Jesus Christmias, the whole bit, and it cannot be the Nazis being blue-eyed Aryans, but his Queen is devoted to the vestiges of Empirical patronage and is thus totally committed to the melting pot. And he is forever on the political defensive against the Social Democracy. The Soviet Bloc is nothing to do with it. None of them had anything to do with Third World colonial empires. Quisling in Norway, and the Nazis' man in Holland, etc, and so on, were your last hope of a white Europe. An impartial statement of political fact, whether or not KZbin Jeffersonianism allows it

[@khaartoumsings]

A lot of black teeth ; ) K

[@BodybuildingSteve]

I thought there would be more black people, I was told in my gender studies that Europe was always full of diversity, is this confirmed real footage?

[@Genome69420]

they lied

[@Nausithoe88]

🤣

[@lifeisnice23]

More black people in a 1919 city in Holland?! Lol...

[@sjorsnissink5591]

The first black person who was seen in Groningen was an american black man who got out of his tank after they freed the place

[@sjorsnissink5591]

@Marcus Aurelius Immagration in the Netherlands has nothing to do with Americans helping us vet our freedom back. Years later the Netherlands invited people from Maroco to come work and what they didn't plan was that those people would stay. So idk what your point is but..

[@christianholmstedt8770]

How many overweight and obese people do you see?