1940s - Street Scenes New York in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of 1940s New York, which begins with a car ride along Manhattan's East River and several street and elevated train scenes with a scene in the train station and more.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source: Internet Archive, US Archive National "thanks to Speed Graphics Film and Video"
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[@NASS_0]

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 40s??

[@Guillermogonzalaz]

Toronto canada

[@notyourbiz235]

NYC and Hollywood

[@notyourbiz235]

Paris after the WW2

[@ellewinters5975]

Montreal Quebec

[@dotany62]

Taverny ,Val-d'Oise, France. Merci.

[@NemohHoes]

This channel is a time travel machine

[@Romafood]

I think the same

[@Adamoo696]

Absolutely Yes!

[@aquiuvidex3574]

I love it! I love your comment.

[@randymoyan7871]

It sure is friend. I love it.

[@LBVeil4215]

I'm seeing a 3-D effect here. Is another result from this extraordinary process? The past has come alive.

[@Lonelysportofboxing]

I hope this channel never runs out of historical homemade videos…it’s really a treasury!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@Gertieness]

Good luck with that, very limited source material, unfortunately

[@jec1ny]

I gotta say NASS that you hit this one out of the ballpark. Those radio clips made me feel like I was sitting in the backseat of that car in the 40s.

[@NASS_0]

;)

[@kennethnero2011]

This is sooo glorious.. what a peaceful ride in the 1940s, with the Classic Jazz playing

[@erebus79]

That's not Jazz

[@uncleremus64]

@@erebus79 Correct.

[@davemckolanis4683]

@@uncleremus64 Bing Crosby And Big Band Music From The WWII Era, With LOTS OF GUYS Shown In Uniform...

[@adghtz]

Bing Crosby

[@jazzshowroom2877]

@@erebus79 Bing was an essential Jazz artist, dating to his days with Bix, Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys. All of his work has a Jazz element, even the Pop material.

[@TheRealHungryJoe]

Sometimes, I’m feeling a bit lost, almost sadden with the world and how it is.. watching these, the music, the atmosphere.. ‘if we can’t find the good in the world, be it’ I hope everyone has a blessed weekend

[@davemckolanis4683]

@ The Real Hungry Joe. You Would Feel WORSE Back Then During WWII, Seeing The Soldiers And Sailors In The Station. Not Knowing If Hitler Would Take Over Europe, And The Japanese Recently Bombing Pearl Harbor. FRIGHTENING Years Indeed...

[@drscopeify]

No need to feel sad most people are happy and enjoying life, I blame the overload of information today and the hyper-over politicalizing of everything, best is to ignore politics and ideology clean it out of your head and just start fresh and live life as it is around you and it is far far improved. Forget all that politics nonsense just enjoy life, we are here for too short a time to waste it worrying.

[@davemckolanis4683]

@@drscopeify Ignore The Far Right HATE Politics, And The Easy Life You Expect To Enjoy Will Disappear Pretty Fast Kiddo. With NO Safety Nets And Security When You Get Old... Get A Grip Kiddo...

[@vladarisvladaris3093]

❤️❤️​@@drscopeify

[@andrewfusco7824]

By far your best work yet. The footage of inside Penn Station reminds us why we support historic preservation.

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍

[@yvonneplant9434]

The Moynahan Waiting Station has done a pretty good job of trying to recreate the original Penn Station experience.

[@MrRezRising]

This footage was amazing. For years now, when I pass it, I make a point of running my hand over the relief work on the only remaining wall section of the original Penn Station, the one they uncovered by accident decades ago.

[@thomashill2965]

Looks like it was a fine day to drive through NYC in a 1941 Buick and listen to big band music on the "Sonomatic" radio. Great video, as always.

[@Daniel-ow2io]

I knew it was a Buick because the radio buttons spelled Buick back then. I did not know the year.

[@anthonyparkinson4517]

Pure gold. If this were a window instead of just a screen I'd step right thru...

[@davemckolanis4683]

@ Anthony Parkinson. You Probably Wouldn't Want To Stay Very Long. It Appears To Be Filmed During WWII, Probably During The Heights Of Combat Years With What Looked Like Sailors And Airman In The Station.

[@davemckolanis4683]

@@roncaruso931 Back Then, Kids Died Early Of Diseases And Could Contract Polio Disabling Them FOR LIFE, Virtually EVERYBODY Smoked, You PHYSICALLY LABORED Much HARDER For Lower Wages, Had NO AC In You Home Let Alone In Your Car, Your Standard Of Living Was MUCH LOWER And Segregation Was TERRIBLE. You're Imagining All The Luxury And Modern Conveniences You Have Today Being With You Back Then. However You Were Only Allowed To Drive 35mph Because Of WAR Gas Rationing, That Only Allowed You 3-Gallons Of Gas A WEEK. And You WALKED Everywhere, Or Used Public Transit. And EVERYBODY WAS TERRIFIED Of The Nazis Taking Over Europe, With YOU Probably Being Overseas Fighting Them, Or In The Pacific Theater Fighting The Japanese. And If You We're An Adult Back Then, And Still Living Today, You Would Be In Your Late 90's Or Over 100 Today. You Talk Like A History Devoid FOOL Sonny Boy. It Was HARD TIMES, NOTHING LIKE What You Have Today. Apparently You Haven't Had Older Folks Tell You What THEY Had To Live Through In Those Years. You Shouldn't Have SLEPT THROUGH Your History Classes, Or Dropped Out Of School, Talking As You Do...

[@C0LDMachine]

@@roncaruso931 They also hated black people & spat on minorities

[@bardo0007]

@@davemckolanis4683 So what, NYC would have been a safe city to live in during the war.

[@davemckolanis4683]

@@bardo0007 Better Study Up On Your History Kiddo. Nazi Submarines Were Trolling Off The East Coast Of America During WWII, Searching For Important Large Ships To Sink. And The Cities Along The East Coast Had BLACK OUTS So They Wouldn't Become Nazi Targets. Nazi Saboteurs From One Of Them Landed On Long Island, Intending To Blow Up Strategic American Targets In The New York City Area. It Was Later Discovered That One Of Hitler's Plans Was To Even Take Out The Pennsylvania Rail Road Complex In Altoona Pennsylvania. A VERY IMPORTANT Rail Road Hub City In The Eastern United States. You Kids Are OBVIOUSLY SCHOOL DROP OUTS, Or SLEPT THROUGH Your History Classes, But Continually Mouth Off As If Your Imaginary Comments Are Worth Something. Read Up On Operation Pastorius Before You Keep Mouth Off Ignorantly Like A STUPID FOOL Kiddo...

[@jeffreytrencher6533]

Great as usual. Notice how sparse the traffic is on the FDR. The radio playing was a nice touch.

[@andrewdavid5928]

WWII gas & rubber tire rationing plus lowered speed limits.

[@larrybarbowski5852]

Out of all the sites that do this…. NASS is the one that does it right! A true hero for the history lover. Thanks for all your work.

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍

[@Emma-Rose]

The interiors of the cars back then looked so well made, streamlined and stylish with the chrome, in my opinion.

[@TheCentennial4]

Yep they were made with love and care and attention. Nowadays cars are made with mass market plastics and rushed.

[@slowpoke6743]

These was the original pimps and Og's baby! Sames as hoopties & low riders. It's a culture in decline. 😂

[@SoldierPoet]

This is one of the best and greatest channels on KZbin! Thank you for all of the joy that you bring us. Have a nice weekend. ✌❤

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ❤

[@DavideFornero]

It's so amazing that this really happened 80 years ago, this really seems like a crack to peek into the past

[@themechanic9226]

The car in the video is a 1941 Buick Roadmaster.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@DavidHamburg-i5d]

The clock probably works, too!

[@ryanjacob8568]

I was just about to ask that question when I saw your comment! Thanks for sharing!

[@davidmccann9811]

And the licence plates on the cars in front of it are either 1944 or 1946.

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

The instrument panel is a work of art.

[@nelsonmellososobrinho1123]

Uma detalhe curioso : O relógio de horas estava quebrado ou sem corda, a hora não muda....sempre 16:00h.

[@Jamestele1]

It really looked Art Deco. I was loving the ride, the radio and dashboard, with the sounds of those classic cars' deeper engine sounds. Like being back in my grandfather's time in old NYC. My mother's people came to a place originally named New Netherland, from Holland and Germany.

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

@@Jamestele1 I’ve always admired NYC during the 1930’s and 40’s. It was so grand.

[@wayneburch3775]

1941 BUICK.. lot's of chrome 😊

[@customkey]

@@wayneburch3775 Beat me to it.

[@manfredh.7460]

I like these scenes from different cities 100 years ago. I have the impression, although there are sometimes many people in front of e.g. stations, that the cities were much less crowded and people more civilized. Seeing the dashboard of this old car, I can even sense the smell of these early cars. Thank you for these films.

[@NASS_0]

welcome

[@davemckolanis4683]

NOT 100 Years Ago. More Like About 80-Years

[@philsmgb4393]

We used to drive in my father-in-law's 1951 Chevy and I know the smell you speak of. I miss him and those days.

[@james5460]

Great sound work. Anyone who used to drive with AM music on, though, knows those songs would have cut out each time the car went under those bridges, especially the big one on the East Side Highway.

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍!!

[@RS54321]

This is incredible-you can just feel how peaceful and slowed-down society was then compared to the rat race that exists now. And those cars!! 😍😍

[@androidgames9139]

At that time, the radio in the car was a kind of luxury

[@philsmgb4393]

And air conditioning was an ice box hanging on your window.

[@МихаилКиселёв-ж5т]

У нас даже в настоящее время нету кондиционера в машинах.

[@davemiller4721]

By the early 1930's, many if not most cars had radios. Very common.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

How fabulous to see some of the car interior, as well! 😊

[@4jup4ter4]

I love this. Thanks' for uploading. I hope others around the world are finding and uploading their old home videos, these are so much needed.

[@hemigod2]

Many of you watching don’t realize that you’re holding in your hands windows that allow you to peer back in time. We truly are in a fascinating era.

[@ronaldw2453]

How could you wish for anything better than driving down a New York street listening to Bing Crosby.

[@ZAKU-GD]

who knows i bet ive accidently seen me living as a person in this time and not even realize it. I love this channel. True historic record of videos like the ones you can see in the Akashic records library in the astral realm. good stuff man keep it going

[@richardbrowe9299]

Outstanding....1940s New York City, Bing Crosby on the Radio and not a protestor in sight 😊

[@yvonneplant9434]

I would guess that most people under 45 today have no idea who Bing Crosby was.

[@thegreatbloviator6817]

@@yvonneplant9434 Der Bingle

[@LaneGammer21]

​@@yvonneplant9434I love Bing. He is my favorite singer of all time. I'm 15

[@khlynch8]

One of your very best!!…keep them coming!…thank you

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@Edward-jn5pl]

Historical footage bliss. Way above average job with the sound.

[@jimmerhardy]

You were there. What a unique find, beautifully restored. Thanks.

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍!

[@МихаилГорев-я4х]

Очень интересно👍

[@gretetimm]

We also have three elevated railways here in Berlin. It's always a pleasure to drive with them. Thank you for your work. 👍

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@arthurcoward6979]

Thanks for this! Whoever shot this had a real eye for composition, etc. Great footage from Penn Station. Would love to see just a cleaned-up black-and-white version!

[@ellenalves7749]

My addiction is to time travel with these videos. It calms me down. Thank you, Nass !!!! ❤🎥🎬⏳😍

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@rsikes2]

Imagine a pleasant day in a car, at the train station, on the streets and on the waterfront...in NYC? Impossible!! Outstanding image quality. Beyond Cool...thanks.

[@MegaVikaash]

We are witnessing time travel through this awesome channel. Hat's off to your hard work...😎🗽🤨!!!

[@NASS_0]

^Thx!! ;)

[@성이름-t1w9l]

movie 'midnight in paris' vibe.. when I'm watching your vids I feel like I live in that moment.. in a parallel universe.

[@kenthefele113]

I love videos like these. It helps remind you that people in old photographs were real people like you and me.

[@caddyjoint96]

The night scenes of the Brooklyn Bridge were exquisite, especially the last one -- someone should turn it into a graphic print.

[@JosephJohn-fb9wx]

This has to be an extremely rare video as I imagine there weren't many people running around filming from their cars. Amazing.

[@guytech7310]

3:08 to 3:27 Exterior Old NY Penn station before it was replaced with Madison Square Garden in the 1960s 4:10 to 4:50 interior of old NY Penn station 5:36 to 5:48 George Washington Bridge 5:49 to 7:12 Brooklyn Bridge

[@alanolson6913]

Nothing like driving along in your’41 Buick listening to Bing serenading us or Bob Hope making us laugh. The interior reminds me of my grandparents’50 Buick Riviera.

[@urgeking-vj5hm]

Note that the car’s dashboard is recessed, by today’s standards; it’s projecting no further than the bottom of the windshield. Just as well, too, since there were no seatbelts (not to mention airbags), so you could easily be killed if your head hit that metal dash during a collision. The pushbutton-tuning car radio was a pretty new development in the early ‘40s, but its basic mechanism and two-knob design would still be commonplace in new cars 45 years later. Why mess with a good thing? Lovely composition at 4:55. The El may not have been the prettiest thing in the world, but it sure looks good here.

[@Getouttahere78]

The way she fiddled with that radio nearly gave me a nervous breakdown 😂

[@NASS_0]

x)

[@BlueSky-gu2bx]

I agree. I thought what is with all the fiddling with the radio.

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

@@BlueSky-gu2bx Because radio didn't even come in that clear in the 70s. You had to keep fiddling to get and retain a signal, especially on the move like in a car or walking or biking. AM gave way to FM for a reason. This is high inaccurate. There's a reason why the song is Lying in the Sun with My Radio. Once you got a signal, you did not want to move that radio even a quarter inch.

[@NASS_0]

Like and Share Please

[@aquiuvidex3574]

Wow! You make me feel there for a while. Like a time traveller living in 1.940 for a while before I came back to 2.023. Don't know why but I like 1.940's ans 50's of United States Culture.

[@ummglick]

1945?

[@Bradleehage]

the woman driving the car was adjusting the radio sound like every 2 minutes lol.😆😆🤣

[@johnheart6890]

What a paradox! It is difficult to put in words. NYC so so so different and yet so so so the same! I spent a lot of time in New York, of course not in the 1940s. There’s something so New York about this. New York is a city that has life due to its inhabitants. And that life long ago is similar to one that is being lived now. But then you look at some of the faces, and you just wonder how different their lives are, how different their goals are, how different their daily feelings are, how different their experiences are on a day to day level. And wow!!! The Real Penn Station- not the piece of crap that replaced it, but the real McCoy in all its glory. Wow!

[@marilynfrett-id8qe]

The music is so beautiful makes me wish I was there in the car driving along. The scenes with the trains are extraordinary.

[@smith9808]

Countless specters, both driving and strolling, navigate their existence, enveloped in conversations, struggles, joy, and love-all eternally erased by time but fleetingly preserved in a single moment. I believe future generations will value this footage far more than the vast hours of mundane content we generate daily. It encapsulates humanity in a pre-technological shift era, capturing a moment before our world underwent so much change. Better for overall health, but worse for the mental, probably.

[@chrisnickeymusic6890]

hi NASS thanks once again for transporting us back to a better time ...if only for a couple of minutes . youre doing important work and we appreciate it ....cheers

[@olrikm]

Absolutely sublime footage! I don't know where you get your sources, but your work is splendid!

[@buckykattnj]

Hard to believe the busy 2nd Ave El would be dismantled in 1942... and it's promised replacement is still just a shadow of itself 80 years later.

[@specagent999]

The driver is decades ahead of his time. It's like 1940s dash cam.

[@sunrunneroldbottels223]

love it. nothing can compare to the magnitude . it was so beautiful.

[@OSTARAEB4]

New Yorker here. FDR drive along East Side of Manhattan and no traffic!😅😅😅Beautiful old Pennsylvania Station stood about 1910-sadly demolished from late 1963-66. The destruction was an architectural 9/11 and scenes inside the station. Elevated railroad looks like tip of Manhattan Coenties Slip. Scenes from center of Brooklyn Bridge with lower Manhattan skyline and East River. FDR named after the President 1933-45.

[@davemiller4721]

It was called the East River Drive at that time, before almost every road in NYC was named after a Democrat. (Thomas E Dewey Throughway is an exception to that, and that's not in NYC)

[@OSTARAEB4]

@@davemiller4721 Yes, you’re absolutely right! I remember the old West Side Highway too before the dump truck (the Elevated) led to the collapse I think was in the forties by the Circle Line piers until they tore it down.

[@davemiller4721]

@@OSTARAEB4 I remember riding on the WSH a few times. Drove on it once in 1973-74, right before the collapse. Horrible roadway. Built for Model Ts, maybe Model As. Every highway I remember riding on as a kid has been virtually rebuilt in my lifetime.

[@davemiller4721]

@@OSTARAEB4 Alas, my first time ever in Penn Station was right after the demo - for years many of the staircases to the LIRR tracks were the originals you see in the photos. Some might still be there.

[@OSTARAEB4]

@@davemiller4721 Agreed. Built in the thirties and horrible indeed and no room for mistakes. I remember the ramps were intense as you couldn’t see your room to merge until up top or a very short merge lane. I wouldn’t want to be a tourist and rent a car and drive those expressways. Of course, there’s always the ones that drive the medians and cut in with NY plates. We see the bad manners.

[@RecklessG1]

I'm pretty sure the car/dashboard are just a modern overlay on the old video, but what an amazing effect effect it creates.

[@ericvillari8100]

I find these very haunting and eerie. EVERY single human above about the age of 10 in this footage is now dead and gone. Digital manipulation such as this may well be the closest we'll get to "time machines". Good work.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Your sentiment is expressed ad nauseum with these videos. Is this what one thinks when reading a book on history?

[@vv-cy5sk]

Yes! I was live in NY in 1940-1944 and 22 year old! I was like my cars, good time!

[@donaldleen933]

Only complaint is that AM radio signals blank out in tunnels and under bridges. If you ever drove a car with an AM radio you would know this. The radio would have lost reception a few times,especially when the car went through the tunnel. But the drive was a fun fantasy.

[@Gertieness]

Yes, but that AM signal travels a whole lot further, especially at night

[@pmafterdark]

So cool at the beginning. Feels like you're riding shotgun taking a trip in a time machine.

[@enricobarigazzi798]

Great video. The song brings me back to 1997 Big Lebowski's intro.

[@ChesterGlover]

Took me awhile to figure where he was driving in Manhattan. And It hurts to see old Penn, what a crime

[@OSTARAEB4]

So true Chester! What a crime!

[@MarklovesAngels]

It really feels like a trip back in time. Unfortunately, I got thrown out by the fact that the song at the beginning didn't alter when the driver was jiggling with the tuning and volume. And when the scene switched to under the bridge and further along in the trip, the song didn't miss a beat. Most unusual for this channel which still remains the best at this. Mostly because the audio, like people walking and talking, ALTERS during a scene switch.

[@MaDDeX93]

I wish I could travel back in time to experience some of that.

[@matrox]

Great color and clarity!...Some clips from the 1930s.

[@kevinbouchard88]

I certainly wish I was in my 30's in the 1940's rather than in 2023. My great grandfather who was born in 1908 and passed in 2000 was so blessed to have lived through these years as a young man in the prime of his life.

[@marshapelo9830]

Art deco everywhere.

[@robertoalamo6353]

Fantastic video into the car!!! best regards from Santiago, Chile

[@trickolas78]

Radio appears faulty. The man driving the machine changes stations yet the music stays the same

[@NASS_0]

sound design x)

[@visionseeker68]

Wow, nice work, NASS! This front seat perspective is perhaps even more compelling than the other! I enjoy them all though.

[@DavidHamburg-i5d]

This is really delicious footage. Thanks so much.

[@mikedrown2721]

Nice 1940 Buick dashboard 😊❤

[@jimh598]

1941

[@11bravo13]

Imagine suddenly being transported into that car heading north bound on the FDR drive and trying to explain to the driver, you are from the future...

[@HeadoftheSeniorClass-en6qp]

Fine work! Great to head back in time with this.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@coldisle]

These are absolutely remarkable…eerily beautiful and a surreal step back in time. Thank you.

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

2:48 My Heart Goes Crazy, Bing Crosby (You also played this song in the video you made on April 23, 2021)

[@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik]

Nass, Love your channel. Great job my friend. Wow! Love inside the car scenes. Reminds me of Jack Nicholson in movie "Chinatown' with inside car scenes driving. Love it.

[@NASS_0]

thank you 👍!!

[@choward5430]

Wonderful time machine. Thank you!

[@Mister.81]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@Gertieness]

Come to think of it, this would be a good time period to go back and visit a city. By the 40s they had widespread indoor plumbing, paved roads (and a lot less dust), penicillin and mrs. Jones was actually MRS Jones 😳

[@robinfereday6562]

This channel is pure gold when ever I watch I always want to read Raymond Chandler books 😳😳😂

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@clausgrethe5366]

One of the best ones so far! I love the old Elˋs thank you !!

[@henrychubbs2823]

Great stuff. I can only imagine what that driver was like years later when he got a TV remote control.

[@gvn2fly96]

Just imagine traveling back to this day, seeing it as clearly as you see right now. At first it might seem like the set of some TV show until you realize that the people aren’t wearing costumes and you’re not in some back lot studio. I imagine it would be unsettling to most.

[@tonedune3456]

Its amazing footage from the old car

[@thomassargent6684]

Only four cars on the road at 4pm? That’s insane

[@Fubud]

Every car game ever has tried to emulate that tunnel

[@alexandermartin7856]

He's adjusting the volume and tuning knobs on his radio quite a bit. I wonder if radio stations moved in and out of tune a lot back then.

[@bigneiltoo]

Better than watching an old movie, thank you!

[@hestheMaster]

Amazingly good job with the added sound effects you put it NASS!

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

How beautifully dressed the travellers are inside that beautiful Penn Station.

[@jimb3093]

Traveling was a big deal back then.

[@TheFarmerfitz]

Love these videos. A glimpse into the past, and with all the sounds as well...

[@digger5521]

It always freaks me out thinking all these people are dead.... makes you appreciate the short time you are here

[@davemckolanis4683]

@ Digger 55 Filmed Only About 10-Years Before I Was Born. So NOT ALL Of Those People Are Dead. Unless You Don't Plan On Living Past The Age Of 55...

[@herberthartwig8544]

Love all your videos Nass so please keep them coming 👍

[@mtanyctrainatlantamartatra7164]

I'm giving this guy a ticket for messing with the radio while driving

[@hilaryapril7043]

FDR drive ?....Bob Hope's voice...thanks for the memory. Born in Brooklyn in 1949.❤

[@Yogagirl9935]

I don’t know if this is computer generated or was filmed during that actual time, but it is nice to see

[@Tora-Tora-Tora-]

It is a later colorization using a computer. It is used in many classic black-and-white films these days.

[@mrdarenkumar]

Amazing work as usual. 🙌🏾

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video nass, incredible footage of new York, great to see the EL, have always been fascinated by it👍👌😀

[@NASS_0]

Thanks ;)

[@AchtungEnglander]

The game Mafia is really underrated. This video is like the game in retroscope

[@utjp7077]

FYI ....The car he's driving is a Buick , 1942 to 1948.