A Day in San Francisco 1940's in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound

I have colorized and digitally restored and worked a sound design for this video of San Francisco 1940's
a time travel in 1940's , we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, the San Francisco Ferry Building way in the distance with its famous tower almost centered with Market Street (thank you:
Engin Savaş, BlueSky, WAL_DC-6B)
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.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: A/V Geeks on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1186r5sf
Rights to the black and white 35mm Video Source are held by Internet Archive. under the Creative Commons Attribution License
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[@NASS_0]

please share on social media please! 🙏

[@YamMCPE]

It’s 1947 San Francisco can you change it on title instead and I just saw 1944 45 cars.

[@dudester873]

@@YamMCPE If you saw 44' & 45' make cars, then could it still possibly be 1946 SF?

[@YamMCPE]

@@dudester873 Yeah I know.

[@cynthiafeagin5185]

Interesting

[@riverwildcat1]

Awesome! Excellent work, both sound and imaging. This was the city of my birth, some years after this film. I grew up there in the '50s, and it was even cleaner, more colorful, and fun. Two theater marquees display 'Song of Bernadette' and 'Cry Havoc' (both from 1943). Compare this to the San Francisco of today, which is a horror show.

[@walterweddle7644]

My 2 year old grandson is watching this and so focused. I can't believe how he's so intrigued by this work of art. Maybe he'll love old vintage cars like paw paw.

[@paulsnowberg903]

At 1:05 (just past the Esquire) I thought: "What's that statue? I don't remember that." Turns out to be the original location of the Admission Day Monument (also known as the Phelan Fountain). It stood there until 1948 when it was moved to Golden Gate Park, then in 1977 it was relocated to it's current location at Market and New Montgomery. Thank you, Wikipedia.

[@davemckolanis4683]

Clearly taken while WWII was going on, with LOTS of sailors on the streets and "blackout" painted cars being seen too. Another Good capture of Street History Nass.

[@MrZedelijk]

The song of Bernadette was on at the movie theatre. It is a 1943 drama film.

[@stevenhandorf3145]

“The Song of Bernadette” was released in 1943. It was being shown at the Esquire Theatre.

[@stevenhandorf3145]

“Cry Havoc” was another 1943 film.

[@keithe4804]

Amazing. This is about as close as we can get currently to hopping in a time machine and actually being there ourselves. Also, love the strange looks everyone is giving to the camera on the back of the moving vehicle (which i'm sure was out of place back then) but helps with the immersion of us being time travelers from the modern era and everyone's staring at us like "who the F is this person and what are they wearing?" lol

[@NASS_0]

^^

[@varrick1226]

One of my favorite film noir's is DOA which was filmed in parts of SF in September of 1949. The part where Edmond O'Brien runs down market st. I believe. This adds to it. Thanks NASS much appreciated.

[@ScanMan]

Very well done ! you get s sense someone has traveled back in time to film this ERA in real time

[@puppetmom]

I absolutely love these videos!!! Thank you!

[@peteking9636]

Saw a telegraph station, snail email :) Great video!

[@TheLindaLou1]

This film is my passport back to vivid memories of growing up in S.F. in the 50s and 60s. Wonderful to see the Market St. stores that we shopped at - The Emporium, Kress, Woolworth’s, the movie theaters where we saw double features. Clean streets, no homeless, well-dressed people. Sadly, so different now.

[@NASS_0]

🙏

[@kpl4174]

I am 30 years old and NYC and most of the Western cities are full of FILTH these days. I wish we could have super clean streets ala Dubai,Singapore or Tokyo. I was born in 90s and never lived during these times displayed in this film, how I wish cities still were like before..........

[@mhmandthen]

@@kpl4174 yeah sadly the united states spends all of our money on endless wars. it's so disgusting and we could have a great country, but instead they waste it all. our infrastructures are crumbling. meanwhile go watch videos of any major city in china, it's like they're in the future !

[@bear1more287]

You can see the old Warfield Theater 🎭 too

[@tambert3897]

Imagine seeing your grandparents/great grandparents in this video?

[@elisabetharnblock3547]

😃

[@Hamfantasy56]

Your restored videos are authentic gems!! Thanks and greetings from Italy

[@NASS_0]

🙏

[@davealmond1965]

This is almost certainly from 1944. At around the 2 minute mark a movie theatre is showing Cry Havoc. 30 seconds later another one is showing The Song of Bernadette. Both were released early that year...

[@jeffreyfromnyc2645]

At the 00:49 mark there is a theater showing WWII newsreels of the following battles: Battle of Anzio (22 January - 5 June 1944) Battle of Kwajalein (31 January - 3 February 1944) Battle of Tawara (20-23 November 1943) Newsreels served as current events reporting of the war effort, and as current events, they didn’t show for long periods of time. Based on the dates of the battles being covered, I would date this early 1944.

[@davealmond1965]

@@jeffreyfromnyc2645 Thanks for the info. That pretty much confirms my original guess as to the date of the footage!

[@JubeProductions]

I couldn't believe how many movie theaters there were, but then not too many people had entertain streaming on their phones in their pocket. It's just cool to see how delivering media content has changed.

[@jonnynguyen6246]

Edit: I'm misled, it must definitely have been March 1944. See other comment. I think the exact day was 30 December 1943. The Esquire theatre on the left was having their final showing of The Virginian and Big Brown Eyes, "Open All Night". www.newspapers.com/newspage/148035544/ That explains why someone would be willing to film that day, it was almost or about New Year's Eve. That might also be why so many Navy men are on the street.

[@AlexRodriguez-if7hj]

@@jonnynguyen6246 30 December? That doesn’t seem likely. Most of the theaters in this video have a sign they are open “all night”. During WW2 many theaters were open 24 hours to accommodate the defense workers who were working three daily shifts. Plus, two of the battles noted by Jeffrey From NYC were not fought until the end of January 1944, and the movie Cry Havoc noted by davalmond1965 had a release date of February 1944. And I see absolutely no sign of Christmas decorations or New Years Eve celebrations on any of the businesses.

[@emylrmm]

I saw "Thundering Trails" and "The Songs of Bernadette" one two different movie theaters marquee, so I suspect this late 1943 or early 1944

[@snickle1980]

Looks like the Virginian was playing as well. I've heard that's a good movie...wait, I may have read that wrong. Slow that car down.

[@dudester873]

0:50 to 1:05 I saw Esquire theater's marquee show Gary Cooper in "The Virginian" (1929) and Cary Grant and Walter Pidgeon in "Big Brown Eyes" (1936), but some chap states he sees 1944 and 1945 (latest) year make vehicles.

[@fraser_mr2009]

it's before 1946. it's either 43 or 44. it could be 45 but i think it's 43 or 44 you see the navvy and patriotic flags. they were at war with japan too. the japanese were allies with the nazis.

[@McCaler]

Absolutely amazing!!

[@ClarqueAllen]

It's weird that no one is freaked out about the guy using his Iphone to film them.

[@NASS_0]

x)

[@horvath83]

It's California. Always ahead of its time ;-)

[@DW-qe7qe]

You can certainly tell how this once great City has declined. What a shame. On the other hand, wonderfully done. Bravo

[@bear1more287]

There were Republican mayors back then ..

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

Blame Pelosi. It her district. Meanwhile she sits in an ivory tower while the city collapses eating ice cream.

[@psychomormon4932]

Still better than the trailer park rentals of Mississippi.

[@visionseeker68]

Wow, NASS. I gotta tell you, I just got goosebumps when I started watching this clip. It felt like I was there. Thanks!

[@samsen3965]

Thanks for the detailed title explanation however I'm curious to know more about what you mean by saying: " _Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate_ ) " that I understand the "Not historically accurate" portion but could you please elaborate on the *Colorization* process? Is it manual, frame by frame by you, or have you developed/use software for this purpose? If so, which one. Thanks indeed.

[@freedomforever6718]

Incredible footage. Someone had great forethought to film these scenes. Notice the American flags. Lot's of patriotism. And absolutely *zero* graffiti!

[@NASS_0]

🙏

[@lizamelendez3095]

Lol

[@jrtej9575]

They won't fly the American flag today...they would fly the Chinese Communist flag and the rainbow flag.

[@Shadowcu123]

Make San Francisco Great and Patriotic again! 🇺🇸

[@freedomforever6718]

@Proper , I have a private bank account in China. What's wrong with that? You sound jealous that Trump is rich and you are just a nobody BidenBozo.

[@Mark-yy2py]

Used to go to the Warfield theater back in early 70s as a kid!

[@bear1more287]

Just amazed how back then the trolley 🚃 cars stop were just in the middle of the streets,easy to get hit by a car .

[@scottrichardson6226]

The "Cry Havoc" film is listed as 1943 so this video is probably early 40's after all. Must have been some second run theatres on the block with the Carry Grant movie.

[@harleykaruliscreativity7467]

Incredible video, it truly takes us back to a simpler time!

[@NASS_0]

🙏

[@therealpinkyskull]

a simpler time? we were balls deep into world war 2, our young men were dying fighting like tigers and we were uncertain about the future of our nation. Oh those simple times.

[@harleykaruliscreativity7467]

@@therealpinkyskullAnd it was a simpler time, much simpler time, I meant no social media, stuff like that, people read newspapers and had milk delivered to their door, type of thing, and I know all about the war and how nations were on the edge. We were as well. It was a simpler time!

[@fraser_mr2009]

4:46 the guy with the white hat here could be a gangster. he's walking with a swagger. look for people anybody not wearing a suit the might be a time traveller

[@Musicbaskar007]

This is better than lots of high end mobile cameras but with a old age tone to it

[@jec1ny]

Late December 1943 or early 1944 based on the movies being shown.

[@bear1more287]

Cry havoc 👍🏻

[@HerveAttia]

This is footage was probably shot in 1943. At 0:2:27, the movie theater displays the movie The song of Bernadette (1943).

[@jamezxh]

All the beautiful cars!

[@DiscoverHudsonValley]

This is seriously one of my favorite channels on youtube! These videos are absolutely incredible. I know the time and effort that it takes to color and add all of the audio to these, as I am an editor myself and have been in the industry here in NYC for a long time. The dedication that you put into these videos really shows! Amazing work as always and I can't wait for the next one! Happy 4th of July and have a great rest of your weekend!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much my friend!

[@roywhiteo5]

so as far as i can tell this was shot some time in 1944 according to the movie title i saw on a theater. the first part is riding down market st and it ends a block past the warfield theater. the second part is shot somewhere close to the ferry building and pointed north and the car is at one point passing the market and battery intersection

[@peggyroyster3759]

Thanks you this is Great to see SF, CA in the 40's I was born in the late 40's I came to SF in the late 70's one thing that have remained is the structure of the homes that still exist here in 2022. Thanks for sharing I subscribe so I can see more.😊

[@jazzpianoman01]

It’s like looking into a time portal amazing

[@elisabetharnblock3547]

Very nice stroll. Awesome looking people. Thank you!😃

[@scottrichardson6226]

This was 1936 if you calculate the Carry Grant movie in the theatre playing "Big Brown Eyes." That film was released in 1936.

[@taniastavich7]

t seems to me that this was the second half of 1943. See at 2:27 an ad for the 1943 film Bernadette's Song.

[@Albanwinter]

Well here I sit looking at vintage videos of a city and in that city there is a movie house showing vintage films. That's kind of trippy! (The Esquire at 0:54. The Virginian is from 1929 and Big Brown Eyes is from 1936)

[@dudester873]

NASS's 60FPS, stabilized, and colorized videos are the BEST ☝🏼. Of course, a bit more color & resolution would always be welcome.

[@Steven_Rowe]

I'm not American but went to Sanfransico in 2019, I LOVED it, that looks like Market Street that goes up to Van Ness street. I loved the architecture the f line heritage trams everything, I have to go back for certain.

[@emylrmm]

I visited SF in 2010. Very nice city.

[@dgatan]

This is definitely market street. You can see the clock tower way in the background. That clock tower sits near the piers

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@dgatan also the wonderful F line tram runs up Market Street suite the heritage PCC cars Such a magnificent city

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

It doesn't look anything like it did in 2019 now. The lockdown destroyed the entire city. Keep whatever image you have of it in your head because it doesn't look like that anymore.

[@Benjamin98225]

Magnifique vidéo

[@NASS_0]

Un grand merci !

[@lgoldman]

This must have been the last time there was so little vehicle traffic on Market Street. War era gas rationing I would guess.

[@rum-ham]

There was less traffic than this for quite a while during the start of the pandemic

[@geneval3151]

In the beginning of the video there is a clock on the left. In the mid 80's I worked in a camera store right where that clock is. I must have looked at it 20x a day. Looking at the video it appears to once have been a jewelry store. So much history, so many people before us and we really have no idea of any of it.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

That clock is still around, although IIRC it was moved closer to Stockton and Market.

[@MISTERPRESIDENTELECT]

Good stuff, too short. How did policemen keep their hats on while riding motorbikes?

[@harleykaruliscreativity7467]

Keep up with the great videos, amazing channel!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!! ;)

[@joyceleadbetter2600]

War years. Everything rationed, food,gas,goods. Couldn't buy anything unless you had a stamp for it. Everything for the war effort.

[@denny906]

Awesome views of Downtown Frisco during the 40's.

[@geneaker915]

May I boil in oil And fry in Crisco If I ever call San Francisco 'Frisco - Ogden Nash

[@markparee99]

This was great. While the sailor's faces pass by too quickly, it was fun to imagine my Dad walking down the street in uniform. He easily could have been roaming about SF at about this time...

[@dgatan]

Market Street. You can see the clock tower way in the background

[@priyanshugupta4328]

How clean... 👍👍

[@althepenguin]

If only it was still that way today.. 😪

[@bluesky4385]

I agree with another poster that feels this video is from 1944. One of the Movie Theater Marquee is showing, Song Of Bernadette is playing in that theater. That film shows a release date of Dec 21, 1943. So unless this video was shot the last week of Dec then I'd say 1944. That fact as well as there are quite a few sailors walking up and down the street. The numbers of cars with gas ration decals, I'd say its during the War. I find myself trying to focus in on the sailors, to see if my father might be one of them. He was stationed in San Francisco during part of the War. He always mentioned be out and about in the city while he was there. The quality of these video's is about is good as it could get. It honestly feels like we the viewers are right there with these people, going about their day some 70 plus years ago. It's amazing. It's like one can reach out and touch the cars, and could shake hands with the people. These videos are really the closest we have to actual time Travel. What would we do without NASS. As I sit here wondering if this latest Hurricane, is going to tear up my house here in Florida. These video's are a nice diversion. I watch all of them. Thank you NASS.

[@gnolan4281]

Well said.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much my friend 🙏

[@gnolan4281]

@@jonnynguyen6246 Wow! Good work.

[@user-kq8rk1vd3u]

The cop at the end of the film wave to the recorder to stop in doing so the cop stopped historic filming... Too bad

[@gnolan4281]

In a way the image quality is even better than 4K. It's hard to explain. Maybe it's because nothing from that era has ever been shown so sharply but there's an almost spooky quality to the dynamic presence of life so long ago. Kudos and many thanks.

[@bluesky4385]

I completely agree and I will add. This is remarkable quality. It is actually the closest we have to actual time travel.

[@tomkent4656]

Shot on 35mm for background projection plates.

[@briancalifornia1]

I noticed the coloring on the people cut out and turn black and white

[@johnsweet8964]

Looks like 1943 by the movie marqrees. Those Transit islands in the middle of the street are crazy different times huh. All night movies must have been a cheap place to sleep

[@Skidoo22]

It's so surreal, seems like a movie

[@maryvalentine9090]

One Theater displayed Gary Cooper in the Virginian… 0:55. That movie was released November 9, 1929. Bit before the 1940s. There was a 1946 version but Gary Cooper wasn’t in it.

[@markparee99]

Correct. Saw that too. Maybe it was being featured as a revival by that time.

[@Sakaflamas]

Nice, i love st fco, this zone is mission hill?? Is very same

[@cwmeekins2364]

My car 's clutch burst into flames on one of those steep hills

[@Nualchemist]

It's funny, Market Street looks more lively than today.

[@spyce1102]

People were more aware of their surroundings. Look at how most of them are aware that there is a camera filming them. Lol

[@fraser_mr2009]

the camera was huge

[@christianpetit9347]

Incroyable on remonte 82 ans en arrière en 1 seconde 👍❗ malheureusement tout ces gens ont disparu depuis longtemps 😞

[@irish89055]

1943 I think they stopped at that joint, they had great chop suey...

[@bossshrek1241]

Do some Canada footage

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Almost EVERYBODY was dressed classy in this clip.

[@mrHoppedupford]

Wonder how many at the 2:22 mark got taken out before they got rid of that.

[@r.c.anderson5632]

The year is 1943 according to the theater marquee films.

[@celestenova777]

Really beautiful and so stylish, great remastering work. Thank you!

[@cobra5088]

Every time i watch one of these films from the 40's or 50's in SF or NYC i'm waiting to catch a glimpse of jack kerouac and neal cassidy driving by.

[@Arbigale]

Guy back in the day literally said, like and subscribe to my future footage 😅

[@donaldhelton9308]

How about Mission Street

[@andytaylor5476]

Seeing the Paramount Theater was a nice surptise at 1066 Market St. One screen, seating for 2660, opulent. Closed, demolished 1965, sadly.

[@johnkeating362]

It reminds me of the “Thin Man” movies.

[@user-xm2qh3wg2u]

ให้อยู่ตามสวนยาง​

[@KnockOffBeingFat]

Great historic video but would of been extra special if they could of just stopped and talked to some of the amazing people of 1943. Imagine that.

[@annesummers09]

No blinkers.

[@stischer47]

The paucity of cars! Gasoline rationing.

[@irish89055]

The cop said pull over....I wonder where the little kid is today? "Show you a good time sailor?"...

[@hotelpayang]

Beaftiful

[@windsorkid7069]

Cop on a vintage Harley, nice.

[@Baynewsvideo]

The one thing that has NOT changed after all these years... The San Francisco fire hydrants.

[@ranot4572]

oh~ good job!! ^^ 동영상의 화질개선과 오디오 개입은 정말 대단하다. 당신의 능력에 경의를 표한다...

[@hsun7997]

Seeing lots of comments complaining about how terrible San Francisco (and other American cities) have become (which is actually kind of true). But what are you doing to make things better? Complaining on the internet won't do anything.

[@andytaylor5476]

And they love to trash San Francisco

[@pattysarver7003]

The motorcyclist at the very end flips off our camera. All great footage!

[@emylrmm]

it looks like he just waved

[@gdonner]

No, he was adjusting his hat; take a frame-by-frame look...

[@donaldvisconti5483]

If I could go back there, I would tell people that the N.Y. Giants baseball team would move here, after the 1957 baseball season!

[@clintonflynn815]

I'd bring with me the race results and head to Bay Meadows.

[@chriswhite6218]

Doesn't make any possible sense at :48 seconds. The car seems to turn when there is nowhere to go, and didn't run over everyone.

[@jeffreyfromnyc2645]

Haaaa. Either the car drove into another dimension, or the original film was edited at that point. Looks really funny.

[@emylrmm]

Good eye! I watched that a few times looking hints of editing, but didn't notice any discontinuity. The car must have proceeded to the far right and slipped behind that group of pedestrians waiting for the street car, just as it disappears from the camera frame. It then must have turned right onto that street just past the "dentist entrance" sign. It's all good.

[@MoneySavingVideos]

@@emylrmm yes you are correct

[@facedanceturkiye]

The Cars driving slowly

[@markparee99]

Folks saving gas....

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Movie theater says "The Song of Bernadette". That's 1943.

[@000TheZombie000]

12 years before the beat poets, 24 years before the Summer of Love, 36 years before Harvey Milk/Jim Jones/Mayor Moscone, 48 years before the internet, 60 years before Lawrence v. Texas, and 72 years before the Tesla Model X.

[@Mark-yy2py]

After 1970, SF started its downward spiral to third (turd) world status as it is today.

[@minkeuk549]

So cool! 👌 The cars are so beautiful. More beautiful than today cars. Thanks again NASS!

[@anotherOneMore7]

Walk around SF now in a US military uniform and see what happens. Im not in to MAG but some things were definitely better then. We've forgotten that we are not owed a superstar life just by being born.

[@hsun7997]

You really think people in the military are looked down upon? There's military discounts and privileges for former military everywhere in America. I think most Americans respect the military. How much respect do you think they deserve? To be treated like gods?

[@anotherOneMore7]

@@hsun7997 Note I stated 'in SF' (where this film was made), not all of United States, not talking about public policy or ability to go to the VA, etc. How much respect do they deserve? Well, I'd say simply to not be treated with disdain would be a place to start. In some areas now it is almost like the Vietnam era, where they are looked down on in a hostile way. For that matter, in SF, you are looked down on in some circles if you've ever fired a gun, unless of course you can explain that you were being ironic when you went to the firing range that day.

[@anotherOneMore7]

@@rum-ham Yes I understand that. And if you'd actually experience what it is like to walk down the street in SF you would understand that the week(weekend really) is NOT a reflection of the attitude there. If you walk down the street on that week you will probably hear comments like 'fucking blue angels... fly away and die." or people appearing generally annoyed. BTW, in SF since 1989 and just recently changed residence due to all the negative changes there but am there every week having to deal with the naive self-righteous nonsense.

[@anotherOneMore7]

@@rum-ham Good for you my friend. No doubt while doing so you are soaking in all the pro-military vibes from the residents of SF as well (ha ha). I'm guessing you have already heard that last week employees at a SF restaurant refused to serve a group of three police officers because they were armed and having the officers there made the employees uncomfortable. Fortunately there has been some pushback on this, but I also see facebook postings in my feed of people actually supporting the employees in their decision.

[@Baynewsvideo]

I want a bowl of Chop Suey!

[@raypeters4525]

NEWEST CARS SEEN THIS FILM 1942 FORD STA. WAGON, 1942 CHEVY MILITARY .

[@jackneidinger9544]

Let me off here.

[@mrkimm1750]

1:36 system of a down in 1940s.

[@francasaquella8487]

Sono originali!

[@RickyJr46]

Binary heaven.

[@quicksilver2510]

Back when flying the US flag was normal in California.

[@Flatline74]

This looks to be during WW2. Especially with the Red Cross flags flying as well.

[@siainvestigationsteam2713]

Looks like it would be easier to dress everyday if you were in the military.