California 1920s in color, Santa Paula [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of street of Santa Paula, Calif 1920s, we can see the main Street, ISEBELLE School, North Mille Street, Public Library, North Tenth Street, High School
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: A/V Geeks
Great thanks to Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks) for share the amazing black and white Video Source
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[@NASS_0]

Like And Share Please!

[@iadorenewyork1]

One hundred years ago, and it feels like yesterday!

[@nunosantos2015]

It's not real , nice edit video 😅

[@iadorenewyork1]

@@Lonesomedrifter54 -- So interesting!

[@Teejayhaych28]

Thankyou Nass for putting together these blasts from the past. My dad if he were alive, would have loved to have seen these. He was born in the 20s. Thanks again and greetings from australia🇦🇺

[@NASS_0]

Hi! Thx!!

[@historybuff0393]

This film was most likely taken before the March 12, 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam northwest of the city, which sent a wave of water that devastated much of the town.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@jessebaldwin2661]

Thanks, it's always good to have context.

[@caroltenge5147]

There are any number of 1928/9 Model A Fords in the film. Look closely.... So it was after that. 3:05 theres a model A Sedan Delivery..... says a lot trying to date this.... look again at 0:27 a Model A cabriolet there parked on the right..... Lots of clues here.... This part of town shows no flood damage.......

[@costernocht]

Good call! From Wikipedia: "The town was first hit by the waters at approximately 3:00 a.m. Though hundreds of homes and structures were destroyed, the loss of life would have been greater if it were not for two motorcycle police officers that noisily warned as many people as possible. A sculpture called "The Watchers" in downtown Santa Paula depicts this act of heroism."

[@historybuff0393]

@@caroltenge5147 My hunch is that it was taken before. I have seen film in the aftermath of the flood, and even in areas of the city that were relatively undamaged there were refugee centers, Red Cross centers, and makeshift soup kitchens for the dispossessed. Life in this film seems too orderly and normal to be after a major disaster that killed hundreds of residents.

[@costernocht]

I drive through Santa Paula occasionally, which made this all the more delightful. Loved seeing regular folk on errands, and the high school students at the end.

[@fjcrod]

It never fails to amaze me how well dressed everyone in these old videos are.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you!!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Notice the full-service station gravity flow gas "pumps" at 5:17. They functioned where the attendant pumped by hand the gasoline into the visible, round, glass tank (above the pump handle) to the requested gallons listed inside the tank and then he let it flow by gravity into the customer's car.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Like Formula 1 race cars.

[@marilynsiddiqi2105]

I never heard of that. It's so interesting.

[@danfreisting2874]

Great info. I always wondered about that

[@TUCOtheratt]

That's an interesting system that I didn't understand before. My Dad told me he tried making a fish tank out of an old glass fuel pump when he was a kid and that even though he washed it out very well the fish quickly died.

[@alfadoctor1]

My grandparents and other relatives came to Santa Paula in the early 20's. It was and still is a beautiful city.

[@Mister.Glenn.]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@rogbrooks8511]

Many of the buildings are still there, I recognized almost all of them. Isbell school looked better with brick than now painted white with stucco. Cool to see the town 100 years ago.

[@zurcherzurich213]

One more great job! Thank you very much from Switzerland 🎉

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!! ;)

[@geneval3151]

I dont know how you do it but I am so happy that you do. This particular film was a delight to watch. The color, crispness and frame rate were spot on (as always) NASS........you never fail to impress. Thank you for all of your efforts.

[@NASS_0]

Hi!!! Thank you!!

[@caroltenge5147]

Just one of your very best. You always surprise me!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@ttocselbag5054]

Thank you NASS! This is bliss for the old fashion romantics at heart, ❤️ 😊

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;))

[@Sonnycorleone162]

Nass, Another fabulous video. Picture is so clear also! Some shots at 3:25 and others show regular people around town, seems like people we would know. Like it wasn't 100 years ago. Thanks for the upload.

[@NASS_0]

Hi!!! Thx!!!

[@willmc6728]

Good stuff. Always interesting, and somewhat intriguing. 1920, my grandma was 7yo. Hard to comprehend. Keep em' coming. Suburban/industrial and farming footage from that era too if you can

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@susanbrogan3267]

It's amazing to see different generations through these films.

[@FlintyCobblestone]

I was just there yesterday! No lie!

[@NASS_0]

^^

[@kyivskyi]

All of this people are died... strange feelings! But it`s really wonderful look to the past..

[@danfreisting2874]

Great video!

[@renatoamaral2029]

Great restoration, Nass!!! 😊

[@anteuzel5324]

GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA

[@NASS_0]

Thank you bro!

[@tesladiesel2420]

Just my observation starting from at around 7:00 People move slow. They take their sweet time doing stuff, not in a hurry not “on a mission”, just chill. Just take a look at how they walk and interact w/ each other. Very calm, almost hazed? They stand close to each other “invading personal space”… lots of touching, taping on shoulders etc. thanks for sharing!

[@rbs0648]

My mom's family moved to Santa Paula in the 1920's. Fun to thing that she or her older sisters were in the part where the kids were getting out of school.

[@LaughingWolf18]

This one was very fascinating and a bit creepy to watch. From people's faces morphing, to kids that seem like they are gliding on air when they walk. With how old this film was, you had to work with what you got and to make it at 60fps and remastering it no less... you did the best you could do. Simply amazing. Keep them coming Nass. Awesome work!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!! ;)

[@bardo0007]

Perfect! Bravo!! Young students dressed up for school, having fun and enjoying life!

[@gregorybeckett9205]

that was great!...We're heading up to that part of CA in 2 weeks, would you know if any of these larger buildings are still recognizable?

[@luissdstuff6381]

Wonderful vid! It's so amazing to see just ordinary people going about their day, and how things have changed so much in almost a hundred years.

[@user-zf4bq1qc3u]

These videos are so awesome just so cool

[@noellewestfield6849]

Again I notice the people are not rushing. Just walking calmly. Thank you for another gem from the past.

[@DeepsongProductions]

Amazing... excellent work!

[@NASS_0]

Hi Thx!!

[@robertshandley5993]

Fantastic. Wish somebody could do a Now and Then video.

[@stephenterrilltraveller]

A very dreamy but real video. Keep up the great work.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!!

[@asan1050]

NASS! Thanks for posting this video

[@NASS_0]

Thank you bro!!!

[@miguel--rush]

Gracias por compartir....! Muy bueno..!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@ThomasTCB]

Great Work Once Again NASS!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@justme8837]

love seeing a more civilized time ( in some ways )

[@poderosothor5571]

Tank you from spaulo brazil , bras

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@poderosothor5571]

Yes thank you !!!! Kkkk

[@zacharyrome3432]

This is wonderful !

[@wacoflyer]

Thank you for this brief glimpse into the past. So many lives that have come and gone.

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@robertoalamo6353]

fantastic video!!! best regards from santiago chile

[@NASS_0]

thx!! ;)

[@matrox]

2:30 I like how they do a little dance as they leave the bldg.

[@laghlaaziz4967]

Thank u 👍👍❤❤

[@tomspirito2421]

Well done restoration

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@1959LesPaul]

why he's got one of them fancy moving picture cameras. Looks great good footage.

[@denismendonca]

Amazing. Do you have any footage from Sao Paulo or Brazil in general, @NASS_0?

[@NASS_0]

I'll look for

[@badaliensinfo]

Notice how fuller figured many are compared to the 1940s footage where rationing kicked in

[@janedoe1146]

This video of Santa Paula makes it look so cosmopolitan,,,,not at all how i recall it back 30 years ago.

[@shootfirst2097]

About as close to paradise as you're gonna get in the last 100 years

[@TheDanEdwards]

"About as close to paradise as you're gonna get in the last 100 years"

[@girle5584]

Everything, everyone, so pristine.

[@dashoverton1963]

Look at their footsteps as they walk. Strange movements. Looks as though they’re gliding over the ground. 😳

[@racoats1]

A wonderful glimpse at everyday life in small town Southern California. It’s hard to reconcile that all those happy and carefree kids have likely passed on by now. Any who are still with us are in their 100s

[@olrikm]

They don't look like people from another time, nor from another space. They look like another species....

[@jec1ny]

Excellent video. One small suggestion, ditch the modern horns for background sound. Car horns back then sounded quite different.

[@NASS_0]

Hi Thx!!

[@jaysverrisson1536]

A lot of the shots are clearly planned and choreographed, and seem to focus on clothing, including work uniforms, of people coming out of shops, schools, workplaces. I'm puzzled as to the original purpose of these clips---someone just filming for documentary purposes or maybe a Chamber of Commerce-type promotional for the town? Given the almost unnaturally pristine look of much of the clothing, you'd almost think it was promo for a clothing store, laundry, or dry-cleaning business!

[@tobystamps2920]

People at that time dressed up even for what we would think of as casual activities. What you see would have been the norm for people going around town and at school at that time. Dressing casual as we do today didn’t begin till around the 60s-70s.

[@amj]

I think they are advertising scenes from the 1920s because the scenes were combined and rehearsed in front of stores and schools.

[@jbg2bfree]

What were the streets made of. Perfectly flat and black.

[@highdeaf7815]

i think they used to call it craftsmanship.

[@beautifulsoul3281]

Good times

[@hughbathurst731]

Could you possibly do South Africa?

[@user-ch4ji5ux4s]

Has California all way being rich

[@nunosantos2015]

Nice edit video , looks real 😂

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Thats town was bustling.

[@cynthiamincher5154]

Everyone dressed nice

[@shimo3614]

Every store were busy to much activities than today. Everone were trying to make his american dream

[@vintagebuddha]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@minaiorgova8388]

❤❤❤

[@seanriggen]

👍🏻

[@user-ik4pg2kh5s]

جميل❤

[@matrox]

Many of the boys leaving school would end up dead in WW2.

[@iauhdinavlissaid872]

👏🌟👏

[@codex3048]

Cars starting to take over everything at this point.

[@user-ws8pz4ux9q]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@maxy9964]

Saint Nicholas of Bari is delighted with Saint Paula. And he smiles at Nass' artificial intelligence 😊🥰😘♥️♥️♥️

[@anteuzel5324]

CALIFORNIA WAS GREAT IN 1920

[@slidetek]

It was great in 1970. But then… we started importing voters.

[@jamesuthmann940]

I wonder what's going on at 8:25. It looks like that bunch of girls is asking that guy for his autograph, but it seems more like he's the shop owner than some celebrity.

[@puckstopperable]

My guess is they are trying to sell him something, possibly a raffle ticket.

[@BOZ_11]

NASS you're the purple maestro

[@NASS_0]

x)

[@TopHotDog]

People were not noisier in the past, the creator of this video seems to think crowds were yakkity. A group of people in everyday settings are more muted and muffled and their steps are nearly silent.

[@webstercat]

The earth was flat back then.

[@BaksToPlay]

AI?

[@NICK_FEDOROV]

ЧТО С НОГАМИ У ВСЕХ? ЭТО ЧТО, НЕЙРОСЕТЬ? 😢😅

[@TopHotDog]

The mailbox is the wrong color. Blue boxes started appearing after the post office became the USPS in 1971. It should be deep olive green of the USPO department.

[@asianfacility5682]

Is this a real video

[@NASS_0]

yes!

[@dekonluxe]

There are no living people in this video :(

[@slidetek]

Thanks Einstein.

[@monymony68]

Not a pothole in sight. This is the last time California had smooth roads.

[@bruceshaw2402]

Can't lie , I don't like the staged walk outs etc far to phoney but generally it was still interesting.

[@motuekarewaka5145]

People seemed much more cheerful back then.

[@WILLIAN-og6vi]

Hello friend NASS, I sent you an email :)

[@JuandeFucaU]

everyone acts so natural and un-staged looking.

[@user-gs6fq1jq8y]

Have no fear, California doesn't look like that now.. A long, Long forgotten time ago....

[@asan1050]

How did we go from this to School Shootings in America?

[@slidetek]

Olga booga. Booga Boog. A Booga.

[@jairoantoniofictoriejovel4298]

Men what male they had then

[@superpayaseria]

Pretty much no such thing as casual dressing then.

[@user-md1qb4tw3m]

Why are there no colored people?

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

Why should there be? (Although I don't know how you missed the black men walking down the street.)

[@webstercat]

You’re not looking

[@slidetek]

Because the only people that wanted to come and try to make a go of the American dream weren’t mud hut clowns, rather those from Europe who dreamed of a better life for their children.

[@janedoe1146]

Very Hispanic area....an agricultural town

[@shimo3614]

Schools wow girl with girl boy with boy respect before the demonic system established

[@azmike1]

Obesity seemed pretty prevalent then. Why? What were they eating? There were no fast food joints back then. And the women's clothing was "frumpy." No?

[@tobystamps2920]

The idea that only modern Americans get fat is false. In general I think people were pretty slim but you will find overweight people in all eras.

[@megansfo]

The dresses of that period were loose and sacklike, and in light colore would make even normal sized women look larger than they were. And the camera adds weight. There have always been overweight people, just not as many as today.

[@TopHotDog]

​@@tobystamps2920if you consider "chunky" people to be overweight, you are wrong. Such people have a sturdier frame and are NOT overnight.

[@synrgiii]

Ai generated

[@NASS_0]

Real !

[@ervin65]

The colorization sucks as usual...if period footage was filmed in black and white keep it black and white...what's the point in changing it...artificial color adds absolutely nothing to this footage; in fact, the only thing it does is destroy the resolution.

[@nwicconsultants6640]

Colorization is attempt to bring the dead back to life but unfortunately only works on film and not on commentors like yourself. 🤣

[@fern]

I will never understand why people enjoyed caging birds.

[@DeepsongProductions]

It was so long ago yet the people don't look apelike; they look as physically evolved as us today!

[@jaysverrisson1536]

😆🤣

[@slidetek]

The AI video is a warped mess. I’d much rather see the original in black and white at the very most stabilized. This is borderline unwatchable, but maybe because I’m a 66 year old curmudgeon who’s been doing photography and videography for 40+ years.