China, Peking (Beijing) 1930s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video China, Beijing 1930's , we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, Scene Street
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 Jeff Kaplan for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: Jeff Kaplan on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/AFP-27AV
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 Like !

[@urakunt866]

I like all your videos but I refuse to like anything with China in it. .

[@justapuk10]

First, awesome videos, but i have a few questions....why doesnt anyone ever interact with the camera? Is this like that denzel movie deja vu where we can look in the past? I guess thats more of an observation than a question but still great videos. Thank u

[@roll-and2287]

🖕🤬🖕like and s

[@switch12345678]

@@urakunt866 You are welcome, Trumpster

[@switch12345678]

@@justapuk10 those guys don't know anything about the content. they just publish the videos.

[@whitedovetail]

I enjoy these videos so much. Like this one, how a film shot in the 1930's is made to look like it was just filmed in the last 5 years on a high resolution camera. The people that do this transformation are very special people. Thanks for your hard work and fantastic creativity! Keep them coming!!!

[@switch12345678]

Japan does not seem to be subject to a short-lived change in clothing fashion, as is the case in the West.

[@switch12345678]

@Dior Linn Great. This confirms the theory even more, after all, Japan was already more advanced than China at that time. 😅

[@ravenloopwong5148]

@@switch12345678 your poor logic humors me， thanks

[@switch12345678]

@@ravenloopwong5148 Your zero content comment, Mr. Wong 👍

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@nicolette1598]

This channel is freaking awesome. Thanks so much for all your hard work!

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@CraigerAce]

NASS, I very much enjoy your videos. All of the editing that you do adds to a great viewing experience. This one, a slice of daily life of nearly 100 years ago and in a place so far removed from “modern” society then, is quite interesting. Thank you for the work you do!

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@sebastianguevara3615]

@@NASS_0 This Was During The Chinese Civil War 1927-1949!!!!!!!

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@bohandoubleg1151]

I’ve been taken to the old days vividly, thank you!

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@cascanicoff5763]

This channel is really great, a must see. I love it. Thanks for this lovely videos

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@j.dasilva4567]

I would say this is HongKong and not Beijing because: U can see sea at min,0:59, there is no sea in Beijing, but there is sea in Hong Kong. (2) Too many store signs written in English, and also a tram, so probably HongKong, not Beijing. (3) min.1:46, a sign has written "Carne de Vaca", this is Portuguese for "beef". Macau is next to HongKong, so it is possible someone deciced to have a sign in Portuguese. (4) Gambling houses signs written in English, again, more probable in HongKong than Beijing.

[@Blackadder75]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongcheng,_Beijing European districts in Peking , read up on history

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@rexhurne]

@@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091 the sounds were added, they are not from the movie

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

@@rexhurne At any case Beijing and other north people did not wear this kind of T-shirt. So this was definitely not north provinces.

[@ssszzz8824]

I think this video has more than just Beijing in it. 0:07, I can't think of any street with that kind of slope in Beijing. Beijing is flat, and those narrow streets are usually hutongs, nothing like this one. I agree with you 0:59 is definitely not Beijing, not sure if it is Hong Kong though. 1:05 looks like the ZhengYang Gate of Beijing. And such a big gate is unlikely anywhere else except Beijing. My guess is there are at least two cities in the video.

[@norikunny]

Thank you for sharing this rare footage of 1930s China on KZbin. It's a fascinating glimpse into the past, and I appreciate the opportunity to experience these historical landscapes through your video.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@RetireearlyNYC]

Amazing!! I was surprised to see signs in English!

[@josephhallify]

1:11 I can hear my hometown Hoishan (Taishan of Guangdong Province) ‘s dialect. “Ai Feng Ai Sui 大風大水” means heavy wind and rain in Hoishanese. I wonder where the original audio was taken, there were many Cantonese sounds on it (Definitely not in Beijing where there’s a Mandarin speaking area).

[@mafan1345]

I think it's Hong Kong, not Peking.

[@EC-NML]

Correct me of I’m wrong please. Minute 0:58, if you check the background it seems to appear a three chimneys ship, which it could also be a factory but looks like a ship to me. So if is a ship is not Beijing. I also saw a panel at the end of the video were you can read: "Carne de vaca” in Spanish. It seems to me to be some other place in china with a higher commercial movement than Beijing in 1930s

[@BenjiSun]

descriptions say: "added sound only for the ambience" these old film do not include sound. and the steamship could be at Tianjin harbour. the massive structure from 1:05 was Chaoyang gate.

[@HenryWonghkg]

This was not Beijing, the sign board with bilingual, it should be Hong Kong or Macau

[@jayman748]

I think it's Macau. First of all, all the phonetic translations of the shop names are in Cantonese and in 01:46 you can see "Carne de vaca", which is beef in Portuguese (according to Google translate :P).

[@Historia-ViaggioinCina]

Molto bello! A Beijing ci sono stato nell'agosto 2023, sto per creare dei video soprattutto short del mio viaggio in Cina. Il colore anche se parziale ti da una idea molto chiara di come era in realtà. Ottimo lavoro! 👍Mi sono iscritto al tuo canale e sto dando molti "mi piace"!

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@Dwitwitty]

Awesome!

[@PabloEscobar-nb7zr]

Favlurite channel ❤️‍🔥

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@briancalifornia1]

Where do you get these old vintage archive videos from?just curious you’re doing an amazing job I appreciate the quality

[@k1ngarthur290]

It's all CGI

[@snakestrail-uroborodjinn377]

Historical national archives.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@jackzhang3939]

@@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091 This is Beijing, where the Beijing building Xizhimen (demolished in 1969) appears

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

@@jackzhang3939 This was not XI ZHI MEN, if you search its pohto.

[@shokomiya6004]

love the tiny street on 0:48

[@yywant-qb7om]

Thank you for letting us see the real scene of my hometown and People's daily life😊

[@janejames9173]

Awesome thank you.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@ClawsAndSlots]

Wow where do you obtain all these amazing videos of the past?

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@fromthethrone]

Amazing. Much more peaceful, no traffic, no cars, no smog. Interesting they had signs in english.

[@ruskyalmond1977]

China was colonized.

[@DavidMadruga62]

And Spanish.

[@blurry3491]

this country correct Macau.

[@fromthethrone]

And probably Porugese as well

[@DavidMadruga62]

@@fromthethrone If this is Macau, as indicated above, what I thought was Spanish may have been Portuguese.

[@ilmanley]

This looks amazing! Just a feedback for the sound design. Whatever you used for sound has a drawl that is characteristic of Cantonese and doesn't exist at all in Beijing accent Chinese. Beijing has a very distinct accent.

[@teofilol2666]

Exactly my thoughts

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@DixonChannel787]

Nice job for restoring and coloring the original footage. However, the streets and the scenes were not those of Beijing, China (Peking as it's called in 1930s). Those were mostly the scenes of the cities in the southern China from people's outfits, the ways of living, as well as the architectures.

[@eeexelix]

U are the best.

[@ahmadtookhi4677]

Love the long white outfits.

[@mikavirtanen7029]

Just Watched film 55 Days at Peking (great movie) , and even if it was filmed in Spain with built sets, they made the gate of city wall of Peking that you can see in the video right.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

They could not copy the Chinese people so everything was wrong in that film.

[@mikeyh0]

Super.

[@Friariello91]

Great, great videos... do you have something about Italy?

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@iaskedforwater24]

My grandma, born in 1927, and lived in Beijing her entire life. Crazy to think that she could be in somewhere in this video. Statistically I must be distantly related to some of the people in this video. Another time another world

[@god563616]

That's amazing!

[@xinglouchen175]

现在生活在哪里

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@psychedeliclover7634]

I wonder why there's portuguese written at 01:47, interesting.

[@blurry3491]

yes it is country macau correct.

[@brianplum1825]

The city in the video is the Portuguese colony of Macau -- not Beijing.

[@carbonsnail014]

China was colonized by the European powers back then.

[@brianplum1825]

@@carbonsnail014 China was never colonized by the Europeans back then. This fiction was used by the Communists to scapegoat others and claim credit to themselves. The largest ever European colony was on Hong Kong Island with most of its land on Kowloon Peninsula leased for 99 years which expired in 1996. Shanghai had foreign concessions where foreigners were subject to laws of their own countries rather than Chinese laws, but Shanghai remained sovereign Chinese territory otherwise instead of a colony. An example of an Asian country colonized by Europeans was India, which gained independence under Gandhi. China always had its own government under either the Qing Dynasty or under the Chiang Kai-Shek.

[@carbonsnail014]

@@brianplum1825. Thanks, I'll do some more research on China. Have you ever had the opportunity to travel to Asia before?

[@changchp]

Peking had no oceanship for certain. (0:58)

[@Jim54_]

If only they knew of the chaos to come

[@MrRoni92]

Not sure it is Macao or maybe Hong Kong, but definitely not Beijing. Anyway, a great video as always!

[@martin840909]

It is Beijing, not Macao. Because you can see the Beijing city wall which doesn't exist now.

[@akapasokopo]

@@martin840909 It’s Macao because you can see Portuguese signs and there is no gate like that in Beijing but was one in macau

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@winslow6343]

@@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091 Yes, I hear they speak Cantonese, not the tone of Beijing.

[@scheinwiderstandz3888]

People pull people past or future 🧐

[@user-dd7wz6tn3e]

nice

[@londonwestman1]

0:16 Very up to date... The guy in white just right off centre seems to be wearing a face mask.

[@kingswing00]

I thought so too but when I zoom in I think it's just an artifact of the face-restoration software

[@xiaozh5063]

I'm Chinese, it seems to me the video was shot in different cities in China, maybe Hong Kong and Beijing or other cities, but definitely, it wasn't shot solely in Beijing

[@xiaozh5063]

@@kiritawhai7488 Hi there, no you are definitely not rude by asking a question. To me, some part of the footage with those Hong Kong style narrow (not just narrow but Hong Kong style)street , some people looks like southern Chinese inside of northern Chinese and in a moment there's bay and ships in there(Beijing is not a city by the sea), those make me think of Hong Kong but as other people point out it could be Macau or both. In other part of footage, there is a old city gate and broad street looks like shot in Beijing but it could be other cities in China(but not in Hong Kong and Macau, I don't think there is any old Chinese city gate in these two city). So it could be multiple cities in China but not solely Beijing.

[@xiaozh5063]

@Golfdoggie Thank you, that's really cool you can recognize some of the buildings in the clip!

[@teofilol2666]

The audio is definitely not original. They sound like Cantonese 😂

[@ericcheny]

Awesome

[@hingsang1206]

Seems some of the footages were taken in Hong Kong or Macau. 1:53 五行銀牌 Ng Hang Co. Ng Hang is the Cantonese pronunciation of 五行.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@leandroluza4410]

carne de vaca at 00:01:47 = beef, in portuguese

[@mikeyh0]

Literally: meat of the cow. I lived in Vacaville, CA. Then the cows came home.

[@cacamacu]

@@mikeyh0 carne de vaca means meat of the cow in romanian. It is exactly written in Romanian

[@mikeyh0]

@@cacamacu It's the same in Spanish.

[@user-us3nh4zu1b]

Likely some segments were mixed up with the old time of Hong Kong. Says, Beijing has no waterfront.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@JBGoode60]

At 1.00 a cruiser and a steamer are seen. Together with the signs in Portuguese this footage could be from Macau rather than Beijing.

[@jec1ny]

The three funneled ship is an ocean liner.

[@martin840909]

You can see Beijing city wall, so this cannot be Macau or Hongkong.

[@JBGoode60]

@@martin840909 Next ocean from Beijing is about 100km away.

[@MH-wm6df]

I was surprised to see English on some of their signs. Especially in the 1920s when travel to China was pretty rare for English-speaking people.

[@Blackadder75]

it wasn't rare, in fact all european imperialist powers forced china into trading in the 20th century, until Mao kicked them out eventually

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@DukeHard]

I have some old 8mm I need to go through, i think its from the 40s or 50s.

[@Nasiruify]

Woooahh

[@Romania-drepturi-si-privilegii]

NASS, at 1:47, "Carne de vaca" is in my romanian language, and it means cow meat in english.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Excellent. I like the way the Forbidden Palace entrance was more of a thoroughfare back then.

[@akapasokopo]

It isn’t the entrance to forbidden city, it’s the Great Gate of Heaven built during the mongol sta

[@zondor8123]

someone already answered it and yes it's from Yuan Dynasty

[@candaceshirley8173]

I love it, wish I could stroll in this time, no phones, just adventure

[@mrstraightedg3379]

This is crazy

[@chanboonyee6788]

Reminds me of a street in Chinese Singapore!

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@Bricameron]

Just amazing.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@thennavans3965]

it looks clean

[@joeguzman3558]

1:47 Spanish advertisment -carne de Vaca ( cow's beef)

[@brianplum1825]

Some people say it's Portuguese. That makes sense if the city is Macau, China.

[@MihaiAlexandruPreda]

You can see at 1:46 CARNE DE VACA! Those are romanian words and it means beef meat! How is it possible that in 1930 in china to find a romanian market? Wow,just wow!

[@user-me8gy3qb1u]

Very peaceful

[@optimega]

Ok at 1:47 the sign under the Chinese words is in Spanish.Mexicans or Spaniards in China?

[@musAKulture]

this is likely HK or Macau. the pipe guy looks like a hong kong police, the old lady hitting stuff at the wall corner is practiced in hk region only. the people look canto with distinct cheekbones. streets too narrow and too busy to be any street in northern china

[@rchiproportion]

⭐

[@MonkiLOST]

Am I the only one wondering why Jeff has all this footage... Did they created a time machine over at Blizzard that only he was allowed to use?

[@usbigboss]

I heard the Taishan dialect, this audio should come from a certain Chinatown in the United States

[@johnny5805]

Is this unrelated audio ? Because they are speaking Cantonese at the start.

[@taccongloriano8997]

I would say it is macao: it is written in portuguese "carne de vaca"and also it you read " gambling house"

[@patriotcine7521]

Looks cleaner than Flushing, NY

[@ximenalafken7305]

0:18 nice

[@user-kh5yv5di2t]

谢谢你，让我看到了30年代中国

[@xiaofeng666]

怀念中华民国时期的中国，现在的北京除了满是铜臭味，还不如一个世纪以前的北京有人间烟火味。

[@harmoniouserhu110]

WOW, Carne de Vaca, el cartel viene traducido al Español, curioso de ver en China, muy curioso!!.

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@teofilol2666]

Is the audio original or simply mixed in? Doesn't sound like Beijing accent but more of Cantonese vibes 😅

[@johnjagger2410]

Watching this video in Beijing

[@patrickmccullough3147]

I was shocked to see a sign that was in Spanish! It read “Carne de Vaca” (beef)

[@keyboarddancers7751]

Some places in china are still like this!

[@nicolamarini]

The road to the house of the master of the Kung-fu ? or it was taekwondo ?

[@matejpasik2245]

Last Dance od Chiang Kai-Shek

[@radubradu]

01:45 why does it say in romanian on the sign "beef" or "carne de vaca"

[@arthurbanksforbeijingopera3091]

This is not Beijing. They spoke southern accent.

[@MrGruffteddybear]

I wonder what that business was at 1:52

[@user-dw6pi8bj9k]

街がキレイ

[@CuteLamb]

looks good. rip republic of china in mainland

[@danb.3397]

Maybe a bit was in Macau ?

[@wensizhou595]

It was called Beiping at this time since the capital was moved to Nanjing (Southern Capital)

[@Naovinces]

Todo es wow o sea casi 100 años y mira como ha progresado China.

[@aguilar82082]

Miraste el letrero que decia Carne de Baca?

[@elvishassassin1]

Pretty sure the audio is from a Cantonese speaking area. :P

[@londonwestman1]

And with the constant presence of rather spooky footsteps continuing across all the different scenes.

[@Anita-gu5rw]

Still think traditional Chinese characters used back in those days looked better than the simplified versions today

[@IstiakbinAbraham985]

Ohhh my got,, this is china😶😶😶

[@brandome4670]

I bet the air their inhaling tastes great back then

[@anthonyapikyan1906]

Quite peaceful for a country engulfed in civil war at the time

[@muhdimran5869]

While there was a civil war at the time, most of the conflict was concentrated mostly on encirclement campaign in the rural areas, sparing most of the urban areas from the conflict. That and the fact that China back then was experiencing the Nanjing Decade under the Kuomintang where the country became more stable than the pre and post Nanjing Decade. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_decade en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encirclement_campaigns

[@tonylai6702]

Most of the footage, from the sound to the landscape/ cityscape, shop fronts etc., look more like Hong Kong rather than Beijing in the 1930s. @0:07 you can faintly see the Victoria Harbour in the background

[@zondor8123]

Cuz it's the true republic of China, before the communist calamity took over the country. We called it the West Taiwan 🤭

[@j.dasilva4567]

I would say this is HongKong and not Beijing because: U can see sea at min,0:59, there is no sea in Beijing, but there is sea in Hong Kong. (2) Too many store signs written in English, and also a tram, so probably HongKong, not Beijing. (3) min.1:46, a sign has written "Carne de Vaca", this is Portuguese for "beef". Macau is next to HongKong, so it is possible someone deciced to have a sign in Portuguese. (4) Gambling houses signs written in English, again, more probable in HongKong than Beijing.

[@opsupa]

In this video, start from 00:00 to 00:54. I think most of the area look like Hong Kong😉

[@ruiddd956]

01:46 "Carne de Vaca". This is Portuguese language. So, the video was shoot in Macau.

[@cush6827]

Surprising, that Beijing had so many English labels in the 1930s

[@sylvester-jb3lj]

I think its actually Hong Kong....cantonese spoken not mandarin..

[@kawaji-kawaji]

坊主頭と帽子率が心なしか、高い気がする…脱辮髪の名残とか…？( ..)φ

[@mabel8179]

Interesting scenes. Virtually all of those buildings will be gone. Beijing looks like a sci fi city now!

[@PrinceChaloner]

Republic of China..

[@josedominguez113]

1:47 Carne de Vaca ( beef ) ... porque está en español?

[@bettymilcarek5195]

Funny, eu pensei que era Portugues!

[@ronnychristenjoyer6778]

These people lived during the transition of ancient to modern China.

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

From cultured to non-cultured👎

[@halisaydin36]

7 years later 💀

[@ericwong4213]

drastic change from video shot in 1920. people dressed in t-shirt and lot of western culture compared to 1920 video where people still dressed in ancient chinese clothes. unless this video was shot during summer and the other one was shot during winter then it makes sense.

[@user-cw3nb8rc9e]

0.75x speed. Should have been slowed down. No reason to publish it with fake speed. Camera speed which recorded it does not matter.

[@selinaMarks675]

It didn’t say exactly which year it was taken, but in 1931, Japan invaded China, China was dragged into 8 years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

[@bjornhebergman8785]

Did Beijing really use left-hand traffic in the 1930s? Some parts of China, like the International Concession in Shanghai and Japanese-occupied Manchukuo (and perhaps even Guangdong and Yunnan), used left-hand traffic at that time, before 1946 when Jiang Jieshi (a.k.a. "Chiang Kai-shek") ruled that all vehicles in China must be driven on the right-hand side.

[@zondor8123]

It's the republic of China, before the communist

[@aev9061]

那个年代有简体中文？

[@user-wo7fj8cz6q]

both my parents lived in this beautiful city at then, but left in 1937 because of the war with Japan, and they never went back. I really wish they could watch this film, but they passed away many years ago.

[@exe.m1dn1ght]

Do you have something from 1650?

[@Tom67Slick]

idiot film was developed late 19th century