Gothenburg, Sweden 1944 [AI Colorized, Denoised, Sharpened, Upscaled, 60fps]

[@HistoryinColor]

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[@apidcat9652]

no

[@CJSnews]

I am born in Gothenburg. I recognize a lot of the street views. I find the video interesting-well-accomplished work.

[@HistoryinColor]

Glad to hear that.

[@loris-bismar]

Jag också. Jag njöt igenom hela filmen och var så glad att så många platser och byggnader finns kvar idag.

[@claudiofernando1678]

It does not look like this now a lot of asian and muslim live there now 😕

[@headforopenwaters]

@@claudiofernando1678 What do Asian and Muslim people have to do with what the city looks like?😂 The city is still beautiful but in a different way, and sure a lot of it could have been kept the way it was. But the people who made it expand into the big city it is today were not the Asians and the Muslims who moved here. They are a part of Sweden just as much as anyone else. So go and take your racism somewhere else, because it does not belong in Gothenburg.

[@headforopenwaters]

@@claudiofernando1678 Hermano, lo que dices simplemente no es la verdad. La ciudad si ha cambiada, y si creo que una gran parte de la arquitectura etc de ese tiempo debería haber sido guardada. Pero eso no tiene nada a ver con quien inmigró para la ciudad. Por eso, saca te de ese racismo, porque no tiene lugar aquí.

[@sunzaolive]

Götaplatsen had so many trees once upon a time! :D

[@mathew8978]

I would like to see how Bergsjön and other places in Gothenburg was like at that time :)

[@ursaproxima]

@@mathew8978 Probably just a lot of forest and fancy small houses! I used to live there and you can see when the 60s started in some areas (miljonprogrammet).

[@lionh34r7]

Mycket lugnare tempo förr i tiden

[@Masterchieftsh]

Gothenburg was such a beautiful city back then! Sadly a lot of the historic buildings were destroyed during the 1950/60s... It makes me quite sad to think about all the wonderful buildings that were demolished only to be replaced by some grey “modern” box.

[@angaudlinn]

I was about to comment how many things are the same, but yes, post-modernism can be a drag.

[@antonlindstrom8373]

@@angaudlinn Except most of those changes and construction decisions were done in the name of modernism, not post-modernism

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

Really? I thought this only happened in Finland. This was great tragedy and unfortunately here in Finland there are still old buildings in danger to be destroyed :( I hope this madness ends some day!😠

[@andersnilsson973]

No, the leftists have demolished many cultural cities all over europe.

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

@@andersnilsson973 Not true. It's the right wing who destorys old buildings because they want to build cheap and ugly buildings so they can make easy profit. Only money matters to them.

[@ingrideng153]

Very nice, I'll send a link to my parents, who lived in Gothenburg later on in the 40s and 50s. Interesting about the colorization - it looks lovely but there are a few "misses" in some colors (particularly the brick buildings at the top of Kungsportsavenyn by the Poseidon fountain, which are pale yellow and have a lot of oxidized copper - green - details that match the fountain) and something at Liseberg came out blue, when the amusement park has a very distinctive "Isabella pink" color. But thank you so much for doing this and posting it.

[@Mnnvint]

Also at 1:50, I'm pretty sure that statue isn't painted? Impressive of the AI to recognize it as a person, good guess but not quite on the mark! Sadly the colors are a bit excessively brown and sepia-toned. It's a problem I've had in my own ML restoration attempts too - maybe the AI recognizes the grain size or something, and gives it the closest to "period appropriate" color. Or it could be an artifact of just not committing to bold choices such as vibrant reds and greens, and just averaging things out to be careful.

[@GoldenShrike]

Wow wasn’t really aware there’s such old films of my city! It’s so fascinating seeing how things have changed over time

[@ursaproxima]

Its amazing seeing a place I travel through almost everyday in the video! Also a lot of the buildings still here today!!!

[@NO1jkpg]

Most of the buildings is still there but some was replaced. Nice, i love these.

[@swedishdawg1972]

Here I am, a Gothenburg citizen in Sweden, watching my city in the 1940's during WWII. Despite the negative influence and turmoil of the war, Sweden was a country that kept itself neutral from it. Still, the people of Gothenburg and Sweden got to see or hear about WWII going on in the world on the television or radio. You guys must've worked hard to get this colorization done. Beautiful work on coloring my hometown's past. Hats off to to guys. Great work! *Applause*

[@HistoryinColor]

Glad to hear that. Thank you.

[@MrMaxim]

Really cool.

[@gurkajpeg]

Hallå eller

[@HistoryinColor]

Thank You.

[@claudiofernando1678]

It does not look like that now

[@wallqvistphotography4937]

fantastisk, tack för detta!

[@HistoryinColor]

Thank You for your comment.

[@samuzamu]

At 3:30 you can see at the back of the passing bus, the wood gas burners that were used during fuel shortages

[@Desaxion]

Gothenburg is and always will be my hometown, even though I don't live there anymore

[@erikbejstam777]

Amazing! I would love to see more footage of Sweden.

[@HistoryinColor]

Glad to hear that. We are working on another footage of Sweden which we will upload soon.

[@smoothproductions725]

This is Gothenburg today kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2nYYaSnhJKIb6c

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Same but very different. And the fact that you where driving on the left side of the road back then tripped me out xD -i was born in 80s and they changed to right hand traffic sometime in the 60s I believe, so I never got to experience that..

[@kennethandersson4325]

Fantastisk video om en stad och ett lyckligt land för länge sedan, utan krig och elände. Nu är det inte mycket av lycka kvar och eländet har stormat in med hjälp av dåraktiga poltiker. Underbart i alla fall att se en underbar gammal film.

[@HistoryinColor]

Thank You for your comment.

[@eddieolsson5449]

Utan krig? Ja, jo, förutom tyska soldater som åkte tvärs genom landet på vår järnväg, sjömän som dog när de körde på minor i våra vatten....men det gäller att fokusera på det viktiga, såklart.

[@masssssy]

Stor humor att du väljer just 1944 att vara året utan "krig och elände"

[@MusicNiceEveryday]

Hello my dear friend! Delightful music and great video! Stay Connected! Good job! Keep it up 👏👏👏👏

[@HistoryinColor]

Very Happy to hear that. Thank You.

[@jimgod8851]

nice to se old Sweden and nice music

[@aylajernsk]

Beautiful then and beautiful now, I love Gothenburg with all my heart.

[@petersharma7189]

It was more beautiful then...

[@Faisalmohamud]

I live in this beautiful city since 2010.

[@quezcatol]

My grandmas twin, age 89 died last year, raised in Göteborg- she was a teenager during this time in this city, weird!

[@lumis5896]

1:50 Did the Alströmer statue really have these colours in the 1940s? sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Alstr%C3%B6mers_staty

[@durimmiziraj4815]

More info on the source of the original video please.

[@sweejus17]

fantastisk !

[@HistoryinColor]

Thank You.

[@simonfrisk3451]

This is my hometown, and I was NOT ready for these emotion lol

[@BushcraftSweden]

Wow!

[@gingervsginger]

Den Gången Göteborg Var Som Finast Var När Resten Av Världen Stod I Eld... The Time Gothenburg Was The Finest Were When The Rest Of The World Stood In A Blaze...

[@logically2020]

Sverige och nazister var ju bra vänner, därför var det ingen krig i landet, men nu säger ni dåligt om nazister. America är i makt nu och ni är bra vänner, så var det inte under andravärldskriget. Ni har alltid varit bra vänner med terrorist länder.

[@derauserwahlte8004]

När Göteborg var ariskt

[@tgtg4247]

@@logically2020 Vänner med nazisterna? Sverige var aktiva men inte i kriget och räddade tusentals Judar från nazisterna, samtidigt som vi höll en "neutral" roll utåt, lär dig historian om du skall återberätta den.

[@logically2020]

@@tgtg4247 bullshit! Med hjälp av svenskt järn kunde tyskarna göra vapen till sina militärer, ni var så fega och ville inte kriga och stoppa kriget utan ni hjälpte Hitler. Ni hjälpte Hitler med ytterligare en sak också, det nämligen så att ni lät Hitler och hans armé ”tåga” genom Sverige, för att lättare ta sig till Norge. Det gjorde ni eftersom ni trodde att tyskarna skulle bli sura. Allt detta gjorde att England och Amerika blev riktigt irriterade, så tillslut hotade dom svenskarna med att bomba SKF:s kullager fabrik, som låg i Göteborg. Från första början gillade svenskarna Hitler, man tyckte att han gav tyskarna så mycket förhoppningar om framtiden, men mot slutet av kriget slutade svenskarna stötta Hitler och gick över till De allierade istället. Samma sak nu, hjälper America med alla deras dumheter för att de ska inte bli sura. fyyy! Ni säljer vapen till diktaturer t.ex Saudiarabien, ni hade stor fabrik där, många av de vapen användes i Syrien och det görs fortfarande. Och sen påstår att ni är neutrala, Bullshit!!

[@tgtg4247]

​@@logically2020 Haha så många fel, vi hjälpte tyskarna, Norge, Danmark, Polen, vi tränade till och med Norska soldater i Sverige, över 50.000 personer för att vara mer exakt, vi gömde nästan hela den danska judiska befolkningen i Sverige under kriget. Det kallat att inte välja sida utan vara neutrala, Sverige säljer inga vapen till Saudiarabien, många år sedan det senast hände, något du borde veta om du var påläst, naturligtvis hjälper vi USA, och USA hjälper oss, det brukar funka så om man är allierade. Så det är enligt dig fel med krig och samtidigt fegt att inte kriga, bra logik där gubben, lär dig skriva och somna om under stenen du bott, du har uppenbarligen ingen koll på hur krigstiden och samhället såg ut i Sverige under 30 och 40-talet.

[@kurtlarssom6394]

Fint att se.Inget klotter inga gangsters.❤️❤️💛🧡

[@dajo8403]

Visst var det härliga tider med hot om invasion från Tyskland och en medellivslängd på 65 istället för 80 år som idag. 3 av 100 barn dog innan de fyllde 1 och vuxna i diverse svårbotade sjukdomar som TBC och andra infektionssjukdomar. De skulle bara ha vetat hur bra de hade det och hur illa det sen blev med gangsters och grafitti överallt!

[@dajo8403]

@Coolguy64 Det är korrekt. Men både påståendet om inget klotter och inga gangsters är totalt historielöst och ett romantiskt hittepå.

[@leob4403]

@@dajo8403 det fanns framtidstro då, utan framtidstro är det svårt att vara lycklig

[@Magnus2027]

Det var bättre förr!

[@dajo8403]

@@Magnus2027 Intressant - berätta mer!

[@randomgeocacher]

1:51 the AI fixed the boring statue. It should be provided as a suggestion to the city planners / architects! Cool seeing algorithm creating colors out of nothing going all creative upon the more boring aspects of the city.

[@malink2448]

It´s wierd thinking that everybody (probably) in this video is long gone. :(

[@LOSSApunktSE]

Everything is the same expect the avenyn Where the left side have buildings now. Also in one scen where tram is going on the bridge next to ostindiska museet doesn’t exist anymore Thank you lovely

[@goalscorer6475]

That is true.

[@nrno7419]

U can do meditation and wach this i'm positiv thet now is not so peacefull and beautiful like before! It is same here, thank you from Italia. Life is diferent

[@henrikdahlberg878]

but the statue at 1:54 was never painted was it?

[@Skogling]

What music is this?

[@xXbananaXxist]

Looks so nice when Brunnsparken actually still has trees. They should bring it back

[@nag1972]

When people knew how to dress.

[@alexanderjagell2963]

Would you look at that, thats the building i live in but 83 years ago 😵😅

[@grindinggore]

Jävla bra ställe

[@orrling]

So serene... When the war is ravaging across the continent..

[@williamFalcons]

Jag rekommenderar alla som upprörs över hur vackert det brukade vara att följa arkitektupproret på Instagram.

[@swedishtraveller]

Do you have any old footage of stockholm?

[@jimmyochiryna401]

Inte samma kanal men kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6GVZZWjippofM0

[@espnoberg6130]

We’ve still got the same sidewalks in the city!! 😂

[@JasonJason210]

To be honest it's not changed that much.

[@ekremekremi9815]

Mycket bättre då än nu.

[@yeahbuddy6852]

It was a nice country ounce.... Now its gone gone gone

[@anilmaurya572]

it is nice country ,, will remain nice country in the world...haters like you will not change that. :)) ...

[@yeahbuddy6852]

@@anilmaurya572 No but People like you DO.....

[@anilmaurya572]

@@yeahbuddy6852 are you from the jungle or what ?? or living off on svenska bidrag ?? eating our tax money by sipping cheap beer in ur cheap home.

[@anilmaurya572]

@SwedishManPsycho Hej då moron :))

[@akif4765]

My hometown! Wow... Time flies by so fast :D

[@skrivbordslampan6923]

Innan...

[@andersh6227]

Nowdays Gothenburgh looks moore like a country in the middle east.

[@fripp4999]

Idiot

[@linusfotograf]

Practice your English Anders

[@Panchoromonko]

Better practice your Arabic Linus

[@gothicanimeangel96]

????????? Literally no

[@gothicanimeangel96]

@@Pathbrat have lived in gothenburg for my entire life and the idea that it looks like whatever this guy thinks a country in the middle east looks like is just... No. It looks so much like this movie still. And like I'm not even gonna talk about the racism.

[@rameshrrk]

Nice video

[@HistoryinColor]

Glad to hear that. Thank you 😀

[@ultraviolence4364]

such a beautiful city before functionalism came and destroyed it

[@Jonsson474]

The first functionalist buildings in Swedish cities was actually raised during the 1930s. If you look at other Swedish sceneries from this time, you will seem them among the old buildings. This channel has a clip from Stockholm from the same year. There you can see some of them already taken to use.

[@yasashii89]

I'd love to go to gothenburg during that time and actually feel like I'm in sweden.

[@Dangels2000]

Coolt , kmr i håg hur min mormors moster berättade för mig hur dem fick gömma sig när tyskarna flög över under kriget osv...

[@kanaler5924]

Dom skulle hjälpt dom istället och förvara Europa mot den röda terrorn.

[@Dangels2000]

@@kanaler5924 Dem var barn.

[@kanaler5924]

@@Dangels2000 jag tänkte på dom vuxna i familjen men visst.

[@logically2020]

Most of them are not alive now

[@monabostrom8357]

Those of you who yearn for the 'better', more 'beautiful' past, compare the living conditions of the poorest in that society to today. And if you're fine with it, THEN SAY SO!!

[@lifeisgood628]

Sure there was a difference, but the same could be said about ANYWHERE! That was the world of those days! However, those were minor issues compared of today and which could be fixed! Sweden today is at the other hand facing IRREVERSIBLE consequences.........

[@user-qe8xu5wo4p]

Sad that the Swedes are disappearing

[@espnoberg6130]

What?

[@Wizzy88]

@@espnoberg6130 Statistically, ethnic Sweded are becoming a minority in their own country at a very rapid rate. Sweden as we once knew it will be long forgotten.

[@AntiRiku]

@@Wizzy88 oh stop exaggerating, hopefully it's not to justify some closeted racist ideology i hope

[@espnoberg6130]

@@Wizzy88 the lagrets group of non-swedes are at only 2% of the Swedish population and about 80% of the swedish population is native swedes, so we won’t disappear unless you’re talking about humanity. In that case, it’s going to be people like you that kills our humanity when you’re so scared that you don’t see that there are humans around the world who needs our help.

[@espnoberg6130]

@victor yep simply go to the “demographics of Sweden” page on wikipedia, then go to the ethnicity section and then scroll drown to the end of that section. Here’s the link to that demographics page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

[@biglg9826]

the stomping grounds of kenta kofot #freehermano #komigeeen

[@konradpovac5424]

It is a crazy world, in the time where people are dieing in europe and have scarry to lost life in the war and have no peace... the people in sweden have peace and silence and relax in the park ... why is it not possible all over the wordl ?

[@XO-cq6gx]

Life was just simple back then.

[@angaudlinn]

During the war you mean? ;)

[@XO-cq6gx]

@@angaudlinn Sweden, neutral

[@angaudlinn]

@@XO-cq6gx Yes, but a world war affects all countries. With a looming threat just to the south, men sent to all borders, ration coupons on most groceries and strict black-outs at night. So, maybe simpler, but not better.

[@leob4403]

@@angaudlinn this was at the end of the war anyway, Germany was largely defeated, so the point still stands

[@angaudlinn]

@@leob4403 Sure thing, but black-outing and ration coupons remained etc. But yes, I'm glad my family lived in a neutral country at the time... and some of them in Gothenburg for that matter.

[@ESPirits87]

It's cool but if it's the correct color, we can never know.

[@linusfotograf]

We can. There was colour film back then.

[@ESPirits87]

@@linusfotograf Yeah but when you restore a video you don't know the original color, i saw Elders react video where they saw pictures restored from their youth, one said, this is cool, but my shirt was red not blue, she remembers, the crew who re-did picture didn't.

[@linusfotograf]

@@ESPirits87 I was thinking of things other than clothes

[@DetEJagDe]

Inget krig här inte

[@fantasip]

mamma och pappa träffades under återuppbyggnaden efter krigsstigen, gifte sig några år senare och fick barn varav jag är ett, sen flyttade vi till Göteborg i Sverige 1963 och därför är göteborgska mitt modersmål

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Även om de måste varit fruktansvärt att lämna allt, vad bra att de kunde komma hit!

[@fantasip]

@@JaneDoe-ci3gj både mamma och pappa fick jobb i Göteborg, därför flyttade familjen dit 1963

[@Johnny8109]

Det lönade sig att vara neutralt land :)

[@ChrisTian-lf2oh]

Great video, love how things looks so peaceful. Today its just a bad mix of drug dealers, stabbings and shootings all around the city. Oh yeah, and road blocks from gangs that are armed with automatic rifles.... (no, srsly, this happend a few months back)

[@Mumrik93]

How beautiful cities used to look before Post-modernistic architecture came and destroyed everything.

[@Jonsson474]

The first functionalist buildings in Swedish cities were actually raised during the 1930s. If you look at other Swedish sceneries from this time, you will seem them among the old buildings. This channel has a clip from Stockholm from the same year. There you can see some of them already taken to use.

[@vk6832]

-checks Early Life pages of 'architects'

[@Mnnvint]

You're probably thinking of modernism. Not very many things were "post-modern" in 1944 - and the native modern, non-brutalist style of Scandinavian functionalism, "funkis", was quite nice with its many rounded shapes.

[@andersliljevall2946]

Has not changed much

[@misterctrubadur9651]

Hi there! I have a request! Would it be possible for you to send me all the material you have for Gothenburg from this era? I have written a song about Gothenburg and I used the anekdotes my grandfather told me from this era as inspiration. I would be so happy if I could use this for a "music video". Preferably without the clock on the screen. Please get back to me, best wishes, Marco

[@lovedovielovey]

Det är lika fint nu också som på videon. Herregud vad ni ska överdriva om att det är fulare nu. Bete er ni skämmer ut oss

[@samuelskogqvist5565]

Vet inte hur 3d rektanglar som byggnad är like fina som riktiga arkitekturer.

[@jamesshunt5123]

Too bad most of those classic buildings are probably long gone now. In the 1960's Sweden took modernism and brutalism to its logical extreme. While structurally sound and well-planned they're not easy on the eye.

[@mamabyggas1805]

beautiful White people around

[@Slottens]

Kämpebron med Kämpen

[@Rogge73]

Before Gothenburg became a kalifat...sweet times!

[@whatever4566]

it dosen't look very different from now

[@hwadinskij7495]

alla heter Glenn, alla heter Glenn, alla heter Glenn i Göteboooorg

[@tim7330]

När Sverige var Sverige

[@ceciliaj3148]

Sluta med det där. Vi kollar på en film som handlar speciellt om fina gamla byggnader, och såklart ska såna som du komma in och förstöra allt.

[@tim7330]

@@ceciliaj3148 Det stämmer ju, annars hade du inte tagit åt dig

[@ceciliaj3148]

@@tim7330 tagit åt mig? Det som du sa var ju inte riktat mot mig, så hur kan jag ta åt mig? Jag bara säger att det som du syftar på är ju att det är många invandrare i sverige. Denna diskussionen hör inte hemma i denna videon, gå någon annanstans din främlingsfientliga skit.

[@tim7330]

@@ceciliaj3148 Lipa mer, Sverige har aldrig behövt raketingenjörer ifrån Mellanöstern ändå

[@ceciliaj3148]

@@tim7330 konstigt att varenda gång jag pratar med en höger extrem människa så säger ni alltid ”fortsätt gråt” osv som du gör nu. Men vem är det som gråter egentligen? Ni gråter ju för att det kommer invandrare hit? Det enda jag säger är lägg av och var inte främlingsfientlig, och diskutera inte här. Jag bryr mig inte om det kommer eller inte kommer invandare hit.

[@bobdylansweden6]

Ser idylliskt ut

[@Lexthebarbarian]

Now Gothenburg has an vibrant diversity. They got hundreds and thousands of arabs, Africans, Iranians, albanians and people from all over the world!

[@lifeisgood628]

Don't include our European brethren Albanians in this mess!

[@user-AiaDentista]

Even I did not exist during this time here in Gothenburg but I feel kind of my hometown. Empathy and enthusiasm are in my mind. I originally come from AFGHANISTAN but now, unfortunately, our country is destroyed by some unwelcomed foreigners. You know what I'm talking about. 🙋🏻

[@mrgammer2.0yt85]

Really are you from afghanistan

[@user-AiaDentista]

@@mrgammer2.0yt85 Yes sir. I'm indeed.

[@mrgammer2.0yt85]

@@user-AiaDentista i mean when you are there do you get the felling of afghanistan hometown

[@jesuslovesu617]

Jesus loves you

[@loris-bismar]

No he hates you

[@KG-yo7xm]

När Sverige fortfarande var svenskt.

[@delshadmansour5443]

Göteborg är fortfarande svenskt.

[@KG-yo7xm]

@@delshadmansour5443 Ah

[@joshpops822]

Då sverige var svenskt.....

[@fridolfmane1063]

Nice footage. Depressing reality we live in. We are under occupation!

[@delshadmansour5443]

Occupied by whom?

[@MikaelUmaN]

Unfortunately this place no longer exist. Instead, we have “diversity” and “multiculturalism”.

[@DrLoverLover]

Flytta då

[@panzercrue9991]

@@DrLoverLover Åk hem då

[@goalscorer6475]

Anpassa dig då 😀😀😀

[@Simurghh]

it is now 2021 almost the same...Sweden did not develop so much more 1944.