My TV film HONG KONG in the 50s

[@rebeccachiu725]

Oh, my goodness! I see my Dad on this video (21:51)! He was interpreting for the missionary at the wedding on the Gospel Boat. Thank you, Mr. Rogge, for the precious clip!

[@toothfairy6518]

That’s amazing

[@rebeccachiu725]

@周一 Definitely! After all these years!

[@scoooter78]

Is your Dad the one closest to the camera? What are the odds?

[@TasteofRetirement]

@@scoooter78 Yes, that young man is my father who have served the Lord faithfully for 50 years.

[@Kevin-finity]

@@TasteofRetirement 太奇妙了！ 您父親在70年前被這個紀錄片導演意外拍攝到 並且被你發現到。 多麼神奇的巧合。

[@lushimin]

HK was so self-sufficient in those days. It blows my mind so manyvictims of fire could be rescued and get back to living with help from charitable efforts of their peers. The hard working and resilient spirit of this city should be celebrated and remembered more! Thank you Michael, and bless you for sharing these videos with us 🙏

[@laurencevictoria7358]

Humble but respectable folks, peaceful & hardworking people, and well-narrated by Michael. I will share this with my students, my Princes and my folks. Thanks, Michael.

[@goldgoldgo]

Thank you v much- Mr.Michael Rogge, your films always make me full of memory the good old days.

[@sinthailim4848]

This film is very moving. I am from Singapore and my late father came to Singapore from southern China. My uncle (my father's brother) and his family escaped communist China into Hong Kong in the 1950s. This movie kind of paints a picture for me to grasp what my uncle and his family would have been through. I see so much resilience in the Hong Kongers that I feel I should not complain about trivialities in my present life. Thank you Mr Rogge for this wonderful film.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Great to hear that. See also my old Singapore films by searching with 'michael rogge singapore'

[@polo-kf6yh]

This is fantastic, more comprehensive than any local media can produce. .well done.

[@zz3410]

The video quality is excellent. Thank you for filming these scenes so many years ago. I'm glad you and so many others can reap their benefits all these decades later.

[@wongfrancis]

Hong Kong is my home, It was very heart warming to see it once was, to now becoming an important international city (despite of all the troubles we faced). Thank you for sharing thus wonderful film with us!

[@suelee6812]

1526 hours friday 5th march 2021 - thank you Sir for sharing this video with me - i was hoping to see my grandfather here - i never met him - he died when my dad was about 9 years old - my grandfather came and told me these bending feet woman are born deformed - yours faithfully SO-KUEN xxx..

[@faiyellow]

This is an extraordinary historical record for us, thank you so much

[@briannemeth3296]

A rare historical treasure. Covering both public and intimate life. Unique and beautiful film.

[@pigpigfatfat8136]

michael,thanks so much for your big big efforts. i was born in 1964,i find that all your videos are very interesting to watch. what an old old hong kong! haha michael,wish u good health and live happier each day.

[@fredkylam]

This film brings me back many nostalgic memories.

[@WhiteCamry]

This was the HK which gave the world Bruce Lee.

[@DirectorRanjeet]

This is incredible, Sir. Thank you for sharing. I myself am a director, this is seriously inspirational.

[@Mohairp53]

Thanks for sharing. Your video and background music brings back a lot of childhood memories.

[@thewaythingsare8158]

Extraordinary and historically important footage. thank you so much for sharing Michael

[@kwokshuifan470]

Very informative. Thank you from Hong Kong.

[@MrConan89]

When I arrived to work there in 1975 the cricket pitch was still marked out for a game but it had already been played. My office overlooked the pitch. We used it for a work site to build the Mass Transit Railway. I worked there for 27 years, mostly on construction of the underground railway. In the now demolished old HK Club, I attended a cocktail party with Stirling Moss and Mike Hailwood.

[@michaelijsbrand]

A great achievement !

[@BellyHolly]

Sadly things built in the colonial years are disappearing fast in today's Hong Kong, both infrastructures and social softwares like the ICAC, an efficient Hospital Authority etc. The quality of the MTR service is nothing like in the old days, it's even working with the govt in its nasty campaign to murder its citizens (Prince Edward station was shut down for days after a violent and indiscriminate police assult of passengers inside trains and the station. The shut-down was suspected to be necessary for erasing all evidence related to the missing / murdered passengers). It's so very sad to see a great city like HongKong go under like this.... :"(

[@bellqq]

Thank you very much for uploading so many valuable video 🙏

[@simonsimon2888]

Pleasant soothing inspiring Cantonese music...contemporary!

[@leomanmidnighttoker]

It literally feels like I went back in time!

[@grelienlien8127]

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[@ramanashiu4744]

Thank you Michael Rogge whatever planet you may be in now. Your movie touched my heart. perfectly edited for our understanding. It makes me think of the Tao. 民不畏死，以其求生之厚。 I have watched it repeatedly many times and will continue to do so.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you so much for this film. The footage is incredible, a wonderful remembrance of a largely lost world. My great regret for Hong Kong is that so much was torn down.

[@carrynghk]

thanks Micheal. such a impressive documentary. I borned in hong kong but such information seems cannot found out easily nowadays. Appreciated for the contributions.

[@mandikwok]

Thank you so much for your life's movies.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lincolnroad3]

Very moving. Great footage and video

[@computer-ot8si]

good coverage of all aspects of people living in Hongkong at that time.

[@JSDesign.Hongkong]

A splendid piece of work, Michael. Really captures the essence of HK on those halcyon days. PS: The Governor Sir Robert Black is using an Austin Princess Limousine. 5BV7, the Rolls-Royce Phantom V landaulette, was not delivered to Government House until April 1961.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks, also for the info on the car he used.

[@JSDesign.Hongkong]

MichaelRogge, you're welcome. I have been following your period HK videos for years, and there is no finer footage extant. Your work is greatly appreciated.

[@marcotsang6767]

Thank you Michael!

[@blakespower]

everyone doesn't realize Hong Kong was very poor until the 1980's same with many asian nations like Taiwan and South Korea

[@ivysn13]

poor and treat like second class citizens and getting stepped on and used... always sad to watch and think about my family having to flee. and once you flee china...everyone deems you a traitor. it was tough

[@saychunjo2153]

@@ivysn13 Only when you flee from the monster CCP are you able to live a human life!

[@yellowsheeps]

@@ivysn13 Under British rule, Hong Kong was another slave colony. It wasn't until the 1980's when the British negotiated the handover back to China in 1997, did the city begin to prosper. Investment from China and the CCP was the main reason the quality of life improved. Most of the teenage Hong Kong protesters are so brainwashed and unaware of the British colonial past. These kids are biting the hand that feeds them.

[@hsun7997]

Now we make all your electronics and clothes, and everything else

[@kindface]

@@yellowsheeps Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Truth needs to stay just that: the truth. And the truth is that, yes, HK began to see a marked and rapid accumulation of wealth starting in the 1980s BUT that WAS NOT due to investment from China and the CPC. Much as ordinary mainlanders started to save, engaged in entrepreneurship and noticeably accumulated wealth starting in the late-1990s, HKers started that back in the 1970s/1980s on their own. If anything, the first batch of rich mainlanders starting in the late 1990s benefited immensely from HK investments in China - at the peak of HK investments in China around the year 2000, some 70,000 factories and workshops of various sizes in Guangdong province alone had been established by HK entrepreneurs. I totally agree that the teenagers in HK have sadly been misled in their understanding of modern Chinese history and communist China. But I think it's important to not mislead anyone that "investment from China and the CPC was the main reason the quality of life improved" in HK back in the 1980s; the truth is that China was still pretty poor in the 1980s relative to HK.

[@ramanashiu4744]

Hi Michael Rogge, Your connection with HK intrigues me a great deal. I hope you get a chance to remaster many of your clips and have them reedited for stories to tell. Your work is really too valuable for HK where I was born and grew up. There should be a place in the HK Museum for reedited stories. Your presence in Asia too would be valuable with quite a bit about Indonesia, Singapore, Japan. The Dutch people seem to be an open minded peoople. Your interest in the paranormal also should be very interesting as now we know so much more about our world which is not limited to our physical presence on planet earth. Do you still live in HK ?

[@ramanashiu4744]

Do you know about your compatriot David Sorensen ? a very real and resouceful human being.

[@peterlee4458]

thank you very much Michael Rogge !

[@lhlhlhca]

Thank you for the thought of recording and sharing history ❤♥💜😊!

[@mylaifriend6011]

Thanks Miucheael for the wonderful and informative video. I particularly like the added voice. Is it yours?

[@hamidachan7392]

Thank you for this. Love from England ❣️

[@ChasJanWanns]

Once again thanks very much for doing the transfer!!! These are treasures! Now historic documents of once British Crowned Colony of Hong Kong! Crickets lawn area became Peoples Park, I think...amazing to find no bomb out scars, 3 to 4 years after end of WWII!!

[@romemardiev]

Love your videos, they give a powerful insight into how life in diffrent places was before , thanks for tgese videos keep ut the good work!:):):)

[@romemardiev]

I meant these videos, sorry for that

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks, at your service !

[@cindylam32]

thank you very much!!! just a elegant ci/ in the old days

[@tamben8247]

very precious video of old HK.

[@lawangus]

thanks for the amazing film

[@roundsout1557]

If you really think about it most of us live like kings don't even appreciate it but I appreciate mine thanks for posting the video !!!

[@simonli7648]

Michael .. wish you good health and long life🥰

[@freedom_seeker06]

This films shows that Hong Kong was once a prosperous and free land where varieties of culture were respected, and how Hong Kong people were free. I can see that most of the older generation who appears in the film are dedicated hard working people. I guess everyone worked hard to bring food to their table. Now that Hong Kong is fully dominated by Communist China, I just wonder how people would survive under the Communist rule. No democracy and freedom means death. I just pray for Hong Kong. Respect from a Korean-Australian.

[@babalo7079]

The place shown in movies is Hong Kong, but from 5:00-8:30 is Macau.

[@hsun7997]

Your channel has lots of incredible content!!!

[@saigonpunkid]

Amazing cinematography

[@ramanashiu4744]

Dear Michael Rogge, I would very much like to hear the seance voice of Mahatma Gandhi again. It would be nice to be able to search.

[@garluns]

Awesome work

[@hashtag_thisguy]

I always watch wondering if my dad is a passing stranger on the street in your videos

[@DaBusUncle]

I got fascinated by the mysterious statue of that building in 2:26:2:31 Does anybody know what building was that and the history of it ? Thanks 🍻

[@charlieyu3379]

Thanks for your video. Learnt more about the place where i born

[@lwm1]

I saw my village's old Wells but they are not in use now.

[@danieleponzi2950]

beautiful documentary

[@tamben8247]

very precious video,,,

[@nadasou]

The documentary covered a lot of details, the lowest grade of the society then. Bravo to the narrative, factual and respectful.

[@AntLo-zh9gm]

My father was worked for The Former Hong Kong Governer's House as a gardener in 50's

[@lamblamb5307]

The age the Hong Kong people should remember.

[@bappybillah4791]

Amazing film. I love it.

[@白白田]

Very precious films especially by a Westerner in those days when people were not so used to being shot by foreigners. Many children were seen in the films, and it might happen that I was one of them.

[@bingchiuyuen6816]

Thanks Mike.

[@mankeisham]

Mr. MichaelRogge you knew Hong Kong more than many of us who were born there ! How much time did it take to get to Hong Kong from Netherland in the 50's? I suppose you arrived by ship?

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks for your interest. I sailed by WW2 Victory freighter from Rotterdam to Hong Kong in 1949, 20 years old, in one and half a month. You can see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWmxn5Rra6qni8k

[@lunassr7212]

My father 50 era the sailor Indonesia to Hongkong,Amizing nostalhia his sayyed

[@linusfotograf]

Who's doing the narration? Why is it in English if it was broadcast in the Netherlands?

[@billyhamrichard]

thanks for your share..

[@少川靖男]

this wonderful place is no more since July 1st, 1997. thanks for sharing !!

[@wingkeeso4378]

影片好珍貴值得欣賞

[@fatlo8400]

Michael thanks.

[@hanifli9485]

this film would be taken in 1960-61, as the city hall was almost done at the reclamation land. very nice flim anyway.

[@prettypurple7175]

MICHAEL, ARE YOU STILL IN AMSTERDAM?

[@web3wizard381]

It's pretty psycho, Hong Kong in the 50s had super tall residential projects and infrastructure that my country still does not have LOL, what a magical place

[@LynLynGo]

Wow what a great old video... How lucky they are during back those old/ies days it's far better than this new generation... today's so much pollutions food's full of Chemicals and people going crazy fighting 😅😅😅for their freedom, freedom of speech freedom of expression ect...to much freedom will ruin your own city/country Hongkong...love those old days memories i can picture in my mind even I just born in '85... from Philippines 😊😊😊

[@natya5717]

Like a sad movies When You See Every Body fight for Still a Life. OMG! Human on the earth

[@Tubemanjac]

12:10 Looking at the grill shape, it appears to me this is not a Rolls Royce but a Bentley, but never mind.

[@chrisleon27]

He seems Chen baiqiang ,a famous singer

[@jbhistory5549]

OH, How old are you now? Mr. MichaelRogge

[@michaelijsbrand]

I'm 88 years young !

[@jbhistory5549]

You witness the world has been changing a lot over decades, what an amazing experience!

[@michaelijsbrand]

Not only the world our knowledge of it in the universe as well !

[@pierrebourdieu]

Thank you!

[@Islamunitedpeople]

Is that your voice Sir?

[@ramanashiu4744]

Sorry Michael Rogge. You are obviously still around on planet earth. I was 14 in 1950 and am now already an old man of 85. I had assumed that you were much older.

[@thunder-ln4cg]

11:55 Handsome!! (❤ ω ❤)

[@acastrohowell]

This looks like future California

[@Sohave]

Nah, it is much more prosperous than future California, and there is less excrement on the streets of old Hong Kong compared to future California

[@hausacat]

Hong Kong went forwards.

[@Tantemify]

how old are u now sir?

[@michaelijsbrand]

ninety !

[@chanythechamp]

@@michaelijsbrand ninty is the new 70 Michael...

[@minghuitsai1061]

Dear, dear, left by UNESCo for educational purposes. Public expenditures with qualified persons to ameliorate and meet basic needs for the people and to make Hong Kong autonomous and prosperous forever...

[@naturelilacgold9016]

Like Chinese - Cantonese opera

[@hausacat]

Note that all those refugees fled to Hong Kong and worked for what they had. There was no welfare system to prop them up. Kudos to them, their work ethos and tenacity.

[@canman5060]

Now almost 8 million souls !

[@patricklo1514]

I am Mainlander, this film almost makes me cry.This was what our grandparents living and suffering,everyone in mainland China wanted to flee to Hong Kong at that time, However, they lived in such a situation which was not much different from they hometown. Hong Kong and China was, is and would always be the one, we are brothers!This would never changed.

[@ptao8431]

And Macau too

[@canman5060]

There was a rumour in those days that the Shek Kip Mai fire was deliberately set to bring attention to the government on the living conditions at the wooden dwelling squatters.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Well, that rumour did not reach me at the time, nor the newspapers.

[@hksunchaser1]

thx

[@Qoow8e1deDgikQ9m3ZG]

8:30 impossible!!!

[@yuxi2424]

wow.. 50s vlog! foregarde

[@ハリーブッチ]

身近な結婚式は一大イベントだったんだな

[@sitiudkhiyah877]

Masa zaman 200

[@Tivresh]

please upload some INDIAN

[@johnsamu]

It's a pity that this movie is not made in colour (for obvious reasons ofcourse). Colour has a big impact on the way an event on a movie is experienced. A good example are the various WW2 era black and white pictures and movies that are manually/digitally coloured by several people. If it's in colour it feels near and new, in black and white it feels distant and old. But your collection is a valuable documentation of a bygone era.

[@michaelijsbrand]

I shot films in black and white for TV at the time as there was no colour TV. Also b/w stock was far more sensitive than 25 ASA Kodachrome . Indeed remarkable results have been achieved in colouring and upgrading old historical films and so natural. This is done at great cost. However, I'm editing clips from my own pocket at a loss as a hobby.

[@maggieleroy3184]

MichaelRogge And what you do is much appreciated! Thank you for all your efforts! I really enjoy your videos and the history attached to it.

[@CCP_zhongguo_sai_B]

Besides, the Portuguese should have spent and invested more efforts in Macau like what the Brits did to Hong Kong.

[@canman5060]

Too bad the British hasn't taken many 'home videos of Hong Kong' in those days !

[@michaelijsbrand]

In fact a Hong Kong Amateur Cine Club was formed around 1952 with some 50 foreign and Chinese members, arranging yearly film contests. So amateur films were taken. But I have not been able to trace any of its members. I suppose they all emigrated. We filmed together the HK Coronation festivities in 1953.

[@canman5060]

Thanks Michael.I always enjoy everything you posted.

[@lewismercy4133]

Poor boat peoples

[@prettypurple7175]

NOT ANYMORE////