Shanghai 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and worked a sound design of this video of the old Shanghai 1940s . You can see a lot of rickshaws, but not a lot of motorized vehicles, you can also see tramways and big buildings and people living their daily life,
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)
✔sound design added 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 from: Internet Archive
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet1013r2c
Rights to the black and white 35mm Video Source are held by Internet Archive. under the Creative Commons Attribution License

[@jean-philipperameau4220]

I feel 99% sure it's Shanghai; is 1:50 'The Bund'?

[@BrainFartTheFirst]

That is exactly what it is.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏 I also thought it was Shanghai after a research 🙏

[@y50554256]

I am from Hong Kong, and lived in Taiwan for years, it's not Hong Kong nor Taiwan. So, I bet it's Shanghai likewise.

[@qingweichen9271]

It is Shanghai.😁 As a native shanghainese, I confirmed. Thank you for sharing this previous video 🤗

[@NASS_0]

@@qingweichen9271 Thx Dear

[@user-nb3ml7vi2z]

As a Chinese, I can conclude that this video was taken before 1937. My evidence is that at about 1 :50, an iconic building appeared on the left side of the road - the Peace Hotel with a dark green pyramid-shaped copper roof. In 1937, on the north side of the Peace Hotel (that is, in the opposite direction from the cameraman's car), a famous building as tall as the Peace Hotel was completed, the Bank of China Building. However, in the video, you can't see the Bank of China building at all, so I can tell that the video was taken before 1937.

[@bardo0007]

Why did they not have horses in China? They used people instead.

[@user-nb3ml7vi2z]

@@bardo0007 Raising horses requires vast land resources, although China have a vast land area of ​​9.6 million square kilometers, only 10 percent can be used for living, farming and animal husbandry. The remaining 90 percent are mountains, rivers and lakes. The Chinese must use their limited land more efficiently, so we tend to raise cattle, pigs and sheep, which resulted in a lack of horses in China since ancient times. Lacking horses, China has been under constant attack from the north since more than 2,000 years ago by nomads who blitzkrieg with cavalry. China built the Great Wall to keep out the cavalry from the north. Horses were also the main goods that the ancient northern nomads exported to China during peacetime. They exported horses to agricultural civilizations in exchange for salt, iron, and cloth, which the nomads lacked.

[@bardo0007]

@@user-nb3ml7vi2z Thanks for the history lesson.

[@mwj5368]

It's people like you who make such a very valuable insight. Who else in the world could share the same observation and detailed information? Thank you very much!

[@santahao4556]

Therefore, the shooting time of this film is roughly between 1929 and 1936.

[@Marsheh2]

Pulling those carts with people on it must be insane cardio, especially doing it while running

[@jec1ny]

I believe this is pre-1940s based on two observations. First the most modern cars I saw pre-date the 40's. Secondly there is no sign of war. Shanghai was seized by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937 at the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The city was heavily damaged by the fighting and remained under Japanese occupation until their surrender in 1945.

[@chmeee9562]

Agreed, pre-1938

[@user-bp7lr5zx4d]

Машина времени существует

[@tboyce47]

We agree ... the newest cars we spotted were 1936 models.

[@rikspring]

1940 or 1930 who cares, it's a beautiful and extremely well edited vid.

[@raulduke6105]

Correct

[@whitedovetail]

This is truly an amazing video. With the remastered speed of 60 fps, just looking at people walking, pulling and pushing carts is amazing. Thanks for sharing this video!

[@DiscoverHudsonValley]

This is absolutely incredible! Superb job as always on the restoration NASS. Thanks!

[@michaela.chmieloski3196]

1:14 Two guys crossing the street are so intent on the camera they nearly walked into a rickshaw wreck.

[@fyodorseriencha6538]

ikr I was imagining how noisy it must be with all those hard wheels screeching by and now you can also imagine one running over your foot. No excuse for the ninja at 0:42 though

[@guilhermebadaro4763]

NASS you inspired me to learn how to restore videos and now I am restoring old videos of my family. Thank you very much.

[@clarenceparker7832]

Incredible, so clear and perfect motion and the sounds added Chef's Kiss!! If I didn't know any better it looks like it could have been taken this day!👍👍👍👍👍🖖🖖

[@geraldskinner63]

The ricksaw "drivers" must have had some serious feet! Thanks for the content..absolutley amazing!

[@rob-robi]

And it looks like they're barefoot. Amazing for sure

[@santahao4556]

一、外滩20号沙逊大楼（和平饭店）于1929年9月5日落成新楼。 二、赫德铜像1914年竖立于九江路外滩，1927年迁至汉口路外滩（位于海关对面海关验货所正前方），1941年，该铜像为日军拆除融化。 三、外滩23号中国银行大楼（影片中中国银行大楼前身上海德国总会已消失，1936年拆除），并在1936年10月10日由宋子文主持奠基典礼，1937年大楼结构大致完成。 四、因此该段影片的拍摄时间大致在1936年之间。 1、 The new building of the Sassoon Building (Peace Hotel), No. 20 on the Bund, was completed on September 5, 1929. 2、 The statue of Hurd was erected on the Bund of Jiujiang Road in 1914, and moved to the Bund of Hankou Road in 1927 (directly in front of the customs inspection office opposite the customs). In 1941, the statue was dismantled and melted by the Japanese army. 3、 The Bank of China Building at No. 23 on the Bund (the predecessor of the Bank of China Building in the film, the German Federation of Shanghai, has disappeared and was demolished in 1936). Song Ziwen presided over the foundation laying ceremony on October 10, 1936. In 1937, the building structure was roughly completed. 4、 Therefore, the shooting time of this film is roughly between 1936.

[@bluelouboyle6701]

Simply amazing! A time capsule really

[@Mr.Glenn.]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video nass, amazing work and incredible footage, thanks 👍👌😀

[@fromthethrone]

Woooou, amazing, how developed it was already that time

[@oldcitybricks9153]

I understand dating old clips can be hard. So, the 1st real battle of World war II was Japan invading Shanghai August 13 1937. This excellent video pre dates that. Excellent work We need more of it!

[@CantastorieStonato]

Thanks! These videos are very fascinating

[@mmiraall]

Fantastic work!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏

[@antoniob.italia79]

wow,the quality of the video! it seems a video recorded just yesterday! Great work!

[@robertdelisi9473]

The Bicycle Bell made me chuckle.

[@pbr549]

As always another great video. Thank!

[@pmafterdark]

incredible clarity to this one. Great job!

[@HalMahhs]

Incredible master peice! Amazing work! 👍

[@bobliu3421]

My grandpa was born in Shanghai in 1937, he was under 10 years old by then. He passed away last year. I missed him.

[@antonpopov6709]

Sorry for your loss!

[@ajschannel162]

Did he ever tell you stories about his family when he was still a newborn baby during the war of resistance?

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

I like that you used those creaky car sounds in this video thanks a lot Nass

[@koigggyear9095]

As a Shanghai resident, I regret that many of the buildings in this video have now been demolished

[@user-gq8rw6hf9v]

1:52, im seeing an european city, thats crazy, more in 1937

[@akapasokopo]

@@user-gq8rw6hf9vthe Shanghai bund

[@RUD-LION-KMarc-Tribute]

Incroyable je ne me lace pas des superbes images qui défile stupéfiant 👍 Merci mon ami pour ton magnifique partage et je pèse mes mots 👍👍 Champion

[@NASS_0]

Un grand merci !

[@mwj5368]

Amazing impeccably restored film! It's like a time capsule! That poor man pulling the ricksaw cart before the end was running barefoot! He probably received such little pay he couldn't even afford shoes! Probably a big division between rich and poor then, of haves and have-nots.

[@noren3117]

Superbe images... Merci pour le partage 👍🙏

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏

[@RobinMarconeCassidyRN]

What a brilliant video!

[@jaceymartin4739]

You never fail at finding exciting videos! I lived in Shanghai (Fr French concession) but I am not sure exactly the location. I guessing one the feeder road to the BUND

[@sonnycorleone3251]

Nass, Hi thanks great one for uploading stuff like this. In the past I did ask kindly for shanghai in 1898-1940's and you delivered again! THANK YOU! But is this before or after WW2?. Was China still occupied by Japan when they invaded Manchuria, China in 1937.

[@jamesdouglas5450]

Another great video from Nass very interesting colour very good and speed love it .

[@josephwarren3498]

Favorite book from near that period, Rickshaw Boy (and other titles) by Lao She. I wish this were about an hour longer. Thank you. Very much enjoyed.

[@geraldskinner63]

Interesting..Just googled that book. I will have to give it a read. Thanks!

[@garydean777]

I'm hooked on your videos. We do see life depicted in times past in movies but a movie set is very different from the real thing. This really does put us in the picture & we can sense just how no different we are from folks back then. Life goes on. All that changes is technology & of course the changes tech brings. Those rickshaw drivers but have been well fit. Now we do that on a treadmill & pay for it instead of getting paid lol.

[@anteuzel5324]

GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS YOU ARE THE BEST

[@NASS_0]

Thank you so much dear

[@MrMarkgeller]

Amazing! Is this one using the soap opera effect? Great job.

[@VladmirPoopN]

The guys @1:12 - lololol, distracted by the camera, nearly walked into another rickshaw

[@raymondloke]

Beautiful !

[@cccha]

😢❤thank you for showing the time that both of my grandparents lived in

[@po1ariser]

1:15 really interesting how you can see the rickshaw driver made a wrong turn, and the rider telling him to go the other way; such a cool peek into the past

[@nillehessy]

the first part is an amazing shot

[@Ghosteriz]

It was shot from shanghai downtown 1:50 Zhongshan Road river side

[@MrTom1701]

That’s what I was thinking. Kind of explains all those parked cars.

[@ddr8993]

So this was San Mao's setting. Fascinating

[@Historia-ViaggioinCina]

Molto bello! Spero che farai altre città cinesi come Guangzhou/Canton, Xi'an ecc... appena avrai la possibilità!

[@danfreisting2874]

Great to see!

[@arturm.9237]

I think the video's speed is faster than it should be.

[@dmiserv2093]

So Chinese people have been hard workers since then . No wonder why we all made in China I appreciate them.👏🏻

[@marleenscholz4386]

I Love your Videos ♥ Bravo Bravo Bravo = Thanks

[@NASS_0]

Thank you so much♥

[@Porsche996driver]

Awesome, but the time seems a bit earlier as no Japanese markings or visible war damage. I’ve spent some time along The Bund it looks mostly the same on that side of the river. Puxi (old west side) and the east side all high tech in Pudong (dong east side). Chinese still work so hard even at manual labor.

[@Anthony_LaRusso_2023]

China has never had human rights and freedom since ancient times!!!

[@superbert35]

So amazing. A time before even my father was born.

[@sanjeevpereira8141]

Great vedio

[@ThatsSoRavin]

The footage must be before 1946 when China switched from driving on the left to driving on the right.

[@Pain67843]

Its more like mid 30 I think, thanks for sharing

[@davezepnick1161]

That has to be Shanghai with all High end cars Buicks Packards Cadillacs etc.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏

[@tommywang8752]

As a Shanghainese this video truly inspired me❤

[@thehiltongirl]

Wow, thats amazing.

[@asan1050]

Thanks Much ! NASS

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much bro 🙏

[@rob-robi]

Incredible

[@anteuzel5324]

OLD SHANGHAI AND SUPER KING NASS

[@MyGoProLife]

nice!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much 🙏

[@zethusop]

The next video can be Buenos Aires?

[@chiafengyang2]

2:04 Bronze statue of Hart

[@janejames9173]

Amazing video.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@AbelardoLafuente]

Seems to be Nanjing east road and the bund before 1940 but right after I passed away some years before... nice to see

[@d.808lf5]

The Bund begins at 1:25, the buildings look the same. Love the high-end cars of the era - this was the Wall Street of Shanghai before the second world war and Mao.

[@pellefigue]

NO ADS on your vids ???? why ?? it's a choice or you don't get monetized ???

[@timp5091]

Wow! Time capsule.

[@lukedecharmoy1654]

May i please have permission to use your vids in music playlists? These vids will make amazing electro swing vids. Older the better frankly. Just wait and see sunny boy. 😏

[@ibrahimarslan3024]

very interesting

[@makgao2698]

做的不错！

[@ColorfulOld]

What happened to your monetization :(

[@Kabutoes]

this feels like im actually there

[@loudspeakers3469]

Great, hope you can do more work on Asian cities!

[@shaofanzhang9726]

2:03 the Statue of Sir Robert Hart (赫德銅像) on the left side ！

[@hartdr8074]

I cant believe The Bund still looks more or less the same then as it is now. I also cant believe that this was 1940s... by how Shanghai looks like now, this could have looked like it was from 1900s and I'd believe it.

[@Dan-kr9bm]

Nice

[@Eblak]

"What type of oil are you running in your rickshaw?"

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Wow

[@vivianvaldi7871]

Try to find some of Saigon post 1945.

[@zhenghongli7285]

the bund in shanghai is so like michigan ave. chicago. lovely cities

[@andreweichi]

They were still using Traditional Chinese instead of Simplified one😊

[@poderosothor5571]

Wow!!!!!!!!

[@user-zx8yk5bm1g]

Офигеть, какой ровный асфальт!! Ааа....

[@petestaint8312]

The ppl pulling the rickshaws is heartbreaking.

[@tonsk2k322]

인력거꾼들 대단하다! 행복과 만수무강을 누리셨으면 좋겠다.혹은 아직까지 생존하시겠고,,

[@botistick]

このレトロ感すきやな

[@Steez51]

This was before the Emperor's boys arrived.

[@Derek_Read]

Looks like there is some information about the 上海華商電車 trolley at 0:57 here: zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E5%8D%8E%E5%95%86%E7%94%B5%E8%BD%A6

[@rickace132]

It's crazy how much has changed. China just returned Moon samples from the other side of the Moon, and is getting ready to send astronauts there.

[@elLocodelsubte]

Shangai era el Nueva York de China man, que flashero.

[@jamesparsons9068]

There's clearly lots of public transport, bicycles and private vehicles so it's strange the rickshaw still appears to be thriving?

[@Dragon-hc7ev]

like this video, from China👍👍👍

[@VincentGeraldoYT]

Nicee. Here's a list of Chinese tofu: POO and PONG

[@timhill9189]

Driving on the left.

[@raymonddon8875]

wow... some parts can pass for 1937 new york, los angeles or london.

[@kennysherrill6542]

Is this pre-war? Japanese bombed the city pretty badly. They, the Japanese, were in need of steel and I would think they would have scraped those cars. They were having a bad time with shipping though because of American Submarines sinking them. Great video. 👍♥️🇺🇸

[@juanitacrenshaw127]

It's like Indiana Jones and the temple of doom (1984)

[@fyodorseriencha6538]

2:15 riding a wheelbarow cause why not

[@mermaid268]

Pre-war Shanghai wasn't China. It was a colony of imperial powers like Britain, France, the US and Japan. That's why it was relatively developed compared to other cities in China. The developed area was called "the Bund".