This is the Philippines (1940s) AI Colorized Old Documentary | Enhanced 4K

Reel dramatizes Magellan's discovery of the islands and the Battle of Manila Bay. Shows scenes at Santo Tomas University, Filipino military cadets in training, the Supreme Court, President Manuel Quezon, children on church, Moro tribesmen on Mindanao, General Pershing and General MacArthur.
- AI Colorization (not real-world accurate)
- Upscaled from 480x360 to 2880x2160
- Minor color adjustments
Credit to:
• This is the Philippines
(original footage)
#philippines #filipino #manila #pinoy #vintage #retro #film #oldfilm #classic #artificialintelligence #color #colorization #upscale #4k #restoration #footage #cinema #blackandwhite #history #people #retrofilipino #documentary

[@malurivera4966]

I like this channel. I left the Philippines in 1972 with my family. I was 10 years old. I learned Philippine history through channels like this. My grandma and parents told me some. Now they are all gone. With the Dementia and Alzheimer’s, both parents, nothing is ever retained. Please keep on with your channel!

[@inisipisTV]

I'm sorry for your lose.

[@seanskre1717]

i like how they just skipped the ph-american war and just said "thats where we came in" like hiding an embarassing memory

[@kevinsoundmixer]

Totally! Also the narrator obviously smoked like, 2 packs a day to get that raspy dry voice! Lol.

[@nicanorbadal689]

"That's where we come in"...they came in and give the people what is called reading writing and aritmétic...for about 40 years the people learning a language that the people from aparri to jolo speaks...a common language that is a requirement of a place to become a nation...strange but it seems the americans were the only people the filipinos called "salot at imperialista"...i think it originated from the big universities which are nurseries of leftist ideas

[@seanskre1717]

​@@nicanorbadal689 There were already reforms in education in the Spanish period and learned men and women were already prevalent before The Americans came in. In a sense, it is true that the US was and somewhat still is "salot at imperialista"

[@Basta11]

@@nicanorbadal689how could savage ignorant illiterate Filipinos fight for 5+ years against 2 empires? That is because Filipinos were not not ignorant, they were civilized. Filipinos were educated and literate up to 20% of the population before the Americans came. One of the higher ones in Asia at that time and in a European technical language. Japan was about 40% at this time for comparison. Spain was 60%. How do we know that Filipinos would not have been able to educate themselves had they been allowed autonomy? Jose Rizal proved in Dapitan what one excellent educator can do without outside resources.

[@nicanorbadal689]

@@seanskre1717 what spanish education reform you're talking about

[@jc44660]

My beloved countrymen and sovereign country the Philippines 🇵🇭 GODBLESS us all ❤️

[@jean-guynewbrunswick7483]

It's too easy to just write cute things on the internet. Stop talking and prove it.

[@ServandoIV]

Imagine, the Filipinos got an unprecedented head-start and exposure to technology, science, innovation, education due to the Americans. The advancements we see today all over the world were because of American ingenuity. But Filipino leaders took it for granted. The Philippines could have excelled and led in filmmaking, auto industry, power generation, steel, construction, music, electronics, science, urban planning, law and order, military, YOU NAME IT. In other words, we could have been the leader in Asia if not as one of the superpower today. WHAT DA PHUCK HAPPENED? Filipinos in America excel. We are one of the top earners amongst all the Asians in America which proves we have what it takes to prosper.

[@justinnamuco9096]

The Amish also do that kind of house-moving.

[@karlos_infamous]

Many Filipinos nowadays don't realize how much influence the Americans have on us: English language, schools, cuisine (Spaghetti, Hamburgers, Fried Chicken, Hotdogs, Corned Beef, Meatloaf), medicine, technology, industries, formal attires, etc.

[@torre333]

You left the most Filipinos love. Basketball and Pool

[@ajam11218]

Tangina nila hinajacked nga nila yung Spanish Filipino history natin

[@DaxXadify]

1941 - 2023 17mn to 111mn - phl 130mn to 310mn - usa

[@bumbayker]

Of course they omitted the Philippine-American War when America slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Filipinos.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

Had they not come along, do you really think the imperial powers would just respect philippine sovereignty, let the filipinos live in peace, and filipinos lived happily ever after?

[@ServandoIV]

And of course today Filipino leaders themselves resort to corruption which results in hardships and starvation and dictatorship resulting to millions of Filipinos in the Philippines living below the poverty level.

[@oilairnalo]

200k killed, thousands of towns and cities burned.

[@animetagalogdubTv123]

Salamu alaycom im from Mindanao as a Moro muslim you say have a respect for a Moro I'm say too respect you people for America

[@darthbiker2311]

I was surprised too, but then again it makes sense. The Bangsamoro were America's most determined opponents in the Philippines. You earned their respect.

[@cosmicegg1283]

@@darthbiker2311 the fiercest were the maranaos. I'm maguindanaon and my great grandparents would often emphasize this.

[@mynamenameless6265]

​@@cosmicegg1283are you sure? Maranao fiercest? Tangina. Hiyang hiya naman ang mga Tausug sayo na nakipag face to face sa Kano

[@mynamenameless6265]

​@@cosmicegg1283thats the biggest lie ever

[@cosmicegg1283]

@@mynamenameless6265 you say it's a lie but dont actually tell why.

[@tiyopaenguin]

Dunno about the Germans and Japanese back then, but the Japanese and Germans i know today are some of the kindest and friendliest people on the planet.

[@Al-iu1nz]

Sus grabe iba talaga pilipino noon sa ngayon baliktad na ang evolution ng pilipino ngayon... Hahay philippines

[@chrysllerryu4171]

the time where filipinos are disciplined, have sense of cleanliness and patriotism

[@crimsonguy1613]

Lmao back then we have Americans killing us and a president who rather kissass Americans rather than serve us

[@mgyrn]

Indeed.

[@steppilariosa6449]

Not just Philippines, its all over the world😢

[@karlos_infamous]

nope. Poverty has been present during that time. 3 of my grandparents did not even reach college level because of poverty in provinces and they had to work blue collar jobs in Manila like driver and maid in order to survive. Many Filipinos from poor regions in Cebu and Ilocos left for Hawaii to work as indentured laborers "sakada". Also there are many 1950's Filipino films that depict poverty like Anak Dalita (1956), Squatters (1953) and Waray Waray (1954).

[@jerryberry5480]

@@karlos_infamous Poverty was far worse back then worldwide

[@accident1583]

Gusto ko marinig kung paano mag salita ang mga Filipino noon back in early 1940's lalo yung tagalog kung malalim ba ang pagkaka bigkas o hindi ?

[@Al-iu1nz]

Makata sila manalita pag tagalog na may halong kastila walang halong sassy ingles

[@alukardbudots5223]

Nasa 17m p lng ang population ng Pinas hindi p crowded ang ilang mga lugar sa pinas ky hindi p natin problema ang pagkain nun bk sobra2 p ang rice production nun malusog p ang kalakalan nun, malawak p ang kagubatan mapuno kahit saang lugar ky sariwa ang hangin

[@jerryberry5480]

Nagsimula lang lumobo ang population after WWII

[@johnreton696]

​@@jerryberry5480even before pa ww2 dami mag anak mga matatanda dati at napaka religious pa.

[@vicfortela]

sabi nang father ko my mga buaya at flamingo birds pa noon sa pasig river..ang barangka ang daming downwardd streams to pasig river at maraming guppies swimming upstream

[@user-ff8fp8zp6z]

❤❤❤❤❤❤The PHILIPPINES

[@user-zn2lu9et4k]

Theres one church pic that cannot be found in the Phl but in LA CAlifornia - the Mission San Gabriel

[@KifPH]

Americans Including the Moros in their documentary. while Philippines don't include Moro history on the national educational curriculum

[@jyy9624]

The PI's would have been stolen from Spain regardless of the best efforts of Filipino patriots for independence - dont forget imperial powers only let go of their possessions after WW2, and only when they had no other choice due to a combination of worldwide disapproval and impoverished finances. Only one peer power has always respected self determination for everyone

[@ChrisYap12]

True. According to one historian Carmen Guerrero Nakpil -- if we were not colonized by Spain and USA, mamili ka na lang sa UK, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Japan, etc. etc.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

@@ChrisYap12 Nationalists and leftists don't see it that way, they only see the US as the only enemy.

[@TheMilpitasguy]

@@ChrisYap12 Well, Japan was not colonized & neither was Thailand. The biggest factor was societal unity. The Japanese had already undergone their wars of unification before Westerners showed up & Thailand was under unified rule of a king. But just think, what if PH was allowed to undergo its own wars of unification with every sultan fighting for supremacy until 1 ruled supreme? Magellan would have been turned away - firmly. Just a dream & even as I think about it, Pinoys back then were believers in peaceful coexistence, not armed warfare with neighboring sultanates or tribes.

[@ChrisYap12]

@@TheMilpitasguy 1. Thailand was NOT colonized because the colonizers chose and agreed not to. WHY? THAILAND served as a “buffer” between the British and the French - to prevent any confrontation, the thing they were sick of doing for centuries in Europe. (Prolly same logic to what Spain and Portugal did when they technically divided the new world into two spheres in the Treaty of Tordesillas). 2. One of the terms/conditions of the alliance between the USA/Roosevelt Gov’t w/ Britain’s Churchill during WW2 was DECOLONIZATION - which they upheld through the United Nations - advocating for the right to self-determination, human rights, etc., etc. That is why many countries immediately gained “independence” after WW2. USA did not want a protracted war in the Japanese Mainland (hence the dropping of the 2 suns). WHEN -- two suns were dropped in Japan, the latter was under USA for reconstruction and occupation for 7 years - and under close military supervision aka under the US’ Military Umbrella, even until now. The history is respectful enough to not call it a colonization (for the reasons stated above - and also because Japan prolly “earned” respect when it showed that it can stand up against the USA/West. Japan’s intelligence, unity, hard work, discipline… and friendship w/ the USA - who shared its R&D, innovations, machinery, and technology TO combat communism - Japan turned out to be an economic powerhouse. An economic miracle. 3. What IF the Philippines was “allowed” to undergo its wars of unification … WELL, that’s exactly conflicting w/ the concept of Colonization isn’t it? There is no recognition, “allowance”, nor freedom when a powerful country takes over the weaker one. AND, conquest is conquest regardless of skin color or culture. NOTE: Kapag kakulay mo iyung mananakop s aiyo - it’s called “conflict/war of unification”… kapag ibang kulay, it’s called colonization. Mediyo amusing ‘no? Mediyo racist? 4. There were no “Filipinos” back then - specifically because it was Spain who united the small kingdoms/chiefdoms in a complicated archipelago and called it the Philippines, after King Philip of Spain. AND, no - “Filipinos” were not in peaceful co-existence. Do you have any idea why the Aeta-s are located in the Mountains? OR why some group such as the Lumad, chose to live in the elevated areas? Who drove them away before the white people came? Have you heard of the head hunters of Ifugao? Who were they fighting? Even Rajah Humabon and Lapu-Lapu were enemies. IN FACT, it was Humabon who goaded the Spaniards to attack Lapu-Lapu. P.S. You know what’s sad? Our records of Philippine history are mainly from the Spanish and Chinese records, and some from the Jesuit Missionaries e.g. records of Sultan Kudarat.

[@jyy9624]

@@TheMilpitasguy oy Lapu Lapu and his kin were beefing with Magellan's new friends - thats how he died

[@mordoendergon1588]

7:42 Why is Burmese Hsaing Waing being played over the Kulintang?

[@Qwerty01012]

17M? Wow what a gold old days. No pollution. No corruption. No squatters.

[@bumbayker]

No corruption? Think again. There has always been corruption in government even with the traitor Aguinaldo.

[@emilio1969]

No pollution? Dream on. The sewage and domestic wastes went straight to the rivers and tributaries to the Manila Bay! There was NO waste water treatment facilities back then and even now in most part of Greater Manila area. No corruption? Again, dream on. It is during this time in Philippine history that 2 party political system existed. If you want to run for the coming election you have to bribe the party bosses or you can not run for the said election. Money talks back then and so does it today. No squatters? Dream some more. Land ownership this time was not that strictly enforced for reasons of impracticality and lack of enforcement on the part of the authorities for they had more pressing problems back then. For them back then, the mentality was you can not steal land because it is there but you can borrow it for the time being.

[@Candaba]

ang ganda nung panahon ni Macoy! Golden age of the Philippines! /s Mabuhay, Ube!!

[@emilio1969]

1940's is the time in our history when the Marcoses were still colaborating with the occupying Japanese and were war profiteers. That is the reason why BBM's grandfather( Marcos Sr. father) was killed by the guerillas by tying him to two carabaos and were made to walk in two separate directions causing him to be torn apart. Painful way to die.

[@Pichipieify]

what? dude marcos family are japanese sympathizers during the japanese occupation. Also marcos became the president in 1965. more than 2 decades after ww2. This is early 1940s. 🤦‍♂

[@sherwinbalanquit4696]

Pati narrator lumang estelo ang pagsasalita ng Ingles, 😂

[@TheMilpitasguy]

he sounds a lot like The Untouchables / Elliot Ness..

[@adiksadiatabs]

7:40 a filipino queen wearing white

[@justinnamuco9096]

An American insult on American intelligence.

[@oilairnalo]

Corruption... what else?

[@lft3636]

Who narrated this film, John Wayne??? 🤣

[@monschronicles9569]

Clint Eastwood

[@suerte03211978]

If only time traveling were possible; I'd go back and live in the old days. This generation is stupid.

[@dologongpoloponobonotongpo235]

Bat nasa thumbnail si mushi?😂

[@darkangel67]

7:18 nag inject pa ng racist comment bigla tapos binawi hahaha...

[@nattmccoo2115]

A more elegant Philippines..

[@singleton_1_0]

you are welcome. otherwise you would be speaking japanese. an the Moros "A lot of them earn their living out of the sea", yeah, as pirates

[@fil_britbunnyboi872]

Why are Yanks so afraid of other languages? You guys not clever enough to learn any other language besides English? "Otherwise you all will be speaking German" "or else you all will be speaking Japanese" Pathetic

[@TheReturnofJose]

i seem to notice the anti japanese bias this video has

[@bolero85]

It if wasn’t for world war 2 we wouldn’t have received our independence though -.- 😅 it’s probably the reason why we really never hated the Japanese because half of us collaborated with them.. we don’t hate you Americans either lol there is a lot of us dual citizens .. hey I’m Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇸

[@Mrgambit74]

The Philippines was not a Christian country @5:55 prior to Spanish invasion. Islam arrived in the Philippines in the late 14th century.

[@MrRayrenz]

Not only islam but there are a lot of pagan religions as well.

[@Mrgambit74]

@@MrRayrenz True.

[@ServandoIV]

yea right, and your point is? how far do u wanna go back? when dinosaurs roamed the Philippines we were worshipping fire before islam…

[@biggie4256]

haha thats where you came in huh...

[@semiposer6111]

They dont look peaceful to me.

[@wheeliewheelie1]

Monkeyd have no tails. OmG.

[@bullshihtology8088]

And the pedo have no horns.

[@epicentertainment3150]

😂

[@joshpowerTv]

Philippines life before WWII

[@someMPGstuff]

And after WWII