Thank you for the great video. This video has given me new information I didn't know. Anywhere else in Japan is fine. Please show it to me again. Thank you.
I have no words for this....just ASTOUNDING. I lived in Japan for many years, and my wife is from Nagasaki. This is surreal to us. A profound THANK YOU.
@philbateson79662 ай бұрын
Your best quality restoration so far. Looks like it was shot this afternoon!!! Superb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@bardo00072 ай бұрын
This is the best quality video I have ever seen from the 1940's. Looks like it was shot in the 80's , amazing!
@NASS_02 ай бұрын
oh! Thanks !!
@iroll2 ай бұрын
Not to detract from the work that was done, but the reason it looks like that is because the original black & white footage has been heavily processed by AI. This is not the 1940s quality.
@bardo00072 ай бұрын
@@iroll That is the point, thanks to AI , it's a part of the restoration process. So old film clips can look like new again. The cars, the people come closer to you, like you can almost touch them on the screen.
@iroll2 ай бұрын
@@bardo0007 I agree with you on the ultimate experience of this film, but it's not a restoration and it's not exemplary of footage from the 1940s as shot then. AI cannot pull more information from the film than was already there, it fills in gaps with new information. It really should be called enhancement or impression. It's like those AI photo 'restoration' programs - if you've ever played with them, sometimes they are miraculous but many times they create faces for your folks that are clearly wrong from memory or other better pictures. If you didn't know the people, you wouldn't know the difference, but if you do then you know it's not really restoration. It's not a question of good or bad, just awareness that AI is the equivalent of "artist's impression."
@terri68542 ай бұрын
@@JeanPierreRheinault The original? The link you gave is of Germany.
@beardedlonewolf76952 ай бұрын
This video is insanely good and accurate, it usually is still too fast or too slow, even the quality is amazing, it's definitely the best i've seen from the 40's so far, great work!
This is so awesome!! ....beautiful Restoration, & looks like I can just jump in there... Hard to believe that this over 75 years ago... Thanks for posting this.😊
Thank you for posting this. Stunning color restoration.
@francoisec21852 ай бұрын
Thanks Nass, you are one of the best ! Françoise from the Bassin d'Arcachon !
@sueipas2 ай бұрын
This is the view from Haneda Airport to the Inaribashi bridge along the Ebitori gawa River after the war ended in 1945 Summer. The Haneda Airport building at that time was located on the site of the current Haneda Weather Observation Doppler Radar, and it was a small local airport where mainly light aircraft took off and landed.
I would suggest a year or two later than 1945; the car with the droop-snoot grille is a 1946 Oldsmobile
@worawatli8952Ай бұрын
Imagine telling those people that in next few decades, it would be bustling with jet airliners that carry hundreds of people at sub-sonic speed, they would find it hard to believe.
@goodfox92502 ай бұрын
The last clips of film showing the laundry hanging out to dry among the wooden structures was the most mesmerizing for me. Finding someone who continued on with their daily life and struggles.
@MyCharlestonLife2 ай бұрын
I was so wishing it didn't stop there. I literally started it over so I can replay it and pause at that moment. Agree with you.
@johnc24382 ай бұрын
Salute to everyone in Japan from a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer. Haneda Airport International Terminal is a thing of beauty today! So sobering to see this film footage from right after the war. I hope for the best for Japan, always, and that Japan and the U.S. will be friends forever.
@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service!
@jimeditorialАй бұрын
Having been through Haneda a few times, this film shows a sad and shabby place....so different from the shiny and modern Japan I know
@bukkaratsuppa6414Ай бұрын
You guys need to revisit your idea of friendship. So far it gets increasingly burdensome to be your friend. Cheers from Moscow.
@whyamiwastingmytimeonthisАй бұрын
@@bukkaratsuppa6414 I'm japanese and no, it's not "burdensome" despite what your Russian state TV says. In fact, I'm so so glad that the soviets didn't come here first after the war, we'd be another impoverished, authoritarian "communist" state now, instead of a free, Democratic country. Thank you Dmitri for your opinion, but no thanks.
@whyamiwastingmytimeonthisАй бұрын
@@bukkaratsuppa6414 I'm japanese and no, it's not "burdensome" despite what your Russian state TV says. In fact, I'm so so glad that the soviets didn't come here first in the 1940s - we'd be yet another miserable authoritarian "communist" state now, instead of a free and Democratic developed country. Thank you Dmitri for your opinion, but I think we'll keep our current friends, no nuclear Dobby needed.
@flyerbob1242 ай бұрын
I was stationed at Yokota Air Base from December 1968 till December 1970. Went to Haneda Airport while working part time for Seaboard Airlines. 2 of our DC-8s had diverted there due to bad fog at Yokota. At that time Haneda was the international airport for Tokyo. Wish I had taken some pictures of that day.
This is really something. Thanks for posting this video.
@NASS_0Ай бұрын
Thx!
@HobokenEscapee2 ай бұрын
Remastering technique and technology continue to amaze me. And I think it’s so important that historical record like this be cleaned up and put on display. Thanks for doing this.
Amazing clarity to this one. Looks like it could have just been filmed. Great work!
@NASS_0Ай бұрын
Thx!!!
@hidekimuller1142 ай бұрын
まるで最新の映画を観ているようで、驚きです‼️
@GRABSTOCK2 ай бұрын
i wish i could go back in time to 1940s tokyo and see the old buildings and what people wear does anyone want to go back in time for one day
@beardedlonewolf76952 ай бұрын
Yep and in so many eras, I wouldn't know where to start lol
@raulvrilvalenzuela9242 ай бұрын
I would do the complete opposite... if I had a time machine, I would travel forward in time in the late 2140s and see what technology is like ❤
@ajohnpeters98012 ай бұрын
We had a very brief slide by in the 80s
@worawatli8952Ай бұрын
We had jet liners in the 70s, just 3 decades after 40s. To those people, they experienced so much changes throughout decades, from our 2020s perspective, planes in the 90s and now are pretty much the same. Our major change was the internet.
@amuyugreen14522 ай бұрын
I am Japanese. This is a rare piece of footage. It was taken just after World War II, during the time of American rule
@zabber672 ай бұрын
That would explain all the English signs
@WgCdrLuddite2 ай бұрын
Don't worry. When Trump becomes President he will end American rule and you will all be free.
@sanchoodell67892 ай бұрын
Plus the American military jeeps! @@zabber67
@Helio-c4y2 ай бұрын
Creio que seja imagens do pós guerra. Estados Unidos transformaram o Japão numa imensa base militar...
@tomcarl80212 ай бұрын
DUH...
@tonylani20152 ай бұрын
Truly, incredible! It’s as if I’m there. This looks like it was shot on an iPhone present day. 😮
@the1darknight24 күн бұрын
You mean a Samsung Galaxy phone. DROID
@malfunkt2 ай бұрын
Great work on this restoration, very little artifacts and everything looks really cohesive. Thanks for bringing these moments back to life.
@miyu4589Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this great video.
@VintageFordChannel2 ай бұрын
I have a 1947 Ford deluxe four door sedan in my garage. It was neat to see a few of those in your video. I had no idea they drove them there.
@arthurmorgan29062 ай бұрын
Japan had almost no car industry back then. Most of the cars there were foreign, that started to change since 1950s.
This is so amazing, the quality, clarity, and high res, I’m unsure if I’m watching and AI clip or not😅!
@gtkazu34582 ай бұрын
なんと素晴らしい! 最後の橋のあたりは弁天橋~弁天通りですね
@CosmicTaco3332 ай бұрын
Good footage. Tokyo then was rebuilding, but it will have been for nothing. A few years later, Godzilla will make his appearance and Tokyo residents will have to start rebuilding all over again.
@tikimaka12 ай бұрын
I know right? Those damn giant lizards. The Japanese people can’t get a break.
@CynicallyskepticАй бұрын
Then it becomes Blade Runner... Tokyo couldn't catch a break
When i see these films remastered from 1925 to say the 1950's, i know my Mom and Dad are both living and making a future. In late 1948 they would be about 20 -25 at that time. Love these films.
Tokyo, and all the road signs and advertising billboards are in English ? Brilliant quality of restoration though. Keep it up.
@PeteO-v4yАй бұрын
They still are
@CoreyFart852 ай бұрын
Thank you. Looks so nice and clean for such an oldie, well done 👍
@剣崎-e6pАй бұрын
ついさっきの様な鮮明映像・・すげっ☺
@櫟憲吾Ай бұрын
凄い…こんな完璧なフィルムがあるとは…私の知らない世界の(時代)空気まで伝わってくる…素晴らしい…
@MrEjidorie2 ай бұрын
I could not believe that this footage was taken more than 80 years ago. It seems as if this picture was taken quite recently.
@ABE-hy4vf2 ай бұрын
Amazing. Feels like time travel.
@MyCharlestonLife2 ай бұрын
I had to remind myself it wasn't a movie but real life, real people, real moment in time.
@hon64922 ай бұрын
so clear video! It looks as if today's morning.
@pentop95342 ай бұрын
海老取川沿いの風景が現在と然程違って見えないのが不思議です。前面撮影の映像で見える橋梁は 京浜電鉄穴守線の海老取川橋梁でありましょうか。 It's strange that the scenery along the Ebitori River doesn't look much different from today. The bridge seen in the front shot is probably the Ebitori River Bridge on the Keihin Electric Railway Anamori Line.
@johnc24382 ай бұрын
I believe you're correct, about the river. But I'd place the riverside locale just about where the monorail runs as it nears the modern Haneda airport. Glad Haneda is the beautiful airport that it is today! Love Japan -- salute from a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer.
@pentop95342 ай бұрын
@@johnc2438 Thank you for your reply. We would like to express our deepest respect to the efforts you have made to beautifully restore these valuable records and make them available to the public.
@honeykanakkary2 ай бұрын
Wow... that's a great video and a kudos to the fantastic work you`d done to make this to this quality.. I spent nearly two weeks in Tokyo and Osaka few months ago and visited few other places of historically significant.. and really amazed to see their developments following the bomb droppings and war. Wondering if you are able to give a link to the original black and white footage...just to see the change you`ve done. Thanks again..!!!
@jhonnytrujillo92712 ай бұрын
Haneda Airport looks really better then than now. It used to be a quiet place.
@JT-gl5ou22 күн бұрын
What affects me the most isn't just that most of the people here are gone, but the camera man as well. We got to see through his eyes for a moment.
Looks like at least 1948 going by the Buicks and Oldsmobiles. Thank you much
@arthurart12 ай бұрын
The car following the camera car looked like a 47 or 48 Oldsmobile
@johnc24382 ай бұрын
My guess would be no later than 1946 (maybe even as early as fall 1945), based on seeing a few Japanese men in army uniforms and a woman whose skirt length is "end-of-war" length (just below the knee). Would not most Japanese men have switched to civilian dress by 1948? There weren't many changes made to U.S. civilian autos until the late, late 1940's. I could be very wrong, of course, but late 1945 or sometime in 1946 is my guess.
@janbonsema58882 ай бұрын
the blue Olds is a 1947 66. the young man did exactly the same as I used to do when I saw a parked olds of that vintage which s peering inside to check if it had the Hydramatic fitted.Most if not all , did. The splendid grey/light brown Buick rounding a corner, is a 1947 Super model. I had a black identical car once.
@viscount757Ай бұрын
@@johnc2438 I would guess it's not before 1948/49. There's a 1947 Oldsmobile in the footage so definitely not before then.
@WAL_DC-6B2 ай бұрын
Boeing B-17s "flying fortress" bombers on the right at :33. My guess is that they were SB-17s which were search and rescue versions that could drop a detachable boat from their undersides for survivors of an aircraft ditching or a ship sinking. Many were stationed in Japan after WWII especially during the Korean War.
@pmafterdark2 ай бұрын
I was able to see one of those in person. It was quite impressive.
@sunsetblvd8132 ай бұрын
すべての日本人に見てもらいたい。感動しました。ありがとう。
@haluhalu11112 ай бұрын
やっと海老取川?を渡って、これから日本っぽい景色が見れるかなと思ったら動画が終わってしまった…。
@fratzogmopars2 ай бұрын
Great work. You can get a better feel of the times and conditions by improving the definition and adding a little color.
@skeemarty2 ай бұрын
It's crazy how much we built in the last 80 years..
@hanaagustinafauziyah25082 ай бұрын
I enjoy to watch your restoration videos and this one is fascinating! It's so smooth like using modern camera. Maybe this is a POV when you suddenly go back to the past.
That Quonset Hut looks kinda shabby for being just a few years old. Interesting to see lots of the original Japanese structures intact. Wish the cameraman expanded beyond the loop he kept on but quite interesting, nonetheless. Thanks for posting.
@TopHotDog2 ай бұрын
Quonset huts were temporary buildings used by the government through the 1950s and were expendable, sometimes neglected or abused. During the Korean war they were used extensively throughout the US and were abandoned or scrapped after a single use .
@luluminalu2 ай бұрын
What an amazing video, we tend to think the world in 1940s is colored by just black, white and glay. But this video makes us remember the people in that time see the same colorful world as now we see.