A Glimpse of Hong Kong, March 1967

[@patalexander1965]

I was a soldier on R&R from Vietnam war. I stayed a few days in Hong Kong. Loved the people and sights that I visited! Think often about Hong Kong and always wanted to go back for a visit! The years have gone by and might not get to make it now. Sure hope Hong Kong and her people the best. Much trouble with protesters now days.

[@patalexander1965]

Much Love for Hong Kong! Much Love and Trust for Hong Kong people! God Bless her citizens! Thanks for your informative Reply, Wishing you well. (:

[@henrymessage1471]

Pat Alexander ： Hi Pat，hope u well in States，believe u r senior right now，HK is extra ordinary place in world，people r nice with western mind but in oriental humble。But nowaday she is sick in worst time，we hv stupid nazi chief executive plus nazi police to hurt + kill + rape our youth students in HK，back up by left wings + major china politicals ，same as north Vietnan in 1967。U r most welcome back to HK，to refresh ur memories，it worth to do after 50 years！It still nice place in world keep in mind！👍❤️

[@lighttraveller3468]

@S W ToDi Looks like your imagination comes from ingesting lots of gutter oil. The evil deeds of Red China the whole world witnessed with their own eyes, such as scaming the whole world through the lies it told to gain entrance into the WTO. Red China's refusing to honor the Joint Declaration it signed in front of the world with the British, registered in the UN is another. These are facts. No one respects 'success' acquired through lying, cheating and robbing. The Cultural Revolution completely wiped out Chinese culture from the piece of land called PRC; the souless behaviors of 99% red chinese mainlanders are witnessed globally. Your parrot like regurgitation from CCP's propaganda handbook is blown years ago during the era of the Cultural Revolution. Brainwashed commies zombies like you are a disgrace to the entire global Chinese race, so is your Communist Red China which is a fake. You commies even write one of the two Chinese characters for China wrong! Once again, the war between Good and Evil comes to the forefront of mankind, after two major ones. The third one is inevitable.

[@patalexander1965]

Henry Message Thank you for the reply. Yes, I do know what you have said, but you have much more understanding of what is going on. Love Hong Kong and the people. For sure hope to go back for a visit. Senior, my seventies are moving fast!

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

NOT PROTESTERS BUT BOMB THROWING TERRORISTS, OK?!!!!

[@jeep44]

I might as well have been the cameraman-I walked those streets,smelled those smells,heard those sounds,saw all those places. What a well-done film from so long ago!

[@michaelijsbrand]

Nice film showing specifically all aspects of life in the colony in a relaxed way!

[@TomVoute]

Fantastisch filmpje

[@maestrovso]

Mr. Rogge. You are the true pioneer of early expats. I am very impressed with your sensibility to Asian customs and cultures.

[@吴轩-l9z]

Thank you but it's not a colony. It is our home.

[@rascalhusky8129]

@@吴轩-l9z it was then and I'm sure they wish today they still were. Since the return to China Hong Kong has gone down hill .

[@吴轩-l9z]

Rascal Husky If you had ever come to HK you would learn.

[@124Outdoor]

Thank you for posting. This is a fantastic little film which captures a time gone by. I spent my late teens in Hong Kong, 1982, 83, 84 and loved it there. I went back earlier this year, at 50 now... Only the street names remain the same, the odd skyscraper too and the trams. I've never known such an exciting city turn into such a soulless city. The younger people there seem to have been sold the illusion material wealth will bring them happiness - doomed to succeed... So happy to have seen it wen I did...

[@michaeltsu4809]

+Antony Elkins Hey Antony, I agree, my observation from my last visit home 7 years ago was that the population is as you say " soulless", sad that they are so subdued by big brother... not the dynamic people I was brought up with before I came to the UK back in 1971.

[@124Outdoor]

+Michael Tsu It's happening all over Asia these days. Fortunately I've found a small corner in Thailand where happiness is about enjoying what we have, not what we want. Check out a my facebook page 'Temple Time' I did a film of a recent visit to HK. There's some Thai stuff too..

[@FingersKungfu]

Thailand (Bangkok) that I grew up in the 90s was like that too.

[@hkchrism]

Can you describe these "dynamic people" more? I was born in HK in 84 and, while I realise the "golden years" had since past (though the living standards for most Chinese were lower in those years), I've always taken for granted that HK existed to enrich the tycoons

[@koko20467]

Oscar. You sound LEFTIST. Don't call us materialists. We suffer from slowdown. We know we have enjoyed more than many others and we are grateful. Being smart and determined to succeed is not a kind of bad taste as you want to portrayed us.

[@artamerican]

The first five minutes of the footage was just wonderful and precious to have seen some 46 years old Hong Kong's central district where i am familiar and living with most of my life, it is amazing and very thankful for bringing these images to life !

[@kazlavigne6945]

好珍貴！感謝分享！😄👍🏻

[@larryng1940]

It reminds me of the time I left Hong Kong and never returned.

[@Bouncybon]

I arrived from London in 1972 - a few years after this film was shot. It is exactly as I remember Hong Kong and the many happy years i spent working there. A moment in time!

[@michaelrogge9848]

Delightful view of life at the time. Well filmed!

[@ozadarter]

I was on R&R there in March of 67, for a combat solder from Nam it was great to get away for six days. I often think of Maria Chan from the bloom Bar in Kowloon, she made me forget about the nightmare that I had to go back to. 1st Inf Div 1/2 66-67.

[@steigerpower]

Jon dater,Thanks to share your experiences as today youth in general don't seem to realize what had taken place before they were born.A much simpler life style without cell phones n social media zombies walking aimlessly.

[@sidharthasidhartha5184]

Meanwhile Miss Chan is thinking about you also.😘

[@fuji3232]

Thanks for posting such wonderful film, brings back youth memories, Thanks

[@Alwso]

how beautiful it WAS!

[@mingg4138]

這是香港最美好的年代 自由 開放 市民生活簡單但精神與心靈都是快樂的 香港在英國政府良好的管治下 經濟開始向上發展蓬勃 到處欣欣向榮 市民生機無限 可惜 現在所有一切美好的人和事已一去不返 一個如此美好的城市從此就被無情之手摧毀了

[@papabear90]

Lol you said hk were free then

[@Jeremyho439]

那是痛苦的一年，我每日上學都要面對反英抗暴的土製菠蘿。

[@CannibaLouiST]

@@papabear90 the british didnt put us to jail for using the wrong trash bags like the commies wanna now

[@xyz2828xyz]

當年日日返學冇車搭要行路或搭貨車, 通街炸彈唔知炸死幾多無辜的人, 作孽者後來還有大姨媽獎章, 這就是畸形回歸由大陸管治下的香港寫照.

[@chachhi2011]

Love this video it takes me back to those days when everything were so special locally.Thanks for sharing such a great video.

[@galsy4828]

Thank you so much! The sights were reminiscent of my childhood.

[@raymondyeung2791]

今年是2020 年鼠年，1967 年，嘩 !! 53 年前的珍貴紀錄片，而且是彩色 colour film , 配樂充滿中國風，好聽。多謝上傳。 19/7/2020 HK .

[@manlokau6091]

Thx for sharing !

[@nkn9187]

很懷念属於我們香港人的真香港呀!我的爷爷、及父母親都是在上載中的年代為生活艱辛勤勞工作，每用一個仙都是用自巳辛苦血汗换來的!雖然辛苦，但這些用自已血汗换來的乾淨錢生活得心安理得。内心培感富足!

[@depressedaf3603]

I wish i was born during this era, everything looks so real, connecting and historical

[@萬歲香港]

Those days were peaceful; people were poor but happy.

[@abdulwildlife3429]

Old is GOLD 😍

[@franctokyo5981]

Stupid comments in 1967 the Vietnam war was raging and everybody was afraid of nuclear war between the US and the USSR

[@MrLeaf-ib4xu]

This brings back so many memories and it's actually surprising how little has actually changed over the years.

[@agoodchow]

回看中上環當年境況，感觸良多。

[@liaarquiteta]

Very nice and real documentary, thanks for posting it! Also the sound track fits well with the movie.

[@AmigaA-or2hj]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I can still remember the closed area at Sha Tou Kok. Went back in 2015 to visit Kuk Po village.

[@josephohanlon205]

These videos of 1967 are like 'gold' to us They are treasures! Why is the men's fashion ( black suit) so drab and like uniform for ALL?

[@seechinglam]

非常有共鳴，想不到移民幾十年後，仍能再重溫如昨天別去的鄉土風情，有意思，謝謝，我會推介給我輩移民及我們的後代觀看，謝謝！

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

Do you honestly like your new country?

[@MetaView7]

@@SWToDi-qc8hb Do you honestly like your birth country? Well, it is not a real question. Your answer does not matter. Your birth at a certain place is only a coincidence. You did not make that decision. You did not earn the right to be there. It is a lottery, and you happened to be there.

[@thinmanyellow7480]

Pictures and Video mostly 99% was BLACK AND WHITE in my memory, That is a great colorful memory that could extend the years before i was born 1967 June

[@nuhntida]

What a great job you've done for us here. Really reminds me of the good old days in Hong Kong betweem 1967 till 1971 while going to school there. Been searching for this kind of films for a long time...Many tks krub...

[@stevenyeung9045]

香港的原味 , 美好的回憶 !

[@Ken5imaging]

Thanks for sharing, that was also the first year i visited Hong Kong

[@rascalhusky8129]

Interesting and very educational. Well made 👌. Hong Kong was much better under uk rule than today . The people of Hong Kong had freedom in many ways . Today that's completely gone .

[@papabear90]

What kind of freedom lol

[@naguerea]

Lovely, nicely shot, the unhurried pace is splendid, thank you

[@zuxichuge5655]

好懷念我們的香港！

[@octchung]

I had left many thx messages before, and now, I have to say it again. thank you Mr. Rogge, your great works give me chances to know the past of HK! thx!

[@barryspc]

Thank you for sharing such valuable footage

[@Casanova476]

很珍貴，謝謝上傳。

[@lumandrew]

I left Hong Kong in 1967, the day after the riot during which a news broadcaster was killed. After over 50 years, I still miss that place (until recent events). The video brought back lots of memory & emotion. Those were actually the "good old days", even we were poor.

[@jamesng9831]

Those were the simple old days when there was no government welfare for the unemployed. People worked very hard to earn their decent life to put food on the table for their family.

[@CannibaLouiST]

​@@jamesng9831 Back then people, however poor they were, need only money to enter a hair salon and restaurants. Now they need mandatory vaccines and tracking apps! Money is worthless now.

[@tlee3838]

Would you go back to the "good old days"? Not me.

[@CannibaLouiST]

​@@tlee3838 Then stay.

[@raytonhuang1527]

Memorable historical youtube of Hong Kong. I was about 20 years old.

[@noinhammm]

những thước phim tư liệu quý giá và quá tuyệt vời ! Nhìn đường phố Hong Kong năm 1967 tự dưng lại nhớ tới miền Nam Việt Nam thời Việt Nam Cộng Hòa cùng thời điểm đó quá .

[@tripprawlings9284]

Hongkongers: hardest working people in the world.

[@tlee3838]

We had no choice. My parents were working 6 1/2 days a week. My great-grandma was taking care of my two brothers and me. Talking about the capitalist exploitation of the workers. Now they are doing the same thing in China.

[@kosmeticman]

wow...very rare footage...thanks for upload!!

[@jennprata8222]

Great memory jolter. I went to live in Hong Kong when I was 10 in 1968 so most of what you filmed was very familiar. The only thing missing are the sounds and smells!!

[@1m2wgood]

nice video, miss the old hong kong

[@lucian70musaafir]

hello, old hong kong (wanna say british ??) i was born in romania, my life dream was to visit h.k., when i lived in romania no money, no possibility to get outside, h.k. was then british crown colony of h.k. now i live in spain from 2001, i have spanish citizenship, i can make a trip anywhere, but ......., is the h.k. the same ????? 😳 in july 1997 i cryed watching t.v. how they gonna give to p.r. of china the siank-kan perfumate harbour.... are you from h.k. ? do you think it worth to visit nowadays ? (when that virus madness will gone....) i.ll find the images from that footages ?? or the modern XXI century madness .... buy tha way ......, my nickname when i was young in romania was "japan" !!!!!!!, that why ......., do you remmember the cheap quartz watches with melodies "made in hong kong" ?? i repaired them and re-sold it (a lot of times only put a new battery...., ), and the children in neibourhougt called my JAPAN !!!!!!, because i repaired "japanese" watches ..... i expalain the situation, NOTHING TO SEE H.K. WITH JAPAN, is a british colony !!!!! shut up !!!!!!!, you are idiot !!!!! you dont have seen the eyes of the habitants !!! oriental eyes, japanese eyes !!!!! HONG KONG IS A JAPANESE CITY !!!!!!! almost of the romanian kids from 80 years embrassing that idea ........., h.k. japenese city..... and they called me japan ....... regards,

[@maestrovso]

Excellent historical images and film. I went to Aberdeen area daily circa 1974 to a family friend's restaurant kitchen to learn the ropes - hoping the skill would be my ticket to Canada or USA. Even in those days the floating restaurant (9:15) was considered to be very overpriced and tourist trap. But it was infinitely better than what it becomes today. My learnt cooking skill turned out not to be the ticket for me to the West, but my education later in the West. Thanks for sharing.

[@gap949]

V Sohn Yup...now complete Tourist Trap...plus fishermen pushed further out and now mostly big Yachts to show off one's wealth !

[@snowfoxprincess]

1967 was my birth year! No fancy mall but nice close neighbourhood, too bad is not the same anymore...

[@萬歲香港]

It was also the year when CCP started riots in HK and planted "pineapple, homemake" bombs in the public that killed a very young girl and her little brother.

[@muitam9680]

小時候上大酒樓食物煮得非常之好食，依家仲記得😊

[@philyip4432]

This sure brings back some fond memories!

[@anitali42]

片段彌足珍貴，片中香港仔和鄉村景色現今早已絕跡。

[@xbman1]

Love the music. Great job!

[@kevintsangmsc]

Thank you for sharing.

[@gerardrambaud7479]

C'est (!) vraiment très beau .

[@KaKayLo]

文字的記錄，尚有理解的偏差。圖像的紀錄，平淡如水的表達。影視的呈現，歷歷在目的回憶。 歷史社會時移世易、面貌渙然，往蹟影中尋。

[@kkfung1]

Very valuable video documentary of a bygone era in Hong Kong. It is like a time machine to a more innocent time when I already left Hong Kong. You did a fine job filming with what we now consider an antique video camera. How did you convert it to a digital format for us lucky youtube viewers?

[@alexchan5155]

個個人都孭住劇本出世，睇吓點行來行去到终点👍❤️❤️HK

[@NMjack2000]

Enjoyed your video. Reminded me of when I visit there in 1967.

[@吳樹喜]

So grateful for sharing this Video 👍👍👍

[@catcat2508]

Those were the days❤️😞

[@葉國樑-k6b]

那年才7歲小孩，住在橫頭磡徒置區，對面獅子山仍是木屋區。母親千叮萬囑不要隨街踢罐頭波蘿，會炸死人！亦曾經親眼目睹引爆土製炸彈！記憶尤新。轉眼已經是古稀之年。

[@user-cl3nl1eu9u]

六七暴動嗎

[@mankonglee2708]

土製波蘿係依家工聯會班共狗所放

[@weiwenwwe2066]

They may not be the richest but certainly it gives me the feeling like they're close knitted

[@gilbertkkcho]

以我記得那時的舊式唐樓還有倒夜香的. 因為還未有沖水式的廁所.

[@dawnnadir]

Who filmed this? He/she did a very good job!

[@canman5060]

I was only 6 years old and I can remember the oceanliner at the Ocean Terminal.

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

Good for you! I was around 16 or 17 in school and started having meals at restaurants because having additional afternoon class!

[@schoi604]

This is a great video. I wish to see more details on everything but dues to the resolution we can only have an impression of what’s going back in the 60’s.

[@ladycharsw]

Good colored video of HK harbour and the families in their junks. Thanks. In 67 I was 23 May 13. My youngest grandson now 2018 is 2years old May27, your BD Micheal

[@大小不良-m9b]

以前的香港✈️🚝🚖🚎 和諧共榮👨‍⚕️👰👴👵👶 生活安定🍚🍊🍎🐠🦐🐔 一片樂土💒✌️😄✌️👋

[@FFDBNKSR]

Precious images of HK in March 1967 - just a few months before the massive riots. At that time, I was a student in a Mid-levels secondary school. It was a most unsettling and trying time for all of us.

[@萬歲香港]

It was also the year when CCP started riots in HK and planted "pineapple, homemake" bombs in the public that killed a very young girl and her little brother.

[@jyy530]

好正 好清晰 好有味道..... 还未来到这个世界的年代 ～

[@michaeldavison3208]

I was lucky enough to have lived in the New Territories 1966-69, school was St.George’s, Kowloon and life was just amazing. No images on film can really give a flavour of the smell, heat, humidity, excitement of moving around within the Colony, the rickety single deckers outside of Kowloon and the Island, the crush of people, the ingenuity of the people and the clear distinction between the have and have nots, but as a have not, you had one path and that was via your own effort- no social support just sheer hard work. I re-visited just before the handover, amazing changes but tinged with the sadness that everyone knew that China and the CCP would never honour the two system agreement, they would start to chip away, then smash away and before your eyes would blatantly state that it was the will of the people. If I had a time machine, not to change anything, but just to go back to 1966-69 and revisit and see just how interesting things were before we all changed into cynics.

[@tlee3838]

You were lucky you were the privileged one. Thank God we got rid of the colonial masters!

[@xxxc9286]

I love HongKong😢😢😢

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

Even with barbaric terrorst Cockroaches? You must be a CIA agent posted in Hong Kong for the riot movement!

[@萬歲香港]

@@SWToDi-qc8hb You must be a CCP red guard?

[@mchmchminecraft1637]

Note: This is 11 months after a small riot and 2 months before another historically important riot

[@carzyscenctist]

The Good old days of HK

[@chanchan-cn8we]

Nostalgia. I had bridged over my poor teenage live in the Central District. It's not a good memory to me but still thank you to upload this clip.

[@tomb7655]

Wow fantastic footage. If anybody is feeling too reminiscent for the HK of this era, then I cannot recommend Georgetown in Malaysia enough. Another former colony that skipped the development of the 70s and 80s. Now the old town is a UNESCO heritage site.

[@tl4238]

Under British rule, one could still live as a human being with freedom. Now, I have no words but feel really sad and afraid of what will happen next in Hongkong under the Chinese Communist party's ruling.

[@ABab-jf2jb]

TL, You said what I have been thinking. I grew up in HK, now living in the US. I fear for the Hong Kongers, especially those who took to the street protesting.

[@吳樹喜]

我細路仔的時候跟父母坐呢d艇 去珍寶呢…………咁就過咗 40 年了

[@SWToDi-qc8hb]

52 YEARS!!!!

[@rajesrecipe2492]

The great Auld British Hong Kong 👑

[@papabear90]

Indians were much more submissive and enjoyed British rule they got to live under british rule for many extra centuries

[@ry228168136]

Great video well done good job buddy. I was born in 60 's in hk . : )

[@bwivlog]

Hongkong 1967 very good

[@cheungwu8098]

影片懷舊,音樂令人陶醉於香港情懷。

[@ngdominic1190]

那時候的香港真的很有韻味，可以重來的話，我寧願在那種環境生活。

[@kksowhat5006]

just asking , but do you like your cellphone and internet?

[@xiaonanzhou1031]

@@kksowhat5006 hhh

[@user-cl3nl1eu9u]

你當時是在九龍嗎？還是香港島？

[@barriehutchinson8424]

I was there in 1968 to 1969

[@tongalan205]

me too

[@woojenny5216]

Amazing 👌😍👌😊😍

[@cardinacheung5673]

Hong kongers were very lucky,hong kong were very western city,enjoy a lot of freedom, China was in a cultural revolution at the time.

[@SeismicCWave]

There were riots in Hong Kong in 1967 and there were bound corpses floating down Pearl river frequently.

[@terriode]

Spent a few days in June 1967 while staying at Fortuna Hotel on Nathan Rd. as my first visit to this Old World's most historic and cosmopolitan city of Hong Kong.

[@ABab-jf2jb]

I was 7 years old living in a village in Sheung Shui!

[@kamyantse6712]

幾多年前的7歲？,20,30,40,50,60,70?

[@ABab-jf2jb]

@@kamyantse6712 Hi, Thanks for asking. I just turned 60 so it's over 50 years ago. Do you know SHEUNG Shui?

[@johnwong2382]

@@kamyantse6712 估計當然是 1967 的 7 歲。

[@michaelhu6439]

彩色真的很棒！好像坐了時光倒流機！

[@alfsaunders5107]

Great run ashore many memories

[@mckwan1778]

回憶總是美好的。不過，我們也不能否認，當年一般市民的生活艱難（不過可能快樂），貪污、黑社會的問題嚴重（雖然現在合法剝削或更令人氣憤）

[@laisamsam7223]

50年前既香港已經係咁繁榮,50年前既中國 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wt1228]

全中國清一色中山裝，布鞋，綠帽...全配給。

[@cityalien]

great footage, thank you!

[@ooooopsszzz]

Those Hey days were gone forever !

[@萬歲香港]

ditto

[@wongkamyuen5052]

老香港好美麗

[@user-cl3nl1eu9u]

有很多好看的招牌，現在全拆了

[@gonulcalkran6801]

İyi olmus pis hong kong ve cinliler hiç güzel degil

[@johnwong2382]

7:04，應該是當年落馬洲。當年大陸未開放，西方遊客唯一有機認識大陸，便是由落馬洲遠眺大陸。

[@hamidachan7392]

I love looking at views of Hong Kong.❤️💜🌌🌄😼🇬🇧

[@kwantse9681]

總覺得以前的社會多了一份溫情

[@Harrylin581]

Such a rich and bustling place back in the 60’s. can’t believe it. No wonder Hong Kong GDP was half of China’s. now I can see why.

[@tlee3838]

Hong Kong was bustling because of the Cold war and sanctions. The whole of China had to trade through this one city. Look at Hong Kong in the 1920s and 30s, you see Jordan and Nathan road quiet and layback.

[@vikulya78]

There were still rice paddies in HK on those days! Ah, good old times...

[@allanlee3160]

In those days, you could buy the live seafood in Cheung Chau and Aberdeen. The fish were local produce. Today, most of the seafood come from foreign countries.

[@susannalai6144]

回憶番哂來

[@manng8314]

經典的回憶影片

[@mplace]

Thanks

[@MyScopeStory]

one of the list in bucket list that i wanna visit