我的祖輩 Home Movie of Hong Kong 1930s
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2013
- Old 8mm movies shot in the 1930s by Douglas Chun Wai Yee (1906-1983).
www.geni.com/people/Douglas-W...
Original film discovered and digitized by Roger Woo in the United States.
Uploaded version (with scenes mostly from Hong Kong) edited by Leonard To in Hong Kong.
4:36-9:20
The only footage of the Sacred Hill 聖山 and the original Sung Wong Toi 宋皇臺 before destruction by the Japanese during the occupation.
Locations spotted by viewers:
0:27 Lane Crawford.
2:43 Outer wall of St Andrew's Church
3:00 Former Kowloon British School (afternoon by shadow)
9:23 KMB bus route No.3 to Star Ferry (Kowloon )( No.5 present)
宋王台的一段，記錄了一班話潑，佻皮，充滿朝氣，活力的年輕人完美、快樂的一天。八十年前真摯的笑臉、打鬧，我們還可清楚見到，但這班昔日的年輕人現在俱已作古。
C So 這也是我看到片段後的感受，所以配了這首音樂。
剛看到影片，看到片中巨石，正想發問是否宋王台，那你幫我解答了。因前一日才看完港台特輯，宋王台吏蹟。謝謝👍👍
This archive of life is Priceless. You have a new subscriber. 🎉
Thanks. I am really thankful that my relatives dug this out.
They are from my very distant relatives in the States. They find these 8mm films and converted them to digital. I took out the part which I think was from Hong Kong (the rest is from Canton), improved the quality (shaky camera, brightness), and added in music.
These have to be some of the earliest footages of Hong Kong in 8mm film cause 8mm is only invented in 1932.
+Leonard (Lenny) To Thank you very much for your sharing of footage. We could see the old Hong Kong. May I ask are your relatives are Chinese or Westerners?
+mlifsi welcome. Do they look like westerners to you? Some had lived in the States and were visiting HK.
These are the HK scenes. Or do you mean the non-HK scenes?
B
no brits no hong kong
是一段彌足珍貴的香港生活紀錄，感謝您無私上傳分享，而且還整理得如此細緻，謝謝。
非常珍貴的個人紀錄片,多謝分享!
what a treasure to find this film....amazing. I strongly recommend you to devote a copy to the Hong Kong Museum of History.
Millions thanks for sharing this family movies! I have been waiting for ages to see a movie record of the Holy Hill (Sung Wang Tai). This Hill is demolished before I was born, I search and search for any clue of this place which hold an important history of Hong Kong. With this movie, the world will know of this Holy Hill again. I hope that Hongkonger will remember this place as the Chan family have planned when they capture the joyous life of their youngs in Hong Kong
Thank you so much. This is indeed priceless.
MILLION THANKS FOR THE POST. REALLY HEART FELT FOR THE WORK MAKES THIS BEAUTIFUL CLIP HAPPEN! SURE YOU HAVE BENT FORWARD FOR THIS!
Thank you so much for sharing these precious footages. I especially love the parts where young people being playful in front of the camera. I guess young people are all the same no matter which era they are from.
A very wonderful and precious sharing. Your relatives in 30s were so cheerful and playful, their future seemed so promising. They all were reunion in the heaven now, may the Lord take care of them. This home movie though is quite personal, but is still deeply touched. The background music selected was especially matched.
+Julianne Lo Thank you Julianne
This is extrodinary ! Thanks for the upload. HK was way more beautiful those days.
Nice clip! This background music from Joyeux Noel is fabulous, so touching!
Thank you such as a great video, so as the audio.
Thanks for sharing this precious video, it allow me to have a glimpse of how HK looks like at that time.
thank you very much for sharing the old video, though not easy to figure out the locations of the scenes in Hong Kong in the video !
人們都休閒地走在馬路上，因為很長久才有一輛汽車經過，羨慕。
Thank you for this video. It is most enjoyable watching.
Thank you for putting this up. Though from very much a different generations, but I really miss those unreserved smiles and laughter.
We always got the impression from old photos that people back then are serious and rigid. In real life young people will always be playful whatever the time.
Thank you for uploading this////
Thanks for uploading this video. Really amazing!!
My Grand parents and my Mom was born in HK 1932 with her 3 brothers all in HK. I was born in HK 1948. Those are the good days in HK before the Japanese take over HK. I found some of those old photos of my parents.
What a good memory.
What struck me the most when I first saw these footages was that while I thought people in those days are more reserved and quiet. Youngsters of those generation are not so different from us.
13:57 Chatham Road South, to the south of its intersection with Cameron Road. In the far background, buildings of Gun Club Hill Barracks can be seen on the hill. Those buildings still exist today but covered by trees. The playground looks like one along the east side of Chatham Road South, the white railings are typical of those along KCR.
Most interesting. Vividly the Tsim Sha Tsui part of Nation Road is shown.Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful old Hong Kong, this was truly East met West, the men were wearing western suit and tie while the ladies in traditional Chinese Cheung Sam. The scenery was really nice, without those ugly tall buildings that block the mountain and sea views of the harbour.
Thank you for sharing the story with us. I love the brief shooting of St. Andrew's Church on Nathan Road in Kowloon very much because its facade has been demolished already. The original look of granite of the church is irreversible.
Sorry for making a mistake. I love your film a lot, because it shows the old-fashioned look of St. Andrew's Church on Nathan Road in Kowloon. This is the church I have attended since 1986. I am greatly saddened by the expansion of the church that has marred its original appearance, the history of which will never be seen and felt after a large scale re-development project.
Thanks for watching. I love the movie Joyeux Noel, pleasantly surprised that someone else like it too!
great and thanks !
Thanks Karl! The building at around 3 min is certainly St. Andrew's Church (I just compared it with some old photos of the church).
Apprecaite if anyone can help identify other places, cars, or people in the film.
Dear Mr. To,
Thanks for your explanation. Anyway, they all appear under your video.
剛和美國親戚求證，片中人都在香港居住，雖然部份的確曾在美國生活。
始終香港係我哋嘅根
Precious clip of affluent life in HK in the 1930s. Had I not read the description, would have assumed it be Shanghai.
One eye-catching feature is the the billboards near the church 3:42 to 3:48 & 3:56. Advertisement of imported wholesome drinks: "Yeast-vite", Bovril & Ovaltine. Recalled a Cantonese movie filmed in the late 1930s or early 1940s in which Ovaltine was served in hotel.
very amazing video
珍貴的影片！衣著打扮肯定是當年的富裕階層
Home movie camera in those days must be very expensive.
I could see Nathan Rd. as well, where the ST. Andrew church located.
See 3.22
Dear Mr To, What a wonder film by Mr Douglas Chun and a wonderful deed to digitize the film and publish it. Where to find the WHOLE CLIP?
Looking at the picture of Douglas, I see him as a handsome, strong and amicable person bearing Cantonese characteristics.
Sorry I don't have the whole clip anymore.
Hi! Would u mind I download this video for a small project ? (I will cut part of it to put it in my video ) :)
Amazing!
Thank you very much. Amazing. It is precious movie with nice music. This is the first time I can take a clear look at Sung Wong Toi and the surrounding from movie. I am impressed by the youngsters of those generation too. I found that the shot at 11:33 is the Sincere in Shanghai. The owners of Sincere (先施)and Wing On (永安) had close relationship. To family had stocks of Wing On. It is found that To Chun-man (杜仲文) is the former owner of Nam Koo Terrace in Wanchai. To Chun-man held the position of Chief Chinese Silks Salesman (專理紗羅綢緞員) for Wing On Company Limited (永安有限公司), although he was later promoted to Assistant Manager (副司理). In 23 Aug, 1937, Shanghai Sincere was damaged by the Japanese bombardment (v.qq.com/page/c/e/4/c0017gpp3e4.html). This part may be taken within 1937-1941
People in the video are from my mom's side.
I thought it might be GZ Sincere but it is indeed SH Sincere. It isn't the Japanese who bombed it though, but an accident by the Chinese pilots. KMT claimed that it was the Japanese during the war for obvious reason and that's what most people chose to believe til today. Historians, and pilots survived have proven otherwise.
Video was taken before the war.
Thanks for your sharing again. The video is really precious. By logical thinking, If it was done by Japanese, the bombardments might not occur at one point but in a large area.
May I know if the MR To - founder of Wing On originated from 中山?
Thanks Pun Pun. They are my distant relatives. The video was found in the States. All was shot in Hong Kong and Canton during the 1930s before the war. I choose those sections that l could identify as Hong Kong and add music to it.
能否也找到拍廣州的那一段?
+Leonard (Lenny) To I can see the scene is HK only.Families had such wealth and affluent life style must be very known then and now. May I know who are they.
+葛天氏 They are my distant relatives and they are not famous.
Leonard (Lenny) To They are from Chow Family who was once the Top Ten Tycoon family on the top ten in early 50s until late 60s
+葛天氏 I am afraid they r not. Don't know how u come to that statement.
Brilliant.Even we were born and grow up in HK, we can hardly retrieve this kind of timeless footage which historian ,archivists, novelists, architects, town planners, engineers......... must regard as invaluable.
2:43outer wall of St Andrew's Church
3:00 Former Kowloon British School ( afternoon by shadow)
9:23 KMB bus route No.3 to Star Ferry ( Kowloon )( No.5 present )
很真貴的香港生活片段
這片段拍攝於上世紀三十年代，看見八十多年前的生活紀錄片，好像是兩個不同世界，感慨和震撼！今年是2017，不知八十多年後的人們日後回看我們這年代的紀錄片有何感想呢？
This clip is so precious and lovely. Seeing how happy, modern, and carefree they were, I can't help but think of how much they suffered during the Japanese invasion in a few years. My grandma was born in the 1920s and I guess she'd have lived the same lifestyle in Kowloon. She said, "Hong Kong used to be so safe that little kids could ride the bus alone."
1930s might be a wonderful moment for Hong Kong, unaffected by wars in China until finally fall into Japanese in 1940s...
I believe that 30s and 80s were the most beautiful periods in HK history.
No I don't mind. Please do share it but I would appreciate if you acknowledge that it is originated from me here. Thanks
我父親初到香港的年代
做那時香港裏的有錢人真好. 那時的香港真美麗
Alan W 乜野年代做有錢人都係好啦
Man Woo 身處抄家年代 越是富有 越有文化的..死得最慘.☠️
Lenny,這是很珍貴的香港影像,有沒有多點有關此片的故事?什麼情況下拍攝這些錄像?片中有尖沙咀,九龍城和舊宋皇台
I have updated the description of the video.
肯定係尖沙咀近海防道,北京道那一帶,那裡以前也有這類英式古老建築物
好感人!由5:55秒開始拍攝的那坐山早已經移平了在地球消失了
I love the music in the movie. I hope these people had survived the Japanese occupation which happened several years after this movie was takenl,especially the children.I love their smile. Very warm movie but i feel sad looking at them.... since I know what would happen later.
Don't think they were HK residents.They probably came back from the US for a tour of their homeland and would have left long before the WW.
andrew aw
Some of them indeed came back from the States. While some are relatives who have stayed in China and Hong Kong.
+andrew aw The background music makes me feel sad, not because of the possible fates but of the fact that most of the people in the movie would have left us by now. Though they are not my ancestors, they were the contemporaries of my father and grandfather both of whom I miss so much1
#hongkong #hongkongvideo #history
Amazing footage of Hong Kong!
5:59 most certainly Sung Wong Toi( or Sung Emperor's platform, my own translation), I know because the present location put it only a few blocks away from my present home, in Kai Tak, unfortunately it was blown up during WWII
It certainly is.
看到這些影片便使我想起小時候, 可惜時光不再. 我是台灣人, 但也有相同的感受, 台灣人1945前50年也與香港人一樣在外國政府殖民統治
I like the music. Quite a collectible and precious! I can only recognise 宋皇臺. Judging from the skyline and the mountains, it was probably shot in area around Prince Edward in Kowloon.
那個年代.能坐私家車.絕對是非富則貴.對於平民來說.簡直是天方夜譚.我估計 這輛汽車 應是酒店或官方尊用款式..🧐
0:27 Lane Crawford at Manson House, 74-78 Nathan Road, Kowloon.
The YT communication system is not the best. It appears you did see my first comment posting and you had replied to it.
I have to approve before they can be shown. I delete the repeated second comment.
life of a rich family.........very rare footage
There is the old Sincere 先施 department store in 11:35. I think they partly owned the business then.
The video is flipped left to right at the end part. I am afraid the people who transferred the original film to soft copy cannot read Chinese.
好珍貴
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful clip. What is the title of the background music?
Thanks. It's Theme de l'absence by the London Symphonic Orchestra.
Precious footage of Hong Kong. The Antiquities and Monuments Office now at 136 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon can be seen at 3:14 minutes. From 9:39 minutes onward the film negative has been flip, you can see some Chinese characters in an inverted way. At 11:37 minutes, the shot captured the "先施" characters sign on the top of the mast, that's the evidence the sea voyage's destination in the footage is Canton (Guangzhou.). From the Guangzhou footage, we can see there are lots of damaged houses and buildings, it is believed the filming took place after the invasion of Japanese Army to Guangzhou started in April 1938.
Thanks for identifying the places. The footage in Canton is not quite as interesting and the camera is very shaky.
Question: So the Sincere 先施 department store in the footage is that of the Canton branch?
Was that Macau we saw at the end of the sea trip?
Leonard (Lenny) To
I believe that is
andrew aw
It's the trip to Guangzhou 廣州 (Canton)
It looks more like the one in Shanghai though.
As far as I know, they r ok in the war. Some of these people have immigrated to the States and only visiting Hong Kong. That's why you see them being taken to places like 宋王台.
I like to see the women's fashion in 1930s. Hong Kong was the colony of British in those days.
how did you get these films??
I have updated description of the video.
Just realized it is Lane Crawford store in 0:27! The location has to be either Des Voeux Road or Queen's Road Central.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Tcitp_d221_lane_crawford_and_co_premises.jpg
no, the location is Tsim sha Tsui, along the Nathan Road.
I am not aware Lane Crawford has a store in TST in the 30s.
不一定係Lane Crawford 分店,也可能只係一個掛在外牆的廣告宣傳牌,街景係尖沙咀,不可能係中環
+Pun Pun 牌寫住lane Crawford cafe, 我比對過中環店建築係好似，點解你咁肯定係尖沙咀呢？
+Pun Pun 而且尖沙嘴也沒有那麼多人力車，人力車是集中在中上環的。
I thought I saw Macau as well at the end of the sea trip.
I am not sure. To my knowledge they was travelling between Canton and Hong Kong at the time.
I could see the bridge between Macau and Taipa at 10:02.You had to go through Macau to reach Canton and you couldn't get by sea to Canton 'cause Guangchow Bay was in Jap hands by 1938.
BTW very appropriate music as a remembrance for your older family members. The youngest child in the film was as old as my mother who is 83.
andrew aw
I am not sure if this video has been taken when Canton was under Japanese occupation. If it was, it would mean this film being made in 1939.
andrew aw I have to correct myself as the Taipa bridge wasn't there until the 60s.It could not have been Macau.
香港現在己是另一個世界!
Incredible/////
我真想去那個街上男男女女都穿著長衫.旗袍.西服.洋裝的1930年代看看~
The family must be a wealthy one: owning a car，thtee servants, and most unusual of all, having a 8 mm movie camera...
I think there are a few families in the video. I find it funny how clueless people were with shooting video. The clips are all very shaky and not always pointing at the intended objects.
@@leonardto yes I agree, the cameraman was not very good.
蠢色無邊 出夜皇后 - 陳雲裳(1939) 詞: 2019-3-2 睇實間厰穿櫃桶
1. 無邊春色在兒家，滿眼塵凡，官商勾結太喧嘩，如圖鴉，萬億盡亂花。人工造島高高掛，隨微風左右傾斜。海正填，沙未到，官商鎮上賣民作生涯。
2. 風光最好上林蠢，吉日良田，圖誇功裏召塵凡，宮娥引，今日叩天閹。貪錢腐販升升升，透誅簾記鼎香昏。整劏民，理老民，懵懂熊抱天子舊情人。
3. 淒涼維港舊容顏，月缺花殘，風水修復路漫漫，重想貪，不語勝嗚咽。大彎區與長生墊，估基建樣樣超支。一笑官，年千怨，維港失救，此恨總綿綿。
電台rap:-商務及經濟發展局局長邱騰華今早(2日)在電台節目表示，雖然本年度財政盈餘少於過往數年，但新增開支仍達1500億港元，顯示政府審視目前經濟環境下都沒有縮減開支。對於有意見批評，財政預算案派糖規模縮減，邱指市民可能只「睇住粒糖」，留意政府的派糖措施，但香港「都要睇住間廠」，認為面對經濟不穩情況，單靠開支穩定社會是不足夠。.
what is "Ye Olde"?
"Ye olde" is a pseudo-Early Modern English stock prefix, used anachronistically, suggestive of a Merry England, Deep England or "old, as in Medieval old" feel. A typical example would be Ye Olde English Pubbe or similar names of theme pubs.
如果有寫每個地方名字標題就好了，就更明白清楚啦⋯⋯
Where a they now ?
She is so beautiful
暴風雨前夕之寧靜。
香港以前真係好靚
時光到流70年。😂😂
可笑的是香港人與台灣人一樣在外國人統治下反而更進步，如今香港人巳䧟入苦境而台灣人亦倍受大陸共產政權威脅，兩者都盼望有天能自己決定未來 ！ 香港人,台灣人加油 ！
世界只有文明和野蠻的分別，國族不過是人類在地球上劃的線。
沒错, 我們仍需繼續対抗野蠻與邪悪 ！
你真正是奴顏媚膝的新高度，跪著比站著舒服。如此鍾意被外族統治，你祖宗要被你氣活了
@@leonardccto 絕對同意！
真的很懷念昔日香港，以前著住條開浪褲啫彈彈咁四維去的日子不可再，豆零打個炮，又有幾多人享受過，希望香港可回復舊昔，我們不要什麼高樓大廈，不要汽車，地鐵，每月收入幾十萬，只係浪費人生，做人其實可以好簡單，五大訴求，決一不可，寧願捱餓，不願進步，迷戀昔日，自我中心，重有以前笨唔係窮，因為富在心中，現在香港人太富裕，出入全部都係高尚地方，每個人又鬼咁有品味，就連個天知道香港人有訴求，就派勇武肺人去打鳩世界，咁你就知道香港人咩嘢啦⋯⋯
他們好像是美國僑民來香港
戰前香港華人的中上階級。
Please give me your email address pun pun. I will sent the whole clip to you.
+Leonard (Lenny) To Could you send me one as well?
+葛天氏 Sorry I have seen people editing this video without even acknowledging this source. Please share this video if you like it.
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7:21秒⋯⋯有暴徒掟石
Shing I don’t find that comment relevant or funny.
光復香港時代革命
3:15及3:27那幕背景應是尖沙咀彌敦道138號聖安德烈堂(St Andrew's Church)門口--www.ipeen.com.tw/comment/52625
Agree but those are not from the same scene.