A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized , restored and applied face restoration and created a sound design for this video of New York 1940s, Shows how millions of people live a crowded, hurried life in New York. Gives an overview of the various industrial and cultural activities". Shows the automaton, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Garment District, Times Square and Broadway.
0:50 The original Penn Station
2:16 Bleecker Street, at Pompei Church (Carmine Street)
3:00 Smells like the 7 train to Manhattan, around 40th Street in Sunnyside
5:25 South Street Seaport area
6:30 Wall Street
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)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ Face Restoration
✔ added modern Noise grain for a natural result.
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: US National Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/LivingInA...
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[@NASS_0]

Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1940s?

[@jec1ny]

Medical advancements aside, dear God I hate the modern world.

[@PKTraceur]

It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.

[@plaintalk3804]

Magnificent flick. I was born in N.Y. July, 1940. Am a youthful 83 now. Bought an around the world ticket and traveled for 7 months in 1960. My entire perspective was transformed thereafter. It was as if I was in these video scenes again. Time passes rapidly & having experienced a collage of numerous endeavors & global lifetime experiences in China,, Taiwan, South America, Carribean, and USA-SFO/LAX/PS/ S.Florida,

[@aheat3036]

The people looked so much nicer back then and everything is so clean and orderly.

[@cushiterevenge5696]

Most of the adults dressed to the nines or very casually nicely dressed. Classy dressed ladies without tattoos 😊

[@JoshinDallas]

Look at all these people just living their lives. Not a single phone in sight.

[@MegaSnake76]

The city looked so clean back in those days.

[@jefferoni1984]

NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.

[@Boris_Chang]

I was born in’55 and have often thought that I was born 20 years too late. Aside from war, some of the most wonderful times in and around a city like NY (I grew up in the northern burbs) were in the 40’s (Big Band music, Broadway), 50’s (Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, recognition and appreciation of blues music, birth of rock and roll), 60’s (the whole age of aquarius/flower power/psychedelic music-San Francisco would have been great to be a young adult in the 60’s). By the 70’s and 80’s rock music was peaking out. I would have been satisfied making it until the turn of the millennium. Nothing today has very much interest, and the world seems to be coming apart. I’d hate to be a young person today.

[@jessewolf7649]

Kudos to whoever had the foresight in 1940 to record this.

[@cindywasmundt3051]

The modest clothing that the ladies are wearing is a beautiful sight!

[@shardanette1]

The video of the kids playing stickball in the street and bouncing the Spaldeen off of the stoop were the highlights for me.

[@bradlavassaur8265]

Love this video!! Made when people valued life and took pride in what we had in this country. Very refreshing! Thank you for sharing. 😊

[@anythingbootneck]

How beautifully dressed all the women were and the men so smart. People certainly took a pride in their appearances in those days.

[@sblsbl7600]

Wow, I love the cars and how the ladies dress so elegant. No glass towers anywhere! Not a single piece of plastic on the plant. The food market only used natural packaging. I enjoyed seeing this wonderful world. I imagined that Louis Armstrong was singing.

[@tinahardman9805]

This is really beautiful. Probably late forties as nobody in uniform. These people had pride and class and are dressed beautifully. People looked happy, kids were playing, there is an innocence which has been lost forever.

[@MillerMeteor74]

This was great. But one thing I noticed is that you added the sounds of a steam locomotive to an elevated train. But those elevated trains were electric self-propelled by that time. Otherwise the sounds seemed perfectly normal, as if it was a sound film when recorded. I love the old views of New York.

[@angelomaestrangelo]

I have seen about 175 or more videos in historical archives of varying quality and to be honest this is absolutely stunning. Because of the intimate nature of the camera in juxtaposition with the everyday life of the people. As a New Yorker all these sites are amazing to see as some of them still stand the test of time. This is the closest you have to taking a time machine! Truly remarkable. Thank you.

[@community1949]

Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work. No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.