My family lived in DC during the 1970s. One friend of mine ( met elsewhere, in later years) spent some of her childhood at Maryland. I just shared this with her via Gmail
My grandfather would have been out in a field in Indiana planting crops or tending to his dairy cows. And my uncles would probably been over seas because it was during WWII. My father would been with my grandfather because he was the youngest.
Yea I would like a side by side video that’d be cool, he’d just have to try and judge the time of year the original was taken and try and get similar footage
Thank you so much ! I love watching these, I wish I could jump through the screen and really be there! Being an old car nut and this being my favorite era, I would put this at about 1939 possibly early 1940. The newest car I could make out was a 1939 Plymouth coupe at 6:05.
I'm impressed by / with the smoothness of the film/ not jerky or bumpy progress, for such a distance traveled, long before digital asoects could smooth things over as could be done these days. I'm guessing some of the route beside the water is along the Potomac. I used to ride a bicycle between Mount Vernon and our home at Fort Hunt in Virginia. As a recreational afternoon, I seem to recall needing about 45 mins each way. I'd get an ice cream at Mount Vernon, then turn around & head home again 🚴
Almost certainly a bucolic weekend morning in D.C. prior to our entry into the war after Pearl Harbor. I like the fact NASS is careful not to over saturate the colors in these remasters.
I live in DC , and I love this video, I know where exactly this film was taken. Its Independence ave, going by US MINT. and Cherry trees still standing . Thank you for showing this to us.
I don't see any cars I recognize as being made after the late 1930's...1938 or 1939 would be the latest. World War II didn't officially start until September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, but things started marching toward the War in 1933. Given the timeframe, there was likely a lot of stress going on in Washington when this film was shot. Despite it all, the place looks very bucolic. Hey, Nass...thanks for another great video!
I don’t see anything later than the ‘38 model year. It would be easier to make out without the fake color added, which tends to wash out detail, but oh, well.
@@SearTrip I'll take the dubbed-in color as it brings the films to life much better than if they were black and white. I also appreciate the background noise.
@@SearTrip 1. its' not the color that washes out detail - it is the fact it was likely shot with an amateur camera on small stock film in the first place. 2. As well the "upscaling" adds content without adding detail, as the line doubling or trebling can't imagine what isn't there, just create an average between two existing pieces on information.
9:27 crossing the bridge over the Potomac river from DC to VA. I love these historical videos. Amazing to think that the people in these videos are no longer around. The cars as well. But the buildings, thoroughfares, and landmarks endure. 👍
I just wish they had kept going. I live down near Mount Vernon. Would love to more of GW Parkway and especially Route 1! Probably wouldn't even recognize route 1!@@markthomas6703
3:03 The raised rail line on the right with the overhead catenary implies use by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Given it is only two tracks this may be the route south of Union Station down to Potomac "Pot" Yard and interchange with the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
These videos are incredible. Unlike Hollywood movies, these films give the feeling of actually being inside the vehicle at the time of the film! It truly feels like one has gone back in time. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Who was behind the filming of all of these movies? Was it a small documentary company that went all over the US over several decades or was it something else? All of the films seem shot with the same style, so it doesn't look like these films were done by random people. Thank you!
I had a good friend (since passed away) that taught in the Washington, D.C. public school system from 1949-1970. When she first arrived back in 1949 she said that the place was almost magical. She mentioned that to a colleague that told her that she should have been there prior to F.D.R. Apparently it was much nicer then.
@@JackF99 I think that what was meant by the statement was prior to the depression and the Hooverville’s that sprang up. I wasn’t born yet and I am merely restating something that was said to me 40 years ago.
@@dave1956 gotcha I was thinking the city became suddenly much busier with the growth of government to deal with the Depression and eventually the war.
This person spent most of their time on the west end of the Mall near the Treasury Building, Maine Avenue, and GW Parkway south towards Arlington. This is a very small section of the city, and half the footage is of Virginia.
Over 80 years ago. That's a lifetime and then some. Amazing and beautiful. The man leaning on the rail by the lakeside at around 8 minutes in is, to me, the most wonderful part of the whole video. A glimpse into a past that most of us never knew.
One can follow the journey exiting the 14th Street Bridge with this historical photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/14th_Street_Bridge_1932.jpg. There is no sign of the Pentagon or its construction on the Washington-Hoover Airport site, so the film was presumably made before September 1941.
The first building we see is the Smithsonian Institution. It's a brick red building. I don't know if that helps your color adjustment. I think it ends near the site of the Pentagon.
Just think about the person who recorded this for all of us to see in 2022 has long been dead. How soon before will we all also experience the end? Yet watching this all seems like it just happened yesterday. Which, relative to our history, it did. Time is fleeting, nonetheless.
There's just something in the uncanny valley about very old live footage in H.D. seeing that stuff without all the distortion like they seen it.Makes me wonder what the hell they are going to do with our videos 70 years from now, probably going to render it undistinguishable VR that you can walk in and feel.
it is my understanding that these old street view films were used as the back drop for when they filmed actors in a scene inside of a car that was mimiced as being driven. Is this correct? It appears this bit of movie history has giving us some really interesting archives of city streets from back then.
I am guessing Autumn, as some trees do not have leaves, it doesn't look as it there are any blooms, and there are what appears to be piles of leaves on some boulevards... I like how some have correctly placed this late 1930's, 1940 at the latest. people think because you can see a car from years earlier, that must be the date. Buy there is always a range of vehicles on the road. Some other videos in this (and a couple other similar series) have been mis-categorized by a decade or more...Some being labelled '1950's' when you can see Mustangs or similar mid 1960's cars on the roads, or labelled as 1970's when there isn't a car older than 1962 visible....
Your question is quite significant. After all, we're dealing with Washington, D. C. During the war, the place has gotten utterly overcrowded, but if roads look empty in the video that still won't have to mean conclusive evidence of the footage being from before Pearl Harbor or from after the summer of 1945, given to how much more traffic we now are accustomed.
@@choward5430 Certainly! Just think of the way the Japanese have been greeted as liberators, in Southeast Asia, of the massacres commited by the Japanese in China, of the way Chiang has inundated big parts of his own country with water of the Yellow River just to stop the Japanese for a few weeks, of the banzai charges of the Japanese, of the way the Japanese have ignored rules of combat, of the way the Americans have burned out Japanese fortifications as if they were wiping out insects, of the suicides of Japanese women and children who had been told untruths about how the Americans would treat them - of the cost of the recapture of Manila, of the necessity to cooperate with Stalin, of the inability of the British air force to beat the Luftwaffe with its consequence of night bombings of German cities, of the cooperation of the Americans with the Mafia in Italy, of the inability of the American air force to hit factories of Japan from the newly constructed B-29s with its consequence of the fire-bombings of the cities in that country, of the way the Japanese then did not want to capitulate with its consequence of two atomic bombings plus their long-term followings for the health of numberless people...
I didn't see one car past 1938. If this was war time (WW2) there would be a lot more cars everywhere as D.C. was a very busy place. I would guess this is late 1937 or early 1938.
Where does he find these videos?! Or rather, how do you find them within the “Internet Archive” database? I went to the website, and have no idea how it all works 🤣
It is a time consuming process tho, takes a lot of work, and your system has to be up to spec and have the resources to render the effects in a timely and accurate manner
Well seeing as film is higher resolution than HD video and all you need to do this is mount a tripod on the back seat of a convertible, on the bed of a truck, or out the back of a van, no not really.
looks like this made for plate to be used in a driving scene for a movie. There are tons of those reels as it wasn't till the 60s/70s they started mounting cameras to the cars instead of doing driving scenes this way, and even then Hollywood prefers to pull the cars around on a trailer
Seems to me would be before 1939. I don't see the Jefferson Memorial, built in 1939-1943. Looks like it is going on or by Maine Ave to Ohio Drive and across the 14th Street Bridge (or its predecessor).
From a time when people, the cars they drove, the clothes they wore, and the world generally had a bit of class and refinement. Sadly no longer the case..
I would guess this film was shot no later than early 1942, account after 12/7/41 there would have been a lot more activity/restrictions, etc. Also, cars are certainly not postwar cars of the '46 and later variety. Just my guess.
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@@Gigie2Z thank you!!! ^^
How did you figure the time period. I saw lots of 1920s model cars so thought more late 1930s in my head
Wow the city where I live as it was 80 years ago, thank you for this great video.
My family lived in DC during the 1970s. One friend of mine ( met elsewhere, in later years) spent some of her childhood at Maryland. I just shared this with her via Gmail
Imagine just casually seeing your great grand dad in one of these videos
That would be WILD; to see a grandfather in the video. v
Must be nice to be white
My grandfather would have been out in a field in Indiana planting crops or tending to his dairy cows. And my uncles would probably been over seas because it was during WWII. My father would been with my grandfather because he was the youngest.
@@hillbillyrver357 , Troll account? v
He was dead... that WOULD be a shock!
I would love to see the same route today. It would be interesting to compare.
Yea I would like a side by side video that’d be cool, he’d just have to try and judge the time of year the original was taken and try and get similar footage
@@RA-ui8yw and dodge bullets
@@RA-ui8yw also did you notice the vehicle that was following the entire way?
1937-9 and wish the traffic was as light as this today! It doesn’t even resemble The Capital in many places. Good job as always NASS. Thx.
a side-by-side synced viewing of this and current footage of the same route would be fantastic!
Thank you so much ! I love watching these, I wish I could jump through the screen and really be there! Being an old car nut and this being my favorite era, I would put this at about 1939 possibly early 1940. The newest car I could make out was a 1939 Plymouth coupe at 6:05.
thank you so much ;))
You are right it looks like late 30s or max 1940
I'm impressed by / with the smoothness of the film/ not jerky or bumpy progress, for such a distance traveled, long before digital asoects could smooth things over as could be done these days.
I'm guessing some of the route beside the water is along the Potomac. I used to ride a bicycle between Mount Vernon and our home at Fort Hunt in Virginia. As a recreational afternoon, I seem to recall needing about 45 mins each way. I'd get an ice cream at Mount Vernon, then turn around & head home again 🚴
Almost certainly a bucolic weekend morning in D.C. prior to our entry into the war after Pearl Harbor. I like the fact NASS is careful not to over saturate the colors in these remasters.
Any expert of which I am not one, of automobile model years, will be able to tell us if this is pre or post Pearl Harbor...
@@Allan-et5ig very true Allan!
I live in DC. My apartment was built in 1941 so it was brand new back then. It’s pretty cool how many landmarks I was able to recognize in this clip
I live in DC , and I love this video, I know where exactly this film was taken. Its Independence ave, going by US MINT. and Cherry trees still standing . Thank you for showing this to us.
As a native of our Capital City (Currently living in a Virginia suburb) I thank you for sharing this.
I don't see any cars I recognize as being made after the late 1930's...1938 or 1939 would be the latest. World War II didn't officially start until September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, but things started marching toward the War in 1933. Given the timeframe, there was likely a lot of stress going on in Washington when this film was shot. Despite it all, the place looks very bucolic. Hey, Nass...thanks for another great video!
I don’t see anything later than the ‘38 model year. It would be easier to make out without the fake color added, which tends to wash out detail, but oh, well.
@@SearTrip I'll take the dubbed-in color as it brings the films to life much better than if they were black and white. I also appreciate the background noise.
@@SearTrip 1. its' not the color that washes out detail - it is the fact it was likely shot with an amateur camera on small stock film in the first place.
2. As well the "upscaling" adds content without adding detail, as the line doubling or trebling can't imagine what isn't there, just create an average between two existing pieces on information.
@@danoc51 I find speed correction does the most to "modernize" a film. See "They shall not grow old"
@@danoc51 Yup Exactly WW2 1939-1945 Wouldn't Officially Start Until September 1st 1939 When Nazi Germany Invaded Poland.
9:27 crossing the bridge over the Potomac river from DC to VA. I love these historical videos. Amazing to think that the people in these videos are no longer around. The cars as well. But the buildings, thoroughfares, and landmarks endure. 👍
I use that exit every day. It’s always a battle to get to that turn. Looks pretty easy back then!😊
@@SkyCamBUThe little stone bridge over the GW parkway looks identical today
I just wish they had kept going. I live down near Mount Vernon. Would love to more of GW Parkway and especially Route 1! Probably wouldn't even recognize route 1!@@markthomas6703
Its amazing how well kept the roads are, no potholes or patch up jobs.
Not only that... but the cars didn't weigh as much and there was less contact patch on all of those car's wheel/tire combo.
Things were not as well kept as you think..
it is absolutely amazing for me to imagine that i live there
3:03 The raised rail line on the right with the overhead catenary implies use by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Given it is only two tracks this may be the route south of Union Station down to Potomac "Pot" Yard and interchange with the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
This is why I love the internet. Thanks for sharing.
@@superbowlofselfabuse You're welcome.
NASS is conning us all! He is a time-traveler who goes back in time to record these
No. Its a chronovisor.
This is excellent! I grew up in the DC area and it’s so cool seeing how it was so many years ago. Beautiful job on the restoration too by the way!
thank you so much ;)
@@NASS_0 ❤️
It was so clean back then and those trees are beautiful
Joey B Toonz, talks about your channel and man!! He was right, this is good place to be.
Subscribed :)
Wild to see glimpses of the past. Thanks for posting. v
thank you so much ;)
That was probably the last year you could find parking on the mall
Always amazing to see those pre-war streets without the lane markings. Everybody is just free-floating around.... :)
And parking just about anywhere they want.
The architects of the 60s and 70s should not rest easy.
These videos are incredible. Unlike Hollywood movies, these films give the feeling of actually being inside the vehicle at the time of the film! It truly feels like one has gone back in time. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Who was behind the filming of all of these movies? Was it a small documentary company that went all over the US over several decades or was it something else? All of the films seem shot with the same style, so it doesn't look like these films were done by random people. Thank you!
Super video great speed and colour very relaxing film too love the cars nearest to a time machine you could get .
thank you so much ;)) ^^
Beautiful video. Thanks!
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO SUPER NASS THANKS
thank you so much ^^
I had a good friend (since passed away) that taught in the Washington, D.C. public school system from 1949-1970. When she first arrived back in 1949 she said that the place was almost magical. She mentioned that to a colleague that told her that she should have been there prior to F.D.R. Apparently it was much nicer then.
"Prior to F.D.R."? They probably meant prior to the Great Depression and WW2.
@@JackF99
I think that what was meant by the statement was prior to the depression and the Hooverville’s that sprang up. I wasn’t born yet and I am merely restating something that was said to me 40 years ago.
@@dave1956 gotcha I was thinking the city became suddenly much busier with the growth of government to deal with the Depression and eventually the war.
Great Video 👍👌😊
This person spent most of their time on the west end of the Mall near the Treasury Building, Maine Avenue, and GW Parkway south towards Arlington. This is a very small section of the city, and half the footage is of Virginia.
I can't believe how empty and spacious everything seems...Then again there were 200 million less people in the U.S in the 1940's.
There also wasn't a open border either.
I’m still wondering if this is location filming for Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” from 1939.
Over 80 years ago. That's a lifetime and then some. Amazing and beautiful. The man leaning on the rail by the lakeside at around 8 minutes in is, to me, the most wonderful part of the whole video. A glimpse into a past that most of us never knew.
Still had cars and indoor plumbing, something 90% of humans that ever lived never got to experience.
So no, I don't consider this a long time ago.
As someone who drives to DC daily for work this is refreshing to see.
One can follow the journey exiting the 14th Street Bridge with this historical photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/14th_Street_Bridge_1932.jpg. There is no sign of the Pentagon or its construction on the Washington-Hoover Airport site, so the film was presumably made before September 1941.
These are so awesome 😎
GREAT VIDO SUPER NASS YOU ARE KING
Drinking the tea, watching nass last video ☕
Tomando el te viendo el ultimo video de nass
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Seeing all those magnificent elm trees makes me sad. There really are no other trees that are so perfect in form to shade wide boulevards.
The first building we see is the Smithsonian Institution. It's a brick red building. I don't know if that helps your color adjustment. I think it ends near the site of the Pentagon.
A lot of traffic but a lot less than this year
My Grandmother was born in 42 so it's quite fascinating to see the world like this.
Very very beautiful thanks to this video Nass
thank you so much ;)
Just think about the person who recorded this for all of us to see in 2022 has long been dead. How soon before will we all also experience the end? Yet watching this all seems like it just happened yesterday. Which, relative to our history, it did. Time is fleeting, nonetheless.
Love the 1940s! WWII and awesome Classic Cars
What is so great about WWII? People do not seem to have liked it very much, altogether.
@@HansDunkelberg1 i don't like its outcome, after all we are living in the world molded by that war.
@@pauloa.7609 Who is "we"? Do you live in China?
The cars yes but not the War.
@@HansDunkelberg1 citizen of an European union country like all my ancestors.
Great!
Is there a word to describe nostalgia for a place one has never been?
There's just something in the uncanny valley about very old live footage in H.D. seeing that stuff without all the distortion like they seen it.Makes me wonder what the hell they are going to do with our videos 70 years from now, probably going to render it undistinguishable VR that you can walk in and feel.
I believe this is either 1936 or ‘38.
it is my understanding that these old street view films were used as the back drop for when they filmed actors in a scene inside of a car that was mimiced as being driven. Is this correct? It appears this bit of movie history has giving us some really interesting archives of city streets from back then.
6:20 Museum of Natural History
This must be in the spring.
Just listen to the birds👍
It's spring SOMEWHERE... this is dubbed.
@@zelphx
How can you tell?
amazing
Thank goodness that some random guy decided to strap a camera to a car and film with it otherwise I won't be seeing this
I am guessing Autumn, as some trees do not have leaves, it doesn't look as it there are any blooms, and there are what appears to be piles of leaves on some boulevards...
I like how some have correctly placed this late 1930's, 1940 at the latest. people think because you can see a car from years earlier, that must be the date. Buy there is always a range of vehicles on the road. Some other videos in this (and a couple other similar series) have been mis-categorized by a decade or more...Some being labelled '1950's' when you can see Mustangs or similar mid 1960's cars on the roads, or labelled as 1970's when there isn't a car older than 1962 visible....
7:59 Father,Mother and child 🥺
NEWEST CAR SEEN, THIS FILM, 1939 PLYMOUTH !
Very very great Video 😀👍😃😃😃👍😀
Does anyone know what buildings those are around @2:57?
I'd like to know the names of streets and bridges. Also, is this 1940s pre-WWII or during WWII or after WWII?
Your question is quite significant. After all, we're dealing with Washington, D. C. During the war, the place has gotten utterly overcrowded, but if roads look empty in the video that still won't have to mean conclusive evidence of the footage being from before Pearl Harbor or from after the summer of 1945, given to how much more traffic we now are accustomed.
@@HansDunkelberg1 That war was nasty in every aspect.
@@choward5430 Certainly! Just think of the way the Japanese have been greeted as liberators, in Southeast Asia, of the massacres commited by the Japanese in China, of the way Chiang has inundated big parts of his own country with water of the Yellow River just to stop the Japanese for a few weeks, of the banzai charges of the Japanese, of the way the Japanese have ignored rules of combat, of the way the Americans have burned out Japanese fortifications as if they were wiping out insects, of the suicides of Japanese women and children who had been told untruths about how the Americans would treat them - of the cost of the recapture of Manila, of the necessity to cooperate with Stalin, of the inability of the British air force to beat the Luftwaffe with its consequence of night bombings of German cities, of the cooperation of the Americans with the Mafia in Italy, of the inability of the American air force to hit factories of Japan from the newly constructed B-29s with its consequence of the fire-bombings of the cities in that country, of the way the Japanese then did not want to capitulate with its consequence of two atomic bombings plus their long-term followings for the health of numberless people...
I didn't see one car past 1938. If this was war time (WW2) there would be a lot more cars everywhere as D.C. was a very busy place. I would guess this is late 1937 or early 1938.
@@mr.bnatural3700 No cars were made from 1942-1946.
Horn blow sound effect needed at 7:35.
Dig the D.C./VA boundary painted on the road at the 5:24 mark.
Love the majestic luxury car at 10:11. Anyone recognize what brand it was? It's a big one.
Cadillac 1933 v12 or v16 ..
@@daniellacasse1368 Cool! Thanks!
@@daniellacasse1368 , Wow, V12 & v16's we're made? Then again, gas was probably 25 cents at that time. v
@@virginiatyree6705 It was lower than that.Google says around 19 cents a gallon.
Hey again@@samp7003 , Thanks for the information! I was close. v
Pre Jefferson Memorial. The Truss Bridge was replaced a few years later
A wonderful time capsule of the past.
Based on the cars this is mid 1930's.
Where does he find these videos?! Or rather, how do you find them within the “Internet Archive” database? I went to the website, and have no idea how it all works 🤣
lots of sites have libraries of film archives online, nothing new or hard, just download and put thru image enhancement software
@@RocknJazzer what kind of software is that?
@@giovannip8600 There are tons just search, some way better than others of course. I think NASS has said what he uses
It is a time consuming process tho, takes a lot of work, and your system has to be up to spec and have the resources to render the effects in a timely and accurate manner
I don’t know 🤷♂️ why but I grew up in Bangladesh and I felt like I know everything about this place looks so familiar ❤
At 10:20 the old George Washington Parkway in Arlington .
Late 1930's - maybe 1940 - based on the cars.
Downtown has not changed much.
It’s too bad we can’t go back to these days
I spotted ZERO advertising.
great clip
Pretty high tech camera for 1940 isn't it
Well seeing as film is higher resolution than HD video and all you need to do this is mount a tripod on the back seat of a convertible, on the bed of a truck, or out the back of a van, no not really.
looks like this made for plate to be used in a driving scene for a movie. There are tons of those reels as it wasn't till the 60s/70s they started mounting cameras to the cars instead of doing driving scenes this way, and even then Hollywood prefers to pull the cars around on a trailer
Amazing, no traffic lights, stop signs, or traffic! 🤤
Right! Very different than today.
so cool!
Amazing!
Isn’t that around 1945 the year VE or victory over Europe occurred in that year along with Japan being defeated by USA during the end of the war
Like going back in time
I know it would be difficult to find, but it would be cool to have Recife here…
Are these the 1940s for sure? Looks like cars from the 1930s
5:50 We are tailed by Clare Quilty.
wonderful. this is before the war. Early spring 40 or 41. No one in uniform yet.
I wonder if any of those trees are still there and how many
Insane that’s my state and it’s sooooo different…duh…but damn. This city is a baby here.
Joeybtoons sent me here
Nice video but I personally prefer the front view.
What is that castle looking building in the beginning?
The Smithsonian’s offices
Thank you.
Washington DC has gotten so much bigger. Big government now.
Too big for their britches
Got any videos from 100BC 👽
I wish
Seems to me would be before 1939. I don't see the Jefferson Memorial, built in 1939-1943. Looks like it is going on or by Maine Ave to Ohio Drive and across the 14th Street Bridge (or its predecessor).
👍👍👍
Joey B Toonz brought me here.
From a time when people, the cars they drove, the clothes they wore, and the world generally had a bit of class and refinement. Sadly no longer the case..
I was hoping this would be more interesting. No footage of down town and people on the streets.
. I wonder what 80 years from now will look like
I won't have much of a view, inside an urn.
What color car you want?? Green.. You get black!!
I would guess this film was shot no later than early 1942, account after 12/7/41 there would have been a lot more activity/restrictions, etc. Also, cars are certainly not postwar cars of the '46 and later variety. Just my guess.
Looks like a winter day due to no leaves on the trees & the declination of the sun. v
I didn't see one car past 1938.