The 'Wild West' ended in around 1895-1900 (depending on which site I check). That means this Wild West re-enactment took place around 60 years after the Wild West ended. And this re-enactment is now 62 years old. So the re-enactment was closer in time to the Wild West than it is to us.
That's pretty cool! The wild west was always insanely popular, and people got nostalgic for it very quickly. I remember reading an anecdote about how Hitler used to read a lot of western stories as a child (this would be in the 1890s), which is, as you said, when the Wild West was still going on. So that means that the appeal for the west apparently extended to even Europe.
Seems like old traditionally recorded footage reels can be restored to a higher quality more easily than the early forms of digital recording quality. Since stuff like old reels of film have a really nice natural resolution to them if they can be transfered to digital format and restored. Why many old shows and movies tend to retain their quality even if there's a bit of film grain type stuff to them, compared to the resolution and quality of early standard definition stuff in digital format like for TV shows in the 90s/early 2000s.
Hey, I once found videos of a water theme park before it got demolished in the 90s, so that was fun. Not sure how I got them, since I'm almost 1000km away from the park, but it was a pretty fun find nonetheless.
I don't know why but watching a video of a familiar place 65 years ago is amazing. It's weird to think that the kids in this video are now in their 70's.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing this. As the grandson of Disney Imagineer Roger Broggie, I always love seeing fresh perspectives on the original park and how it looked back when this place dominated my dad's, his brother, and their dad's daily lives.
i didnt realize that was walt disney! and the old west part was so strange! thanks. i have a bunch of old footage from the 60s i need to digitize as well.
11 years before I was born, this is amazing to see it didn't change much in the following 20 years or so. I think the biggest changes came during the mid 90s when they slowly started fading out the traditional attractions and Disney Characters.
Wow. Love the shots with the Native Americans. I hope they were paid the same as the rest of the actors... It looked like there was an 'Old West' part of the park at one time? Very cool.
My home town. Amazing footage friend! I've been fortunate to go to Disney enough starting all the way back to the early 80's. Definitely brought on that nostalgia vibe....well done! So good!
Nah. 70mm film is wayyyy better than what any commercial TV can output today. Even 8K TV’s don’t do it justice. But most types of film are superior to digital cameras. If not all. I don’t know much about it.
This is incredible footage. Thanks for taking the time to restore it and share. Can you share what methods you used to restore this? Where you had the film scanned?
Eddie Little Sky 2:36 a character actor and Oglala Lakota- for those of you who thought there weren't any native Americans in the footage. He did Cimarron and Gilligans Island, and tons of other work.
If you go and look through a lot of these historic videos, you'll see barely any obese people. Obesity first started increasing from the 1970s onwards, but didn't reach the epidemic it is today until recently (past 15-25 years).
@@theovertaker40 1. That's just not true. Trump isn't unbanning asbestos. It was never banned in the United States. We never stopped manufacturing it. The EPA bill takes existing situations in which asbestos is used and says "now instead of just using it, you must ask the EPA for explicit approval which we can deny for any reason". 2. This is a video about Disney world and cool retroism, why bring politics into it. Not cool.
Thomas Ennis well the red looks on par with moderate cameras. But other colors looks pretty dull. But with that said it still passed my expectations for that time period
The resolution/quality is nice and crisp, but it is below average for the 1950s. It's a regular 16mm film, it just happens to be well preserved. Most 1950s stuff was on 35 mm, and often has higher detail than even 4K can properly display.
Comparing analog film quality to digital quality...that's funny. Digital has only now started to catch up to the quality of film. This was shot on 16mm film which is effectively 2K resolution, so better than HD, but not quite as good as 4K.
Disneyland was dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created American with the hopes that it would be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
Your grandfather knew how to capture the scope of an event through camera. Awesome video thank you for sharing. I would love to know what walt told your grandma that made her laugh
Not necessarily. Many people in the video may still be alive. The employees may be in their 80s. Children 62-72 like rzomg said. These are not uncommon ages to be alive in these days.
You can do similiar with older film too, there's a project underway in the UK by the Imprial War Museum to cleanup all the WWI footage it can. Shit looks no worse then 720P, and damn near 1080 in some cases. Old film and cameras were capable of recording in very high quality but the means to reproduce it all were not readily available.
Are you sure about that??? Public segregation, the issue of women’s rights, the Korean war, and a kajillion other social issues... and this is right before the 60’s which marked a huge social revolution and right after WWII!
@@TheJayson8899 That social revolution brought in AIDS, drug use, high crime, sexualization of minors, divorce, open borders, broken families, school shootings, and various other ills. Thank Lefties!
Imagine going to Disneyland and just casually seeing Walt Disney hanging out to say hello to.
The 'Wild West' ended in around 1895-1900 (depending on which site I check).
That means this Wild West re-enactment took place around 60 years after the Wild West ended.
And this re-enactment is now 62 years old.
So the re-enactment was closer in time to the Wild West than it is to us.
That's cool, that means that some of the people who visited the re-enactment may very well have grown up in the Wild West.
Wow
@@Rymdpandan they say nobody made it out of the wild west
That's pretty cool! The wild west was always insanely popular, and people got nostalgic for it very quickly. I remember reading an anecdote about how Hitler used to read a lot of western stories as a child (this would be in the 1890s), which is, as you said, when the Wild West was still going on. So that means that the appeal for the west apparently extended to even Europe.
So what
Good find! Makes ya wonder what other videos are lost or forgotten in someone's attic
Seems like old traditionally recorded footage reels can be restored to a higher quality more easily than the early forms of digital recording quality. Since stuff like old reels of film have a really nice natural resolution to them if they can be transfered to digital format and restored. Why many old shows and movies tend to retain their quality even if there's a bit of film grain type stuff to them, compared to the resolution and quality of early standard definition stuff in digital format like for TV shows in the 90s/early 2000s.
Dude,not expecting to find you in here!
What's your reddit profile?
I read this in your voice
Hey, I once found videos of a water theme park before it got demolished in the 90s, so that was fun. Not sure how I got them, since I'm almost 1000km away from the park, but it was a pretty fun find nonetheless.
I bet there's a few young boys in this film who would go on to serve in Vietnam... Crazy how the time flies.
i never thought about that holy shit
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
Jesus Trav, that’s dark
Remember this well! I was there in 1956 with my folks and my big brother. It was and still is such a wonderful place.
It is, it was as close to real magic as it gets.
How was orange county back then? Were you from the area?
I was not from the area. From Washington state, but Anaheim was rural in comparison to today.
did you see get to meet Disney himself?
Doubledipin no we did not
I don't know why but watching a video of a familiar place 65 years ago is amazing. It's weird to think that the kids in this video are now in their 70's.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing this. As the grandson of Disney Imagineer Roger Broggie, I always love seeing fresh perspectives on the original park and how it looked back when this place dominated my dad's, his brother, and their dad's daily lives.
I'm kinda disappointed that there was no audio but it's still really cool to look back at a time period before I was born
i didnt realize that was walt disney! and the old west part was so strange! thanks. i have a bunch of old footage from the 60s i need to digitize as well.
sarahjacksky Were you there in the 60's? If so then that's actually cool
Yes please save whatever footage you have and post what you can. Don't let it end up in the garbage.
0:21
He's also at the bottom of the frame beginning at 0:13
Post it
I wasn't even there and I can feel the nostalgia
At 3:15 you can see fishing off the Island, which was only available for about three months in 1956. Super cool.
How do you know something like that???
Holy shit! That’s impressive quality!
uploader: hey look at this neat high quality video from the 50s
people in the comments: POLITICS!
theLMGN hmmm??? Im pretty sure you're the only one who brought politic in this comment section but go off i guess
11 years before I was born, this is amazing to see it didn't change much in the following 20 years or so. I think the biggest changes came during the mid 90s when they slowly started fading out the traditional attractions and Disney Characters.
Pretty amazing how there were some HQ films around those times! Wish there were more films like this!
I have never been to any Disney theme park, and yet this filled me with great nostalgia for some reason.
Wow. Love the shots with the Native Americans. I hope they were paid the same as the rest of the actors... It looked like there was an 'Old West' part of the park at one time? Very cool.
Wooahhh the part with Walt is pretty trippy
This is so amazing. The quality, the color, just the history shown in this video is so incredible. Thank you so much for posting this.
Thank you for sending me this video, it's really nice to see the 50's in colour
I love the sharp colours.
Oh my gosh. So beatiful films... Love this colours
Gorgeous kodachrome colours!!
My home town. Amazing footage friend! I've been fortunate to go to Disney enough starting all the way back to the early 80's. Definitely brought on that nostalgia vibe....well done! So good!
Better keep your grandfather's disneyland footages. To share with the world and to the future. To see what this beautiful theme park looked like.
To think my mother was only 1-2 years old when this hd film was made! And my father was only 8-9 years old. This is NASA type quality for the time.
Nah. 70mm film is wayyyy better than what any commercial TV can output today. Even 8K TV’s don’t do it justice. But most types of film are superior to digital cameras. If not all. I don’t know much about it.
This is incredible footage. Thanks for taking the time to restore it and share. Can you share what methods you used to restore this? Where you had the film scanned?
It wasn't restored, mate
You'd be surprised just how good film can be when made well.
Eddie Little Sky 2:36 a character actor and Oglala Lakota- for those of you who thought there weren't any native Americans in the footage. He did Cimarron and Gilligans Island, and tons of other work.
@2:57
That's either a really cool effect or an actual part of the attraction burning down.
Thank you for posting. It was so sweet back then.
This is really special. Thanks so much for posting.
Absolutely amazing thank you so much for sharing this!!
INCREDIBLE footage!!!
Fantastic. Real native Americans sharing their culture too.
Wow so peaceful and white
As an overweight dude (though I am trying to change that), I am slightly surprised by the lack of obese people in crowds for this footage.
portions sizes were really small back then
Not to mention fast food wasn’t popular back then, McDonalds was founded 16 years earlier though
If you go and look through a lot of these historic videos, you'll see barely any obese people. Obesity first started increasing from the 1970s onwards, but didn't reach the epidemic it is today until recently (past 15-25 years).
This is so beautiful! Great job on the restoration, and thank you for sharing the footage
The color is fantastic on this.
Wonderful memories
That motion blur is so perfect
Jeff, thank you so much for posting this. I was ten when your granddad took this and it brings back a lot of memories.
im studying the history of the vacation and this came up in my rabbit hole, very wonderful indeed!
That place was made out of lead paint and asbestos back then
As was just about everything back then.
But asbestos is ok now according to the president.
@@theovertaker40 I mean... it's got best right in it
So happy!
@@theovertaker40 1. That's just not true. Trump isn't unbanning asbestos. It was never banned in the United States. We never stopped manufacturing it. The EPA bill takes existing situations in which asbestos is used and says "now instead of just using it, you must ask the EPA for explicit approval which we can deny for any reason".
2. This is a video about Disney world and cool retroism, why bring politics into it. Not cool.
Walt Disney himself at 0:23
Actually you can already see him at the bottom at 0:13
That Kodachrome really pops out with the colors. How.much touch up work did you have to do?
dis here is gold
That's was great. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
That camera at the start looks amazing.
These are amazing! Thanks for posting 🙌
Wow theses are beautiful
The colors look so "matte/pastel"
Damn i love these colors
Said no one ever in the 50s
This made me happy.
i watched this while listening to Curtis Mayfield 'move on up' and it was trippy.
great video
Just wow. ❤️
This is amazing footage
This is neat, thanks for sharing!
The quality is amazing for the 50's it's color isn't on par. But the resolution is close to hd.
the one I think the color is amazing. Judging by a lot of new cameras today
Thomas Ennis well the red looks on par with moderate cameras. But other colors looks pretty dull. But with that said it still passed my expectations for that time period
The resolution/quality is nice and crisp, but it is below average for the 1950s. It's a regular 16mm film, it just happens to be well preserved. Most 1950s stuff was on 35 mm, and often has higher detail than even 4K can properly display.
Comparing analog film quality to digital quality...that's funny. Digital has only now started to catch up to the quality of film. This was shot on 16mm film which is effectively 2K resolution, so better than HD, but not quite as good as 4K.
Sound quality is garbage...
This is amazing. 💜
superb quality
I would LOVE to see someone convert this to 60fps. It would be amazing.
Disneyland was dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created American with the hopes that it would be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
Your grandfather knew how to capture the scope of an event through camera. Awesome video thank you for sharing. I would love to know what walt told your grandma that made her laugh
Looks like good times
gives me goosebumps
Amazing!!
_... Okay... I'm still yet to find some footage with those horrifying mascots... You know, Mickey and Minnie in the 1950's..._
beautiful footage! thank you.
This was awesome! Thanks so much for sharing! Any more footage?
Twenty years before I got to visit it.
Not sure why this is just recommended to me now. This sort of thing will easily reach 100,000 views very soon. If not more.
00:40 WOW those tea cups spin fast.
This is so amazing 😍❤️
Almost everyone you see is now dead.
rzomg Thing is, most of the people in this clip look 20 years old. So theyre 82 now
Why you gotta hurt me like that
Not necessarily. Many people in the video may still be alive.
The employees may be in their 80s. Children 62-72 like rzomg said. These are not uncommon ages to be alive in these days.
Gives me such a pain in my stomach when I think of this
The older people yeah but not almost everyone. Maybe if the video was 20 years older
Fantastic restoration. I wonder how the First Nations feel about this video?
Wow thanks for uploading this
I am very interested to know more of the details of how this film was restored. Remarkable work.
impressive
What a cracking video well done.
Hi, is it possible for me to use some of these clips for a disney channel im making? thank you
That new ride smell! :)
Very well color corrected. What did you transfer with?
Finally it’s not in grey
why does stuff like this, look like its 1080P when it isnt?
Kodachrome film. It has excellent archival qualities and it keeps its colors sharp. Pity Kodak quit making it.
@@Nighthawke70 hell simon and garf did a song about it
Because it's not pixels it's film
It's film, analog technology. Decent film will scale up to whatever resolution you sample it at with no loss of clarity.
You can do similiar with older film too, there's a project underway in the UK by the Imprial War Museum to cleanup all the WWI footage it can. Shit looks no worse then 720P, and damn near 1080 in some cases. Old film and cameras were capable of recording in very high quality but the means to reproduce it all were not readily available.
Awesome 16mm transfer! Good for you. :)
Did you get it in 1080p AVC from the lab?
What went wrong?
Cool. Was this shot on 8mm or 16mm? And did you use a telecine (frame by frame capture)?
Wow this footage is older than my mom
So the world *wasn't* in greyscale back in the 50s?!
This is so cool!
The burning cabin was a bit much. Different times.
Yeah I'd imagine the whole cowboys vs indians feature was insensitive and racist.
You dont think Natives and Frontiersmen burned each others homes and fought or something?
No sound?
What kind of handshake is that...
Simpler time
Are you sure about that??? Public segregation, the issue of women’s rights, the Korean war, and a kajillion other social issues... and this is right before the 60’s which marked a huge social revolution and right after WWII!
@@TheJayson8899 That social revolution brought in AIDS, drug use, high crime, sexualization of minors, divorce, open borders, broken families, school shootings, and various other ills. Thank Lefties!
Nice
There was definitely a specific color scheme back then.
Hey Jeff, George from LADbible here. We love this video, could we please post onto our page? We will fully credit you, thanks!
0:21 Here’s Walt Disney
I keep adjusting my volume setting...