From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.... Clip ref KHM48 1950s Philippines, Manila, 16mm Colour Home Movies
No words to describe this but absolutely gorgeous. Now I know how mantras like ‘pearl of the orient’, ‘Paris of Asia’ and ‘queen of the Pacific’ came to be. How Manila went from this to what we have now is a total disgrace.
Wow roxas blvrd ba yan? Kulay asul pa ngayon itim na. May sidewalk pa nuon ngayon wala ka ng malakaran. Yung paligid maayos pa, green pa. Masarap maglakad at mahangin. Ngayon pede ka ng magtayo ng tindahan kahit pa sa gitna ng kalsada. Pag sinita sila pa galit. Pilipinas kong mahal....
You don’t know what you’re talking about? Do you think those Americans took pictures of the slums? I was in Manila in 1986 and it was a waste land thanks to the corruption. Now Manila is much more prosperous as is the whole of the Philippines. Back then you were poor skinny rice eaters. Now you see every one eating at Jollibee and McDonald’s etc. young Filipinos are 10 times more prosperous than their parents. Manila has population problems yes, way too many people, but in general things are way better now than ever before
The Philippines is actually a rich country. Its just mismanaged a lot. Some of you probably have never even been there. The problem is the corruption that is there. You also go to realize lots of the educated workers are not there any more. They are working overseas. Its a great country and great people. I am american and my family lived there during the war. I had family die in Bataan. My fiancee is filipina.
@Jason Jones - How is it rich? 20-25% of the population lives in poverty and under the official subsistence level - and I don´t think you know how many Filipinos have to live on the equivalent of 2 USD a day or less. Look at GDP per capita - and you will see The Philippines is still on the level with countries like Morocco, Swaziland and Jordan. I think I know what you mean, but I don´t see The Philippines as a rich country. With it´s nature, with all its natural ressources it has all the potential to become one of the most wealthy countries in Southeast Asia. But as a matter of fact many people there are struggling more now to make ends meet than under Marcos. (However I am NOT saying that Marcos - all in all - was good for the country).
@@sukhmaidickoff Phil. indeed the rich in the globe. but no one knows how it losses its wealth,. or hid. as far as i know mindanao fossil oil is greater than of middle east. and the diamond minerals also there too, all are not cultivated yet. beacause lack of equipments. or still hidding by the government.
Rich, until the Judeo-Bolshevik agents Ninoy and Cory Aquino intistigated the 1986 EDSA Revolution to topple Marcos and make the Filipinos slaves of the IMF. A fate narrowly avoided by South Korea under Park Chung-hee, hence why they are so rich today.
filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the united states. at that time, we filipinos were not that mature yet. the mentality, the skills, they still needs some ripening. look at the kind of presidents we had/have (past to present).. how come we voted for them? if we were mature then, we could have america behind us by now. we have them as a model. we tailored our constitution from their constitution. all we have to do is copy them and improve on aspects where they failed.
@daryI dacs lol no. after WWII in the 1940s it became a shithole country. this video right here, shows the picture of beautiful parts of the country. we can all make this today. but really, even in the 60s, the country is already shit. people just love glorifying that era because of their political stance.
The nicest parts of Manila are still as nice as Hawaii and much nicer than anything in Guam. You should see Guamanians when they arrive in Makati or BGC and how shocked that it's nicer than anything on their island. That's why when they need a good hospital or even good shopping, they fly 3 hours to Manila
Haaayyy... ang sarap ng buhay nuon, mga bata... simpleng-simple... ang sarap ng simoy ng hangin sa Luneta, watching the sunset on clear skies... pag nagpunta ka sa Baguio nuon, sa Kennon Road ang daan, ang ganda ng Kennon Road nuon lalo na dun sa may ulo ng leon... sarap din mamasyal nuon sa Tagaytay... 15 minutes lang nuon ang Welcome Rotonda hanggang Cubao, sakay ka ng pulang JD bus, o kaya yung Yujuico Bus na kulay green - at napakalinis ng hangin... Cuba0-Makati (Ayala) nuon, 45 minutes lang riding the DM bus... sarap mag-reminisce... those days are gone and will never return... now, we just have to make do with what we have...
R D Oo, simple life lang ang kabataan noon. Ano oras kaya sila natutulog, 8 pm? Boring naman. Walang internet, walang porn, walang cable, walang smart phones, walang video games. Haay... boring.
R D I'm still young but I have an old soul. Want to live back to that time tapos erase ang memories ng panahon ngayon..maraming na dedepress sa ganitong lifestyle at po paligid
Not really if u have family that play games go on bikes sing along guitar 🎸 night u can walk or ride a bike to stores and the weather is always warm independence where u live if u live in big city 😬😬I guess it’s boring
Kung ngayon pa lang to, parang South Korea na tayo. Pero anong nangyare? Nauto ang mga Pilipino ng mga tuta ng mga Komunistang Hudyo tulad ni Aquino at Sison.
Reading the comments, I am inclined to appreciate most of them for sharing informative, educational and non combative exchanges of intellectual ideas and insights. Such a refreshing read. I wish all commenters would be like them. These make me hope that our dear country can still prosper someday with positivity.
i can still remember that time in my younger days. life used to simple, air is much fresher that you could almost taste it. wildflowers everywhere. nighttime comes and it's dark. the haunting stories of kapre, tikbalang, and other nightly beings makes it more exciting.
Mas nanaisin ko pa mabuhay noon kesa ngayon. Yung noon payapa walang masyadong pulusyon tapos maluwag yung kalsada tapos sobrang mura lang ng bilihin at wala masyadong problema. Pero ngayon more on technology na yung kumokontrol sa buhay natin yung tipong hindi ka mumubuhay kung walang walang CELLPHONE sa buhay mo. The best talaga yung panahon noon kesa ngayon.
Can't believe its Las Pinas City at 1:09-1:34. It's the Bamboo Organ church and the Sarao jeepney factory. Which at the time, those are two of the few buildings in the city. Now Las Pinas is full of villages and subdivisions that were once saltbeds.
1930s-1940s Philippines was like Paris and New York. Kahit mahirap naka formal dress sa babae at coat/blazer sa lalaki. Yung buong stretch ng Roxas Boulevard/Manila Bay palm trees lahat yun. Ang lahat ng hilera beach front mansions. Lahat ng mansion noon wala na, iilan nlng natira at na preserve. Lahat puro condominiums na. Wala pa yung lupa kung saan nakatayo ang mga Casino at MOA ngayon. Noon tubig dagat na parang Boracay ang linis yan. Doon mo makikita nakatambay mga Americans at Europeans noon. May trains pa noon parang San Francisco ngayon. Sinayang ng gobyerno ganda ng Manila. Halos wala na natira sa old buildings. Lahat ginawang modernized. Tayo sana ngayon ang Paris of Asia!
Amazing footage of The Philippines. Beautiful back in the days. Nice to reminisce through this video. Thanks fir sharing, I just subscribed to your channel.👍🏽✌🏽
after all has been said in the comments ,my country is the most beautiful place on EARTH to me. I am 60years old and I live more than half of my life here in JAPAN ,but I spent the rest in my beautiful country...
Manila is a very beautiful city! Bata pa ko nung 50s pero naalala ko mababait ang mga Manileños, sadly nadungisan ang imahe ng manileños at manila dahil sa mga probinsyanong sumiksik at naging skwatter. Most of the time nowadays people from rural ares tends to make fun of Manila as a dirty city pero sa totoo lang mga kapwa din nila probinsyano ang dahilan kung bakit naging madumi ang Manila.
The 40' 50's were the golden era of Philippines not Marcos years that was the beginning of deterioration of Philippines. My parents were born in 1932, my father finished only grade 3 and yet he could converse in English, (They were taught by American teachers) while my mother is illiterate but she can read numbers and can do addition and subtraction pretty well. I find her amazing without a proper education. She only managed 3 months in first grade when her mother died. Fast forward, even college educated can't do math and compose both Tagalog and English essays. Our language is dying, in my opinion.
Nakakasawa na ang pulos paninisi dahil sa iisang tao. 34 years nang wala si Marcos, at siya pa rin ang punot dahilan ng pagbagsak ng Pilipinas kahit ngayon laggard pa rin sa daming nagdaan na ibang Presidente, pero lahat dahil ke Marcos. Move on ka na, kaya hindi makabangon ang Pilipinas dahil lahat puro sisi
@@michigantiger7636 bakit hindi ba siya dapat sisihin? ang unang hakbang para bumangon ang pilipinas ang pananagot sa mga nagawa sila, oo nga wala na si marcos, ngunti mga crony niya andito padin, iba sa kanila di lang naging presidente, naging senador. Anak nga niya tatakbo sa halalalan ngayon tapos dala niya mga taong convicted. Tapos yung utang di na maibabalik. Kaya kung naririndi na kayo sa pagsisi kay Marcos, di niyo kasalanan yun, kasalanan nila yun sa matagal nilang pag tago at pag bulag sa mga tao ano ang mga ginagawa nila. Di naman madali buksan ang isipan, pwede mo sisihin si Aquino, Erap, Arroyo, Ramos, Cory, Duterte.
Wouldve benefited as an American Territory. China is backing out on investments. Philipoines couldve had money and protection. Now losing territory to China and corruption. Philippines was a scattered island chain.
Amristar must be a fucking spoiled rich brat born into the filipino oligarch families. A neo nationalist who hides the fact that filipino oligarchs are the reason why this country has not taken off economically. Their monopolistic agenda has pushed away foreign competition and has cornered the local market for their own enrichment by amending the constitution in 1987. Educate yourself.
@@philipagtuca5486 I agree, every province is controlled and fought over by political clans who have little interest in improving the nations. The Principalia class continues to dominate and fought against the reforms by Pres Quezon up to Pres Marcos. Now they rule after they secured their positions and influence using the 1987 constitution.
lol even in 50s-60s, Singapore was just a small backwater port city compared to Manila. Thankfully we have people like LKY Goh Keng Swee S Rajaratnam who truly care about the betterment of the nation. I feel sorry for Pinoys who had people like Marcos, Cory, or Estrada (esp. the former first one) to be their leader.
thank you so much for this, it seems that my filipino brothers cannot accept the fact that these leader destroyed our country. Marcos is even revered here, making his son the frontliner for the next presidential election. It's really a pity to be here. But I believe admiting to these mistakes is the beginning of the life-long rebuilding of this nation. Greetings from Ph!
Make Manila and the Philippines Great Again Plan: Be more business friendly, Stop littering Stay away from the imf and peditory loans from China Strengthen the courts and deal with corruption the same way Singapore does.
@@theblade1251 Yan lagi sinasabi ng mga DDS😒 eDi ikAw mAg pReSiDeNtE Tanga pala kayo kung critical lang kayo mag isip edi sana hindi ganito ang pilipinas binuto niyo ang tao dapat din alam ang ginagawa yan ang problema sainyo mga fanatics puro supporta kahit na mali ang ginagawa kayo ang dahilan bakit inasakop na tayo ng china!! Kayo ang tunay na salot dito sa LIPUNAN!!!
I Need my Ears Check. 👂 👂 👂👂.😀😀😀😀 Wow a Clean Tagaytay City. No High rise Condominiums That Ruins Everything and all the plantations Gone now. 😮 Wow at 3:23 to 3:54 A Clean Parañaque. Clean Waters People use to Fish There. And Now it's Full of the City's Trash. Very Hopeful to Clean it Now. Over Development and Over Populated.
Sad to say yung historical marker ng tagaytay ridge landing ay overshadowed by ninoy aquino's large statue na sa rotunda. dapat sana hindi inalis mga decorative na mga halaman at napakagandang pedestal nya gaya ng original na nasa video footage. Sayang talaga.
noong araw 2 klase ang natandaan ko ac jeep at tpu kasi ang ac maiksi lang na jeep mga apatan lang pag 6 napasahero masikip na tpu naman animan bali 12 lahat ang pasahero mga bata non takot sa magulang pagtanghali walang bata sa kalye masunurin ang mga bata non di matigas ang ulo ang pasyalan non luneta maaliwalas mahangin 5yrs old ako non 1
Gold Burst, tama ka - mababait nuon ang mga driver ng jeep, magagalang, marunong sumunod sa batas-trapiko. Ngayon? Karamihan mga barumbado. Yung iba, natuto lang ng atras-abante sa manibela, nagmaneho na, wala naman alam sa "road courtesy" o kaya "traffic rules and regulation". Dapat ngayon, bago bigyan ng driver's license, mag-seminar muna para matuto ng "road courtesy" tsaka "good manners and right conduct"... sarap sapakin yung mga jeepney drivers na beating-the-red-light para lang makauna sa pagkuha ng pasahero - ni hindi man lang itabi yung dyip... pwe!!!
Would you put that in English please. I read this out to my dear Filipina wife, who is from Cebu but understands Tagalog. She laughed at my pronounciation, coz I'm a New Zealander. LOL.
Hahaha... ok, Daddybob - here goes: "GoldBurst, you are correct - jeepney drivers back in time were very kind and courteous, respectful of their passengers, know how to obey traffic rules. Now? Most of them are good-for-nothing. Others just learned how to go forward and backward and decided to drive professionally without any inkling of this thing called "road courtesy" nor "traffic rules and regulations". These people should undergo a seminar about driving before being given a professional driver's license so that they will be aware of the regulations plus 'good manners and right conduct'. It would be fun if only I can hit drivers beating the red light just so they could get to their prospective passengers first, ahead of other drivers - they don't even bother to stop their dyip (jeepney) in proper loading places... pwe!!!" --- There, Daddybob - sorry but it's so hard to do the translation word for word because the sentence construction is quite different, but the gist of what I translated is quite complete... I hope you get what I mean... hope to hear from you soon, may i call you 'friend'?
Dear Daddybob... If you are referring to what R D (above) is saying, he says like this:..." He is affirming what Gold burst is saying. I will first translate what Gold burst says:.. In those days, there were only two things that he remembered, one was the AC Jeep. It was a type of jeep that was short that could accommodate 4 persons only but if 6 persons were accommodated, it became crowded already. And the second type was the one that could accommodate 6 persons on one side and another 6 persons on another side that which became 12 persons in totality. In those times children were afraid of their parents. They did not roam around during noontime. They were obedient to their parents and they were not hard-headed. Their only place to go for recreation was at the Luneta Park.... More or less this is what RD siad on what he posted. Well, here is the transcriptions of what Gold burst said on his post....Drivers in those times were kind, respectful and knew how to obey traffic rules. But now many are very unruly and without respect. Having learned how to do a reverse and forward can already drive without knowing anything about traffic rules and courtesy. It is right and fitting today that those would-be drivers must be required to attend seminars before they are given a driver license to know more about road courtesy and traffic rules.
Ang ganda ng nakaraan. Napakalinis ng Bayan natin dati. Pero anyare ngayon? Bat nawalan ng disiplina ung mga tao? Bilang isang batang Pilipino, ano po nangyari?Bat nagkaganito?
