Beautiful but damaged Vienna (Wien) just after WW-II in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized] 

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2:35 Wien, Spitalgasse 23. 2:58 Linz, view from Obere Donaulände to Nibelungenbrücke. 3:21 somewhere in Hungary. 3:26 Buenos Aires, Argentina, behind Teatro Colón (621 Libertad).

Austria, I call you home! Then, now, forever. ❤🇦🇹❤ Amazing work Rick, especially those footages from the early 1900s bring me to tears because it's almost awe-inspiring that someone from the distant future, we, watch those people just live their daily lifes.

Thanks for showing this. One remark, although I understand the colorisation is done automaticaly I'd like to say that the trams were (and still are) bright red in Vienna

2:59 not Vienna. Landscape in the back does not fit to Vienna. 3:22 probably somewhere in Hungary. 3:28 not Vienna. Vienna never had tramcars like those.

Awesome work Rick. The music fits perfectly.

Amazing work rick, amazing footage of a beautiful city 👌😃👍

So sad but beautiful! Thank you! Greetings from Austria.🇦🇹

Looks like this was filmed in the British zone judging by the uniforms of the soldiers guarding the entrance to the building. This is The Third Man era. Wonderful movie. I expected to see Harry Lime dash across a street.

Now that is some rare stuff. Not too many different scence but pretty long shots too. Impressive, even if not every single scene might really be from Vienna.

Beautiful piece of film restoration. Kept thinking of The Third Man theme. Interesting how soon people get back to normal after the futility of war

It is a tragedy that the Vienna State Opera House was 80% destroyed in the bombing - the 80% included the whole of the interior of the auditorium - On the rebuild the auditorium was re-created in a sort of post war austerity design - one can only imagine how sumptuous the Original must have been - the 20% that was not destroyed consists of the foyer, marble staicases, the emperorers relaxation room and at least one of the refreshment rooms - the contrast between the beauty of the 1860's magnificent foyer and the rebuilt auditorium is quite startling

4:12 Look at that window cleaner top right 👌

The vibe and situation was excactly same as depicted in The Third Man movie which also situated in post-WWII Vienna

Maravilloso video felicitaciones muchas gracias por compartir

4:13 Woman standing on a balustrade two stories up to clean her windows. I guess there's nothing would frighten her after surviving a bombing raid.

Keep expecting to see Harry Lime appear in a doorway! In fact there are a number of shots of the staircase where Joseph Cotton is pursued and accused by little "Oskar" of being the murderer of Harry's concierge. Little "Oskar" is the only member of the cast still living by the way. I can highly recommend the Third Man Museum to anyone visiting Vienna, not just for memorabilia relating to the film but also to learn more about the city in the immediate post-war period. Excellent museum and a very warm welcome guaranteed!

Beautiful! Nice music too :)

My dream city to visit. I had been to Austria before but not Vienna ❤️

I drive by this everyday!

How simply beautiful, historical an timeless. Close your eyes an let the music Take u their stunning thank you.

Fun fact: The trams were painted light brown using surplus camouflage paint from the Afrikakorps. Only later did they repaint them in the typical red-white color scheme.

Thank you.

une belle et agréable vidéo

It's almost like you can see the presence of hope in the skies after the ending of that terrible war...

Danke, das war eine schöne Zeitreise.

At 4:15 there is a very brave woman cleaning a window standing on the outside ledge of the building off to the right, i bet she didn't take any shit from the Nazi's.

Makes me thinking of members of my family already gone. Thank you!

I really love this city. I have been a whole year there and I can't forget Vienna

Wonderful footage and it still looks beautiful despite the ravages of the 2nd world war.

0:54 "Haus der Industrie" Schwarzenbergplatz 4. 3:28 "Staatsoper". East side of the opera, filmed from Kärtner Straße. Approximately 500 meters away from the first location 4:10 "Maria am Gestade" church 5:07 same church, different angle. address: Am Gestade 7

TMC and The Third Man we just watched it Amazing!!!

Muito bonito!

Such a beautiful city... Unforgetable... We were there in April

4:10 Passauerplatz, 1st. District

Nicely done. Only the scenes with the ships that come after the scenes in front of the main entrance to the "Neue Kliniken" of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, as well as the following scenes (supposedly in front of the State Opera, up to the scenes in front of the Maria am Gestade church) were not recorded in Vienna. Vienna had no bridge like the one in the background of the ships. All bridges were destroyed, with the exception of the Reichsbrücke, which was a suspension bridge with distinctive chains. The alleged scenes at the State Opera clearly show on the tram cars that it is not Vienna. And the color of the trams in Vienna has always been red and never such a yellow / orange. But maybe that's just not feasible when coloring?

5:40 Now I have to walk to Am Gestade 7 this afternoon. I’ve never noticed that church steeple before

And now look at the Legoland blocks that are being thrown up there , like all other western cities. A tragedy.

I'm Surprised it wasn't leveled. 🎬🌪💥

My great grandfather a russian living in moscow was 16 in 1941 and had committed a crime (I believe it was theft or petty fraud something along those lines) and was given a choice of being sent to a work camp or to the war. He chose the war and after brief training was tasked to parachute down into german territory with a team of paratroopers and free captured russian soldiers . Having completed the task he was awarded the Soviet Medal for Bravery and was exempt of his sentence and criminal record. He chose to stay in the war whether it was from peer pressure or honour it is unclear but he chose to stay and became an anti aircraft marksman, he almost died multiple times with one of the times being when his anti aircraft firing location was bombarded and bomb that landed near to him killed some of his team, knocked him unconscious and covered him in rubble, he was later miraculously found by dogs sniffing around the rubble assumingly after the bombs stopped coming in. He finished the war in Vienna at 20 years of age with a dozen medals and awards and along with the other soviet victors enjoyed looting Vienna and took a lot of jewlery, watches and fur goods. On the train back from vienna he contracted malaria and passed out, waking up to all of his loot and possessions being stolen down to his passport. But most importantly he got back to russia alive and went on to live till the late 90s. I am sixteen now at the time of writing this and am taken away by the man he was, moral or immoral I struggle to imagine a 16 year old petty criminal or any 16 year old for that matter of this generation that could compare in courage, patriotism or honour. If only he lived a decade or two longer I wouldve been able to say I knew him. He was a great man.

Who else wants to turn back time and live 1 day in this beautiful world?

00:00 is "Palais Pollack-Parnau".. it was destroyed and does not exist today. Instead there is a modern building

2:48 Entrance to General Hospital Vienna

Name of the music in the beginning, please.

4:11 Argrhhh, person standing on the window sill on the outside and cleaning the window. My dad and I were always so angry with my mother when she did this, I once threatened here to make the window dirty again if I should ever see her doing that again. Thank god from around 16 on I was tall enough to do that without needing to climb somewhere 🙂

3:05 IMHO is Linz, not Vienna. Bridge is called "Nibelungenbrücke", until 1955 the border between US-Sector (right side= South) and Soviet Sector (left side= North)

The sequence from 3:15 to 4:02 is definitely not Vienna. (Vienna in Austria - Europe) Also the Tramway on the bridge in the scene before cannot be Vienna (there were only two bridges with tramtracks: the Floridsdorfer Bridge, which had four arches and was partially blown up, and the Reichsbrücke, which was a suspension bridge), therefore also the ships are presumably not in Vienna, maybe on the Danube, maybe in Hungary...

Beautiful. Is it a concrete jungle now, or do original building's still remain?

Servus! Dear friend: Excuse-me but at 3.28 is the TEATRO COLÓN in Buenos Aires! NOT the Wiener Staatsoper!!!

The sound track would be so much better if he used the Harry Lime Theme, from The Third Man.

En comparación con Berlín no le fue nada mal Con mucho respeto Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

The end result of Franz Joseph sending Archduke Ferdinand to Bosnia. Over 30 difficult years.

Impressive pictures but I guess the AI should look at more trams of Vienna and realize they are all red and not some vague shade of beige-orange.

At 2:40 a man in a dark overcoat got off the tram at a fairly high rate of speed. Maybe he was a stunt man for a movie.

4:17 Church "Mary at the shore"

02:50 Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna , The old Buildings of old General Hospital (AHK), I think it must be the wards of Gynecology.

Pobre chica , cuantas veces la hicieron subir esas escaleras

5:09 Catholic Church Maria am Gestade. 1st. District Salvatorgasse 12

Which church at 5:41? What’s the name?

Amazing where did all the giants go?

These tramways were called Americano. They came from the US since the Viennese ones were destroyed.

Здание готичесское. Заметьте двери для людей более 2-3 метрового роста сделаны. И так по всему миру. Во дворцах дверные ручки на уровне головы. Моло где это сохронено. Но в германии мест хватает. Эти люди жили всего 300 лет тому назад. История это умалчивает.

3:27 Concert Hall

4:19 ... oh mein Gott .... die Frau beim Fensterputzen ...

wundervoll

Beautiful film but I wonder why he kept filming the same lady (maybe his wife girlfriend ) entering the same place several times?

Wonderful piece of footage. But it looks more like the 1950's than the 1940's - just judging by the cars.....which look very 50's, rather than 1930's cars which everyone was driving in the 1940's for obvious reasons.

The scenes from 3:26 until 4:01 are not from Vienna. The seem to be coming out of Spain or Portugal or perhaps even Mexico or South America

1:42 1st District Schwarzenbergplatz 4 (today Haus der Industrie)

From 3:27 onwards we seem to go back into time for a moment (1920's?).

better than today...and that'scoming from someone who was born and raised in vienna

once a great place

This is the only building in Wien that got damaged? They were lucky. I was in Vienna and they were still pissed off because Vienna was treated like an "open city" such as Paris and Rome.

2:40 The man surely was an American (?) spy! 😊

Viennese Tramways are red-white. So the colors are wrong.

its not just after the war, as most of the cars are from the mid 50's!

Got away with it quite well really, seeing as Hitler was Austrian !!!

This is not the Vienna Staatsoper, possible the Opera in Bratislava

Some sequences were re-shot and repeated here, ....with the woman in the long coat & cap.

Maria am Gestade church still there. So is the woman washing windows 4:15.

Sad. :/

1:21: Die Werbung "Tungsram" auf der Wiener Bim ist bemerkenswert: es ist eine ungarische Elektrik Firma, noch immer existiert. Damals war die Firma auf Augenhöhe mit Siemens, Philips oder General Electric. 3:21 ist in Budapest, wahrscheinlich in der Vaci Strasse. "Cipesz" ist Schumacher, "Uri Szabo" ist Herrenmode.

Wow, diese Leute leben jetzt nicht. die zeit vergeht so schnell die alten sind besser

Some of the scenes were not filmed in Austria!

2:57 Spitalgasse , 1090 Wien

La señora de la gabardina que aparece una y otra vez debió ser muy religiosa. Creo que fue grabada como cinco veces entrando en la iglesia.

Trams in Vienna we're Red, clear red, not yellow.... For the rest, top!

02:38 possible 'other half'.

So beautiful.... ich liebe wien (●'◡'●)

А где же Штирлиц

Как мог в таком городе где одни дома как произведения искусства и Штраус иКальман творили шедевры мог родиться такой дьявол как Гитлер

le 3eme homme

Schaut sauberer aus als heute.

sow the wind. reap the whirlwind.

The Tram was yellow, not red?