Flight from France to Yangon, as Rangoon is called nowadays. See my other 1000 clips by searching RU-vid with 'michael rogge' Website 'Man and the Unknown' michaelrogge.c...
My mom was born in 1959 in Yangon. Good to see how Yangon looked at that time. I grew up there too and left the country 13 years ago. Myanmar is always a unique place after seeing the world. I am glad that I grew up there even though it was under military dictatorship. Thank you for the video
Brilliant. I went to Rangoon (now Yangon) in June of this year 2016 and was amazed at the old British Colonial buildings there, as well as the shwedagon and Sule Pagodas and other Pagodas too. Also, the sleeping Buddha all made for a wonderful visit there looking at living history all around me. I hope to return very soon and the people too are amazing.
Aung Thu Aung Thu Thank you. Thailand and Malaysia are the next places I will visit when this virus ends, but would love to go back to Rangoon again one day soon ;-)
I left Burma when I was sixteen, I went back for a visit a few years ago forty four years later,Rangoon didn’t change much except a few taller building. But I love Burmese food which is my favourite. I would go again when I have an opportunity.
Michael, when you were filming these scenes did you ever imagine how they would be so amazing to view all these years later? I'm awestruck at your work and every time I watch these I feel emotionally attached somehow.
+Chris Reed . Correction I didn't take this film. Yet I took about some eighty other ones. Indeed at the time I had no idea that they would have any value in the future. Indeed thought of disposing of them as being out-of-date !
+MichaelRogge Well, thankfully you didn't! This particular film is so surreal; the crisp, vivid colors give life to the serenity of the people, the beauty of the architecture, the contrast between the toothless grin of the old lady shoveling rice into her mouth at 2:33 and the sweet smile of the young girl at 3:42. A real gem.
Clearly, you haven’t been there recently or in the past 10 years. I been back every other year and almost unrecognisable certain places. Admittedly it’s not exactly Thailand or Singapore but given how it has been historically when it comes to tourism and sanctions wise, I think it has comes alone way. At the same time I don’t want Myanmar to loose it’s culture or heritage like some Countries such as Thailand.
@@naymyint555 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was talking to her brother who lives in the USA. He said (of the military government) At least they have managed to keep a culturally cohesive society. I first visited in 2012 and thought it was like Singapore before Lee Kuan Yew.
@@naymyint555 Mingalaba. I worked in myanmar from 1996 to 2001, things were different at that time. I traveled all over the country. It's beautiful. But I believe in slow n steady..
Reading the comments, many say Yangon hasn't changed much. But it has changed a lot, esp its cleanliness and spaciousness due to huge influx of people esp during the last two decades.
,I been march2020 in myanmer as1959 much different in Tokyo Bangkok, Shanghai Hongkong myanmer still like a 1959 If we go to myamer now we can see like a 20th's asia
If I use the same word too often when I comment on these films, it is because I cannot find a better one. Evocative! That is what they are! Evocative! The more of them you post, the better. Thank you. It is a window into a lost world.
Indeed I did. I will be back there again one day in the next couple of years. As an Englishman (British) I visited the War Graveyard where many of my countrymen fell in the Burmese campaign, many of them from my home town in East Lancashire. The old colonial buildings are a joy to behold.
in 1959 Western airlines like PANAM were still serving Rangoon..with the military coup of 1962 the country closed itself off to the world..a few air connections with India,Bangladesh and to Bangkok were the only ways that were opened for westerners to visit this country on a seven days visa??
All the other flims it's amazing to see how much the places have changed, with Burma how little it's changed. The only real difference is the places here in modern Yangon are a little poorer, a little less developed and a little more derelict.
Thanks for one of many interesting uploads! It would be interesting to get some more information on origin (if it is not your own), media (double 8, super 8, or 16 mm as I guess in this case?), edits you may have done (when and what, like adding speaker and background music) and so on. The more facts the better!
People who say myanmar didn’t change, what do you expect from a formal north korean like country with a military dictatorship which isolated the country from the world! Myanmar used to be the richest, best university and have the biggest airport in all of southeast asia until the military couped the country and destroyed it.
In many respects, Rangoon has not changed much at all, perhaps not so much in the downtown area as in the surrounding neighbourhoods. Especially with respect to traditional attire and the way they dine and of course the way they go about their daily business.
nice to see my second home in all its old world charm... could u pls tell around which year the video was shot ?? surely wanna show this video to my wife who is myanmar , sure she will feel nostalgic..
