Flying with the KLM from Amsterdam to Paris in 1929 in color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 

Exceptionally enhanced. Whoever shot it used advanced techniques (for 1929). Well done!

Breathtakingly beautiful; an era never to be seen again. What a precious glimpse this is.

Nice film, it was almost certainly produced by KLM to drum up more business. The film has a KLM 'quality' about it.

No matter what decade or century this was done.... exceptional!

Just a few moments of somebodies lifes captured in this film forever. All of these people are long time dead now, but we still can see their pictures and faces after hundred years and never know their names. Magic of cinema.

For those visiting the Netherlands, I recommend a visit to the Dutch National Aviation museum "Aviodrome". It's a trove of classic planes dating back to the very first Fokker from 1910. It's also a KLM shrine, showing a lot of history, and a life-size replica of the original Schiphol airport terminal and control tower (pictured at 2:35). They even have a first generation 747-200 that is open to the public. It's 50 kms east of Amsterdam and well worth the trip.

Wow, there are some angry people making comments here. What's wrong with you people; just watch the video, appreciate the time spent colorizing it, and marvel at the technical abilities of 92 years ago. If you can make a better contribution to RU-vid then go and do it. Meanwhile, thanks Rick88888888; you have done a great job here. 👍

Incredible ! At 8:40 we can see the "Palais du Trocadero" close to the Eiffel Tower. This building has been demolished 6 years after this footage.

Chocs Away! All aboard for another lovely film, hard to believe this film is from nearly 100 years ago. Super! Or should I say magnifique?

As a pilot today, I feel like we have it to easy. People then were true aviators

Wonderful atmospheric film . I love the landings , as soon as he touches down it's almost like the pilot just say's ' I might as well go over the grass to the terminal it will save time'... brilliant

It is so uncanny. After some time, it seems you are watching footage shot last week. It is hard not to get emotional thinking about all the work, effort and stories in this film. This is probably the closest we can get to time travel.

I remember a interview (which exist here on RU-vid, but can't find it now) that had a women born in the 1870's or something and was interviewed in the 1970's (she was 100 or something like that but fully in her right mind and senses). It was amazing. She started her own cloths shop in France (still 1800 something) then moved to England. She was asked about how she viewed the "progress" as in airplanes (they did not exist ofc when she was young) and what she thought about it all.. it was just amazing, she did not like it though. Too scary and I think she never ever went on a flight. But what an age, 1870's (or 80's can't remember) and seen the first airplanes, first man on space... computers and still thinking back on the 1880-90's when she was young... Was just awesome!

The perfect combination of excellent raw material, wonderful musical support and superb colorization. Can't get any better than this, I guess.

Can you imagine our great or great great grandchildren looking back on films on our lives right now from 2021 and having it look just as old fashion as this film does to us

I first saw Paris in 1976 and recall half the buildings looked spotlessly clean and half were covered in black soot from centuries of heating with coal. A few were covered in scaffolding with workers meticulously power washing every nook and cranny. Seeing that very sooty Arc de Triomphe 9:08 reminded me of that.

Wow! So professional cameraman work, that hard to believe that just 1929!

That shot above Paris is unbelievable, amazing.

This film is really well done choreographed. Amazing work then. Wow. The wonderful airport in Rotterdam, the poluted Antwerp and Paris. My mom was then just 4 years old. Fun fact about Paris. You also see Gare du Nord. It was known already in those days that in the summer evenings came , one could smell the hay from the fields surrpounding Paris at the station. Now that is not possible. I guess they landed in Orly.

What I love about old movies is everything you see was made by Europeans themselves and not imported from China or other parts of Asia .

One of the most amazing videos I have ever seen on RU-vid. Stunning. Really brings me back to an exciting and golden age of flying.

100 years ago. Thank you for bringing this video to the world.

3:32 ah back when they didnt have flaps they used to flap their wings for more lift

My Dad turns 90 next month; he wasn't even born yet when this film was made. This is an astounding piece of history. Watch this, then go watch a 4K video of a Boeing or Airbus landing from today----its like we are living in "Star Wars" and don't even realize it. Imagine what flying to Paris will be like in 2110....

Can't believe some of the silly comments here, why can't people appreciate the hard work and effort to produce a wonderful piece of aviation history restored in HD and colour. I thoroughly enjoy your channel so much and really appreciate being able to watch it free on RU-vid, as I have said previously I can watch them over and over, so keep going please, take care, Stewart

Strange how in color it does not look quite as old fashioned..Would have been seen back then as the height of technology,, and only 20 years or so after wright brothers...how fast the industrial revolution moved.. and now it might save us or kill us..

My brother came from New Zealand to have a look around Nederland and ended up falling in love with a dutch girl and marrying her. She had no interest in living in New Zealand so he found a job as an engineer at KLM. He loved working for them. This film had nothing to do with advertising.

Man this is early flight. The Wright brothers first flights were in 1903 only twenty three years prior. And that seemed like a large number of people boarding. Bravery as a passenger let alone a pilot....

That was terrific! What a fine piece of social history, well restored. When my sister and I were little, in the 'fifties, our mother got dolled up to go out, with a fox stole of a similar style to the one worn by the fashionable lady on the plane. It was the full fur, with pelt, tail, feet and 'mask'. It was handed down to her by her mother, and she saw no reason not to wear it to a party. No reason, that is, till her children stared at her aghast. My sister asked her politely 'Are you really going out with a dead animal around your neck?' The fox went back in the closet, never to see the bright lights again.

This is my new favorite channel. Great work!

Excellent! Color makes the people and their machines of another epoch came alive. It makes the film and video into a true time machine

The fly-by-wire tri-motor aircraft, the incredible music, the baggage handlers, the uncomfortable shoes, the Marconi-era communications equipment, the women with teeth like members of The Bee Gees...and wow...do the windows roll up? And how exactly do they start the engines? Looks like they use a stick to touch something that activates a starter. The film scenes are absolutely stunning.

To imagine that no one ever before saw it in this quality. Well done!

A lot can change 92 years later. I enjoyed this video so much

Geezus, exposed rocker arms. I wish there were a lot more interior shots. Neat video.

I always assumed that the engines drove the plane forward but in this footage you can clearly see the wings flapping…

Reizen met KLM is nog leuker geworden en het onthaal is nog steeds vriendelijk en behulpzaam zoals in deze film. Mooi om eens te vergelijken.

such elegant atmosphere

wow passengers could roll their windows down!!? amazing to see this film, makes me want to go back in time and take this trip!

As a current KLM employee this gave me goosebumbs. Back then it was special to fly 8 people and some airmail from Amsterdam to Paris. Last week we flew 400 pax, bagage and cargo from Amsterdam to Tokyo.

Goosebumps! You may think they filmed that yesterday afternoon. With color and image restoration, the past takes on an impression of reality that is somehow enchanting.

My flying started in 1952 from Accra, W Africa to London via Tripoli and Rome with BOAC. I was 7 years old.

I'm pretty sure the airliner in the hangar is a Fokker F.VII but i'm not entirely sure. The engines are probably Bristol "Titan" but they could also be the license-built ones by Gnome-Rhone.

Normally not a fan of colorizing old films (movies), but this is very nice IMO. Even if the colors are not 100% true, this gives a much better feel for what it was like in the pioneering airline days. I'm an old geezer by today's standards (1972-2004), but these folks, crews and passengers, we're true trailblazers. Well done on the video! TWA Captain (Retired)

As a big Art Deco fan I found this utterly mesmerising. Thanks

How lovely. No engine noise and lovely music instead. And the plane even flap its wings now and again😃

The Arc de Triomphe looks a bit sooty... Thanks for posting this amazing glimpse back almost 100 years into the past.

I really wish I could give several likes to this video. Un-effin-believable.

Wooow i tout that the original footage was in color, but nope it turns out that it was all colorized by AI,am really amezed by that. Now if only future tv’s will have realtime colorization option for B&W footage, that would be awesome.

Sometimes history can be overwhelming, exciting beyond the norm. New parents get excited and swelled up with pride when baby takes first steps, but people, look what grandad did, with what he had, way back when. He built a machine out of metal that could fly like a bird. How can that not be exciting?

Nostalgic for a time I never knew.

Nice video and great comment! Since I flew several times in small aircraft and just loved seeing the view from far above, I just had to watch this video. My first time in an airplane was when I was 11 years old. My uncle took me up in his Cessna, which he used for business trips. I can imagine the delight and thrill the passengers in this video experienced.

Thanks so much for this, loved it. Couldnt get over how dirty the Arc de Triomphe was.

Very impressive. It just brings to life the time my Grandmother would have lived (not that she could have afforded international travel, but she did once go in an aeroplane and she was still talking about how it terrified her 60 years later).

This is a joy to watch, you just can’t really fake the real thing, could you actually imagine flying in that airplane, the pilot is definitely on the ball, that was a very gentle landing. Sweeeeeeeeet video man. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧

I flew as a boy in New Zealand in the late 1950s in an early 1930s airliner which was a biplane holding 8 passengers called a Dragon,and a later 30s US plane called a DC3.

plot twist: the uploader of this video is a timetraveller

I love this. By the way, KLM is the oldest commercial airline that is still in operation.

8:24 You can see the rocker arms of the engine moving. Some sight from your passengers seat!

Very nice! Thanks for posting! Best thing was no TSA checks back then. I am glad I got to experience flying before all the security checks.

"Ja, is erg mooi", zoals de dame op het laatst zegt. Super gedaan weer Rick! Opvallend hoeveel details je weet naar voren te brengen. Tot en met de schroefjes van de vliegtuigtrap aan toe. Bedankt!

a beautiful piece of archived history - thanks for publishing this.

Hoi wat moet ik nog meer zeggen grote klasse mooi bedankt 🙏🙏

In colour, the aircraft doesnt look like an old crate, it looks more like what it was; the pinnacle of modern aeronautics.

Very, very nice...! Congratulations...! From Santa Catarina, Brasil...

Just imagine how SAFE this must have been!

I'm a retired instructor and had a neighbor who flew DC-8s for United. He first flew when this was the reality. Try to imagine 🤷

So beautifully captured this.This camera man knew what he was doing.

Beautiful, and take a look to the shoes parade at 1:28 specially the Commander's Shoes.

I think it's great. Kind of brings that period back and it's cool to appreciate their environment.

Wonderful

What a fabulous piece of work, both the original and even more so, the remastered one we see here. Truly a treasure to see life at that time flicker free.👍🏽

That hanger is impressive for 1929, nothings really changed since then.

I have the impression that the young women shown before the take off sequence could be KLM stewardess ’ posing for the film. Did someone tell them that a 100 years later we’d be staring at their legs ? The visible clicking of the engine valves during flight comes as a reminder of how fragile these clockwork engins were. The people on the film seem to smile , but I dont think they are ”carelessly” happy , this was ten years after the greatest manslaught of all times , and ten years before the next one. They must have known this was only a break between two storms. How did the second war impact their lives , in a certain extent they are heading towards a major disaster like the passengers of the Titanic ...

Een hele mooie compilatie van prachtige beelden, geweldig om naar te kijken! Hartelijk bedankt om dit te delen!

What a thrilling experience it must have been to fly back then.

I flew in a ford trimotor at Oshkosh and it was an experience I wont forget. Traveling back then through and through was an adventure.

the cinematography is way way ahead of its time!!!

Ik heb hier erg van genoten. Vooral de techniek van het vliegtuig wat naar voren komt spreekt mij aan. En natuurlijk het tijdsbeeld. Bedankt voor het uploaden!

Fokker FVII - At 8:23 See how the valve lifters work. 😃 These are still the initial radial engines. Real planes have star engines! 😉

I flew a KLM Cityhopper Fokker 50 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first flight between Amsterdam and Le Bourget and return. Our passengers, the press and airline executives, went for a KLM/Air France press briefing and company results announcement. It was an interesting event for a considerable number of reasons that I won’t go into but it was a really great day. ps. I wonder if the Brussels labelled luggage was put on the plane?

People used to dress up to get on a plane up until the 70's.

Thank you! loved the shot of 'Cafe de la Paix' near the end - my favorite watering hole in Paris.

Some nice film making in there, more than I expected

En alweer zo'n prachtige film, altijd een hoogtepunt. Bedankt Rick!

First aeroplane has 3 x 5 cylinder radial motors, possibly FV1. Second had only 2 engines (no nose motor) both were 9 cylinder radilals, possibly an early FV111, and finally the last one was a trimotor (3 x 9 cylinder radials) possibly F1X which were developed exclusively for KLM.

Sweet wing warping tech at 3:42!

5:26 "Fly By Wire" enabled!! 🤣

What a treat to view this archive footage! KLM - Quality Flying Experiences Time After Time

Another wonderful film. The quality is superb!

Nice work, thank you. The opening shots with the hangar doors: I've only ever seen well-worn hangars - it was interesting to see that they must have been new one day.

Whoever shot this knew it will be on RU-vid.

those radial engine have exposed rocker gear!! 🙂

Crazy to think that within 40 years the 747 would be a reality.

A beautifully evocative film of a different world that isn’t really so long ago. I know these passengers were well off but how smartly dressed they are!

Fantastic original content and modern video improvements. Very interesting and professional.

Fantastic find. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing! I love this! Thank you

Super mooie nieuwe aanwinsten Rick! Een plezier om het verleden weer zo mooi te zien herleven. Mijn felicitaties. 👍

Wonderful video! Keep up the great work!