HONG KONG as I saw it in 1949 

MichaelRogge thank you for sharing these Gems Sir!!

bet u had a chinese girlfriend or a ex wife?

Thx man, this is rare footage

And Mao just got power in the rest of continental China

Thanks for this piece of history.

This must've been a recorded using a professional camera. There's 8mm footage of me as a little kid & it's potato quality compared to this.

brr johnson Yeah some news/movie producer or something filmed this lmao

Somewhere he states this was recorded using 16 mm. That was high tech for the times.

@@brrjohnson8131 It must be so, because the film quality is outstanding. Thank you for your additional information regarding this.

It might be a remake of the old film, not all films from back then could actually make it so it might just be a remake

are there any british soldiers there?

How old were you here

But Hong Kong has been a mess, tons of protests.

I'm so grateful you shared your footage Michael. My parents were born in HK a few years after this was filmed and this gives me a great perspective of how live was back then. It's also helped me better understand the affinity they have for the city and the pain they feel witnessing the current protests. The late 1940s must have been a very interesting time to live in Hong Kong, seeing and being part of the growth and the positive changes happening at the time. Thank you for letting me be part of it through your films!

Thank you for your precious videos of my city🙏🏻

人參剩粒祖 underrated comment...

Oh that American.

*When Bruce Lee was one of the 9 year olds.

Yeah

@@webdev8284 lmaooo

Vladimir Putin WTF, WHY WOULD YOU REPLY TO A 5 YEAR OLD COMMENT THAT WASNT REPLIED OF ITS 5 YEARS OF EXISTENCE???!!!! THANKS A LOT FOR RUINING IT!!!!

@@TheVideomaker2341 why not?

@TheVideomaker2341 Thanks for ruining the compliment

TheVideomaker2341 you ruined it lol

no

😳R.I.P Mr.Micheal's videos bring us much memories. Thank you so much❤ We miss you.

When did he passed away ???...... Oh no....

@MeiinUK it is regret that on 2024 January, maybe you can check on net.

Never Heard That

Vlogging Before 50s

Because of the great Hong Kong revolution

@@noidea8710 Great? I​ don't​ think​ it​ should​ happens​ in​ the​ first​ place​ the​ revolution​ make​ them​ getting​ worst​ and​ worst​ the​ Chinese​ Gorv.​ gonna​ starving them​ to​ dead​ if​ they​ didn't​ stop​ it​ either​ side.​ Since​ i'm​ just​ a​ citizen of​ South​east​ Asia​ so​ i'll​ not​ support​ any​ side​ i​ just​ hope​ that​ it​ will​ end​ up​ peacefully with​out​ death​ body​ :V​ Being​ one​ of​ the​ China​ state isn't​ bad​ at​ all​ ( i​ think?​ )​ the​ commies doesn't​ even​ exists​ now​ since​ the​ fall​ of​ Soviet​ Union​ so​ i​ think​ they​ should​ be​ one​ with​ the​ China​ just​ like​ the​ old​ old​ old​ days.

@@yobitchcantfindme5288 commie spotted

Hahaha cardiac ARREST

n9

You name you pic.. doh

Door-to-Door Hentai Salesman lol I agree

sell me some

I agreed. One handsome gentleman indeed. And thank you for show us this precious video of Hong Kong.

And your smile is warm n cute

Erbai Gg WTF, WHY WOULD YOU REPLY A 4 YEAR OLD COMMENT THAT WAS LAST REPLIED A YEAR AGO??!!!

@@TheVideomaker2341 Same question is going to you)) There should be something that made us to look into this old, but interesting stuff now))

He probably dated lots of Chinese girls back then

B. Water bell bottoms are coming back. The same styles fade in and out.

@@manit77 : Good reddens to that baggy ass look in men's pants, with your crotch down to your knees. Damn, I've hated that look with a passion, for over twenty, odd, years now. Men looked a hell of a lot better in the forties and fifties than they do today. My Best. Out.

Dutch person here, this haircut has been mandatory for all men between the ages of 12 and 35 for atleast 100 years

@@ivanj.conway9919 Maybe it's time for you to pass on ? Seems like you have been alive too long.

@@SalTarvitz : And how old are you to make such a remark? Am I out of place in this day and age? You're damn, friggen, right I am. But I'm not as old as you might think I am. I'm merely, sickened by practically, everything that is popular, currently, that's all. Don't worry child, your day will come too, when you'll have some snot saying the same thing to you. Out.

you probably watched history videos lately, so RU-vid algorithm suggested you another one

Ireneusz Pyc too much hk protest news leads me here

Yes.

hey! you want to see hong kong in 2019?

i live here so that's a fair suggestion lmao

Guilty as charged.

Ayy!

🖐

YOU WILL BE EVEN MORE SENTIMENTAL HAD TOU THOROUGHLY KNOW THE DETAILS OF OPIUM WAR AND FIND OUT HOW BRITISH TREATED CHINESE!

@@SWToDi-qc8hb what

@@SWToDi-qc8hb You can be a negative but the older you get it is better to attach yourself to positives or you will die a bitter person with no one to grieve your loss.

@@SWToDi-qc8hb that fucked us up

@Suna pana Don't worry, the Communist party will be meme'd too oblivion. They can't censor all of us.

Agree!

Indeed, bro

Грейтебл, Офигенбл -

H.S.E. LI Fight on for the sake of democracy. Love from Israel!

@@tinycockjock1967 thank you

@@tinycockjock1967 thx

People was corrupt at that time, I can't believe you think people in there are nice.

cheung allen it doesn't mean everyone is bad, just like people now we still have bad people like you but it doesn't mean everyone is bad so don't be shallow!

Do you know why hk people were nice to you? Because your government invade china and took over, and westerns in hk were treated as noble masters. And thats why until now hk people still want to be european. Because they still think if they can be european they will be at the same height as the western back in that time. They think the white race is better than asian. And they treat white even better than their own kind.

cheung allen he means he got laid a lot, that’s all.

@@yinghanhe2045 Dig a hole a hide yourself in it.

Were? Still is 😁

Flamed65 nice. hopefully you dont get a single good night’s sleep

2119 would either be Nuked or flooded

Taha Mohammad we we’re supposed to be flodded in the early 2000‘s didn’t happen, don’t Panik my child

@@IGotBoergs we were supposed to all burned by the sun,flood, and run out of food years ago lol

I hope they don't get surprised by how much nature there is

What!?

@@nab.7250 kidding

How old are u

are you about 130? lol

@@fastfootedone just said, it was just kidding.... i am not even 30

Thanks to rioters

DUE TO THE TRAITORS AND THANKS FOR THE FUND FROM AMERICA! TRAITORS LIKE JOSHUA WONG, DENISE HO, LAW KUEN CHUN ( A STUDENT HAD STUDIED IN A 4TH CLASS HONG KONG JUNIOR COLLEGE WAS REWARDED WITH YALE ADMISSION BY AMERICA CONGRESS ) AND OTHERS INSTIGATORS OF RIOTS SHOULD BE HANG FOR TREASON!

@@SWToDi-qc8hbUSA flexing its soft power ,if it can mess with china , lol , we have no chance .

@richard cranium well What those "prostestors" are nothing for western puppets that harm innocent mainlanders for suposed democracy

@@SWToDi-qc8hb Thank you for pointing this out I agree with your comments. Many people don't really know the truth, history and background behind this.

God judgement end of the world be readyy believe only jesus christ now!!

Javier Salazar No I believe in god, not a man.

Super saiyan Jesus christ is lord and King. And The Father of all humans!!! Repent or perish forever believe or. ...

@@javiersalazar8611 their is no God only Zuul

Dream jackson. Zuull is satan. Are you. A child of god or a child of the devil God created everything!

My father was born in Hong Kong that year too! We live in Canada now.

Modesty was seen as a virtue until recent decades.

Respect your wise and whole-hearted act to the elders!

I was born in Hong Kong in 1936. I did not have a camera most of my life. My recollections all from the sketches I did through the years including the Japanese invasion in December 1941. My family had no food in the house. I accidentally dropped the rice soup meal on the floor.My mother beat the hell out of me and then bent down on the floor licking the rice soup from the dirt floor. I had been beaten ever since by my mother growing up ! It is all the fault of the Japanese. I stop writing now because I cried too hard to continue. George Wu, ARCHITECT, AIA, NCARB 2018-8-25

@@blower05 I'm thinking and saying the same thing. Thank you for your comment.

I was born in 1949 , the year this video was made. I came to Hong Kong with my parents when I was 6 years old. I could count the pictures I had taken in my growing years with one hand. I knew how you felt when you were beating up by your Mom. The parents didn't know much how to care for their kids then. They couldn't even provide food on the table, let alone to concern their feelings. When I grew up I beginning to understand more. But yes, it still hurt. @@georgewu5

前無去路，後有追兵，唯有加油！同路人

Fight for freedom? We are free in HK. I feel more free here than in Canada

@@robocop581sorry,Hong Kong is changed 😢

@@tingting377 Yup, for the better

Pls, no western propaganda...... Hong Kong is already very free..... just a bunch of uneducated kids destroying Hong Kong. I wished the police took action a lot sooner. Took them 3 days to crush the riots....... back in 1968, the British would have opened fire given the same situation in 2019. So pls...... Today's Hong Kong is extremely free. If you go to Singapore, no porns, no chewing gum, prostitution is legalised...... you really think they are "that free"? In the UK, if I swear to the police or swear to Prince Charles, I get taken away by the policeman. If you protest in UK now, u can get arrested. 他们这些小孩生在福中不知福。 Back in 1970s, if you were white, working for the government, you got a air conditioning allowance - but if you were yellow, same ranks, you did not get that allowance. Only available to white, UK civil servants. So Hong Kong was not that of a saint. Please don't be blinded by these little details. I have a feeling you are on the young side and have no idea on what I am talkiing about.

So u are one of the colonist who slave hk people in 70s to 90s right ？as the privilege class

@@derrickchen8668 shut ur dumbass up

We need the empire back, for the greater good.

Derrick Chen Colonists...? You do realize not everything the British did was for colonial purposes, right...? Britain fought a war, two wars in fact, over the trade of opium. The British were selling it to the Chinese people in return for silver, and then traded it for tea. Of course, the Chinese didn't want their people having smuggled in opium, so they dumped it all into the ocean. Opium, and the things to make it, are not at all cheap, especially in the 1800's and early 1900's. China lost, Britain got the Hong Kong Peninsula. Honk Kong was never gotten for colonial reasons, but for trade reasons. And the Cantonese people were never enslaved; in fact, they were treated basically as good as the British were. Of course, there was a little bias, but that goes with every race. In fact, many Hong Kongers look on the British Age with envy and nostalgia. They're flying British flags in their protests right this moment! Before you post this on the internet, please get your facts correct. I'm not saying fighting a war and smuggling opium wasn't right, but to say there was enslavement and colonization involved is extreme and unnecessary.

V.F.D :Volunteer Fire Department: Trade reasons and colonial reasons aren’t separate motivations. A lot of colonies were acquired with the intent of securing access to and/or control over trade markets.

China will make it dirty after the year 2047

HK is no longer the great city it used to be. Shenzhen has exceeded it today in every aspects.

@Tango Zulu send them out all the Philippines immigration from Hong Kong, before they destroy and chipped

@@realamazingworld6756 so sad. We gotta enjoy Hong Kong while we can.

It is very very... I don't have words but i think you will understand what i feel and what i mean.

Yea. I heard my Brother said that is only the way go to Kowloon the boats 🚤 call WaLa- WaLa ! Very treasure video still very clear 👍🏻✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@agnesk1871 That applied to ships and their crew which anchor midstream and can only reach shore by sampan or wala/wala boats. But population on both sides of the harbour crosses by Star Ferry mostly.

@@michaelijsbrand I have never taken Wala-wala! It must fun 🤩! You have very good memory 👍🏻🥇✌🏻👏🏻

@@agnesk1871 When I arrived in HK by freighter in Sept 1949 I was taken by a wala-wala ashore. I'll never forget that.

Me too ! Just can't forget my first picnic to Shatin . The train ride was so exciting ! This video is gem to many Hongkongers.

估唔到依到你可以見到自己爸爸後生❤

My father was born in 1875 !

Still doesn't change

Great to see these records of the past. Full of fascinating views of life as it was then. Thank you so much!

So why are they only protesting and rioting now? Just because they went back to China? A bunch of hypocrites brainwashed by “democracy”.

@@funnydiecast664 Because China is violating their autonomy. Nothing hypocrite on it.

CAT When Hong Kong was actually taken and stolen from China by the British back in the 1800s and leased for a 100 years. Okay, China is violating HK’s autonomy INDEED. The truth hurts, live with it.

@@funnydiecast664 Truth hurts? Wtf? Hong Kong is not Britain, Hong Kong is not China. Hong Kong is Hong Kong. Nice try China bot.

@@funnydiecast664 If NY lived under Chinese law for 100 years and was also geographically/politically cut off from the USA, i think its culture would diverge from mainstream US culture enough that people would not have an easy time assimilating back and it might be cause for disagreement. Also the kids, parents, grandparents have all lived outside of Chinese influence there isn't a string to take them back. Many HKers don't even speak mandarin. I understand nationalist pride/fear of China and international law (somewhat) and the iron fist China rules with to be able govern 1.4 bil people means that there is no room for compromise. However the rigid form of government stretches and deforms China into something grotesque (imo). Also imagine you are my father and are unfairly sent to prison when I am 5yrs old. If you came back when I am now 50 it would be strange to expect me to obey you because of something that happened to you 50 yrs ago. Let it go

Grow up plz.child

@@irelia6044 okay Grandma.

the officals r corrupted as fk..

But the civilians have the Lion Rocks spirits. I was born in the 60’s and witnessed the evolution of Hk

@@Qllllll it's big 🤯

No Toronto’s population is 6-7 mil

@@AveTrainOnDaTrack no its 9 million

@@AveTrainOnDaTrack why not go check?

@@AveTrainOnDaTrack the regional population is 9 million.

(What may seem trivial, but is actually quite significant: Please understand these are not "videos"; rather these are "films".)

Thanks. The HK Govt. Film Archive will show my HK films on 14-4-2014, 12-5-2014 19-5-2014. in Hong Kong.

MichaelRogge Really?? Thanks so much for the info! I will go to watch it!! :)

MichaelRogge Will you come to HK ?

Sorry for intromission ... Com'è Hong Kong? Sono tornata da un anno da Shizuoka (dopo 3 anni la ... l'italia è invasa dagli occidentali, aiutoooo!!!!) e la ho conosciuto persone da tutta l'asia, ergo sono diventata curiosissima di ogni paese (ma è italiano?! Boh, chi se lo ricorda l'italiano, in italia mica serve), e per ora ho visto solo i video del signor Rogge, quindi sono un pelino out of date...

jinny82 Ciao Jinny! :) In Giappone ci vado spesso, ogni volta che posso... era la mia meta originale dato che mi sono laureata in giapponese, ma poi... ho incontrato colui che poi è diventato mio marito, che è di Hong Kong... e son finita qui! :) HK è una giungla caotica dove si vive per lavorare... sono qui da 5 anni ormai e ce ne ho messo per abituarmi... abbiamo un rapporto di amore ed odio, io e HK... ma di sicuro le sono grata per avermi dato tutto ciò che l'Italia mi negava... :) Un abbraccio e vieni a visitarla!

Chi Hang Wai Jesus? He didn’t upload it! Maybe allah, buddha or krishna did🤷🏼‍♀️

be careful

Irelia thanks! 😊