Visiting Hong Kong 50 years ago 

Sad to learn Michael has passed away, RIP

Yes this is the Hong Kong ,this is the true Hong Kong

This film takes me right back to my childhood. I recognised all the places and this is exactly how I remember HK. We left in 1978. I know the song, too and haven't heard it in decades. Don't know if it was chosen deliberately, but it talks about time passes and will never returns; life is but a dream and who would understand your personal problems. Listening to the song and watching the film made me very nostalgic and quite emotional.

Our whole family left HK in 1968 😢 went back visit in 1978. It was so different !! We love this video 👍 🙏 Thank you Michael for sharing the true Hong Kong 🤝🏻 🤗

Hong Kong is a special place. I've been there four or five times, and each time is magical . This place is very close to my heart. Hong Kong is alive in me for the rest of my life.

Thanks and for more nostalgia see my other 160 old Hong Kong clips by searching with 'michael rogge hong kong' !

Another great clip of Hong Kong! However it should be filmed in the year 1981. Evidences came from the scenes in Central (Des Voeux Road Central) with a double decker bus (appeared 02:49, reg number CL1026 which first registered in Hong Kong on 28 January 1981) so it must be filmed after 28 January 1981. Later on the same road (03:22) showed the old HSBC Main Building which still with its flag raised, meaning it was still in use. This old HSBC Main Building was closed on July 1981 and demolished later that year, which means that the movie must be filmed sometime between January to July 1981. As people on the street were wearing clothes with long sleeves but not with thick jackets, it should be around March and April. The commentary further describes that the weather was a bit humid, which matches the weather of March and April in Hong Kong. Starting from May weather becomes hot in Hong Kong and it's not possible to wear long-sleeves anymore.

You bring me back to my child age........many thanks

Michael provides us with the fond memories of old Hong Kong in pictures which is now faded away but still remembered by many aged people who experienced Hong Kong lives in that era. Thank u Michael. If people want to recall people and lives in HK in the fifties I recommend this book by Martin Booth who passed away a couple of years back," Gweilo" was published just before his death. He spent about a decade in HK as a child going native and said he could not forget HK. If people want to recall the old Hong Kong in the fifties I recommend

You are welcome to view my other 150 clips on old HK by searching with 'michael rogge hong kong'

Good selection of the Cantonese Song in the second half, Michael. The lyrics "光陰永不回頭" which means "Time never goes back" is a perfect match for this video

Thank you very much for sharing this. Memories flood back. I walked on these streets. The Hong Kong as we knew it is no more. Bittersweet memories.

Our history , our memories ! Thank You so much !!

Nothing like Hong Kong, even in those days . Unforgettable times . Great footage . I was in Hong Kong 25 years ago and I have returned many times . It's best place to stop over on your Asian travels. I also liked the Cantonese music , very much .

Thank you for giving me my childhood memories😄

This is how I like to remember Hong Kong. Thanks for the all the amazing Video Mr Rogge!

The background song was Hong Kong of Korman record company published in 1981 by Mr Cui Zhiwei 崔志偉 song name "春花飛滿樓Chun Hua Fei Man Lou" only a personal Cantonese album. How time flies ! Thanks Mr Rogge

I am Korean live in Hong Kong now. Thank you for video. And I don't hope to Beijing touch Hong Kong.

Those clips are valuable, thanks for uploading.

真是值得回味的珍貴紀錄片，多謝提供人仕。

Thank you Mr. Rogge, i was born in 1981 so this will give me an idea what Hong Kong was like when i was born!

So nice to know when I time travel back to the 70-80's HK will still be basically my HK. Greatest city on earth

Thank you for sharing such wonderful memories of HK. 2021!

Million thanks for the valuable clips! AND YOUR LOVE FOR THE PLACE WE LIVE.

This is good for replay memory sometimes, but it will be too excessive and even dangerous to look back frequently. Everyone has to look forward for future.

Binging these videos of my hometown. Thank you Michael for sharing all these with us. So vivid and lively. Time travels!

Our good old days...I was only 6 years old at that time, thank you so much for this priceless clip!

Thank you for recording history! Awesome

Thank You. 35 years ago,I was a primary student. 70'S to 80'S Hong Kong was the most beautiful Hong Kong.

I am glad that you share these in youtube, I am from Hong Kong, and I love my home

Thank you for bring back my good old memory. I just love those years.

The much shorter building immediately to the right of Jardine House (12:19) is World Wide House which was built on the site of the Old Post Office when it was demolished in 1976. The construction of World Wide House was completed in 1980. This excellent little film must have been shot in the early 80's. Many thanks for another highly entertaining piece of Hong Kong history Mr Rogge!

This is definitely shot in the late seventies, could be around 1977 or 1978 when you can see the tram still carried a trailer which was withdrawn in the 1980s, the second sign to make certain the date was the sun hung kai centre at 6:05 (one of the tallest bldg then) was not fully completed until 1980/1981. This film is rare and valuable since it's hard to find footage of this type taken in the 70s, it's so enjoyable to watch and with a sense of nostalgia, my deepest appreciation to Mr Rogge !

thx michael for posting this interesting video. it brings me back to my childhood, to the place i was raised.

Thanks for the valuable clips! great memory I was still a little kid/baby that time and I've been to UK now so much thanks, it's utterly fantastic!

Thanks 🙏 I born in late 80s, miss the old days, simple and beautiful.

This is fantastic history. I taught one semester there as a visiting Prof in 1998. Sure has changed since.

Thanks for sharing Michael! I lived there in the late 70's and early 80's just up the road from Stanley with my parents and spotted a lot of sights in the film that I remember.

Oh how the skyline has changed. Even some of those 80s buildings have long since gone. Its like a theatre set, always being renewed.

My first 7 years of life were in HK in the 70s. Strange memories brought back by this footage. Great stuff. Thank you.

Thanks for the upload. I was stationed there with the RAF from 1976-1978, and have just found our old 8mm silent film of Hong Kong and it put on dvd. The highrise building on the island at 10.40 was nicknamed the "house of the thousand arseholes" We are going back for the first in November.

Hong Kong needs more people like you who got a great collection of the greatest moments of this dying city. Thanks for your dedication to colonial Hong Kong

The HK Hilton would have been a perfectly good building still standing in any other city today, but Li Ka$hing knocked it down in 1994 or 1995 to build the Cheung Kong Ctr. Interesting to see all the normal cars, instead of the luxury car showroom has become today. Victoria Harbour was huge before they went reclamation mad.

this is a very preious video! that time, that space, that feeling of the city, will never be again, but bcos of you, it last forever! thank you Mr Roggie🌹🙇‍♀️

I was 15 yrs old in 1980 ....... and now, my beloved city is......... 😞😭😭

You can see at about 14:30, The Admiralty Centre with MTR logo is completed. Search the Wikipedia 海富中心 "Admiralty Centre in Chinese word . The building completed in 1980.As ckretasianman said,HSBC new HQ started in 1983, I think the video was taken between 1980 and 1983. The background is very local to Hong Kong people grown up in 80s. Michael, great job!

Thanks for the posting. You did a great job for us to learn more of Hong Kong when we were young. God bless you.

Most precious film of 40 yrs ago HK, I also very like the song

Thankyou for the beautiful memories which I will keep in my heart for ever.

this is exactly the years I grew up in HK especially the street and the stores that I know everyday when i walk by. Those were just in my dream of the old days when I closed my eyes and standing last year in central... (same street corners but different stores now)... thanks for keeping that in the video so that I can refresh my childhood memories.

My mom and dad’s HK. They haven’t met yet in the 70s but mom worked in happy valley for ticket holders then an assistant for HK’s DA in Central. Dad just swam from China and started to do jobs here and there and met a nice fellow that became a mentor for him during that time, just like a lot of people there during that time. People were generally a lot more genuine and honest that time.

Sir, thanks for filming and sharing them on RU-vid.

I am now 34 years old in 2013, so this was a year before my birth. So nostagic...

thank you so much Michael! man, i grew up in hong kong. i went to Peak school and now i go to boarding school in Sydney. Thanks for giving me so much insite to the old hong kong. You are by far the best on youtube! im doing my school art assignment and your films have influenced me quite a lot. Im taking photos of hong kong and trying to capture a mixture of contrast and nostaligia in my images. Anyway, thanks again man. ill buy your photobook when im back in hong kong and ill site it in my art diary as a huge influence in my work. :)

Good old days. Long gone and thanks for your posting.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Grew up in HK between 1976 and 1988 so this was smack bang in the middle of some of the most wonderful years of my life ❤. Must have been filmed in 1981 or later as the planetarium was visible and that was finished in late 1980.

Thanks for share. It reminded me the days Hong Kong which my dad taxis and other public transportation.

Thank you very much. I saw my first working place at Wanchai

Thank u so much🤝

I always enjoy watching your videos. Thank's for sharing. Missing the good old days.

Thank you for a great film. I can't call it a video because this was filmed before video was invented.

Thank you for this footage. Hong Kong changes so much before. Good to see. Like the song in Cantonese. Love from England. X

causeway bay ...was where my grandparents lived most of there lives!!...may they RIP..... i love HonG Kong!!

Heyday of hongkong. I remember when i was a kid back 1970s i lived in there 2years. Hongkong was beautiful and thriving.

Great footage. Thank you M. Rogge.

Just awesome ! It brings me back all the good good memories while I was in HKG from 1975 to 1990 as a BRITISH GURKHA ARMY ! Thank u so much for the uploading this ! So good so far !

This film possibly took on 1979-1980, cause the Space Museum was built between 1977-1980, and it seems almost completed in the film. Anyway thanks a lot for keep these treasure for our sweet memory, I born at HK on 60"s

thanks for sharing Michael!! brings back many memories! i still remember the sights , sounds & smells when my family visited in 1969. i was age 7 at the time....

Marvellous memories. I came to HK in October 1973 (over 49 years ago)

been to hongkers 15 times as a tourist and still love the place

Thanks again Michael for your film of old HK. My first trip to HK was 1973 followed by 75, 77, 84, 85 ,87 and so up until my last trip in 2011. I obviously have very fond memories however I don't have the fine footage you captured.

estimate 1981/2. i went in the HKSB bank in july 1981 to cash a cheque and it was still working (no signs of the wreckers although we knew it was coming down imminently)

Michael, it's amazing and thank you so much for sharing. It's a treasure for hk.

This should be taken at around 1979-80. See Sun Hung Kai Centre at 13:07. The building was still under construction. It was complete d in 1980.

Michael, come and visit HK once more time............ its interesting to see that now as a 22 year old person........ things doesnt change a lots when I watch ur tram running on road surprisingly ....

Brings back happy memories. I was 7 years old in 1975 and living in Stanley Fort. I can still picture the green and white 'Cathay Pacific' 707's as I watched them begin their approach to Ki-Tak airport.

So apt the music at the beginning. Yes, Hong Kong was a funky town.

I was born around the recording of this video in Hong Kong. Thank you for sharing.

Very fond memories indeed as a child that lived on Queen's Central Road during 1981... what a time that was.

I lived in HK from 84-87....I was 7 yrs old and remember all of it. Great video

How nostalgic and evocative this amateur film is in capturing the sights and sounds of a bygone era.

Love that. Thank you for sharing

Its make my day . I was in hongkong from 1983 . I was complate primary over there.. i was golden day ....

Thanks for the clips of old Hong Kong before the boom in their economy which changed many things on the island.

1:45 Jimmy's Kitchen is STILL around! :D

thanks for bringing the memories of how HK looked like as the year when I was born.

Sweet memories......Hong Kong looked quite similar when I visited the city for the very first time in 1982.

The bus in seconds 11 to 16 right at the beginning is a freshly painted ex London Transport DMS Daimler Fleetline of China Motor Bus, none of which arrived in HongKong until early 1980, the 1st import being registered CD2093 which is a 1980 plate so this film is from 1980-82 period when they were being delivered from UK

thank you so much sir.the old happy times

Another great video from you ! love it and thanks Michael !

Michael, My wife and I spent two weeks in Kong Kong in 1977 and your fascinating look back seems to be just about from that time, maybe a year or so earlier. No particular reason, just the Flash Back Effect your film had on us. We made a return visit in 2011 and stayed in the very same hotel on Kowloon - The Marco Polo Hong Kong, called simply The Hong Kong Hotel in 1977 . Loved your video Drew

Thank you so much!!!

Thanks Michael! So much memories for me!

wonderful. I've been to HK 3 times and loved it every time. Great window into the past

What a lovely harbour then now a river.

Thank you so much for these videos! I just started watching your channel and this particular video I really like because I got to see the Hilton hotel. It was where I stayed on my first trip to HK in the early 90s. Brings back so many memories! It’s now gone but I especially enjoyed seeing it before the huge bank of China tower was built next to it. Looking forward to watching all of your videos.

Great video. I was born in hk in 1979. This video basically captured all the memories of my first exposure to the world. I now resides in Toronto Canada.

Lived for awhile at the Hong Kong Hostel 240 Nathan Road in 1976. Miss all the beautiful local women!

Thanks for the upload!

Thank you for the uploader. I'm HKese but we hard to find Good-O-Days videos like this. :)