I like your rosy vision of the past, but unfortunately, that's not the way it was. I'm older, and remember kids with polio. My father's sister died of a strep throat the same year this film was taken: no antibiotics in the 30s. Drugs use wasn't widespread, and people did behave better (most went to church, which helped). However, the entire world was about to go to war and kill 60 million people (including the Soviet aftermath). Most definitely NOT a time I would want to have lived through!!
When you go to New York city, don't go up the Empire State..go to the top of Rockefeller Center. It's a breeze...and you are way....up there...with also a great view of the Empire State building. THe empire state building takes over an hour of moving in a line...brutal. Rockefeller Center has amazing interiors...in mint condition. And don't forget to see Radio City Music Hall's murals in the it's lobby. Fabulous.
The 1930s in the United States and in New York City were of Art Deco design and architecture and those were different times to be an adult and life was hard but people survived.
MAN wish i was born earlier before than the 1930s so that i could have lived upon this time and get to experience the 20th century modern world but instead i was born in 1987 zzzzzzz
@montruo000000007 Thats really amazing, 1930s with such buildings, and 60s with space travel. 50 years down the road, we have slightly taller buildings and no space travel, hmmm. the quest for money has really slowed the technological advancement of our race. Medicine has improved heaps though.
Until 1966 Lower Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan looked the same as this film back in 1939. But since then, most skyscrapers are now in Midtown Manhattan and some more new ones in Lower Manhattan. In Queens, Long Island City by the Queensboro Bridge and Flushing I hardly recognize anymore. I am a New Yorker.
Oh, I forgot to mention how cool it was/is to actually see the Hindenburg and in actual use at that! In all my 50 year's, this is the very first time I've seen the Hindenburg other than that one fiery vision that is embedded into so many of our memories. Now THIS has been a rare treat for me! Thank's again!
Back when the Mob ran NYC and it was safer and cleaner . People were civil and polite . What happened ? You can figure it out if you look at the differences from then and now .
This video reminds me the old days when everything were valuable and people weren't so arrogant and selfish although I was born in 1995 but I heard stories and those were the very best days!
Eğer bu videoyu izleyen türk varsa iyi dinlesin.. siyasete girmiyim diyorum ama Ülkece ne kadar geri kaldığımızı görün, bırakın 1930 larda imkan mı vardı şöyleydi böyleydi o yüzden gelişemedi türkiye demeyi. bu videodan sonra bide istanbul 1930lara bakın bi karşılaştırın hatta 1980-1990 lara bakın yoktu yapmadılar. İşte erdoğanı bu yüzden seviyorum o geldi de yapılmaya başlandı mimarı açıdan güzel yerleşimler ulaşımlar denizin altından araba tuneli, denizin altından tren geçişi,dünyanın en büyük havalanı avrupanın en büyük 3. binası Mpt 76 -siha iha ejder yalçınlar,pars 6x6 kaplan 2 kirpiler som füzeleri yavuz sondaj gemileri savaş gemisi milgem daha burada sayamayacağım niceleri.. iyi bakın bu sadece bina bide bunun savunma teknolojilerini gemilerini düşünün o yıllarda bile gelişmiştir ama bizde yoktu soruyorum şimdi neden 2000 yılından sonra yapılmaya başlandı daha önce yapılmadı.. sizde biliyorsunuz bunun başarı olduğunu kendinize yalan söylemeyi bırakın...
I love this video along with many other 1930 & 1940's UA-cam videos I've seen. I've always wished I had lived sometime during the times where life in America was a nicer place to be in general. When there was hardly any crime, society was less diseased, where drug problems weren't rampant nor widespread and the people were more kind. Just an all around Nicer Happier America. Glad you posted this and thank you!
@lerlo yes, and don't even get started on education and the downfall of all virtue. Our 'modern' world seems to be only about money, sex and tv... horrible...
johnmeyer77, I'm producing a student film documentary and absolutely love your footage of old vintage New York. Could you give me permission to use some of this footage in my documentary? Thank you. John
As the video description states: this is "amateur 16mm silent film." Amateur movie cameras, with few exceptions, did not include sound, all the way until they were phased out when home video cameras became available in the early 1980s. I could have added music, as I have done with other movies I've posted, but that alters the mood and feeling. Also, there are copyright issues with most music.
@bacsaattila95 im right there with ya, im a 95'er as well and i love to hear my grandpa tell me about growing up in the 30s in the city, i can honestly say that i was born in the wrong half of the 20th century
I got the footage from a "client" who is an old high school friend. His wife's grandfather owned a movie camera factory in Dresden, before the war. He visited America during the 1930s, but then had to flee in 1938, at which time he came to this country permanently.
+ece anisoglu The footage is copyrighted, so any commercial usage requires prior permission and payment of a licensing fee. I've arranged many of these licenses for my clients (i.e., the people who actually own the rights to the video). You can click on my user name and then click on the "About" box to send me a private email.
Thank you! Love this! 1930s buildings in New York are so fascinating, they seem so modern.
I like your rosy vision of the past, but unfortunately, that's not the way it was. I'm older, and remember kids with polio. My father's sister died of a strep throat the same year this film was taken: no antibiotics in the 30s.
Drugs use wasn't widespread, and people did behave better (most went to church, which helped). However, the entire world was about to go to war and kill 60 million people (including the Soviet aftermath).
Most definitely NOT a time I would want to have lived through!!
John Meyer no air conditioning either.
Glad to see traffic sucked even back then.
When you go to New York city, don't go up the Empire State..go to the top of Rockefeller Center. It's a breeze...and you are way....up there...with also a great view of the Empire State building. THe empire state building takes over an hour of moving in a line...brutal.
Rockefeller Center has amazing interiors...in mint condition. And don't forget to see Radio City Music Hall's murals in the it's lobby. Fabulous.
I don't like being up high lol . I think the Chrysler Building is the most beautiful .
I feel like this film really captures the essence of 1930s New York and brings it too live!
The 1930s in the United States and in New York City were of Art Deco design and architecture and those were different times to be an adult and life was hard but people survived.
thats my grandpa.. maybe???
MAN wish i was born earlier before than the 1930s so that i could have lived upon this time and get to experience the 20th century modern world but instead i was born in 1987 zzzzzzz
@montruo000000007 Thats really amazing, 1930s with such buildings, and 60s with space travel. 50 years down the road, we have slightly taller buildings and no space travel, hmmm. the quest for money has really slowed the technological advancement of our race. Medicine has improved heaps though.
All my friends said to me "you're born in the wrong age!" I know folks,i know...
Can you imagine being in NYC and seeing the Hindenburg flying over? Just such a amazing time to live in
Oh the humanity !
1:35... The Hindenburg is doing around 133 km/h or 83 miles an hour at that point. A very good speed for such a gigantic flying vessel !
Until 1966 Lower Manhattan and Midtown Manhattan looked the same as this film back in 1939. But since then, most skyscrapers are now in Midtown Manhattan and some more new ones in Lower Manhattan. In Queens, Long Island City by the Queensboro Bridge and Flushing I hardly recognize anymore. I am a New Yorker.
Oh, I forgot to mention how cool it was/is to actually see the Hindenburg and in actual use at that! In all my 50 year's, this is the very first time I've seen the Hindenburg other than that one fiery vision that is embedded into so many of our memories. Now THIS has been a rare treat for me! Thank's again!
Back when the Mob ran NYC and it was safer and cleaner . People were civil and polite . What happened ? You can figure it out if you look at the differences from then and now .
This video reminds me the old days when everything were valuable and people weren't so arrogant and selfish although I was born in 1995 but I heard stories and those were the very best days!
Still better than today's my homecity Baku
Eğer bu videoyu izleyen türk varsa iyi dinlesin.. siyasete girmiyim diyorum ama Ülkece ne kadar geri kaldığımızı görün, bırakın 1930 larda imkan mı vardı şöyleydi böyleydi o yüzden gelişemedi türkiye demeyi. bu videodan sonra bide istanbul 1930lara bakın bi karşılaştırın hatta 1980-1990 lara bakın yoktu yapmadılar. İşte erdoğanı bu yüzden seviyorum o geldi de yapılmaya başlandı mimarı açıdan güzel yerleşimler ulaşımlar denizin altından araba tuneli, denizin altından tren geçişi,dünyanın en büyük havalanı avrupanın en büyük 3. binası Mpt 76 -siha iha ejder yalçınlar,pars 6x6 kaplan 2 kirpiler som füzeleri yavuz sondaj gemileri savaş gemisi milgem daha burada sayamayacağım niceleri.. iyi bakın bu sadece bina bide bunun savunma teknolojilerini gemilerini düşünün o yıllarda bile gelişmiştir ama bizde yoktu soruyorum şimdi neden 2000 yılından sonra yapılmaya başlandı daha önce yapılmadı.. sizde biliyorsunuz bunun başarı olduğunu kendinize yalan söylemeyi bırakın...
I love this video along with many other 1930 & 1940's UA-cam videos I've seen. I've always wished I had lived sometime during the times where life in America was a nicer place to be in general. When there was hardly any crime, society was less diseased, where drug problems weren't rampant nor widespread and the people were more kind. Just an all around Nicer Happier America. Glad you posted this and thank you!
Good time's
My great grandfathers brother, who is 99, was there when this went down.
my grandfather would of been the same age and is in this video
These buildings in NY 1930 are more bigger than Sydney Australia today and a little bit amount more, it represents POWER.
People in this video are alive now?
Most have probably passed away a long time ago.
@lerlo yes, and don't even get started on education and the downfall of all virtue. Our 'modern' world seems to be only about money, sex and tv... horrible...
johnmeyer77,
I'm producing a student film documentary and absolutely love your footage of old vintage New York. Could you give me permission to use some of this footage in my documentary? Thank you.
John
@RobertoLopezstudyis Well, i think life is still better in 1930s NYC than modern day Vietnam ..
@lerlo same as today!! we still use the original elevator system in the Empire State Building (i think...)
Wow thats amazing. I never new they were that tall back then! How long would the elevator ride be i reckon
Great pictures! I traveled to N.Y. more than a few times in the past and I will never forget the city.
strange view in us.
I can see Deutschland aircraft in NYC
You should show her this video!
01:32 " what's flying in the sky? So strange
Where is the sound ?????
As the video description states: this is "amateur 16mm silent film." Amateur movie cameras, with few exceptions, did not include sound, all the way until they were phased out when home video cameras became available in the early 1980s.
I could have added music, as I have done with other movies I've posted, but that alters the mood and feeling. Also, there are copyright issues with most music.
God bless your grandma
what id give to live in that time
@bacsaattila95 im right there with ya, im a 95'er as well and i love to hear my grandpa tell me about growing up in the 30s in the city, i can honestly say that i was born in the wrong half of the 20th century
This is a best vídeo of old New York
a beautiful forgotten time
John: Where did you get this footage from?
I got the footage from a "client" who is an old high school friend. His wife's grandfather owned a movie camera factory in Dresden, before the war. He visited America during the 1930s, but then had to flee in 1938, at which time he came to this country permanently.
Hi John,
is it possible to use that footage?
+ece anisoglu The footage is copyrighted, so any commercial usage requires prior permission and payment of a licensing fee. I've arranged many of these licenses for my clients (i.e., the people who actually own the rights to the video). You can click on my user name and then click on the "About" box to send me a private email.
amazing!
My grandfather drove a cab back then! What a great time in NY! Brooklyn born
Now it looks like before no twin towers 😪