Tokyo in 1949 - Amazing Vintage Footage
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Footage taken from 1949 shows Tokyo and a few other Japanese cities. People go about their daily lives. Japan was in a period of recovery during this time.
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This is the best footage of Tokyo I've ever seen!
This camera is better than the ones we have to secure our home.
Love how every one wear a western cloths.
The locality with wooden buildings on both sides at the end looks exactly like some of the small towns of 2020 in my state. Wow.. incredible.
Those times when Japan had to rebuild its cities, and they did it quickly.
I know right, in America it’s take years to do it’s.
@@azia5051 Even in Minneapolis, you could see burnt ruins of the BLM riots torching everything. Same thing with Baltimore and other inner cities. Diversity works!
@@azia5051 When was America bombed
@@azia5051
_America assisted the rebuilding by paying the Japanese government for recovery_
One thing that can't Africa do. Japan was annihilated yet they rose to the occasion.
Breathtaking. Mesmerizing, priceless footage. Japan and America seem to be remarkably always on the same page, for two completely different cultures. Franklin Lloyd Right studying in Japan clearly shows in his prairie style architecture. I wish i could jump right off the footage and be there it is so fascinating.
On the same page in what way? This is US-occupied Japan.
映像に子供が結構映ってる…この子たちが今日の日本に尽力したんだと思えて感慨深い
Those are priceless videos they should be preserved for future generations.
WTF do you think is happening now? You're literally watching a film that has been carefully kept for over 70 years and it's been put on UA-cam where it will likely stay a very long time.
This picture was taken in December 1948.
It is a film for "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart.
The place is in Tokyo, Shimbashi, Shibuya, Haneda.
Is it raw footage which they took parts from and put it in a movie?
7:45 that kid who's still learning how to walk properly has now lived out an entire life, I wonder how he/she is doing nowadays
A stroll along the Ginza @ about 3:00. It was a familiar sight when I lived there as a kid 1047 to 1950. I remember buying stuff from those canvas-covered stalls along the sidewalk.
1947
0:00(1) 外堀通り（現・新橋二丁目交差点辺りから西へ）
1:01(2) (1)を引き返し
1:57(3) 道玄坂西へ・・・映画「Tokyo Joe（1949）」で使われていた。
3:19(4) (1)の道路反対側より
5:25(5) 羽田（弁天橋辺りから弁天橋通りを西へ）
6:51(逆さ4) (5)と同じ道。
「Okeyjet さん、すいません。操作ミスで以前のコメントが消えました。」orz
0:00 (1) Sotobori Street (Shimbashi)
1:01 (2) Sotobori Street Return
1:57 (3) Dogenzaka (Shibuya)・・・Movie「Tokyo Joe（1949）」scene
3:19 (4) (1)From the other side of the road
5:25 (5) Bentenbashi Street (Haneda)
6:51 (Upside down 4) Bentenbashi Street (Haneda)
Very interesting video. It would be great to have some information on the source of the recording, as well as the section(s) of Tokyo shown.
Stephen Fotos go idea . To the publisher . Title this in Japanese so The Japanese can pick it up. Their comments would be interesting
Read the comments below the video...
I guess most of passersby in this footage have already passed away, but they made great contributions to rebuild Japan after World War II. As a postwar Japanese, I appreciate them for their great efforts to make today`s Japan as an affluent nation.
My grandma was born in Tokyo in the year of 1929
Tao민 nice is she still in japan?
Tao민 wow that’s nice in the 50’s my grandma worked at a hotel in Kyoto I forgot what it was called but my mom visited her mother’s places.
Mine was born in Hiroshima in 1916
Jenichi Kawakami was born this yeat.
@@artart9671 Did she survive ww2?
i was 14 years old in 1949 ( i am japanese ) im 84 now
suri ac do you mind me asking what was your personal experience during the war? You don’t have to answer I’m just very interested in hearing the stories of those that survived. My grandfather was also alive during that time but in Europe.
Huge respect Sir.
CN you tell about the war sir
Beautifully photographed
Very good, thank you.
Nice camera with nice stabilizer
I know I’m late to comment on this but holy cow this really makes me emotional. 😢
Each face a history. How many Japanese veterans appear here? How many of them suffered, practiced or seen brutalities? War is very tragic thing but time.... time is by far the most tragic thing of all. It's been 70 years, pretty much all of those that appear are dead, probably their children too. Their time on this world is now only evidenced by a scene in a video uploaded to youtube.
wintersnoob. Not All,, I was there as a soldier four years later. Very similar conditions
Back when people in Tokyo were well dressed and conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.
this is footage for a movie (judging by comments. "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart.)
It's still pretty much the same in those regards compared to other countries.
Impermanence is such a beautiful thing it’s interesting to see how things were like 70 plus years ago on the other side of the planet
Not even 5 years after the world war II , Japan developed so much at that time .
Anybody know where the music comes from? It's very relaxing. Nice vid!
I made that
Hard to believe that this was all ashes just 3 years before this was filmed
Thank you for posting this footage.
What a smooth video... is gimbal cam exist in 1950s?
judging by another comment it was shot by professionals (with professional equipment) for the film "Tokyo Joe" starring Humphrey Bogart.
Prolly the last time there were so many American cars on Japanese streets. Amazing footage, apt music...perfect.
Thank you!
I wish that I could step into the picture.
Tru
Que diferença entre os anos 80 até 50, japão criou tudo muito rápido, e as eras passam num instante.
Wow japan was so westernized then
I think you mean "developed", but yes, it was. And this is after all of the destruction from the war.
no
china no
1600s Tokyo was already the most populous city in the world. And the worlds dominating military power (most guns in the world). It was already a developed first world nation pre war.
it was already westernized in the 1920s
So different from what I saw. Amazing. We will all do this.
My grandparents went to Japan around this time and I've seen their slides of their trip (and although we all want to be willed the stone lantern they somehow got back to NJ nobody wants the Kabuki doll that thing is scary and probably haunted.) I've always wondered what it actually felt like. That mid-point between the traditional and the modern Westernization and then that mix you see today. For reference: My grandfather was a chemical engineer and his company was setting up a location in Japan so he and my grandmother went there to take a tour of it in the late 50's. I wish I could have asked them more about it.
ahhh yes. i remember those roads. good times.
How does it look like now?...is it still the same when u returned to those roads that u have been too?.....if not bc I’m sad for u
That...bc the roads are changed into different new roads....may god bless ur soul
@@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016I lived near the place in the last footage and I cant believe that many infrastructures are built just few years after the war. It completely different right now though since its already been replaced by apartments. But some old buildings still remains.
@@xxxtakaji-kaixxx9016 But the roads form are still just the same
I know there is a comment that says MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T ALIVE ANYMORE.
how beautiful it looks. but the atmosphere seems sad and calm to me. I do not know .
Awesome, thanks
Stunning.
bruh
even in 1949 their city is more developed than my city now
That's a pretty peace of footage
All these people, still alive today
Ahhhh, the good days without anime. *exhales*
I know you were making a joke, but anime has existed since before the war.
This is before modern anime which is crap at least there were no weebs in the 40s
@@AbrahamLincoln4 ahem no weebs back then? Lafcadio Hearn... From 19th century?
Dawn Bringer you gotta smoke a blunt buddy
何処だろう… 銀座かな？ 凄い貴重な映像ですね！
by the way, why did you add such a creepy background daily noise on first half of this video? As a Japanese, (since I can understand Japanese, of course) It is obviously mismatching :(
But video was just awesome. Thanks for uploading
I think it fits very well, and is not creepy at all. Just a matter of preference, I don't think it has to have anything to do with Japanese culture.
I didn't think it was creepy, more like relaxing music.
The fact that the incidental audio in the clip clearly isn't from the images we see, and it's distracting. Seems like an odd choice.
Naoya Y., the music evokes glimpses of a lost era, like peering at a sunken ship. It’s not about the subject but the distance they are to us. It’s a lost world.
What I mean is, it's like listening to the Avengers' low-tone-voice trailer while watching old movie's trailer. Selling strategies and phrases that didn't exist in 1949 appeared several times in added audio, and since Japanese society was far more masculine than today, it was impossible for women to be a sales person and yell at streets.
I respect those of who have responded to my comment, and I don't care whether you know either Japanese history or culture. However, if original video film was a silent film (or if
the original audio had been lost), they could post silent film with bgm as usual, instead of adding daily noise.
I cannot understand why the uploader has needed to add inaccurate daily noise.
just a soliloquy.
Amazing.
I don’t know What to say but I definately felt something to watch this video,,
very interesting !
(1) It would be *interesting* for *someone* to return to these locations - in 2018 {or whenever} - and shoot video in the same places this film was shot in.
(2) After watching this, I realized that the vehicles are all driving on the left side of the road. I thought vehicles drove on the right side of the road in Japan.
RocKiteman _ 2001 Some people in japan still walk on the left while going forwards but not all of us.
RocKiteman _ 2001 I believe some of these roads might not exist anymore. Tokyo drastically changed. I’ve seen images from 1960s to 2015 and roads and buildings have been totally altered. I can’t imagine the 1940s locations being same.
Regardless, I can’t believe some of these are tokyo!!’ Totally different place
That’s amazing!
I wonder who did the music? Thank-you.
Some initial footage in the city showed Hibiya but it was hard not to stare into the faces in the chance my grandparents, mom and aunt were filmed. If this was 1949, it was definitely pro stuff. It surprised me not seeing more Allied Occupational Forces. My dad was a Japanese-American who enlisted in the US Army and was stationed there 1947 to 1949 as a sergeant translating at thousands of war crimes tribunals conducted in Quonset huts. Any vehicles shown were operated by military personnel unless contracted.
yes, could not escape the looks on their faces.I wondered the same things as you. My mother would have been 13 years old & displaced. She's 88 yrs old, now. I a presently searching for her Koseki. She was age 20 when she left Japan, 7 months pregnant with me. My Dad was an African American soldier, stationed near Yokohama. Thank you so much for sharing.
If you journey back to Japan, you can try to personally go to the administrative offices and ask for any records. You may need birth documents, marriage certificates, etc., but you may find them to be cooperative.
This footage was used in Tokyo Joe (movie)
In 1949 most women still wore Kimono, by 1954 most women wore western cloth.
Gorgeous
Incredible footage. The closest we will get to a time machine. 95% of the people we see are dead now
More like 70%. Lots of those kids are probably still around now.
Where is the another video with the cool shamizen music?
+FootageArchive - Videos From The Past >>> Any idea what kind of camera and camera mount this was shot with? This was filmed *decades* before the "Steadicam" was invented. Was the cameraman just *that good* at holding the camera steady?
There was a lot of American influence on cars.
That's because most of the cars in this video were American :D
Around this time Toyota was just made their first car: Toyoda AA
Subaru,Datsun, and Honda didn’t even exist
Mitsubishi probably only focus on their Fuso Truck and Jeep clone
They build cities so fast and every time it gets destroyed is built up and thriving the next decade. Sim city irl Tokyo edition.
Wow nice
Impresionante!
From aceh indonesia l love u japan!!♥️♥️♥️♥️
Back when you spot mostly left handed steering vehicles other than jeeps and speed limit in miles per hour.
Damn!! Japan was so poor back then
It's weird that of all things, THAT's what you're thinking when you watch this. How strange.
japan already have drones in 1949
And Greekistan never developed, improved and changed for the bettter in 70 years. Wow.
1080p 30fps ?!?!
Looks better than Berlin 1949
Nice footage, would be a shame if an enormous radoactive reptillian monster destroyed the place in 6 years
Are you talking about Godzilla? Don`t worry, Tokyo was rebult very quickly after that disaster.
dprk of 1990s looked similar to the landscapes
Onichan yamete no kudasai ieeeee itaiiii iku ikuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Damn, world was so colourless back then!
can i use it in my short film
The fashion
もう焼け野原とか闇市とか無いのかな？
浮浪児とかもいなさそうだけど
apna dili abhi bhii aisa hai
fkn gorgeous
All dem people either really old or dead
What's the music?
지금의 어느 광주시내 와 견주어도 손색이 없이 발전된 동경이네요.
2:48 pretty Japanese girl.
5 yrs ago
1945:America Dropping little boy and Fat man on both Japanese lands Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tokyo heard the ground shake and seeing a devastation mushroom cloud over the horizon on Hiroshima
They all panicked if they were there next victim for the bomb but nothing happen the people in Hiroshima have died or lived through the blast
Many people are still in the bomb zone doing there casual things of ignoring the destruction of there city
1 yr later
1946:people are helping to rebuild the city after its aftermath of the dead zone they decide to bring in more people to help and rebuild its place
This may take for yrs and months or even days to rebuild what it was many workers have come to see this huge place crumble
As workers start to work as many of them are living and ofcourse dead many people are rescued from there injured body
More bricks and supplies are coming as they rebuild its city and this may not be easy for them to rebuild for yrs
2 yrs later
1947:it’s construction is not going well for the people as many people are dying from radiation sickness and loss of hair they exit the aftermath that morning but never cannot enter intill it’s radiation is gone from the dead zone
3 yrs later
:more coming soon till tomorrow or the next day:
The USA bombed Tokyo with conventional bombs so much that it wouldn't have made a big difference if they also dropped an A-bomb on Tokyo.
🇮🇳❤🇯🇵❤🇰🇷
And kiddos,,, Please know this was not done for Google maps!!!!!
All women still wearing traditional dresses, I wonder around when they switched
Music?
I want to back on these year, where is my time machine?
you think post-war times were fun?
مغيرين ومتكبرين من صغرهم
انت عندك مشكلة.
انت عندك مشكلة
I know that dude
better than india today
戦後4年とは思えないな
Yes they were rebuilding with yankee dollars, same as West Germany, meanwhile their erstwhile allies the Brits were paying off the “debt” owed the the yanks till 1986.
Cuando el anime aun no existia
Tokyo 1945 was destroy and at 1949 like this, that insane
khoirul anam Tokyo was not destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima was destroyed
@@jaivekkanabar6865
khoirul anam is right. all over Tokyo was completely destroyed by over 100 air raids of bombing and firebombing from Nov. 1944 to July 1945, 100,000 citizens dead and 150,000 injured. we, Japanese, call it the "Great Tokyo Air Raids".
@@jaivekkanabar6865 What are you talking about? Tokyo was utterly destroyed in WW2 by conventional bombs. Look it up.
@@jaivekkanabar6865 Deadliest air raid in history, look up Operation Meetinghouse
No potholes. Mmmm
ahhhh yes before the JDM :(
This was when Toyota was still produce their first car a Toyoda AA
It’s probably a Supra back in the day lol
More of post-war Japan: ua-cam.com/video/zpHE-m0dFKc/v-deo.html
Am i the only one who thinks that they were literally black and white in these days?
Be quiet.
*The man in the high castle but its opposite day*
49년인데 뭔 한국 60년대 같냐?