A Day in Fabulous London 1940s in Colour

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Time travel back in beautiful London 1940's like you've never seen.
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Archival footage supplied by Internet Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives.
The original B&W film has been motion-stabilized, enhanced, upscaled and colourized by means of state-of-the-art video software. AI Restoration Process:
1. DeNoise and removed artifacts.
2. Increased motion interpolation to 60 fps, using a deep learning open source program Dainapp.
3. Upscaled using AI to 4K resolution
4. Added color using Deoldify
5. Added sound and join the various film fragments by means of a sophisticated editor.
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@realstories4387 10 ай бұрын

If you Loved this Video and you'd Like to Support my Work : paypal.me/realvintagestories Thanks a Lot !

@julianaylor4351 Жыл бұрын

If you tried crossing a road like the people in this video, in modern London, you'd get run over. Such a different world and everyone is wearing proper shoes.

@jokennedy2943 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, wish I’d been around

@davidkennedy8929 Жыл бұрын

But that means you would now be dead!

@groovydonkey Жыл бұрын

Totally fascinating to watch and how people then looked so smart, unlike now! Would love to have experienced it back then.

@ivanlussich8146 Ай бұрын

Excellent video. I am from Uruguay, 85, started visiting London in 1961 and further on, thanks to my airline job. Yes, it has much changed over the years, specially the way people dress today. But London is still an ever charming city.

@lesliechrol-frolowicz3480 Жыл бұрын

One or two shots of trams in Glasgow included!

@howardrisby9621 6 ай бұрын

Good catch! 👍 Thank goodness for Glasgow's distinctive "Cunarders" ..... and colourful livery!!

@marclayne9261 Жыл бұрын

'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there' L.P. Hartley....

@gregwoolliscroft6255 Жыл бұрын

wonderful...

@mush60599 6 ай бұрын

Old London Tahn. Love it.

@Stonewall1861 23 күн бұрын

That really great idea. Thanks ❤

@mavisemberson8737 Жыл бұрын

1940's London was WARTIME. Rhe blitx left many building in Central London in ruins. Sirens bombs airraid shelters. rationing of food clothes shoes even soap. Black out curtains I think you must all be thinking of sometime Post War. 1950's. I went to London in 1947.

@howardrisby9621 6 ай бұрын

From personal memory, there were still bombsites lying derelict behind wooden hoardings, in Central London into the mid 1960s. Where Centre Point now stands being one such location.

@jamstawildman Жыл бұрын

Satisfying, and fascinating

@Silverdale15 Жыл бұрын

Never noticed them till now the stunningly clean smart black and white striped traffic lights ...and look at ours today in a real mess and sometimes knocked half cock no one cares anymore... amazing footage I Just lose myself back in time 😌

@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын

EXCELLENT, GOOD NATURAL COLOUR, BECAUSE OF THE CROWDS, I'M GUESSING MUCH OF THIS WAS FILMED POST WAR. BUTI DID SPOT SOME FOOTAGE SEEN IN OTHER FILMS.

@iankings6405 Жыл бұрын

Surprises me how much traffic was around, I was living and driving around there in the early 50s, parking in the west end no problem.

@user-pi8pd1ji5k 10 ай бұрын

Amazing to watch in full colour. Really good content. Just subscribed 👍 anything in Croydon?

@jimmerhardy Жыл бұрын

Would someone answer that bloody phone!!!

@Silverdale15 Жыл бұрын

Did we have mobile phones then.?..I actually think it is vehicles braking etc was screeching during recording somewhere v annoying 🤔technology and mechanics pretty basic back then but my oh my what a lovely video if only we hadn't ruined it all...

@jimmerhardy Жыл бұрын

@@Silverdale15 Once you hear it you can't un-hear it. It's a landline phone subtly ringing beneath the soundscape. I thought it was funny.

@Silverdale15 Жыл бұрын

@@jimmerhardy it is weird but yes truly annoying noise but nonetheless it was a compelling video...I thought my father was in late 20s worked in London always looked smart he could easily have been in the reels if not others but I'd never know...surreal ...it just gets you thinking 🤔 wondering...x

@topazbent4132 Жыл бұрын

I would love to spend one day in the 1940s for the nostalgia 💕

@rosalielauziere5275 10 ай бұрын

Hello Blitz...

@mikem443 Ай бұрын

What about the flipping war!

@clinteastwood9420 Жыл бұрын

Coooool

@Silverdale15 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to know where so I can better compare to now..i saw windmill theatre....its extraordinary to think all those people are dead ! Sorry but it's crazy and very absorbing....how neat people were well dressed ...and now ? Sakes most people are dressed like they don't care ...

@mavisemberson8737 Жыл бұрын

Neatly dressed .not in the 1940s. Clothes rationing !!!

@SusanJWoods 5 күн бұрын

We are not all dead!

@mikebutler3263 26 күн бұрын

Very good, the sound track not convincing though.

@londonwestman1 Жыл бұрын

What's that car at the bottom of the shot at 1:10 I wonder.

@royphillips4751 9 ай бұрын

I am pretty sure that is a Jaguar SS100. A beautiful machine, even better than my own 1971 Series3 V12 E Type.Great video--thanks.

@joanne26 Ай бұрын

What I notice is the traffic then when not many people could drive, let alone own a car And if you had a car the choice was black, black or black. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍 👍 👍 👍

@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын

WE ALWAYS HAD A CAR, BUT IT SPENT MOST OF THE WAR YEARS UP ON BRICKS IN THE GARAGE. PETROL RATIONED SEE. UNLESS YOU WERE A DOCTOR OR SOME KIND OF OFFICIAL.

@joanne26 Ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay my paternal grandfather (born 1900) had a car which was an Austin 7 in the mid 30’s but he had a good job with Dunlop He used to drive up to Wallasey with my dad and his brother before the war started and it would take nearly all day 😃😃😃🌼🌼🌼👍 👍 🙏🙏🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️❤️❤️

@zivkovicable Ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay Or bought black market petrol.

@bingofingers 20 күн бұрын

Just to point out a couple of things as there seems to be a surfeit of nostalgia here. The roads wren't safer then - road casualties during the war and for years after were far higher than now. Shots of the center of London are not going to show the poverty that was wide spread at this time and would persist through the 50s. Outside of London you would find people would have shabby and patched clothes as these were rationed. Also baths were seen as a luxury and people smelt - plus we don't have the NHS at this point so illness among the poor would often go untreated. Looting and crime was a problem in poorer areas. I'm not saying this to attack the generation who made such sacrifices but to question people who think they would rather live then.

@roomullan3050 Жыл бұрын

❤️

@machiavellian7490 Жыл бұрын

Where’s da Dixiefried chicken 🍗 bruv innit? Dem cars are madness innit for sure

@gainsbourg66 Жыл бұрын

How upright people stood. Everyone. What slobs we have become. Everything has gone wrong since the war. Excellence has been dumbed down.

@scottyrobot Жыл бұрын

willing to bet you'd have been on the germans side in the 40s

@ianburnett7333 8 ай бұрын

Part of that film is Glasgow.

@malcolmlewis6014 Жыл бұрын

That looks slightly earlier than 1940 to me.

@johndavies2785 10 ай бұрын

Not with our own military and those from the US in the frames.

@howardrisby9621 6 ай бұрын

The "blackout" white line markings on kerbs, lamp posts, traffic lights and round the bottom of the lower panels on the trams are a dead giveaway. Ditto blackout coverings on road vehicle headlamps. Blackout restrictions were lifted 30th April 1945 There's one shot of an NS bus (open top and no windscreen) which looks pre-war. AFAIK, none of these ex-General buses ran in regular service after 1936/7, but the number of 'austerity' wooden bus bodies indicate wartime (or VERY shortly afterwards). Ditto the number of 'forces' registered vehicles.

@bushwhackeddos.2703 6 ай бұрын

Just reminding us that they have always been here.

@bobzthecat82 6 ай бұрын

The good old days. Really sad to watch

@zivkovicable Ай бұрын

Nobody refers to the 1940's as the "good old days".

@ronharper5725 Жыл бұрын

Great film but some of the scenes appear to be Glasgow. Also London buses were bright red not dark grey. Interesting film nonetheless.

@davidfelix2594 Жыл бұрын

The film's been recoloured from black and white you melt.

@karenblackwood5883 Жыл бұрын

So much traffic

@FFS704 6 ай бұрын

before we were strengthened by diversity - quite wonderful

@howardrisby9621 6 ай бұрын

Nostalgia not quite what it was, Eh?

@zivkovicable Ай бұрын

We'd just fought a war against people with your attitude to racial diversity.

@bertiewooster3326 6 ай бұрын

Lovely slim girls without tats !! lovely

@zivkovicable Ай бұрын

Nothing like food rationing and disease to keep the population slim.

@Silverdale15 Жыл бұрын

Another world not here what have we done..😏

@howardrisby9621 6 ай бұрын

Well more of the doggy doos gets cleaned up these days .... and salt on winter roads doesn't kill cars in five years flat. Not all bad!!

@zivkovicable Ай бұрын

Are people seriously looking back at the 1940's thinking we could go back to those times? London was a bomb site, rationing was in force, crime was at it's highest. Most commonly robbing corpses in bombed out buildings. Criminal gangs ruled the West End. Most of the city was a slum.