I'm 82 years old, so my memory and films are my time machine!

我在這一年出生. 我要多謝爸爸媽媽, 還有嫲嫲.

What a fantastic place Hong Kong was. Full of dreams, hopes and happiness. All gone now.

使人懷念的年代

Yes, I have presented the Hk Govt. Archive and HK Museum with DVD's of these films, but they do not seem to be doing much with them.

Old is gold love old Hong Kong

wow! in a way it kind of still resembles what it looks like today. It's hard to believe how rapidly hongkong has changed and most people don't know what an exciting modern history hongkong has compared to other cities, and that change really accounts for a lot since so many have come and gone from this city. My grandfather has a tailoring shop in Central, in fact, still does today! Must be overwhelming for him to see the city change drastically, these videos make me understand him more. Thanks!

This was the year I was born in Hong Kong. Thanks for the upload. 🍻🍻🍻

It's amazing to see the spirit of Hong Kong being captured so long ago yet it reminds of modern HK so much. It is indeed a very special place!

Thank you for the footage!! my mom was still 5 year in 1962, but i totally love everything from this old hong kong. So much more beautiful the way it was. i really wish up in heaven, we got a chance to travel back to old hong kong

I just can't forget the rickshaw ride with my mom to catch the Macau ferry. Golden era. Thx for sharing!

Thank you for such a wonderful video.....brings back old memories growing up in HK !!

To this day I still remember the aroma of coffee around the corner of Pedder Street and the crystals at The Town and Country shop at Theatre Lane.Thanks again for posting. Fond memories!!

This is simply amazing! Thank you, Michael, for treasuring these valuable footages of HK in the old days. I am especially impressed by the high picture quality (don't know how you managed to do so). At 0.15, I think the building being constructed is the Mandarin Oriental...

Wooow, I can recognize all these places. I lived in Central and everything feels like not too long ago. A newspaper stall was my neighbor's. If it was not 1997, I would never want to leave this place. Thanks for all these memories.

Michael is a legend through and through. You can see the genius in all of his camera work, correction..... cinematography. I can't get enough of these videos. However, part of me weeps when I see the "Old" Hong Kong consumed by the "New" Hong Kong of today.

Thank you Mr Rogge. It is precious and very valuable.

I was even richer! I filmed it on 16mm Kodachrome film. I left HK in 1961 and am living in Amsterdam, Netherlands now.

1962, my mom was only a year old. It's great to have no other voice over, one can hear the sounds of the street better. The clip still strangely feels so contemporary. Thank you for uploading it.

I was in Hong Kong 1962...beautiful !!

Thank you so much for taking the effort to digitize these old films! Instant subcribe!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you so much for providing us this time machine :) Now that we can travel back and forth to the 50's and even 40's to see how Hongkong people REALLY lived at that time. This is so different than seeing old Hongkong from a movie. Mr. Rogge, you are such a gifted file maker!

Your collection of old Hong Kong Videos is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing!

A fantastic historical record. Thank you for posting all your films Michael.

Thank you very much Michael for sharing all these precious old films of Hong Kong where I was born and bred. They really brought back a lot of memory to me.

Thank you so much! I am from Hong kong but younger than this period. Hong Kong been changing alot, and I love to see his old time. I feel touching and crying inside when I see this. Thanks

thank you so much for letting me to have a glimpse of the past of my city! wish you all the best Mr. Rogge

Thank you very much for sharing these valuable clips!

Such a great glimpse into the past ! Everything is so new and clean back then 💙 thank you sir for these great videos 🙏

OMG, I remember that is where I stand from the Library looking down to the harbor. Thank you so much for posting.

Thank you so much Mr. Rogge. I was born in HK in 80’s. It shows the good old days of HK. The people look satisfied, hardworking and energetic. What an amazing city!

I am so sad that I haven't seen the old Hong Kong. My first visit was in 2016 and been few times since. My favorite city by far. Hongkongers are fabulous people. Nice, polite, passionate. Cannot wait to go again although it is changing unfortunately.

I have to admit this is one of the best video of Hong Kong History. Good job. Salute.

Oh gosh! This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your videos.i hope to see more of old hong kong

Wow the sky was so blue back then. Thank you for all these amazing videos.

You are welcome Sir. We Hong Kong people are very impressed by your efforts in keeping memories and records that we always cherish.

After doing some internet research, the newspaper headline appeared to be referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 when Kennedy was the U.S. president. The missiles were dismantled on Oct. 28, 1962.

My! How big changes has transformed into. This are pleasured photos!

@MichaelRogge Dear Mr. Rogge. I have followed your work since I first discover them here many months ago. Your excellent historic archive of the old Hong Kong will forever delight those grew up there in the era, especially to countless one who left the great city decades ago. Your work captured the daily life of the people and the allure of the former colony in it's struggle to become the pearl of the Orient.

absolutely awesome video. I was born 2 years after this video. This is like going back in time right in front of eyes

thx for keeping, upload and share old hk memories

That shot was used in the title of HK Cable TV series '1963' !

Wonderful video brings back fond memories, thanks!

Bedankt voor de mooie filmpjes. Geniet ervan!

Thank you for posting this!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I know that the core of Hong Kong has never changed, but it's kind of heartbreaking to see that the city has gotten so much crazier since the days of old...

Your home video looks better than some of the commercial movies made in Hong Kong at the time, great quality stuff!!!!

such a beautiful city! thanks.a lot uncle Rogge

Great video although I do not recognise any of it. I love this type of footage. Thank you for posting it. I love the history.

It's amazing! I worked in Central for 20 years. Many spots I still walk by *everyday*! totally different of course. So good to see it's "Original" version.

This is great. Thank you for sharing

Your presentation is highly interesting to watch. Thank you very much and take care.

Thank you for your reply. No wonder the resolutions are higher than the regular 8mm during that time period. That explains why they look so good. Your dates in HK back in the 49 proved to be a valuable one. Look at the streets, only a few people walked on by. I had a glimpse of that moment in the early 60s but those peaceful moments will never return. Only through these clippings we can trace back to those golden moments. Thank you for sharing these videos.

Crazy! You have that high quality camera this day grandfather👍🏻

Very precious clip that awake my memory in that era!

This is amazing video. interesting for old Hong Kong videos. Thanks for share this information

It is a great documentary film ! It makes me remember my memory of the old 1960's Hong Kong. In the film, you can see the food caterers carrying the meals over their heads !

In those days, many small trading companies in Hong Kong hired caterers to bring lunches to their office so that they could have lunch in their office instead of going out for lunch. Most of those caterers were family-owned business. At 1:53, you can see the man carrying lunch dishes on a tray on top of his head, and his child was helping and carrying more food right behind him. At 2:20, another man also carried a full tray of food. The trading company I used to work for located about 500 feet from where the video was taken. Everyday, the caterer would deliver freshly cooked food to our office. Thanks to Michael for another precious video.

Thanks for your viedo!

Gem in orient, amazing work, a piece of history. Love it !!!

simply amazing !!!

I loved it! I wish I had been there. Hong Kong was so beautiful back then!

Thanks for your upload old central that is place I live in .

Nice to watch this clip showing the previous old time of Hong Kong Central, the place that I've just been recently. There are things that we can't see anymore... one of those is the elder people's living style in the old Hong Kong... Thanks for sharing ^.^

Thank you so much

Yes, that's how it looked like. I was there. Thanks Michael.

Am i the only one wonder what kind of camera he using to record all awesome video back in 60s！！

0:27-0:29 the beautiful Hong Kong Club building, demolished in 1981, sad.......

Wow .it looks like the video was just taken 20 years ago.. amazing

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much for sharing these precious films, I have been living in HK these last 12 years and only just cought the last 6 months of the Colonial era here, yet I have a great fascination for HK's bygone years, sadly I'm in the minority..thanks again, really great to see..1964 the year the beatles came too!

A month before I was born!

Well done ! Thank you very very much indeed !

I have several more clips of school children in Hong Kong. Search KZfaq with 'michael rogge hong kong children'

Thanks so much

Time flies,hard to believe it's almost 60 years ago, a lot of people are no longer with us.

Thanks for sharing

I was there in the year 1962 too ! I recognize most of the streets and building

glad to see that the City Hall still stands where it is

50s had color camera ??? woo~~You videos are treasure!!!

很懷念的童年回憶景象!!

Uncle Rogge, I really wish you could come to Hong Kong and share your experience with our HK folks. Jeffery from Hong Kong

Treasures!

great!! thx!

Thanks for vids of 1967. I'm surprised that even in 1967 so much had changed already after the fifties , especially in Wanchai.

Thanks. A collection of my photo's of Hong Kong Kong in the fifties will be shown from 17th March 2010 in the Tao Evolution Gallery, 13 Circular Pathway, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.

good video..Amazing..lovely

I'm turning 50 this year, and these sights and sounds are part of my earliest memories... Thank you for your wonderful films.

@StarlightForOneYear. Indeed they acquired my DVD's for their archive.

Michael, the videos you took, I have to say, are high quality ones. Much better than the ones I saw on youtube dated 62 to 64 period. Were you using 8mm?? Thank you for transferring the images to digital form, so people from the 60s are able to catch up some good old times back then.

EXCELLENT! BRAVO!

there were far less people than today

If you didn't see the cars.,you thought it was only 20 years ago

Wah! Blue skies!

It was a very great view of British Colony from the past.

YOU ARE AWESOME!

1:46. great shot down Pedder Street from a high floor in Shell House. Tks, I always wanted to see orig. Central Bldg/bldg that used to occupy Landmark. My father had his office in Shell House, '74-'81 but his window faced Ice House Street. Used to hate the elevators in Shell House-they had strange walls with beveled steel ridges that hurt like hell to lean against.

Wow! The clip is so clear. Looks like a "DVD" verson!

Hi Michael, Thanks a lot for sharing with us all those amazing HK videos, I'm totally addicted to them. By the way, would you mind me sharing those HK videos to my friends or other forumers on my webpage? Of course, the copyright will be stated below the videos. I would be highly appreciated if you approve. Thanks in advance.

Right you are!