1930s - Street Scenes New York in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 1930s??

100 years ago, everyone was dressed to the nines, had a news paper under their arms and were skinny. Oh how we have fallen.

I look at all those people rushing around, leading busy lives, some with children and family. Most of them are probably long gone, yet this film brings them back to life. It’s like a glimpse through the window of a Time Machine. Amazing!

Poor guy at 1:40 thought no one saw him pick his nose. Here we are 100 years later watching it in color.

HATS: Of course most people wore hats then. Hats served many useful purposes. 1. Kept your head warm 2. Hide bald spots or unsightly dandruff. 3. Used for holding on your chest in times of memorials, funerals or national anthem. 4. For waving about joyously above your head, adding to the spectacle of a ship or train departing or arriving. 5. For tipping slightly to greet someone walking past you, or coming into a room 6. Hitting someone over the head with your hat if you are angry at them. 7. Catching spiders. 8. Showing off the latest fashion. 9. Displaying social status - peak cap (poor) bowler (middle class) top hat (upper class) 10. Getting someone's attention.

To think they had absolutely no idea in a hundred years time that over half a million people would be watching them on a magical device that fits in their pockets.

All these souls are gone, no longer alive that roam the streets we walk on today. Look at how gorgeous they were, elegant, in shape, their suits, dresses. Wow, what an amazing time.

Notice how many are hurried, but polite about it, classy. When they look into the camera, it gives off an illusion that they can see you, these old restored videos always blow my mind, placing me in a period of time I wasn't alive for to experience it...🙂

Rip to every single person in this video. Great video

Best part, is the fact that there isn't one single person walking around with a phone out. It truly is beautiful.

Crazy to think that a 79 year old person in 1930 would have been born in 1851. And their grandparents, who they would have talked to face to face, would have lived through the time of the French Revolution in 1799. While flying in an airplane across the ocean, driving a car, watching tv he would have known people born in the 1700s and could relate to their life first account.

The picket line of striking workers for I.J. Fox Furriers depicted at the end of the video provides a reference point in which to date this series of movies. I found a brief article about the I.J. Fox strike in the New York Times dated November 27, 1941 (p. 24). So these movies were taken in the early '40s, not late '30s. However, looking at the cars pictured, my guess was 1937. I also saw NASS's post of a movie taken in New York in 1899. After comparing that video to this one it seems the street cars did not change much in 42 years! Thank you for posting.

More interesting is when 90 years later from now, those future people will read our comments here while watching this clip and saying ; oh all these people who left comments here are gone now. At that time maybe they will be saying “ these people who left comments here had a great life as they had enough time to spend for leaving lots of comments here and chatting with each other ”. Conclusion is: we always see the empty part of the glass. Remember, life is always beautiful as far as how to live it and look at it. Let’s Enjoy our moments and be present fully.❤

What I love about these videos is how little imagination it takes to make it real in your mind. The motion, shapes and concept are all there, and it makes you realize this was everyday life in another time.

Every man wears a suit and every woman wears a nice dress.... such a classy and elegant time !

The sound bites and the imperfect colorisation really make these clips come alive

My mom and dad were both born around this time. It’s like a Time Machine watching them live their everyday hun drum lives. They are all dressed so nice and respectful.

Looking at these images in 2023 it is not possible to make a distinction between a store sales assistant and Bank department manager. Everyone looked so well kept and representable.

My aunt was 9 years old in 1932. She will be 102 on April 2nd. She was raised by immigrant parents in Brooklyn.

Элегантно одетые люди, стройные и подтянутые фигуры, что у мужчин что у женщин, все в костюмах и платьях, на улицах чисто, эх как будто на другой планете жили люди...