Originally posted by RadioBeach:
I’m repurposing this thread a bit after coming across some beautiful and rare, archive colour footage of London from 1927;
The Open Road, London (1927)
Perhaps the thread could continue in this vein, with footage from the other Lost Cities such as New York and Tokyo – the search is on! I'm late to this thread - sorry!
Here are some gems from Tokyo and Yokohama - about 1930ish.
1930\'s Japan - 1 1930\'s Japan 2 A recent news report that seems to have some scenes taken from clips above - but gives a good view of mid-late '30's
1930\'s Japan 3 None of these are as wonderfully candid as Garry's link, but do show us what it was like then. It looks nothing like this now!
BTW, I have been appalled recently by the mount of advertising that hits us everywhere - and including buses that get comlpetely covered in a branding exercise - and then I noticed the London buses in the clips - WOW!! So much is written on them, and stuff you couldn't possibly see unless standing right next to them!! I guess things haven't gotten worse after all.
Brian - were you in Fujisawa in '96?
My lost city is definitely Tokyo - you can still find bits that are very old - the trouble is that developers are catching up and building new stuff wherever they can - The landscape around tokyo station is unrecognisable from 2004! That's just 5 years!
Makes sense to go uot and shoot lots of video and then stored it for 50 years and see peoples reactions at that tmie when you show them!
