A Day in London 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

Which City Would You Like to Visit in 1930s??

Seeing clips like these really does make you appreciate how short life is. My grandfather hasn't even been born at this point and has since passed away.

All aside, I love the architecture of the time, when there were no buildings without soul. Each building was a piece of art and beauty.

I’m so glad that one day someone just decided to record this, because little did they know it’s like a Time Machine nowadays

My grandmother (whom I had dinner with just last night) was born in East London (Whitechapel) in 1928. She remembers evacuating London during the war. She says she still has very clear memories of being in London as a young child so I am going to show her this video to see how she reacts!

I sent this to my Nan who is 97 and living in a nursing home. She was working in London by the early 1940s, so this brought back lots of memories for her. So thrilled to be able to share it, thanks!

This is absolutely unbelievable. The clarity and HD make it feel as though I am on the street with these folks. What a simple, pivotal, and exciting, time to be alive. I often think about all these people and their day to day lives. What it would be like to go through a day in the 1800s or early 1900s and I no longer have to wonder. Never before in history has anyone been able to see this like we do with such clarity and color. Truly incredible.

Every one was so classy. They took pride in how they looked. Also find it scary that everyone filmed is now gone

What has impressed me here is the sound design, stereo seperation, attention to detail of car horns and bicycle bells, as well as tyre and exhaust and tram noises. Truly remarkable recreations of sound. Well done.

This sort of thing really brings home that history is about real people's lives rather than remote tales from some other world. Its easy to forget looking at a grainy black and white film made jerky by low frame rates that the scene did not look like that to those people. It was as fluid and vibrant as anything we see with our own eyes.

How clean the roads and paths look , how new everything is , people seem very well dressed and happy , what an amazing time in London

Love all of the fashions, especially all of those hats people wore. So much more stylish back then. Lovely to watch.

At 1:44 is an ad on the side of a bus for Radiolympia. An annual trade show for radio manufacturers held in the Olympia Exhibition Center in Earls Court. Pre War the show always seemed to open on a Thursday and the ad says the show opens on August 15'th. Which would make the year either 1929 or 1934. And a quick look at the cars and the fact that there are still a few open top buses (which they started to phase out mid 1920's) makes it look very 1929. Not 1934. So that would make this film shot in July / early August 1929. The Piccadilly Circus segment. A few years after the major rebuild of Regents Street. Based on the fact its a sunny day it was most likely shot during the first two week of July 1929. As although it had been a very sunny / dry spring and summer in London up til then the good weather broke in third week of July 1929.

Every single person looks as smart as a modern day person would if going to a wedding. And they are all so slim ! Fantastic and eye opening video, thank you.

Have to thank whoever had the idea to recording this knowing people in 90 years time might want to see how the world once looked

I'm 20. My paternal grandparents were born in 1915 and 1916, respectively. To see the world they lived in as young adults is fascinating. I wish I could have met them.

It's almost as if someone has went back in time with a 4k video camera. It absolutely changes your perception of what life was like back then, usually only seen through jerky, grainy black and white film or the movies. It looks overwhelmingly real.

How empty the streets were even in the day. A very different world to the one we live in

This is the closest thing to stepping into a Time Machine. Amazing work remastering this.

Why are the building designs, car aesthetics and fashion so much better in every way than how it looks today??