Los Angeles 1932 in color, Wild ride through downtown [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of a Home movie clip shows a wild ride through the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Movie marquees help date the clip to around 1932.

Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)

Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.

Thanks to Mr. Rick Prelinger for share the amazing B&W Video Source,

Rick Prelinger is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz,writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation
B&W Video Source from: Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives)
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[idesiremore]

I was 5 yrs of age in 1932 and I really miss these days. I grew up in los anglers. I remember playing stick ball with my friends and our mothers calling us home with their bells. I can still remember the sound and the air on my skin during the summers! I’m now an old man and my grandchildren help me navigate through this technology but I’m still kicking! Simpler times that’s what the world needs more of but seems to be going in the wrong direction. Technology will be the downfall to human civilization. Can’t complain though I have had a great life! I’m ready to see my mother and father again. I hope we can eat on the other side because I miss my mother’s cooking especially her home made apple pies. Ok enough of this old man rambling I just wanted to share.

[Ardyen]

My dad was just 18 when he came to Los Angeles in 1932 to go to school. I still have a picture of him on a hill with the city in the background dated 1933. This film gave me an satisfying fill in for some of the stories he told me about downtown LA. Thank you NASS. Wonderful.

[nelsonhughes]

This footage might actually be from 1930. I say that because in one scene the driver passes a movie theater and the film that's playing is "Paramount On Parade" which was released that year.

[nic]

I hope the guy who filmed it wasn't on his way to one of the studios to apply for a camera man job.

[shawnmarengo]

3:04 - The film “Paramount On Parade” is spelled correctly on the front of the theater marquee, but on the side of the marquee, there’s only room to spell it as “Paramont On Parade”.

[Andr.W]

Эти видео лучше чем урок истории. Они прямо погружают тебя в прошлое, ничего не навязывая, но давая знания о обычной жизни обычных людей.

[Chevelle]

My great grandpa was 26 and worked as a long shoreman in LA in 1932

[minkeuk]

Not the best camera man but like always a wonderful nostalgic trip.
Thanks NASS! 👍

[inquiririddles]

These videos make me both appreciate the past & be grateful for the time I currently live in with all of todays luxuries.

[mrsheatherteske]

This would have been about 5 yrs before my grandma moved to California from the Midwest. So cool to see what she did living in L.A makes me sad a bit and makes me miss her. So very very cool to see what she may have soon ❤️ thank you so much!

[MothGirl]

I wish we still had those street cars!

[varrick]

Perfect. You wonder how people got around without cellphones especially for directions haha. You do a superb job you should receive some type of award for your efforts.

[shadow]

Love these videos, when I see the notification pop up, I can’t hit the button fast enough!

[hedkace]

If this guy ever owned a cellphone he would record in portrait mode.
Thank you for the awesome vid by the way NASS!

[johnhattanfine]

I was 25 years Old in 1923 and i can tell u this was the best moment of my whole
Life… no Eletronic… no deadly weapons… no metro… wonderfull.

[sierratrey]

Amazing, although I’ve never actually been to Los Angeles (well Anaheim in the 80s I was very little) thanks to GTA V and GTA San Andreas I was literally naming most of those locations. Which got me wondering; seeing these videos has me feeling more & more like we’re in a simulation. Here we have motion pictures of a rear bumper camera from almost 100 years ago. Kudos to the creators of these videos. This is not an easy task to accomplish. Think about it, not many people had motion capture technically. Even if they did the footage wasn’t that long based on physical film length and none had bumper cameras. So my conclusion is the amount of time to research, locate and produce still photos or slides/negatives must be staggering. Well done.

[dsm]

amazing, no marked lanes, drive around the street cars however you can. I wonder how many people were run over back then

[caraqueno]

"Paramount on Parade", the film on the marquee of the Million Dollar Theater, was released in 1930. The women's fashions are more 1930-31 than 1932. For 1932, the fashions made the break from the cloche hat and shorter skirts of the mid-late 1920's. Great film footage!

[LesterMoore]

Love these films of times past. Closest we can get to a time machine. Everything back then appears so solidly built to last. The buildings are made of stone, formed concrete, solid wood or thick sheet metal. Not like the ticky-tack flimsy materials used today. I recall the tall cathedral radio my great grandmother had. Took two grown muscular men to move it. Lord it was beautiful; so was Grandma come to think upon it. This film was recorded 5 years after the Valentine's Day Massacre and in the midst of the Great Depression as well. 1932, same year as the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping. The days of Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Lucky Luciano, Ben Siegel, Meyer Lansky and John Dillinger. Like I wrote, a time machine. Thank you very much for the peek into our past.