Street Life in Chicago 1930s in color [60fps, Remastered] Sound Design #Video


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Video Description:

I colorized, fully restored, and added immersive sound design to this rare footage capturing the streets of Chicago in the 1930s were a vivid blend of resilience and struggle. Crowded sidewalks bustled with street vendors, newsboys, and workers rushing between factories, department stores, and elevated train stations. Immigrant communities shaped entire neighborhoods, bringing a rich mix of languages, traditions, and storefronts that lined the busy avenues. Yet beneath the city’s vibrant daily life, the economic hardship of the era was unmistakable: long breadlines, men searching desperately for work, and families doing everything they could to endure one of the most challenging periods in American urban history.

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.

B&W Video Source: National Archives and Records Administration
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  • CharMaine

    What desperate times for all these folks. When good times came, they were grateful and taught us to be very grateful too. Notice blacks & whites waiting together. Don't let today's left-wing nut jobs tell you how bad things have always been between races. No doubt there were issues but not like they prefer to claim as they try to rewrite history. They're lying to you. That man trying to climb that fence, no sense at all for as old as he was. None. Playing in the street, shooting dice & pitching pennies - OMG. Scrounging for anything . . . including firewood. Pitiful, really. Doctors making house calls. This was long and sad to watch so many broken people. I assume they are all pretty much passed away by now, still tragic to see.

    In the description it says: "men searching desperately for work" and that is true, as my folks told me about those days. Today, we have work looking for men to step into it. We have way too many grown men that refuse to work. How far we have fallen . . .

    Thanks Mel, for reminding me through this video exactly how blessed I am today.

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