FILM CLIPS OF IJSBRAND
MICHAEL ROGGE ON YOUTUBE

Movies of Hong Kong and Macau in the fifties


My video clips on old Hong Kong number more than a hundred now, a few of which are listed below.
For best viewing click on '480' resolution in YouTube.

Filmed on 9,5mm black and white film:

On a slow boat to Hong Kong 1 (click)
In 1949 I left Rotterdam in Holland on a liberty ship for a six years stay in Hong Kong. I didn't see my father again. We had a storm in the Gulf of Biscaye. See next part 2 for the ports of call: Genoa and Manila

On a slow boat to Hong Kong 2. Genoa , Philippines

HK expat's life in 1949

HK Gweilo's life 1949 - 53

Hong Kong 1949. Strolling from midlevel to downtown

HONG KONG central in the early fifties

HK Sheung Wan district in the early fifties

HK war ruins, Kai Tak airport 1949 - 51

Hong Kong's waterfront

KOWLOON: The old Ho Man Tin Hill

Climbing the Tai Mo Shan in 1950 (photo presentation)

Children of Hong Kong B/W (photo presentation)

Slide show: To Lantau island in 1950

Walking to the bank in Hong Kong 1949 (part of' the above clip 'Strolling from midlevel to downtown')

HMS JAN EVERTSEN soccer match against Dutch colony 1954

PICNIC NEW TERRITORIES 1949

CRUISE CLEARWATER BAY 1949

LANTAU ISLAND, Tai O, 9.5mm film 1950

WANDERING through Kowloon in the early fifties

OUR FIRST CAR: Vauxhall 10 (1952)

A gweilo's life in HK 1949-51

Ho Man Tin Hill Rd. #7 (Labrum house) and the Botanical Gardens 1951

Filmed on 16mm Kodachrome and B/W film

HK office Saturday at close of business 1953

Hr. Ms. Johan Maurits visits Hong Kong in 1953

HK kleur reconstruction

HK's affluent society in the 50's

HK views 1954

People of Hong Kong 2 (colour slide show)

HK botanical gardens + cricket club

Hong Kong's waterfront 1954

HK Aberdeen (1953)

Hong Kong sunrise 1952

HK Shek Kip Mei squatters' village fire in 1953

Santa Claus visits Hong Kong in 1953

Cross-Victoria-harbour swim in 1954 (photo's)

Buddhist ceremonies in Hong Kong 1960

Visit to a Chinese filmstudio. Filming 'Soldier of fortune' with Michael Rennie, on the waterfront (1954)

Fancy soccer game 1954 by Dutch community

CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO JAPAN on MS RUYS (1952)

Yokohama/Kyoto/Kobe

ARIMA hotspring

From the film 'Turn of the Tide'

Hong Kong Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter

Yau Ma Tei: Gospelboat

Yau Ma Tei: New Year decorations 1953

Fisherboy's tragedy: Wing Gay falls ill, Peter looses friend

Peter's inner awakening

MACAU

Visiting Macau with Dutch hockey team in 1950

Macau and Tai Pa (slide show)

MACAU: below deck passengers. Rofé and Robert on Tai Pa 1961 (photo show)

Coronation festivities in 1953 filmed by members of the HK Amateur Cine Club:

Preparation for the festivities on occasion of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953

Parade at Statue Square

Coronation fashionshow, JC Congress fashion show 1962

Camera: Cees André de la Porte filmed at my request the following during the JC congress in Hong Kong in 1962

ENTERING HONG KONG

HONG KONG CENTRAL

HK squatters in 1962

CHILDREN of HONG KONG

PEOPLE OF OLD HONG KONG

Dress making and Gardening New Territories

TO THE PEAK

ABERDEEN FISH RESTAURANTS with Husein Rofé

The old NEW TERRITORIES

Hong Kong's SQUATTERS

Return to Hong Kong in 1989 with Alexander Wichmann

Return to Hong Kong in 1989, part 1

Return to Hong Kong in 1989, part 2

See my playlist of old Hong Kong video clips.

For all my 440 video clips on various countries click here
For photos of my stay in Hong Kong click here.

A collection of my photo's of Hong Kong in the fifties was shown from 17th March till 3rd July 2010 in the Tao Evolution Gallery, 13 Circular Pathway, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. See here.
A photobook of the photos as well as original prints are still on sale.

On the web since 8 December 2008, updated 4 July 2010