Dutch filmmaker Michael Rogge is best known for his footage of Hong Kong and Japan in the years after the Second World War.
But the 91-year-old has also unearthed rare videos of Rangoon in 1935.
Filmed on a 16mm camera, the two six-minute clips are a special glimpse into the hustle and bustle of Burma’s then capital.
Yangonites will recognize landmarks such as Strand Hotel, Sule and Shwedagon pagodas, Bogyoke Aung San (then Scott) Market, and Inya Lake.
Worshippers outside the Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque, durian vendors and mad dashes across busy roads are also still familiar sights of today. But the hand-pulled rickshaws, horse and carriages, and trams are firmly a thing of the past in the city.
And for those curious about the statute in the second video, it is a tribute to King Edward VII in Dalhousie Park just north of Kandawgyi Lake.
History website Yangon Time Machine explains the statute was removed by Japanese troops during the Second World War and eventually replaced by a figure of independence hero Aung San (the area has also be renamed General Aung San Park).
