Paardentrams en Trams in Rotterdam in 1925 in kleur! Horse Trams in Rotterdam in color!

A wonderful colorized film about horse-drawn and electric trams in Rotterdam nearly a century ago.
Horse-drawn trams were a common sight also in other cities in The Netherlands in that period, like in Delft and Amsterdam. The tram in Delft can still be booked as a tourist attraction and for special occasions. The Netherlands was a very early adopter of electricity for trains and trams. The first electric trains were taken into service around the year 1900. The first electric trams in Rotterdam in 1904. Nevertheless, many Dutch towns retained steam trams, some even as late as just before WW-II.

Wiki: "The RTM (Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij) was founded in 1878 to operate the first horse-drawn tramway in Rotterdam, which opened in 1879. From then until 1904, the RTM ran both horse trams and steam trams in and around the city, which was then much smaller than today."
The tram company in Rotterdam is still called the "RET", The Rotterdam Electrische Tram" company.
It also runs the tube metro system that was opened in 1967.

The original film has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, de-noised, AI enhanced and AI colorized by means of sophisticated software.

The nice music, "Fascination" and "As Time Goes By" is by the Belgian pianist Franco Di Nitto:    / pianist626262  

Source B&W footage: Beeld en Geluid
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