Young People - David Chiang (1972) - Shek Kong Airfield, Kam Tin

The final bonding event for the new found friends is a Go-kart race around the air strip at Shek Kong in the New Territories. It turns out these were indeed a real thing. I suspect that the film crew hijacked a real event and perhaps shot a few crowd scenes with real crowds before filming their own race sequences in closer detail.

Young People - David Chiang (1972) - Silverstrand Beach Road Car Park, Clearwater Bay

I haven't got much to add beyong what has already been covered by Andi on his blog post other than the fact that in the film this carpark is supposed to be just up the hill from the college campus and the houses you can see have all been replaced. Also, the hill area where Ti Lung and his cohorts are training is now taken up by the rather funky curved Silverstrand Shopping Centre.

Young People - David Chiang (1972) - Shaw Villa, Movietown

Inevitably in Shaw Bros movies we see a lot of the buildings that were on the Movietown backlot, but it's not often that we catch a glimpse of Sir Run Run's villa located at the very rear of the lot. However, in Young People the house is used as David Chiang's home and he takes his friends back there to train them up in some kung fu moves. They vault the main gate and then run up the famous sweeping driveway to the front door.

Judging by recent changes to the redevelopment plans for Movietown, it looks as though the Shaw Villa as well as Shaw House - located at the front of the site - might be preserved and incorporated into the new development. I hope so because it would be a shame to lose everything from this historical part of Hong Kong cinema.

Young People - David Chiang (1972) - Cafe Galano, Earl Street

In the scene where David Chiang is followed by Agnes Chan from a cafe, the venue was a place called Cafe Galano (嘉蘭娜餐廳). This appears to have been a popular "al fresco" cafe located at 284 Prince Edward Road West opened in 1961 and frequented by the Hong Kong glitterati of the time.

The bit we see in the film appears to have been a side exit on Earl Street and it is here where Chiang turns north and walks towards Boundary Street with Agnes in close pursuit. Pretty much all of the buildings around here have been redeveloped and, coincidentally, the last screen cap shows a construction site hoarding for what I believe was the construction of "Earl Gardens" (completed in December of 1972).

The site of the cafe was redeveloped into a residential block called Prince Garden a few years (circa 77/78) after this film was shot.

The Earl Street side entrance for Cafe Galano

Looking towards Prince Edward Road West

Looking towards Boundary Street

Agnes Chan looking towards the construction site of Earl Gardens

Young People - David Chiang (1972) - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin

I was walking around Sham Shui Po the other day and noticed a video vendor had some old Shaw Bros films for sale (the Celestial DVD releases from the early 00's) and decided to have a look at Young People. It's a contemporary (relatively speaking) Chang Cheh film about a bunch of students who overcome their conflicts to become best of friends. It's not his best film but at least there are some nice clear shots of some familiar locations including the main exterior location at CUHK. If there are any alumni from this place (CUHK or the earlier established Chung Chi College) feel free to leave a comment about the buildings seen below.

The film starts with a view of the campus from the vantage point of Tai Po Road, which runs along the hillside above the campus.

The next part of the sequence (it's filmed from a moving vehicle and so is a bit bouncy at times) sees us going under the arch of the Chung Chi College pai lau and then down the hill into the campus grounds.
  

The car drives down the road and we get a brief glimpse of what is now called the CUHK ELizabeth Luce Moore Library and the two halls of residence (background right hand side) which are called "Hua Lien Tang" and "Ming Hua Tang" (according to Centamap). All these buildings are still around.

The library gets a bit more of a closeup as Agnes Chan runs out to tell off Ti Lung for whacking a baseball through a window. She looks across to the Lingnan Sports ground where they are playing baseball.

The final building to show is the Chung Chi Tang building with its triangular structure. There are some scenes supposedly filmed inside, but I think the interior was actually a very convincing studio set constructed at Shaws because the scale and details are slightly off. But anyway, here is the gang as they leave the main entrance.

The is basically the extent of the are used for filming, but obviously there are a lot more angles on the film that are too numerous to include on the post. Anyway, if at some point the universities here get reopened to the public (they were ALL secured following the student demonstrations in 2019) I will go and get some modern comparison shots.