BBC Britain on Film - Series 2 Episode 7 Home Front - Look at Life PART 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2013
- In 1959 Britain's biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain. For the next ten years, Look at Life chronicled - on high-grade 35mm colour film - the changing face of British society, industry and culture. Britain on Film draws upon the 500 films in this unique archive to offer illuminating and often surprising insights into what became a pivotal decade in modern British history. The series shows how Look at Life reflected the radical shifts in the position of women in British society, and shows how the country adapted to the new demands and expectations of women at home, in the workplace and at play.
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I love watching the old footage, I'm irish so I dont reckonize any of these places but the old cars, trains buildings & people just fascinate me.
Really genuinely wish I was born in the 40s and would have grow up with the Beatles and all that stuff in the 60s, then days would have suited me down to the ground.
Bless you Kevin. I know where you are coming from. A lot of people long for the 'hands on' approach where there were trades to be proud of. Proper manual skills development. I think technology has taken that away from us.
"Architects and planners revolutionize our homes and urban spaces."
One way of putting it.
The final 3 seconds of this film have enabled me to see footage of the Balfron tower play structure. I have painted it, in its derelict state, a couple of times, but have always longed to see it as it was when new. The structure was closed after several weeks of opening and the steel slide removed for safety. The sunken design was supposed to be safer, so parents could watch their children playing. However, its construction made it unsafe. It was too small for the site and could attract undesirable people. The area is currently being renovated.
01:31 I was a paper boy when I heard the Ronan Point gas explosion (Google it kids). It was built from these concrete slabs and they just collapsed like gromit's house of playing cards.
My sister lived on the 19th floor of the next block it was cracked and damp sodden from top to bottom..... and it moved in the wind!
Back in the day stuff........Interesting...
Not as good ole days as people today think.Most people had nothing and lived close to poverty compared to 2020.
Talk to any older person and they will tell you what it was really like.
The Town Centre building in Cumbernauld is consistently voted the ugliest building Scotland. The quality of construction was so bad that large portions of the original structure had to be demolished due to collapse hazard. People revolted against the Brutalist architecture of the new town and just refused to live there. It's now more than 50 years after the film was made and the population is not 70,000, just 50,000. The bridges are falling apart and some have been closed. Underpasses, all built so no one ever had to cross a street at grade, became centers of crime and the homeless, something the big brains never seemed to have taken into account. People have made their own unofficial paths and crosswalks to avoid the underpasses. The New Towns" are some of the best examples of the failure of central planning when it comes to where people want to live.
Come friendly bombs...
I agree with what you say but some of it is down to changes in attitudes, behaviours and expectations which have changed considerably. Concrete blocks were never going to stand the test of time. They are dull and uninteresting. However the misuse of underpasses etc. is due to a deterioration in behaviour and standards of people. We cannot blame that on the Planners 🤣
@@neilhilton35 The Pantheon in Rome is made of concrete...
2,000 yrs old, unreinforced concrete dome!
I would have shown Glenrothes. It's still a popular design. It's littered with public art and sculptures. I have included several in my paintings.
Most people don't even acknowledge one another any more, sad😁
Oh how much more cohesive and familial our community was then. Kids were allowed to play until dark in total safety. We have lost so much - to the politicians - thank you for destroying my country.
life was a lot better in those days
I lived through this time and I can not agree with you.There is this idea the 1960s were amazing,yes music was good and
people were a bit nicer but can't think of much else.
This is the building of the future's desolate housing of despair.
In the days when there were the authorities. Health authorities. Local authorities. Education authorities.
People were told and weren't given a choice.
The "authorities" knew best.
Except they didn't.
Britain before the migration
Aw fuck off you tedious twat.
And wot??
True though, you can't change facts.
Half the housing being built in 1964 was under public authorities? Why would any private builder try to compete with government. People were working in Britain. They had the money and credit to get a decent home away from the cities if the government wasn't trying to control building and strangle and private enterprise. We in the US also had a housing shortage in the 50's. Bu 1964, it was mostly solved because the government got out of the way and let homes be something between the purchaser and the builder. Clement Attlee and socialists he installed were the death of Britain. You can elect a Prime Minister. You can't elect bureaucrats, and they were able to convince a large minority of British citizens that the dole was the preferable way to live.
You also tended to have alot more cash, alot more room and a way bigger less fatigued nation with a higher male percentage than the UK
USA private industry earned fortunes out of the war AND homes and industry were not bombed flat. No comparison! AND I believe in and worked in private enterprise.
Yes, "planners" created Peterlee, now one of the worst towns in Britain. The houses are all substandard and falling to pieces, the biggest employer is a doughnut factory that recently burned down, stabbings, shootings, and drug dealing are common, and the one "historic" structure, Apollo Pavilion, a horrendous monolith of a bridge built in 1970 that goes over a fake waterway, was nearly destroyed by the local thugs by 1980. The stairs were removed and it stood there slowly deteriorating as most residents wanted it demolished. Instead, a group of "preservationists" stepped in and convinced the government to spend £400,000 to restore a structure that cost £33,000 to build. I guess the idea was the brutalist architects and socialists needed a monument to the this most disastrous of New Towns, so there you are.
Shame the hooligans didn't have access to dynamite.
To be fair though - from Sunderland down past Middlesbrough the whole area consists of drug infested slums… town after town after town. Boris is for ‘levelling up’ but I believe it would be better just to ‘level it all’ and start again.