BBC Britain on Film - Series 2 Episode 7 Home Front - Look at Life PART 1
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- 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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The dehumanising and aesthetically destructive impact of high-rise blocks has been one of the greatest acts of vandalism perpetrated on Britain. The social housing needs post-war could have been solved with medium-density housing stock built on tried-and-tested tenets. The Georgians were the greatest urban planners, realising the benefits of garden squares and crescents, harmonious terraces, and road-width appropriate to building height. All this was thrown over by so-called clever men like Goldfinger, who designed vertical slums.
There’s less dusting to do higher up.
They may as well concrete over anywhere south of Birmingham now as there doesn't seem to be much 'undeveloped' land left. God help our poor wildlife, and our poor descendants as this horror continues unabated, and instead of seeking to reduce the amount of new humans needlessly produced, the governments make too much money (or should I say those who fund and backhand them donate too much to party funds and back pockets) to encourage any restraint. Meanwhile those of us at ground zero have to put up with any open space becoming a 'prime development site' ie a place where a few people can make a huge pile of money without working. I'd just like our descendants to know that we didn't want this despicable rape of our country, and would far rather have bequeathed to you a green, peaceful, beautiful country with wildlife and joy for your hearts. Unfortunately, a very few very greedy people needed billions of pounds in order to live pointlessly extravagant lifestyles and ponder how money never made them happy anyway. I hope Corona virus can be made to target the eternally greedy before your lives are as worthless and hellish as those of battery hens.
Totally agree. Unlike many European countries post WW2, the British establishment was against rebuilding any destroyed buildings despite their quality or importance. Restoration of damaged important structures was permitted but more modest buildings were in general discouraged and total rebuilding was out. The architectural establishment was in the grip of the modernists (still is to a lesser extent) and developers wanted to build as cheap as possible, hence the trash that went up at an alarming pace. The country has suffered unbelievable blight ever since but the good news is that the majority of these substandard “new” builds have proved unsustainable and are now coming down. The other good news is that some large scale redevelopment projects (e.g, the destruction of Edwardian Knightsbridge, London) never got off the ground due to difficult economic circumstances.
@@paullewis2413 The majority? Some have. Some have been given listed status (!). Some have been tarted up with re-cladding etc. with disastrous consequences - they are death traps as well as vertical slums. And the new proposals for reforming the planning system in England are a terrible idea. There have been some positive signs but on the whole the damage has been done.
50's minimalist/modernist art theory became an urban nightmare.
7:03 Goldfinger was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages. He sometimes fired his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular, and once forcibly ejected two prospective clients for imposing restrictions on his design.
A discussion on a golf course about Ernő with Goldfinger's cousin prompted Ian Fleming to name the James Bond adversary and villain Auric Goldfinger after Ernő (Fleming had previously been among the objectors to the pre-war demolition of the cottages in Hampstead that were removed to make way for Goldfinger's house at 2 Willow Road). Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when Goldfinger was published in 1959, which prompted Fleming to threaten to rename the character 'Goldprick', but eventually decided not to sue; Fleming's publishers agreed to pay his costs and gave him six free copies of the book. WIKIPEDIA
We’re all criticising high rise blocks, but I think we’re only doing so in a social housing context. High rise blocks are still being built, and built well. What seems to be different is the sorts of people living in them. Look along the Thames shoreline from Tower Bridge and count the tower blocks, and consider who lives there. I used to live in Munich city center, the typical block there is 6 - 8 stories, and not always with a lift. They’re good places to live though. The issue with UK tower blocks is that they became a social dumping ground, maintained on the cheap.
Spot on👍🏻
Then we knocked most of them down again when we realised they didn't work. And Built....wait for it......wait for it......small town houses with a small back garden.
Now all the tower blocks are going up again for the population explosion we are currently witnessing
A great advert for tower blocks of flats was Ronans Point in London!
So, how many of the clever architects lived in their own tower blocks? I guess none, only the hoy poloy
My grandmas house and local church was bulldozed to build those pesky Bristol flats!
GORGI's World a
The water-lilie house looked great.
If only those tower blocks had remained as good as this. Open spaces , decent working tenants and respect. Now over run by feral scum .
In hindsight the government would of been better off spending money repairing the existing houses than contracting out dodgy companies to build these tower blocks. Barely any were built right and loads have failed or have had to have been severely modified and major repairs carried out
Many of those tower blocks were felled within 40 years, and those that remain are set aside for foreign arrivals.
I like how the cars get to be garaged on the ground but the humans are sent up scary, impersonal tower blocks.
One of the tower blocks in the Bristol development featured in this film was recently condemned on safety grounds and the residents forced to move with only a few hour’s notice.
Mr Bombardier Billy Wells striking the gong there at the start of the video
Rank stupidity.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 . My favourite one liner😉
@@edwardoleyba3075 Fakir...off!
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 . Ah, yes but my favourite is still “Rank Stupidity”. It’s just the way it was delivered. It fitted into the script so well. 😉
@@edwardoleyba3075 I am an actor and can do THAT voice. Or voices, as he had at his disposal.
So many newt and frog ponds disappeared in Blackburn during this period, that bit is quite sad. The old slums were a fantastic adventurous places for a 8-10 year old boy.
I located that Swedish Water Lily house, and yes the opening roof is gone. Address is Vattravägen 10, 147 63 Uttran, Sweden. I wonder if it still has the indoor pool in the lounge?
I recognise the music that starts at 2:43. Does anyone know where I could've heard it before?
The high rises turned into slums as the residents were the same as the inhabitants of the old Victorian ones.
Right yeah that seems legit. Nothing to do with the architecture, shoddy workmanship, destruction of their communities etc....
It's not cleaner high up lol. If only it was. But views and local amenities are a bonus. Its a shame all high rises built in 60s are no longer safe eg fire evacuation. I never have to wait more than couple minutes for one of two lifts.
Dehumanizing high rise living.
The devil's spawn.
When they demolished the slums, these people were just glad to have somewhere to live that was better than the rat infested, damp and draughty hovels they were used to. No thought was ever given to how this would effect behaviour and tear apart communities.
It all depends on the occupants. The estate at the beginning of this film (Golden Lane) is very sought after, as is The Barbican which is next door. Trellick Tower, which is featured in this film is also highly desirable by the middle classes.
Very true.
High rise flats in Hartcliffe, Bristol, brilliant idea to build those luxury dens of iniquity. I was only 7 when we moved to Bath, I remember watching the demolition ball smashing the old Georgian houses down to build Southgate precinct, I couldn't understand it then and i still can't, those buildings were beautiful, in need of TLC but far superior to anything there since, so sad.
Where's the Jetsons
That deputy medical officer seems like a nice boy.
Very good!😀
Rental properties, the kiss of death regardless of the type of housing. Rent to own schemes are a better, though not perfect, solution. People treat their own property with a lot more care and have a vested interest in their communities. Of course, people need jobs and some sort of hope for the future...
View of Bristol City playing at Ashton Gate from Winterstoke Road flats (Bristol - later 'Nelson Mandela House in Only Fools And Horses) 5:45 in.
The bad old days, eh?
@11:46... OH MY!
Women knew their place in those days and were happy to be there!😀
Back when we all knew our places.
Great video that brought back memories since I was born in 1948 and lived in London most of my life but that AWFUL 1960s music! Did we REALLY like that sort of thing back then?
Clive Bakers and his wife..a fine looking bloke
The Problems of Childern...lol
I'd prefer the Victorian slum!
People do now by a mile.
There is only one solution to population density
Mum does not feel cut off from the family whilst she is in the kitchen ! you couldn't make this shit up ha ha, now go cook my fucking dinner.
Now there just shit houses in the sky