River Of Gold - Tobacco (1969)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2014
- Basildon. Carreras.
Reception area of smart offices, deserted at night. Interior tobacco processing factory.
James River. USA
Drifting past Cypress trees growing in water. American Indian cutting tobacco leaves.
Williamsburg. Horse and buggy rides past old Colonial houses. A soldier in colonial dress stands guard. Plantation house in Virginia owned by George Washington. Street of houses. Tobacco plantation being harvested and sorted. Hung on sticks the leaves are put into curing sheds. The dried leaves are removed and driven to town. Lumberton N.C. and tobacco warehouse signs. Inside a tobacco auction is going on (fast talking) with buyers looking at the leaves. After purchase the tobacco is regraded and cured further. Tobacco rammed into 900lb hogs heads and driven away in large trucks.
New Basildon, Essex.
Old part of town with pretty cottages. New Basildon with modern shopping mall and high rise buildings including Carreras. Staff in the canteen. Tobacco in hogsheads driven into the warehouse . Bonded warehouse Intr. as fork lift piles up the hogsheads. Check to customs for £250000 (one days worth of tax). Leave Dept. Tobacco is unpacked and graded. A probe is inserted and moist air passed through the tobacco. Tobacco is stored in stainless steel boxes until it achieves the correct moisture level.
The tobacco is put onto the production line, threshed, rested in silo's to even out the moisture, and cut. More samples are taken from the conveyor belts of tobacco. After drying in revolving drums the tobacco is carried along tunnels of air to more silo's. Shots of filter making. Long filters are cut into shorter lengths
.
In the quality control area, lots of high tech. machines and glass tubes of cigarette smoke being analyzed. Some guilt emphasis on how careful they are. Looking through microscopes and machines "smoking" and analyzing the smoke. State of the art computers of the day.
Enormous factory floor of the "making machines" turning out 2000 cigarettes a minute for just one machine. Lots of wheels turning, conveyor belts, and fags on the move. More quality control shots. High tech. machines with dials and needles. Masses of cigarettes appearing in collection areas being fed down into single cigarettes for packing.
Cigarettes being packed into packets and cartons of "Piccadilly" and "Guards", more high speed production shots. Men moving pallets of cartons of cigarettes in large warehouse for distribution. Two lorries marked "Piccadilly & Guards" leaving the factory.
FILM ID:2701.01
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. www.britishpathe.tv/
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT www.britishpathe.com/
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. www.britishpathe.com/
Back when 40 unfiltered cigs a day was recommended by your doctor as he smoked a pipe during your visit
My Ears, Nose, & Throat doctor would light up a Camel during the consultation after each patient.
@@tompullizzi1878 Well, more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette
It’s not!?!!!??
You didn't known about any harmfull "things"...you've smoked daily 2 packs, for 60 years...and you died 85 in your home peacefully.....and your childhood friend never smoked a cigarette and, died in a car accident at 28.....aka....life is life
@@andrissanta9905 well said
its like 'how its made' but better
flbflb totally agree been watching it heaps lately don’t even click on how it’s made now anymore
No puns either.
alot better!
Carreras Highest quality standards of commenting
flbflb can you imagine them putting this on the discovery channel today in 2019? Soccer moms would lose their collective minds and it would end up neutered like the history channel ended up.
I remember an interview with a salesman from Phillip Morris. We make it for a cent , sell it for a dollar and its addictive, the perfect business.
7:40 Leave the baby in the stroller outside while Mom goes shopping. Ahh the good ol' days.
So easy to adopt them!
@DATING HARLEY QUINN That's how Sweden used to be.
Areas of Brooklyn are like that still.
Deep in Hasidic neighborhoods, they still do it.
@Jonathan Greenblatt True
The automation used in production lines is incredible. In that times there wasn't microprocessors. Just pure electrical and mechanical engineering stuffs are apearing.
Germans say: "Good engineers make it mechanic." :)
@Jacob Monnin new technology is the reason you can browse the internet.
@Jacob Monnin half of it is redundancy checks and useless fuses. I would be down to go back to more manual or mechanical work, but people dont work as hard or are as smart as before.
@@SDguy3030 "but people don't work as hard or are as smart as before"? 😂 People don't work as hard as before because they are smarter! 😎 Not so smart as before applies only to you. 🤣
@@SDguy3030 there will be a time once we start colonizing new planets/habitats created by man where we fall back to these simple methods. Simply because of just how reliable the machinery can be and how easily it can be trained and adapted to work and be fixed by the human mind in incomprehensible time. If we tried to train monkeys to work these obsolete machines it would takes generations to even figure out how to successfully turn it on without having to be taught anymore.
Having arrived at perfection, Carreras, ever the one to push the limits of quality, has devised this wonder of a machine to count the number of atoms in each cigarette.
I want this man to narrate my life.
@Chetan Bhandari First you have to, you know, get one!
Lmao
@@tdunph4250 🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in Virginia and worked on a tobacco farm for a couple of summers. It was hard work.
Are you black? 2hat was the wage like
@@vasili1207 No, I'm white, and the farm belonged to my brother in law. I was a teenager and was asked to help out, so I didn't have an official wage. Honestly, I can't remember what I was paid, but after the second summer I decided I was definitely going to college!
Vasili A lot of poor white people worked in the tobacco fields.
@@josephjames259 it wasn't a race thing just a general question.. seemed a lot of black labourers... good for them they got a job and are hardworkers.
@@civlyzed that's cool, obviously not that you didn't get a wage 😆 but the experience @ least it ruled out farming as a option for you, i only mentioned colour as a lot of the labourers in the vid are black you just confirmed there wasnt just black people picking 👍
Those hogsheads were why British made Virginia tobaccos were the best ever made. Those wooden barrels sat in a bonded warehouse for years aging like fine wine due to Virginia tobacco’s high sugar content. Sad that a lot of it went unappreciated in cigarettes. Virginia flake pipe tobaccos were and still are the ultimate expression of Virginia leaf
In the early 1970s, when I first started driving, one could travel the DC beltway through Prince Georges County MD, and see many small tobacco barns either side of the new highway. This is located just a few miles away from Mt Vernon.
Maryland tobacco was cured differently (no heat) in its drying, and most was shipped to Europe. Now those farms are gone, being replaced by suburban sprawl.
There’s still tobacco grown here in Western Kentucky, but not near as much as they did 25-30 years ago. Henderson county farmers made a lot of money raising tobacco up until World War 1, as they imported it to Europe.
@@bluegrassman3040 Interesting. I have relatives in Henderson NC, not in the tabocco bus though.
@@stephenkunst7550 I’m referring to Henderson, KY.
Love ❤ Tobacco. Smoked now for over 50 years.
You’re just a nicotine addict mate. Sucking the life out of yourself to make them rich.
Job interview 1969:
Do you smoke?
- No
Next!
You could always say yes and smoke one a year. Yes I remember when these companies demanded you smoked.
@@wilsonflood4393 😀👍
This is definitely the longest ad I’ve ever watched. Enjoyed every second lmao
You should see sunblest bakery ad lol
Ad for what? Dying ? Men killing men for money?
@Lance Mullholland lots of people still smoke i dont think they care about it being bad for them. Much like alcohol people just want an escape from the world for a second
@@aft1567 Absolutely.
Pleasure is necessary because of the pain, and becomes more addictive despite becoming a pain in itself; the tragic cycle.
A life of inner peace, without the need for the pain of pleasure is the answer.
I really enjoy these old films thank you so much for posting them 👍
You're welcome
All good bro
🤦♂️🤣
Ooh thank u...
Channels like this are why I haven't watched cable TV in over 10 years.
Tobacco is medicine ❤
I saw a recent cigarette factory tour on TH-cam and they were using these same machines. It was a small factory in India, so it's kind of cool to see where these old machines end up and how they are still being used today.
The occasional scent of tobacco is lovely.
Yes, but for me now that should only be from a cigar, or a sweetly aromatic pipe tobacco.
My days of unfiltered Capstan Full Strengths were long ago.
The Tobacco itself smells great when grinded, just like fresh ground coffee beans smells great even to those who do not like to drink coffee.
@@heathstjohn6775the glory days
Back when cigarettes were actually good
Cigarettes were never good, but the additional chemicals that are added in today’s cigarettes, are definitely worse.
@@rulerofomicronpersei8 exactly
@@rulerofomicronpersei8 thats what I mean by “good.” These new fire safe cigarettes are horrible. I smoked a pack a day for 15 years. I quit almost a year ago. I don’t know what they are putting in these fire safe cigarettes (formaldehyde I do know that much) are horrible. Completely changed the taste of cigarettes
@@johndycus7800 you should try American spirit rolling tobacco, pure organic tobacco with no additives.
They tasted better back then. Now there is just a chemical taste to them.
I had never before realised that Basildon was so exciting.
It isn't.
The line automation for the sixties was awesome
The worst part of the process is the auction. What are those people saying? "hey badibah bah habidah badibah bah hah!" Could I have someone else sell my stuff?
Thanks at least i am not the only one about this.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are stupid.. it all means stuff. It’s not random
@@charliebowen5071 If it was all random, how would any commerce take place? No one would know how much the bid was at or who won. Insiders obviously know what they're saying, but it sounds like gibberish to outsiders. So the more important question is, why don't you recognize sarcasm?
@@jamiesmith4293 ok. For one that's not sarcasm . I think you need to go and have a read about how sarcasm works
@@charliebowen5071 Sarcasm: The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
They're actually saying something, but it's hard to understand, so I wrote gibberish. This is the opposite of what they did (irony), for a humorous effect to mock them (sarcasm). You're just butthurt that you didn't realize I wasn't being serious.
Raw tobacco is amazing.
👆These videos are pure GOLD 🏆
Quality control lady breathing in 2nd hand smoke all day
Isn’t that first hand?
but yet, there is a big chance that in the Tea breaks they would go for a smoke
@@victortesla4198 The Radium Girls. I am a school teacher and that subject comes up everytime I mention radioactivity. Fascinating.
@@jamesbizs Believe it or not his isn't second hand or first hand smoke. There's actually no hand involved, therefore it doesn't apply.
@@CitizenSnips69 We all can't be a comedian.
I love everything in the production is so hygienic with the most stringent of quality control, only to speed the delivery of the smokers' miserable deaths. Also interesting to see how the same company makes different brands to cover different demographic markets, even back in the sixties. Thank you Madison Aevenue for your bleeding edge marketing.
Definitely a shady industry
VS: There is no Madison Avenue in Britain. ;)
The tobacco industry never did have any interest in the deaths of its loyal patrons, but they don't much care if it will end someone's life either. Tobacco now and then is such a high profit industry that all that matters is that they keep smokers hooked. After that, it all takes care of itself. Let's not forget that Phillip Morris just hours ago said that they intend to stop selling cigarettes as its bad for people, but in 10 years time once their replacement smokeless/vaping products have gained a large foothold in the market.
It's a perfect financial juggernaut isn't it, sell a product that has one of the highest profit margins of any consumer good available, which due to parental conditioning and peer pressure always finds a new user somewhere....which is also addictive, constantly ensuring the vast majority of purchasers will return for pack after pack.
As an ex smoker of 15 who quit nearly a decade ago, there's times that I crave not only the feeling of smoking, but the flavour and the connection to the memories of all the good times I had while still smoking. It's a perfect industry really.....
A satisfied smoker is not a troublemaker, as they say in the Netherlands.
Well you gotta thank the 60's smokers for quality manufacturing !
Good and healthy products for the people. 👍
I know smoking is terrible and all but my grandma in law is 96 and chain smokes all day and she still gets around alright, weird how things work like that.
@Toad Phillips He was one of the lucky ones. For probably every 250,000+ you get one like your Grandma in law
Ah yeah , the glorious golden virginia , it has a pretty classic taste . I wish i could still buy it .
You can till get it in tobacco pouches.
Those were the days. When lunch ladies ran entire tobacco factories
шикарно! словно репортаж с другой планеты или из другой реальности
That auction scene around 5:45 is even more ridiculous sounding a 1/4 playback speed. I tried to see if there were any actual words.
👍😅😅
I heard '' Universal '', often.
I imagine they started learneing when very young. But after a while, it's no longer thought odd. The ear tunes in. I can't reny when I first said, or wrote, '' The ' , for example.
Haven't been to many auctions huh? All auctions are like that
Great upload, Thanks!
Watching this...For some reason now i cant help but thinking i want some of that fine smooth blend Virginian tobacco......I dont even smoke.
Best grown US tobacco is on the US Kentucky/Tennessee border
@@ViktoriousDead Each area specialized in different types of tobacco with different flavors and uses. Connecticut grows very pale, mild tobacco used for wrapping cigars. Virginia tobacco was Burly used for body/filler.
@@KB4QAA Burly is primarily for cigarettes. 70% of it is grown around me, darkfired further west, my family as far back as four generations have farmed tobacco. Connecticut produces such a tiny fraction of tobacco products it nearly doesn’t register
Outstanding Plant quality 100%🤘
I need more of these videos!!
Damn that 35mm be hittin different
I grew up in the sixties and could never see the point in smoking. I was right and am thankful now.
Great Upload! Thanks!
Back in the late 70s i pulled tobacco leaves and helped put it up in curing barns just like these.hard hot work.but for an 11 year old 40 dollars a day was good money.we worked from dawn till dark.
I bet my husband would love one of those delivery trucks at the end!
In 40 years from now, they'll perceive the cellphone companies in the same way that we look at those cigarettes companies right now
Wow different times. So safe and secure you can leave your babies outside the market as you shop. 😳🤯
Yeah. Take note of the demographics...
@@hoobaguy4311
I’m with you. The truth doesn’t lie.
It was never safe, it simply wasn't regulated. You can still leave your baby in the street while you go shopping, but nowadays people will call the cops on you and you'll be fined. And on the other hand, I think many more places are kid friendly... I don't think anyone would shop in a market that doesn't allow babies.
Good ol white folk
The entire aura of this video feels c o m f o r t a b l e
Basildon, Essex.
Beautiful lobby though but it's one industry that needed to be in dust bin of history.
I Love virginia tobacco
How less busy the streets is amazing way better for driving.
Massive modern machines!
Adamlar da 60 lı yıllardaki teknoloji ye bak. Helal olsun
There wasn't one fat person in this whole video.
The fat ones are their bosses
Maybe we should stop accepting and encouraging obesity in our society and culture. Fatties have no place in our world, this whole psyop of body acceptance is a way to get you to be lazy and fat and unhealthy.
It was a time when fat and ugly people werent allowed on tv. Think about that 😉 propaganda at its best and still in 2020 people buy it
Obesity wasn’t invented yet
I bet they already discovered juuls way back then
I love how the auctioneer sings while calling bids at 5:50
This suddenly showed up in my feed
Yeah that's how youtube works, there is a feed and random videos will show up
The madness of our times seems acceptable with the tight music underneath it
I remember when I was about 10 in 1961 in one of the first supermarkets in Scotland ... Safeways in Muirend
Just love it
The swingin’ sounds of the 60’s.
i just ran out of smokes.
John maffina dang, that must be like watching a cooking show before bed.
Same
Don't buy anymore mate. Save yourself 15 grand a year and enjoy ya life. You get nothing from cigs
@@ToxicMrSmith LOL 15 grand a year? You’re insane.
@@ToxicMrSmith let them do what they want with their own bodies.
Smithers, we need to find a way to make these things even more addictive than they already are !"
I'll get right on it My Burns , Sir.
Friend of mine worked for Rothmans in Sydney and he told me they produced 60 million cigarettes every day
Yeah you need 60 million cigs a day if you stand out for having more per pack
Think about it: that was the output of just _one factory_ in Australia! We had several cigarette factories, once...and a huge crop in Queensland.
My folks both worked for John Player & Sons in the early 70's - they employed 10,000 people in one city.
@@eddiewillers1 wow that’s actually insane. Now they $20 a pack in Canada
Holy smokes Batman !
narrator: "endless research to deliver to most absolute kill"
The GMC Cracker Box cab over was cool
6:07 This is like a highly oiled machine.
One man talks so fast nobody can understand him. The other people walk right behind eachother, picking up a bunch of tobacco and putting it down again while after they've put it down, they raise their hand.
Awesome...
Dig those crazy vibes! 🙂
As I sit on my porch puffing on Dutch Masters cigars I must say, I just love tobacco.
Yeah same here, tobacco is a passion. I'm watching with a 6 year old Cuban Hoyo De Monterrey on the go.
i sit on my porch puffing a blunt
Ben Miles same fam, my morning ritual
Ew. Why a dutch though? There's so much better out there.
Hope you love mouth cancer too dumb ass
it seems to me that part of the recording's been shagged. missing audio, white screens...
Doubt if we could build these kinds of machines today. Great educational video of the past.
It’s like a PG version of Breaking Bad.
The auctioneer has been smoking something else I think
I was not expecting Basildon to be featured in this film.
I wonder how many of the people ive treated have died smoking the tobbaco products made in this factory. I love history x
Ainda bem q existe esses vídeos pra mostrar como era antes e olha sinto q era bem mais interessante
The music is dandy.
They look so relaxed 😎 and happy..Some people pressed dislike for this video ..Please just tell me Dislike for what!!
Nice
How interesting
I haven't smoked in 10 years, but I would like to buy a pack of Pics.
@Jacob Monnin stop watching how they are made! You’re not helping yourself.
@Jacob Monnin wow okay then I learned something today. It wouldn’t help me quit though.
The good old days
If you go to Basildon now, the main high building is there, but now the irony - the next door building to the left where the red truck passes at 7:59 now belongs to the NHS!
We've advanced so much. Work previously done by strong tough men can now be done by children!
Love old documentaries 🌚
Post Brexit this is what Great Britain looks like today.
A civilized era.
And this is why we all smoked. I managed to quit 20 years ago and glad I did. My lungs are shot away. Nicotine is more addictive than heroin.
It's the worst drug in history. And only legal as it's a big part of the backbone of country's tax.
In Aus the cost of smokes is like 85% tax. At 55 dollars a pack its insane.
Glad I switched to vaping.
My lungs are now above average according to my most recent spirometry test
@@ToxicMrSmith 55 dollars for a pack of 20 cigarettes?
@@ToxicMrSmith above average? was it the smoking that gave them their above average status or the vaping? why not just stop?
Tell that to the folks going through opioid withdrawals
@@ToxicMrSmith lol vaping is way worse
I remember when I was 10 in 1961 in Safeways.... one of the first supermarkets in Scotland in Muirend In Glasgow .... young models in bikinis handing out free cigarettes... imagine that happening today!
This is BBCs Inside the Factory series in the 60s
Almost makes me feel bad for quitting a few months ago.
Almost
Hang in there
Back then, you were ostracized if you DIDN'T smoke!
Now this is what i call music!
wow. everyone is thinner. i like. working men
not as much fast food. more natural. people didnt fry food half as much. life required more walking or being on ones feet.
Just wondering what happened to all the additives ?
Can anyone tell me what song is playing at the beginning? Thanks :D
weird that im trying to give up smoking and im being recommended this
Just quit bro, cigs are gross. Don’t fall into the vape trap either, vapes are even more addictive
@@LightYagamiVSL its not as easy as just quitting if it was nobody would b smoking. Gums the best alternative
13:26
A beautiful granny then in her early 20s :)
The Watch Hub Not if she spent all days infront of that smoke testers....
Gosh,I remember my mum leaving my
little brothers in their prams outside the
department stores! Everyone did it!
When we came back outside,they were still there!
Imagine what would happen if you did that now!,
The good old days 😂😂😂
homogeneous, high trust society back then...today, not so much.....
Saw that picture of the James River and thought "leave off is that in Basildon"
This is a neat video. I like watching how cigarettes and other things like beer and spirits are made. I don't smoke, never have, nor do I drink. My religion forbids it. However, it's interesting to watch. They talk about the research they did to make the product enjoyable but they never mention that cigarettes shortened so many people's lives causing so much misery and death. Quality of life is so very important. However, I can see how these little white sticks brought so much comfort to so many. Thumb's UP. Thanks.
This film is practically an advertisement for the company.
You’re day isn’t going to get any better
@@spannaspinna ...?
Summer Dare if you wake up hungover you’re day will get better lol
@@spannaspinna - oh good. I’m having brandy and cranberry cocktails whilst cutting deglace fruit for a fruitcake. Cheers! 🦃
Quit over 6 years ago, best thing ever did.
11:57 what a doll
she sure is.
Lol I live in Basildon dident even know there a Tbacco Factory here lol
Really interesting. It’s too bad there are video and audio dropouts.
A gift from Mexico to the world, unfortunately today they have more chemicals than tobacco, before smoking was a vice, and now it has become an addiction due to the large amount of chemicals they carry, today it is quite a drug due to the amount of chemicals that cause cancer, before we did not see so much or hear so much about lung cancer caused by tobacco