Slot Machine - AKA Slot Machine Age (1964)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- London and Llandudno.
C/U pinball machine, with the ball whizzing about. A man is trying to score and looks angry and annoyed as he fails, beaten by the machine. C/U of the machine opened up to show the mechanisms, some parts with numbers, pull back to show a man fixing the pinball table back down into position. Pan across to show that we are in a pub.
An old vending machine with the words 'sweetmeats' on it. The coin mechanism part, removed from a machine, is shown close to the camera, to show how the coin drops down through the slot. Women in a kitchen area prepare pre packed lunches. One woman, wearing white coat and head scarf, pipes mashed potato onto a foil dish with stuffed tomatoes and peas. The meals are then wrapped with cellophane or cling film from a roll, and placed in the slots of the vending machine. Signs for 'Snacks' 'Tea' 'Coffee' 'Cold Food' 'Hot Food' . A man puts money into the machine and takes out a pre packed meal . People eat their lunch near the vending machines. Some men working in a car plant factory get drinks from a machine. There are machines for ice cream, tea, snacks, cigarettes, candy, coffee. Les Isaacs goes to a machine and gets chocolate. C/U quick edit of slot machines - cigarette machine, 'I speak your weight' machine, coin operated public telephone, voice recording machine, parking meter, change machine, foot massager, book vending machine, document copier (photo copier) shoe polisher, dial on machine for vending food, showing carton of eggs shifting out and moving onto delivery shelf. There are shots coins being put into into slots.
There is an experimental bottle recycling box 'Help keep Britain Tidy and Safe' which gives money back for recycled bottles. Arthur Brown, who lives in North Wales, has made a fortune out of vending machines, is seen leaving his home in Llandudno and going to his office, stopping for cigarettes from a vending machine along the way. He looks at designs for shops designed for automatic shopping. Young people are seen looking at a jukebox - and making a selection - its called a scopitone machine as it has a screen. The girls have bottles of coca cola. Note: see also 277.04 for the end of the item and CP 489 Cuts.
FILM ID:277.03
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Japanese people in 1964 as they furiously scribble on their notepads.... "Interesting...very interesting"
And that's how we got today Japan full of fending machinary
So many vending machines
@@raynalldoprime And now there's none in the UK.
raynaldo arlen k.eman fr I don’t know why we did away with the bottle recycling machine which pays money back, many other European countries do it still
C Shaffer: "It's Interesting, Vely Intelesting"
What I enjoy about these videos are not only the sense of nostalgia and the narration, but also the photography. They are very well-made even by modern standards.
Yes! I agree! Well said. I really love those pastel colors. The lighting. The editing. That snazzy music. It just works so well. I was born many decades after this video was made but I love it.
standards have gone down in modern times so they are good by their own standards and modern videos are bad by the standards the early videos set
I don't know why but whenever I watch these older films they have much more of a realistic feel to them than current high resolution HD. I can't really explain it, maybe surreal is a better term to describe it.
@@AP-bo1if current high resolution HD has never impressed me, 4K even less so, but yeah, this film looks so amazing!!!
EDIT: Have you people seen the movie "Tora Tora Tora! (1970)?" Also shot on analogue film and no CGI used (but they did use ship miniature models).
Because film is an analogue medium. Sharpness and resolution of the viewing experience is decided by the molecules on the celluloid that will go turn black or remain white when subjected to light.
The digital era merely meant that the viewing experience was encoded in 1s and 0s but the actual quality still was rubbish untill rather recent times.
I remember the first commercial digital 'SLR camera' they tried to sell in the 1990s. It was so badly pixellated that it is perfectly understandable why photographers remained with their analogue equipment for a long time.
Filmed back in `64 and still a better quallity than any UFO`s video...
That's true. Video reality ☝️.
UFO,👎 fakery.
well the reason it look bad is because its digital and this recorded on a film, film has higher quality while being pretty affordable.
second youtube compression exist and it made any video look worse to save space. the US goverment ufo footage look kinda bad because it was recorded multiple time.
also include ghost sightings!!
HAHAHA.
considering the total absence of electronics, those machines are mechanical masterpieces
So modern. Look forward for the implementation!😊
move to japan, already implemented.
You need to go to Japan to see it.
@@madhawa101 vending machines could only work in a country like Japan though.... most other countries they would be vandalised.
What really killed this vision of the future was debasing the currency. A single coin rapidly became 5 or 6 for the same item. That resulted in multiple times greater wear on the coin validation hardware, and the experience of putting so many coins in for a small item multiple times a day was tedious. In Japan, the inflation rate has been close to zero for the past 25 years, that is one reason why vending machines have boomed there.
www.inflationtool.com/japanese-yen
www.inflationtool.com/euro
www.inflationtool.com/us-dollar
@@ProductofSeebach
Nowadays though there are bill reading mechanisms for vending machines and even debit card readers
This video is so British, I can hear the empire knocking my door.
All the more reason to wonder why they had CANDY above one of the slot machines in that factory.
@@alisonwunderland9900 It was for American import/export obvs.
Indeed sir
I saw the box said britch but every one know who made this stuff was USA
That's the _Chinese_ empire......
I love the fact that nothing we see in this video is digital, every machine we see here are mechanic/analog
Looks full of hope back in the 60s . Really a cheerful sight .
These are all actors and the video is completely scripted. Take your nostalgia goggles off.
@@primadeluxe4910 I still take it over modern Britain.
@@primadeluxe4910 no, how about you take your pessimistic, self-loathing glasses off instead
Liberate Londonistan
@@Lbm414.Oleg.Kuznetsov. nah the living quality of the "average" people nowadays is a lot better
Only sixpence for a cup of horrible instant coffee. A bargain!
Chocolate was always the best option
stop blindly romantisizing the past, with inflation it was 1.20 quid in 1964
and a hope for the cup to come out before the coffee
20p at mine for what they call tea.
@@26TptCoy lol 😄
At this rate, by 1980 machines will have taken all our jobs!
...and not one solitary microprocessor to be found!
Yep. But, still, it was no bigga deal, plenty other jobs around. China killed our jobs.
Many food machines for snacks here have mostly adapted and became wireless payment with phone quite the pain for many
Earlier it was all mechanical n not computerized, just wait n watch machines will definitely take maximum of jobs if not all.
Because of AI, ML etc.
@@mickcarson8504 This is because developed countries chose the route of deindustrialization. Under the competitive background, capitalists favored sufficient Chinese workers with few salary rather than their homeland workers with high salary. Who doesn’t like more money and more profit?
This is very strangely satisfying.
I love you jinsuk
It's really fascinating to think automatic vendors were such a novel thing...sadly the only place you really see them in the huge numbers like here is in Japan, because vandalism isn't such an issue, and convenience is more highly prized there.
I don't think that vandalism is main reason, machines at railway stations are common in Europe, I think that main difference is in work culture in Europe and Japan, If we would have same work culture and space problems in Europe as the Japanese have, then slot(h) machines would be omnipresent here in large quantities as well.
@@dave23024 The work culture in Europe is nowhere near the same as in Japan.
@mike sixx yea death penalty for murders and if then not all the time... you aint going to get executed for vandalizing a machine....
Death penalty in Japan is only for mass murderers.
(Eg: the Aum Shinrikyo subway gas attacks)
It’s seldom used for murder of a single person.
Dont remember what state but I saw on tv a restaurant/foodcourt where it sells food in coin machines with huge walls of different items
0:27 "An age where the slot machine meant a penny worth of sweet meat"
Sounds like a good time to me
In for a penny, in for a pound.
If we're talking about meat curtains, count me in
Meat is murder!!
@@mikeymcmikeface5599
So those eating plant
I'll have a pound of flesh, ta. -- Sorry, dear. Only got 10 bob's worth left.
geez, that some fine music
I'm so happy this was the first comment.
and how!
*that's
Sounds straight from Skullgirls, yeah.
Tuba time
I love olden day films like this. Thank you British Pathe.
The vending machines back then were so cool! Such vintage.
Some of these machines are beautiful
Back in the days, when in even in the slot machines you had quality food.
This is when everything was still high quality. The baby boomers enjoyed it then ruined it for future generations
Vending cafeterias were called automats. They fell out of favor in the 1970s because of inflation making it inconvenient to pay with coins, and electronic bill acceptors didn’t exist.
There have been attempts to revive them but they have not been successful.
“Haffa pint and a sondwich still means lunch to millions...”
GRW “Half a pint and a sandwich still means lunch to millions”
@@JacksawWorld rlly?
Andrew what
Andrew @jack ....
Some people just don’t get it
nows it's noodle cup with a red bull
A pinball machine! Thank God we have scientists to tell us how they work 😂
Doc Brown sold the Libyans a atom bomb casing full of old pinball machine parts.
Did you rip that off?
"don't be fooled by the simplicity of it's design"
Design: crawling with dinglepops and festooned with dongsnaps...
Don't joke about God or use God's name in vain.
@@Miguelthedestroyer Hows thanking god using his name in vain you peanut! Grab a brain...
In my childhood days the only vending machines I knew were the ones with soda, and it was such a fun treat! You put the coin in the slot, you choose the taste of soda, you press the button, and you watch soda stream running into your glass! Majestic!
Yes, the machine can never replace the pretty waitress
it would do if it was actually cheaper but no the machines charge you more.
I smell a synth
The Japanese: is that a challenge!?
RHEEEEEEE!!! Sexual assult! :)
@@BearMeOut ouuuh I can't wait.....c'mon Japan make a robot waitress already.
In the 1970s and 1980s, many vending machines like the one in the video were built and operated in Japan. Although vending machines are still thriving in Japan, the variety of items sold has decreased from the past. In particular, hot snack vending machines are an endangered species, and the old machines are carefully maintained by enthusiasts.
LOL the machines with the rotating trays and sliding doors bring back memories. We would stick two fingers into the adjacent tray as kids, flip the Hostess pies up on their side, and slowly pull them out. Two for the price of one, and sometimes one for free, if the machine hadn't been cycled which locks the doors. Occasionally the pies would blow out at the rear seam of the package, and you would lose a bit of filling. Didn't go so well with King Don's, where we gave up and left the molested remains in the tray, clearly not to be purchased by anyone.
and that's boys and girls is why this did not catch on, because of rascals like you ;D
Boys and girls...?... in the 90’s the dealership I worked at built a huge complex, which included a spacious break room, complete with various vending machines. One of my work mates “Rob”, would bring long needle-nosed pliers and rotate the section around to the “Mega burrito” showed up. He’d fish that burrito through a narrow space, but sometimes it would end up popping the other end of the package resulting in a big mess. Me? I found it was much easier to pop a handful of quarters into the slot and receive a non-molested lunch treat.
Coffee machine at auto tech was a classic also. There was a guy named Rich always asking people for quarters for the machine. One time we mentioned him to group of Vietnam vets who were at the school at the time, and they said "Oh you mean Poor Rich". The name stuck for him there. After some time a few friends and I started hanging out with him, and he really was broke. Then there was the microwave for heating the cheap sandwiches, where a clown named John Mahoney would stick a double backed taped small milk container full of match heads, toilet paper, and aluminum foil scraps in the upper rear corner. He also plugged the nearby parts desk guy's phone into a wall outlet, and them plugged it back in to the proper phone jack. Phone company showed up and said they'd never seen anything like it before.
So you’re the reason they didn’t catch on. Thank you!
I miss these old machines. They were so damn neat!
ya? You miss the cigarette machines on the street corner?
@@viper100200 I never used those so can't say.
Now in Japan we are kinda hot for retro automatic vending machines, but now I realized that exactly there was origine here.
Sophisticated, versalitle, practical, multifunctional, multipurpose, severing automatically.
2:37 Didn't know record booths were a thing! Fascinating.
Even in 2022, those lunches at 1:05 actually look really nice. I could have one of those right now!
yeah cause they were made with real ingredients by people who didn't hate themselves 😅
They kind of look like airline food which kind of turn me down 😬
@@randomboy3m98 still better than what the george serves now though
Looks like scoot food
These look so aesthetic! And they look so satisfying to use too!
Got recommended by TH-cam.. didn't disappoint
I work at a factory and in shifts. Having something like 1:28 during a late shift would be amazing. Shame we don't do this type of stuff anymore these days
I worked at a place with a vending machine that had tv dinners and cup soup. Other than how they look, we still have this stuff. Just depends on what they stock the machines with.
Good to read both of your comments.
It's funny, because in the end the Japanese adopted vending machines and other such things nationwide, while Americans stuck with a few of these.
I love these nostalgia videos
The environment looks amazing. Champion Arsenal...
Mechanical era... Everything were made so precious. Amazing technology!
The bottle refund machine is genius, why is this no longer a thing
That actually still exists? That's how we refund plastic bottles in my country. Machines are more modern and you don't get money directly (you need to go to store cashier).
Robbery
You can hear the quality of the machines back then aswell.... Proper engineering
I miss the junk machines we had in the barracks back in the 80s. The usual; chips, candy, sodas, and such, no big deal, but my favorite was the machine that served hot canned food such as stew, lasagna, and spaghetti-Os.
In the late 70's I worked in a factory in Hartlepool that had an automated canteen. The kitchen staff prepared and packaged up food and loaded into the revolving vending dispenser, just like on the film clip. The meals/food was then heated in early microwave ovens once it was purchased from the vending machine. The microwave ovens didn't have modern timers but just different strips of coloured plastic for the length of time needed in the microwave. It was a South African owned company too in Hartlepool 😂 Oh happy and different times.
this is the peak of west great era
Mmmm I'd say the internet was better.
It's so weird how hole in the wall type food vending fast food joints never caught on. My first experience with them was Febo in Amsterdam. I was completely blown away with being able to get hot food while not having to make eye contact with a cashier while completely ruined. :D Just look through the glass and see the delicious junk food. Threading the coins into the slot was difficult but who is watching in a town like Amsterdam?
I know exactly what you mean 😊🤪
Took up more staff
The color in this video just 😍😍😍
"at the drop of a bob" damn got to love the old ones
Before 1971, a Pound was equivalent to 20 Shillings; each Shilling (bob) is equivalent to 12 pence (£1 = 240 pence). One bob that used to be equivalent to 12 pence (12d) became 5 new pence (5p) only in 1971. It lost 7 pence (7d) or 58.33% of its value. To mitigate the situation, the Royal Mint minted ½ new penny coins (½p). Since 12 won't fit into 5, duplicate values cannot be avoided:
½p = 1d
1p = 2d & 3d
1½p = 4d
2p = 5d
2½p = 6d
3p = 7d
3½p = 8d
4p = 9d & 10d
4½p = 11d
5p = 1 shilling
The new half penny coin (½p) was demonetised on 31-December 1984. I think the government already had intention to not include the new half penny coin (½p) from the beginning of the decimalisation plan. They minted the new half penny coin (½p) as the ugliest coin and majority of the people don't want to use it. It was even ignored in banking transactions. Because of its tiny size (unlike the pre-decimal ha'penny) and ugly design, most people perceive it as having no value. In street markets, most of the vendors don't want to use the new half penny (½p) in pricing their items or products. They rounded-up the prices to the nearest new penny. When the new half penny coin (½p) was introduced on 15-February 1971 (Decimal day), the government said that it is just a temporary coin and it will soon be demonetised once it lost its value due to inflation. The government's words sounded more prophetic than they ever thought; the 1970s was the worst decade for Britain due to yearly double-digit inflation (skyrocketing to 25% in 1975).
Bermuda Islands had the most logical method of decimalisation, the 240 pence became 240 cents.
One Bermudian Pound is equivalent to two Bermudian Dollars and forty cents (BM£1 = BM$2.40).
holy crap this is awesome. thank you youtube algorithm
Incredible. The things we take for granted now.
No more cigarette vending machines tho :()
shawn foogle they are still in most European countries except the UK
shawn foogle they have them in Las Vegas.
Fantastic work and methods of food services...mind blowing...
Great stuff, I love seeing these old films; they provide a snapshot into days long gone.
I met a lot of vending machines in my life. I don’t know their origins, but I always liked this invention. After work on a railroad station in nowhere - but there is a (more or less) shining machine, offering soda or sandwiches or sweets. If they were invented in Britain - thank you. A real good one!
The coin slot mechs used in pinball machines and other types of machines are ingenious devices, they check the thickness, the weight, the diameter and magnetic properties of a coin lightning fast before accepting or rejecting the coin!
"A pint and a sandwich" for lunch? Happy days! 😊
Half a pint and a sandwich.. Those were the days..
herguttentag9000 Half a pint of that Purple Drank!!!
Here in former Czechoslovakia in communism time, people were going to restaurant for food and drink few beers before they returned to work, time is really changing. Ofcourse I don't remember that days, I am only 29, but I heard many such stories from older people. Today you sit on toilet too long time and half of company is looking for you if you are native qualified worker, if you are Ukrainian you can do what you want and sit or smoke how long you want. :-D
Nice environmental friendly machine. Glass bottles shredding machine. Good video.
Wow! These vending machines are cool!
1:01
I wish thats what cafeteria food looked like...
The color quality is amazing wish they had this in 4k
Have a look at the NFSA account, it's Australia's equivalent of British Pathe.
There's some incredible remastered stuff like this on there.
If the original film was shot on 16/35mm it would be better than 4k even now, if the projector and screen was set up correctly. The emulsion density is pretty good on film, especially 70mm.
Its the beauty of film
Ah those wonderful slot machines - I absolutely loved them as a kid!
I remember a whole wall of grocery and snack slot machine 'windows' behind the Bon Marche (later Debenhams) in Gloucester around 1965 - I just stared at them in wonder.
The world that was.
Japan today
And still is
replace coins w credit cards and boom still the same
Omg I used to be so obsessed with these types of machines. Especially the ones with the little windows that rotate
I like how the video ends before the machine plays the music to avoid copyright strike.
Kids these days will never know the awesomeness of the pin ball machine.
Japan loves this stuff
I wish people put this much effort into documentaries these days.
Makes you wonder if there ever will be a documentary on people make comments on a documentary on people making comments on a documentary on people making comments...
Well tbh TH-cam is probably documenting our world with much higher accuracy than in the sixties.
@@jholotanbest2688
True. Some of the best content I have seen is on TH-cam.
Yea, there are plenty of low effort videos, but there are also some gems of channels.
There was something many years ago in NYC called The Automat...wish they still had them
Упаковка в пищевую пленку! 1964 год Карл!!!
с ума сойти!!!!
А ещё «Автомат для записи вашего голоса», «копирование документов»….
Кстати, не вижу тут в комментах ни одного любителя СССР с их вечным «вкусным пломбиром»)
@@yokkio пломбир раньше в США появилось 🤗
Delightfully interesting mechanical contraptions. Touchscreens are highly versatile and easy to use, but a mechanical device will always be more fascinating.
Here in Canada 57 years later we have minimal/poor service everywhere and almost no automated vending machines. Welcome to the future!
Turdeau's paradise
Sandwich and a half pint for lunch, if only there was a single job that would let me work and have a lunch like that
Inflation killed the industry in the US in the 70s, but its big Japan.
Food in the wall is really popular in the Netherlands
Its mostly snack bar food tho
the judiciary would throw you out for only a half pint at lunch
Work in sales, you can eat and drink what you want as long as you perform.
@@goodforyou3000 Without a dollar coin it was impractical now with NFC and debit cards it should work a treat.
My childhood 🌺thanks
OMG it's like using a time machine. Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this video.
British Pathe have thousands of these films.
Everything seemed so optmistic back in those days.
I think the reason there was less push for automation in reality was that you suddenly in the 60's and 70's had a massive growth in labor force participation with women more commonly forgoing home duties and pursuing jobs/careers of their own. Making labor MUCH more plentiful and far cheaper. It makes sense, as back when this film was made, one working man at a manufacturing job could afford to finance an entire household comfortably. If the cost of human labor went up (which it likely will in the next 50 years as population growth declines in the west), you'll see another push for more large scale automation. Society has the tools to do it now in a much more economic manner too.
@@dialupdavid problem is aswel is you still need people to fill those machines and conduct maintenance which costs alot of money.
@@alexhetherington8028
Make robots that repair each other
I love how inclusive these videos are. They give a great sense of our diverse shared history as we imagine our recent past.
SJW
weirdo
My mom remembers a place like this in Philadelphia from when she was a kid.
The good old days Thanks 😌
I still don’t get why these don’t still exist. 1:01 that mini dinners are so cute ❤
this is such a amazing video
Everyone dressed so cool back then, uniforms, too. Nice.
Racism and sexism was prevalent back then
@@doburu4835 That's the best part of it though. Hangin' around just waiting to commit a hate crime with the boys.
Not really, it's actually really uncomfortable and exhausting having to wear 3 layers of clothing such as suits and button shirts with belts and all. Not breathable and I can smell the stench of sweat all the way over here... Ehh
@@user-jg8lo1km9q It's England, not the Bahamas.
@@doburu4835 Yeah, I'm sure their clothes was what was causing that, if it even existed. Idiot.
You have to see Japan 🇯🇵 to experience this now.
Top-notch filming & editing.
Its neat
Video quality is way ahead of its time
I think the reason it looks so good is because these Pathe news clips were shot on film rather than video, and film can be restored and scanned to modern standards.
He's made it....He's driving a Rover!😃😃
@barry rudge But there where relaible cars?
Llandudno! I recognised it straight away.
This is such awesome fashinating stuff, i really enjoy that sound of those mechanical stuff😁
Years ago, at the Royal Tournament, there was an area for the military with 24 vending machines. It was my job to count the coins, all by hand. I hated every minute.
Japanese people in 1964:
"Write that down! Write that down!"
this video is very pleasing and delightful 🥰
Played the pinball machine from the start of the video a couple weeks ago. Cool to see it when it was in its prime
3:12 I want that machine so bad
I'd use that machine...
Видео об эпохе более развитых цивилизаций...
Technology is like evolution. Gotta start somewhere
In the 1970s my uncles and aunts went to Japan and they had this also and today they are the leaders in vending machines
I’m so proud to be British. I just wish I existed during the age of every stereotype 😂
1:15 Now that looks like a really healthy lunch. Could you imagine if the fast food industry would actually go out of business for offering their garbage? We need to support businesses who actually create homemade healthy food like this.
Really now
The colors in this are pretty amazing.
Those were the best pin ball machines!
2:52 I would kill to have one of these still around
В ссср в 64 году у нас в селе только провели электричество....
В 70х в райцентре , в магазине стоял автомат по продаже газет.
@@KOSYAKOV__NIK.55 В 2-тысячных уже можно было свободно приобрести автомобиль.
@@KOSYAKOV__NIK.55 Подумаешь, упаковки с готовыми порциями в плёнке, звукозаписывающие и копировальные аппараты... Зато в 1969 году в СССР впервые началось производство туалетной бумаги💪
This is my favorite channel of youtube, keep wlaking guys you are amazing 😎
Everything in my country (Brasil) used to be very delayed. Seeing those people using plastic film to wrap food in 1964 just puzzled me. I remember to get contact with such stuff at least only 20 year later than that.
02:29 at least they are closing back the door ... People in those days did have good manners ...
In today's time, not many would do that.