Great stuff. I really wish this had been my era. It's almost 15 years before I was even born, but I've always had a huge affinity for the late 50s, whether it be the films, the music, the cars, the fashion, everything.
Great clip. As already said at 3mins it's Brian Bennett & Licorice Locking playing drums & bass in the 2 I's band. They were regulars at the 2 I's and in Marty's Wildcats b4 joining the Shads. Playing guitar is Joe Moretti, so this was filmed after November 58 when he'd moved to London from Glasgow. He famously played lead on "Brand new cadillac" with Bennett & Locking when they were Vince Taylor's Playboys, and also on "Shakin All Over" for Kidd's Pirates in May 1960, just before backing Gene Vincent in Italy. Jivin' in blue suit & cool white shoes is early rock n roller Rory Blackwell.
Yes,great indeed-and there's some nice LP's on the wall behind the band,too-I spotted Elvis' Rock n' Roll (no.1) on HMV ,Tommy Steele Stage Show- Decca 10' inch, A Steady Date With Tommy Sands and Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps self-titled 2nd LP of 57' (took me years to find a good nick copy of that!) A fine film for sure and a precious bit of social history
My grandfather (Joe McCormick) lived on Kemble Street during the 50s and 60s. Joe was a retired mercantile marine( chief Petty officer) who worked as Porter at the Waldorf Astoria until his death in 1968 aged 62. Joe would have known all those haunts in Soho at that amazing time in history. To say I'm envious would be an understatement.
7.48 Red head guy at bar with black tie is my friend REG!! (The Duke) Still living hard! Had one of the first 'strip' joints in Soho. He's 80 now. And a legend. x
My God yes.. now you point it out it's obvious. Nobody is over weight .... incredible .....by today's standards where obesity has become the norm but as you say almost everyone is smoking which suppresses appetite.
I walked into the Merrion Centre in Leeds to find out that one of the oldest and most respected music shops in Leeds had been replaceed by a Costa - surprising to say the least since there's another Costa at the front of the Merrion Centre next to Morrison's!
+moochincrawdad used to love the merrion centre , me and a mate would come from chester to watch u t d in the 70, s , is the general wade pub still there ? remember the guilford pub and the beer keller , and there was a giant heath-robinson automaton on show , happy days
+moochincrawdad walked through chester a few weeks ago , people sitting outside starbucks drinking coffe in the pouring rain {undercover} , who pays 3 quid to sit outside in the fucking rain to drink coffee , nuts !!!!!!!!
Looks like Galton and Simpson had been to one of the bars here, from Hancock's Half Hour: The Poetry Society (1959) Hancock - Not the one you go to. Oh no. - not El Castanetto. That’s bourgeois, that is; we go to the one done up like a graveyard. We sit on the old cardboard tombstones round the plastic coffins...and we indulge in philosophical analysis. We formulate our plans for our Brave New World; Gladys takes it down in her notebook and when she’s filled it up we’re going to publish it. We’re calling it "A Thesis on the Reconciliation of Homo-Sapiens in Relationship with his Natural Destiny and the Theory of Selective Evolution".
"Meet to put the world right ..... or more often left" : ) I know there's a tendency to look back thro rose-tinted glasses but still wonderful to see so many independents before big business appropriated the whole thing ....... and lovely to see a world without mobile phones and a poignant thought .... those young boys and girls who are still alive will be in their late 70s by 2018 and grandparents also! I want to enter that world if only for a day .....
They were shown at Rank Organisation cinemas before the feature film. They were introduced to replace newsreels which became redundant when TV started to provide instant daily TV news coverage.
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I think this short film is my favourite thing on the Internet.
Great stuff. I really wish this had been my era. It's almost 15 years before I was even born, but I've always had a huge affinity for the late 50s, whether it be the films, the music, the cars, the fashion, everything.
Great clip. As already said at 3mins it's Brian Bennett & Licorice Locking playing drums & bass in the 2 I's band. They were regulars at the 2 I's and in Marty's Wildcats b4 joining the Shads. Playing guitar is Joe Moretti, so this was filmed after November 58 when he'd moved to London from Glasgow. He famously played lead on "Brand new cadillac" with Bennett & Locking when they were Vince Taylor's Playboys, and also on "Shakin All Over" for Kidd's Pirates in May 1960, just before backing Gene Vincent in Italy. Jivin' in blue suit & cool white shoes is early rock n roller Rory Blackwell.
Yes,great indeed-and there's some nice LP's on the wall behind the band,too-I spotted Elvis' Rock n' Roll (no.1) on HMV ,Tommy Steele Stage Show- Decca 10' inch, A Steady Date With Tommy Sands and Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps self-titled 2nd LP of 57' (took me years to find a good nick copy of that!)
A fine film for sure and a precious bit of social history
I know one of the astrologers at 5:52 left hand side Anthony (Tony) Potter, a great man sadly now dead. Such a lovely find thanks for posting!
My grandfather (Joe McCormick) lived on Kemble Street during the 50s and 60s. Joe was a retired mercantile marine( chief Petty officer) who worked as Porter at the Waldorf Astoria until his death in 1968 aged 62. Joe would have known all those haunts in Soho at that amazing time in history. To say I'm envious would be an understatement.
7.48 Red head guy at bar with black tie is my friend REG!! (The Duke)
Still living hard! Had one of the first 'strip' joints in Soho.
He's 80 now.
And a legend. x
Quite a gem, this. Great to be able to look back. Notice, nobody there staring at their phones all the time.
Nobody was overweight either it seems. Wouldn't fancy sitting there immersed in all that smoke though!
My God yes.. now you point it out it's obvious. Nobody is over weight .... incredible .....by today's standards where obesity has become the norm but as you say almost everyone is smoking which suppresses appetite.
people usually read the papers instead, they just put them down for the filming
Grandma and Grandad were rocking out at a Coffee bars, and we think we are special with Pumpkin spice lattes in Costa...Nothing really changes.
Brilliant! Been reading stories of Iron foot Jack tonight. What a character!!
On drums is Brian Bennett and double bass is Brian Locking both later of The Shadows
Yes absolutely two of the future Shadows!
wow, the legendary iron foot Jack, mentioned by Ian Dury.
"I was a Teenage Dracula from Outer Space" - sounds like a smash hit to me ! : P
Birth of British rock and roll in this clip!
These films are like the "News of the World"'s famous slogan at the time: All of human life is here. And isn't it marvellous!
Great to see these amazing independent coffee bars, so full of character, and what do we have now? - Costa and Starbucks!
I walked into the Merrion Centre in Leeds to find out that one of the oldest and most respected music shops in Leeds had been replaceed by a Costa - surprising to say the least since there's another Costa at the front of the Merrion Centre next to Morrison's!
+moochincrawdad Costa are taking over! In Northampton they have 2 on one fairly small retail park!
+moochincrawdad used to love the merrion centre , me and a mate would come from chester to watch u t d in the 70, s , is the general wade pub still there ? remember the guilford pub and the beer keller , and there was a giant heath-robinson automaton on show , happy days
+moochincrawdad walked through chester a few weeks ago , people sitting outside starbucks drinking coffe in the pouring rain {undercover} , who pays 3 quid to sit outside in the fucking rain to drink coffee , nuts !!!!!!!!
Ahh, Gaggia!
Looks like Galton and Simpson had been to one of the bars here, from Hancock's Half Hour: The Poetry Society (1959)
Hancock - Not the one you go to. Oh no. - not El Castanetto. That’s bourgeois, that is; we go to the one done up like a graveyard. We sit on the old cardboard tombstones round the plastic coffins...and we indulge in philosophical analysis. We formulate our plans for our Brave New World; Gladys takes it down in her notebook and when she’s filled it up we’re going to publish it. We’re calling it "A Thesis on the Reconciliation of Homo-Sapiens in Relationship with his Natural Destiny and the Theory of Selective Evolution".
Came to London with Chris Morris (who later became Lance Fortune) and played guitar in resident band there in summer 1959. Magical days...
This is amazing!
Ironfoot Jack!! Ernest the Astrologer! The Partisan! Sam Widges! Thanks for sharing, Ron Gould
yes remember iron foot jack all those years ago what a character
Flicking ash into a skull ashtray at 7.10 very apt!
I was born three decades after this, but this video gave me a weird sense of deja vu.
OOOOOOOOhhhhhhhh
A square in a round hole is just not dug. Classic beatnik.
"Meet to put the world right ..... or more often left" : ) I know there's a tendency to look back thro rose-tinted glasses but still wonderful to see so many independents before big business appropriated the whole thing ....... and lovely to see a world without mobile phones and a poignant thought .... those young boys and girls who are still alive will be in their late 70s by 2018 and grandparents also! I want to enter that world if only for a day .....
amazing clip!!
Narrated by Michael Brooks, a famous BBC radio announcer of the time.
Thanks for that info - I was curious to find out who the narrator was. At first I thought it sounded a bit like Ronald Fletcher
3:13 that’s my grandmother and her (now) wife!
Your Gran was into more than just flicking coffee beans....
and on that note.. i'm off out for a coffee ;-)
At 5:51 Ernest Britten Page (1913-1966) was a well known character in Soho Cafés of the 50s and 60s.
5:26 It's Marley from Home Alone.
these Rank films are great
Cool dadio!
Thanks ❤️❤️❤️i was born 1961
1959 Erdington bhàm loved glass cups and saucers
7:31 she's had a bit more than coffee I think.
I reckon it's Le Macabre that Tony Hancock is referring to in 'The Poetry Society'.
The 2i’s coffee bar , where british rock really started.
take me there
We used to have a grey cat.
Iron Foot Jack!!!
at 6.5 in the coffee bar,there is a francis bacon picture on the wall
smoking replaces with technoligy in coffee shops now
It's the cat's pyjamas!
Is that Ottilie Patterson at 2.52?
@skiman55 Thank you very much.
Coffee house are home of Skiffle music
Saludos de Argentina
oh! for the days of infamous PURPLE HEARTS.
Where would these films have been shown? At the cinema?
They were shown at Rank Organisation cinemas before the feature film. They were introduced to replace newsreels which became redundant when TV started to provide instant daily TV news coverage.
1950's goths 7:05
What happened too that group?anybody played in that group still out there!
2 of them were 'the shadows' who backed cliff richard
Does these films exist on DVD?
Copy it from TH-cam stupid. google Video Download-helper Download Videos from the Web.
Anyone who the astrologer at 5:55 is ? Great hair and beard.
3.37 shop on the right became a Lyons and then a betting shop
Shop on the corner became a book shop if it was not already one.
Glory days of the Western world before its decline.
£6.00 per WEEK salary...and that is WITH tips...OMG !
In 1959 you could buy a 3 bedroom tenement flat in the posh West End of Glasgow for £250. That's inflation.
before techology changed you can play games read books and the newspaper more than now
Now day's everything's corporate, looks the same with no atmosphere and crap pipped music assaulting your eardrums.
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