BBC Britain on Film - Series 2 Episode 10 Sixties - 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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...I was born in 62 in Nottinghamshire, my Ancestors have lived in Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire for hundreds of years. This was my England, was...
I was born in '57 and l'm not ashamed to say that watching this made me cry.
These films are Kryptonite for the woke revisionists. How long before they're "unavailable" on TH-cam?
I too was born in '57, in Cardiff. At some point, if not this generation, then the next, kids will realize how totally they were robbed by the moronic wokesters.
WTF are you on about?
I remember the 60s, good times and everyone had time for each other.
Now we have constant stabbings and no go areas, life as I knew it then has gone.
Yeah everyone sure
It's like watching a dream world from another [good] dimension. Even the music and voice-over is otherworldly and has a deep effect on this listener. I was a child in the 60's, but now cannot recall that much about it in my head. I feel I've been blitzed by modern media into a sort of numb state.
R.I.P Great Britain 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
It was nice knowing you.
Hello, Britainstan.
MarblesRed oh, you mean he should leave and go to a foreign country? This IS a foreign country; unrecognizable from when I was a teenager in the mid-sixties.
@Sideshow 44 racist
i was born in 2005 and i cant watch this without thinking how much more civilised and proper britain was in this time, especically the best time for mod music haha
You are correct. Britain is now an open air insane asylum run by maniacs who hate Britain.
I was lucky to have been born at the end of the 1950s so I have seen a massive change over sixty odd years, for the worse I might add.
I was born in 1951 so was a teenager when this series was filmed. It shows a perfect time to have lived but it wasn't. There were good things and bad. Older people then used to moan about what a better world it was when they were young - despite living through WW2 !!!
Agree with you Ellie.. has always been the case with each generation!
I was born in 61 and looking back it was somehow nicer.
I was born in Middle east and I served with the Royal Air Force I been to England in 1960 my memories came back when i looked on this Series i & 2 movie how the streets are clean not like what is looking today. I don't want to cry if i could helped . Its sad Today the calour of England had changed. Excuse my English I did my best.
Dandy Beano you did fine mate. Thank you
And you did very well!
No problems, sir. We all understand and agree. 😊
I was born in the early 60s but i sometimes wish i had been born 10 years earlier - the 60s and 70s were much more honest straight forward times - it all started to go wrong from the mid to late 80s onward
I would say it started to go wrong from around the early 2000s onwards, certainly when Tony Blair took power this country changed for the worst
Born in 1954. I don't want to be 65 though it seems farcical as I am quite similar ( apart from some aspects of my appearance ) to what I was 30 years ago..lol
However it did give me the chance to enjoy the Mid Sixties and things like Diana Rigg in The Avengers and The Beatles and The World Cup win etc....:)
I was born in the early 00s and wish i was born 50 years earlier this isn't England anymore
You are so right, I was born in 45, I've lived in the best of times and I'm hanging on now to see the end of life as we knew it. I feel so sorry for today's Kids.
@@huudielbo728 kids addicted to their mobile phones - people needing there phones to give them directions and waiting on the green man telling them its safe to cross the road when there is no traffic as far as the eye can see for miles - no brain power needed - i watch in disbelief
life before we were invaded....
Who do you mean by we? The Britons? Their land was invaded by Romans, then the Anglo Saxons, then the Normans. These Islands have always been a home to migrants, thank god! What a dull place and miserable culture we'd have without them.
@@freebornjohn6876 really
Very little diversity, keeping that steam railway running!
@macca you had Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter. Nuff said.
The brits are colonists. Please don't talk about "invasion." Did you forget about the British Empire? It was only 200 years ago.
My teenage years. We thought they would last forever.
They really did sell out everything good,first our industries then our culture,now look at us.
Yup nothing left.
Good old Maggie.
@John Boy She sold off British Gas, BT, BP.
She joined us up to the EC and sign our fish away.
You so called patriots - you do nothing except slag this country off.
markbailey1970
Golden words man, well said!!
I was born in London. Best thing I ever did was emigrate. I don't recognise London today.
So basically you emigrated to another country because you can't stand foreigners and became a foreigner yourself. Hypocritical to say the least! Are you one of these people that calls themselves "Expats"?
@@lucaschapman2188 Reading your comment it sounds like sour grapes on your part that you did not have the sense to recognise the direction the UK was
going, over the cliff at a rate of 32 feet per second, per second, bloody know it all.
I am foreign but England made me and I stand by Great Britain. I have been here and lived and worked here for 47 years. All the people here are just super-duper. Especially in English.
Others come here and think they own the place. that is what's wrong. Her Majesty did a great deal to make sure our lives are good. Respect her and her doings. They even have their stupid problems, but stand by her and the one that takes over. Please.!!!!
Everybody was respectful , happy , and content .....even women !
Even women😂 imagine that! As a former feminist I'm ashamed to admit you are and were right. I and feminism was wrong.😕
They are all white that’s why
@@imdo301 lol why is Glasgow such a shithole then and it’s majority is white
The Sixties was great best time ever.
Not for everyone. This is only propaganda. A fantasy even only a few people enjoyed. I must admit, England was alot cleaner and people could string a sentence and no tattoos all over their bodies.
@Convince Me My goodness. I forgotten I'd made that comment eleven months ago. I wrote it before the pandemic influenza reared its ugly head.
A fine retrospective. Great times in a great country!
1959 was a lot better than 2021 in the UK.
Our greatest days are most definitely behind us
Murine is my mum. I was born in October 1965 the oldest of her two daughters. In 1981 when I was 16 I took over her job. Murine is now 82 years old. I am also her surrogate daughter. I miss the 60s and 70s when we read railway series stories, especially the narrow gauge ones.
This is fascinating to me, I was researching fashion in the sixties for a project, and stumbled across this video. I was born in 2004, so everything I have experienced is so incredibly different to this, of course there is older footage than this out there but this footage is better quality than most I've seen from that era. It provides such an insight into life 50 years ago, into what life was like for my parents growing up!
Back when people had respect, and were well dressed and no obesity and it was a more laid back, caring society. What went wrong ?
Greedy money mad that when it went wrong.
Open door immigration sanctioned by Tony Blair, war criminal and profiteer, on the backs of the working class.
@@theresapierce3934 summed it up.
@Forza223 Bowe.....early discipline. Thats what "went wrong". Yeah i know people won't like what i say but i was born 1950 and finished my schooling in 1965. No kids gave lip back to teachers then. If you did you got a whack. If you went home and cried about it to your parents, your Dad would tell you you obviously deserved it...then give you another whack! Today some (not all) kids gob off to teachers, cry to their parents who march down to the school threatening to beat the teacher up for 'picking on' their little angel. Same with police also. Look at the mouthy gobshites they have to deal with. When i was about 7 or 8 i had a clip round the ear from a copper and stern telling off. My crime? Throwing little pebbles in a public park! BUT.....i NEVER forgot that telling off he gave me. It stayed with me throughout my life and i never got into trouble with police ever. I never even told my parents about it until i was 17 or 18 by which time they could see the funny side!
@@theresapierce3934 Get your facts right. The open immigration policy actually started in the 50's and by the 60's it was well under way. That's why by the 70's, Britain was already a very different country. And this policy was continued by successive governments, both labour and conservative.
We were civilised.......once.
Here we go, Alf Garnett moaning again. 😂
Really love looking at these old films..thanks
The past really is a different country.
60's was a great decade,better than the the corporate,globalisation Greedy world of today
armjos1 except for the repeated runs on the Pound between 1963 and 1967, when the Pound was devalued by 14%. Part of which was caused by business owners/directors not investing into their businesses due to short-term greed.
Well the 60`s were like most decades, good and bad. Industrial strife was common, too many houses still lacked decent heating for Winter and much of beautiful old London was being destroyed (and invariably replaced by cheap crap) in the name of progress without any consideration for the importance and quality of what was being lost.
Lovely decadence; just a memory !.
The corporate world was as greedy then as it is today, wages were very low regardless of what the people of today like to believe, women were paid half a mans' wage, though I would question the percentage being that big, keep in mind that the influx of immigrants did not change that, women were still the lowest paid worker in this land ...so much for slavery!, working conditions were appalling and dangerous, it wasn't unheard of to lose a limb in a factory machine, and those poor souls did not get enough, or any, compensation to enjoy the 'swinging 60s' that only swung for the few. Working class housing was slumsville while their Labour representative's spouted promises of change, that never came, from mighty fine houses, and still do today. This film gives a very skewed image of the reality for the many at that time.
Chuck Emmorll
Well said!
“Of course she couldn’t do this job” 4:54 . You would be arrested for that today 😂
It’s actually painful to watch this, knowing I was born too late.
It's in our hands to do what we can, even if it seems futile.
I remember the mid 60s - late 70s as the time when the average voter's genuine desire for fairness allowed demagogues to co-opt the moral high ground and change our very perception of decency. Even as a child I didn't like the way things were going. My mother and father just brushed it off as being the normal hills and troughs of societal attitudes. - It was, actually, subversion by those who wished us harm.
The tide can be turned.
Life was a lot simpler back than 😕🙂📺📻🚂👗👠
Odd to think the 20 year olds in this film are in their 90’s now.
History Debunked brought me here, as waxed philosophical about whether or not he remembered this England correctly or whether it was a figment of nostalgic imagination.
I was born in 1960..when I die I have this feeling that life is on a loop and I'll be born again in 1960. Cant wait the Beatles and Rickets all over again :p
Fred Braid you will be 4 when the Beatles arrive lol. Try for 1950-56 mate
I love this the time it was lovely.
Fair play to Mr. H.M. Hughes. I'm reminded of the French film Diner les conts , brilliant
They’re really amazing times
Brought back many many great memories..
Everybody seems civilised, smart and content. I was only a child having been born in 1964. I wish I could go back as an adult, I hate this 21st century with it's twisted morals and values. Of course I would have to take some Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream records back with me to show them how electronic music of the future really sounds!
MrBlueSky474 ha ha that came out of the blue cheers dude .
I’m with you. I was born in 66’ and wish I could return as an adult
so weird that you mentioned JMJ on a British documentary when Mike Oldfield is as British as it gets and he's composed as qualitative electronic music as JMJ, if not better (personally, I like MO more than JMJ)
@@blabla-rg7ky I love Mike Oldfield's music, Ommadawn being my favourite album. I was thinking more about the music itself rather than the nationality of the artist. Personally I wouldn't categorise MO as electronic music, he is renowned for his brilliant guitar compositions and beautiful aesthetic arrangements whereas with JMJ and TD it's practically all electronic.
@@MrBlueSky474 I think you might be right and I may have made a confusion. Sorry :)
Not one black face???
rodney taylor are you an auditor ?
Yes it was safe to let the children go out play in the streets very good time to grow up 🇬🇧
How quiet was that motorway
We had a wonderfully cohesive, familial society then. We as kids played safely outdoors until dark without our parents worrying - six siblings in my family, all the better for it.
The ordinary working person has been beaten down in successive generations , this is not simply a recent phenomenon, there have been successive waves of refugees and those that work for poor wages out of desperation. We lost the general strike in 26 even though the miners held out for another six months; so look no further than our inability to break the class system for our troubles.
Absolutely right.
My question is, where are all the alien looking Burka wearing ninja cartoons ??
Surprise surprise, more racist crap.
@@maurice8607 when your forced to convert or die, you may understand peoples fear of radical religions.
gear shaw I understand to an extent. But surely you can't condemn the whole of Islam. I know some Muslims and they aren't like that at all. Personally, I'm more happier going to perhaps a Buddist or Hindu temple than a church. Too much hypocrisy.
@@maurice8607 Yes it`s easy to condemn an entire race/religion because of the fanatics. There are many Muslims that are happy to embrace the culture of their new country and do not conform with extremist or very orthodox views. The problem arises when large numbers of people from other cultures become more and more evident in society and indigenous people then feel threatened, it`s only human nature.
@@maurice8607 It is like saying some Nazis were good humans so we cannot condemn nazism. Islam is a book and has rules and it was written by a warmonger pedophile. Seriously, Hitler was a noob next to muhammad.
Is always fun to revisit the past, but the present is always better.
The idea of having a do it yourself garage sounds like a very good idea I wonder if there are some around
it didn't last long, people kept nicking the tools
Nobody saying Bro or innit all of the time. No horrendous rap music talking about rape and murder and mother fkn. Isn't multicultural Britain much better today ???👀
@Sideshow 44 well said
6.40 M1 Toddington Services Footbridge
6.56 Gliders at Dunstable Down
Looking back there is good memories and not so good depending on a family’s circumstances. There was plenty of freedom ,live and let live. As we had just got over a world war.bombed buildings, Dad and Mum always working At night they were out having a drink in the pub, but life was very rawer and poverty was everywhere . We brought ourselves up , we learnt fast mentally to take care of ourselves.we had no childhood looking back, I was always on my own and lonely . But I learnt to take the knocks. And stand on my own two feet, that help me a lot to grow up.But there was a lot of honest people then ,who were willing to help , ( not the greed of to day. ) We were all in it together it brought out the best in human nature a bond of understanding the human side of life.
Agreed. The days when people helped each other.
Look at what those we voted for in good faith have destroyed and will continue to. Unless we vote for our interests, identity, history, culture and ethnicity.
The scary part is to this day Tony Blair still believes he was one of the best Prime Minsters Britain ever had and wouldn't change anything, if he could go back in time !!!
Very true, a greedy world money mad. Get back to the simple living.
11 mins 15 seconds - Frank Hyde. 1909-1984. A very well respected amateur radio astronomer, who did the job of a committed professional.
So pure.
Would love to visit England some day..cheers
The English would love to be somewhere else, those that are left! All our cities and towns are now overrun.
This was Britain before the invasion. This was when people respected each other. This was when it was safe to walk to school. What happened????
It most certainly wasn't safe at that time for some Children in the Manchester Area, it was the era of the Moors Murderers! Just trying to remember what nationality they were?
@@Eurobrasil550(The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England.The victims were five children)
I was of course talking in general. There has been crime since humans walked the Earth. But if you just look at London for example the number of stabbings and shootings has risen exponentially, in fact most of the large cities serious crime has been on the rise. I am NOT saying there wasn't crime in the 1960's or 70's , 80's etc.
@MarblesRed What would you call the hundreds of illegal foreigners coming into Dover each day from France. Mostly young men under 30?
Daphne Oram.....she is a ringer for the late, great, Caoline Aherne..aka Mrs Merton
What is the brand and model of the car shown at 9:36, 9:50 and 10:53? With number plate 653 ANV? I absolutely love the shape, but cannot find any information on it!
Ah nostalgia it's a thing of the past Haha
Does anyone know the name of the opening music? (Before 2:20).
Another Happening by Neil Richardson.
No no-go zones!!!
The Krays
@@annother3350 The Krays were the underground criminal element. 99% of the population would not have been affected by these people. Sure there was crime but minimal compared to today and mostly related to insignificant events by comparison yet perversely there were many more police on the beat and in evidence. I don`t pretend everything was better then because it wasn`t by any means but crime was not a consideration for most people, unlike today.
Theme music is "Another Happening" by Neil Richardson.
Please tell me where I can find full episodes of series 2 please please
on here
We were never asked
A British housewife wearing glasses and wearing a cardigan invented electronic music. Who knew?
Didn’t she do the opening music for Doctor Who?
@@yvellebradley2502 That was Delia Derbyshire.
Born in ‘52 and I love these glimpses of our past. Thankyou. It wasn’t better then folks if you really think about it. We got ill and died younger. Occupational diseases were widespread and health and safety regulations were non existent ( witness the guy under the car blowing asbestos brake dust into his lungs! ) . Yes it was marvellous back then, but isn’t everything when you are young. I watch my grandchildren still getting the same simple joy out of a large cardboard box that we did. My grandparents weren’t moaners and racists. We shame ourselves if we become so in our old age.
Derek Whyle I agree with you. I was born in December '51 and grew up in an industrial area. The factory chimneys belched out thick acrid smoke and so us children suffered from whooping cough, bronchitis and many other illnesses like measles and polio.
That smoke contributed to very thick yellow fog, so bad at times traffic came to a standstill. No central heating just one coal fire! However, I do think society in general had a better attitude and kids stayed kids for a lot longer!
@@elliebradley5192 Yes, we had a longer childhood. I was still playing with my skipping rope at 17 years old!
0:16 Brantly B2 helicopter, of British Executive Air Services (B.E.A.S.)
daphne oram,wow !
I like the music..
360p ? .................
2:15 Mrs Merton!
Cars British lorries British motorcycles British British people !!
Complacency in those companies meant we couldn't compete with other countries.
9.37 : what 'kit'car is that ?
I am not sure if it is a kit or not but the two most popular kits were the minis Marco's and Jem .
I miss the real pubs we used to have ☹️
So this is what England looked like when it had real local cultures 😯😍 it really makes you realise how soulless and depressing the world has become 😭 I suppose I’m blessed to have at least experienced the 90s in their full glory, before the rise of the machines 🤣🤷♂️🍻
For me this is rather like H. G. Wells' short stories. Wells gives excellent descriptions of life in London and the Home Counties in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Unfortunately, I shall never truly know the Britain of Wells' stories and this video.
As a teenager I did try getting on a bridge over the motorway (6:40) - and spitting on the cars.
I used to do that with steam trains. Loved the hot blast as it went under the bridge
Better times
Oh where has my England gone. PC, MC, out of control immigration , Islam has destroyed out once beautiful, fair Isle
Then thank Bliar and his Gang, they admit it was not only deliberate, but wrong, and will never work. check it out
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY COUNTRY????)
MICK GRAY ALNWICK.
@@MrDaiseymay Windrush
@Sideshow 44 Patriot Alternative seems to be better. They have a bigger following I believe.
At 14:10 and I thought Gary Newman gave us electronic music lol
I thought Delia Derbyshire did.
it was the' RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP' of the BBC, that started it all, which included the 'DOCTOR WHO' theme music. I have two of their CDs.
Gary took advantage of the small portable synthesisers that were becoming available. .
13:06 Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Cool! My own mad scientist laboratory!
So many points..where to begin? I remember the England protrayed in the newsreels, though obviously reality wasn't quite as rose-tinted. We lived in a much more ordered, strictured society where we were the recipients of whatever was "pushed" at us, via the media of those times, namely TV, Radio, Newsprint and Cinema. For most of the population daytime hours were spent working, housekeeping or at school. If they were lucky, kids got to watch TV from about 5.00pm to 6pm (Childrens' Hour) before the 6 O'clock News came on and adult viewing took over while the kids went and did their home work or played outside until dark. There wasn't the choice of entertainment that we enjoy today, so if it was 7.30pm on a Monday it was Coronation St or Z Cars or something the whole family sat and watched and often discussed the next day. This was "push" information. If we wanted "pull" information it wasn't quite as easy. Unless you owned an extremely expensive and up-to-date- set of encyclopedias the only reference sources available were the local library, which meant a trip, in person, during opening hours and searching through volumes to find that tiny scrap of information. For instance: you want to know the population of Sweden in 1950 for some strange reason, so you catch the bus down to the town centre, walk, in whatever weather, to the library, seach the indexes, search the volumes, find the number, write it down , walk back to the bus, wait in whatever weather, take the bus back, walk from bus stop to home, close the front door and realise that you need to know the ethnic breakdown of that population figure not just the total.........so back you go only to find that that reference tome is kept at the regional library and will have to be ordered in, taking about 10 days......Now how long would it take to find that info on Google.?
Now we can "pull" whatever info we like in seconds from the inside leg measurement of Winston Churchill to the minute by minute gossip n international politics. No wonder we're different.
I often wonder when I see disturbances over race and wonder whether culture might be a better word to use. It isn't that hard to imagine the plight of the second generation immigrants who find themselves, through no choice of their own, in a culture foreign to that of their parents and immediate family. Young kids find themselves in a situation of having to adhere to a culture which doesn't really function in the same way their parents' culture did. So there they feel the onerous task of continuing traditions and cultural rites even though they have very little actual connection with them. Result: feelings of alienation and displacement. Anger at parents for putting them in a foreign culture while telling them the culture they came from is perhaps better....or at least has more relevance to their belief systems.
Any attempt made by the host country to cater to that culture will seem like a pale imitation of the original and to some dgree regarded as an affront or cheap attempt to replicate the ideal vison of the older generation, which by definition is impossible to do.
Our desire to colonise the world and impose 'englishness' on the rest the planet has washed back on us and we are results of tha backwash along with other global influences as we try to remain relevant in today's world.
So here we are roughly 60 years after the first major migration to this county by people of a different culture and colour and our patchwork attempt to integrate many who didn't wish to be integrated works for very few, annoys many and has indelibly changed the face of Life in England forever. To accommodate is to change. We've tried the "one size fits all" approach, which as we know, seldom fits anybody.
I wonder what the astromoner is doing now, I wonder.
They were correct about the electronic music.
@ or in orbit
Your own Jodrelll bank!!!!!. How I found that funny😁😁😁😁!!!!!.
That car garage couldn't have been real, there was no hammer.
I'm looking for a film my father was in . sid james done the commentary, played at the movies before the main feature .. think it was called "on the road" .....long distance lorry driving ..i think in the winter of '63
might be this one if you not found it already th-cam.com/video/wvd5Y_maKQc/w-d-xo.html
try watching new channel. TALKING PICTURES, i think i have seen it on there
Try series 1 his voice is in half the videos
Good luck mate
How far we have fallen :(
What a lovely voice the commentator has.
the music 2 this is just arful
8:58 With a tab on the go like a boss
Even the protesters were respectful. They just marched with flags and signs. No one got beat up. There was no swearing at people.
Was Maureen nicknamed “. Pointy. “ ? 🙄
No Bloody Foreign Types...lol
Hello fellow debunker, I was born after this period in the 1970s....this video is almost like a dream utopia now. I must admit I spent most of my viewing looking for a foreigner, not one. 😏
9:19 ?
@@Zanuka They were just visiting the Convention....they left start after I'm sure.
Is that a SAAB at 10:59 ??
Spot the Foreign car in them days, I should know I was born in 54😁
Now there's nothing like this and the UK is multicultural. The narrator would be laughed at for his excellent English. Everything has changed for the worse and the accepted standards that made UK society tolerable have vanished. I blame the 'anything goes' brigade and wooly liberals. Bring back hanging and the birch. And National Service, effectively policed borders and prisons criminals fear!
Roger Lane Well said Roger.
One of the things I really like about old black and white British films of the 1940s and 1950s is the lovely way they spoke. Ladies were so feminine and sounded so much more gentle. Everyone was smarter. I remember in the 1960s, you didn’t go out without getting dressed smartly. Shoes were always polished.
Never heard of wind rush? What an ignorant view of history
david simpson
The idea that the world is getting better is as ignorant of history as it’s possible to get!
I could rant, but I will not. Suffice to state that Enoch Powell was right all along. Eventually, Britain may consist of just England and Wales the way things are going with Brexit. Greetings from a Brit residing in the USA
Caroline Aherne
Jesus how far western kind has fallen
Tune enjoyed watching the film indeed pictures shoes life could really be if there was more more gentle easy watching on the TV and violence all the time small incident on the idiot was trying to to burn them out that was just agreed but overall it was beautiful sound well worth watching lovely
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