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  • @user_user1337
    @user_user1337 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +21

    Hats! People are not wearing enough of them.

    • @sbor2020
      @sbor2020 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Apart from those worn indoors.

  • @alexcropper7179
    @alexcropper7179 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

    Basically how adverts were made, fascinating in all honesty. Ridley Scott? Nah never heard of him

  • @EdwardianTeaChest
    @EdwardianTeaChest 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

    This was before Gareth Hunt was making suggestive hand gestures.

    • @LANCSKID
      @LANCSKID 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      … and Tony Head became the would-be vile seducer of Sharon Maughan. 🤵‍♂️

  • @4travisbickle
    @4travisbickle 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    They made it!

  • @MichaelLoda
    @MichaelLoda 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    What an amazing piece of the past... However, tea > coffe

  • @animatewithdermot
    @animatewithdermot 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    12:40 GIVE THAT CAMERAMAN A PAY RISE

    • @alistairbannerman8528
      @alistairbannerman8528 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "Some of you might die, but you do so knowing that you gave your lives so that coffee consumption might increase in the next decade"

    • @tonythetyger99
      @tonythetyger99 37 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Heard a recent interview with Ridley on how he used to hold the camera himself in the early days... not for that shot though!

  • @Paul_SD
    @Paul_SD 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    It would be great to have a follow up video with any surviving participants 😎

  • @farmbrough
    @farmbrough ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Lovely film, encompassing a great deal of the process and how decisions are made. I'm impressed with Korner's voiceover work.

  • @justinklenk
    @justinklenk 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Marketers are poison to the welfare of humanity. Then and now - and, quite obviously, forever.

  • @davidpollard4051
    @davidpollard4051 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Motorbikes to sell coffee...subtle and understated it isn't. Someone eventually understood aspiration and sophistication and came up with the Gold Blend adverts.

    • @GaryJohnWalker1
      @GaryJohnWalker1 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      - to make people switch brands. Good 'ol Nescafe by the bucket full is where that chap's aiming. No teat in sight

  • @jacobschweitzer1068
    @jacobschweitzer1068 26 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    15:30 sir andre the giant called he wants his hair back😅

  • @deydododontdedoh.5672
    @deydododontdedoh.5672 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    One coffee, Two coffee, Three coffee, FoUrKoffee.

  • @SRDhain
    @SRDhain ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I thought I'd misheard the voiceover, but no. Wow. At 15:20, that's THE Alexis Korner doing the v/o for the advert (Rest in peace) 🌅

  • @avimbo
    @avimbo 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    It'll never catch on!

  • @dontevenlook
    @dontevenlook ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ridley Scott!

  • @Hamishmcbeth
    @Hamishmcbeth 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    I wonder how much money those countries managed to hold onto.

  • @killbotone6210
    @killbotone6210 49 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    I COME FROM THE YEAR 2024!! COFFEE HAS CAUGHT ON!!

  • @Home8rew
    @Home8rew ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Good to see Alexis Korner doing the voiceover

  • @kingeatking
    @kingeatking 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Other beverages........ While they're drinking beer. God what a time to be alive 😂

  • @SharonMcwilliams78
    @SharonMcwilliams78 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Lucky old me ? By 85 ? I was drinking coffee made @ the BBC rehearsal studios & outside broadcasting. My step dad even had a coffee & tea maker at home. Oh the joy !! 40 years later ? Still drinking good coffee ☕️ can we salute these men as the first traffickers of cocaine ? I think we should !!

    • @Compliment_Thief
      @Compliment_Thief 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Wow you sound kerrrrrazy kewwwwl!

    • @SharonMcwilliams78
      @SharonMcwilliams78 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ grateful have a blessed day.

  • @FrankJCarver
    @FrankJCarver 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    My parents were coffee drinkers in my house. Coffee back in the 1970s Britain was a luxury and very expensive. Maxwell House and Nescafe was what they drank, that's all that was available. On my 9th birthday (1974), my mother gave me a cup of coffee. It was disgusting. I never drank coffee again.

    • @BackWordsJane
      @BackWordsJane ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Was it instant?
      The best coffee comes brewed from fresh ground beans and coffee brewed in a coffee making machine ,not percolated ,which was the early way coffee was brewed in America

    • @jaycee330
      @jaycee330 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@BackWordsJane Pretty much most coffee in 1970s UK for the household market instant, and Maxwell House and Nescafe were definitely instant coffees. I could understand the disgust. Good coffee needs to be brewed properly. Imagine if tea was instant. Ugh.

    • @FrankJCarver
      @FrankJCarver 49 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@BackWordsJane Yes, it was instant.

    • @BackWordsJane
      @BackWordsJane 36 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@jaycee330
      Nescafe was HORRIBLE.
      Instant Maxwell not much better.
      It's funny how many sexist instant Maxwell House and Folgers TV commercials were in the 1960s US.
      They centered around the wife displeasing her husband by making the wrong kind of coffee for him

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 23 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@FrankJCarver What a shame. Here in Norway we drank filter coffee back in the 70's . Or drip coffee. Tea not so much , I think Lipton was the only brand available.

  • @memofromessex
    @memofromessex 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    During my lifetime, I have seen tea get hell of lot worse (teabags are the death of tea) and coffee go from something you'd only have if you're exhausted to dominating the market.
    I made a cup of tea at a friends the other day and the outcome was undrinkable. Fundamentally disgusting dried mud and mystery herb stuff. (Also, the hot-water that comes out of espresso machine should go nowhere near tea, it's far too hot and damages the leaf).
    I still make tea but lose in a tea-pot.

  • @M_Bamboozled
    @M_Bamboozled 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ridley's first coffee campaign film was a classic and the second an excellent sequel, but the ads following were terrible.

  • @prd1073
    @prd1073 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    From the number of cigarettes being smoked, they were onto something in their attempts at making coffee drinking look cool, huh?

  • @inesis
    @inesis 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

    10:48 I'm afraid making those stupid ads will get you nowhere Mr. Scott!

  • @Viewingpublic08
    @Viewingpublic08 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Looks like Leonard Whiting at 0:30 and Simon Ward at 12:15.

  • @Birdseyeview10
    @Birdseyeview10 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    How to brainwash "In a nutshell"

  • @BackWordsJane
    @BackWordsJane ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Coffee is the preferred beverage over tea in most of Europe .The only real except is the UK and Ireland.
    Everywhere else in the world as well ,outside of Asian countries.Frank Sinatra's ode to coffee - The Coffee Song( they've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil)

  • @grahamstubbs4962
    @grahamstubbs4962 37 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Look, I've had three espressos today. I have never been influenced by the advertising industry.
    Cream cake, again? Oh, go on then. Naughty but nice. 🙂

  • @KainedbutAble123
    @KainedbutAble123 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    13:25 that very much looks like Bourne Woods, Surrey where Ridley shot the opening of Gladiator! Can anyone confirm?

  • @stephenscales353
    @stephenscales353 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    1:54 The British Donald Draper arrives at work

  • @anonUK
    @anonUK 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    Was it just mass-market instant coffee that was really bad back then, or was all coffee in Britain generally not as good as today's?

    • @jazztheglass6139
      @jazztheglass6139 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Not too sure how much the formulation has changed. But I do remember Camp Coffee was a fairly popular brand. It was concentrated liquid coffee flavoured, or diluted with chicory. It was sold in a glass bottle about twice the size of a Worcester sauce bottle. Older people tended to buy it.

    • @TommyFoolery-ep3xh
      @TommyFoolery-ep3xh 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@jazztheglass6139 I remember that as a kid in the seventies, it was horrible and vomit inducing.

    • @theram4320
      @theram4320 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      My guess would be that although coffee had been increasing in popularity since the 50's, tea was still king in 1970.

    • @me890092
      @me890092 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Camp Coffee is still in the supermarket shelves today. Nowadays it's aimed at home bakers as a flavouring syrup. A taste of the past for a couple of quid.

    • @Simpaulme
      @Simpaulme 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      I've only had really good coffee a couple of times in my life .. or is it subjective. 🤔

  • @onlyme219
    @onlyme219 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I'm not In marketing, I'm a cleaner. The obvious one to get the younger to drink it would be to show a guy or girl invite someone back to their place for a coffee, we've all done it. Especially after a night out. A better idea than these overpaid so called experts

  • @Angela-kc5ui
    @Angela-kc5ui 28 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    It worked. Now tea drinkers in the UK are on decline

  • @depniff
    @depniff 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder if the same marketing guy came up with Gareth Hunt's Nescafe hand gesture in the 80s?

  • @JemTheWire
    @JemTheWire 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    It will never catch on. One thing that I noticed straight away was the amount of people the were smoking. Thank heavens we have moved on...[Stands by for all negative comments from smokers!]

  • @welshlad6427
    @welshlad6427 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    It will never take on.

  • @KekeElBecko
    @KekeElBecko 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Weren't coffee bars a thing in 1960s Britain? In the trendy areas anyway

    • @curiouslycreativecoyote
      @curiouslycreativecoyote 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Bar Italia opened in Soho in 1949. Still the best coffee in London.

  • @scroggins100
    @scroggins100 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Now, While I like a coffee er, now and then, its Yorkshire tea for me.

    • @davidphilips5543
      @davidphilips5543 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely, coffee rarely, tea first thing every morning!

  • @bolshevikproductions
    @bolshevikproductions 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Coffee writer 😂

  • @tequila_tibbs7938
    @tequila_tibbs7938 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    imagine what the world would be like if we didnt have: advertisers, banking traders, lawyers, HR, share-holding, private dentists. Many of these people convince themselves that they aren't bloodsuckers and sleep very well indeed.

  • @lrothwellgbe
    @lrothwellgbe 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    That Ridley Scott looked like an interesting director. Wonder what happened to him?

  • @zakur0hako
    @zakur0hako 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    did it work?

  • @joegibbs448
    @joegibbs448 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Well it must have worked . Some 50 plus years later, there is a plethora of coffee shops and drive through coffee shops. The supermarkets shelves are filled with variations of coffee products. And Tea is reduced to near nothing.

    • @MOSMASTERING
      @MOSMASTERING 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I think it would have happened amyway, caffeine is addictive!I Its a seller market, all it takes is people to try it, then they can't go without their morning fix to get going!

  • @PhilbyFavourites
    @PhilbyFavourites 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Sadly coffee now is aimed at those with no money who need to mince about with a named coffee held at arms length in front of them………
    Didn’t your parents (they’re in this video) tell you not to eat and drink on the move?

  • @scottandrewbrass1931
    @scottandrewbrass1931 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Looks like they picked a wrong year to advertise coffee.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @scottandrewbrass1931
      Coffee doesn't look great in BW- you'd think in 1970, they'd be pushing to be in colour as often as possible.

  • @planetbarton
    @planetbarton 29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    "in England". Lol.

  • @thewotsit
    @thewotsit ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    yer jokin arent ya? i dont want no foriegn muck. gimme a cup of yorkshire tea anyday.

  • @MrDavey2010
    @MrDavey2010 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Shame it was a disaster!

  • @celestialteapot309
    @celestialteapot309 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    next week, how to eat more saturated fat and smoke and drink more

  • @MrJakeTucker
    @MrJakeTucker 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ridley Scott earning his chops.

  • @duncandisorderly6562
    @duncandisorderly6562 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    More than crack!

  • @bonnetdedouche437
    @bonnetdedouche437 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    Why buy expensive coffee when you can make your own for nothing at home? Simply use two teaspoons of mud and saliva. Sweeten it up with some flecks of dandruff. Cappuccino anyone? 😘👌

    • @trance_trousers
      @trance_trousers 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      Mmm yes, Baldrick would be proud!

    • @fredo1070
      @fredo1070 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Do you have the chocolatey bits for the top?

    • @bonnetdedouche437
      @bonnetdedouche437 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@fredo1070 I'll have a rummage in the kitchen and see what I can find. 👌

  • @therealyogibear2k225
    @therealyogibear2k225 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Who remembers Gareth Hunt and his shake of the wrist for Nescafé coffee. Those were the days when that kind of hand movement didn't mean what it does today!

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Watching in 2024 with a Pret a manger on every corner

    • @Simpaulme
      @Simpaulme 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Depends where you are. Stoke-on-Trent is Prêt-free. I abandoned them when they abandoned proper crockery. 😉

  • @matthewtrow5698
    @matthewtrow5698 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    It'll never catch on - crazy hippy hipster talk.

  • @Zeebad_1st
    @Zeebad_1st 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    God I do hope it doesn't catch on, can you imagine all the pretentious w******* it would make? It's a bloody drink, it doesn't make you special. If you can't function before you've had a coffee then you're an addict no different to a drug addict.

  • @scj00380
    @scj00380 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Could coffee catch on in Britain?
    Absolutely not. The country's far too parochial.