ALL of us (including the two sillies who left thumbs-down) owe you a debt of gratitude for posting these truly excellent documentaries by Rank. They captured the life, style and essence of the period, are an excellent piece of history.

Just seen my mate Derrick a Sargent in the SAS in Sarawak,he was a cook for years after I the reserve forces a lovely man ,we will never look back like this anymore,and as it praises Great Britain and its people it will probably never be made again

@nousername123451

Жыл бұрын

It’s a great series but it leaves an awful lot out. By the 1960’s the rot in the British economy had begun to set in. It ignores a lot of the social strife of the decade. Making an show that only ‘praises Great Britain’ would be inauthentic and a complete distortion of the time.

The opening music is masterful and then when the Hammond kicks in - sublimely cool!

@manfredwilliams9762

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the organ adds a sort of jazz groove to the proceedings.

@lighthousecollector

3 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know who wrote this music ?. It never appears in the credits. The opening tune is so very similar to the theme music for the 1960' series The Baron that I wonder if it's by the same person .

Absolutely love watching interesting things like this when life was a lot more simple.

That crop spraying helicopter G-APOF was written off in a crash at Redhill in 1968. Owned by Bristows, on a training flight, no fatalities. You're welcome.

A series worth watching, wish we knew then what we know now, only thing we know now is a wish to be back then.

Thanks for sharing all the Look at Life films here.

Brilliant times

Vauxhall Cresta KON 1 (3,40) Both the car and the reg would be worth serious money today. This film was made no earlier than 1966 as there is a D reg Triumph Herald at 24.59.

Butterflies disappearing in the 60s, cold wet summers! Climate change years before the fashionable buzz word global warming. In 1968 I remember listening to a radio program telling us the world would be running out of oil within 20 years at the then current use of oil. We are now 50 years on and I hate to think how much oil the world is consuming now!

🌈🥸✨Digging this so much!

Great. Thanks a lot for sharing.

@keithfowler2013

5 жыл бұрын

The Crown at Penn. Still a great pub . Never mentioned the Myra Huntley connection though ?

The Crown at Penn. Still a great pub. Never mentioned the Myra Hindley connection though ???

5:50 "The pounding of the driver's backside is even more painful than he endured from prefects in the dorms at public school..."

Superb...

I was hoping to run into Harry Potter 😂😂🤣😂

so those horses are trained to western saddle? be confusing to keep up w/which horse is which.

I love it

I lived on a farm has a child our house backed on to fields not unusual to get covered in spray from the helicopter when it turned over the houses. Unbelievable how we lived then. Apart from the risk to health happy days. Ha Ha.

16:16 voice-over narration: Anthony Hopkins?

Pickled onion research laboratory!

the mustachion man riding the chair....thinking deep differently....

I was worried there for a minute, I thought how is he going to clean that mess up. I shouldn't have worried, you did just fine....

sorry,I meant Ruth Ellis !!

Sorry I meant Ruth Ellis !

@barkebaat

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clearing that up ! I was sure you meant Gwendolyn Barker :-)

Clarkson should have watched this before opening his farm.

0:50 The Fat Controller & Dexy's Midnight Runners 0:55 WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOSE!!!

15:26 - Are you local ? This is a local shop, you know ... for local people.

3:22 White suited figure fleeing then contracted cancer later on from being sprayed with DDT...

The theme or title music is called ‘ Another Happening’.kzread.info/dash/bejne/h42k2JaJgZuaeag.html

8k house earning over 1k a year. Those were the days

@Behyelzebub

3 жыл бұрын

Paul, in 1970, I was earning £2500 in a car factory in Birmingham, I bought a house off plan for £5000, that was the national average. It was better then.

Farmers are so lazy these days, I walk a lot in what constitutes as the countryside, the amount of rubbish and in particular plastics littering their farms and the surrounding hills is beyond belief, there should be very heavy fines to make them clean up the countryside.

@hellooutthere8956

6 жыл бұрын

when i was in england tht is one thing i noticed. the trash lining the sides of the roads.i could not believe it. then my husband when he first came here tossed something out the window. i almost fell out. i told him it was up to a thousand dollar fine for tht. tht is the only good things abt america. we have an inbred aversion to littering. unlike other nations. tht is thanks to ladybird johnson.

@bigears4426

5 жыл бұрын

sharon anderson Americans dump rubbish like every country now , just search KZread

@hellooutthere8956

5 жыл бұрын

Yes you have your ignorant but it was very shocking tht Americans as a whole seem more aware of their environment than the british. Especially with British having such a beautiful natural countryside.

@barkebaat

3 жыл бұрын

@@hellooutthere8956 : Have you considered spelling your name 'shron nderson' ? Think of all the seconds you would save typing !

how i wish i was born right after ww2, and in my 20's during the 60's

@camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611

2 жыл бұрын

Life was hard at that time

@tophatanimation8748

6 ай бұрын

@@camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611 It was 'hard' but it was better compared to now.

Even a girl can drive a tractor... "its simpler than typing"... 😳🙄😅

🤣🤣😂as time goes by😉

Very good video Rural Britain is often forgotten compared with london and the cities the clip on fox hunting was interesting people who protest against such things forget that nature is red in tooth and claw their time would be better spent protesting against human rights violations like abortion serveral million dead in britain source Lord David Alton excellent films otherwise

@Framinator

Жыл бұрын

I disagree sir. Animal hunting /cruelty has strong links to atrocities against humans too.

the hunt is disgraceful

@kittykitty471

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, fully agreed, but, alas, it is a part of British history ~ and very much a part of Britain currently in fact: shame on those taking part in this vicious, cruel activity (NOT a sport).

@pastorflaps6819

6 жыл бұрын

Kitty Kitty now I don't have the hunt over my filds I have to shoot them back in days of the hunt we had may be 3 foxes in healthy way now I have to shoot up to 8 a week all of them sick so much for your progress

@abcbcde9985

6 жыл бұрын

Pastor, I think you have a point to make but are not being very clear. Could you please review your post and make it again.

@mikanfarmer

5 жыл бұрын

@@abcbcde9985 I think the Pastor's point is perfectly clear.

@abcbcde9985

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikanfarmer And the point, I think, is that Fox Hunting is justified.

Stop subsidies to farmers. The inefficient EU has been dishing out cash to these folks who are getting along on taxpayer funding. Conservative farmers should be refusing handouts and let the market decide. If they're not up to it, we'll import foreign food like we have with other industries. Only the strongest should survive.

@frankwilkinson6328

2 жыл бұрын

We do import food. Never heard of New Zealand lamb, Danish bacon and the list goes on.

@andrewoliver8930

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankwilkinson6328 I never said we didn't.

Life was better then, the only bad thing was the hunt. Oh, and the terrible, unbearable lack of diversity.

@vtecpreludevtec

8 жыл бұрын

Go for a mini break to Tower hamlets

@DeirdreEmm

8 жыл бұрын

Mike Berg Yes, thank God now we have Tower Hamlets, Luton, Rotherham and all the fabulous, wonderful benefits of diversity. Who knows what joy and paradise will befall us with the new mayor of London - and I am not talking about Dick Whittington and Puss n' boots thrice.....

@DeirdreEmm

8 жыл бұрын

Mike Berg Isn't life so so much better now for ALL Britons? /sarc, major.

@vtecpreludevtec

8 жыл бұрын

+DeirdreEmm thank goodness no one used the "M" word.Ah nostalgia.

@surb0910

6 жыл бұрын

I dont suppose many immigrants applied for jobs on the farm in the 1950s . Could be wrong but...

26:06 "how can Britain have her cake and eat it?". Boomer mentality.

@Behyelzebub

3 жыл бұрын

Whats Boomer mentality,