Rush Hour (1970)

[denzlepob]

Is that Labour MP Tom Watson at 1:01 ?

[island29]

Great trains the "SUBS" thanks

[210482fmj]

NOt an immigrant in sight

[Leby980]

@210482fmj hahahahahaha, you racist bastard. You make yourself look like a foolish 10 year old saying that. I guarantee you there were still lots of immigrants in London back then, and I even saw them in the film, you probably didnt catch them as this film is sped up a lot. Get it right!

[210482fmj]

@Leby980 There is nothing racist about not liking immigrants. You are a zenophobic. Evertime somebody chooses to dislike somebody they are called racist. I don't see why you have a problem with people not like other people. I'm glad it bothers you

[Lynardful]

What gives you the crazy notion London is not England?

[DANIEL5986]

What disc is it on

[penninefilms]

So interesting to see films like this shame they could not show then on TV know.

[MrBJC1996]

The trains look like models!

[s9729883a]

In this part of the year, the city was stranded.

Mainly due to Paul McCARTNEY quitting The Beatles.

[kentcyclist]

i wish it was 1970 again. people were polite then

[VOXS2]

i notice that during the 1970s videos like this and many other strange videos of anything random was quite strange.. almost like 1970s amature video was just scenic art of anything. just an example of this video really :) 1,970s there was alot of videos like this... playing around with editing videos.. just pretty much artgetech videos of scenic things

[bertyUK]

Although not born yet, this clip looks to be a time when London was still England.

Today however...i appear to be the enemy.

[inkey2]

@bertyUK i think i know what you mean....in the USA is the same situation

[chanctonbury63]

Good old filthy incompetent couldnt give a shite zero investment British Rail.

[mickram23]

I always thought Ron Fricke was a true original. I've finally found where his inspiration came from and I'm pleased to say it's from Britain.

[MEATYOKERRable]

Rush Hour in London..... THAT'S an experience. On the Subway, on the bus

either way you're just as apt to get where you're going faster walking than queing for the a train or stuck in traffic.

[nsl11a]

cool! and what is that cool music that starts at 0:23 ?

[timbearcub]

Just like a large electric train set! LOL. Who do the soundtrack? Sounds Radiophonic...

[PhilThompsonsNose]

@CzechDetectingChap Fuck you. Racist prick

[CzechDetectingChap]

@PhilThompsonsNose HAHAHAHA!

[chanctonbury63]

@icfireplace They didnt let themselves in. We did.

[chanctonbury63]

My Father was a commuter from Strawberry Hill at this time. Everything is moving a bit too fast to spot him tho`...!

[STEVIEFROMNORWAY]

I'm just pleased people took the time to film things like this for future generations to enjoy.

[polgal27]

i just followed thru again

[redcardinalist]

Folks, you to have to remember that Youtube users are a microcosm of society. Sadly, there is no kind of IQ or basic decency test required before joining Youtube and therefore any kind of racist troll halfwit can comment to their small brain's content....

[uncled39]

A very interesting piece of film. What has this got to do with race?

[robhingston]

good old days

[bekiof]

if your racist calls my racist racist again I will call your racist racist until your racist doesn't call my racist racist again.

[domdeone]

I could just imagine it today- that scene; a gang of black kids stumble upon a kid, plunge the knife in, run n leave him in a pool of blood to die- all in a matter of 3 seconds! A day in the life...

[Indie9999]

@icfireplace Well then, wouldn't you say your problem was more with the policy of allowing foreign people to live here, not the actual foreign people. They are after all just taking-what is clearly-a good opportunity.

[Indie9999]

@icfireplace Oh man, your poor angry guy. It's so not healthy to have this much anger towards your own species.  Think of a potential life where you don't have that weight of anger each day. You choose to dislike these foreign people you talk of, you can choose not to. The source of your emotions is you, not the things around you. Learn these insights into your own mind and you can be free from the weight of your anger. Give it up man! give it up!

[AidanMusik]

@icfireplace

I feel for you. Tell your mother she has my sympathies

[AidanMusik]

@icfireplace

Why aren't you at your weekly white EDL orgy? Are you late?

[Vinesy68]

Great vid! @ ameredon1 That idiot who said the racist comment you are an idiot ..check out ...1:50...oh cos you are stupid I'll tell you pause the clip and you will see two black guys in suits to the right and then later two black soldiers...jog on racist...

[Delzx7r]

Not a mobile Phone to be seen! How DID we manage!

[MoblePhnsMakeUGrwOld]

@Delzx7r mobiles are

nasty

[back2steel2]

@Delzx7r so true ! a night out on the town these days features groups of people furiously texting each other from across a table.........dancing and having fun serious impare your texting abilty !

[ameredon1]

i dont see any illegal immigrants in the films..

[AidanMusik]

@ameredon1

You fucking retard. How could you tell someone was an illegal immigrant just from looking at them? Even your attempt at racism fails xD

[Lemon020202]

lol....they used to play films like this on bravo. after midnight 12 am

[sup3rkangkong]

trains were like snakes o.o

[JamesBl85]

I like being at Waterloo Station, it's always been my gateway to home, but I've only known it since the 90s it obviously was very different in 1970. I guess some big physical changes must have occurred during the 1970s/80s

[stevietsuvideos]

needs the benny hill theme tune

[stevietsuvideos]

wow everything in 1970 went much faster, i never knew that!

[rightfredsdead]

1:59 he is thinking about buying some pornography from a shop in town he has to rush in and out of quickly before being seen. in his hand are several magazines with red dots covering all the genitals of the models used. that way he wont ever be able to have a proper 90s wank like we all enjoy now.

[rightfredsdead]

they are hurrying home with blurred porn movies of 'aunt peg' to watch.

[piggy978]

I know Nick Nicholls

[RichardHell1959]

Not a mobile phone, MP3-hissbox or MacDonald's in sight !

[incongra]

This makes me long for a cocktail stick with little cubes of cheese and pickled onions skewered on it. Washed down with a lovely glass of Blue Nun.

[JimTLonW6]

Excellent film!

[dekekyo]

the 1970's: when walking WAS walking.

[nem1939]

@rightfredsdead after reading that i could not stop laughing i was in tears, the most i have laughed in a long time thankyou

[eshewerethin]

@rightfredsdead

that's the funniest comment I've seen on youtube!

[rorymufc09]

@rightfredsdead You truly are a sick pervert, you think everyone is obsessed with porn like you, crawl away back to your sewer and let decent people watch the clip (you clip)

[latham29]

@rightfredsdead I wish that the BFI would delete your childishly unpleasant comment

[idle44]

Virtually everything seen in the film was built or maintained in Britain. Employment, Taxes, Investment, Plant and Services. We were richer than we realised. But it was all thrown away when we joined the Common Market. Thanks to the traitor Heath and his friends since then.

[edj66]

@EmperorMarcusNovius To be fair, slam doors were slightly dangerous...and locos are an inefficient way of providing traction for trains. EMU/DMUs, despite their dullness, do make sense for commuter railways. The Southern knew this in the early 1900, hence their massive electrification program. I would agree with less interesting, but I do argue that it's a necessary change.

[mrmasaudhussain1]

thanks fr up loading

[TheWhitehall]

Only forty years ago. And hardly any black people to be seen. How times have changed.

[MrJames27011]

@TheWhitehall Thats a bit Racist isn`t it? what you meant to say was there are not many imigrants lol ! times have changed and not for the better ,this country is just not capable of supporting its current population, something has to changed and sadly immigration is out of control.

[TheWhitehall]

@MrJames27011 Facts are facts. And immigration is the main reason as to why the UK population is pushing towards the 65 + million mark.

[PlochpReborn]

@TheWhitehall pause the video at 2:33 lol xD

[TheWhitehall]

@PlochpReborn Well spotted. The cavalry is coming!

[Durbs75]

its not that much different now. At least from a commuter perspective

[icedbread]

did thay all move that fast in the 70s

[Teetee33]

Hey, where are all the hippies at? This is London in 1970, no? Not one kid running around with long hair anywhere...

[onherwayout]

@Teetee33

it's the morning rush hour. the hippies are safely in bed.

[flytalk]

All english people aswell

[airscrew1]

@flytalk Bloody great wasn't it? If a dog is born in a stable does it become a horse.

[snafutube]

@flytalk totsl rubbish. you weren't around in 1970 obviously .... i was & not far from this video in S London, and it was great being in a classroom with kids from different backgrounds, that's how i found out about reggae, for example!

[flytalk]

@snafutube Ok What Ever, You obviously know what your on about,you carry on what ever make you happy lol.

[zedhed1982]

I was sceptical to be honest...But, Wow! That is Great! I'll show it to the kids!!! Thanks!

[245sillybilly]

nice view of the past, what's the music called?

[bertyUK]

What's strange is how clean and tidy London looked then.

Biggest changes came during the 80s.

[grahampl]

What the fucking hell are you talking about?

[PBLEY]

It might of been rush hour back then, but today its all gridlock and road-rage, pedestrian rage etc.

[iansmith79]

When London was'nt full of 3rd scum.

[flocked]

1:41 God the Brits know how to queue up. The whole world should watch this. THIS is how you queue!

[ITW84]

yep we are the cue-ing world champions and if it was made a sport no doubt the yanks would come in and try to claim they invented it and start chanting USA as if they are they only country in the world who can abreviate their country's name into 3 letters

well

its all about G B R

[jetbur1417]

shut-up.

[amarone1956]

It's amazing how fast people moved in those days.

[staypress]

wow didn't spot one mugger hmm Can't think why??

[whereitsat309]

...can spot all that fucking litter though.

[lausanne67]

Of course, there's no litter there today, is there? Is that all you can come up with?! Twat

[whereitsat309]

@lausanne67 Actually I was implying irony related to the fact that people appear to believe that litter is something that you get today and you didn't in the "good old days". Mr. staypress remarks that he can't see any muggers, if he thinks that the area around Waterloo was safe from street crime in 1970, he's very much mistaken.

And I'll overlook your two rather petty insults to someone who you don't know and know nothing about.

Thanks for your interest.

[atreewithnolife]

great stuff 5 stars for that!

[loyallands]

Vote Bnp.

[whereitsat309]

...twat.

[staypress]

@whereitsat309 It is still the same now

[MrSJBmus]

Bigotted b'dard. At least get your punctuation right!

[vikingsmb]

he is right actually, and there is a thing called free speech, it's a wonderful invention :)

[edup12]

he who?

[vikingsmb]

you were mate,

I was being sarcastic to MrSJBMus

[edup12]

Ok, give him an answer as well!

Actually, I am for England to become English again!! Tks Mate.

[spanpinki]

You can't go back in time. Sure the orginal Anglos that actually migrated from Germany would disagree.

[feckingbillgates]

Well the free speech I'm employing is this: shut the fuck up you racist bigot.

[vikingsmb]

Just because you don't like what people are saying mate doesn't mean you are entitled to call them 'racist bigots' is it now?, everyone is entitled to their opinion it's called demoncracy and free speech, shame you don't know about that! Kind Regards :)

[feckingbillgates]

If, because of democracy and free speech, people think they have a right to be racist bigots, then through the same system I am at least allowed to call these people what they are. Quite basic this, by the way.

[RedDwarfVideos]

It always surprises me when racist people take such offense at being called racist. Surely they should be proud? Or are they genuinely unaware?

[jettscream]

is there a musical connection with trade test film "evoluon" very similar! i would be interested in any ideas or knowledge as i have not heard this style anywhere else. i saw that film in 1970 on telly when i was 6.

[dondoman]

Queueing for a train. Wow.

[Snuffomatica]

This is 14 years before Koyaanisqatsi :D

[feckingbillgates]

I was thinking that, too.

[uklore]

The years I was born!

[brenwilliams]

1903??

[Snuffomatica]

Me too!!

[Amethysting]

Great film- Thanks Iris

[tmj9815]

Brilliant!

[macguffincanada]

Night Mail is the insperation for London to Brighton in Four Minutes from 1952 and made by the BBC, which then inspired Rush Hour from 1970 made by the BT film unit. Again London to Brighton was remade by the BBC in color in 1983. This time it was retitled as London to Brighton in three-and-a-half minutes.

[feverpitch96]

I have Night Train and the 1952 version of the other on DVD. Is the 1983 version also included on the British Transport Films bfi releases? I can't remember...

[applecounty]

Pity neither CPR or CNR made films such as these. I am aware of Buster Keatons film, of course.

[macguffincanada]

I found later on discovery that this film was inspired by London to Brighton in Four minutes from around 1951(which is on You Tube). This in turn was inspired by the 1936 film Night Mail with music by Benjamin Britain.

[PatrioticandProud73]

Fantastic Footage, and to think that all those trains in this footage were mostly or completely made in Britain in those days.

[fiynsais]

Great stuff thanks for sharing!!

[Phili4p]

I was just imagining how amazing it would be for anyone watching this to suddenly catch a glimpse of a long deceased relative.

[isthatcherdead]

I love it - there's something about speeded up trains that's irresistable.

Is that Jean Alexander/Hilda Ogden at 2:27 though?!

[goldkhw]

@isthatcherdead Hilda wouldn't go anywhere without her murial.

[fuckingharpsichord]

0:11 :-O

[64mung]

I love old footage like this!

Keep up the great work, BFI :)

64m >:-)

[londonpenda]

Enjoyed that 64, as I do all BFI's stuff.

Thanks for the send ; )

[kludd28]

Very cool, nothing quite like time lapse images and music. Koyaanisqatsi, anyone?

[nutherefurlong]

yes! :) puts things into perspective :)

[macguffincanada]

The question I have is, was Ron Fricke the director of cinematography and editor in the making of Koyaanisqatsi influenced by this film? Ron Fricke began work on Koyaanisqatsi with director Godfrey Reggio in 1977 in New York.

[macguffincanada]

In his early work as director of photography, co-editor and co-writer for "Koyaanisqatsi", a renowned nonverbal artfilm, Fricke experimented with many previously obscure film techniques. He used time-lapse, slow motion and optical phase printing to present familiar images from a new perspective. "Koyaanisqatsi" won a 1983 Filex Audience Award.

[kludd28]

I dunno, macguffincanada, I asked my original question only jovially, tounge-in-cheek, etc. I never intended to imply that Fricke would have been inspired by this film. I asked because this film reminded me of Koyaanisqatsi & I thought it might inspire some responses from other viewers, which it did! Cheers!

You do make a good point tho', this work is dated well before Koyaanisqatsi so perhaps Fricke did get to see it & it gave him some ideas. Hmmmm...

[pewmanfustudios]

That was cool!

[zoylex]

bfifilms i love you!!!

[lessegers]

Gosh! Love the deep focus! this is so great!

[PaulFrankRizzo]

Love it, thanks. Wish I could step back there for a day or two.

[theamateurbasher]

Now this is the kind of era I would have liked to have seen all this; too bad I was born fourteen years after this marvellous film was shot. Still, an absolute joy to watch! 5*

[feckingbillgates]

You wouldn't have noticed being in this era while you were in it. It would have been normal everyday life, and all the stuff that interests you about this would have just been background detail, no more remarkable than the cars you see on the road today.

[theamateurbasher]

True. Still, I just would've like to have seen how it was in those days.

[flocked]

I totally noticed when I was in it. I was all like, wow this is so retro! I can't wait until future me can somehow observe this scene and recall when I envisioned how awesome this all is/was.

[feckingbillgates]

Somebody's having a great time "thumbing down" our comments. What fun.

[grahampl]

What the fucking hell are you talking about?

[grahampl]

What the fucking hell are you talking about?