Granny Gets the Point (1971) - extract

15 February 1971 was D-Day - or rather Decimalisation Day, when the British gave up their traditional pounds, shillings and pence (and guineas, ten-bob notes, half crowns and threepenny bits) in favour of what in theory was a much simpler system. But, as this film demonstrates, many found it confusing, particularly people like old Granny Collins (Doris Hare) who'd spent a long life with 'LSD' and wasn't about to change. This dramatised documentary, sponsored by the Decimal Currency Board, predicts the effects of decimalisation on her family and sought to explain the changes in ways that everyone could understand.

You can read more about this film at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1271792/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• BFI National Archive
• Central Office of Information
• COI
• decimalisation
• decimalization
• LSD
• pounds
• shillings
• pence

[boqueroningles]

I remembering watching this every day!!! just 7 years old

[elton1981]

@Larkinchance Both I and my mother-in-law do. My parents don't though. He doesn't delivery early enough for them. 9AM milk delivery is a bit poor.

[Larkinchance]

@elton1981 Ahh, we used to have them here in the states but that was long ago.. Maybe the SuperMarket cartels did away with them?

[elton1981]

@Larkinchance We have milk deliveries in Britain. It's a tad more expensive but much more convenient as they deliver daily.

[shahideurope]

@TheInternetIsBadMkay no it's an apron.

[shahideurope]

@rankingtrevor which one the mother or the daughter? i prefer the mother personally.

[shahideurope]

i think

[Larkinchance]

What's a milkman?

[rankingtrevor]

shes asking to get fucked in that short dress

[captainumbnuts2]

@jazzx251

The problem was the flumples were rounded up to a dingleberry the dingleberrys to a chump and the chumps rounded up to a crumpleweed and the donkle completely dissapeared in the greedy shopkeepers till.