UK life in the 1950's - 45-min documentary
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@vinylseat Harold Macmillan quoted for Britain in 1957 "You've never had it so good" because everything just came into our hands so quickly. 1953 everything stopped rationing and then by 1955, we were in the same boat as Americans.
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@arickett68 Rationing ended in 1953. So obviously it didn't last long.
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Where is this?
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Life seemed ridiculously simple then. I thought we had it better today? That guy has the whole beach to himself!
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Wow, 45 minutes in the fifties only lasted ten modern minutes, no wonder everyone looked so old when I was a kid.
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No sound because they're using either Standard 8 or possibly Super 8 cine cameras. No capacity for sound you loaded the film into a cine camera or inserted a Super 8 cassette. Less than 10 mins filming time and of course one needed to get the film developed which took several days and cost quite a bit. Then one needed an 8 mm film projector. Happy Days
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Wow ... Technology changed us so fucking much in such a short time! Next twenty years and we won't recognize this world anymore lol
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I think this is the 1960's as well. One of the cars gave it away. There was a VW there which could have been 50's or 60's, a Ford Prefect 100E which was manufactured between '53 to '59, but the clincher was the Ford Anglia 105E with the rakeback rear window parked up facing us in the film. That didn't come out until late 1959 for the 1960 season.
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This is the mid 60's I am certain of that, I would say between 1965-66.
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That woman is definitely scratching her back in the style of the seventies.
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This may portray a family that were better off than most of us in the 50's. I arrived in 1948 into a post war age of austerity unimaginable to anyone born after 1960 but we still had odd days at Brighton and visits to my Grandparents at Middlesborough via the steam train. We certainly enjoyed ourselves and the modest holidays were paid for in cash. A far cry from todays image greedy society not satisfied unless it has had at least five fly away breaks in a year and none paid for out of savings.
vinylseat 2 years ago 13
If this film is supposed to have been taken in January, 1955, the weather looks unusually sunny and warm, and why are the women sporting 1960's hairstyles? 1965, more likely.
DavidRayner1947 2 years ago 9