London's Last Tram 1952

ALL OF THE BTF FILMS GOT TO GO!

Had BFI in contact and they want all the BTFs down off youtube due to copyright laws... unless i get permission and PAY to stream them

So enjoy they for tomorrow only as they coming down tomorrow night...

On one had we should support them for keeping our archives , on the other hand 5 movies from an old archive? Most people haven't even heard of BTF 'till they saw the movies on youtube so personally I think I'm doing them a favor promoting them!

If you enjoyed the BTF videos seen on my account, email BTF youtube and ask for them to be put back up! Go on!


http://www.youtube.com/BFIfilms

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[philcald]

The BFI's largest funding source is public money via the UK Film Council given to it by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In 2007, this amounted to approximately £16m.

The second largest is commercial activity such as ticket sales at the BFI London IMAX.

Thirdly, grants and sponsorship, including National Lottery funding grants and private sponsors.

As this is the case surely the taxpayer should have the right to watch these films on Youtube or am I wrong in this thought.

[01276]

@philcald Unfortunately you are wrong, BFI still own the copyright. Personally I think all BBC and BFI programmes should be owned by the public due to the large input of the publics money...

[LisbonTrams]

This is amazing footage. London is certainly poorer without its trams. 5 decades later everybody agrees they are one of the future's best alternative means of transportation: non-poluting and always on schedule!

[grahamkeithtodd]

the reason they craped the trams was simple! the goverment of the day decided that trams would have to PAY road fund licence(about 25 pounds per tram)an odd idea as trams did not use the damm road! they ran on rails!

[tanker0wns1]

look at all the beautiful people there. now look at fucking britian.

/watch?v=i47HoiM0Au8

[petrolhead28]

Britain shows the world how to move then messes it up. Same with sport.. london would be richer place with trams and the tube would not be so crowded.

[DADRENO]

This makes me feel old - I travelled on a tram in 1951 while up for the Motor Show in Earls Court.

I particularly remember where the track dived down to below street level,

[gurneyer]

We could certainly use trams again in London now. Odd how some other cities now have modern trams yet the capital doesnt. One day they will surely return when common sense finally prevails.

[TheDepotCat]

It seems that future new tramway projects were scrapped as being not cost effective back in 2005 by a one Alistair Darling and some bloke called Derek Twigg. This after some lobbying by bus operators.

[celticcrossarts]

Dublin brought back trams and there were a massive success. Cities all over the world made a huge mistake closing their tram lines back in the day.

[jeanniedee]

First music ,now BTF films removed from You Tube soon there wont be anything left !!

[jemdude22]

London should at least keep a couple of tramlines to allow the following generations to have an idea what a tram is, and how their grandparents got around in town during the golden days.