Look at Life - Top People, 1960
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2011
- Posted by nostalgoteket.se U.K. Newsreel. An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the penthouses, this newsreel provides a colorful birds-eye view of London Town. Many famous landmarks.
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Wow, is anyone else impressed with the stunning picture quality? This was 60 years ago!
This was filmed on 35mm cinema quality Eastmancolor stock. Meant for use on wide screen cinemas. The Avengers and The Prisoner were filmed on the same stock and that is why the quality is so good even though they were meant for the early colour TV in 1969.
5:14 "There won't be any traffic jams in tomorrow's city"
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Pope-Eye .... I thought the same thing to :
A daily congestion charge ,
higher vehicle taxes ,
the low emission zone ,
the ultra low emissions zone ,
less public road /on street parking ,
New buildings being made without underground parking spaces ,
Privatised national rail ,
Privatised the bus network ,
Super elite club of black taxi drivers Charging exponential fees .
Fucked up London we live in !
🧐🇬🇧🤔🙁😠🤥😡
@@pleaseyourselfsir I have none of these problems - my answer?
I cycle a safe and healthy way to travel
keith barber ....I have no problem with cyclists or any of the mode of transportation , I would just like people to have the choice to choose which vehicle they would like to use to transport themselves or their family to and fro a destination , While you’re pumping your guts out pushing a cycle , Many multimillionaire fat cats and oligarch’s are laughing at the rest of us in their tinted window limousines or Bentleys pushing out 5000 cc’s of smoke per second .
..... Whilst every other average vehicle user is between 50 to 2500 cc’s per second , and maybe 280 cc’s of carbon emissions every time a cyclists farts . 🧐🇬🇧🤔🔥💩🔥😂😂😂
@@pleaseyourselfsir the fat cats and oligarchs can sit in their limos and laugh, until they have to sit behind me and wait, and their instructions to "intimidate that cyclist out of the way" dont work, and when they do get past, they give dirty stares, and I respond with 2 fingers/v-sign, their money dont Impress me, and when they have to account for their life "upstairs", their millions or billions wont be worth anything then
Make the city beautiful... If only they knew in what contempt we would hold the architects of the 60s
Health and Safety. They are actually praising their courage standing on a single pole with normal footwear. How times have changed.
Great Arthur House is now a grade 2 listed building and is regarded as Iconic. The design is what most people could only dream off, living in the square mile
Interesting- thanks for that
That scaffolder perched on a bit of pole made me feel really giddy, anyone else!?
Yes - very dizzy-making!!!
Yep!!! Can't believe these workers nerves of steel!!!
Makes my hands sweat 🤣
Don't enjoy watching those scene
I climb ladders and used to go on roofs but not at that height, brown trousers comes to mind.
I really enjoyed watching films like these, I was a scaffolder and so was my dad and my brother and uncle was scaffolders too. It’s in the blood so they say...
I don't know why, but these types of video reminds me of lady bird books, love them.
Just remember Lads, its not the fall that kills you, its that sudden stop.............
Funny to think that much of this stuff has now been torn down, often barely 20 years later. To be honest I don't believe there is anything inherently wrong with brutal architecture or high-rise living. But it needs continual investment and maintenance and a population who view it as their communal home and look after it. They mention building superintendents in this film - when did you last hear of one of those? Nah, it's outsourced to maintenance company, who work out what they can get away with and do that with one temp looking after dozens of buildings around the city.
Rapscallion2009 it’s bad people that make a place bad. No architect designs a slum
@@mr.y.mysterious.video1 Nonsense. We shape our buildings; then they shape us.
@@NapoleonRook so how long do you think you'd be living there before you started carrying out burglaries and drug dealing?
And that’s why we need brexit? 😂
Actually, both Great Arthur House and the Barbican are still there.
Mugs of brick-red steaming tea that you could stand a spoon in...jumpers for goalposts...On The Buses...on yer bike! They don't make 'em like that any more...great days!
geffel į
4:56 health & safety at its best !
Damn, the risks those people took on their job. It's crazy!
I know health and safety is a pain in the backside but I'm glad its here now!!!
looking at the cars and by the quality of the video i cant believe this is from the 60s
Imagine that scaffolder at 4.56 dropping that spanner on the public below let alone his own safety. I'm all for a bit of harking back to the 'good old days' but even in those days surely somebody must have thought about maybe doing something to prevent dropping it! Fascinating film though.
nope life was cheap, just 20 years prev was a war and that was a 'good way' to kill a few extra off.
Wonder how many men fell to their deaths working high up on these high risers back in those days .Bet it was several would really be a horrible death very scary up there to me.
Jackyblue67 Same 4 on this particular job
Well I guess that’s why all the health and safety regs came in.
That window cleaner @ 5:57 wow,,,,, just wow!
Imagine the risk assesment paperwork for that !
If that was me I would have missed my footing below me and just dropped
Made me feel sick
Innit!!!
Looks like they're cleaning the yellow block on the Golden Lane estate in the City of London. Wonder how gets cleaned now?
Health and safety fellas.... Never heard of it mate 😂
Amazing and terrifying all at once! 4:33 - just one stray tool/nut/bolt could kill someone down below...
Those guys had balls of steel but, even so it's not hard to see why working practices had to change!
At 4.56 it is an absolute Health And Safety NIGHTMARE.
Standing on a scaffolding pipe in your shoes with no harness and fastening the scaffolding.
Words fail me.RISK ASSESSMENT!!!
+Andy Haslam @ 4:35 only 3 navvies were killed during the filming of this doco.
Andy Haslam Can you imagine that today! Crazy.
I have worked like that
The Irish rebuilding Britain after the War.
@M J I started working as a scaffolder at 16 year old,that was in 1981,nothing was ever mentioned about harnesses and I never knew anyone who ever wore one...
Oh, how wrong they were at 5:15.
"There will be no traffic jams in tomorrows city"
They didn't expect so many people to own cars.
They had no idea what was coming down the road... No traffic jams? I don't suppose they ever envisaged the native white population becoming a minority in their own city either...this decade was a transformative period and the majority were blind to what was going on....
Two lanes is enough for anybody!
sgb scaffolding must have made some money on that site!
@4:21 WOW!!!
Those tall buildings are a blight on the landscape then and now, more on the way, this film glorified it to some sort of romance.
I felt sick watching it 💝
I remember the window cleaners when they used the cradle back in the early 70’s
It will be a great life in the future...yeah - Clockwork Orange told us how great.
Published 1962! Only 2 years after this film was made. So incredible
Yes, that was pretty much finished as planned... the residential part was completed in the early 70's, lake and all. But the Office buildings along London wall have by and large been replaced.
5:15 "There wont be any traffic jams in tomorrow's city"
Brilliant!!
54s - Is that a John Poulson designed building I see with it's blue plastic panels behind the old pub?
now we are stuck with those blocks, as they are grade 2 listed.....unless their cladding is the same as grenfell anyway, as they have all been clad last few years
4:35 Oh my god this hurts
6:05 was enough for me..
Well he has right.... 2020 has very little traffic...
@7:21 - "Oi ! Piss off, you nosy bastards !"
Dig the hankerchief hard hat..they was the days!!
Some of the finest Wren churches are being restored. Other run of the mill Wren Churches are being left to rot. One must keep to one's standards.
So strange to see London Wall as such an open space. There’s barely any light gets through now.
Oh, and is that the underground car park on Aldersgate? It is mostly empty. The 1st two floors are used though.
And look at it today!!!
Possible prater asphalt. My father was in charge of the asphalt work carried out in the barbican.
6.44...... Fuck that!!!
I was thinking the same as Kieth Huddy below. No hard hats, no hi vis vests, just a flat cap and a stout pair of shoes. These were the days men turned up for work and got on with it without some twit with a hard hat and a clipboard to tell them what to do.
Mysterious Squirrel Yes, and where a significant proportion of them were killed or injured doing it!
DarkNemesis4300 You would think so wouldn't you. I spent 40 years working in the construction industry and never once saw a head injury or anyone run over. The most common accident was treading on nails left sticking up but never, in all those years, without hard hats, hi vis vests or health and safety did I see or hear of the accidents we are supposed to be protecting ourselves from.
Fair enough. I wasn't there, and you were. Still looked like a nightmare though. But thanks for setting me straight! :)
DarkNemesis4300 To be fair, I just think it made you pay attention to what you were doing. It's a bit like pedestrian crossings. At one time you stood at the crossing and waited for the cars to stop. These days, you press a button and wait for the 'beep beep beep' of the crossing and without looking up from your phone, walk out into the road.
It's because there wasn't the "excessive" health and safety that we have today, that there wasn't the accidents. Because they knew they had to be careful, not led into a false sense of security. My dad was also in the construction industry for around 45yrs, starting in 1946.
Any one know who the mastic asphalt company was in the vid?
Well they never succeeded into making it the most beautiful city in the world..though I loved this old footage
Very uncomfortable to watch those scaffolders!!! :-)
A tough watch and you can see why its been given an x rating. Lovely to see footage of Golden Lane Estate....and the construction of Hatfield House
X Rating?! Where?
Most beautiful city in the world?????????---------------
4:30: my sphincter tightened.
Genuine English people........no foreigners
Not a high vis jacket in sight ,the days when you were expected to use your eyes and have self responsibility for what you are doing.
agreed.
and why we had a lot more industrial accidents and deaths.
Back when people accepted responsibility for their injuries and didn't try to blame others at every opportunity and sue for things as minor as paper cuts like people do today.
Keith Huddy Would have been more work related accidents back then, so of course the industry had to change with far greater regulation as far as H and S is concerned. I appreciate that a lot of H and S stuff is complete bollocks, such as having training to use a step stool etc before you are allowed to work in a warehouse, but its the blame and claim culture that employers are scared of nowadays, so something had to be done
Ah yes. Those were the days when a man could fall to his death and take full responsibility for what he'd done. Who needs hard hats and guard rails? Abolish them immediately I say - companies would save a fortune!
Full propaganda in motion.
Wheres the scaffolders harness 😂😂
Don't think I would want to climb on scaffold built by men with the work ethic of 1 in 20 bolts tight is good enough.
How much now for an apartment overlooking St Pauls?
Couple of mil
The construction guys are wearing old suit jackets?
Executive hodd carriers
Like a lot of farmers.they don't wear out, that's why.
@@stephenfradley8066 That's right, buy an old suit from a charity shop, cheaper and lasts longer than overalls.
If only Savile Row offered Hi-Viz clothing they'd make a fortune!
Always time for a cuppa...
Clean air in London in 1960???????,he is having a laugh.
Yes the clean air act banned the burning of domestic coal fired but still plenty of industry around and the majority of railway was still steam powered.
I can certainly. Remember smogs in London in the 60s
The City Of London's population continued to decrease until the early 1980s. Then it began to rise again.
The window cleaners 😂
What the commentator doesn’t mention is the amount of asbestos being used.... The most dangerous job is not being shown.. Applying lagging to the pipe work.
Didn't get a lot of women back then wanting to do the work these men did, funny that.
No females were hurt during the filming
Safety last XD
All the Health & Safety people sitting at home right now, drafting up a report to complain about something done 60 years ago! lmao..........
Deaths on building sites took away a lot of good men. Workers suffering serious injuries could be off work for good, & those ran into the tens of thousands a year. So rather than contributing & paying tax they are being treated on the NHS relying on benefits. Turns out drafting safety reports saves lives & money. If you don't think health & safety is a good idea, try working on a stadium in Qatar, & see how you get on.
2:47 It would be fabulous for someone to provide more stuff on engineering work back then.
At 3:56 onwards words fail me..
He didn't actually need to walk right on the edge, showing off a bit there I think!
when builders got on with it rather than being told what to do buy health and safety men
also when 1 person died on the work site every week you fucking moron
Not a yellow hat or vest in sight!?!?!?!
3:57 Well at least they're already dressed for their funeral.
Now too many people in London. Maybe WW3 may clear some space?
sio tupou lt will,, unfortunately very few will be saved because Gods wrath is going to be poured out from heaven against all the ungodly sinners
Sarah Pettersson god wont do shit, war is never the answer
I wonder if 12-year old Prince Charles was complaining about the architecture....and speaking of, did they finish this as planned, with the lake and all?
Yes, and it's still there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate
A 'good neighbourly life' in the city?
.....really?
They manage it in places like Hong Kong.
Those concrete buildings look miserable and bleak even new back then. Brave men the scaffolders and window cleaners
The 60's was a disaster for the building industry, that's when they started building some real horrible crap buildings
I bet no bloke called in with stress, or wanted a few weeks off because their wife had a baby, or moaned about the lack of a gender neutral toilet. Even in the late 1970's when I was a second fixer on site, hard hats were seen as for wimps, and hi vis jackets did not exist.....its only in the last 20 -30 years that the construction industry has modernised.
I wouldn't describe safety rules that have led to an 85% drop in work related fatalities in the UK since 1974 as having 'gone a bit mad': just the opposite.
No-one called in with stress, they just had heart attacks at 55.
Most beautiful? What depressing, vile buildings.
I can't watch!
That's why London is giver of hope to a lot of people from outside Britain...Especially African , Asian
.But how long the natives of Britain will bear the global pressure at their door step... Especially the colonies natives they once ruled....Gear up.for global race conflict due to space, jobs, air, water and above all failing cosmopolitan global secular intercontinental mindset...
These blocks looked shit even when they were just built
ffs a cuppa in yer best china 200ft up.... nope