River Of Gold - Tobacco (1969)
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- Basildon. Carreras.
Reception area of smart offices, deserted at night. Interior tobacco processing factory.
James River. USA
Drifting past Cypress trees growing in water. American Indian cutting tobacco leaves.
Williamsburg. Horse and buggy rides past old Colonial houses. A soldier in colonial dress stands guard. Plantation house in Virginia owned by George Washington. Street of houses. Tobacco plantation being harvested and sorted. Hung on sticks the leaves are put into curing sheds. The dried leaves are removed and driven to town. Lumberton N.C. and tobacco warehouse signs. Inside a tobacco auction is going on (fast talking) with buyers looking at the leaves. After purchase the tobacco is regraded and cured further. Tobacco rammed into 900lb hogs heads and driven away in large trucks.
New Basildon, Essex.
Old part of town with pretty cottages. New Basildon with modern shopping mall and high rise buildings including Carreras. Staff in the canteen. Tobacco in hogsheads driven into the warehouse . Bonded warehouse Intr. as fork lift piles up the hogsheads. Check to customs for £250000 (one days worth of tax). Leave Dept. Tobacco is unpacked and graded. A probe is inserted and moist air passed through the tobacco. Tobacco is stored in stainless steel boxes until it achieves the correct moisture level.
The tobacco is put onto the production line, threshed, rested in silo's to even out the moisture, and cut. More samples are taken from the conveyor belts of tobacco. After drying in revolving drums the tobacco is carried along tunnels of air to more silo's. Shots of filter making. Long filters are cut into shorter lengths
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In the quality control area, lots of high tech. machines and glass tubes of cigarette smoke being analyzed. Some guilt emphasis on how careful they are. Looking through microscopes and machines "smoking" and analyzing the smoke. State of the art computers of the day.
Enormous factory floor of the "making machines" turning out 2000 cigarettes a minute for just one machine. Lots of wheels turning, conveyor belts, and fags on the move. More quality control shots. High tech. machines with dials and needles. Masses of cigarettes appearing in collection areas being fed down into single cigarettes for packing.
Cigarettes being packed into packets and cartons of "Piccadilly" and "Guards", more high speed production shots. Men moving pallets of cartons of cigarettes in large warehouse for distribution. Two lorries marked "Piccadilly & Guards" leaving the factory.
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its like 'how its made' but better
flbflb totally agree been watching it heaps lately don’t even click on how it’s made now anymore
No puns either.
alot better!
Carreras Highest quality standards of commenting
flbflb can you imagine them putting this on the discovery channel today in 2019? Soccer moms would lose their collective minds and it would end up neutered like the history channel ended up.
I remember an interview with a salesman from Phillip Morris. We make it for a cent , sell it for a dollar and its addictive, the perfect business.
I grew up in Virginia and worked on a tobacco farm for a couple of summers. It was hard work.
Are you black? 2hat was the wage like
@@vasili1207 No, I'm white, and the farm belonged to my brother in law. I was a teenager and was asked to help out, so I didn't have an official wage. Honestly, I can't remember what I was paid, but after the second summer I decided I was definitely going to college!
Vasili A lot of poor white people worked in the tobacco fields.
@@josephjames259 it wasn't a race thing just a general question.. seemed a lot of black labourers... good for them they got a job and are hardworkers.
@@civlyzed that's cool, obviously not that you didn't get a wage 😆 but the experience @ least it ruled out farming as a option for you, i only mentioned colour as a lot of the labourers in the vid are black you just confirmed there wasnt just black people picking 👍
The automation used in production lines is incredible. In that times there wasn't microprocessors. Just pure electrical and mechanical engineering stuffs are apearing.
Germans say: "Good engineers make it mechanic." :)
@Jacob Monnin new technology is the reason you can browse the internet.
@Jacob Monnin half of it is redundancy checks and useless fuses. I would be down to go back to more manual or mechanical work, but people dont work as hard or are as smart as before.
@@SDguy3030 "but people don't work as hard or are as smart as before"? 😂 People don't work as hard as before because they are smarter! 😎 Not so smart as before applies only to you. 🤣
@@SDguy3030 there will be a time once we start colonizing new planets/habitats created by man where we fall back to these simple methods. Simply because of just how reliable the machinery can be and how easily it can be trained and adapted to work and be fixed by the human mind in incomprehensible time. If we tried to train monkeys to work these obsolete machines it would takes generations to even figure out how to successfully turn it on without having to be taught anymore.
7:40 Leave the baby in the stroller outside while Mom goes shopping. Ahh the good ol' days.
So easy to adopt them!
@DATING HARLEY QUINN That's how Sweden used to be.
Areas of Brooklyn are like that still.
Deep in Hasidic neighborhoods, they still do it.
@Jonathan Greenblatt True
Having arrived at perfection, Carreras, ever the one to push the limits of quality, has devised this wonder of a machine to count the number of atoms in each cigarette.
Back when 40 unfiltered cigs a day was recommended by your doctor as he smoked a pipe during your visit
My Ears, Nose, & Throat doctor would light up a Camel during the consultation after each patient.
@@tompullizzi1878 Well, more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette
It’s not!?!!!??
You didn't known about any harmfull "things"...you've smoked daily 2 packs, for 60 years...and you died 85 in your home peacefully.....and your childhood friend never smoked a cigarette and, died in a car accident at 28.....aka....life is life
@@andrissanta9905 well said
In the early 1970s, when I first started driving, one could travel the DC beltway through Prince Georges County MD, and see many small tobacco barns either side of the new highway. This is located just a few miles away from Mt Vernon.
Maryland tobacco was cured differently (no heat) in its drying, and most was shipped to Europe. Now those farms are gone, being replaced by suburban sprawl.
There’s still tobacco grown here in Western Kentucky, but not near as much as they did 25-30 years ago. Henderson county farmers made a lot of money raising tobacco up until World War 1, as they imported it to Europe.
@@bluegrassman3040 Interesting. I have relatives in Henderson NC, not in the tabocco bus though.
@@stephenkunst7550 I’m referring to Henderson, KY.
Those hogsheads were why British made Virginia tobaccos were the best ever made. Those wooden barrels sat in a bonded warehouse for years aging like fine wine due to Virginia tobacco’s high sugar content. Sad that a lot of it went unappreciated in cigarettes. Virginia flake pipe tobaccos were and still are the ultimate expression of Virginia leaf
I want this man to narrate my life.
@Chetan Bhandari First you have to, you know, get one!
Lmao
@@tdunph4250 🤣🤣🤣
This is definitely the longest ad I’ve ever watched. Enjoyed every second lmao
You should see sunblest bakery ad lol
Ad for what? Dying ? Men killing men for money?
@Lance Mullholland lots of people still smoke i dont think they care about it being bad for them. Much like alcohol people just want an escape from the world for a second
@@aft1567 Absolutely.
Pleasure is necessary because of the pain, and becomes more addictive despite becoming a pain in itself; the tragic cycle.
A life of inner peace, without the need for the pain of pleasure is the answer.
I grew up in the sixties and could never see the point in smoking. I was right and am thankful now.
I really enjoy these old films thank you so much for posting them 👍
You're welcome
All good bro
🤦♂️🤣
Ooh thank u...
Channels like this are why I haven't watched cable TV in over 10 years.
Love ❤ Tobacco. Smoked now for over 50 years.
You’re just a nicotine addict mate. Sucking the life out of yourself to make them rich.
Back when cigarettes were actually good
Cigarettes were never good, but the additional chemicals that are added in today’s cigarettes, are definitely worse.
@@Iwilldestroyyoo exactly
@@Iwilldestroyyoo thats what I mean by “good.” These new fire safe cigarettes are horrible. I smoked a pack a day for 15 years. I quit almost a year ago. I don’t know what they are putting in these fire safe cigarettes (formaldehyde I do know that much) are horrible. Completely changed the taste of cigarettes
@@johndycus7800 you should try American spirit rolling tobacco, pure organic tobacco with no additives.
They tasted better back then. Now there is just a chemical taste to them.
I love everything in the production is so hygienic with the most stringent of quality control, only to speed the delivery of the smokers' miserable deaths. Also interesting to see how the same company makes different brands to cover different demographic markets, even back in the sixties. Thank you Madison Aevenue for your bleeding edge marketing.
Definitely a shady industry
VS: There is no Madison Avenue in Britain. ;)
The tobacco industry never did have any interest in the deaths of its loyal patrons, but they don't much care if it will end someone's life either. Tobacco now and then is such a high profit industry that all that matters is that they keep smokers hooked. After that, it all takes care of itself. Let's not forget that Phillip Morris just hours ago said that they intend to stop selling cigarettes as its bad for people, but in 10 years time once their replacement smokeless/vaping products have gained a large foothold in the market.
It's a perfect financial juggernaut isn't it, sell a product that has one of the highest profit margins of any consumer good available, which due to parental conditioning and peer pressure always finds a new user somewhere....which is also addictive, constantly ensuring the vast majority of purchasers will return for pack after pack.
As an ex smoker of 15 who quit nearly a decade ago, there's times that I crave not only the feeling of smoking, but the flavour and the connection to the memories of all the good times I had while still smoking. It's a perfect industry really.....
A satisfied smoker is not a troublemaker, as they say in the Netherlands.
If you go to Basildon now, the main high building is there, but now the irony - the next door building to the left where the red truck passes at 7:59 now belongs to the NHS!
Job interview 1969:
Do you smoke?
- No
Next!
You could always say yes and smoke one a year. Yes I remember when these companies demanded you smoked.
@@wilsonflood4393 😀👍
The worst part of the process is the auction. What are those people saying? "hey badibah bah habidah badibah bah hah!" Could I have someone else sell my stuff?
Thanks at least i am not the only one about this.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are stupid.. it all means stuff. It’s not random
@@charliebowen5071 If it was all random, how would any commerce take place? No one would know how much the bid was at or who won. Insiders obviously know what they're saying, but it sounds like gibberish to outsiders. So the more important question is, why don't you recognize sarcasm?
@@jamiesmith4293 ok. For one that's not sarcasm . I think you need to go and have a read about how sarcasm works
@@charliebowen5071 Sarcasm: The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
They're actually saying something, but it's hard to understand, so I wrote gibberish. This is the opposite of what they did (irony), for a humorous effect to mock them (sarcasm). You're just butthurt that you didn't realize I wasn't being serious.
This is a neat video. I like watching how cigarettes and other things like beer and spirits are made. I don't smoke, never have, nor do I drink. My religion forbids it. However, it's interesting to watch. They talk about the research they did to make the product enjoyable but they never mention that cigarettes shortened so many people's lives causing so much misery and death. Quality of life is so very important. However, I can see how these little white sticks brought so much comfort to so many. Thumb's UP. Thanks.
This film is practically an advertisement for the company.
You’re day isn’t going to get any better
@@spannaspinna ...?
Summer Dare if you wake up hungover you’re day will get better lol
@@spannaspinna - oh good. I’m having brandy and cranberry cocktails whilst cutting deglace fruit for a fruitcake. Cheers! 🦃
The occasional scent of tobacco is lovely.
Yes, but for me now that should only be from a cigar, or a sweetly aromatic pipe tobacco.
My days of unfiltered Capstan Full Strengths were long ago.
The Tobacco itself smells great when grinded, just like fresh ground coffee beans smells great even to those who do not like to drink coffee.
@@heathstjohn6775the glory days
The line automation for the sixties was awesome
I had never before realised that Basildon was so exciting.
It isn't.
Depeche Mode are from Basildon
I saw a recent cigarette factory tour on CZcams and they were using these same machines. It was a small factory in India, so it's kind of cool to see where these old machines end up and how they are still being used today.
Quality control lady breathing in 2nd hand smoke all day
Isn’t that first hand?
but yet, there is a big chance that in the Tea breaks they would go for a smoke
@@victortesla4198 The Radium Girls. I am a school teacher and that subject comes up everytime I mention radioactivity. Fascinating.
@@jamesbizs Believe it or not his isn't second hand or first hand smoke. There's actually no hand involved, therefore it doesn't apply.
@@CitizenSnips69 We all can't be a comedian.
👆These videos are pure GOLD 🏆
Back in the late 70s i pulled tobacco leaves and helped put it up in curing barns just like these.hard hot work.but for an 11 year old 40 dollars a day was good money.we worked from dawn till dark.
There wasn't one fat person in this whole video.
The fat ones are their bosses
Maybe we should stop accepting and encouraging obesity in our society and culture. Fatties have no place in our world, this whole psyop of body acceptance is a way to get you to be lazy and fat and unhealthy.
It was a time when fat and ugly people werent allowed on tv. Think about that 😉 propaganda at its best and still in 2020 people buy it
Obesity wasn’t invented yet
I bet they already discovered juuls way back then
My dad transferred from London to work at Carreras on Christopher Martin Road, Basildon in the late 50s. He worked there until we immigrated to the States in 1977. I wonder how many people in the video were our neighbors.
I know smoking is terrible and all but my grandma in law is 96 and chain smokes all day and she still gets around alright, weird how things work like that.
@Toad Phillips He was one of the lucky ones. For probably every 250,000+ you get one like your Grandma in law
Those were the days. When lunch ladies ran entire tobacco factories
Ah yeah , the glorious golden virginia , it has a pretty classic taste . I wish i could still buy it .
You can till get it in tobacco pouches.
Raw tobacco is amazing.
Well you gotta thank the 60's smokers for quality manufacturing !
That auction scene around 5:45 is even more ridiculous sounding a 1/4 playback speed. I tried to see if there were any actual words.
👍😅😅
I heard '' Universal '', often.
I imagine they started learneing when very young. But after a while, it's no longer thought odd. The ear tunes in. I can't reny when I first said, or wrote, '' The ' , for example.
Haven't been to many auctions huh? All auctions are like that
I've been to a few cattle auctions where they do the same. Confusing the first couple of time, but it starts to make sense. The numbers are posted on an electronic sign as well, which helps greatly.
Tobacco is medicine ❤
Watching this...For some reason now i cant help but thinking i want some of that fine smooth blend Virginian tobacco......I dont even smoke.
Best grown US tobacco is on the US Kentucky/Tennessee border
@@ViktoriousDead Each area specialized in different types of tobacco with different flavors and uses. Connecticut grows very pale, mild tobacco used for wrapping cigars. Virginia tobacco was Burly used for body/filler.
@@KB4QAA Burly is primarily for cigarettes. 70% of it is grown around me, darkfired further west, my family as far back as four generations have farmed tobacco. Connecticut produces such a tiny fraction of tobacco products it nearly doesn’t register
How less busy the streets is amazing way better for driving.
Outstanding Plant quality 100%🤘
Good and healthy products for the people. 👍
Wow different times. So safe and secure you can leave your babies outside the market as you shop. 😳🤯
Yeah. Take note of the demographics...
@@hoobaguy4311
I’m with you. The truth doesn’t lie.
It was never safe, it simply wasn't regulated. You can still leave your baby in the street while you go shopping, but nowadays people will call the cops on you and you'll be fined. And on the other hand, I think many more places are kid friendly... I don't think anyone would shop in a market that doesn't allow babies.
Good ol white folk
шикарно! словно репортаж с другой планеты или из другой реальности
Friend of mine worked for Rothmans in Sydney and he told me they produced 60 million cigarettes every day
Yeah you need 60 million cigs a day if you stand out for having more per pack
Think about it: that was the output of just _one factory_ in Australia! We had several cigarette factories, once...and a huge crop in Queensland.
My folks both worked for John Player & Sons in the early 70's - they employed 10,000 people in one city.
@@eddiewillers1 wow that’s actually insane. Now they $20 a pack in Canada
Holy smokes Batman !
I bet my husband would love one of those delivery trucks at the end!
i just ran out of smokes.
John maffina dang, that must be like watching a cooking show before bed.
Same
Don't buy anymore mate. Save yourself 15 grand a year and enjoy ya life. You get nothing from cigs
@@ToxicMrSmith LOL 15 grand a year? You’re insane.
@@ToxicMrSmith let them do what they want with their own bodies.
And this is why we all smoked. I managed to quit 20 years ago and glad I did. My lungs are shot away. Nicotine is more addictive than heroin.
It's the worst drug in history. And only legal as it's a big part of the backbone of country's tax.
In Aus the cost of smokes is like 85% tax. At 55 dollars a pack its insane.
Glad I switched to vaping.
My lungs are now above average according to my most recent spirometry test
@@ToxicMrSmith 55 dollars for a pack of 20 cigarettes?
@@ToxicMrSmith above average? was it the smoking that gave them their above average status or the vaping? why not just stop?
Tell that to the folks going through opioid withdrawals
@@ToxicMrSmith lol vaping is way worse
The fact a tobacco company has a room full of scientists researching how to make the most addictive products possible is sad. Imagine if all that work was going into something good, like medical research. It goes to show whoever has the money has the resources, which explains a lot about our world today.
The entire aura of this video feels c o m f o r t a b l e
As I sit on my porch puffing on Dutch Masters cigars I must say, I just love tobacco.
Yeah same here, tobacco is a passion. I'm watching with a 6 year old Cuban Hoyo De Monterrey on the go.
i sit on my porch puffing a blunt
Ben Miles same fam, my morning ritual
Ew. Why a dutch though? There's so much better out there.
Hope you love mouth cancer too dumb ass
Damn that 35mm be hittin different
I need more of these videos!!
It’s like a PG version of Breaking Bad.
A gift from Mexico to the world, unfortunately today they have more chemicals than tobacco, before smoking was a vice, and now it has become an addiction due to the large amount of chemicals they carry, today it is quite a drug due to the amount of chemicals that cause cancer, before we did not see so much or hear so much about lung cancer caused by tobacco
The auctioneer has been smoking something else I think
This suddenly showed up in my feed
Yeah that's how youtube works, there is a feed and random videos will show up
narrator: "endless research to deliver to most absolute kill"
Adamlar da 60 lı yıllardaki teknoloji ye bak. Helal olsun
Basildon, Essex.
Beautiful lobby though but it's one industry that needed to be in dust bin of history.
The swingin’ sounds of the 60’s.
I Love virginia tobacco
Doubt if we could build these kinds of machines today. Great educational video of the past.
I remember when I was 10 in 1961 in Safeways.... one of the first supermarkets in Scotland in Muirend In Glasgow .... young models in bikinis handing out free cigarettes... imagine that happening today!
They checking the quality of poison in quality control laboratory
The good ol days when smoking was healthy, racism was publicly acceptable and Jesus was king. Glory! Everyone was so happy. Wish we could have those days back again...
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 the way you phrase it it sounds like a great time to live in
Went to a talk years ago given by BAT. Which factors taken into account when judging cigarettes. Nose and throat burn. Eye sting. were just a few of the factors
The final quality controller - "Yep, they're definitely packed full of cancer! Well done everyone!!!"
I love how the auctioneer sings while calling bids at 5:50
6:07 This is like a highly oiled machine.
One man talks so fast nobody can understand him. The other people walk right behind eachother, picking up a bunch of tobacco and putting it down again while after they've put it down, they raise their hand.
The madness of our times seems acceptable with the tight music underneath it
Great upload, Thanks!
Smithers, we need to find a way to make these things even more addictive than they already are !"
I'll get right on it My Burns , Sir.
wow. everyone is thinner. i like. working men
not as much fast food. more natural. people didnt fry food half as much. life required more walking or being on ones feet.
Massive modern machines!
it seems to me that part of the recording's been shagged. missing audio, white screens...
A civilized era.
Almost makes me feel bad for quitting a few months ago.
Almost
Hang in there
Back then, you were ostracized if you DIDN'T smoke!
Gosh,I remember my mum leaving my
little brothers in their prams outside the
department stores! Everyone did it!
When we came back outside,they were still there!
Imagine what would happen if you did that now!,
The good old days 😂😂😂
homogeneous, high trust society back then...today, not so much.....
Narrator: Look around you... look around you... just look around you. Do you see what we are looking for? Correct - lung cancer.
[Camera zooms in on smiling woman smoking a cigarette as 1950's music plays]
Have your copy books ready as you will be asked to take down notes during the following presentation.
Narrator: Cigarettes - also known as ciggys, gaspers, coffin nails, cancer sticks, and of course f*gs are an essential part of our nation's society. [Camera zooms in on some children in school uniforms happily smoking cigarettes].
Tobacco - chemical symbol TO2, was first introduced to Europeans by the Native Americans as a way to exterminate them from their homeland. [Video of a Native American smoking a peace pipe with a European] Europeans fell for the trick and to this day tobacco smoking still accounts for the majority of untimely deaths among the European population. [Camera zooms in on a grave stone as children casually smoke cigarettes next to it].
In the following experiment we will examine the lungs of two people - one a cigarette smoker and the other a convicted murder who has never smoked anything apart from his fellow man. [Camera zooms in on a big dude in a prison uniform looking down at a skinny man in buisness attire smoking a cigarette].
Behold the lungs of the two individuals. [The camera zooms in on two disembodied sets of lungs on an operating table, two latex-gloved hands covered in fresh blood point to the two sets of lungs]
Can you tell which pair of lungs belonged to the smoker. [The two hands point back and forth between a black set of lungs with smoke still coming out of the trachea and a set of pink lungs]
Correct [hand points to the black pair of lungs] write that down.
They look so relaxed 😎 and happy..Some people pressed dislike for this video ..Please just tell me Dislike for what!!
Tobacco won't be perfected until they combine it with tomatoes and call it Tomacco.
They already have, there's a doc on CZcams about it
Just love it
I wonder how many of the people ive treated have died smoking the tobbaco products made in this factory. I love history x
Quit over 6 years ago, best thing ever did.
weird that im trying to give up smoking and im being recommended this
Just quit bro, cigs are gross. Don’t fall into the vape trap either, vapes are even more addictive
@@LightYagamiVSL its not as easy as just quitting if it was nobody would b smoking. Gums the best alternative
The good old days
Now this is what i call music!
We've advanced so much. Work previously done by strong tough men can now be done by children!
I haven't smoked in 10 years, but I would like to buy a pack of Pics.
@Jacob Monnin stop watching how they are made! You’re not helping yourself.
@Jacob Monnin wow okay then I learned something today. It wouldn’t help me quit though.
I was not expecting Basildon to be featured in this film.
I guess they didn’t add ammonia and sugar and all the knee chemicals we having cigarettes today I didn’t see that part
This is BBCs Inside the Factory series in the 60s
thta's so much money they are making back in the days
The music is dandy.
Love old documentaries 🌚
Post Brexit this is what Great Britain looks like today.
Great Upload! Thanks!
Ah child slavery, addiction, money. Real quality. Traditional America. “ what skill has contributed to this modern mechanical wizardry! “ Quite! “ it has care built in” my grandad smoked this brand. Dead at 63 lung cancer couldn’t breath for the last 3 years of his life without an oxygen bottle. Ah happy days.
That tobacco auction makes absolutely no sense.
I remember when I was about 10 in 1961 in one of the first supermarkets in Scotland ... Safeways in Muirend
I'm a little disappointed. They didn't show the part in the process where they add the various poisons.
So, we’re just gonna skip over the addition of tar, formaldehyde, and other additives?
🤢💀 Disgusting habit
Back then?
U really think they add tar in production? Tar is a byproduct of combustion, it’s created after the cigarette is burned
11:57 what a doll
she sure is.
In 40 years from now, they'll perceive the cellphone companies in the same way that we look at those cigarettes companies right now
13:26
A beautiful granny then in her early 20s :)
The Watch Hub Not if she spent all days infront of that smoke testers....