London 1983 on KODAK Super 8
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2020
- London 1983: Thames, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Churchill... Buckingham Palace, Soho, Carnaby Street, Leicester Square, Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Wimbledon, Abbey Road, Battersea Power Station... lots of tourist attractions. Shot on Kodak Super 8 film, using Sankyo XL- 60S Super 8 Sound Film Camera. Edited manually, of course, back those days all was so tangible, and digitalization had just started - first home computers were released, but we had to wait quite long until filming was digital.
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There are many occasions when I think we were much better off without the internet and smartphones.
This is the London I knew and loved I hardly recognise the place anymore.
Love this. It shows Carnaby Street as it was when it really was a destination. Now its all sanitised chain shops with zero atmosphere.
This appears to have been filmed in July/August. I remember Octopussy & Return Of The Jedi being the big summer movies in 1983, along with Wham's "Fantastic" & The Police's "Syncronicity" albums being released around the same time.
It's also wonderful to see how well-dressed women & men were back then
I remember 1982 my brother and i going up to london just us 2 alone i was 12 he was 14 we bought red bus rovers and traveled on the bus from ilford to Central london visiting museums and other attractions we had a great day
Sweet memories of a London that's long gone (well, actually a World that's long gone...). Great video, thanks.
No mês passado fomos conhecer Londres, minha esposa e eu. Foi a grande🎉 realização dos nossos sonhos, ficamos hospedados no Hotel Plaza em frente da estação Lambeth North, então ficamos muitos próximos das maiores atrações da cidade e pudemos conhecer muitas delas apenas caminhando. Num dia de sol pegamos o metro e fomos conhecer tbm a famosa Abbey Road dos Beatles que fica próxima da estação St. John's Wood. Em Londres o transporte é facil. Mas a cereja 🍒 do bolo foi caminharmos de madrugada, eu e a minha esposa, debaixo de uma fina chuva prateada cantando a música "London Town" dos Wings, um dos momentos mais mágicos e inesquecíveis ao longo dos meus 64 anos de vida. Vou dormir todas as noites olhando as fotos que tirei de Londres no celular me lembrando desses momentos e pedindo pra sonhar que ainda estamos lá. Pra quem tem esse sonho e puder fazer isso eu digo, vá, vá porque vale a pena, essa experiência acrescentou muita emoção nas nossas vidas e nos deu um novo significado para entendermos o mundo...
I used to work in London back then, you could have a few pints after work, stagger off to get the last train, then walk home in the suburbs, no bother...
I've been searching all sorts of these videos and documentaries of England. I've had an admiration and desire to visit the country more than any other abroad since I was a child. As a Yankee I worry for the our Anglo cousins. They're contributions over just the last 100 years cannot be understated. A heritage that should be protected. The same thing is happening in all the western nations. This is not some happenstance. We've tolerated the nonsense long enough.
Great film (once we get past shots of famous landmark buildings) - I loved London in 1983, great to see advert hoardings and people going about their business. London was negotiable and navigable in 1983 and a pleasant place to be - the atmosphere has completely changed in 2023.
Oh my blimey, I was 15 years old London born and bred.
I typed in 1983 for some nostalgia,wanting to see London how it was whilst i was young,it was a different world,seemed more stable in UK than now with all thats going on in the world,that year i was driving a Vauxhall Viva,even went to see Siouxie and the Banshee's at the Royal Albert hall on a Friday ,she played 2 nights there and it was made into a live album called Nocturne made up of recordings chosen from the 2 nights,later i saw she wore different attire each night,thanks to watching it on film i worked out which songs id seen but that was nearly 4 decades later,
Thank you for a great upload that took me down memory lane,wishing the uploader,friends,family and fellow viewers health,happiness.
It was more homogeneous!!!
Great to see how London was back then, the Thames is very different now surrounded by so called luxury flats. Would love a time machine to return to that era.
I miss the old place ! Not the new place.
Nobody overweight then.
I was a 19 year old Yank riding my Trek through England and France at the time , just digging life . Great times , beautiful people….. far less traffic !
Trek?
Trek is a bicycle company. Fairly large now. I think they started in 1978-9 ? Good products.
You absolutely would not want to do that trip now. Traffic is much faster, denser and less patience for cyclists.
When London wasn’t full of millions of tourists and London’s population had been in decline as people had be rehoused in the New Towns of places like Milton Keynes, Harlow and Crawley etc. I was in Finchley lad in 1983
That’s what London looked like when it was the world’s greatest city. All the charm and character has now been methodically erased.
That's gentrification and the global rich buying up London and stripping the soul for you.
It was still a bit of a dump as I was living in London still at the time. Plenty of remnants from the 70s Labour run days. Nothing worked and Thatcher had quite tamed the bolshi unions. We haven't progressed at all actually. Regressed in many areas.
Yep our kids kids will be saying…..look at all the W’s back then, where did they all go? 🤔
I hear an echo of the aborigine in you😊
40 fucking years
The GOOD old days
Excellent video-i ve been everywhere-Battersea power station is best-Jerry from the Czech Republic
Battersea Power Station is now full of expensive luxury flats that the average person could never afford.
Grubby violent place. Tube stations were dangerous filthy places and the buses stank of piss, as did the telephone boxes, even so I’d prefer that to how it is today.
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight lol.
its even more violent now
Back in the days when you didn’t have to pay £12.50 from as far afield as West Drayton just to drive in and the Hammersmith bridge was open
The sound track is way over the top, which spoils it somewhat. Cars weren't loud and rickety. Otherwise a nice look at a city and a period which is still fairly recent in my memory. In fact it was in the mid 80s that they started demolishing the older buildings and began putting up the high rise monstrosities that have disfigured the city in the last few decades.
Aaah, happy days, when Britain was British and the government stayed out of our lives. No constant talk of racism, the word misogyny wasn’t in use, no one except housewives worked from home, children played outside and burnt energy and scraped knees. Lost forever as all the immigrants turn our country into exactly the kind of country they are all so keen to leave!
40 years ago
Exactly, it is hard to understand where all those years have gone. I was 16 when I was filming this, just before portable VHS was available, for me at least.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in June 1983 and think where did those years go! It seems so much more old fashioned looking back now and the London skyline is much changed but then it’s 40 years ago!
@@philgraham5341Definitely. I was a 5 year old starting infant school lol
@@ttuoma9386I was 18 back then,you have really captured the essence of London back then a little bit of everything,a delight to watch, Thank you.
@@philgraham5341Same age,this upload reminds me of the fashions back then,tv programs,cars and my first beer i think back then it was 80p a pint,music too like Thompson twins and Bowies songs that year,remember it like it was yesterday but watching it on film reminds you it was a while back, Best wishes.
I think you meant a SANKYO camera, not Sanyo.
Yes I think you're right, too different companies Sankyo and Sanyo. Must have been Sankyo Sound XL-60S, borrowed from my aunt. Quite expensive those days, I had to save some money to be able to pay the filmcosts...
@@ttuoma9386 And the older expired film stocks can cost even more to develop, if they even still make the chemicals in the case of some older color film. Of course, you cannot even get Kodachrome or its imitators developed in color as they do not make the color chemicals to fini9sh them and the color was never int he actual film in those cases.
when people looked normal, not like mini arnie shwarzeneggers or katie prices
WHEN LONDON WAS STILL WHITE
Well why don't white all go back and stay in europe then keep America red and Australia black eta
I dunno which part of London you're referring to. I was a young mum back then and London was very multicultural then. The demographic has shifted a bit but London has always been multicultural
@mypointofview1111 London was multicultural heavily the rest of the UK cities and towns were white and very racist.
@@mypointofview1111 That's categorically not true when you look at the empirics. But hey, keep gaslighting yourself and everyone else.
@@marthasheilds2446Very racist???what utter nonsense you spout.
Kodak super 8 was a waste of money
What do you mean exactly? Was there better film available at the time? Any other way for a tourist to film? Videocameras were not an option at that time.
Thanks for uploading. Filmed during the best summer that I can remember and June/July that year were glorious months. Would be good with a soundtrack of the summer hits of that year, there were some great tracks.
Thanks again.