1967: CHRISTMAS Shopping in the USA | 24 Hours | BBC Archive
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- 24 Hours reporter Gerald Priestland casts a cynical eye over Christmas in the United States, where - to an even greater extent than it is in the UK - commerce is king. What things are proving a hit with US shoppers?
Originally broadcast 15 December, 1967.
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Love the reporters weary sarcasm...
_"In America, people at Christmastime simply roll over and die under their plastic trees while hugging their Christmas hams. Also, that waaaaar."_
🤣🤣
2:56 - that comment about two Santa's dying in helicopter crashes due to trying to land on store roofs makes for interesting reading if you Google it!
Today in 2022, all kinds of British food and drink is available in the US. In California, they have many stores which stock imported British foods and drinks, especially Christmas food such as British Christmas pudding. Examples are The British Food Shop at Laguna Hills in California or at the Ye Olde Kings Head Pub and Shop in Santa Monica. Prices for British food in 2022 are very high due to the cost of imports, but they are all there if Brits wanted a taste of home.
The year I was born july 1967 wish we had these beautiful days back again instead of this wreck where living in today wheres Britain 🇬🇧 gone 😢
Thought it was Jacob Rees - Mogg narrating for a minute lol
Probably is
0:00 - 0:10 Oh, that 60's dancing.
Never did understand it.
(Especially when I was trying to coordinate it with the bagpipes, you know).
Filmed just after the Summer of Love. We west coasters found these types awfully square.
Peace ✌️ man
"Two Santa's claus died landing by helicopter" wait what.
"Ho, ho, BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
"The battery ejected landing in a windshield of an unoccupied car" Why not to fly into power lines!
My 1st Christmas born that year, can’t remember too much , probably to much whiskey in my baby bottle 🍼
Me too! Born 14th Jan 1967 :) Crikey I feel old.....
@@rjy8960 April 67 , the 55 club 😬😬😬
Just a few weeks away from the Tet Offensive, which really changed public perception of the referenced war
To whomever, there's a very interesting video out there about monorails in american supermarkets. It's the memory of many Americans of today going to a store at Christmas and jumping in one of these trains along rails attached to the roof all around the store. Quite jealous, personally. Safe to say Americans had a big golden age.
I hear those things are awfully loud.
The one thing that stands out in my mind from 1967 Christmas is the cold and snow.
2:41 - a Ouija Board for children?!?! 😳
Yep, I used to have one as a kiddie. Hours of fun with my siblings.
It was a common, popular toy back in the day (especially in US), this was before x1000 horror films ripped off the same story of Ouija boards summoning the devil etc
My mom had one in the sixties. The only question I remember asking, will we go to Disneyland. I'm serious. Now I'm a Christian and would not have one in my house. Jesus is my savior and Lord.
@@AtheistOrphan How many evil spirits did you summon?
@@stephenspence1192 - None, because there’s no such thing.
1:07 - “No they’re for me actually.”
Don’t disrespect eggnog like that.
Exactly! Limey snob.
C'mon, you all know you want that Remco Lost in Space Robot....🙂
2:39 check out the board game the Mom is looking at! Lol!
"Bah, humbug!"
I do wish the news could be this cynical again.
I believe it might come back. Somehow. I'm not sure how but would love to help start it.
Someone must have pissed in the narrator's cider....
I didn't know Rees-Mogg was broadcasting at the time. I guess his sleeping in a vat of formaldehyde probably helps.
Nice to see the American children enjoying Christmas. Shame the same can't be said about the poor children in Vietnam around this time.
Oh, I missed the "around this time" damn.
Was that Josh Hartnett stocking Green Ghosts???!
haha it did resemble him.
Diamonds are Forever LOL
Love the narrator's detatched cynicism towards american consumer culture and society.
Two American Santa Claus’s have been killed trying to land on stores by helicopter. A nasty way for kids to see a legend die.
Everyone is thin and well dressed. These days a tanktop and slippers is all you need at the local wallmart.
I swear they are way more posh back then. Even in the 70s and early 80s
The Beautiful women get in and the Homely ones wait out front.
2:40 were they selling OUIJA boards ?! 😳
Was that tree even held down in that back of that car could of been shenanigans on the highway if it wasn't 🤣😂🤫🤔
Toys "R" Us!
It’s weird to hear someone call a place you buy toys a “supermarket” nowadays that’s a place you go to buy your groceries but I guess back then it must of just meant a large shop.
In 1967, the US like most all countries had gone decimal currency well over a 100 years before Britain. All in simple $dollars and cents - whereas the announcer uses pounds, shillings and pence for the British viewer of 1967.
Your first sentence makes it sound as though we Brits won't be decimalised until 2067...
@@krashd Read my comment properly
2:38 This woman is buying her kid a Ouija board? Hours and hours of pea soup vomiting and head spinning shenanigans with Captain Howdy ahead for that family.
0:06 Toy gun
Well... _that_ got _real dark_ _real quick._
i mean, sounds fair to me. Maybe they should reheance leaving men alone for 1 hour to see what they buy 😆💜
Wow, that's the most cynical view of a 1960s Christmas I can possibly imagine. He seems upset everyone isn't a raging alcoholic like back home.
@@pringles4312 so what. Plenty people see Christmas as a time to get together with loved ones and eat great food. I’m not Christian but I have Christmas dinner etc
@@pringles4312I’m an atheist who “demands” time off work at Christmas. Bear in mind the tradition of celebrating at that time of year throughout Europe and the customs that went with it (many of which continue to this day) were around for many, many centuries before Christianity eventually arrived and claimed it as its own. “Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.”
look at how small the carts were lol. people werent fat beasts back then.
Non-alcoholic eggnog. A sickly American must...it's good stuff. The fat free variety isn't as good though. Way too sugary
Most of the things he was complaining about are all English traditions, eggnog, big meal, Thanksgiving or harvest festival, Father Christmas. As for Christmas trees...well, he's making a jab at German tradition there...see Prince Albert Sax-Goetha and queen vicki for that one. As for Vietnam, well We heard little from the British when France was stuck in there 1946 to 1959 or whe Ho went to the U.N. in 1946 and asked for help gaining independence from France of course that would have meant opening up Singapore, Hong Kong etc. We payed 11£ 5 &6 in 1967 for a shiny aluminum tree. Cheers!
Passive-aggressive, cynical, sexist..
Sounds about right.
Sounds about like me when I've been drinking.
@@TomG1990 - All the reason not to.
Haha stag party to buy presents for Thier wives okay!
A surprisingly poor performance by the narrator.
The narrator was perfect, what were you expecting?
LOL The sexism is dripping thick here! Yikes! Thank God for living in this day and age! 'Unharassed by wives' ... 'Women foolish enough...' 'The customer knows what he wants' (who cares that the wife may not find it comfortable. lol
Simply trying to shop for wives without them finding out and spoiling the surprise is not sexism.
Imagine being dimwitted enough to get offended at some obvious dry humor. Yikes indeed.
Easy argument to make honestly, the 60s was rife with discrimination and the patriarchy was still considered common sense. It's always important to remember life wasn't fair to everyone in the past, no matter how romanticised you make it.