The Home-Made Car 1963
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- THE HOME-MADE CAR
A James Hill production for BP
Duration: 28 minutes
First showing: 28th August 1963
Final showing: 23rd August 1973
Probably the best-known and much-loved of all the trade test colour films, this delightful half-hour film is about the assembly of a Bull Nosed Morris. Ron Grainer’s musical adaptation of his tune, 'Mexican Marmalade', meanders through the whole film without any need for commentary. This simple little story is a real gem.
Made in 1963
Credit: Ripped from / channel
I drive past the road nearly everyday where this was filmed in Farnborough, every time it brings a smile to my face.
What does it look like now? So I can appreciate what I missed out on.
The house remains pretty much the same, but the garage has gone and a house has been build in its place. You can see the house next to it where the little girl lived, the road where the house is cambridge road west, farnborough, check it out on google maps
@@aaronatherton7431 See the Streetview links in my post above.
@@aaronatherton7431 Fuel station: www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1700202,-0.8471251,3a,75y,252.43h,95.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTHTXBYkAH1kNXZKT0ufVIQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
House: www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2813401,-0.7513977,3a,75y,331.89h,86.93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sG5yssgQooKZ1iVAFPKahVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu
Still junk cars there? Here in the USA so many junkyards I grew up around are long since gone and some crappy business always goes up in them places that has no soul whatsoever.
Just happened apon this wonderful blast from the past! What a great little movie! I am an eighty-year-young South African boy who lives in beautiful Pinelands, Cape Town. When I was in my early teens our neigbour gave me his old Austin 7 as long as I removed it from his garage. Dad was the branch manager of Robb Motors in Rondebosch, and as the main BMC agent in South Africa, he had access to much knowlege and spares. Dad suggested that we strip the car and rebuild the engine and chassis. My metalwork teacher was a vintage car rebuilder (he had a beautiful Austin Ulster special) and he gave me numerous bits and pieces which I used when rebuilding my very first car - not to mention much sage advice! We did the engine rebuild and cleaned and polished the inlet manifold and brass updraught carburettor. We got her running beautifully, put on a temporary seat for the driver, and used to drive her up and down our runway, reversing, changing gears, and having a helluva lot of fun! Sadly we could not afford the bodywork, and it was with a broken heart that I had to sell my car to another enthusiast in Claremont, who had the money to complete the build. What wonderful memories! I am still passionate about cars, motorcycles and planes, in fact - anything woth a petrol engine!
My dad was a Chevrolet dealer in the 50's-60's, he had MG's, Austin Healey convertibles, to bad I wasn't around yet as I was the youngest, he also took home program cars for Chevy like the '55, '56, '57, even Stingrays, but he got out of that business when I came along, I was the only one with that passion while my 2 older brothers didn't care for that.
I preferred the petrol station as it was in 1963. So charming!
Assisted service!
Prices were better too.
@@doOf3r Five bob a gallon - what a bargain!!
@@doOf3r Dad's car used regular, but we used to try to talk him into putting premium in as we thought it would make the car go faster! 😄
@@BackToTheBlues we never had a car just push bikes 🚳 my brother bought the first in 1974 a 1959 Austin A40 , then I bought one in 1976 for £15 and old Bedford ca van Happy times with family.. still got my brother to argue with.
This was filmed just round the corner from where I lived as a boy in Farnborough in Hampshire. I saw it once as a boy and for the second time today.
As near as I can tell from Google maps, the address is approximately 26 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough, UK. The set back tan colored house between the red brick house and the white one. Is that right?
I got a bit dewey-eyed watching this. Because as I am sure many in the commsnts have, I have done this for real!
In the early 90's I was very ill and very poor at the time, and whilst driving past a back-street scrap-yard on the way to my s**t job 'thought' I had found a lost racing car!!??
So in the way home I knocked on the gate amd asked, it was not a racing-car at all, but quite by chance, the way the sheet was draped over the chassis and remaining steering-column made it look like it had a body!!
To cut a long story short, the focus this car gave me saved my life. I made a body from an old chip-shop pie cabinet, and then I drove it across the Sahara desert in 97! (Registration no KSK 362).
I sold the car to buy this house and I believe it now lived in Ireland.
Bsst wishes from an Englishman now making and restoring suits of armour in a French forest.
Thank you for this beautiful film. 🇬🇧⚒️🌞
PS: I recommend everyone tries bringing something mechanical back to life... There are not many things more wholesome and rewarding. This is also how we can save the planet and ourselves.
Great interesting channel you have ! Subbed and will enjoy watching your videos 😀
I searched for many years for the DVD of this film. It was a major part of my early TV experience. I eventually got it from BP films and it remains my most treasured film. Nostalgic memories of how life used to be....I miss the true and proper English way of life so much ❤❤❤
@@Instone09ine Thank you and right back at you! (As they say). That is very kind of you to take the time to say.
Your channel is awesome, you are big-fish!!
But, I have to say, if we had been shopping together when you found that old wooden tool-chest you so beautifully restored, there would have been a fight!!! 😂
Best wishes to you and long may you reign mon Ami! ⚒️🏆⚒️
@@SemperFortisSovereign Yes indeed my friend.
I know younger folks say that old folks say this every fifty years, but I truly know what you mean, right now things are different, even I would say dangerously fractured! It is very sad how much has been lost, sold or simply given away of late.
Let’s start with manners… I really miss those! 🧐
Anyway, best wishes to you and yours, we must not let the others prevent us from making our own joy. 🌞
No hope for the planet
I love love love this beautiful short film. What a gem!!!
There are so many social lessons in this charming and entertaining little film, a nice reminder to all of us to treat people with respect and to follow your dreams through...don't give up!
What a lovely film. I used to enjoy watching the trade test transmissions as you never knew what you were going to get and it could show you things you didn't realise could be interesting.
I remember one was an assistant in a posh menswear department demonstrating how to serve, and he showed how to interest a customer in a suit - he said something like "You pick it up by the hanger like this, and talk about it's attributes while you draw your hand down the suit like this (does so in a sweeping gesture), and the customers eyes will follow your hand so they take in the whole suit."
My plan at that young age was to be either a spaceman or a dustbin man, but in the end I worked for 33 years in menswear, and used that trick many a time!
That's hilarious (your decision as a boy to be either a spaceman or a dustbin man). The things we think are glamorous when we are young. I personally thought I'd be a hermit in a cave or a detective. I was a big fan of the Hardy Boy books. Now I drive a truck, and essentially am a hermit in my truck, and "detect" sometimes hard to find places on GPS to deliver my freight to. Go figure. 😂
This video just showed up in my mix out of no where and what a treat to watch it was. Across the pond in Cali, I built a 1934 Ford three window coupe with a rumble seat from the ground up as well back in the nineties. It was a great experience!
Superb, a great little gem, well worth 30 minutes of your time. Thanks for uploading.
21:56 Uses the CORRECT technique for hand starting....never ever have the thumb folded over the crank handle, always have it folded out of the way.
my late father owned a Rover 90 and when he had difficultly started it ,he used the starting handle it works every time and the same Rovers was still being produced till about 1963
Otherwise you'd be turning the air very blue and a trip to A&E.
I still can’t find the damned starting crank handle for my Tesla! Grrrr!
@@philtucker1224Put a big hole in the floor and drive it like a Fred Flintstone car. 😂
I remember this in the early 60s when I worked at Dynatron Radio's service department at Furze Platt Maidenhead. Great times.
My Mother used to work there as well!
I remember a Christmas Party I went there as a kid!
My father was walking past a scrap yard about 1945 and saw a car about to broken up, went in and asked to buy the log book, which then sat in a drawer till 1963 and the car he bought new had the registration DFX9C, As he bought a new car almost every year he decided sod remembering all those letters and numbers, wheres that old log book? From 1864 till his death an 1993 all his cars bore a registration of two letters and one number. A very famous radio presenters wife had a similar registration but **1 and dad's was **7. At one point he was offered £20.000 for it but didn't sell it. Not bad for an investment of £5
Buster keaton would have loved this
Just stumbled across this film and I thought this film was really good. It’s the one in the little white race car. Is essentially a fast paste stuck in the grind type of person and here is this lone man building a car from scratch. Back in the days when people didn’t really worry about a status of having the best car on earth just having a car that could get them to info. I’m sure there were people back then that were materialistic, but it was few and far between and even that wealthy businessman in front of him at the gas pump had to commend him for building that car also probably because he remembered one of those when he was younger or something similar, and so it made him feel humble in that moment
I've tried to find this in past years, as this was shown on BBC2 when it was just starting up.
It was shown over and over along with another short film which may have been based in France.
I inherited my grandfather's 1961 Fiat 600 2 door sedan. Ot had the cutest little 4 cyl water cooled engine in back,and what a joy to drive! I had a bianchina to. That was my grandmother's car.She taught elementary school.The kids(and adults) used to tease her.
Thanks for this, the music score is very clever, eg the sports-car drum solo : )
and you have good sync with video, that makes it better than other copies.
I say the year 1963 was the year classic Dr Who, started on tv in black and white with Bill Hartnell in the role and it became a legend and it ran for 26 years I wish I had been born in the year of 1963 or even born several years before 1963 and I would be older than just 55 I would be over 60 in age which would be better for me.
I can't believe this turned up. I watched during school, must have been the mid 1970's
Notice the lack of cars both parked and on the road.
Remeber watching this on TV when i was a schoolboy.
Good little film, really enjoyed it.
If you like this film, you’d probably enjoy the work of Jacques Tati. Brilliant filmmaker. Saw Mon Oncle as a kid, never forgot it. It’s still brilliant.
This guy co-directed Born Free and Worzel Gummidge as well as The Avengers. I wonder who got the job of drying that dog off? Haha.
I’m an American car guys. This short movie is really good. It doesn’t matter what car it is . I agree with the other comment that was made. Something about an engine and a car. ‘It keeps me calm.
Awesome movie, I love every context and detail in this movie: when he is splashed with dirty motor oil, the other scene when the girl chases him, it was funny!! because the licence plates, when the Rolls Royce owner staring at him at the gas station, the arrogant guy in the Austin-Healey 100. 6 🤭and the final scene is the best... when the winner take it all :)
Fantastic. Absolutely loved this. If people like this, they should look for "The Iron Maiden" starring Alan Hale Jr. Its on here somewhere, what a fantastic movie.
Sweet film. In its cinematography, I see much in common with Jacques Tati films.
Ahh test program on bbc two, watched many many times as a child, also one on Liverpool cathedral and the red balloon
Sweet memories
Plus one on a French garage on a balmy summers day.😊
...with an annoying kid called Beppo.
As charming as a film could be. I share the garage proprietor's view of the cove in the Healey. Not a gentleman.
I like the frenetic drum solo every time Flash Harry turns up😂
I was the same age as that little girl ( but I don’t remember the film as I was too busy playing outside!) 😁
Interesting that the Morris was only 40 years old at the time, but to my 9 year old self at the time, all cars of this age and even 25 years younger, looked positively ancient. I suppose the introduction of monocoque construction led to the modern “box” we are all used to.
Indeed, and in Britain, Vauxhall led the way with that in 1937 with the H-Type Vauxhall Ten-Four. Morris duly followed with the 1948 Morris Minor.
Morris bullnose is still on the road, taxed until 1/9/24.
The garage was still there in 2023 as a JET petrol station.
Simply wonderful 🕳️
This must be what they call the silent era
Saw this film years ago good clean fun 😅
The right guy got the girl, but that Austin Healey was waaay cooler
I wouldn't mind having the Austin Healey, or the Morris. Either one of those choices is exponentially better than the outrageously overpriced computers on wheels in mundane shades of black and gray that we have now.
happy
I remember having that toy ray gun..
Cujo at the opening...
not a happy ending for our chap, that isnt the right girl for him.
Quite a interesting movie. The car of course is the star,The owner of the Bullnose Morris in the film, Eric Longworth, kept the car until his death in 2011. The car is now owned by Stuart Cooke of Darwen Lancashire. When the film was shot, the car had already been fully restored, so the chassis of another car which Eric was restoring at the time, a rare 1916 Perry, was used to replicate the Morris during restoration.
The Little Girl is Sandra leo who acted in another film 'psych 59 '.
Thank you for this information!! I see Ron Grainer did the music. Also did Dr Who
@@michael5089 Just in case you didn't know; although Ron Grainer wrote the music for Doctor Who it was actually interpreted and put together from scratch by Delia Derbyshire, although she never received a credit for doing so. If it hadn't been for her it would probably have been played by an orchestra and would have sounded totally different.
@@michael5089 Ron Grainer - as Ronald Erle Grainer - composed the theme to the Rupert Davies 'Maigret' as well.
I don't know how that rumour about the Perry chassis came about; but it isn't true.
Anyone know what the convertible is @1:56? Is it an SS/Jaguar or maybe
an illusive Lagonda LG-6?
Didn't we have a lovely looking country back then.
Please take me back...for 27 minutes I'd forgotten how crap everything is now.
amen brother amen to that
I agree it.s only f********n only news and sport on now.
If you wouldn't waste your fucking time looking at a screen all the time.
@@drcrusherdata"News" today is about WHO owns the broadcasting company and what political views they have.
Sports is just a round about way for corporations to get their names plastered all over people and 'green wash'.
even the kid looking both way at 26:20 is rare these days. No one raises them and we have to make everything safe since kids are unable to think safely now
Happy times, looked so quiet and peaceful.
Not much immigration.
That Morris is still on the DVLA database, MOTd until 1st September 2020
Of course it doesn't need an MOT
I didn't say it needed it, I just said that it had one. Probably still has.
@@chriswalker4272 No one said it needed an MOT.
Nope its MOT expired on15 August 2013
Wow, I haven't seen this for over 55 years.
I think it was shown on BBC2 in the late 60's, but we only had a 405 line TV with two channels, so I didn't see this little gem till my dad upgraded to 625 line and we could get all three available channels.
Ahhhh , those were the days.
A charming film ...... Thank you for uploading this beautiful old-time capsule of life in England and how we all wish we still lived.
Not a single spoken word and yet one of the greatest, I have seen and enjoyed every moment of it. A hundred out hundred.
God, This present world sucks...., The world was much better and happier then.
I'm not sure why this film popped up in my suggestions, but I'm glad it did ! What a great little film from a much simpler time. Love it !
Wow, look how few cars there were around in England in 1963
There were lots once you were on a main road. London was bad for traffic even back then.
How beautiful England was then. Everything, even country side, seems so full and hectic now 😔
Gee wouldn’t pay to get that friendly with the kid next door now days or he be off to jail. I learnt so much about cars when I was a kid by being nosey when I saw someone fixing one. Nothing bad ever happened…. Sad world we live in now.
nowaday the mother wouldve janked the kid intoo the house screaming about the perv next door trying to do things to her
But did you notice, he waited until he had a chaperone before offering to take her in the car .
Interesting. I was friendly with a neighbor's kid. I eventually gave him an old camera, camera bag and a tripod. The family seemed nice when I eventually met them. I wasn't afraid at all if it would come back to haunt me later, maybe with the kid saying something weird like "He flirted with me!" Wouldn't pay? Well, it pays to be nice, it pays to be honestly friendly, and it pays to think that children are a blessing, not a curse. Seeing that kid happy after he got that old camera I wasn't using anymore made me want to feel less grumbly, groany and gripey. And I didn't fret it would haunt or harm me in the least.
same here, had a handy neirbor down the street, highly educated black man, and I would ride my bike all the time so I would often catch him working on his old car. I learned a lot and got my first car at 14yo .
It's minds like yours that have made things so bad.
I'm old enough to remember when minds like yours started actively encouraging people to see (potential) evil in everyone.
Shades of Nazi Germany, China under Mao, Kampuchia under Pol Pot, etc.
Evil is as evil thinks.
Great memories better than any blockbuster made today
This hole story makes me smile...life was easier back then...and the planet was much brighter than today ,Thanks for the film!
Absolutely wonderful!!! So many memories of how Britain was in the latter half of the 20th century. Post war Britain, you couldn’t just go to a store to buy the materials to make anything as everything was still in relatively short supply and expensive. The attendant service petrol stations, the rag and bone man with his horse drawn cart and the lovely cheeky little girl from next door spying over the hedge and also remembering to do her kerb drills later to become the Green Cross ❎ code.
Wonderful how Britain was and how it’s changed and how so busy everything is.
@@buffplums I lived through that decade and I wish I could go back
Memories of childhood. Coming home from school, with nothing on the television worth watching only the Trade Test Transmission Films on BBC2. Some of these shows were great.
Yes me to! Wow how the years have shot past.
Likewise.
@@richardhemingway6084 Great memories, seeing it on bbc2 trade test transmissions. Also it came to my local cinema the ABC in Dover as the supporting feature to The Adventures of the Wilderness Family in October 1977
Me too! Does anyone remember the ICI one about plastics? All colors of bowls sold in Africa.
About to say same!! There was one on pollution I used as an essay for Eng.Lit.Olevel !!
Great little films.
Thank you algorithm.
That car is still far more practical and reliable than a cybertruck.
When britain was a different, happier, simpler place than it is today.
Did you notice that this short film has just reminded me of the NITROME online computer video game called Help Out Good Old Rusty Yard? I'm not kidding you. It really did. 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬 📽 😄 🎥
See any differences in it today ?,,,lol
It wasn't happier. People were bloody miserable, you had families of six crammed into two bedroom terraces with no bathroom or indoor toilet. There was plenty of alcoholism and wife battering to spare.
@@kyle8952 Sure but the crime and culture was still paradise compared to today.
@@kyle8952😂😂😂 they say this is Brazil to, but never nominate those people who really do it today.
Filmed in Farnborough, Bucks Horn Oak Surrey and the final scenes in Seale off the A31
I lived round the corner in Alexandra Road at the time the film was made
I’ve never seen this before - reminds me of my granddad and I tinkering with his old car on a Sunday morning! What a lovely film!
The BBC used it as one of their demo films to show the 'magic' of colour television, it was probably shown once a week in the afternoon in the 60s/early 70s.
@@Comfortzone99 A 'Trade Test' transmission.. as they were known.
Just wonderful - buried in my subconscious for decades since seeing it multiple times as a very young child - a wonderful wash of nostalgia for a simpler, less-knowing past
@jez kinsman I agree 100% with your comments. Nostalgia is overwhelming in this wonderful production.
@@jezkinsman6567 my favourite little film
Great little film, looks like the austin Healey is dead but the little morris is alive and well, love the way the garage proprietor has the old skills when needed, also it's Britain when i was a kid, before the madness, before all the 'imports', before rich city types bought the countryside and made it too expensive for the locals, can i go back please.
@gregsimons48 I'd love to return to these halcyon days too. Of all the films I have ever seen this is my favourite of all time. Absolutely wonderful and nostalgic.
How wonderful to see this again , must be almost 50 years since I last saw it. Memories of being tucked up on the sofa, wishing I was the little girl next door and thinking I could marry the chap building his beautiful car. Thank you so much for sharing this, it's made me smile .😀😀😀😀
I love England/Britain I love all of their programs. Best of all I love the people and the history of England . I live in the United States and I would trade the United States for England any day. Long live the queen God bless all of you stay safe❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇😇🌷🌷🌷
The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence. Or is that pond?
I'm afraid it mostly doesn't look like that anymore.
@@roberthorseman7432 There are still some great places that remain forever England if you stay away from the big towns and cities. There are still 16th century Tea shops Old English Thatched pubs and cottages to be found and enjoyed where i live in rural Dorset.
For anyone wondering, that beautiful white car at the end is the Austin-Healey 3000 1959 - 1967
A time when a House was called a Home .......with possessions and ornaments...not just a empty room with one round table and orange in it
Hahaha, great comment 😁
I'd kill for an empty table; in our house a flat surface is a full surface!
1972 this film was used as one of the BBC2 test films when the service started up in Yorkshire. Lovely to see this film again
And it's still on the road today .... It's a 1923 Morris 1465cc engine
I remember this so well - I even remembered the colour he sprayed the car before watching it again.... this is the first time I've seen it since the 1960s. I just suddenly wondered if any of the old BBC2 trade test films were on RUclips but this is the one I was really looking for.
There are a few more of them on here One I liked was Cattle Carters, I found that and another I liked a lot and found is Ride the White Horses, a few more as well
@@cedarcam
I remember Ride The White Horses - I particularly remember the music.
@@SpideyVids Me too. Now after watching this another I found Algerian Pipeline is on Music on that always stuck in my mind
Certainly an interesting way of spraying it, using a Hoover on blow - all looked painfully slow, though!
@@FMFGUF We had one of those It came with a glass jar and spray just like this. there was a suck/blow selector if I remember right. The spray was never used but the blow setting was Today people would use it as a leaf blower LOL.
I clearly remember this film and watching it as a treat at school back in the early 70’s. a great film and back to the era I’m so pleased I grew up in!
What a gem. I wish life was still so simple.
i used to watch these films over and over again on a saturday afternoon in between the testcards
a real blast from the past ,great to see it again
Me too!
How many times did I watch that film when I was a radio and TV engineer repairing TV ,s on the bench. I still have a copy of it somewhere. Great to watch again and thank you for posting it in such good quality.
I worked as a dialogue coach on this film. One of my finest efforts. Can't understand why I didn't pick up an award for it.
I saw what you did there
Way too much conversation if you ask me
Well it's a nice short film but why is no one actually talking during the entire movie?
Awards go to the actors.
😂
Superb. The filling station where the Bullnose had its chassis and tracking done is still there, but the forecourt has grown a bit and the Post Office opposite has disappeared completely. Now to find the Shell film about the Kariba dam.....
What a little gem in its simplicity charm and innocence. In so many ways it seems reminiscent of Buster Keaton and Chaplin silent era films The score and foley were excellent with just a hint of sonic humor.
great short film, Caroline Mortimer, (the Girlfriend), makes me want to build a time machine, so elegantly beautiful.
Near the beginning of the film when he is searching through the yard he opens the door of a two-door drophead to see an old boy reading MOTOR SPORT - that car appears to be TICKFORD bodied MG VA or SA...! Wonderful stylish cars when MG didn't just build sports cars.
The MG VA isn't a 'sports car'?
Mine was.
You have misread my comment, I said 'when MG didn't just build sports cars.' ie they built saloons and two-door dropheads alongside their sports cars pre-war (and later post-war).
@@marknelson5929 I read your comment to mean that the TICKFORD bodied MG VA or SA models weren't sports cars, which they most certainly are.
You clearly know nothing about these cars. The immediate pre-war TA, TB series of MGs were true sports cars, a development of the J and P type Series in the 30s. The MUCH LARGER - MG VA, SA & WA were large 4-door LUXURY saloons - MG were building these cars very much in the same market as the contemporary SS sports saloon (later Jaguar Cars post-war). Some coach builders like Tickford etc made two-door drophead versions (as seen in the film) on the same chassis but these cars were very much luxury touring cars, not sports cars due to their SIZE and WEIGHT. I suggest you look at the specs of the MG VA, SA & WA saloons compared to a TA, TB sports cars...
@@marknelson5929 I clearly know nothing about Vintage and PVT MGs?
Ha! That's rich.
Here's a Kimber in-joke for you:
Q). What do you call a non-sports MG?
A). A Morris!
Charming little film that takes me back to childhood. And a wonderful score by Ron Grainer.
Now, ain't this the best little movie I ever saw ....
yes, possibly, but the music is ludicrous
@@michaelfraser5723 I think the music is perfect. Meanders through the film, as the poster says in the description.
perfect combo, I mean what did you want... Hendrix?😂@@michaelfraser5723
like lots on here seen this many times when I was a kid. Along with lots of other tt test trans on early bbc2 this one being my fav. It also brings back the memories of my grandads Healey 3000. Thanks for putting it on.
The Aussie Ron Grainer's music for this is a far cry from his Dr. Who theme, but makes a tribute to the theme music for Steptoe & Son, which he also wrote.
Last seen at lunch time, when at school in the UK about 1965 plus or minus.
Wonderful little film that has always brought a smile to my childhood memory. Loved it then even in black and white !
The garage (and the hedge) where the car is re-built was demolished and infilled but you can see the site here: www.google.com/maps/@51.2813163,-0.7517397,3a,37.5y,28.29h,89.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snC9tS-J3s_3TcW8APjkQcA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Thanks for that. I always wondered where it was made. I was brought up in a house, just like those opposite. Brought back memories of childhood.
51°16'52.7"N+0°45'06.3"W
The garage is gone and two new houses are in its place. But the builder's mum's house is still there, and the two girl's house is too.
Umm, I think it's a slightly different location. Below is something I wrote earlier regarding what I found on Google Maps, and using Street View.
"As near as I can tell from Google maps, the address is 26 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough, UK. The set back tan colored house between the red brick house and the white one.
Compare time index 05:20 (view across the street), with Google Street View across the street from this address. The houses across the street look essentially the same to me.
Edit: The house (two houses down the street) at 05:35 is 30 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. From Google Street View you can see the distinctive roof and same color (of course) bricks.
The hedge the little girl is hiding in, is still there. Although needs a trimming now, lol. Or at least when the Google car went by the last few times. That would be 28 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. Hope this helps.
As near as I can tell from Google maps, the address is 26 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough, UK. The set back tan colored house between the red brick house and the white one.
Compare time index 05:20 (view across the street), with Google Street View across the street from this address. The houses across the street look essentially the same to me.
Edit: The house (two houses down the street) at 05:35 is 30 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. From Google Street View you can see the distinctive roof and same color (of course) bricks.
The hedge the little girl is hiding in, is still there. Although needs a trimming now, lol. Or at least when the Google car went by the last few times. That would be 28 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. Hope this helps.
absolutely charming. thanks for taking the time to upload it. i bet nobody involved even thought for a minute they were creating a portal to a different world for people on their phones in 60 years.
Notice the absence of a million road signs.
Thanks for posting this not seen it for a very long time and in colour we only had a black and white TV.
So did I M w
I love this film, it was just a different world, wish I could step in and visit ❤
How wonderful , I was born in 1959 and I wish I could go back to the magical times of the 60s 🤔
Born in 1959 also. Always wishing to go back to better times in the 60's and 70's
Classic story of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise always wins the girl!
This short little movie probably single-handedly got me interested in working on cars. Such great memories watching it and wishing that I could build something like that! I still dream of building a car every time I go by an old wrecking yard!
Scrap yard. You must be American old chap ( comment from England)
@@davids8449 Bingo. Even though it was in Singapore that I first saw the movie!
Thank you for your reply..... Glad you enjoyed the film.....
You don't see scrap yards like that anymore.@@davids8449
@@davids8449 In Australia we call the yards auto wreckers.
Aah! Back in the day when abandoned vehicles and scrap were free.
That's a really sweet story, and all told without words! I had never heard of this film before.