Even 11 years ago i truly doubt that since too fast motion clearly leaked the colors and it used a 2 color technique (red and green) meaning they couldn't really recreate blue, purple or yellow too well
@MaxxFrost The colour fringing is a by-product of the Friese-Greene process, whereby the film was shot with each alternate frame being passed through a red or green filter mounted on a rotating wheel in front of the lens. This worked well for static objects, but if they were moving, this caused colour fringing - which was one of the reasons why Friese-Greene's colour process was never adopted commercially. The film is definitely not in 3D, since the film was shot through just one lens.
I dont remember that reel there in 1982. In fact i dont remember it at all and i can remember back fairly clearly as far as mid 70s. Looks great though! I do remember the noah's ark with the funny mirrors, the rail that gave a static shock and the moving floors. Loved that!
Lol i just dont know how i could have missed it - where in the park was it? I wonder if it always had a massive crowd of folk round when we went. I know the layout of the park pretty well and used to go with friends early to mid 80s and we would have been all over. Before that, in the 70s, my dad used to take me so its possible he never walked us round where it was but as teens we did get everywhere. It does look a fabulous ride. I just dont know how i could have missed it. Where was it in relation to the log flume, fun house, big dipper etc? What is there now?
@@Laura-yo1gh I never saw it I didn't start going till the 90s . I think it's where the globe theatre is now , so think it was close to where entrance is now
The Virginia Reel was a wonderful ride. It would be the best thing ever if Blackpool Pleasure Beach commissioned a new one for 2022 - 100 years after the original one was built. It would be a world first and good for Blackpool.
Very sadly, this classic ride closed at the end of the 1982 season. That July I luckily managed to take my inaugural, and what transpired to be final ride. I was gutted to see a Rainbow ride on its hallowed ground five years later, and now the "exciting" Globe Theatre!
Aww I remember in the 70's and 80's just going into the pleasure beach to ride the grand national etc,just because our boarding house was so near.Shame that they have closed off folk,just wanting to take one or two rides.
It's £8 to push a push Chair round now .that's when they started loosing money .also closing at 7pm stopped a lot of people travelling in the evening. The Bank owns a lot of it now
OMG I remember the reel when I was a nipper,when my dad went to the car auction nearby I got to go to the PB but I was too small to go on the Reel it was still on the go in the 70's
Some of these rides look brillliant, I wish they were still there :-( but they seem to be getting rid of all the old rides. The whip has disappeared over past year or so and even that old victorian arcade has been removed in place for the newest ride Infusion. Sad really because it gave the Pleasure Beach a bit of character instead of being the stereotypical themepark.
I don't know much about Blackpool nor the other *.pool cities of Great Britain but this Blackpool has always interested me. What a great name, Pleasure Beach. We did have a Virginia Reel ride here in NYC's Coney Island but yours looks more interesting. It wasn't your typical roller coaster ride either. I see that maybe Blackpool has changed now but I still would like to visit. Blackpool must be great fun at night!
This was probably a great place back then.,,when I lived in England a few years back it was easy to see it is a shadow of what it once was. It seems now it is almost a last resort vacation.
one of englands best rides from all the way back its very disappointing to see most of the rides go extinct although its probably the best to make room for upgraded rides we have today
Valhalla doesn't stand on the spot of where the Virginia Reel was. Valhalla stands on the spot where the Funhouse used to be before it burnt down in 1991. The Virginia Reel used to be situated where the Globe Theatre now stands.
It used to be the first ride you would see on entering The Pleasure Beach. I went on it with my sister back in 1975. It was a fantastic ride especially the end bit. A pity it got demolished but I guess these rides age like the rest of us.
This is not only in color, it's in 3D. Notice the red and blue around the edges of some objects. Watching with 3D glasses does show depth. Whther this is intentional or a byproduct of the film type that was used, I don't know. But it is in 3D.
I rode it in the 1950s with a group of friends. Looks very attractive in 1926 - had a different scenic background in the fifties. I wonder if its still there? Nowadays,young people might find it a bit tame. There was another ride called 'The Bug' in the fifties and I wonder if that ride is stiil there.
Amazing film. I never knew the BFI had its own RUclips Channel (Thinking about it, its obvious that it should). So much of our amazing heritage has been lost and it is amazing to know that the BFI is helping to preserve what we do have. Saying that, the Noah's Ark seen at 0:23 is still present.
@MentalRob Actually, yes. I haven't changed much since 1985. I just wear larger sizes and the hat covers less hair. I'd like to ride the "Reel". That actually looks like a better ride than the 30 second rocket coasters they rush you through these days.
im not sure if its still there but before the pleasure beach turned into a fill resort , the ark was still there , i know it was there at atleast 2001 if not later
I loved The Reel ride.....yes it looked dangerous and was a very bumpy ride and I do mean bumpy! It had a wheel in the centre and you could spin yourselves too! Oh happy days! Are there any left...anywhere?
It can't be anywhere near as much as Ikon, that's for sure. But where would it go? BPB doesn't have much space. Unless they demolished the bobsleigh ride...
the Friese Greene color technique looks like they put both technicolor (2 strip) and kinemacolor into one color technique considering it leaked the colors a bit but not too much
@PleasureBeachFTW The £5 Pleasure Beach Pass would not permit me to ride on anything other than the Pleasure Beach Express or to explore the Maze. Everyone I speak to complains about the cost of going there so please don't delude. I used to frequent the Pleasure Beach when I lived nearby. If you're trying to tell me that the current owners have families' satisfaction at heart, as opposed to extracting as much profit as is achievable, then you're obviously not very bright or an employee perhaps?
The Reel was really good, I went on it once, a couple of years before they demolished it. I live in Blackpool and sadly I have to say it's a disaster these days, a real shit hole. Such a huge shame as it used to be a really nice place.
@PleasureBeachFTW Hey that's fine. I find it frustrating that everywhere seems to be charging more and more for what we had before and yet staff levels always seem to be in decline. I know we have to be more competetive nowadays, mainly due to privatisation, but everything seems to be run in an increasingly 'skeletal' fashion today. I used to be a contractor for BPB and the staff were always very friendly there. My argument was more of a general one against modern trends than against BPB, sorry.
nowadays just last week it cost me £125.00 for a family of five to get in this place and enjoy the rides .How this world has changed for the worst . All these places in blackpool are empty and dying off due to admission costs . Why not slash the prices in half and attract more customers rather than have empty establishments ? .High prices are killing off tourism .
Wow - I remember being on that ride when I was about 6. It was great fun because it felt so rickety and quite dangerous! The cars rotated while you were descending and the whole family could squeeze in. Nowadays you've got to but a f**kin wristband even if you only want to go on one ride. Conning twats.
is that really 1926? course ive been watching alot of videos of 1901 and the way they use to dress up.. from 1901 and look at 1926 between these 2 different years have change quite alot from the way people use to dress up.
....stop moaning, and don't listen to what people say, who have just heard drivel from other moaners - just go there and enjoy yourself. A wristband for the Pleasure Beach can be made value for money if you stay for 7 or 8 hours on the rides !
Steve'sHornet900! you can't stay long enough anymore due to the pathetic early closing times most of the time, 5pm is pathetic and puts people off going in!
Excellent film and to see old Blackpool but the ‘so-much classier and civilised’ opinion of Blackpool is very much a romantic one. It is most likely that the film-maker only peopled his film with well-dressed and well-defined people. But there were slums, and homeless people, and rogues and charlatans back then as much as there are today. Indeed, to the modern-day time-traveller it would have appeared to have been a brutal place and time. Anyone getting knocked over by a vehicle in the street wouldn’t have been taken to the hospital but laid-out on a table at the nearest Inn or School-building. Only when it was established whether he/she could pay for hospital care would they consider placing that person in the Victoria Hospital. Most people would simply be transferred to their own home. There are stories of families who actually lived in the back-yard of a property… an elderly lady who would go into a public bar and ask for a shot-of-rum, the bar-keep would pour her the drink, she would knock it back and then claim that she had left her purse in the post-office/or at home/or in another coat. She went into the Palace Building and did the same thing, staggered out around the corner into yet another of the public saloons that stretched along the promenade. Only problem was that she didn’t realise that the bar she now entered was simply another entrance to the Palace Hotel, neither did she realise that the bar-keep that now stood before her was the very same one that she thought she had just left behind in the previous bar. Super-Intendent Derham was soon on the scene. Every year they had what was known as the annual police fund. The money donated by collections, by donations made by the big hotels and attractions of the town, and by end-of-season spectaculars, went towards fitting out all the poor children of the town with new clothes. Some children would turn-up to collect their new outfit still wearing the threadbare clothing they had been given the year before. They also got a free mug of Bovril.
superb. i remember my grandad drawing a picture of that roller coaster when he got fed up of trying to describe it to me 25 years ago
I was lucky enough to have a go on this ride in 1980 and it was awesome, and yes it was one of the best rides ever
Blackpool Bird here, born and bred xx this is absolutely gorgeous xx thank you!
the quality is superb looks like it was filmed yesterday
Even 11 years ago i truly doubt that since too fast motion clearly leaked the colors and it used a 2 color technique (red and green) meaning they couldn't really recreate blue, purple or yellow too well
So much cleaner and classier than the Blackpool of today!
Just back from the Pleasure Beach and it was very clean.
@@jimwhite8873 Place is a dump, who are you kidding?
@@lafingas555 No he is not kidding you, went last Sunday and it was clean! The place may need of a few small improvements but the place was clean.
Sadly it's junky capital now but your thinking of the tourist part but rest of it is not clean
Beautiful! I'm not sure what happened, things are different now, but I would sure like to spend a day at that place, in that time.
@MaxxFrost The colour fringing is a by-product of the Friese-Greene process, whereby the film was shot with each alternate frame being passed through a red or green filter mounted on a rotating wheel in front of the lens. This worked well for static objects, but if they were moving, this caused colour fringing - which was one of the reasons why Friese-Greene's colour process was never adopted commercially. The film is definitely not in 3D, since the film was shot through just one lens.
I had a ride on the reel the year it closed,great film !
Aaaahh....the 'Reel' at Blackpool Pleasure Beach ( 1922-1982, I believe ).
They killed the best ride ever.
Looks wise I've never seen a ride look better the view of it is amazing
I dont remember that reel there in 1982. In fact i dont remember it at all and i can remember back fairly clearly as far as mid 70s. Looks great though! I do remember the noah's ark with the funny mirrors, the rail that gave a static shock and the moving floors. Loved that!
@@Laura-yo1gh how can you miss that massive big ride
Lol i just dont know how i could have missed it - where in the park was it? I wonder if it always had a massive crowd of folk round when we went. I know the layout of the park pretty well and used to go with friends early to mid 80s and we would have been all over. Before that, in the 70s, my dad used to take me so its possible he never walked us round where it was but as teens we did get everywhere. It does look a fabulous ride. I just dont know how i could have missed it. Where was it in relation to the log flume, fun house, big dipper etc? What is there now?
@@Laura-yo1gh I never saw it I didn't start going till the 90s . I think it's where the globe theatre is now , so think it was close to where entrance is now
incredible quality in this film- amazing to see . thanks
The Virginia Reel was a wonderful ride. It would be the best thing ever if Blackpool Pleasure Beach commissioned a new one for 2022 - 100 years after the original one was built. It would be a world first and good for Blackpool.
...and you'd still get backache every time,
...then go on again the next year!
I heard in the 90s they was thinking of building one again
fabulous pic quality....omg 80 years ago......mad
That looks awesome and everyone is so well dressed
Very sadly, this classic ride closed at the end of the 1982 season. That July I luckily managed to take my inaugural, and what transpired to be final ride. I was gutted to see a Rainbow ride on its hallowed ground five years later, and now the "exciting" Globe Theatre!
Wonderful
Aww I remember in the 70's and 80's just going into the pleasure beach to ride the grand national etc,just because our boarding house was so near.Shame that they have closed off folk,just wanting to take one or two rides.
It's £8 to push a push Chair round now .that's when they started loosing money .also closing at 7pm stopped a lot of people travelling in the evening. The Bank owns a lot of it now
I Love Blackpool I Go There Every Year In The Last 20 Years
What was your 5 favourite rides ?
The Reel was still there when I first visited Blackpool! I wish I'd been old/brave enough to ride it!
That ride looked really fun, actually!
Wow the reel was beautifuly decorated!
The granddaddy to the modern day Wild Mouse rollercoaster? Looks neat!
OMG I remember the reel when I was a nipper,when my dad went to the car auction nearby I got to go to the PB but I was too small to go on the Reel it was still on the go in the 70's
We should have a modern recreation of that ride.
Nearly 100 years ago wow
How smart everyone is no casual clothes then, how often do we dress that smart now, only for special occasions.
oldfart4751 so true!!!....no stag or hen parties loitering it all and everyone at the ride in the video so smart and place all clean ...
They did’nt bath or shower much either! People spat everywhere, TB was rampant as was all other diseases and no cures for them.
A day out of the spinning mill was an occasion
great too see this, i remember going on the reel myself, brings back very fond memory's
OMG the virginia reel looks incredible.
What a brilliant Roller Coaster.
Some of these rides look brillliant, I wish they were still there :-( but they seem to be getting rid of all the old rides. The whip has disappeared over past year or so and even that old victorian arcade has been removed in place for the newest ride Infusion. Sad really because it gave the Pleasure Beach a bit of character instead of being the stereotypical themepark.
AMAZING! How did you get this restored footage?
theme park crazy
It's their footage
@@LokiAvivson not unless he travelled back in time
I'M 65 Y.O. AND VERY GLAD TO SEE THE REEL AGAIN NOW SADLY GONE
amazing
Brilliant!
The reel was still operatating in the early seventies ,I saw it thought didn't ride it!
I had the pleasure of riding the Reel back in the Day. Bouncy as hell rough as a Badgers but great fun lol
terrific views
Same brake levers we used ob /Luna Park Sydney - Big Dipper and Wild Cat in the late 70's
I don't know much about Blackpool nor the other *.pool cities of Great Britain but this Blackpool has always interested me. What a great name, Pleasure Beach. We did have a Virginia Reel ride here in NYC's Coney Island but yours looks more interesting. It wasn't your typical roller coaster ride either. I see that maybe Blackpool has changed now but I still would like to visit. Blackpool must be great fun at night!
Yes at night it's magical to ride the old wooden coasters that are left
look how much has changed since then !
Can't believe this footage is 97 years old 😮
Wow! A step back in time to a more civilized society.
Omg this looks amazing I wish this was still their x
This was probably a great place back then.,,when I lived in England a few years back it was easy to see it is a shadow of what it once was. It seems now it is almost a last resort vacation.
Montage Matador if you're meaning the pleasure beach you're wrong it's a fantastic theme park
The word is HOLIDAY
@@handsoffmycactus2958 now it's "staycation " :)
it looks so clean no litter on the floor unlike today
That's the 2 strip color process. Cyan and red.
wow soo clear
one of englands best rides from all the way back its very disappointing to see most of the rides go extinct although its probably the best to make room for upgraded rides we have today
I guess 2 more years won't hurt thanks for the tip!!!
Wouldn't it be great if these old rides made a comeback
The soundtrack score for this film is fantastic, any info on who wrote and played the music?
colour film actually came about a LONG time ago but it was very rare until about the 1960's
Valhalla doesn't stand on the spot of where the Virginia Reel was. Valhalla stands on the spot where the Funhouse used to be before it burnt down in 1991. The Virginia Reel used to be situated where the Globe Theatre now stands.
1911marmonwasp get rid of the globe and put the reel back!
the ranger replaced it in 83
i was only 4 when the reel got took down would ov loved to have been old enouth to ride it looked a great ride
It used to be the first ride you would see on entering The Pleasure Beach. I went on it with my sister back in 1975. It was a fantastic ride especially the end bit. A pity it got demolished but I guess these rides age like the rest of us.
I remember seeing the Reel in the seventies when we holidayed there.I didn't go on it though, It looked a bit scary .
This is not only in color, it's in 3D. Notice the red and blue around the edges of some objects. Watching with 3D glasses does show depth. Whther this is intentional or a byproduct of the film type that was used, I don't know. But it is in 3D.
I'm saving up for a new set.....should have em by then so start practicing that pucker.
And these days it's all recorded on a Phone
Crazy
I rode it in the 1950s with a group of friends. Looks very attractive in 1926 - had a different scenic background in the fifties. I wonder if its still there? Nowadays,young people might find it a bit tame. There was another ride called 'The Bug' in the fifties and I wonder if that ride is stiil there.
Not sure if your still with us but nope them rides are not there no more :(
:D amazing video!
Amazing film. I never knew the BFI had its own RUclips Channel (Thinking about it, its obvious that it should). So much of our amazing heritage has been lost and it is amazing to know that the BFI is helping to preserve what we do have.
Saying that, the Noah's Ark seen at 0:23 is still present.
@chrssgreen yeah i missed that, incredible looking back at the birth of theme parks
Fantastic how do you get colour? The attendants so smart a great film
@MaryOMackie totally agree...good old days indeed
@MentalRob Actually, yes. I haven't changed much since 1985. I just wear larger sizes and the hat covers less hair.
I'd like to ride the "Reel". That actually looks like a better ride than the 30 second rocket coasters they rush you through these days.
Did they recolour this video or something
im not sure if its still there but before the pleasure beach turned into a fill resort , the ark was still there , i know it was there at atleast 2001 if not later
I loved The Reel ride.....yes it looked dangerous and was a very bumpy ride and I do mean bumpy! It had a wheel in the centre and you could spin yourselves too! Oh happy days! Are there any left...anywhere?
one, but I'm not sure you can spin it yourself. It's called Tyrolean tubtwist and it is in the UK. Sadly, it is a smaller version and it is powered
Is this the mucic for this ride
Its absurd to know that these people still lived in a wildly different time to us
Wonder what happened to this ride, Would be ideal for Dreamland, Margate when it reopens this year =D
no think they destroyed it !
They destroyed all there rides .
classic footage..
If only this Virginia Reel still existed today, or any Reel for that matter. At least I can still make one in Roller Coaster Tycoon...
What one is it roller coaster tycoon 1 on pc ?
How much would it cost to build the reel today ?
It can't be anywhere near as much as Ikon, that's for sure. But where would it go? BPB doesn't have much space. Unless they demolished the bobsleigh ride...
@@stripeycat1970 ye good idea I would swap the reel for the bobsleigh. Infusion I have no love for ,could put it there .
@@simonp7095 Infusion gives me a banging headache!
@@stripeycat1970 I know I hate it
the Friese Greene color technique looks like they put both technicolor (2 strip) and kinemacolor into one color technique considering it leaked the colors a bit but not too much
Rode that ! Jack n Jill ! during the 60 s sad lots of the classic rides gone ! They took down the Wild Mouse ! WHY ?
why dec.21 2012? whats happening then? n i think they should of kept this ride at pleasure beach!
no litter no drunks no fights how good did it look back then
Heh... A Virginia Wheel, as featured in Roller Coaster Tycoon. :-P Do any still exist in the world?
One. It’s a mini powered one, but still!
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If you are female what are you doing dec.21 ,2012?
Cool.I'll be the 143 year old with the expectant smile.
The only thing I would change about the 20s is the dental hygiene 1.45 ! ..... however how sophisticated and well dressed they are
@PleasureBeachFTW The £5 Pleasure Beach Pass would not permit me to ride on anything other than the Pleasure Beach Express or to explore the Maze. Everyone I speak to complains about the cost of going there so please don't delude. I used to frequent the Pleasure Beach when I lived nearby. If you're trying to tell me that the current owners have families' satisfaction at heart, as opposed to extracting as much profit as is achievable, then you're obviously not very bright or an employee perhaps?
The Reel was really good, I went on it once, a couple of years before they demolished it. I live in Blackpool and sadly I have to say it's a disaster these days, a real shit hole. Such a huge shame as it used to be a really nice place.
@PleasureBeachFTW Hey that's fine. I find it frustrating that everywhere seems to be charging more and more for what we had before and yet staff levels always seem to be in decline. I know we have to be more competetive nowadays, mainly due to privatisation, but everything seems to be run in an increasingly 'skeletal' fashion today. I used to be a contractor for BPB and the staff were always very friendly there. My argument was more of a general one against modern trends than against BPB, sorry.
FGS, can't you just appreciate the video you're watching instead of making snidy remarks about society has changed.
nowadays just last week it cost me £125.00 for a family of five to get in this place and enjoy the rides .How this world has changed for the worst . All these places in blackpool are empty and dying off due to admission costs . Why not slash the prices in half and attract more customers rather than have empty establishments ? .High prices are killing off tourism .
Wow - I remember being on that ride when I was about 6. It was great fun because it felt so rickety and quite dangerous! The cars rotated while you were descending and the whole family could squeeze in. Nowadays you've got to but a f**kin wristband even if you only want to go on one ride. Conning twats.
@Calmany37 It does doesn't it? it's amazing quality.
1926 The year Queen Elizabeth was born. Rides must have been exciting back then.
is that really 1926? course ive been watching alot of videos of 1901 and the way they use to dress up.. from 1901 and look at 1926 between these 2 different years have change quite alot from the way people use to dress up.
....stop moaning, and don't listen to what people say, who have just heard drivel from other moaners - just go there and enjoy yourself. A wristband for the Pleasure Beach can be made value for money if you stay for 7 or 8 hours on the rides !
Steve'sHornet900! you can't stay long enough anymore due to the pathetic early closing times most of the time, 5pm is pathetic and puts people off going in!
I'm listening to Kate Rusby tunes at the minute and I must say shes looking very good too.JUst to let you know you might have some competition deary.
Stupid modernization! They took some of our favorite roller coasters! Take the Looping Starship for example.
Excellent film and to see old Blackpool but the ‘so-much classier and civilised’ opinion of Blackpool is very much a romantic one. It is most likely that the film-maker only peopled his film with well-dressed and well-defined people. But there were slums, and homeless people, and rogues and charlatans back then as much as there are today. Indeed, to the modern-day time-traveller it would have appeared to have been a brutal place and time. Anyone getting knocked over by a vehicle in the street wouldn’t have been taken to the hospital but laid-out on a table at the nearest Inn or School-building. Only when it was established whether he/she could pay for hospital care would they consider placing that person in the Victoria Hospital. Most people would simply be transferred to their own home.
There are stories of families who actually lived in the back-yard of a property… an elderly lady who would go into a public bar and ask for a shot-of-rum, the bar-keep would pour her the drink, she would knock it back and then claim that she had left her purse in the post-office/or at home/or in another coat. She went into the Palace Building and did the same thing, staggered out around the corner into yet another of the public saloons that stretched along the promenade. Only problem was that she didn’t realise that the bar she now entered was simply another entrance to the Palace Hotel, neither did she realise that the bar-keep that now stood before her was the very same one that she thought she had just left behind in the previous bar. Super-Intendent Derham was soon on the scene.
Every year they had what was known as the annual police fund. The money donated by collections, by donations made by the big hotels and attractions of the town, and by end-of-season spectaculars, went towards fitting out all the poor children of the town with new clothes. Some children would turn-up to collect their new outfit still wearing the threadbare clothing they had been given the year before. They also got a free mug of Bovril.
@M4OON yeh because it burnt down! haha valhalla=best water ride i have ever been on!
This looks more like the 40's than the 20's judging by what the girls are wearing.
That surely can't be safe lol
Safer than the smiler
Sherlock, I presume : )
there was no internet then
my father was born that year.....
It might look cleaner but there was spitting everywhere and nose blowing, B.O. if one got too close, no cures for disease, I could go on.