Luxury High Tech Bed: A Gadget Lover's Dream (1959) | British Pathé
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- Check out this £2,500 high tech luxury bed from 1959! It is chock full of gadgets and everyday conveniences from the headboard to the foot of the bed, most importantly a space for your cup of tea.
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M/S of a bedroom. A girl wearing a night gown (Ms Jean Clarke) is getting ready for bed. Another girl (Ms Pat Howdon) is lying in bed. Two girls' beds are approximately one foot apart. Ms Clarke joins the two beds before lying down. M/S of the two girls in bed. Ms Clarke is holding control box in her hands (little white box with four buttons) and presses one of the buttons. Top of the bed rises so the girls can sit and chat.
C/U shot of the control box with buttons. Girl presses one of the buttons. Cut to a bottom of the bed as it rises up (good for tired legs). C/U shot of Ms Clarke's face as she watches the bed rise. She, then, reaches to a drawer on her side of the bed and opens it. Top C/U shot of a tape recorder being switched on. Ms Howdon opens the drawer and finds 'vibro-massage' machine at her side of the bed. C/U shot of Ms Howdon's face as she massages her chin - lots of make-up, great eyebrows.
C/U top shot of the bed's control panel. Several shots demonstrating how, and what for, control panel is used. Just by pressing the button one can open and close curtains, switch the lights on and off, heat a mattress, have intercom connection, telephone line and operate a TV set found at the bottom of the bed. Furthermore, one can have a cup of tea or coffee without leaving the bed.
M/S of Ms Howdon opening a bottom drawer at her side of the bed. High angle C/U shot reveals a tea set. Ms Howdon takes the cups and the teapot out and places them on the little tray on top of the drawer. C/U shot of two cups and the teapot. Ms Howdon pours the tea and gives one cup to Ms Clarke. Girls enjoying tea in bed.
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"Spill your tea on this cover and you are a peasant" that was the most 2010s sentence if I've ever heard one
And they were roommates
Back in the day
if you were gay ,
she was your "companion"
to the end,
The were your unmarried auntie and her special friend
😊😊😊😊😊😊
Yes...
I could literally hear it 😂😂🤣
Hhahah
Just gals being pals
So... We have two beautiful girls sharing a bed. Soft music is playing. One of them is using a... vibrator. The lights dim, curtains close... And they share a cup of tea. This would be quite different today.
Yes today it will be two girls and a cup
@@MegaMarie that took an entirely different turn
The only difference is that they wouldn't have to hide it.
@@MegaMarie 😂😂😂😂😂👌👌
In my country this isn't seen as malicious or perverted
Fun fact, the reason there are two woman in the bed is that you weren't allowed to depict a man and woman together in a bed (at least in the majority of media). Go back to television programs around the 50s and you'll see that the couples are shown in two seperate beds. I'm sure at no point did they consider that they made a commercial depicting a metropolitan lesbian couple but I'm sure we're thankful that they did.
I heard the rule was that if a man and a woman were portrayed in the same bed on television, they each had to have one foot on the floor.
Yep, that's what I've always heard (and seen) as well. And I love me some old-time shows and movies.
"we can't show a man and a woman in bed"
1950s lesbians to the rescue!
No, we're not thankful at all. It's creepy as hell ... even when innocent.
@@willdwyer6782 .... and that's how the Kama Sutra was invented. Or Twister. Who knows.
Who the hell is leaving milk overnight in a drawer next to a hot kettle?
The bed should include a built in cooler/ice box.
I know ...the rank smell of the milk... that's what i could only think about.
@@SirLancelotsSpear + same here- I guess we're just realists.
For a rotten bed
@@steamboatwill3.367 cooler next to a water boiler yes very efficent
You guys realize that that bed was worth what is the equivalent of 63000 USD today, right? Those are some rich roomies
What? Really? Did you do the math???
That's nuts. .... I mean they did say the blanket was mink.
Rachel G there’s a website where you can calculate the current value of money in any year based on inflation
Two girls, two incomes.
I had taken the "two thousand pound" to mean the weight, but price makes more sense.
@@davidmann8254 two girls, one cup
_"And if you can't sleep... you can have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night."_
*SHADY AS EVER, NARRATOR, SHADY AS EVER*
"knows a wrinkle or two, so to speak" -Shady
They save the milk in the drawer 🙄
Maybe it has a built in fridge.
@@steamboatwill3.367 In the same drawer where hot tea is kept...
@@VoltasP lol true
Is this the only thing bothering you in this video 😆
@@ismaelmassin6919 You wanna explain to the class what triggered you about the video?
Two girls, smooth music, properly closed curtains and a vibro-massage machine....is this still about the bed?
Lol😂
Well yeah cuz they need the bed for whatever theyll do
Pressing buttons all night 😏
Uh...in a way it is.... ;-)
Well they did eventually have a wail of a time pressing buttons all night...
Oh my gosh architecture and interior designs of 1959 😍
Yes, very ugly.
It is not Ugly @governor actually those kinds of beds are really cool for modern people
@@stevekyle2477 its ugly they all stopped production for a huge hazardous reason
I can't believe I am still sleeping on a cheap stardard bed in 2021 while people in the 50s were having a good time in those luxurious beds I need those beds no matter how old fashioned it is
I love the pastel shades of old technicolor film.
Me too! And also the lurid colors of the food photos taken during that era. 🎨
This bed alone seems a heck of a lot more useful than most "smart home" gadgets today. Did I ever need Alexa's help turning on my lights? Nope. Could I use an adjustable bed that comes with a TV and full tea set? Yeah, that would be nice.
There's a built in vibrator I'm sold
i’ve been watching all vintage videos just to see all your comments. my new entertainment. thanks for the laughs
Good technology since it was 1959
*spills tea on cover*
Me: Oh shoot guess I’m a peasant
Going to bed with their makeup on lol
and in their jewelry with their hair up
So they can say "I woke up like this"
I reckon that it's a grown up luxury princess sleepover or something. LOL 😴😴😴👸😴😴🛌👸😴😴
Something a tea-spilling peasant like you wouldn't understand
*And they look like your profile pic!* 😂
Why do I find such videos super relaxing 😍
Marwa Hassan Dunno, but me too!
Me too
SAME
Yeah I feel that many years later there will be commercials about our time, and people will be like "haha, that's so fun". I feel the fluency of time
Old music guys
"Living in a Highly mechanised age". Bless their sweet little hearts. "...you can have a whale of a time pressing the buttons all night" 😂 The narrator is hilarious.
Oh yeah? And where is your handy electrical vibrator that never runs out, and bedside tea making facilities? 😂😂
I still have to get out of bed to turn the light off too. And I sleep in cotton sheets. Living like a god damn peasant I am. 😭
I get some satisfaction from knowing that at some point in the not-so-distant future, people will be condescendingly "blessing our little hearts" for being so adorably primitive. "Awww, they've only got land-locked vehicles & they think they're technologically advanced- sooo cute!" 😂😂
You can have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night. 🐳😂
These buttons for bed positions are mostly used by elderly people nowadays. Only modern rich hotel rooms have stuff like a curtain opener button. Who is so addicted to tea thay they have it in their drawer?
L5940 - An English person’s dream! Tea is life. ☕️
Cough ...me. lol
*_covers her tea shrine_* 🙃🥴😇Doo dee doo. *_whistles innocently_*
Lesbians
British people. Lol
Women in the 50s weren't using that "vibromachine" for their wrinkles I assure you...
How do you know? Your granny told you stories?
The first vibrating things were designed to ease what we now know as RSI in Victorian doctors.
They got RSI from giving their female patients orgasms. With their fingers. Prescribed.
Much better than a rest cure, if you ask me.
I mean. Technically there's wrinkles down there......
@@nenisguevaragomez8122 😂😂
@@j2uazon83 good thinking.
When your roommate casually pulls out a cup of tea from the night stand. Lol!
Am I the only one freaking out about how this bed was roughly $75,000 USD?
I feel like I just watched a lesbians fever dream. “I.. I dreamt we were in a 50’s bedroom drinking tea in separate twin beds. You were rubbing a vibrator on your face while I couldn’t find which button turned off the lights. It was the weirdest nightmare, Pat.”
Aaron Zufall 🤣 😂
Charity Dutton “there was even a patronizing British guy telling us not to spill tea and telling us how lucky we were to have the beds after a day of slaving over our stoves. It was nauseating *AND* scary!
THIS IS LITERALLY HEAVEN LMAO IF ME AND MY GF DONT HAVE THIS I DONT WANT IT
@@aaronmacy9134 he is American
@@れきし yeah no
"You can have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night."
And they are having tea from a Wedgwood jasperware set... How classy!
Man the future is gonna be sweet!
I hear that by 2021 we will have flying cars and robot mades. 😁😁😁😉
@@MandieTerrier I heard that those “genz’ers” will have robots teachers.
*ugh I can spell, maids not mades
I hope my “room mate” and I get beds this nice that we can push together and have hot beverages on.
:)
Spill the tea on this cover and you're a peasant 😂
better than my bed honestly
My bed's lacking in lesbians too
@@nekolalia3389 I just lost it with that. Thank you 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This would have a completely different connotation if it was made now
2500 pounds is around $3,500. Inflation means that 3,500 in the 1950's, this bed was equivalent to the cost of $37,000 today.
This is a nearly $40,000 bed...
nah that’s a small car, or a year college tuition
After playing too much fallout, I want to live in past so bad.
me too, but then I remember that i’m a woman, and a person of color.
@@ohshanana2397 oof you can live with me if we ever travel back in time😉
Love these classic old Pathe clips!
In 1959 the suggested cost of £2500 was astronomical!
Amazing! Not sure how it was justified.
And that’s the hospital bed now🤣✌🏻
Face wrinkles, so that's what those massagers are for.
1:20 £2,500 (1959) is almost £50,000 in 2020. You could buy a REALLY nice car for the price of that bed.
0:22 I wish beds had this again
"wrinkle remover"
“You can have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night”
Yes, yes you can. 😂
This type of mattress needed to be extremely flexible and soft, which was, in orthopedic terms, terrible for the spine! 🤦🏻♀️
"You could have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night". Lol What are y'all selling?
I still don’t own this bed !! But i have a LED television
Massage machine! Yea ok!!! 😂😂😂
Old is gold
Sorry but they're dating
😂😂
Of course. Why put the beds together otherwise.
Dee E., "Dating" doesn't mean what it used to mean.
@@jasminemohamed823 with a vibrator? 😁😁😁😁
@@jasminemohamed823 well ... It's kinda ackward though 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
What sort of a maniac puts milk first. 🤦🏼♀️
There's some sick puppies out there.. Andy England🇬🇧 👍
Oky can we stop talking about the girls and admire the awesome bed 😳
I would definitely spill my tea there
Jasperware cup and saucer. I love it.
Was this late 50's 🤓? I was thinking electrical gadgets were brainchildren of last generation. I was wrong about that. Truly post war people were futuristic
“Knows a wrinkle or two...”
the background song reminded me of O G tom and jerry ...
So they really thought about selling vibrators already atatched to the bed?
Geniuses they are!
Kinda wish we still carried the same mentality for wanting to showcase our futuristic ideas for the home and family. Modern tech expo's are just TV's and Smartphones, maybe a robot arm using a sword or a new electric car, but nothing like this.
The “face” massager... riiight 😂
He really be out there calling us peasants
All those items would be absolutely innovative, durable and fit for use today, but all of them sadly i see daily in landfill sites today.
Omgg I want that blanket!! Soo cozy but probably so expensive
esa maquina de masajes es lo unico que veo adelantado para su epoca.
Wow what a nice “face” massager
spill your tea on THIS cover
And you're a peasant
the girl with dark hair just looked like snow white ❤
I love that they made these women wear a completely full face of makeup while they were supposed to be going to bed. Lipstick and all 😬
They're up watching the TV.
And here my friends is an example of how not to use the furniture for the purpose it is made for! 😂😂😂😂
"Just the thing after slaving over a hot oven"
But whose hot oven 😎?
So cute
Love the idea, but imagine tripping over that little shelf at the foot in the middle of the night during a bathroom trip.
The woman with dark hair is a beauty ❤️
The bed also can be used during recuperation from the surgery to get rid of those superfluous lower limbs.
Sleeping with full makeup? :P
2019 and I still don't have these
Exactly 😄
This is what i was expecting when i first came to the UK, oh boy did i have a shock when i landed in Luton lol. Ermg rip uk
Thank you.
Nothing is new under that sun 🌞, just perfected and modernized for we are a never ending evolving species ✨
Equivalent to £48,000 today, best as I can calculate.
50s lesbians are so cute
the one from K aren’t they, though? 😁
the one from K They were eating eachother out like theres no tomorrow
Why it should be lesbians when twogirls sleep next to each other!!.. have u never slept near ur friend??
@@deepideepi1017 This is the second or third time I've seen you comment this, seems like you're pretty damn offended that people are making jokes and insinuating the two ladies are a couple. It's not that they're sleeping in a bed that's funny, it's them scooting the beds together (an actual euphemism used in shows at the time to imply sexual activity without actually saying it), the talk of pushing buttons all night, as well as *the literal vibrator*. If you can't see why that seems suggestive there's no helping you.
@@deepideepi1017 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i bet they ironed each others wrinkles out with that vibration tool , such good buddies
Who was the narrator?
Hospital bed
Yeah! My first thought was, it's exactly like the hospital bed I was in!
Want one!!
"Have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night!" 😮😂
I wonder where all this furniture and people are now
It's 2022 and I don't even have a bed that futuristic.
$2500 in the 50s is insane
How is the bed connected to the curtains? How is there hot water for tea. That bed is a fire hazard
Most things from that time were a fire hazard, they hadn't really figured out the whole fire safety thing yet, there's full episodes from BBC called "hidden killers of the post war home" super interesting.
Girl in a blue was pretty 🦋
I have a bunk bed now I want this
Though 60 yrs old, it's still way modern then today's tech.
That control panel is more reliable than Google Nest!
ahh the massage machine :)
How come they can be so advanced since ages?
I want those Wedgewood teacups
That massager is used for if you know what I mean
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@Federal Bureau of Investigation Those eyes won't work on me. I'm not American.
I would even use this bed
OMG 1959 - not that long ago and all those gadgets back then. And OH The Teasmade for the discerning Tea Drinker.
Now its Alexa by voice activation
“after a hot day of fully slaving over and hot and automatic oven”😶
Id actually want this bed