it was never a rebellion...thats a word put up by a conservative society. They just had a bit of money and wanted to have fun, dress nice and listen to music.
It's because they grew up in schools that weren't bussed and lived in neighborhoods were they all knew each other. In my school growing up the older kids watched over the younger ones on the buses and playgrounds. Today, you have predators watching over your children, not friends! And that's the truth. Bussing ruined the children! It took educated, brilliant children and threw them into the dark uneducated world. My daughter in law was a teacher. She was slapped. Threatened, had a knife pulled on her and nearly raped by lowlifes. She and her. School was warned, no law enforcement allowed. That what bussing did, it put those that were in with those who never will. Now you look at your schools...?
@@southtownj382 maybe the kids seem well-behaved because they know not to project all their own problems, and their misunderstanding of the origins of those problems, onto every piece of media they see? Or maybe you should have listened to the intro of this video, which is intentionally showing the kids in a positive light. The documentarians wanted to show a counterpoint to the more typical "youth in rebellion!" type films and news clips that were coming out at the same time as this. So of course it'll show the kids on their best behavior. But these SAME kids, less than four years later, with no school busing, are brutally attacking each other in broad daylight in Brighton (and a bunch of other seaside towns) : ruclips.net/video/pN7EIpqrPw8/видео.html
@@d.m.collins1501 it was a different day D.M. A time when we who were brought up with values, when young people knew there place and had respect for their parents, themselves, the elderly and their lifestyles. All that was lost during the late 60's it seems! And it's spiraled down ever since.
Well, things were completely different then. Everyone acted polite and respectful towards each other. You can’t compare how things were sixty years ago to now. Lol
Me! Born 1948, skiffle group a 14 yes old. Lonnie Donegal " putting on the style" 1st number we ever played. At 16 Germany( Star Club, Hamburg) with B'ham pop group. 2 years Germany,France, USAF bases with various rock bands. Loved the life for 6/7 years. Then packed it in and worked till67, Window salesman, Registered Firearms Dealer, America, married/div twice, now living Thailand, hot weather, warm wife, cold beer. 72 and would start all over again if I could. Good memories. ( Except Adam Faith, never could stand him)!
pyewacket 5 Yeah, but enjoy every step of the way 1960-1969 - if we knew what was going to happen. They in this vid didn’t know. They thought 1960 was the big deal.
@@rossriver75 You'd be better without knowing what happened at the end of the 60's. That's when the hippies realized (those who weren't brain-fried) that their revolution is doomed. The age of Nixon.
Royston Ellis, who is interviewed, was a beat poet and friend of John Lennon's from art school. He knew a girl who wore polyethylene clothes, of whom John wrote Polythene Pam.
I was born in 1963 so the 70s was my teenage era and I had as much freedom as I wanted or needed, within limits of course, my parents believed in treating me and my older sister with trust and respect and it was a two way street, we respected their boundaries and paid the price for breaking them, I was taught to work hard and play hard, respect others and treat everyone the way I would want to be treated myself, I left school and joined the military, a family tradition that is still ongoing, joining up was the best thing I ever did, and the values my parents and grandparents instilled in me stood me in great stead, I never got into any trouble (well never got caught anyway) and brought my children up the same way as I was and they never have got into any trouble either, they got the same freedoms and boundaries as I did, I suppose the point I am trying to make is that if parents bring their children up with the same morals and values as I was then all teenagers, no matter when they are of that age, then society would be a far better place, teenagers today don’t (in general) get taught real morals and standards, parents are to busy working to earn the money needed to buy their children the “trappings” of modern society.
@@mikethespike7579 That is twisting my comment out of context, as I said if me or my sister broke the rules there were consequences, punishments that fitted the crime if you like, and as I also said I never got caught making a mistake, not that I didn’t, but those mistakes taught me valuable lessons that I have tried to instil in my life and my children/grandchildren, just because I seem boring to you, from one comment, you would be surprised to know that I was a party animal and enjoyed getting a bit drunk during my social and service life. The old saying of “never judge a book by its cover” is very apt.
@@allandavis8201 Nothing twisted about it. I only remarked on how full of yourself you sound in your comment. Maybe you're not as self-centred as your comment suggests. But people who talk about themselves like you do, how perfect they are, tend to leave a bad taste in other people's mouths.
@@mikethespike7579 Obviously you feel like I am not allowed to have pride in my journey through life and that trying to impart a tiny piece of that knowledge onto others is being self-centred, and “full of myself” but that was not my intention, if I have offended you then I can only apologise for that, it certainly wasn’t my intention, I am not perfect by any stretch of the word, perhaps in future I will refrain from commenting about something that I see as important to me and possibly others, if I can make just one person more aware of what I am trying to do or say, perhaps give them a different perspective then that would be a step in the right direction. Once again I can only apologise for offending you, or others, it certainly is never my intention.
@@allandavis8201You are even now missing the point. I'll try again. You might be proud of your life journey and good for you. But posting a long detailed comment about it comes over like the tiresome pub bore that people avoid making eye contact with. At least I've told you that, not like most others who leave you to wonder why people avoid talking to you.
These out of control kids, chewing gum, slugging down soda pop, mixed gender dancing and so close together. Boys and girls going steady, speaking in thoughtful complete sentences.... They're going to hell in a handbasket I tells ya!!!!
I was born in 44 and this was my teenage years and i with my mates enjoyed life to the full main interests at the time was the music cars girls and food if making out in the back of a car and finishing of with a fish supper life was bliss Les
Absolutely great video ! Perfect example of life in 'Old Blighty' when times were so much better than today. The 'Golden Age' and 'We never had it so good' !
How lovely, natural boys & girls with limited makeup & no plastic surgery in sight, the girls very ladylike & the chaps coy & well- spoken..lovely times back then
I grew up in the 60s,never be another time where the youth enjoyed life.to the fullest,whether poor or rich,greatest time for music,love and prblby sinning,but nothing like today,as for crime and violence,overall was limited,technology was booming,never regretted be born during this time,thank God he is merciful and forgiving.I do reminease sometimes and smile at the things that was going on,at least the media was honest and fair in there way they reported,professional,do I want to go back there again,no but I want ever forget it…
In 1960, only ex-cons and soldiers had tattoos. As for body piercings, they were non-existent for everybody. To have them would have made a person an utter pariah.
Well said. Seemed like such a great time and the beginning of great great music. The likes of which we will never see again. Great times in London and England.
Huge changes were ahead for everyone in 1960, in ways they couldn't have foreseen. One interesting one: probably most teens in the UK in 1960 thought the USA had everything desirable: best music, big cars, drive-ins, and so on. Yet by 1965-'66, the reverse was true: Britain was the most "swinging" and was producing the best fashions and music.
Excellent programme. Two things seem apparent to me: First, these teenagers from 1960 account for themselves so well in the way in which they speak, making salient points and using considered structured sentences. Their speech wasn't studded with 'you know' and 'I was like...' and 'so I said to her...' and general overuse of meaningless link words to cover up vacuousness communication. Second, parental attitudes haven't changed. I am 15 years further down the line and my parents were saying much the same in the 1970s, thinking that my values reflected the decay in society and that their generation and their lives as young people had been so much better (their generation had Hitler, Stalin and a world war which killed 60 million people. Literacy, health, life expectancy, social mobility were all incomparably worse). In any event, this is a TV programme well worth watching.
lord what history , within the first two minutes, Acker Bilk, a skiffle band , Lonnie Donegon singing that teenager song, some Teds, and "Dankworth, Lyttelton" (John & Humphrey ) on the cover of the NME
I was 9 years old this year and 13 when the Beatles came out. There was a lot going on in the early 60s. The Beatniks and poetry would give way to the Hippies and music. I still like a lot of artists from this period but boy, did it ever take off after that. 64 to 70 was a cosmic time to be alive. We took all that we had learned from past generations and created our own world against dullness and boredom. But the ideas expressed by Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg would reverberate down the line. P.S. Was that a really young John Lennon playing with the Qarrymen at the beginning? It sure looked like him.
If that had been Lennon with the quarrymen it would have become historic, all beatle fans would know about it. This was made in 1960, the year the Beatles went to Hamburg, quarrymen were a couple years before. But thanks for the memories you shared
I originally posted this video years ago under the SeagullCity account. I focused on the Brighton section as that is where I am from. Wonderful to see that such interest in this sixty year old film. Because of this, I have taken steps to upload the rest of the programme. It will be online shortly with footage from Northampton and London as well.
Thanks SeagullCity for this upload - I knew of this programme and I think back in the early 90s it got another showing possibly on Channel 4. It was very famous in its day. I spoke to a couple of people who were about 14 (on its release) who remembered it very well. Daniel Farson does a great job, he has obvious empathy with the young people, and they seem to warm to him. They all seem older then their equivalents today. Youngsters who say they are 14 or 15 might pass for 16-18 now, at least in manner. Effectively they were on the cusp of employment or actually in jobs as they could leave school in their 15th year. I think Royston is a little bit "at the cutting edge" and he doesn't represent the average - as witnessed by the two lads who speak after him. He's a bit like the avant garde group leader. I wonder what happened to him? I see him as a real way out hippie type by about 1967...or (dare it be true?) a married man with kids working in a bank!!!John TateLiverpool
Brian Clayton Brian I am 61 when you think of the war years,how our forefathers fought, died, in blood sweat and tears' how our wonderful island was built self sufficient, the amount of any kind of industry's ,,connections to every kind of employment' in every kind of alcove'' etc etc it could make you cry,and sob your heart out''' we have been destroyed from within ''traitors ''to there own people, us there electorate, those whom voted and put them there to run our country'betrayed us, when you think of spies Kim Philby etc its nowt on the traitors that's destroyed our country and Europe ''''and with PC propaganda health + safety' etc etc and the nwo of mind control''through'mobiles etc etc''' I honestly despair for anyone's grand children'''''real food,meals,a standard of family ,religion,welbeing'and personal home self sufficiently'' in a war'' we would be sunk' because the snowflake sheep have been divided and slowly brainwashed ,drop by drop'' to a threat of desperation to the point of some being made homelessness,destitute, and weened on drugs of control'''''remember when you were young, in the pub if someone had to much drink,loudmouth'' there was the threat of being barred,go home,sleep it off''end of story'''now they can get drink drugs anytime of day delivered to there home'''but they crushed pubs, clubs. Industry's with every legislation and to stop ordinary citizen discussing order of the day (government)
Things have come full circle. Teenagers back in the early '60's hung out at coffee bars (in Britain) and in later years took alcohol and drugs. Now their kids are burning the late hours at coffeehouses, slurping their expresso instead of hard drugs.
The most refreshing aspect of this programme is surely the absence of alcohol and drugs at these coffee bars and youth clubs. If only they knew then what youth culture would become with drugs, knife crime, shootings....makes you hanker for the days of a frothy coffee and a jukebox being a good night out.
Oh yes. I remember it well. I almost lived in the Whiskey in the late fifties/early sixties, (school days included) and I recognised a few faces. Although who this Royston geezer was I don't know. Rumour was that he was 'imported' for the progamme. Smug bugger wasn't he, Dan Farson?
The thought occurred to me: I suspect that the things that went on in the Whiskey had always gone on, but the difference between your time and before, was that, now, teenagers were doing the same things. And the reason that the age threshold was lowered, was because the economic parameters had shifted in Britain by the late 50s, so that teenagers now had the money to be able to do those things. What do you think?
In New York, there was a baby boom after the big war. There were more kids than you can imagine in the suburbs. And 17-18 year olds had cars too. The beginning of the 60s. Shit was just starting to fly. Vietnam was still just a name of some Asian country, that no one knew exactly where it was... 😎
@@ursulasmith6402 What are you talking about, "no one wanted kids"?.. I'm referring to the parents of the kids featured in this documentary. There were a lot of kids in 1960 because of the baby boom after World War II... Has nothing to do with narcissistic people or bad parenting. It's just teenage rebellion on a massive scale. I live on Long Island.. suburbs of NYC... In early 1960s, my house had three kids. Across the street, 5 kids. Next door to that, 5 more kids. Next to that, 4 kids. Two houses down, 4 more kids. On the other side of that, 3 more kids... And on and on... 😎🙂😮
Wow I love this look at english Teenagers in 1960 is awesome I love their attitude big time This is an awesome documentry I love this rebelous teenage stuff Im a big nostalgic freak Love listen to brit speak the way They talk knocks me out love it Lol 1964 was the year I was born This slaigh's me big time love it
@ 22:30 ......A coffee bar run by the church called the Gay E Way.........."these rough boys will go up to another boy and interfere with him" ........
I couldn’t imagine a teenager in the UK nowadays being as articulate and reasonable as the teenagers interviewed here. It would be all effin and jeffin, social media, and what have you. What a right carry on modern life is, bring back the birch I say!
WOW ... if only they could have seen 50 years ahead to what we have now as a society they would have a heart attack ... these youngsters are like angels compared to now ... but having said that its easy to see that as each generation moves on to the next generation how its slipped away to what now is.
My Father was a Teddy Boy in the fifties - or at least he dressed like them. A more decent man you could not wish to meet! Lots of good people turn out in every generation including the current one!
Good mix there, Beatniks all but forgoton and also Merseybeaters, a lot of people dont know that the Beatles name circles around 'Beat music' which was popular at this time. And ladies that remind me of my old school teachers
Produced by Associated-Rediffusion, who at the time were the weekday franchisee for Britain's ITV Network in metropolitan London. Just a little more than three years later, A-R would premiere "Ready, Steady, Go!", a rock-and-roll music series that was shown on the entire ITV network and became quite popular throughout Britain.
According to Lennon in the International Times: "The first dope, from a Benzedrine inhaler, was given to the Beatles (John, George, Paul and Stuart) by an English cover version of Allen Ginsberg - one Royston Ellis, known as 'beat poet' ... So, give the saint his due." Ellis also claims that he suggested the re-spelling of Beetles to Beatles.[
3:04 - The term "a-go-go" several years before it became widespread, to describe a different type of dancing than anyone was doing yet in Britain in 1960.
We are the world's 6th largest economy and the world's 9th largest manufacturer with the lowest unemployment in 30 years and one of the best performing economies in the world. Socialist Spain has 50% youth unemployment. The only thing that baffles me is how miserable old gits don't realise this
Poster at 15min Wanted Holford killed his wife -- Argus newspaper "He shot her several times, killing her. Then he swallowed scores of tablets and lay cuddling her, waiting to die. But he survived after being unconscious for more than three days, thanks to prompt action by the police and doctors. Holford was accused of murder. He was remanded in custody in Lewes Prison and committed for trial at Sussex Assizes. But on the day before the trial, he fell from a first-floor landing and fractured his skull. Once more he recovered. The trial started eventually in March 1963. The all-male jury cleared Holford of murder and returned a verdict of manslaughter through provocation and diminished responsibility."
What really did change is what could be called the interface of the times but not the human nature. Indeed in the past things were somewhat more calm, wholesome, even innocent but that only in the way people appeared in society, that was what society accepted. Of course it does say something about mentality too, something indeed changed, but not to the extent some people like to think. It seems really immature to believe that people are somehow more marred today than they were in the past.
' Pathetically anxious to have a good time ?? ' What about the interviewers age group downing their shorts & gin n oranges ??? These youngsters had a ball on just coffee & Adam Faith
I cant help but think,what if the 50s parents whose kids became teenagers in the 60s,would do if they came face to face with a load of 2016 teenage kids,with the mobile phones facebook twitter etcetc all the gadgets of today,their attitudes.all wanting to be famous,no jobs,all the bullying,i don't think they would survive it,let alone approve
Yes, by 1964 were there a million more! The follow up concern wasn't the odd "clothes"....by then your kids were dancing half-naked in Hyde Park high on mind-altering substances.
This is the most polite and well reasoned rebellion I've ever seen.
They weren't drugged up so they knew better than to commit any crimes in front of a camera. Not like now when some post it on the internet.
it was never a rebellion...thats a word put up by a conservative society. They just had a bit of money and wanted to have fun, dress nice and listen to music.
@Babaloo Bimbo no. This 'style' was widespread throughout Britain and Ireland...not only England.
These kids behave better than most adults these days.
It's because they grew up in schools that weren't bussed and lived in neighborhoods were they all knew each other. In my school growing up the older kids watched over the younger ones on the buses and playgrounds. Today, you have predators watching over your children, not friends! And that's the truth. Bussing ruined the children! It took educated, brilliant children and threw them into the dark uneducated world. My daughter in law was a teacher. She was slapped. Threatened, had a knife pulled on her and nearly raped by lowlifes. She and her. School was warned, no law enforcement allowed. That what bussing did, it put those that were in with those who never will. Now you look at your schools...?
@@southtownj382 maybe the kids seem well-behaved because they know not to project all their own problems, and their misunderstanding of the origins of those problems, onto every piece of media they see? Or maybe you should have listened to the intro of this video, which is intentionally showing the kids in a positive light. The documentarians wanted to show a counterpoint to the more typical "youth in rebellion!" type films and news clips that were coming out at the same time as this. So of course it'll show the kids on their best behavior. But these SAME kids, less than four years later, with no school busing, are brutally attacking each other in broad daylight in Brighton (and a bunch of other seaside towns)
: ruclips.net/video/pN7EIpqrPw8/видео.html
@@d.m.collins1501 it was a different day D.M. A time when we who were brought up with values, when young people knew there place and had respect for their parents, themselves, the elderly and their lifestyles. All that was lost during the late 60's it seems! And it's spiraled down ever since.
Truth. 👍☀️👍
Well, things were completely different then. Everyone acted polite and respectful towards each other. You can’t compare how things were sixty years ago to now. Lol
Who is watching sixty years later, in 2020?
Me! Born 1948, skiffle group a 14 yes old. Lonnie Donegal " putting on the style" 1st number we ever played. At 16 Germany( Star Club, Hamburg) with B'ham pop group.
2 years Germany,France, USAF bases with various rock bands.
Loved the life for 6/7 years. Then packed it in and worked till67, Window salesman, Registered Firearms Dealer, America, married/div twice, now living Thailand, hot weather, warm wife, cold beer.
72 and would start all over again if I could. Good memories. ( Except Adam Faith, never could stand him)!
Sorry about spelling. Predictive text!
I'm watching this in 2019. I stayed back at December 31st 2019 because I didn't want to enter this scary new decade. Have fun
From Birstal Leicestershire. Born 1934.
.2021
Looking at 1960 and comparing it to 1969, a lot changed in those 9 years. Wow
If i had a time machine i would travel back to 1960 rather than 1969 personally
pyewacket 5 Yeah, but enjoy every step of the way 1960-1969 - if we knew what was going to happen.
They in this vid didn’t know. They thought 1960 was the big deal.
@ⅰи∂ㄩㄅ360
Maybe so. But would still prefer to step back in time to England 1960 🇬🇧
@@rossriver75 You'd be better without knowing what happened at the end of the 60's. That's when the hippies realized (those who weren't brain-fried) that their revolution is doomed. The age of Nixon.
Hippy filth
Incredible glimpse of pre-Beatles culture.
skiffle, lol
These kids would listen to the Beatles before they were the Beatles . In smaller dives.
@@harolddburke4726 It wouldn't be but a couple of years til they started playing the smaller dives.
S. Adam Bernstein More like pre-drugs.
@@joeblow1942 what makes you think the Beatles had anything to do with it?
Royston Ellis, who is interviewed, was a beat poet and friend of John Lennon's from art school. He knew a girl who wore polyethylene clothes, of whom John wrote Polythene Pam.
probably wore poly panties...... hmmmmm?!
Cool info, thanks.
Roystons never change .!!!!😼😸😹
Jimmy Page occasionally played guitar to accompany his readings in folk clubs.
''Amazing comment John!!''
I became a teen in 1969. It was nothing like today. Kids matured earlier in those days.
I was born in 1963 so the 70s was my teenage era and I had as much freedom as I wanted or needed, within limits of course, my parents believed in treating me and my older sister with trust and respect and it was a two way street, we respected their boundaries and paid the price for breaking them, I was taught to work hard and play hard, respect others and treat everyone the way I would want to be treated myself, I left school and joined the military, a family tradition that is still ongoing, joining up was the best thing I ever did, and the values my parents and grandparents instilled in me stood me in great stead, I never got into any trouble (well never got caught anyway) and brought my children up the same way as I was and they never have got into any trouble either, they got the same freedoms and boundaries as I did, I suppose the point I am trying to make is that if parents bring their children up with the same morals and values as I was then all teenagers, no matter when they are of that age, then society would be a far better place, teenagers today don’t (in general) get taught real morals and standards, parents are to busy working to earn the money needed to buy their children the “trappings” of modern society.
Ah, so you were the model son, husband, father, always did everything right. How boring...
@@mikethespike7579 That is twisting my comment out of context, as I said if me or my sister broke the rules there were consequences, punishments that fitted the crime if you like, and as I also said I never got caught making a mistake, not that I didn’t, but those mistakes taught me valuable lessons that I have tried to instil in my life and my children/grandchildren, just because I seem boring to you, from one comment, you would be surprised to know that I was a party animal and enjoyed getting a bit drunk during my social and service life. The old saying of “never judge a book by its cover” is very apt.
@@allandavis8201 Nothing twisted about it. I only remarked on how full of yourself you sound in your comment.
Maybe you're not as self-centred as your comment suggests. But people who talk about themselves like you do, how perfect they are, tend to leave a bad taste in other people's mouths.
@@mikethespike7579 Obviously you feel like I am not allowed to have pride in my journey through life and that trying to impart a tiny piece of that knowledge onto others is being self-centred, and “full of myself” but that was not my intention, if I have offended you then I can only apologise for that, it certainly wasn’t my intention, I am not perfect by any stretch of the word, perhaps in future I will refrain from commenting about something that I see as important to me and possibly others, if I can make just one person more aware of what I am trying to do or say, perhaps give them a different perspective then that would be a step in the right direction. Once again I can only apologise for offending you, or others, it certainly is never my intention.
@@allandavis8201You are even now missing the point.
I'll try again. You might be proud of your life journey and good for you. But posting a long detailed comment about it comes over like the tiresome pub bore that people avoid making eye contact with.
At least I've told you that, not like most others who leave you to wonder why people avoid talking to you.
These out of control kids, chewing gum, slugging down soda pop, mixed gender dancing and so close together. Boys and girls going steady, speaking in thoughtful complete sentences.... They're going to hell in a handbasket I tells ya!!!!
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lol give me 5 minutes with these kids and a ounce of molly....
''I agree, truly disgusting behaviour'...I shall write to my MP.''
@@normasnockers323 @Norma Snockers Cue Kenny Everett in bowler hat and wearing only front part of a suit.
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I was born in 44 and this was my teenage years and i with my mates enjoyed life to the full main interests at the time was the music cars girls and food if making out in the back of a car and finishing of with a fish supper life was bliss Les
Fish supper? You British, do like your fish-n-chips.
Four of fish and finger pie
Absolutely great video ! Perfect example of life in 'Old Blighty' when times were so much better than today. The 'Golden Age' and 'We never had it so good' !
How lovely, natural boys & girls with limited makeup & no plastic surgery in sight, the girls very ladylike & the chaps coy & well- spoken..lovely times back then
Far better spoken back then, than a lot are now
Why did, you put a, comma there?
@@suzycreemcheeze446& probably not as petty back then either 🤔
They look so much more mature then todays teens and a lot more well behaved
Amazing film and surprised I hadn't seen it before . Brilliant stuff .
Young people back then were way more intelegent, mature, then 30 year old people nowadays..
Because they were raised right.. but these boneheads produced the fat, dumb , morally bankrupt generations of today..
@@mattr8251 What complete crap. Talk about over generalisation. You sound like the adults in the film.
Leallife828 - "intelligent"
I think the word is more cultured and well-behaved. Intelligence should be about the same.
Stephen Dedalus that's very true
'' Im 64, from london, I enjoyed this so much, many thanks.
I grew up in the 60s,never be another time where the youth enjoyed life.to the fullest,whether poor or rich,greatest time for music,love and prblby sinning,but nothing like today,as for crime and violence,overall was limited,technology was booming,never regretted be born during this time,thank God he is merciful and forgiving.I do reminease sometimes and smile at the things that was going on,at least the media was honest and fair in there way they reported,professional,do I want to go back there again,no but I want ever forget it…
Modern youth still enjoys life to the full I assure you! They also irritate old fogies like us with their slang, music and culture. Twas ever thus!
@@MrDorbel Sooo true !
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Lovely to see such youthful faces - and no tats or body piercings!
In 1960, only ex-cons and soldiers had tattoos.
As for body piercings, they were non-existent for
everybody. To have them would have made a
person an utter pariah.
Or phones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No fatties either
@@robjones2408 ho's and criminals get tattoos.
I think that tats will eventually go out of fashion and the old people that have them will be laughed at by the young..
Everybody was so sweet!!
What a time to be alive 1960 times they were a changing
Well said. Seemed like such a great time and the beginning of great great music. The likes of which we will never see again. Great times in London and England.
Imagine the reactions of the older people in this video to the kids in today's society... The ones in the 60's were saints compared to now.
Yes
This pattern began way back in the 20's. Mores got looser and looser and now we have Tinder.
Huge changes were ahead for everyone in 1960, in ways they couldn't have foreseen. One interesting one: probably most teens in the UK in 1960 thought the USA had everything desirable: best music, big cars, drive-ins, and so on. Yet by 1965-'66, the reverse was true: Britain was the most "swinging" and was producing the best fashions and music.
Excellent programme.
Two things seem apparent to me:
First, these teenagers from 1960 account for themselves so well in the way in which they speak, making salient points and using considered structured sentences. Their speech wasn't studded with 'you know' and 'I was like...' and 'so I said to her...' and general overuse of meaningless link words to cover up vacuousness communication.
Second, parental attitudes haven't changed. I am 15 years further down the line and my parents were saying much the same in the 1970s, thinking that my values reflected the decay in society and that their generation and their lives as young people had been so much better (their generation had Hitler, Stalin and a world war which killed 60 million people. Literacy, health, life expectancy, social mobility were all incomparably worse).
In any event, this is a TV programme well worth watching.
lord what history , within the first two minutes, Acker Bilk, a skiffle band , Lonnie Donegon singing that teenager song, some Teds, and "Dankworth, Lyttelton" (John & Humphrey ) on the cover of the NME
Yes, the music was good.
I was 9 years old this year and 13 when the Beatles came out. There was a lot going on in the early 60s. The Beatniks and poetry would give way to the Hippies and music. I still like a lot of artists from this period but boy, did it ever take off after that. 64 to 70 was a cosmic time to be alive. We took all that we had learned from past generations and created our own world against dullness and boredom. But the ideas expressed by Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg would reverberate down the line. P.S. Was that a really young John Lennon playing with the Qarrymen at the beginning? It sure looked like him.
If that had been Lennon with the quarrymen it would have become historic, all beatle fans would know about it. This was made in 1960, the year the Beatles went to Hamburg, quarrymen were a couple years before. But thanks for the memories you shared
I originally posted this video years ago under the SeagullCity account. I focused on the Brighton section as that is where I am from. Wonderful to see that such interest in this sixty year old film. Because of this, I have taken steps to upload the rest of the programme. It will be online shortly with footage from Northampton and London as well.
Thanks SeagullCity for this upload - I knew of this programme and I think back in the early 90s it got another showing possibly on Channel 4. It was very famous in its day. I spoke to a couple of people who were about 14 (on its release) who remembered it very well. Daniel Farson does a great job, he has obvious empathy with the young people, and they seem to warm to him. They all seem older then their equivalents today. Youngsters who say they are 14 or 15 might pass for 16-18 now, at least in manner. Effectively they were on the cusp of employment or actually in jobs as they could leave school in their 15th year. I think Royston is a little bit "at the cutting edge" and he doesn't represent the average - as witnessed by the two lads who speak after him. He's a bit like the avant garde group leader. I wonder what happened to him? I see him as a real way out hippie type by about 1967...or (dare it be true?) a married man with kids working in a bank!!!John TateLiverpool
These teenagers are all pensioners now. Wonder what they think of the young today?
I was 17 in 1960. You really do not want to know what I think of the young today!
Brian Clayton Brian I am 61 when you think of the war years,how our forefathers fought, died, in blood sweat and tears' how our wonderful island was built self sufficient, the amount of any kind of industry's ,,connections to every kind of employment' in every kind of alcove'' etc etc it could make you cry,and sob your heart out''' we have been destroyed from within ''traitors ''to there own people, us there electorate, those whom voted and put them there to run our country'betrayed us, when you think of spies Kim Philby etc its nowt on the traitors that's destroyed our country and Europe ''''and with PC propaganda health + safety' etc etc and the nwo of mind control''through'mobiles etc etc''' I honestly despair for anyone's grand children'''''real food,meals,a standard of family ,religion,welbeing'and personal home self sufficiently'' in a war'' we would be sunk' because the snowflake sheep have been divided and slowly brainwashed ,drop by drop'' to a threat of desperation to the point of some being made homelessness,destitute, and weened on drugs of control'''''remember when you were young, in the pub if someone had to much drink,loudmouth'' there was the threat of being barred,go home,sleep it off''end of story'''now they can get drink drugs anytime of day delivered to there home'''but they crushed pubs, clubs. Industry's with every legislation and to stop ordinary citizen discussing order of the day (government)
@@brianclayton1039 OH gone on! Tell us. I'm 46 now so, it wouldn't matter to me lol.
I am 69 and think most of the kids today are great. Like me, they probably spend to much time on the internet
terence barrett - Wow! I'm the same age as you and you have written a bunch of Bullshite. FFKS, where were you brought up?
Cecilia your breakin' my heart. I get up to wash my face, when I come back, some ones taken my place.
Fabulous history. Thanks.
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I was born into a real live Dickensian childhood in 1944 as I grew up life was hard but im glad I was born then not later.
Acker Bilk in the opening .. pure depravity
A good documentary for it's time, quite balanced, as the fella said, nothing changes😎
They seem very well mannered and well spoken to me. I was 14 in 1960.
Great stuff which I had not seen before.
Fascinating documentary 👍
Ty good to see stuff about the old days
What a well rounded chap ! good clip !
A year before I was born., some nice looking birds here.
19:20 kid...so cool. What a character.
Cute!! Like the lead singer of aha..
Honestly reminds me of today in many ways.
Try the few ‘teens’ without money, who left school for work.
I knew some....they still had manners compared to today.
Things have come full circle. Teenagers back in the early '60's hung out at coffee bars (in Britain) and in later years took alcohol and drugs. Now their kids are burning the late hours at coffeehouses, slurping their expresso instead of hard drugs.
@Paul V. Montefusco Ha! Well said!
@Paul V. Montefusco- almost makes one yearn for the days of alcohol and drugs! At least, they related more to each other.
The most refreshing aspect of this programme is surely the absence of alcohol and drugs at these coffee bars and youth clubs. If only they knew then what youth culture would become with drugs, knife crime, shootings....makes you hanker for the days of a frothy coffee and a jukebox being a good night out.
cozener...and not a single scary looking Burka wearing Ninja cartoon to be seen in this programme !!
Oh yes. I remember it well. I almost lived in the Whiskey in the late fifties/early sixties, (school days included) and I recognised a few faces. Although who this Royston geezer was I don't know. Rumour was that he was 'imported' for the progamme. Smug bugger wasn't he, Dan Farson?
The thought occurred to me: I suspect that the things that went on in the Whiskey had always gone on, but the difference between your time and before, was that, now, teenagers were doing the same things. And the reason that the age threshold was lowered, was because the economic parameters had shifted in Britain by the late 50s, so that teenagers now had the money to be able to do those things. What do you think?
Royston Ellis was a beat poet who was dubbed "Britain's answer to Allen Ginsberg" - but I don't recall seeing any beatniks interviewed in the film.
In New York, there was a baby boom after the big war. There were more kids than you can imagine in the suburbs. And 17-18 year olds had cars too. The beginning of the 60s. Shit was just starting to fly. Vietnam was still just a name of some Asian country, that no one knew exactly where it was... 😎
Those poor kids got either thrown out or abused by their selfish narcissistic parents. Kids became homeless. No one wanted kids.
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What are you talking about, "no one wanted kids"?.. I'm referring to the parents of the kids featured in this documentary. There were a lot of kids in 1960 because of the baby boom after World War II... Has nothing to do with narcissistic people or bad parenting. It's just teenage rebellion on a massive scale.
I live on Long Island.. suburbs of NYC... In early 1960s, my house had three kids. Across the street, 5 kids. Next door to that, 5 more kids. Next to that, 4 kids. Two houses down, 4 more kids. On the other side of that, 3 more kids... And on and on... 😎🙂😮
They seem so much older than 14-17 year olds!
The girls do
Wow I love this look at english
Teenagers in 1960 is awesome
I love their attitude big time
This is an awesome documentry
I love this rebelous teenage stuff
Im a big nostalgic freak
Love listen to brit speak the way
They talk knocks me out love it
Lol 1964 was the year I was born
This slaigh's me big time love it
SATANICUS. DIABOLICUS INVICTUS these were the most liberal .01 percent in the entire world lol
@ 22:30 ......A coffee bar run by the church called the Gay E Way.........."these rough boys will go up to another boy and interfere with him" ........
Kids will ways be kids no matter what generation.
These teenagers are in their 70's now.
I couldn’t imagine a teenager in the UK nowadays being as articulate and reasonable as the teenagers interviewed here. It would be all effin and jeffin, social media, and what have you. What a right carry on modern life is, bring back the birch I say!
Fascinating film SeagullCity. Can you please amend the subtitle to say ' focusing on Brighton, Northampton and London teenage life in 1960' ? Thanks
“Lost in their newfound freedom”. Textbook description.
WOW ... if only they could have seen 50 years ahead to what we have now as a society they would have a heart attack ... these youngsters are like angels compared to now ... but having said that its easy to see that as each generation moves on to the next generation how its slipped away to what now is.
Don't worry kids... The Beatles are coming soon to put your world upside down.
And right behind them is the stones!!
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the beatles belong to the U.S because of the reception of the U.S
@@dancingtrout6719 you had to edit that?
@@Spectrescup spelling errors canttupe onmy pho e you get it!!!
the music industry was not rigged back then but simply harder to find what you wanted.
Very interesting.
thanks seagull city nicepost
My Father was a Teddy Boy in the fifties - or at least he dressed like them. A more decent man you could not wish to meet! Lots of good people turn out in every generation including the current one!
Good mix there, Beatniks all but forgoton and also Merseybeaters, a lot of people dont know that the Beatles name circles around 'Beat music' which was popular at this time. And ladies that remind me of my old school teachers
Interesting peice of film. Especially liked the Northampton part.
Only 15 years later you had Johnny... Freakin...Rotten
Produced by Associated-Rediffusion, who at the time were the weekday franchisee for Britain's ITV Network in metropolitan London.
Just a little more than three years later, A-R would premiere "Ready, Steady, Go!", a rock-and-roll music series that was shown on the entire ITV network and became quite popular throughout Britain.
Jeez! I hardly recognised myself there!
Back when the World was a safe place to be
I wish I could have been born any time before the 90s
According to Lennon in the International Times: "The first dope, from a Benzedrine inhaler, was given to the Beatles (John, George, Paul and Stuart) by an English cover version of Allen Ginsberg - one Royston Ellis, known as 'beat poet' ... So, give the saint his due." Ellis also claims that he suggested the re-spelling of Beetles to Beatles.[
3:04 - The term "a-go-go" several years before it became widespread, to describe a different type of dancing than anyone was doing yet in Britain in 1960.
Has anyone noticed that the 1st three seconds of the intro jingle is actually Morse and says A.R. (Associated Rediffision) ? .- .-.
21.46 The Gayeway. How times have changed..........
and not for the better.
the girl at 11:50 was really cute. I wish I had met someone like that once upon a time.
another great Rediffusion documentary ,true social interest programme
over 60years ago and the tory establishment are still making an arse of things...nothing's changed.
spot on, but folks still keep voting for them , baffles me
We are the world's 6th largest economy and the world's 9th largest manufacturer with the lowest unemployment in 30 years and one of the best performing economies in the world.
Socialist Spain has 50% youth unemployment.
The only thing that baffles me is how miserable old gits don't realise this
The teenagers back then were tame in comparison to today's lot.
Poster at 15min Wanted Holford killed his wife -- Argus newspaper "He shot her several times, killing her. Then he swallowed scores of tablets and lay cuddling her, waiting to die.
But he survived after being unconscious for more than three days, thanks to prompt action by the police and doctors.
Holford was accused of murder. He was remanded in custody in Lewes Prison and committed for trial at Sussex Assizes.
But on the day before the trial, he fell from a first-floor landing and fractured his skull. Once more he recovered.
The trial started eventually in March 1963. The all-male jury cleared Holford of murder and returned a verdict of manslaughter through provocation and diminished responsibility."
What really did change is what could be called the interface of the times but not the human nature. Indeed in the past things were somewhat more calm, wholesome, even innocent but that only in the way people appeared in society, that was what society accepted. Of course it does say something about mentality too, something indeed changed, but not to the extent some people like to think. It seems really immature to believe that people are somehow more marred today than they were in the past.
The questions the interviewer asked made me so glad the this time period is gone
' Pathetically anxious to have a good time ?? ' What about the interviewers age group downing their shorts & gin n oranges ??? These youngsters had a ball on just coffee & Adam Faith
I love the banter the 2 good ol boys are having about "£3 tousers" haha
Who loves Her Ladyship's RP accent?? Veddy Royal, indeed!
I cant help but think,what if the 50s parents whose kids became teenagers in the 60s,would do if they came face to face with a load of 2016 teenage kids,with the mobile phones facebook twitter etcetc all the gadgets of today,their attitudes.all wanting to be famous,no jobs,all the bullying,i don't think they would survive it,let alone approve
2016 Parents are definitely a hardier and tougher bunch by necessity.
Bullying was no less a thing then, it was just interwoven so tightly into the fabric of society that it was normalized.
@@RollOnToVictory No they fucking ain't! 🤣
Anything for a time machine!
what a great journalist. Honest impartial and logical. Unlike CNN/BBC these days
3 Jobs in 3 weeks, lol lucky to have one these days. They never had it so good.
innocent times
If they think these youngsters are unruly then they clearly have not been to Worthing town center on a Friday night
The guy dancing at 7:35 is a dead ringer for Malcolm McDowell....
Yes, by 1964 were there a million more! The follow up concern wasn't the odd "clothes"....by then your kids were dancing half-naked in Hyde Park high on mind-altering substances.
You've got the date wrong there. The hippy movement came to Britain in 1967.
Anyone know the opening song?
Teenage freedom of expression was so new then. There was no examples for them to follow so they made the rules. Good on them.
shit in the late 70s and the early 80s we spent a few hundred a week on stuff and parying those were the days we partied like rock stars !
You also burned your society to the ground ya fuckin boomer.
@@iant419 ok hipster
3:48 Ross, David Schwimmer, from 'Friends'.
Ah *sighs wistfully* the days of 'Mods' and 'Rockers'...oh wait I'm not old enough to remember that >:D
Those hussies and bad boys, spending money. How dare they!
Forward twenty years, I wonder how he felt about his own 16 y/o daughter dating?
These kids have a ton of style and taste. Cool to hear a bit of ol’ Lonnie Donegan’s music in this.
38:10 That is but one reason why the Beatles first became such a hit with British teenagers some three years later.
Those teens were so hip back then. Now all they hear is “okay boomer”. This is a cautionary tale, millennials.