Post by captslog on Oct 2, 2013 11:31:26 GMT
Last night I watched a BBV tv program called Britain On Film.
This is from the website of the program...
Series in which high-quality 1960s colour footage from the vaults of the Rank Organisation is brought together to offer compelling insights into British life during that seminal decade.
This episode salutes the Rank filmmakers' attempts to reflect our near-obsessive national preoccupation with a range of competitive sports, ranging from golf and cycling to skiing and stock car racing. Featuring vintage prose praising the idiosyncratic appeal of cricket by the incomparable commentator Richie Benaud, as well as rare colour footage of the England football team in training shortly before their greatest-ever triumph in the 1966 World Cup.
Here...http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c26xf
It was an interesting half hour. One of the things featured was professional football (which I loathe) when it had just lost the upper pay limit for footballer's pay, and the start of inter-club transfers. They showed a 17yr old starting as a pro, and being shown possible careers that he might want to consider when he finally left the game at 30 and would need to do something else Little did they know!
But another more bit more relevant to here was the Tour of Britain around the same sort of date. Lots of chaps in jumpers, no helmets and riding bikes with big loops of brake cable. There was one clip of them travelling down a narrowish a-road where a car was trying to overtake them. This didn't look like a team car, just a normal 'flat-cap and pipe' trying to get from A to B who was cutting into the peloton because he was avoiding a bus coming the opposite way! How times have changed. (around 18:00 in if you can't be bothered to watch it all)
It's worth a watch just for that .
This is from the website of the program...
Series in which high-quality 1960s colour footage from the vaults of the Rank Organisation is brought together to offer compelling insights into British life during that seminal decade.
This episode salutes the Rank filmmakers' attempts to reflect our near-obsessive national preoccupation with a range of competitive sports, ranging from golf and cycling to skiing and stock car racing. Featuring vintage prose praising the idiosyncratic appeal of cricket by the incomparable commentator Richie Benaud, as well as rare colour footage of the England football team in training shortly before their greatest-ever triumph in the 1966 World Cup.
Here...http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c26xf
It was an interesting half hour. One of the things featured was professional football (which I loathe) when it had just lost the upper pay limit for footballer's pay, and the start of inter-club transfers. They showed a 17yr old starting as a pro, and being shown possible careers that he might want to consider when he finally left the game at 30 and would need to do something else Little did they know!
But another more bit more relevant to here was the Tour of Britain around the same sort of date. Lots of chaps in jumpers, no helmets and riding bikes with big loops of brake cable. There was one clip of them travelling down a narrowish a-road where a car was trying to overtake them. This didn't look like a team car, just a normal 'flat-cap and pipe' trying to get from A to B who was cutting into the peloton because he was avoiding a bus coming the opposite way! How times have changed. (around 18:00 in if you can't be bothered to watch it all)
It's worth a watch just for that .