Talking Pictures 4pm

Better then wasn't it.
People were so much better.

The weather was more predictable too with cold winters and warm summers, I remember my dad talking about hosepipe bans from way back, so we've always been hopeless in that respect.

A very moving film in many ways, to see what this wonderful little country looked like, a decade after the momentous united effort and the sacrifices of WW2.

Young people looking so carefree and excited about their lives, grateful to be British and living in the greatest country in Europe. Proud to be the children and grandchildren of our greatest generations.

Young and old of both sexes attending a packed Beauty Contest, none of the spectators being made to feel like grubby sex perverts or worse. 

No obesity anywhere to be seen. Good complexions assisted by life outdoors, regular exercise and fresh air very much in sight.

None of the youngsters on medication for some fabricated ‘mental illness’.

None of them feeling any need whatsoever to feel guilty about being British, and rightly so.

None of them being cajoled into thinking that they might actually be a different gender to that they were born as.

Young men and young women, happy in their skins, all looking for fun with members of the opposite sex.

None of the girls and young women being groomed for rape by organised gangs of racists, the girls targeted because of their skin colour. 

None of them feeling obliged (or being mis-educated) into believing that all Middle Eastern and African countries had equal or superior cultures.  A huge majority of the holidayers unlikely to have been to able to point to Pakistan on a map, and in no way being disadvantaged or described as ‘backward’ as a result.

None of the young people required to be in a State schools where the first language was not English, or learn all about Peaceful Religions, and the histories of those who live in lands where people follow them.

An age when the rail commuters in the film could board a train and be reasonably confident it didn’t have any ‘bucket bombs’ on board, placed there by a Pretendy Child Asylum Seeker/Refugee (i.e. Illegal Immigrant) subsequently domiciled in Britain, fed, educated and given healthcare all for free by the taxpayer while the Pretendy Child simultaneously planned to kill as many innocent commuters as possible.

Servicemen able to walk the streets in their uniform, in no danger of being called “Cowards”, “Baby KiIlers” or having their heads cut off by persons following a Peaceful Religion. 


None of the young people in that film could have conceivably imagined that as pensioners, their country could subsequently have been so vandalised.

There is a video from 1978 on that youtube link, doesn't look much different then. The Blair years changed everything.

It is indeed, must send that on TGM, in case he;s not looking in.

I miss those days were you watched those films through a tobacco smog

great  stuff Alun 

Four Feathers on next week - original from 1939 - great film

Even 'The Sweeney' repeats on ITV4 are not free from ludicrously heavy-handed editing, just in case one person somewhere on Planet Earth thought they might have seen something that possibly qualified as WAAAAAAAYCISM.

The episode 'Down To You Brother' was re-run a few weeks ago, minus a short scene where a character played by a white actor does a harmless impersonation of the character being played by Kenny Lynch.  The characters are friends and co-conspirators in the story, so no malice was intended. Allah alone knows what delusional cretin might have taken offence.

No way Kenny would have been offended. He's a good egg and still entertaining.

Family At War was an all time classic. They don`t make them like that anymore.

The world has gone politically mad. Only a bunch of nutters with too much time on their hands would complain.

* ITV4    at 4pm

I like Paul Jones. Saw him about 3 years ago with his Blues Band. Looks about 45, not 72 as he was then.