I remember watching this lying on our sofa recovering from flu in the early 60's. It was one of a series on test transmission films used by the BBC. Scrap yards were very much like shown back then.

Thanks so much I saw this as a kid nd have a very dim memory of it. I recognised it as soon as it started!!!!!!!

This movie brings back so many memories for me. I used to borrow this almost every week from the local library and watch it over and over again. It would be at least 30 years since I last saw it, and yet I remembered every part of it. I cant wait to show my kids this movie. Thanks so much for sharing it.

Artists of placing the interlaced frame right in the out of sinc.

Merci😊 yngwie forever one ❤

came across this little gem a few weeks ago, a lovely lesson in filmmaking. Weirdly, in the section with the British tourists in the Morris Minor, to my shock, the Son, sitting in the back of the car, the tall, gangly guy in glasses.....LOOKS LIKE ME!! Creeeeeeppppyyyyyy! I wasn't even born for another five years!!

Is the little girl next door the girl on the old test card?

Would love to know what the people in this film are doing now !!

This must be what they call the silent era

At a time when we called are country England ! & Long before the dinghy invasion !!

love this it tells a grand story, poor BP I miss that logo.

6:37 Now your ships are burned (yngwie singing) 25:40 Black magic suite

Some gorgeous motor cars here. The Triumphs. The Healeys. The Alfas.

Go PAT MOSS

Marvellous times. ❤

I remember watching this on a school camp in El Rancho Waikanae New Zealand in June 1975 when I was 11 and still fondly remember it

Before dei ruined everthing love the old movies

This used to be on BBC2 Colour test transmissions in the 1960s

Watched this so many times on BBC 2 in London. It was indeed one of the colour test films. Had a good chortle when he was startled by the ray gun, and another when the rag and bone man was bailed up with the same ray gun.

If you like this film, you’d probably enjoy the work of Jacques Tati. Brilliant filmmaker. Saw Mon Oncle as a kid, never forgot it. It’s still brilliant.

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14:55 Ghosts in his garage!

What is the song, please? Vad är låten, tack?

I watched it on double speed, and it still is a slow film. But fun to watch

As near as I can tell from Google maps, the address is 26 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough, UK. The set back tan colored house between the red brick house and the white one. Compare time index 05:20 (view across the street), with Google Street View across the street from this address. The houses across the street look essentially the same to me. Edit: The house (two houses down the street) at 05:35 is 30 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. From Google Street View you can see the distinctive roof and same color (of course) bricks. The hedge the little girl is hiding in, is still there. Although needs a trimming now, lol. Or at least when the Google car went by the last few times. That would be 28 Cambridge Rd W, Farnborough. Hope this helps.

A moment please. The little precocious malicious devil girl child in this flick? Well she's turning 70 in this year of our Lord 2024. She is the same age as my wife and my humble self, and I can tell you for a fact that my wife was every bit as vicious as that child at that age. She got over it. I kinda like my wife.

I’ve got to say that this is the only show that I’ve ever watched where all the characters are mute. At least in the silent movies they acted like they were talking.😅

I've seen this way back in the school days, when they had 16mm projectors. Just by seeing that dog in the opening credits, I knew this is the film, which is now on KZbin!

The bird moment @18.50 meant so much to me. Feels like it was made for youtube.

Aos 21:54h., nota-se que se trata de uma obra de ficção 😂😂😂

The lady serving tea looks like Mrs Doubtfre

What an innocent brilliant film with beautiful music.

It is amazing!!! I have a model in 1/18 for Type34

For anyone wondering, that beautiful white car at the end is the Austin-Healey 3000 1959 - 1967

absolutely charming. thanks for taking the time to upload it. i bet nobody involved even thought for a minute they were creating a portal to a different world for people on their phones in 60 years.

happy

Sure, when I try to take the neighbor kids on a long drive, it's always a big federal case!

Saw this a few years back and watched it again today. This was mostly filmed in Farnborough Hampshire and interestingly if you use google maps you will see the houses on that street where the car is built are still there with many of the same features, bushes etc (Cambridge Road W Farnborough). Sadly the garage that the car was built in has been replaced with a house. The BP garage is now a Jet garage and is located in Bucks Horn Oak Farnham. More trivia: the sports car driver and the young lady were both born in 1942 and sadly they coincidently both died in 2020.

Wait... did I just watch a half-hour ad for BP?!

I remember watching the Trade Test Colour films when I got home from school. This, It's the Tube that makes the Colour (the white is Illuminant C, which is difficult to show on film), On the Safe SIDE (Switch Off, Isolate, Dump, Earth) and the building of the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool. Probably a few more I've forgotten :-)

I had a wooden car like this, wooden wheels, wooden seats, wooden engine, wouldn't go 🤗😜

I'm watching this as I'm most of the way through jacking and hammering my car's crunched-in-trunk back into shape. When I finally put a new bumper beam on it and put the plastic skin back on, most of the remaining imperfection will be covered up and it will pass inspection. The insurance company of the kid who hit it has already paid me for most of its value, so I had some sense of accomplishment. Now, looking a this guy build a car from scratch in his driveway, none of that seems so impressive. We all have to base our ambitions on what's possible, I guess. PS: So, was there really a time when guys in England put on a business suit to pump gas? They always dressed better than we did, but what would the drycleaners think?

Ahhh thats not home made thats home peaced together at best

THANK YOU! I have been looking for this film for YEARS - I saw it at school over 50 years ago 🤓👍

I've tried to find this in past years, as this was shown on BBC2 when it was just starting up. It was shown over and over along with another short film which may have been based in France.

I restored classic cars as a career for over 40 years. Built a ton of old British cars, E types, Austin Healey's 100-4 and the big sixes. Also, the first MG in the USA too. 1931 MGM. Bunch of later muscle cars and early pre war, even pre WW1 . I just retired from my job last month. The 1932 Packard shovel nose we just finished is at Pebble Beach this year, Its doing the tour from Washington state down. Look it up, its black with dark red interior. Looks like a hotrod but is all factory. 900 series. My last vehicle as a professional will be a 1966 Ford Gt 40 Mark 1, #1053. I'm going to finish the wiring and assembly when I go back down to Texas in 2 weeks. I've done 2 other GT 40's, #1038 and 1062. That will be all for me as a restoration mechanic. Now I get to work on MY CARS!! Finally. 1969 Dodge Charger and 1980 Corvette.

das war sehr schön

Didn't we have a lovely looking country back then.

A tortoise versus the hare situation 😂

My mum had that same model of hoover vacuum cleaner, never considered using the blower end to use as a paint sprayer