A Year To Remember - 1962

This is a special public release of one of our many long-form docs available to our channel members!
The classic series that recalls the definitive events of the 20th century, year by year, as they were reported at the time.
In this episode: - Haiti voodoo festival- Uganda wins independence- JFK triumphs- Prince Charles begins new school- Dr Charlie Chaplin- TV from space

[@kenstevens5065]

I was a teenager back then and in Britain, we thought we were finally stepping up. Casting off wars, austerity and looking towards a better future. We would have never believed that in 2022, with all information and communication we now have in the palm of our hands we would create a divided disfunctual mess for most of our population.

[@Holland1994D]

@@bluejar5614 Perhaps not everything was better, but being able to buy a home with a working class job and having an okay life to support your family on 1 working class income is not really a thing in the western world no more.

[@SJAutomotiveDesign]

@@bluejar5614 UK is going back to dictatorship, can't you see that?

[@user-wr9dh6yv1o]

Lol Palestinian people say otherwise

[@3204clivesinclair]

Nothings changed in Politics - regardless of colour. Try putting any Prime Ministers name into Google, followed by the word “lies”, or “sex scandal”. They have always been at it. What we have today is greed, selfishness and social media - the core of division and hatred.

[@lightmarker3146]

You have to have lived through it to speak on it genuinely. Ken Stevens knows 👌

[@marcostovar7968]

Nice documentary. I was born in 1962. Greetings to all people born that year.

[@comedywriter8408]

I was only six years old in 1962, however the 60's was a wonderful time to grow up in. The significant events in that decade that I remember were the assassination of President Kennedy, the funeral of Winston Churchill, The Beatles and Beatlemania, the Vietnam War and Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to step onto the moon. And we viewed all of this on our black and white television.

[@barrythompson]

Same age as you, would include 66 world Cup and Donald Campbell record attempts and being killed as things that stand out too.

[@comedywriter8408]

I remember those also. And the saddest of all was in October 66, when the Aberfan disaster happened. All those children around our age were gone within minutes. It was the first and only time that I ever saw my father cry as we watched the news.

[@CaptZdq1]

I was 11, n as u say, the '60s were a great time to grow up in, for the most part. In France they were called «les années sans soucis».

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

Crazy how 1962 was only a year ago... Time flies by

[@Tenacious-Tiger]

For me.... 60yrs and I felt every one of them. 😁

[@alteredbeast1974]

Indeed it does fly by, as a kid a year seemed to take forever to pass, now they fly by at warp speed

[@richmck007]

Born in 62. Next year, will be 62!!! What a year that should be…

[@Sigridovskij]

Me too. Left my last body and took a new one 4 Feb 62, very unusual with all the planets in Aquarius, a few days around there. I went from somewhere in Europe to Sweden and got the most fantastic parents. I was so lucky. They never invalidated me and let me think and decide for myself, neveer controlled me badly. They were old, of older times from Sweden, always happy and in good mood.

[@richmck007]

@@Sigridovskij be forever grateful you have been blessed with loving parents and a past society that procured your future. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Carpe Diem!

[@Sigridovskij]

@@richmck007 You are right, tomorrow we might live in slavery worse than that of Orwell. I study all the lectures, books and courses, as many as I can before I kick the bucket and you can see where they come from and some exciting things at scientology,tv.

[@richmck007]

@@Sigridovskij free your mind from mental slavey, only ourselves can save us… Listen to ñRedemption Song” by Bob Marley and tell me it isn’t true! Btw, I dig that profile. With respect🙏🏽

[@cholifatin6913]

Wasn't born in 62, but my mom

[@asagoodfriend]

This is an amazing archival footage of some very major events!

[@raf.nogueira]

Indeed I wish Could have even more older videos like this

[@ianmangham4570]

@@raf.nogueira Daily Motion

[@TinLeadHammer]

The American missiles were removed from Turkey in April 1963, although this part of the deal was not made public at that time.

[@bigredc222]

I just came down here to see if anyone was going to point that out.

[@pietrowislon7300]

@C Smith....me too. Strange how the US is still the initiator of international crises....missiles in Turkey in the Cuban missile crisis....$6Billion spent on "democratic efforts" for Ukraine BEFORE 2014 according to Victoria Nuland's testimony to a Congressional committee. In 2014 the Maidan coup d'etat .....civil war started in the DonBas. 14000 russian speaking Ukrainians killed by American and Canadian trained Ukrainian speaking Ukrainians.

[@bigredc222]

@@pietrowislon7300 Go away.

[@pietrowislon7300]

@@bigredc222 "you can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson

[@pjmoseley243]

I was just a boy in 1962 entering my teen years what an amazing decade everything was changing but amazingly all the old songs are making a comeback on main media by todays DJ's and Strictly come dancing, it was like another lifetime ago, does anyone else feel the same?

[@jennifermaharaj3551]

In the former British colony where I was 13 in 1962,we had Pathe news in the cinema before each main feature,later in 1962 we got television and the majority of shows were American.

[@AmandaSpooks96]

Was it common to watch the news in theaters?

[@jennifermaharaj3551]

It was normal when we were British.

[@alexanderkingtickle]

thank you, British Pathe, for your incredible glimpses into the past!

[@nancybingham7298]

So many memories - we had a Hillman Super Minx. Thanks.

[@lablackzed]

This is a walk down memory Lane for me great times.👍

[@peterbrunsden380]

The correct way to report news.

[@white_clover767]

More of these hour long year focus programmes please!!!

[@ColinRussianForce]

The year I was born when my life was just beginning and the world was almost ending.

[@keithwesley2471]

A year to remember. Especially the 28th October which was my 16th birthday. Best birthday present ever!

[@marcuslamb-bentley4492]

Thank you film and all that used it....we are so lucky to be able to look back. We cannot change the past...but we can visit it.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

I was born in February of 1963; basically this film shows the world I was born into.

[@stevenbrown1527]

Well, it shows you the view of the world as presented to the class that worked to keep the class in power of the UK and western world of what the “events” were at the time. For many millions across the world these events meant nothing. That world didn’t exist. 80% of the population.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

@@stevenbrown1527 Yes, I'd wager you are correct.

[@rajkumarshekhar2614]

Mee too .born in....16/02/1963..

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

@@rajkumarshekhar2614 The day before mine!

[@rajkumarshekhar2614]

@@davidlincolnbrooks . It means I am yr elder brother.. Hahhaha. God bless us..

[@edgabel6814]

All the troubles back then seem to pale compared to today. As a boy back the I remember much of this.

[@gj8683]

I was four in 1962. We moved into a newly built house in 1964. It included a fallout shelter in the event of nuclear war.

[@paolazuffinetti]

Wonderful collection! I'm searching for more of the 60s and... 50s

[@onlythewise1]

times gone for ever except on film

[@billygraham5971]

Great memories growing up just after WW2, great to be British!,

[@Cromwelldunbar]

Love their intro’ from the start all the up to that gentle but stolid phrase.. » We are all part of history… » Wonderful! Keep the good work up and thanks a million!

[@dzav2282]

Fascinating video. The amenities on that ship are so cool

[@direktorpresident]

Interesting in this context that the narrator said the Berlin Wall was "like going back to the Middle Ages". There was a great line in the James Cagney movie "One Two Three" set in this era, when the young East German escapee declared in horror, "I have to go back to East Berlin !". "Why ?!" "For my other shirt !".

[@marienyc1thenewyorkgirl467]

I was born in 1962 . Good to know how it was then .

[@franciscocastro7647]

I born on 1962 July 29

[@Scalihoo]

me too..

[@keithrobert5117]

Has any country disappeared faster and more completely from world history than Britain? Even the ancient Etruscans at least preserved a memory.

[@CarrieVogel77]

Thank you so much for capturing history!

[@daniila.7545]

Это не беспорядок, это продолжение борьбы сил Света и Тьмы !

[@horrormike]

Excellent video, thanks.

[@britishpathe]

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[@alvinvictor706]

Oh

[@bogusmogus9551]

I love this

[@nurdan2785]

Türkçe çeviri yok

[@John-ob7dh]

I sure remember 62 .my 18 year old girl friend was the most beautiful girl in the whole area.

[@brucepickess8097]

Back then I had just become a teenager, I'm sorry to say that I took very little interest in my countries or to that matter world events, shame on me many will say. But being young, and I have to say somewhat cosseted in my own world, external events didn't impact me to any great extent so I was blissfully oblivious to many of the important issues of the day. This has corrected all of that and has awakened my memory somewhat.

[@darylcumming7119]

Too young to remember that year , thanks for the upload.😊

[@marcse7en]

1962 ... The year of my birth!

[@janejames9173]

Thank you.👏👏👏

[@greylonbrady]

Brilliant footage. I'm glad film is keeping the previous century out of the aether.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

which Mr ...? Grey Gray? Eral Gray Grey ? ey STay away okay? my 2 daughTers where i gave birTh we feel no devoTion would say: vis versa if few Mr Greys loveTheir life ...sTay away here was no fifty shades of grey movie?

[@canary_in_a_coalmine]

Wasn’t born yet but it sure looks like a great era to have lived through.

[@PacoOtis]

Pitiful that we were like that! Best of luck!

[@jamesavenell2368]

It is said that if you remember the 1960s, you were not there. Well I bloody was. 1962 holds a significant place in my life simply because I met my future wife (Marilyn) during that year & we were married the year England won the World Cup. (go on, you tell me & you may not even have been born then). I was a 1940s- 50s boy (born 1938) & apart from certain personal experiences, can't say I rated that period of civilised development that highly. Briefly for me, Spurs won the double whilst I was enduring National Service during 60-1 & I only got to see 2 flaming games that season. I was stationed up at Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides apart from six weeks training down at Blandford Forum. By the last 6 months to do I had no leave left until demob. When I eventually escaped authoritarian captivity I immediately fell upon the change that was haunting civilisation. This was June 1962. A youth culture had sprung up that was full of its own bravado, despite knowing sod all about life, couldn't give a toss for anything, disrespectful, you name it, it had vastly deteriorated in my humble opinion & the authorities were totally redundant in that area. Whatever, as I have stated, our creator had another path for me when I got back home to Reading. My immediate family originated from Woking in Surrey & through that avenue I met Marilyn. We did a lot of rail travel between us but the short story is that we were married for 55 years, 5 months & twelve days until she returned to our true home out there in the universe. Other than that, I can't recall a bloody thing on 1962 so maybe I was not there, it was only a dream but I shall cherish that one to my last days on this planet.

[@richmck007]

Thanks for sharing that with us. I was born in 1962 and will be 62 next year. Spurs fan as well…Danny Blanchflower, Dave Mackey Jimmy Greaves, Pat Jennings, Martin Chivers, of course years later! Seems bizarre how we have reached where we are today. I enjoyed your portrayal of growing up as a teen and the national service you did. I believe that it should have been brought back as reading what you say about teen life, it seems we are far worse off today than in your time. People were more considerate, empathy was more important and common decent manners were the norm. I was brought up in a West Indian community home and we went to church, but I lived like any other English school boy with all that went with living in ENGLAND. West London was the be all and end all for me then. But I always had itchy feet and found myself travelling all over the UK. Particularly enjoyed meeting and making friends in the north of England. The backbone of England’s economy for the most part. Learned a lot. Above all, respect for people. Had family in the army, in Germany around the time of the Berlin Wall, so I knew the story. Lived the 70s and 80s like there was no tomorrow! Then Maggie’s rule came into play ( still remember the cutting of the milk at school…) and The UK went belly up. Decided to seek my home and leave as I always ad itchy feet at a kid to travel and see the world. Today, you could not pay me enough to live in The UK, just to visit and then leave. WHAT A SHAMBLES THE GOVERNMENT IS, sad to say. What a rat race it has all become. Only the fittest of my family and friends have survived. But at a cost. To think all those men and women gave their lives for what we have today, and yet there are those out there who would disrespect the past. WE HAD IT BETTER. AND WE CAN STILL DO MUCH BETTER. Glad I grew up!

[@shable1436]

​@@richmck007your diatribe is hilarious, you the type who is stuck in time, always will be

[@richmck007]

@@shable1436 Trouble with you lot is you never lived what we all did and yours and mines ancestors did, so you relish on what it is nowadays, Given the opportunity to learn something new, you should never knock it. Those after you and me will not know what you do now, but will learn from the mistakes like we have. I was reflecting on what it was back when men were men and knew their place. Today’s lot is a joke! Truth be told, what you learn in life makes or breaks you.

[@stevenhtoo6612]

A classic New and TV service before BBC 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⭐

[@BillyBoy1235]

BBC TV started in 1936

[@stevenhtoo6612]

Oh...I didn't knew that before. Thank you for acknowledged it.❤❤

[@J0stAn0therJ0hn]

Awesome!

[@erin19030]

I had graduated high school in the previous year and was attending electronics technology schools at RCA technical school. Later in 1962 i bought my first car, a 5 year old previously owned T Bird. Life was good living at home with mom and helping her out financially with my new good paying job in radio manufacturing. However as good as,times were the horizon darkened with my future and service in Nam.

[@FayazAhmad-yl6sp]

Beautiful documentary, visited I'm past free of cost.

[@masudaharris6435]

We certainly were optimistic back then.

[@dimbus2000]

1991 was closer to 1962 than 2022!

[@tavshedfjols]

2012 was closer to 2013 than 2003 to 2022!

[@richiehoyt8487]

You sadist!

[@112chapters3]

Fffs man

[@russellford5597]

🤷‍♂️

[@lukegreen5341]

Mine's The Very First Ever Pathe News VHS Tape Release Is Pathe News A Day To Remember Volume 1 1947 The One Is Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Philip The Duke Of Edinburgh's Wedding Anniversary Which Is My Very First Ever British Pathe News Movie UK VHS Release Ever Made And I've Got This From The Scope Charity Shop In Bogner Regis West Sussex Near Brighton In England This Year In Time For The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Celebrations And It Was Super Awesome. Thanks A Lot British Pathe Mate. X

[@doliprane1031]

Celui qui regarde cette chaîne je peux lui dire t'es Légende

[@4nna5]

love that intro

[@lightmarker3146]

And the rooster knew he was The Man !

[@patrickrose1221]

I was born in the second week of October 62, my parents told me that they didn't think I was going to see my first birthday.

[@alfredroyal3473]

I was 9. I’d go back in a heartbeat.

[@royalbloodedledgend]

The good ol’ days. When America stood for something 🇺🇸

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Corruption, invasion, genocide and child-rape by priests.

[@tommiatkins3443]

It still does. It stands for stupidity, division, conspiracy, racism and misplaced ego. Those are important things. Imagine if they were spread equally instead of concentrated in the USA

[@Rosco-P.Coldchain]

It’s all about usa even when the program has nothing to do with the USA 😂you gotta love em

[@JoBo431]

🤣@@Rosco-P.Coldchain

[@gordonvincent731]

Those cars held up a lot better than todays cars!

[@nigelhamilton815]

Everything we take for granted now, began in that generation.

[@williamdavies6241]

FORD CORTINA👌

[@thomasburke2683]

William Davies, yes, the mk 1 Cortina along with Capri, Classic and Corsair, replaced the Consul in 1962.

[@garymcgill]

A great year !!!.......

[@michaelbenton2518]

Seem to be confused, I read the reason the Cuba missle crises happened was America installed missles in Turkey which made Russia move to Cuba. The Americans caused it as they still do today .

[@nurdan2785]

Türkiyede füze istemeyiz hemen füzeni al Amerika

[@miklmiklmtrcycl6009]

My year!

[@jaymac7203]

This was 4 years before Startrek even started lol the sixties looked amazing 👏

[@owenmccall632]

I was 8 years old,remember coming home from school to find my mother crying over the cuban crisis.didnt really take it on board for few years that we were separated by the width of river clyde from american polaris base in holy loch.apart from that 60s and 70s was great to experiebce. Very good documentary

[@5DNRG]

I was 7 in So Florida and remember the tension in the adults and fallout shelters built in some properties and, of course, all the launches from Cape Canavral...quite a time. If you think 1962 was bad though, you havent seen 635 AD.

[@SpookyFox1000]

Fabulous proud Britain ! ………….lost forever ! Given away

[@r.martinez1967]

here to watch your videos

[@drpoundsign]

Swinging London...Shagadelic!

[@cinziacherubini4568]

My year 😀😀😀😀😀😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@somethingelse4878]

Been a fan of pathe news since the age of 10 It's so upbeat they could make a full scale nuclear war look exciting

[@lucasa.a4495]

Those were better times!

[@naturalroyalflush]

How beautiful the ship was.

[@mscommerce]

Thank God for the Beatles.

[@FreshCreativeFrog25]

I was born in 1999 and my family who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s have always talked about how much nicer things were back then. I believe them. There has always been war, there have always been political, social and economic issues… so as long as man walks this earth, of course problems will exist. I disagree that we are any better off now than the time period in this video. The biggest difference is that everyone, politician, musician, or regular everyday person, presented themselves with class back then. Being a young person today, I believe we have gotten much too relaxed, much too spoiled to make progress like they did during the mid 20th century. I’m embarrassed and frustrated with society today. Look no further than the way everyone around the world dress. In the 1960s, everyone presented themselves so well. Today? Sweatpants and hoodies everywhere. No pride. This is a huge problem.

[@xmocha7]

I remember 1962

[@Gkm-]

Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962,

[@brethren111]

Alleged overdose

[@SJAutomotiveDesign]

2 answers. None of them available. Dafuq?

[@MikeMike-hx3gm]

Yes Monroe and the Queen were born in 1926

[@johnlawrence2757]

1962: year I got my law degree and made a big mistake - joining BBC radio as a studio manager . The one thing if I had my time over I would not do again

[@garystubbington5656]

I remember it well

[@tridbant]

I was seven then in England. The only thing I remember was Doctor Who scaring me.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Those danged Daleks , huh ? Do you remember the WW2 movies shown on TV every Sunday afternoon ?

[@tridbant]

@@anthonydoyle7370 nah, too busy playing outside. Lol

[@konewone361]

@@anthonydoyle7370strangely it wasn’t the Daleks that scared me. It was the music.😊

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

Poor Prince Charles hated that goddam Scottish school, Gordonstoun.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Good enough for him, lol. I hated my grammar school too.

[@koitorob]

Did scientists ever discover the connection between the big car door shortage of '62 and the winter of all winters of '63?

[@ilovegot7754]

Do you have any old footage of local news stations

[@gregoryryan3088]

i was 13 a wonderful life in oklahoma city

[@Nai61a]

44.38 "The cherry red outfit very much taking the eye," said just as a man with one eye comes into view. Naughty!

[@retrogamestudios7649]

Sweet

[@davidbaise5137]

This is a wonderful old video. Thanks for uploading. Very enjoyable but you should lose the Art Deco frame.

[@user-te4of2fq5d]

❗I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. The family watched President Kennedy s address in silence, at his conclusion my Dad said, Well, that's it. We all got up, went about our lives and held our breaths for 3 days.

[@arncj18]

splendid! i'm 25 i really like this. What channel was this aired on? i would like the whole series. but i can't find it anywhere, i presume Pathe owns the rights

[@allrounder7003]

No channel. These films were shown in cinemas as fillers.

[@lightmarker3146]

There are alot of them on utube. All kinds of topics .

[@allrounder7003]

@@lightmarker3146 Loads if one clicks on British Pathe but originally shown in cinemas as there wasn't much television back then.

[@britishpathe]

Hi, You can access more in the series on our streaming platform, britishpathe.tv, or by becoming a member of our KZbin Channel :)

[@ash2250]

Wonderful, just a shame it didn't mention that I was born that July. lol

[@peterhunt2723]

I was 21 that year, bought my first car, 1949 Ford prefect … £10.00 ! Ran it for a year, sold it for scrap £10.00 only car I never lost money on!

[@joeguzman3558]

When Fidel Castro advised Russia to nuke USA that's when Russia said that Fidel Castro was out of his mind

[@kejarbola5168]

What our world would turn to be if an actual nuclear war happen during 26th-28th of October of that year.

[@smitajky]

We are much more at risk today than then. We have so many more powerful nuclear weapons. And the west is already involved in Ukraine. It is easy to start a war but not easy to get out safely. The safety of the world then was not from the pigheadedness of the USA but from the Russians who decided that the destruction of the world wasn't worth it. This time round we are playing chicken again, but what if no one blinks.

[@garychilds1130]

That safety belt was a bit wider than normal

[@robmclaughjr]

OMG, Questionable comments?

[@aldoali6173]

Time Traveling Time

[@exxbootneck]

Seat belts save lives. Unfortunately for the driver in this film. Gil Delamere. Sadly he was killed 4 years later filming of episode of the TV series The Saint. The car he was in rolled over and crushed his skull.

[@peterbuckby7319]

I was to busy looking for pram wheels for my bogy 🤔 to take any notice what’s going on

[@BillyBoy1235]

You and me both mate.🇦🇺

[@automotivel3501]

The year I was Born.

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

The year I was born.

[@edwardrodgers9383]

Prince Charles hated Gordonstown!🤺

[@qertypolas]

Pricolno

[@tonylee-UK]

Interesting to see Trudea's father on the footage.

[@Fred-vy1hm]

I can't believe they left out that it was the year I was born. 🤔