Giuseppina - Colour Trade Test Film (1959) HD

[@rayrudge8471]

Good to see this again , the sort of thing that just sticks in a child’s memory .

[@Pop-wn3il]

I always had a dim memory of this. I saw it first in the early 60s now here it is! Thx...

[@bonjovi1612]

Me too, one of things that you think you may have imagined but here it is. I’d love to know what happened to the young girl, so pretty.

[@Smokeyjude1234]

No credits, but my Dad Mortimer JJ Gleeson was the American tourist with the big caddy and cameras in this film. He was a character actor in Italy in late fifties. Among his acting career, He was in US Army, attached to embassy in Verona while we lived in Vicenza. Very cool to see this again!

[@MRSALG]

That was your dad!? That’s awesome!

[@Mister_Listener]

Amazing!

[@priestland1]

Reading this comment while he just now appears in the film !

[@philipbonner6486]

Lovely see your Dad in this entertainer film .

[@yoc2007]

Yes, I remember seeing some of his black and white Hollywood films. I recognised him quickly.

[@byjingobob]

Delightful and beautifully filmed. I think there's much the brash modern film makers could learn from these small gems.

[@cosmicretrouniverse]

Great Wholesome Innocent Times,, That We Will Never See or Have Back Ever Again.

[@roberterskine884]

Would rush home from school in the late 60's to see this and enter a beautiful addictive reality. Wonderful story line!

[@ianmarsden8568]

Me too!

[@gilliansmith5188]

Found these yesterday and then this consolidated one today. Been trying to find them for years. One of my fondest childhood memories watching these when I got in from school. Transported me from a rough council estate to another land full of sunshine and happiness. We were the first house to get a colour TV on our street. Thankyou so much for sharing.

[@geoffpeters8843]

A complete pleasure. Your childhood sounds very much like mine. We also had the first colour TV in our street from Radio Rentals. I watched this many many times and just wanted to live in a peaceful, warm place like this.

[@indiosveritas]

I would take this one color test film over a hundred multi-million dollar Hollywood films of today.

[@markofsaltburn]

Immaculate quality. Looks like a fresh print.

[@anthonyg638]

This looks like it was filmed yesterday. I just read on Wikipedia Giulio Marchetti retired from acting in 1971 and bought a Petrol Station. Hope it was a BP :)

[@johnheaven7059]

fabulous work of art from the 60's. i love the fact that there is no dialogue from the customers but each one's character comes through, this is timeless. i continue to watch this over and over for the feelgood factor alone.

[@tsr207]

Just listen how the peaceful atmosphere is constructed between the various sketches (the birds, the shoes on the gravel) it really is a marvellous film with wonderful characters- this used to make my day when coming home in the dark Scottish winter afternoons- I always wondered where it was - and thanks to the narrative - I have just seen where it is !

[@patricksmodels]

It's a beautiful short film. It was filmed in Northern Italy, probably in the province of Ravenna going by the RA registration on the Fiat 500 Topolino. Rural Italy in the late 70s and early 80s hadn't changed much, this film brings back fond memories of my own childhood.

[@fooman65]

Absolutely amazing....been looking for this for years.....weird how your brain plays tricks on you. I knew it was a girl and her dad had a petrol station. I always remembered it as black and white and the dad had a cap on.....but the oiling of the wheels and fiilng up the empty tin at the end just brought it all rushing back...amazing.

[@BayAreabebe]

I have exactly the same experience. Remembered this for 50 years, but in black and white because my parents didn’t have a colour television. I’ve often searched for it but only succeeded now. Incredible.

[@fooman65]

@@BayAreabebe I found it on google maps as well, nothing much has changed although the garage is no longer there of course. See if you can find it? Giuseppina is a 1960 short British documentary film produced by James Hill, which was filmed in 1959, in Mandriole, Emilia-Romagna, near Ravenna in the north east of Italy.

[@ghigiotto]

Bellissimo ! Altra Italia che, purtroppo,non c'è più

[@tmacmi9095]

The whole world is changing for the worst 😢

[@sogggyyy]

@@tmacmi9095i bet they said the same thing in 1959 too.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

​​@@sogggyyyIt was true then too. Smh

[@themank]

Wasn’t my favourite when I was 12 years old. I’m now I’m 63 and LOVE IT!! Thank you for putting this on KZbin.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

You have to grow into it. This wouldn't have been something I would have had the patience for when I was a kid either I'm afraid.

[@stevehutchinson5399]

Amazing film. used to love these trade test transmissions. Been trying to find 'The Shadow of Progress' with no joy so far. Remember one scene where a load of cars had been dumped into a river, bonnets first....

[@robertjames302]

The colours in this are simply brilliant.

[@spmoran4703]

The colour photography for the time is very good. Actually I think the movie is cute .

[@carlmarks7448]

“Everyone is important, Giuseppina.”

[@patkd4668]

Excellent short movie. Beautifully captures the innocence in that period. No internet, No running water. But life's simple pleasures was superbly condensed into this great masterpiece.

[@ysthafellgynghori8423]

No smug gits insulting the past either.

[@nickwebb7868]

oh how i wish we had those simple times back again

[@PurityVendetta]

Not being funny but you can turn the TV and Internet off for a bit. Not sure I'd recommend turning off the water though.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

08:48 Radio station bumper sticker on the black Cadillac, WTRL 1490 AM (Bradenton, FL, 1952 to 1983)

[@Tirana44]

Like many others, I remember this little masterpiece being shown on BBC2 during test transmission times. This is the first time I’ve seen it in over fifty years. A real dose of nostalgia. Thanks for posting this video. 😊

[@geoffpeters8843]

It's a pleasure. Even though I've seen it dozens of times it still reminds me of my childhood and a simpler life. Antonia Scalari must be in her seventies now and I too hope she's had a happy life.

[@Tirana44]

I hope she has too😊

[@trevordance5181]

The director of this film, James Hill, amongst other things, directed Southern TV's Worzel Gummidge series.

[@brianhepke7182]

This takes me back. I remember it was shown everyday around lunch time when I was a kid. I recall there wasn't much dialogue. The English tourists being very English and the Americans being.. well.. very American. This is the first time I've seen it in colour. Back in the early 60s we had a B/W set. Happy memories 😊

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

That's what I thought too..."Americans!!! Jesus H. Christ!!"... And I'm American myself, lol. But we never mean any harm. Just on vacation, and inadvertently bringing some of the "whiz-bang" along with us in this case apparently. But at least they took it with them when they left.

[@beryllium1932]

That 300 SL roadster is amazing. No more than a couple years old! Antonia Scalaria is so sweet and adorable. What a cute film!

[@theted16]

Last watched this nearly 50 years ago when working on the bench repairing television sets. Brings back so many memories. Thank you for posting it.

[@stuartwray6175]

Working 'on the bench' - you were a judge, or magistrate, with a sideline in TV repairs?

[@jagmarc]

For some, being on the bench was looked at as menial work with no future prospects, others spend a lifetime in the bench as their ideal occupation, some have popular KZbinrs channels. I know for the nearly decade I spent on the bench I got to see a diverse range of design styles and circuit techniques, finding what's round the back of the TV more interesting than the front. Except when the trade test films like this appeared on any screens of the TVs being soak tested all day.

[@monteceitomoocher]

​@@jagmarcbench engineer here, now retired, these were the glory days of early colour tv, we had to have a wide range of skills for our trade then, and knowledge of a wide range of manufacturers and their circuit techniques, nice to see these films again, it was altogether a more peaceful better time, currently restoring my own first generation colour tv and using those skills learnt so many years ago.

[@jagmarc]

@@monteceitomoocher Just reminded me an early 26 about inch Sobell CTV with thermionic valves, well before p. inline guns. Defocus the beam and adjust colour purity, then restore focus and crosshatch generator set the static convergence then the dynamic converge , lots of twiddle knobs

[@jagmarc]

In a typical TV repair shop or TV rental workshop of the 60s and 70s this film would come on and the bench engineers would tend to spend much more time fine adjusting the flesh tones. Or be more inclined to leave a repaired TV running on long soak test on a shelf above the bench. So these films really did improve the overall quality of life of many people.

[@RicardoMalbran]

the sweetest film ever seen

[@Mr.Clingclong]

I adored this film when I was a child, warm happy memories.

[@williamfurman2042]

Giuseppina and the Venezuelan Gent in the 300 Benz Roadster having a bit of a dance was very classy.

[@franktuckwell196]

I remember that we got a black & white tv in 1962 when we moved into the "new house", ( built in 1952). Then we got a colour tv in about 1969. The revalation of "Colour", on tv was stupendous and this was the first colour programme shown. The colours were out of this world, i remember that little garage on a little dusty road. Good to see again, 55 years later.

[@michaelmiller641]

I remember that film; especially the bit where the Brit takes off in his car on the wrong side of the road!

[@keithmountain9437]

Such an enchanting film which I saw as a child and have never forgotten it. Just looked on Google Earth to try to locate the setting in Mandriole but the property has disappeared to be replaced by a new house and the property to the right of the petrol station in the film which looked so fresh and colourful is now abandoned and derelict. The magic of that moment in time in 1959 is now but a charming memory.

[@geoffpeters8843]

The original house is still there. If you go to maps.app.goo.gl/ovoYnRYfjAdCDWCg7 select street view and move a few houses to the left, it's the last driveway before the Eden Cafe. I do agree with you that the charm of the place has completely gone.

[@inglepropnoosegarm7801]

This is really beautiful. It is moving picture art. Every shot is exquisite and perfectly set up. I remember watching these Trade Test films as a child, and I have been hoping to see them again for a very long time. Thank you for uploading.

[@_CAT-lg4sr]

What a charming little film! Thanks for posting.

[@esmeephillips5888]

When it comes to stars of Oscar-winning movies, there can't be many less well documented than little Antonia Scalari. Seemingly she never acted on screen again. Here she looks rather like the kid who gave the greatest underage performance of the postwar years: Ana Torrent in 'The Spirit of the Beehive'. Writer-director James Hill would go on to make one of the most underrated Britpix of those times: 'The Belstone Fox'.

[@MRSALG]

What a beautiful short film!

[@sammydingdong4540]

The year I was born Beautiful film and a beautiful young lady I wonder if she is still with us ?

[@bonjovi1612]

lol 😂 yes me too. Born 1959 January would love to know what became of the lovely Antonia

[@adebinelli8182]

I remember this film when I used to finish school in the late sixties great memories..

[@KW-qq7nu]

Geoff, God bless you for posting this; brought back long lost memories.

[@stevewaldock4379]

Love these quirky little films.

[@alcapone164]

Brilliant. Like others, I watched this on BBC2 when they were testing colour TVs. We only had a black and white one until much later. Thank you for sharing

[@MyJ2B]

Love that background swing music with Django-like guitar.

[@paulberry2884]

I remember these. I'd switch from BBC 1 to BBC 2 during a break in the cricket and they'd been showing these little films.

[@huwlloyd6341]

Wow. Its 1970 and I am home from school with a cold. I loved, loved this. I always wondered if itbeas the granny or the mother with the baby...

[@Chailattefan]

Thank you so much. I have tried to find this for years. First time I have seen it in colour. It's a beautiful film and so nostalgic.

[@TerryMurrayTalks]

First time seeing this quaint film and loved it. A past that probably never existed but wished it had.

[@Clara-wo1hg]

Brilliant I remember this so well!

[@groover5524]

What a sweet little film ! I just about remember it as a trade test transmission on BBC2 in the late 60's / early 70's .

[@turbine6202]

Like so many, I watched and enjoyed this many times on television as a child. I never knew it existed in colour!

[@WoBlink1961]

Simply delightful.

[@glenn3816]

How wonderful thank you for posting Geoff. I remember watching these trade test transmission films when bunking off school in the '60's. I recall another one filmed in a paint factory.

[@swanvictor887]

Even though I was around in the early 70s, a lot of these films passed me by it seems lol. This was shown 185 times?! Wow...that's a lot of royalty payments lol, more than paid for the film, I imagine! Beautifully shot...but of course, everything WAS back then because we had PROPER PHOTOGRAPHERS who didn't learn their trade on smartphones....!!

[@bonjovi1612]

Amazing, I remember seeing this as a child about 55 years ago. I’ve never been able to find it since, starting to think I had imagined it and yet here it is. Many thanks for uploading this.

[@zombiebiker5581]

Everyone is important, I like that great little film, just come from the home made car video.

[@geoffpeters8843]

I also have the HD version of the Home Made Car film on my channel

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

​​​@@geoffpeters8843I just saw that video about the homemade car, albeit on another channel tonight. I hadn't known of these films before (born in the late 60s & we didn't have a TV). I found the location of the filming and put the comment I put on the other channel on yours as well just now, with the addresses.

[@simonwatson6261]

Beautifully filmed, a masterpiece.

[@hedgehog5001]

I used to love those old trade test transmission items. Zambeze dam, old car, etc. Great days.

[@yokumato]

Very nice and great color quality.

[@ffnylonzfan]

when life was good , many happy memories watching this as a child and still as good now im almost 70 years old

[@philipbonner6486]

Lovely short film thank you for putting this up on KZbin.

[@ianmarsden8568]

I think the trade test transmission films used to be shown from 2pm on BBC 2 and then on the hour. If they were not an hour long there would be silence. Anybody else help?

[@ashashroff1700]

Excellent short film, diamond acting from all the casts.

[@anicecupoftea8303]

Got to admit, that cup of tea looked nice.

[@anne-marierizzi8840]

Cute film , I remember only very vaguely probably saw it when we lived in Italy I was only little then. It looks like somewhere near the coast in Italy.❤❤❤

[@Useaname]

Correct. It's the north east coast near Venice

[@MattandDonna]

www.google.com/maps/@44.5530575,12.2256139,3a,75y,4.8h,82.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXoXq7kDr65C5P6Xc2294fg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

[@passiton3801]

Everyone is important. How true that is...

[@JoaoVictor-kb7zj]

thanks you!

[@Jan.99]

Enjoyed it indeed, what a classic!

[@Useaname]

Thanks for this. First time watching and it's really excellent.

[@douglassmith2562]

Not entirely sure now but recall scenes from this film shown as a mini series on the BBC childrens' programme "Vision On".

[@rosemarywessel1294]

What's fascinating to me is that baby chicks are still shipped in the same kind of box to this day, 65 years later and an ocean away! Beautifully shot film.

[@dashriprock9014]

BP had the best infomercials back in the day

[@TenementFunster.74]

nice n clear,thanks for post.

[@daveinthailand]

Wow Brilliant I remember this as if it was yesterday does anyone remember a test transmission film about trucking across Australia and a rodeo also I remember a speed boat film I think in florida everglades wow this brings back memories maybe because I ended up being a TV engineer Thanks

[@iaincumming982]

@Dave in Thailand... The truck in Australia ... Remember them changing a tyre and one rolled down a hill for miles... Hilarious!

[@daveinthailand]

@@iaincumming982 yes thats the one great

[@paulsawtell3991]

That was The Cattle Carters, also a BP film.

[@daveinthailand]

@@paulsawtell3991 OK thanks Paul that will be it

[@islander780]

I remember the one of the Aussie truckers, with one of them opening all the tinned food, cooking it all together and saying it was called 'Ashmaghandi' Apparently an informal Aussie army term. I'm 63 now and still remember these films well. Great stuff.

[@sophietoos]

Remember this so well another one I recall was film in Amsterdam Sweden or Denmark about a shop

[@pmm1054]

Like everyone else I remember this test transmission from my childhood. But do I have a false memory? I recall a scene where a rolls Royce silently arrives with only the crunching of the tyres on the gravel. Am I wrong? Also, very eerily the young actress bears a striking resemblance to my granddaughter!

[@geoffpeters8843]

There's another BP Trade Test Transmission film made by the same director called The Home Made Car which was also shown repeatedly on BBC2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJOwoGicfNpkbcUsi=s9uj6ngffYOSSHsX where at 24:35 there'a Rolls Royce in the garage. I'm sure this is what you remember.

[@pmm1054]

Thanks for the tip. I’ve watched the film and I have very vague recollection of it and the silent rolls. Another film is in my memory and I did locate that one. Prospects for plastics

[@noodleperson17]

Love this. So glad to find it again. I seem to recall a test film about how artists made paint out of pigments and oil - or am I imagining it?

[@sophietoos]

I remember that too

[@lathejack]

No you are not imagining it, the one you are thinking of is called 'Paint', its one of my favourites that I remember watching repeatedly around 1970 with its lovely background music, especially during the opening credits. It is one of the Trade Test Films on KZbin, the version I remember with the UK narrator seems to have been removed from KZbin but there is still the version with the American narrator, I watched it earlier.

[@brianhepke7182]

@nic-ee25 now that triggers a memory, Thank you. I wanted to do that.

[@Ettoredipugnar]

Lovely film ❤❤❤

[@yonago999]

I really enjoyed this charming film, but wonder why it's classified as a documentary rather than a drama. I would also like to know what happened to Antonia Scalari who played the young girl. I can't find any reference to her apart from her connection to this film.

[@Broadswords]

Lovely Sei Giorni, but that Mercedes 😍

[@melaniemetcalfe3354]

Adorable film. Most heartwarming ❤❤❤. Is this in Ponte Vecchio.

[@andrewbennett7756]

Great Cadillac

[@RunawayPancake1]

Or the sweet Mercedes convertible at 26:30.

[@gregoryagogo]

delightful!

[@gordonwebster3809]

great film.

[@whollymindless]

No movie's complete until Florida Man makes an appearance.

[@gavindouglas3196]

Fantastic

[@BartholomewSmutz]

The white Mercedes is a beautiful car.

[@antonycornell6284]

Anybody else remember a version without opening titles but that showed the fair she was not allowed to go to?

[@antonycornell6284]

@The xl con man der Nemesis Lol, my mistake. thank you. Does anybody remember it being shown without opening titles?

[@paulsmith5872]

Yes

[@nativeamerica9254]

Whatever happened to the young actor Antonia Scalari?

[@Useaname]

That was her only role it seems

[@terryandannie]

Me and my bro watched this in 1965, dam it was if it was yesterday. I read somewhere the young girl died young. Shame.

[@davids8449]

I have this film on DVD but not HD where did you obtain this copy. Regards

[@geoffpeters8843]

The HD version is one of a number of extras on a BFI film release called Lunch Hour. It's available in dual format (both DVD and Blu-Ray in one pack) from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Lunch-Hour-BFI-Flipside-Blu-ray/dp/B004LO2EKU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lunch+hour+blu+ray&qid=1601789599&sr=8-1 The extras include: 'Giuseppina', 'The Home Made Car' and 'Skyhook'. The main film 'Lunch Hour' is also worth a look as it's so of the early 1960's.

[@davids8449]

@@geoffpeters8843 Thank you for letting me know, I use to be ( and still am) a great fan of these films. Thanks for the link.

[@williamshelton9688]

Reminded me of Pink Panther intro……

[@andrewbennett7756]

I was 16 then

[@bonjovi1612]

Why did we have to change? To be back there with those endless summer days and tranquility. Oh well. Back to social media 😳

[@andrewbennett7756]

I rember this wel

[@pauldockree9915]

Nice Belvoir Jack. Vroom vroom!

[@Eltonlaleham]

I would rather have been born in the year of 1959, than in the year of 1969 and had I been born in 1959 I would have been 4 in the year 1963 when classic Dr Who began on tv in black and white with Bill Hartnell as the Doctor and also ran 26 years and in 1969 I would have been aged 10 and in 1979 aged 20 in 1989 aged 30 and in 1999 aged 40 and I would in 2024 be aged 65 which would be better for me than been aged 55 only.

[@Nanthakishore67]

can someone tell me the name of the opening credit score?

[@Mrshoujo]

What is a Color Trade Test Film?

[@geoffpeters8843]

When colour TVs came out in the UK in the 1960s most programes shown were still in black and white. With only 3 channels BBC1, BBC2 and ITV it made it very difficult for TV engineers to make sure the colour settings were okay when they were installing or reparing TVs. BBC2 didn't have much content during the day and they repeatedly showed 'Colour Trade Test Films' on the hour to provide colour transmissions for the engineers. As a result, children would watch these films and they have become nostalgic of that period of the late 60s and early 70's for us Brits. Wikipedia has more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_test_colour_films

[@stanleybest8833]

I wonder what film stock did they use and how was it preserved? Nitrogen?

[@geoffpeters8843]

I understand it was originally shot using 35mm film. The BFI (British Film Institute) digitally remastered it and released it on Blu Ray as an extra on a film called 'Lunch Hour', which was also produced by James Hill.

[@stanleybest8833]

@@geoffpeters8843 Republic Pictures takes meticulous care of all their negatives. I figure it's mostly a nitrogen vault.

[@geoffpeters8843]

@@stanleybest8833 That's good to know. It still looks amazing after 65 years.

[@kennethjohnson2983]

This was before the greed and lies of big oil.

[@torgman]

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