Look at Life Vol 01 Transport Air Hostess 1960

Following the perceived glamorous life of 24-year-old airline hostess Pat Rossiter on her working day on an 11-hour flight to Rome and Benghazi

[@joanne26]

My paternal cousin worked for BA on long haul flights from 1974 until she started a family in the early 1990's and then got posted to Terminal 5 at Heathrow until she was made redundant from BA in August 2020 due to COVID but she always says the 60's 70's and 80's were just such a glamorous time flying. The girls were better educated than they are today

[@paulreilly3904]

I was an air steward with a certain national airline 84-92 and I had a blast. 21 day trips to Auckland etc, I believe the longest trip is 6 days now. Completely different now.

[@dad7720]

Happy days, when life made much more sense than today.

[@jasenwright1178]

The distancing between the seats and the SIZE of the seats! Wow! Definitely the way to fly!

[@ed9763]

1964 jet aeroplanes were well in use but pehaps the final destination being Bengazi the airport runway there was not equiped to land a jet liner.

[@ivanahavitoff7308]

Pat is a QUEEN!

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

I'm 44, I've been flying since 1983 and it was always a real treat to fly. Europe, Australia, England, all around North America, it was truly a pleasure to get on a plane, and get off in a completely different culture, mindset, country. These days, like taking the city bus or underground, especially after 11 September and on towards today, it's just something I try to avoid. I remember working so hard to get a ticket to Iceland, and a hostel, or New Zealand for a week sleeping up and down the beach in the sun, Czech Republic staying with friends in Prague and clubbing. It's almost as if they've made it as unpleasant as possible.

[@annother3350]

From what I hear about your NSA -- they've purposefully made it unpleasant as possible

[@leodf1]

You started flying when you were 8 ? Good job.

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

@@leodf1 nah, I wish 🌝

[@edwardoneil3962]

God bless you Pat all this for a tenner a week lolx 😀❤😀

[@richardschindler8822]

The good ole days of real air travel, not what we have now. I found the part where you see the engine start up interesting. They had the sound of a piston engine starting where it was a turboprop. Rolls Royce Dart.

[@vfrbore1728]

" A life of glamour, travel, and perhaps romance." Of course, the main motivator for any woman in work, to find romance!

[@briancarno8837]

Im surprised there wasnt a chiselled heavy smoking pilot beside her whem she woke up

[@noelt2238]

Is romance still allowed to exist in today's feminist culture?

[@briancarno8837]

@@noelt2238 No thats all finished...thats why woman all look so happy now...and mental health issues for woman are a thing of the past

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

@@briancarno8837 Lolz

[@obroni]

Banghazi looks like such a fun spot to frolic on the beach!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Flying in class on a prop plane.

[@egalf]

But not nowadays anymore. Since 2011 it is a sad place just like the rest of Libya.

[@stewartellinson8846]

This is a very late film of hunting - clan air. it was filmed in february 1960 and they merged into British united in june 1960. The Vickers Viscount shown is aroud six months old at this time.

[@briancarno8837]

Imagine flying to Africa on a viscount...they only do about 200 knots

[@briancarno8837]

I think the sound guy got his rolls royce merlin mixed up with his rolls royce dart

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

THAT STOCK TAKE GOT ME AROUSED

[@phmwu7368]

Amazing times, no social media, no millennial generation, women were women and men were men, joining the Armed Forces without hesitation. Nowadays a quarter of young children can't even read the time on an analog clock, wondering what the hands are for...

[@Nog311]

She is now 84...wow

[@ronpritchard6720]

A fascinating look into the past, but the yacht at Benghazi was a sailing dinghy!

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

The women are quite prim, proper and obedient. I bet in a few years after this film was shot, Pat the Air Hostess had become aware of the women's movement and was more assertive. I hope so, for her sake. Nice looking woman.

[@leoroverman4541]

I remember those views of Benghazi, the Yacht club was at Juliana Beach. I had my own escort stewardess every time I flew back to the UK to go to school. Brilliant times, lovely country, so sad now.

[@terrybrown4400]

Maybe they were using the dinghy to get to the yacht 😊

[@leoroverman4541]

@@FAngus-ly8lk They were just as likely to give you a thick ear for misbehaving.

[@SKYBOYSFO]

Thanks for this

[@dovidell]

watching this in 2021

[@terrybrown4400]

I’m visiting from 2025. Boris Johnson says COVID restrictions will be lifted soon

[@noway5347]

@@terrybrown4400 ....that nutjob shall be long gone by 2025.....hopefully

[@ottomanfred2473]

❤Vickers Viscount and her.🤗😊💐👽

[@barryrudge1576]

I noticed when she woke up her hair was already immaculate and not a crease in her nightie, how strange (lol)

[@clivejones5880]

Lipstick and eye shadow and not a mark on her pillow. LOL

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

...all she wants now is a bus home...to glamorous Hounslow West!

[@studebaker4217]

She doesn't need to fly to Benghazi nowadays, it has come to her in Hounslow West.

[@annother3350]

@@studebaker4217 She moved away in 1970

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

Back when a girl didn't get pressured into a degree in Feminist Studies and a sleeve of tattoos.

[@billpugh58]

Problems with the ladies have we?

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

@@billpugh58 you're BLM I take it 😆🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@Trevor_Austin]

@@freddymarcel-marcum6831 No. Bill Pugh is vegan tattoo artist specialising in tracing out black and white images of soup on peoples arses. People like this complain about everything to score social points with people in their semi-open socio-political demographic.

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

@Freddy Macel-Marcum . . . as opposed to being a sweet little pre-feminist airhead, all ready to be talked down to by a bozo like you.

[@paullacey2999]

No drunks on planes in them days....No stampede to get off before the planes at the terminal either... Most civilised:)

[@johncee1481]

Keep the bar closed till we´re over the channel.... uniforms are totally OK though..time for a LAL update, or a parody with Harry & Paul ?

[@AB-gb8lb]

She’s from Auckland NZ , I wonder what happened to her , she will be in her 80s and may not even know about this film being on KZbin.

[@inlinefourtr]

All of a sudden I fancy some Kellogg's Cornflakes for breakfast. Must be the upside down advertising.

[@gsmrth]

No tea in sight doesn't seem very British in 1960.

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

Funny sounding Dart turboprops starting at 5:01 !

[@rldukes4]

Yeah I noticed that too!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Look at Life was always filmed on silent stock with the sound added in post. They didn’t always get it right!

[@dovidell]

any chance of digging up something on Rochford/Southend airport with the BAF car ferries ( I hear 007 flew out of Rochford/Southend airport when he was chasing Goldfinger )

[@simonhellier7281]

At these heights must have been fairly bumpy, pokey cabin, that really connected passengers with aviation. Contrast it to an A350 today! Seemed more civilised then before terrors made its impact

[@gerberjoanne266]

Wow, their salary was awfully low, even accounting for inflation.

[@leoroverman4541]

anyone's salary was low in effect the public services still is. You don't get rich.

[@stephenlang3135]

Back then they had to speak at least one other language besides English

[@philipbarrett3151]

The days of strict height, weight & marital status requirements.

[@ajw9533]

Bovril, pickled onions....sick bags. Makes sense.

[@briancarno8837]

one hour on the ground to re fuel before they can use the khazi..? did I hear that right..?

[@محمدالقطعاني-م6ر]

Libya bangazy1960

[@michaelnorton7882]

Just like Ryanair😂

[@ianhudson2193]

BOVRIL???

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘Hot beefy Bovril!’

[@MrRawMonkey]

Engine start but the sound of a piston engine.

[@annother3350]

Sideglance!!

[@terrythekittieful]

Were the Beatles onboard?

[@Trevor_Austin]

Half seven get up? That is civilised. When your check-in is at 2:30 am and it’s cold and dark and there are no busses running the “sex” of the job is somewhat illusionary. ps. W@nkers like the captain giving the bridging often complain about their tea and coffee. I wonder why? Maybe it’s where the water came from, the journey the teabag has taken or the “special” added ingredients.

[@Ne1170]

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[@mrp410]

Gotta love the cringeworthy mansplaining at kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYTaoJeParaNpMk