"Oh Mr Porter ! " Will Hay 1937 Buggleskelly vhs to HD !

[@FP51DPO]

Tim this is one hell of a copy, better than the DVD releases IMO and I have seen the 2K digital release, where did you get it, what was it remastered from?

[@timhuggins1993]

Thanks ! im glad you enjoyed the whole film that is a huge compliment ! Did you watch it in 720p hd uploaded best and what resolution screen did you watch it on ? 😆😉. Believe it or not it was from a original 1997 576i vhs tape albeit a very looked after one. I then played it on a super vhs or proffessional video player with built in image cleaners and stabilizers that when released cost £700 i believe. I then fed it via a dvd player as 576i into an £400 usb dvi capture card that can deinterlace 50i it to a 25fps progressive scan for modern flat screen digital screen viewing and it then upscales to 720p hd 25fps for this video as (opposed to my usual 1080p as its only black and white ) . This capture card seems to do a better HD 1080P upscale than most 1080p tvs ! Plus improves the sound quality volume too. The higher the res up scaling , the higher the high bitrate and 6gb file size . Its always important to keep the native screen aspect ratio too ! I would like to find the 2k version you say etc to compare mine too. Im hoping to upload more VHS tapes, depending how to work round the youtube copyright police lol . All as part of a VHS tv and family VHS Compact (camcorder), restoration and digitising business i hope to set up soon ! Im shocked im getting similar results as some digitising companies charge upto £65 per tape for lol. 🎉

[@FP51DPO]

@@timhuggins1993 I just watched it on my PC which is a naf res, but I shared it with the Will Hay Society and all have said what good quality even the fact they could make out gladstones date clearly, do you have Where;s that Fire or could you do anything with EH returns 2 posts of Wheres that Fire great work

[@coobay4786]

@@timhuggins1993 that sounds like a great deal of effort. Thanks the quality definitely added to the enjoyment of watching 👍

[@papalaz4444244]

@@timhuggins1993 VHS is only about 360 lines mate and this has no dropouts or any sign of tape wear

[@timhuggins1993]

@@papalaz4444244 no it doesn't it very well looked after tape and I used a timebase corrector VHS player to avoid drop out and other high end capture equipment not used in most budget transfer services . The super resolution VHS player I used cost nearly £1,000 when released in 1999.

[@nicbeard2855]

On behalf of my Uncle Graham Moffatt [ Albert ] Thankyou for all the kind comments ...

[@blackcountrywench6483]

Why do actors seem better in those days. Today's actors are rubbish

[@Plymouth_Belvedere]

@@blackcountrywench6483 because back then there was a passion and no arrogance towards being in a film.

[@jaychristianson]

He was brilliant and I grew up knowing his voice so well from the films. Gone too soon

[@RichiRothschild]

Amazing ❤

[@moanyamech]

Brilliant 👏 so many laughs so many happy memories

[@davidsterckx7358]

I remember reminding my late brother about this film. He thanked me immensely.

[@iainclark5964]

One of the best British film comedies ever made and thankfully not dragged down by a pointless romance.

[@wayneranicar8530]

Used to watch this with my dad when I was a kid it was also a favourite of his dads too so every time I see it it makes me laugh and smile ❤❤❤

[@calvinaitkin-sf9up]

Puts modern comedy to shame.

[@uktruecrime]

remarkable, i grew up watching films like this 1970s, they were normal to watch on tv. strange to see how good they are, much better than what we have today, mainly because its clear their intension was to entertain.

[@jeff88701]

Omg I remember watching these Growing up on a Saturday matinee brilliant days 👏👏🤤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@franciscouch8378]

The most beautiful expression of comedy you'll ever likely see. Utterly brilliant from start to finish.

[@MichaelSmith-sv6vd]

from a time when England made such good films❤ no explosions no swearing or violence just good character acting. Wonderful cast of actors ❤❤

[@EssGeeSee]

“Next train’s gone”. That one line changed my life forever. I was an idiot from then on.

[@derrickfield8957]

I know simply brilliant. The windmill scene " don't go any further than the end "

[@ksr7271]

Most humorous, and MOST ADVENTUROUS!!!! Unique, I have never seen a film like this. And the train shots are incredible, the best I have seen so far. It beats any of the modern movies I have seen in the past 20 years. A must, and a great one for repeated seeing! Thank you Mr. Hay, and all the actors, and the engine!

[@davidhewson1234]

Added comment 12 hrs ago phone ran out. To continue ; These three are perfect together and this film is as good as it gets. Windmill scenes superb. Many thanks. Dave

[@johnnyboy666]

I have lost count how many times I have watched this film over the years.......absolutely Brilliant !

[@gcrosheffielduk]

Will Hay films are just the best. Ask a Policeman is just hilarious. Love him and his regular cast members to bits 👍👍👍

[@gailmarks3472]

I have watched this time and again for the old British language, humour and culture. So sad it’s gone. From Australia. 🇦🇺🦘

[@realitylicker]

Wheel tappers and shunters club, now i now what it meant. great channel love the good old days of film thank you.

[@timhuggins1993]

Glad you enjoyed it i thought wheeltappers was oo gauge model railway sound chip prototype train recording company i use beside as you say lol :)

[@londongirl1733]

I remember that programme for the ordinary working man. I had no idea where the name came from ❤

[@leopro9329]

Love this film brilliant I can watch it over and over again even got a boggleskelly sign on the front of my house which is on a now disused railway station in Yorkshire

[@timhuggins1993]

Thanks for watching , I'm glad you got the sign too

[@MichaelSmith-sv6vd]

Love it. Could you let me know which station it's on please? I would love to take a picture of it ❤❤

[@AXE668]

Watched this when I was about 6 years old in the mid 1960s. Laughed my socks off! Apparently, Jimmy Perry said that Captain Mainwaring, Corporal Jones and Private Pike in Dad's Army were inspired by watching Oh, Mr Porter!

[@probro9898]

This was the first Will Hay film I saw back when I was a kid. As soon as I'd seen it I couldn't get enough of him. His schoolteacher performances were classic! "What is a unit of electricity?" "A unit of electricity is a watt!" "Well that's what I'm asking!" etc.

[@davidhewson1234]

Amp × volt? Watt, Watt and Watt. Dave

[@alexlazebat839]

sadly i think they only show oh mr porter or ask a policemen talking pictures doesnt really show the others schoolboy 1s

[@alexlazebat839]

how high (hau hai) is a chinamen classic

[@rebekahleech5354]

Love watching will hay films used to watch them with me dad

[@stewartshreenan8256]

Sometimes these films come on Talking Pictures. What a great laugh;; More please. Xxx❤

[@jamesmiller4184]

If it's a Gainsborough Picture, you KNOW it's going to be a MASTERPIECE!!

[@cycleSCUBA]

Oh my, that's so funny 'Masterpiece' ho, ho, ho 'Gainsborough' chuckle, ho, ho. It's too much hilarity, i shall simply MUST have to go and lie down.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@cycleSCUBA Feel bigger and better now?

[@petecollins4925]

My father grew up in Islington and often saw Will Hay and lots of the other actors around the Gainsborough Islington Studios which were next to the Regents Canal by New North Road. The site of the old studios is now posh flats. There's a monument in the shape of a film reel as a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock on the park next to the flats.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

This is an absolute classic!

[@kurtbaker9908]

"THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED IN A LONG TIME, IT WAS JUSST GREAT. I WENT BACK TO THE BEGINING AND WATCH IT AGAIN. TOO BAD THEY CAN'T OR WON'T MAKE MOVIES LIKE THIS TODAY. THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT..."

[@timhuggins1993]

Thanks for the nice comment try watching talking pictures TV in the UK for many old classic TV shows and films in black white

[@questionmark9819]

They can make films like this, it is possible but they will not choose to make them.

[@tartanmctwisted4223]

They dont have the writers producers directors or actors with a grain of talent today. No more classics I'm sad to say.

[@rbrooks2007]

Strangely enough, if you get hold of the great documentary on DVD entitled Who Killed British Cinema, the actors and studio executives from the very country who made a concerted effort to kill it, say that we should make films as we did, not what we think they in Hollywood see us doing. All hail the French CNC who say the same thing. If you see any film with the opening credit [STUDIO][CANAL] then thank the French (CANAL+ the parent company) as they're the major player in archiving our British films for posterity.

[@eddiesilver.7915]

Totally agree love it.

[@happyfeet4506]

This bring memories flooding back they used to show these films on bbc 2 after 6pm. Thanks for the memories ♥️

[@johnd8892]

Sunday afternoons in Australia on the ABC . Our equivalent of the BBC.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful! Will Hay’s best film and in really excellent picture quality!!!

[@timhuggins1993]

I think so too! thankyou i put much tv industry digitisation process research into this and spent £600 plus on all equipment too plus my othewr vhs tape vids worth thesee results . Thanks !

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

Just found this... fabulous! How wonderful to watch pure simple entertainment from wonderful people who knew their craft. Will Hay was a genius, likewise Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott. I can watch them over and over, and never get tired. Such talent no longer exists.

[@Harry-me1zq]

Albert going out on the windmill sail "shall i go to the end" ? Hay "yes but don't go past the end". So simple yet true.

[@stewartshreenan8256]

Great and funny films. All the best. Made me laugh out loud. Still love to watch them. They should put them back on the TV. Xxx❤

[@alanmckay1300]

one of the best films ever made,nice to see that whoever put this on has vamped up the sound and picture quality,i love all the old british comedys,its a shame that kids will never see films like this again it might make them better people instead of spoiled brats,rip will,and crew,

[@timhuggins1993]

Thank you for the lovely comment regarding the improved quality video and sound . I myself did that work it's pity I couldn't erase the traditional crackle of audio per old films on TV maybe with a digital audio converter but I'm impressed with the improved scaling I achieved with it . A good £600 hundred pounds in buying kit pc video kit with a super VHS unit player that sold for £500 in the year 1999 does give results better results , not forgetting keeping the native aspect ratio for no fat stretched people here 😁!

[@dahliagreen5919]

@@timhuggins1993 Well done for your work in preserving these old classics. As well as the wholesome entertainment, they're a valuable record of many aspects and human qualities of everyday life, and scenes now lost to us.

[@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475]

I'm 23 and I grew up with these films after my grandparents showed them to me and I loved them then and still do now. So much so, they have influenced my comedy in the works that I do myself.

[@franklee1685]

@@dahliagreen5919 o

[@VilhelmHammershoi1666]

Oh dare you the ghost train is the best film ever

[@darkestserenity6775]

Chemistry between these 3 is absolute magic laughed all the way through thanks

[@coobay4786]

Stumbled on to this movie and glad I did. Great comedy 😁

[@reeritz1280]

TY for an excellent, fun b&w movie! Parts of this comedy reminded me of a Benny Hill skit~Worth watching👍☺👍☺👍☺👍☺👍☺👍☺👍☺

[@timhuggins1993]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@SueLyons1]

Great plot, acting and characters. The young girl was very convincing too 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@lizday8140]

That was a really fun film. My Great-grandfather retired from the old Santa Fe railroad here in Texas. That movie definitely made me think of him.

[@timhuggins1993]

Many thanks, ye olde American railroads which only freight is of main benefit to the US citizen nowadys . it took alot of effort and money to find the right equipment and learn the right skills to convert it to digital . i think i have will hay Ask a policeman too somewhere which hopefully is as good condition as this vhs tape was as having that to start with helps the alot ! i have other VHS converts and tv recordings in herited from my late grandad a video camera fanatic on my channel too :) Long work in progress

[@Marty2011uk]

Will Hay was a genius, speaking 7 Languages fluently and having an Asteroid named after him that he spotted. He really had a full Life.

[@ftumschk]

He was also an accomplished astronomer, and discovered a "Great White Spot" on Saturn. He had already been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society before his film career kicked off.

[@oscargrainger2962]

He was also an accomplished pilot. He taught Amy Johnson to fly.

[@grindelston5968]

Really? Compare that to actors of today it's almost like stupidity is now a virtue

[@stevengriffin7873]

@@grindelston5968 They are truly of the time.

[@michellefalleur960]

​@@grindelston5968 Yes, so true

[@daneelolivaw602]

wonderful stuff.

[@AB-kx4nc]

Absolutely enjoyed that.

[@neilmurrell281]

It just doesn't get any better than Will Hay I've loved his films since I was a kid. Thank you 😊

[@stewartshreenan8256]

I've got the box set. He's a genius of comedy. On a Saturday all my family members hurried home when we read one of his movies was on. Still really enjoy them. Happy days;; xx😅

[@timhuggins1993]

Great memory

[@deangilbourne1258]

I am a massive fan.

[@dorothyorr3724]

I love Will Hay, his cast members , totally addicted to this funny man... I have his box set and treasure it

[@Senna-xi1gr]

I love these guys. I have the Will Hay box set at home. Never stop laughing. 👍🇬🇧

[@Isleofskye]

I have visited Will Hay's grave in Rowan Road, Streatham Cemetary in South East London..

[@StarWarsJay]

My grandad loved this. Made me watch it on vhs tons of times. Great memories. Thank you.

[@london19657]

When he picks up his pocket-watch and listens to it, after a train ran over it, cracked me up. Thanks, Classic film.

[@bingbong7316]

Classic! Great digital transfer, just watched it on a smartphone and could pick out the detail. "Well, take one of the 'k's out", excellent!

[@hootenanny1001]

Thank you for posting this film. Wonderful!

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

Thank you for posting this. Being an “ Old timer “ it brought back a lot of happy memories of friends and a time when life seemed much simpler.

[@stewartshreenan8256]

I love watching Will Hay films. He was so funny. I particularly like the one where he's a fireman and arrives so late to put the fire out he reads about it in the paper the next day. An absolute gem of a film. Haha xx😂

[@tonyluxton3726]

These films are timeless never get tired of watching them

[@501sqn3]

Just the best , so so funny, the lines , the impeccable timing and delivery... just the best 😂😂😂🤣👏👏👏

[@Bitter765]

This is without a doubt my favorite movie thank you for posting this video

[@CornbreadOracle]

Utterly charming. Thank you.

[@fishman501]

Magnificent film, laughs from start to terminus.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Pretty damn good old movie !!.

[@neilgadsby3924]

One of my all time favourite films.

[@floatershaw]

Hey Tim thanks for a great copy of oh mr porter this team is as funny today as they was all those years ago ,, 😂😂😂

[@timhuggins1993]

Yes they are glad you loved it like me a child !

[@MrRawMonkey]

Great film, one of my favourites.

[@blackthorne57]

Many thanks for uploading such a good quality print. I first saw this film about 70 years ago at Saturday Morning Picture Club in my local cinema. As a ten-year-old boy, I found it very funny and exciting. Over all the years, it has lost none of its magic.

[@mikestanyer6175]

You lucky lucky man. Im envious. I cant imagine the ecxitement of going to to the picturehouse to see these classics

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

love these old films can time travel for an hour or so, my family here in the UK in the forties and fifties used to go to the cinema two or three times a week and would have seen a lot of these films, at interval time my grandfather would buy an ice cream for my uncle and the usherette would deliver it to where he was sitting with his mates

[@harpothehealer]

Will Hay , absolutely fantastic thanks for posting, best regards

[@moanyamech]

Used to watch these with my father a life ago. Happy memories. "next trains gone!" lol

[@Eltonlaleham]

I wish I had been born in 1937 or even earlier I was born in 1969 but I wish I had been born in 1937 and I am sure life was probably easier and safer to live then

[@BroonParker]

My parents were evacuated because of the blitz, with my father never meeting his father until he was 4 years old or thereabouts. And on my mother's side, our family business was firebombed in January 1941. So I'd have to disagree a tad with your post.

[@BroonParker]

And by the way, both parents were big fans of this film.

[@michellefalleur960]

People very often think the past was better, including myself, but definitely not always the case

[@josephhammond5345]

It is always the privilege of the present to idolise the past. Who can say if that’s right

[@londongirl1733]

Well I think it looks much nicer even if it was harder. At least it looked like the England I no longer recognise.

[@stephengodsmark4353]

What a great film. Will Hay was great and the chemistry between the three is just magic. Here! Thats my medicine. I'm just as ill as you are. Brilliant.

[@mrchairman08]

Thanks Tim for a great laugh 11 min. after midnight from Upstate New York

[@gailcrowe727]

These little Will Hay films are very funny. My favourite is the one about the fire station. My children used to like them when they young as well, they thought they were hilarious.

[@timhuggins1993]

Thanks for watching I found these films funny when I watched thee as an 7yr old too , namely this film was my siblings favourite put of the other 6 or so films we used to have but now unfortunately do not . "Where's that fire might be the one you are referring to ?

[@gailcrowe727]

@@timhuggins1993 Yes, I think it is, it’s very funny.

[@siversurfer3541]

Gail Crowe Black sheep of Whitehall,was another classic.

[@jamesfleming2909]

Upload more films i could watch these all day

[@stephenchecksfield632]

Absolutely fantastic comedy film as I have the entire Will Hay collection on dvd myself very funny and frankly underarrated black and white comedies that should be shown on TV much more granted oh Mr porter is my personal favourite Will Hay film followed by the movie The Goose steps out fantastic black and white films and very much a very underarrated comedy actor 😊

[@sporkfindus4777]

Wow! This was really good and exciting at the end. Brilliant acting, sets, camera work and stunts. Excellent quality in HD too. Thanks for uploading.

[@timhuggins1993]

Awesome, thank you! i think so too ! thankyou i put much tv industry digitisation process research into this and spent £600 plus on all equipment too plus my other vhs tape vids worth these results . Thanks !

[@1topbloke]

Watched this at Saturday morning pictures! Best 5p I ever spent!

[@thestocktonflyer4059]

Great film. 😊thank you 😊 😊

[@StevieB759]

All time favourite film! Have it on DVD - Treasured possession!

[@timhuggins1993]

and now you have it on here too ! How does the dvd quality of yours stack up to my example ? :)

[@novakingood3788]

Loved this film since I was a kid! Filmed at the long gone Cliddesden station, just south of Basingstoke, on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, which had been closed some five years before this film was made. The opening credits were obviously filmed from the back of a train or loco and then run backwards unless there was some major wrong line running allowed which I somehow doubt!

[@frglee]

Starring the Kent and East Sussex Railway locomotive No.2 'Northiam' as SRNI locomotive 'Gladstone'. (With some alterations, notably the long chimney)

[@esmeephillips5888]

They lifted the line as soon as the shooting finished.

[@robertsmith3672]

@@frglee That answered my curiosity. Silver Link was the first entry I made in my IanAllan book in 1958

[@jnuttso1]

What a pleasure to watch a classic film 🎥 like this with such a fantastic quality picture 👍😁

[@timhuggins1993]

Many thanks, it took alot of effort and money to find the right equipment and learn the right skills to convert it to digital . i think i have will hay ask apoliceman too somewhere which hopefully is as good condition as this vhs tape was as having that to start with helps the alot ! i have other VHS converts and tv recordings in herited from my late video camera fanatic on my channel too :) Long work in progress

[@jnuttso1]

@@timhuggins1993 thanks information I was laughing so much watching it 😆 when he was eating the sweets and he said i like the black ones and his father said I don't i suck them and put them back in the pack 🤣

[@mathewgreen4099]

Excellent from start to finish. Many thanks for posting.

[@timhuggins1993]

You are welcome!

[@archstanton5603]

For those who may be interested, whilst Buggleskelly was well known as being Cliddesden station (on the Basingstoke to Alton railway) the opening sequences are reverse footage from the rear of a train at Popham Tunnels, Tunnel Junction to Southampton Tunnel and Southampton Tunnel to the east end of Southampton Central station.

[@Sky-hz1cc]

Music hall comedy in a film! Interesting to see pre-war Brit countryside. Picture has amazing clarity Thanks for your effort and time.

[@mickorders1783]

... wow , just wonderful, #cheers

[@ausmiku]

Thanks. It's an excellent reproduction.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Great stuff

[@davidwoodcock139]

Got 9 of will hay films including oh mr Porter

[@PeterDad60]

A lot better than I thought it could be. A+ Award! - Peter age 72

[@lordemed1]

Sweet, good natured...great accents

[@madcarew5168]

Great stuff..the watches on the line still a classic scene!!

[@stevecharman8420]

An absolute classic!

[@joepineapples7774]

Will Hay was a comedy actor of the time......a better time. There'll never be another like him.

[@stormhawk3319]

A true English comedy film classic. Will Hay, Moore Marriot & Graham Moffat were a brilliant comedy trio.

[@philwright6940]

Thank you for this classic Will Hay

[@texasranger4656]

Classic - I remember seeing this film as a young boy.........the windmill scence had me on the floor laughing

[@derrickfield8957]

I know " don't go any further than the end " so simple, so obvious, so funny.

[@stephenjones101]

The song "Oh Mr. Porter" was included on Herman's Hermits' "Both Sides Now" 1969 US album release. The Hermits replaced "Birmingham" in the original lyrics sung here with "Liverpool", obviously due to then current popularity of the Beatles and other Merseyside groups. The second verse also has a reference to Manchester, home of The Hermits themselves. Here's the lyrics : Oh, Mr. Porter, what shall I do? I want to go to Liverpool, I've landed here in Crewe Get me back to London as quickly as you can Oh, Mr. Porter, what a silly boy I am, I am, I am, I am Oh, Mr. Porter, what shall I do? My home is up in Manchester, I've landed here in Crewe Take me back to London as quickly as you can Oh, Mr. Porter, what a silly boy I am, I am, I am, I am Oh, Mr. Porter, what shall I do? I've had so many cups of tea, I don't know what to do My bird is down in London and might be out with Dan Oh, Mr. Porter, what a silly boy I am, I am, I am, I am

[@timhuggins1993]

Very interesting thanks !

[@alexlazebat839]

then adapted for oh doctor beeching

[@wilczycastepowa5148]

I'm Polish .I've seen many films. This one is a diamond

[@boogieboy1974]

Amazing film, times have changed unfortunately

[@keithrich8373]

Nobody did pompous and bumbling as brilliantly as this man.Oh Mr Porter is a masterpiece

[@99rakmakka]

Bloody fantastic

[@jeffreystevens5137]

One of the funniest films ever.

[@JohnMGilbert]

Love this movie. I've watched it twice! I love the reference to "The Rocket".

[@timhuggins1993]

Many thanks, it took alot of effort and money to find the right equipment and learn the right skills to convert it to digital . i think i have will hay ask a policeman too somewhere which hopefully is as good condition as this vhs tape was as having that to start with helps the alot ! i have other VHS converts and tv recordings in herited from my late video camera fanatic on my channel too :) Long work in progress !

[@eliotreader8220]

there is definitely another reference to the Rocket in another Will Hay film. I find it very interesting that his character worked for two different railway companies the LNER and the Southern railway

[@heathbolland9340]

❤ can't beat British films, never seen a bad one ❤

[@eliotreader8220]

what a great classic railway film

[@tomhaskett5161]

Best Will Hay film ever! 'They got out at the wrong station'.

[@timhuggins1993]

Many thanks, it took alot of effort and money to find the right equipment and learn the right skills to convert it to digital . i think i have will hay ask apoliceman too somewhere which hopefully is as good condition as this vhs tape was as having that to start with helps the alot ! i have other VHS converts and tv recordings in herited from my late video camera fanatic on my channel too :) Long work in progress

[@tomhaskett5161]

@@timhuggins1993 there are a few other Will Hay films available on youtube - worth a look.

[@derrickfield8957]

Brilliant! " next trains gone " what can you say wonderful

[@RayEdmonds-b2h]

My moms dad was just 17 yrs old when this came out