Look, Signal, Manoeuvre (1965) Public Information Film Motorcycle safety

[@IndigoJo]

The newsagent at 212 Alexandra Avenue (5:42) is still there. It's called New London News now.

[@zagozago9893]

I just looked it up. It's barely changed.

[@x66Hawk66x]

@@zagozago9893 The surrounding area has massive changed, assuming all the cuts were filmed in the same location.

[@bikerlad3138]

5:30 didn’t give way to pedestrian at crossing 😂😂😂😂 toms so good

[@simontaylor2973]

yes, she wasn't in the script...

[@bikerlad3138]

@@simontaylor2973 still shouldn’t he give way lol?

[@dazz1one]

Haha, yeah I noticed that too 😂 Bad Tom…. Plenty of time to stop, she was clearly waiting to cross. He’d have failed his test for that now.

[@keithprice1950]

I live in Indonesia and here everybody drives like Tom's friend... but it's 2021!!!

[@michaelcallan4121]

Tom should have stopped at the Zebra crossing at 5.33 as there is a pedestrian waiting to cross - naughty Tom!!

[@bsaneil]

Great stuff! I note that Tom has a rather boring Matchless 350 and PVC gear, whilst his friend has a considerably cooler Triumph and is dressed like a Rocker.

[@johnnyfartpants4801]

In the days when this country actually had factories.

[@apexxxx10]

Outstanding vintage video. Thanks, greetings from THAILAND. Triumph Trident 660 "made in THAILAND" kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqXXmXydfZmSnrM

[@sollyolly9547]

Yes, before Thatcher...when working people had well paid jobs!

[@lindapirie7021]

This was before I was born, and for some reason I am fascinated by what life was like back then, what streets, houses, shops etc looked like and how people behaved and talked. I googled some of these street names to see what they look like now 🙂 Scary to think Tom and his friend will be nearly 80 now, if they are still alive...

[@Gannett2011]

This is an ace film, I could watch it again and again. And that groovy music at the end? It's called Sheer Murder by Keith Papworth from a 1964 De Wolfe library LP. I also noticed outside the newsagents the headline "The Queen in Ethiopia" which she visited in February 1965, so going by that and the rather cold look of the riders, that would be when this was filmed!

[@xenon53827]

Cheers for that! I wondered what the music was.

[@stevetaylor8698]

Yes, here is the footage of the Royal Visit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3zSnZR5ibWFjrc

[@rowland2k8]

5:33 Tom ignores the woman standing at the crossing

[@xenon53827]

Yes he does as it wasn't in the script! Well spotted..

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hahaha just about to say that as well..

[@cliveaustin1041]

That's because British road rules were interpreted quite literally - maybe they still are? Anyway, they state that a vehicle should give way to pedestrian ON a crossing. When I learned to drive in the mid 70's I was told that I would FAIL my driving test if I stopped at a crossing UNLESS the pedestrian actually had on foot on the crossing!

[@PrideDefiler]

It was the sixties mate...

[@duncanward1718]

Great idea covering your headlight with the L plates lads.

[@hansoncab]

That Matchless was a lovely bike,I was driving the Tartan Arrow van in this it was on permanent hire to Pathe as a props van.Cant believe its over fifty years ago and those TK Bedfords were modern then

[@xenon53827]

WOW! You drove the van! I spent ages trying to find out more about this, worked out it was around Harlow and Wembley, with the final shot on the A4 Chiswick flyover and the clock tower is still there! I still have no idea who Tom and his friend actually were.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

which van were you on on this video? which part of the video timing?

[@xenon53827]

He said the Tartan Arrow van, so I guess it's the one at 1:40

[@fidelcatsro6948]

oh ok thank you i saw that... the bedford looks familiar, seen it old last many times in the 90s...the driver must be in his early 80s now at least?

[@hansoncab]

76 yrs now tartan arrow had a fleet of those tk bedfords on parcel work around london in the sixties

[@alanstarkie2001]

Tom's mate got hit by Reginald Molehusband driving a truck :)

[@xenon53827]

YAY! A Reggie driving a truck!

[@jillpearman7445]

Yeah he did!

[@daliborzak2485]

The times when it was actually legal to do something, for example to ride a motorbike and park it anywhere.

[@mojo199]

but back then people had an ounce of common sense and did things responsibly

[@shugg4524]

Wish the roads were as empty as that nowadays! 😕

[@stevetaylor8698]

Yes, but despite the empty roads, deaths due to road traffic accidents were much higher in 1965.

[@ToastedAlmond98]

6:00 The 'Queen In Ethiopia' headline on the left clearly pinpoints the filming of this PIF to between the 1st and 8th of February 1965, as that was when the Queen made her state visit to Ethiopia (which would shortly be followed by visits to Sudan and West Germany).

[@xenon53827]

I usually spot most things, but 200 points and my hat off to you sir! A stunning bit of detection. I'll make a note of that. There is a continuity error there too. nice weather on the way into the shop, then the next shot is all foggy!

[@ToastedAlmond98]

I'm not really that observant: I once watched another upload of this film from about seven, eight years ago, and someone else had pointed out that headline! I AM a little bit observant at times, of course: I once managed to work out the location of a scene in an episode of 'Sooty', purely based on the level crossing sign in the background!

[@xenon53827]

Thanks for letting us know anyway!

[@davidprice5563]

I got this on the Charley Says DVD, 200 points for spotting???: I say double that.

[@davefool6815]

Sexy music in 60s style when Tom gets a new friend who was female. Lol

[@fletch1114]

Tom ignored the old lady who was waiting to use the crossing.

[@lauramolony]

The advice in this film could apply to pedal cyclists and scooterists too.

[@elliot695]

Still a good video now.

[@ashleychurnside2245]

Throttle on modern twist grips shuts down on letting go,bikes have a kill engine switch and traffic indicators. I took my test in 1966 and had to use hand signals despite bike having blinkers.Throttle stayed open to maintain road speed when using hand signals.

[@xenon53827]

My bike is from 1959. It has trafficators !!! Here's a vid of them... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYmXhauwgL9pY5I

[@dtaberer]

Tom has his 'L' plate over his headlight! Not so smart!

[@xenon53827]

Oh, people could drive back then so no need for a headlamp unless it was dark, but well spotted!

[@MrNEILSUPERNAUT]

Wow - the main character in 'Psychomania' is called Tom as well - I wonder if this film is why? There's a part of the film which also features him as a little boy on a bicycle.

[@splevako1]

The roads are empty, holly-molly:)

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hardly any junction had any trafic lights!! motorcycles didnt have signal lights!!

[@SeanieVoiceOver]

During the first week of lockdown for Covid-19 the roads were this quiet once again

[@jaycee330]

And wide, and not artificially made narrow.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

MATCHLESS!!! Beautiful world when earth only had less than 3 billion inhabitants..

[@djedUVprojector]

"Just a summons for careless driving"... Its "Eliot Drive" in Wembley Doctor Who police box at 1:17

[@xenon53827]

Wow, thanks! I never spotted the Doctor Who.

[@ArtyEffem]

1:44 If that van had hit its brakes the moment Tom looked back, he would have been impaled.

[@xenon53827]

Ouch! Especially on a ‘Tartan arrow’!

[@caroflage6260]

Why is the learners sticker over the headlight🤣

[@xenon53827]

back then, 6 Volt lighting was rubbish.

[@PrideDefiler]

How wealthy was UK compared to the US in 1965? I think the average US citizen was far wealthier than the average UK citizen back then right?

[@xenon53827]

Possibly. I didn't quite connect the relevance of your question to a film about road safety?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Yes, a common view.

[@wynkindeworde6504]

If you crash your L plate disappears...

[@Matthew-ob7vb]

At 6:00 oblivious Dr . who left us a clue about the coming pandemic but we never listen.

[@Matthew-ob7vb]

Lol

[@xenon53827]

@@Matthew-ob7vb Well spotted! It was a UK fizzy drink range, lemonade, limeade, orangeade, cherryade, cream soda and later they knocked out 'Dandelion & burdock'. All great for a kid, but chemical stuff looking back on it.

[@annettereynolds1995]

How is he accelerating with his right hand off the bars?

[@xenon53827]

there was a feature on bikes back then where you could lock the throttle in any position. It wasn't very safe and was later discontinued. A sort of early cruise control if you like.

[@annettereynolds1995]

@@xenon53827 Ah, right. None of my early british bikes had this feature.

[@ArtyEffem]

The grip had a friction screw that could be adjusted either to hold the grip in its current position, or allow it to return.

[@xenon53827]

@@ArtyEffem Yeah, that !

[@harleydavidson801]

or you could get a harley then remove the silencers, now everyone knows you're coming.......

[@fresita_jugosa]

Fortnine brought me here

[@endomobo359]

Really, which video?

[@fresita_jugosa]

@@endomobo359 this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpqyeHSPhL2Bbrc

[@endomobo359]

@@fresita_jugosa thank you, I thought this video was familiar.

[@fresita_jugosa]

@@endomobo359 when I saw it, it was this kind of thing that you really want to find the source no matter how, so I browsed "motorcycle safety tutorial vintage" and opened every and each one until I found it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@metalman4141]

Anyone know where this was filmed ?

[@xenon53827]

Yes, it's in the main description, filmed around Harrow and Wembley, London. The final shot on the A4 Chiswick flyover and the clock tower is still there.

[@djedUVprojector]

@@xenon53827 At 3:10 he passes "Ellot Drive" road sign in Wembley, I don't recognise any Harlow shots

[@Gannett2011]

At the end, when he's with the lady on the scooter, they turn from Wyld Way, Wembley, into the Harrow Road.

[@xenon53827]

@@Gannett2011 I took the text from somewhere, but I don't know Harrow well either. Anyone notice it was bright and clear weather when he went into the newsagents (Still there) to get the paper, and when he came out, 5:58 but when he went to get on his bike, it was cold, grey, and misty plus you could see his breath?

[@michael_pole4092]

xenon53827 Do you think that might be a typo for Wembley and HARROW? Does anyone know what plant the cooling towers were attached to?