The Story of British Transport Films (2008 TV Documentary)

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• GE

  @geoffcrisp7225 · 1 year ago

  A country destroyed by politicians just 30 - 40 years later, my country.

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• FC

  @Fcutdlady · 2 years ago (edited)

  The much derided transport &nbsp;enthuiasts of today. Male like the majority and female like me and a couple of others have taken on where groups like British Transport Films have left off , photographing and recording the public transport of our day . <br> In the 23 years I&apos;ve been photographing public transport by heck, things have changed. <br>I do wonder what people looking back from 50 years in the future will think of what i photo today , introduction of hybrid and rlecttic buses etc . I suppose it is like me looking back at the transport of the 60s and before.

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• ST

  @stephenblanchard8973 · 2 years ago

  Fantastic programme..

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• MA

  @MarkHenstridge · 2 years ago

  I have seen a lot of these feature films on You Tube and often thought about the work that &nbsp; went into making them. My favorite feature that I have watched many times is &quot;Terminus&quot; I am an Australian and I have never traveled to the UK but hope to one day. These films are fantastic, thank you for uploading this doco to You Tube.

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• KE

  @keith800 · 2 years ago

  What a historic legacy they have left for us to enjoy of past days.

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• PH

  @PhilMacVee · 2 years ago (edited)

  I really do dislike the sneering politicking added to this presentation by the BBC. This is generally at the time of post-war recovery &quot;Pathe News&quot; style information for Mr &amp; Mrs Public. Crediting the speaker as an &quot;Historian&quot; gives no measure of neutrality, he obviously has a political axe to grind. The pursuit of non-biased reporting fails here. Why seek to be so negative and why attempt to blame an elected government rising from the ashes of WW2 of &quot;propagandising&quot; when I think people were hoping for positive messages from its government.<br>The BTF stories generally and particularly that of &quot;The Elizabethan&quot; are fascinating. It&apos;s one of my favourites with the wonderful poetic narrative. Billy Williams, I thank you and all your colleagues. IWho was that commentator who said that had the snow shifters been wearing furry hats and the locomotives been carrying Cyrillic numbering ...etc it would be seen as Russian propaganda?. I have watched the Snowdrift at Bleath Gill many times and I am always impressed by the work-rate of the fellows working in such a hostile environment with their hands. I wonder how today&apos;s &quot;snowflakes&quot; would deal with such a challenge. All you did was film and watch? I don&apos;t believe that BBC type &quot;lovies&quot; existed then or did they? Does BBC FOUR exist anymore? Licence free since 2013.

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• VE

  @veeday1146 · 2 years ago

  An incredible collection of films especially as it marks the progress of my life. To call it left wing propaganda akin to Russia but benign, rather than an advertisement to promote the railways and transport is just what you would expect the Daily Mail scribbler Dominic Sandbrook to spout. Of course the Tories of the time thought such a film unit was a waste of money, they thought the same of the NHS and loo k what they have done to both in the many decades that have followed. As for Sandbrook declaring dismissively that film goers would have found those first travelogues boring, I can assure him that I and my family and friends loved them. We had no television which was only black and white anyway and to see places in glorious colour that one day we might possibly visit was magic and gave us good value for our cinema ticket. Gorgeous compilation but why ask anyone from the much derided Mail to do his best to poo poo it.

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• EL

  @elrjames7799 · 2 years ago

  Focusing not on footage recorded by aspiring youngsters, but rather the reminiscences of those of them who have grown old.

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• BR

  @brianfaulkner7446 · 3 years ago

  What have they done to my England, idiots.

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• ZE

  @zeppo7238 · 3 years ago

  The question has to be asked why do the Tories always show disdain and contempt for the working class. These films are beyond brilliance for they show the real hard grind of every day life for the average working man and woman. <br>Brexit is now the karma that the Tories embraced to the detriment of decent British workers.

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• BR

  @brianhepke7182 · 3 years ago

  That was brilliant. I love this old footage showing how life was back then. <br>And these guys went onto to greater things how wonderful is that. <br>I liked the last comment about how making these films had a bearing on future careers. I can relate to that having been in similar circumstances... not in film making but something else in the arts.

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• RA

  @raymondpearce5245 · 3 years ago

  I like your video guys brilliant

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