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Market Town (1942)
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The British Council Film Collection is an archive of more than 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised by means of a generous donation by Google, the films are now yours to view, to download and to play with for the first time.
Following the development of a traditional English market town in Newark (Nottinghamshire), the film explores the importance of this central hub in encouraging buying and selling activities between rural and urban environments.
This central exchange is summed up perfectly by the narrator who exclaims 'some have come to sell their beasts, some have come to buy', however it is not just beasts that are up for trade with vegetables, flowers, fine china and net curtains also available.
The necessity of such market networks is displayed in the film, elucidating the positive impact on local agricultural business and the economic and social development of the countryside.
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@seymourt78 7 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!! My grandparents are the pottery stall holders, a lovely surprise seeing them in a film
@angelatalbot5348 3 жыл бұрын
How lovely to see how people lived then, all done by people doing their chosen jobs hopefully, enjoying their families, what a difference now in industries and people all being driven by MONEY.
@carolsimpson927 3 жыл бұрын
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@somaraking8540 2 ай бұрын
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@observersnt 4 ай бұрын
What a lovely old video I love the simple Britishness of it. And wish that we hadn’t given up so much, so easily Thank you
@laurencegoff Жыл бұрын
During the Second World War, the British Council made a series of films to explain life in our country to those coming from around the world to fight for freedom. One film was called ‘Market Town’ it's all about Newark. We may not have herds of sheep being driven by sheepdogs along the Great North Road now or dozens of farmers comparing samples of seeds outside the Ram but farming continues to be an important part of our town’s life. Newark’s British Sugar factory is a very physical reminder of this. We are all used to the sights - and sometimes the smell - of local sugar beet being turned into sugar and topsoil We are grateful for the jobs it provides for local farmers and workers. The farming community always let us know when they are finding it tough. Last summer saw drought and record temperatures, fuel, feed and fertilizer prices are high, while the money received from supermarkets and manufacturers does not keep pace with the ‘cost of farming. But whatever is thrown at our farmers, we are lucky to have such a dedicated band looking after our countryside. We owe the farming community an enormous debt of gratitude. So I ask you to raise your glasses to toast them all to say thank you for ensuring that our tables are graced with the fruits of the land. Cllr Laurence Goff Newark Town Mayor 2022 until 14th May 2023
@MrDaiseymay 3 ай бұрын
CORRECT, i HAVE A COPY OF A SMALL BOOKLET, MADE FOR, US MILITARY, COMING INTO BRITAIN, THERE'S MASSES OF DIFFEFENCES LISTED, OF OUR WAY OF LIFE, WHAT TO DO AND SAY--(AND WHAT NOT TO) AND REMIND THE TROOPS OF THE LARGE DIFFERENCE IN OUR TWO STANDARDS OF LIVING, AND HOW WE HAD LEARNED NOT TO WASTE OUR FOOD ETC ETC.
@pk_9979 6 жыл бұрын
Man, these old videos by British council are very well documented and Informative.Props to British council for documenting and preserving thousands of vidoes.
@LimaHeSilvaLS 10 жыл бұрын
I'm just wondered for these British Council film brought up from the 30's and the 40's. Evry educational and cultural. I'm learning a lot about UK life in the first half of the 20th. century. Thanks a lot!!! I'm Brazilian but a British culture lover!!
@MrDaiseymay 3 ай бұрын
WHAT EXCELLENT VALUES YOU HAVE. ONLY KIDDING, BUT YOU HAVE.
@peacockpaula4723 4 ай бұрын
How interesting and pure the scenes are, untainted, clean and so tasty. I remember people telling me when they were children all was a different life all together... One can feel it just by observing these and pick up the vibes, wonderful. Although I am much, much younger... you know I very much identify with these and brings nostalgia. Interesting and beautiful☺.
@laurencegoff 11 жыл бұрын
We welcome you to Newark our market town
@alanroberts4060 8 жыл бұрын
if we could only bring back those times, wonderful
@bibang8817 7 жыл бұрын
không
@bibang8817 7 жыл бұрын
Ck
@arriesone1 6 жыл бұрын
alan roberts Yes it would be.
@ijc9984 3 жыл бұрын
Mmmmm diphtheria and rickets lovely
@markswain5021 3 жыл бұрын
Gone forever I'm afraid ! ..the country is full of other Countries rejects ! .
@mathewgreen4099 5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, thanks for posting!
@carolynhage8218 7 жыл бұрын
Loved watching how it used to be where I live. I remember going to the cattle market as a child. Such a pity the market is no longer bustling.
@fregwich 3 жыл бұрын
This must be Newark.
@anonov1 11 жыл бұрын
Hoo bloody ray.. None of that damn irritating music drowning out the commentator like every other film maker thinks is kwel. ...
@MrDaiseymay 8 жыл бұрын
'DOTTED AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE ARE FARM HISES' JOLLY GOOD WHAT?
@arriesone1 6 жыл бұрын
Philip Croft That’s how good English used to be spoken, long vanished now except maybe by the Queen.
@MrDaiseymay 4 жыл бұрын
@@arriesone1 well arry me son, I emember it well, on the BBC Home Service. I call it affectation.
@MrDaiseymay 3 ай бұрын
@@arriesone1 IS THAT THAT ROIGHT Mr CHALMONDLEY -WARNER. ?
@nickgent9949 3 ай бұрын
Really interesting insight - feeling of community, connectedness and of importance attached to agriculture, all lost today. It was of course the age before TV, motorways, homogeneousness and jeans - there was a sense of propriety and national identity. I like Oxford English or a regional accent, unlike the terrible phoney accents you get on the likes of BBC.
9 ай бұрын
Love the RP💪💅
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
Lovely Duckings.
@Satters 4 жыл бұрын
England when it still was England,
@Domnliz 4 жыл бұрын
So true, the great is missing from Britain I wonder if it will ever return.
@Paul-md8de 3 жыл бұрын
Can you fully explain what you meant by that comment ?
@lisaevans3284 3 жыл бұрын
Yes a better England
@vincekerrigan8300 5 ай бұрын
@@Paul-md8deIf you don't understand his comment, you will not understand his explanation.
@zen4men 4 ай бұрын
@@vincekerrigan8300 But are you sure it is "his" as the pronoun? After all, vast numbers of man-hours must be squandered getting such important things right, rather than building a good country. Britain was Great because The People believed in it, and worked for it. /
@maccagrabme 8 жыл бұрын
Looked like it had character back then.
@alanroberts4060 8 жыл бұрын
I could enter agree more.
@mrpurser3136 7 жыл бұрын
Aye...these were the days.
@normannokes9513 5 жыл бұрын
Difficult to believe a bitter war was in progress. A sound recording would have delivered the roar of aero engines in a region of many airfields. Busy but functioning in the traditional manner. So different across that strip of channel with foreign occupancy and tyranny. There will always be an England if remembered only in this nostalgic film.
@COIcultist 3 жыл бұрын
@@normannokes9513 1942, our American allies hadn't really set up shop yet and the RAF only flew out closer to dusk.
@normannokes9513 3 жыл бұрын
You are correct. It was RAF bombervCommand operating at night. The American 8th. flew only in daylight hours. The RAF received a terrible mauling during early daytime ops. suffering prohibitive losses that nightime becamethe norm.. The 8th. provided the 'gun ships' destined to have a rough time. I am guilty of quoting details you already know !@@COIcultist
@COIcultist 3 жыл бұрын
@@normannokes9513 You are guilty of nothing sir, for what I know others might not. The 8th received a terrible mauling too, till they got a system of long range fighters to cover them. At the right or wrong time of day dependent on your point of view I'm sure there would have been occasions when the cameras would have shaken from the force of the engines above. I'm close to certain that you are aware of these facts too, but it does no harm to make others aware.
@normannokes9513 3 жыл бұрын
The days and nights of air armadas never forgotten. The winter 1943/44 Berlin raids was the most costly preriod for Bomber Command. @@COIcultist
@peterallen2904 3 ай бұрын
This looks like Newark to me.
@drcurv 8 жыл бұрын
Been there - thoroughly recommend a trip to (what remains of) the castle. Interesting to see where bad King John snuffed it [and Alice(?) pulled the rings from his fingers even before he'd died!]. Just desserts.
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
Wow.
@petrasant5495 3 жыл бұрын
“These are “country people” , they live in the “country”. However, “countryside” people, live, (yes you’ve got it), in the “countryside).
@azadhussainmemon3011 8 жыл бұрын
awaesome
@MrPluckacre 4 жыл бұрын
Not an ounce of fat on anyone!!!!
@Paul-md8de 3 жыл бұрын
They couldn't afford it
@markswain5021 3 жыл бұрын
@@Paul-md8de I noticed Mc Donald's, Burger King ,are conspicuous by their absence ! .
@Paul-md8de 3 жыл бұрын
@@markswain5021 And the locals are very much better off without them too !
@kiwitrainguy 3 жыл бұрын
Rationing and an active life-style.
@vincekerrigan8300 5 ай бұрын
@@Paul-md8deNothing to do with it. We ate properly in those days, in spite of rationing, and generally were much healthier. Rich people were not noticeably fatter.
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
Adorable Rabbits.
@robnewman6101 Жыл бұрын
Level Crossing in town.
@paulrickett4402 3 ай бұрын
Back in the days where there are no savages.
@100Domas 6 жыл бұрын
Who wrote the commentary?
@Tony-ju6yh 4 ай бұрын
A time long gone and never to return 😢
@kiwiwifi 4 ай бұрын
where are the burqas?
@MrDaiseymay 4 жыл бұрын
Given the fact that we were losing the war--badly, when this film was made, I'm wondering who the film is aimed at ?
@gillchatfield3231 4 жыл бұрын
The film is on show at Newark's museum. I think the information there suggested it was for US troops, as orientation to British life. Excellent museum, with lots of local information, despite being branded Civil War Centre. Put me off visiting for a long time.
@caomhan84 4 жыл бұрын
Losing the war badly in 1942? Hardly. That might've been true in 1940, but by '42 the Battle of Britain had been won since the Luftwaffe hadn't accomplished any of its aims, Operation Sea Lion was "on hold" (re: cancelled), the USA had entered the war and within the space of a year would outstrip Axis war production on its own, giving the Allies a leg up they would never relinquish, and the Germans were wasting lives and vital machinery on the Eastern Front. Only losing in North Africa, technically.
@vincekerrigan8300 5 ай бұрын
@@caomhan84There was a second Blitz - known as the 'Baby' Bltz - from December 1943 to June 1944. Not as bad as the first one, but bad enough. I thought my last hour had come when our house nearly suffered a direct hit - I will never forget the whistle of the bombs rising to an unbelievable screaming crescendo just before they hit. Those were the days.
@zen4men 4 ай бұрын
@@vincekerrigan8300 What a thing to live through! I bet it made you value life? It must have been hard for your parents. /
@MrDaiseymay 3 ай бұрын
@@caomhan84YES, WE WERE HOLED UP IN OUR LITTLE ISLAND BUT-- I HAD IN MIND, A LINK TO THE ABOVE FILM, AND THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD. MADE MUCH WORSE BY THE DEVASTATNG LOSS OF CONVOYS OF FOOD, TO THE U-BOAT MENACE, CHURCHILL SAID IN HIS POST-WAR MEMOIRS, IT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT HE LOST SLEEP OVER DURING THE WAR , THAT WE WOULD BE STARVED INTO SURRENDER. THE TURNAROUND CAME IN 1942. AND---OUR FIRST BATTLE VICTORY ABROAD, CAME IN NOVEMBER 1942 AT EL ALLEMEIN. TO EVERYONES RELIEF. CHURCH BELLS RANG FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1939.
@daffyduk77 5 ай бұрын
Not looking very vegan-friendly back in the day! At least the animals had a comparatively benign if sometimes short life
@zen4men 4 ай бұрын
My father's beef cattle got hay with molasses in winter, and had a chain in the summer that they could rub their backs on. And the taste of the beef was incredible. People who have only eaten supermarket beef eat chalk rather than cheese - no comparison. /