The first way you can tell that he isn't a carpenter is that he cuts the wood between the two saw horses, not off to one side, causing a pinch on the blade as the wood bows. Plus if that happened to me more than the first time I would have been having a good look at that cabinet to see how rigid it was, and noticing that one side slides into a fake wall and it's not free standing!
@@annereilley4892 At the time of this was recorded, the United States was embroiled in endless gorilla warfare in Vietnam, Jim Crow laws requiring Blacks to use separate facilities & schools was in effect, and the KKK was having a renaissance. Everybody smoked like a chimney and nobody wore seatbelts. Not sure what your definition of "wholesome" is?
As a Maker and Furniture Restoration expert this episode brought back lots of problems with "I've cut it twice and it's still too short'" LMAO I have tears in my eyes. I loved the old Candid Camera.
It's so awesome to see non-scripted life from back then - the way people genuinely behaved and acted, not just for a camera (since that's the majority of what we have from back then - commercials, movies, scripted stuff). It makes these even more enjoyable.
"Greatest Generation" traits: They are patriotic They are driven and motivated They show a strong work ethic They live modestly They are frugal consumers and prudent savers They are committed and loyal
Yeah, nobody ever made home videos... oh wait, home video cameras have been around since the 19th century. I think what you mean to say is "I personally haven't tried to watch any non-scripted footage from the past".
@@kevindunlap5525 No, The "punked" shows were vicious, mean and nasty with their schemes. Candid Camera was always just for fun and no one got offended. there is a big difference.
Lol! Yeah, I seen it the first time around. I used to love to watch this show! Do you remember when they took a VW car and made the body and chassis a gas tank? They pulled that thing into a gas station and the driver said, fill er up. The man started to pump the gas and it was okay until he got up to 15 gallon and it kept going and I don't know how many more but it probably went to 30 to 40 gallon and as he was pumping it he'd look around on the ground and the other side to see if it was running out he even held the nozzle out away when they feel spout and he could see gas was coming out in it it was hilarious cuz I think the thing may have held a hundred gallons! But these are clean fun shows to watch! Take care!
Yes, I fondly remember this very one seeing it as a kid! I remember the "giant fuel tank" prank too! Another great car prank was removing the engine of a car and having a lady coast it down the hill into a gas station, stopping next to the pumps - ding ding! The attendant came outside, the lady asked for a fill up and to have the oil checked! 🤯
Me too, in norway it was aired early 1970s i think. but its my favorite too, 😁 my other favorite, a norwegian spinoff i guess. was a wooden package that got deliverd to a shop, and the door opening was ADJUSTABLE. Fun started when the delivery men discoverd they was at the wrong adress and tryed to carry the box out to the car again. 🤣
Watching candid camera in the 70s as a kid i thought it was hilarious and Alan funt was great. But then again so was comedy. It was easy it was fun and everyone had a good laugh.
They had the same show in the UK in the sixties. It was the highlight of the weekend and it was amazing just what good sports people were in those days. In the UK version of this one particular show one of the "victims" got suspicious and took a look behind the wall to find a guy sliding the shelf through a slit in the wall.
@@rachelgarcia4301 The boards that represent the top and bottom shelves do not stop at the wall on the left. The wall has a slit at the top and one at the bottom in which the shelves fit through in such a way that this is not detectable. It's through these slits that the shelves are undetectably moved to vary the lengths of the boards.
Classic Gold is Right. This was hilarious. I'm so glad I stumbled across these old Candid Camera video clips, and I miss watching with my dad, for these clips brought me back to some great memories.
This is great! I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid back in the early to mid 70's. I hope the episode at a diner where folks would be served a meal and be told they had a phone call waiting, will be posted here. When the customer left to take the call, a stranger would take his seat and start eating the meal. The look on the faces of the pranked when they returned from the fake phone call was funny!
Other diner pranks: bowl of spoon was glued to the stem with water-soluble glue; victim gets coffee with trick spoon, adds sugar, stirs coffee with spoon and viola! the bowl of the spoon is GONE! Strong coffee served there!! EDIT: That one is posted on this channel... look for one called 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻. Another time, patron is served meal; just as they began to eat the waitress returns and takes half of their peas and apologizes saying "Another customer also just ordered peas, and we are out of them now, so you have to share."
Back then, people generally had one tv and you watched as a family. All content was family friendly and it was great bonding time, something lacking today as parents and kids are each doing their own thing. This show was a definite family favorite and the cleverness of their pranks was ingenious.
Thanks so much for this one! i was looking for such a long time to find it...i remember watching it and laughing a lot when i was a kid. Thank you so much!
The best Candid Camera episode I ever saw was one where a woman drove her car into the garage and said she couldn't get it to start. Obviously all the men in the garage think it's some dumb blonde moment so go out to show her what's wrong. They'd pushed the car down a hill so it could roll in to the garage so they would think it made it in to the garage under its own steam. They'd then taken the engine out of the car so it was completely empty. Cue men looking completely confused as to where the engine was 😂 They were looking in the boot and the back of the car to find it but couldn't. Hilarious 😂
Imagine the show doesn’t do the reveal, leaving the poor guy being haunted by this event until his dying days. To make matters worse, when told, no one would believe him. It would be a cruel way to torment someone.
This used to be on every Sunday at 9 or 10 in Pittsburgh, right before What's My Line and was something I would make sure to watch every show! It was totally enjoyable, though I thought they should have taken it on the road more and not just be in NYC or LA where people were used to the unusual. Still, it was golden!
He was a good sport. They did something similar over here on the British Candid Camera. Had some men moving large square cardboard boxes around an empty house. Told the men to put them in a particular room. The boxes just about fitted through the doorway. When the men were elsewhere for a moment the boxes were switched for some just very fractionally larger. Then they said, sorry guys, we told you the wrong room. Bring them out and put them in this other room across the hall . . .
I have seen this test in my work metal industry where someone was looking for work we had a room with mechanical drawings they had to put the parts together in order just like furniture from IKIA ….remember the parts were 1/8” smaller or bigger. He had to measure twice and cut once 👍🏻 😂
Where i worked many years ago, at a school, a friend of mine, a carpenter was making a new kitchen for one of the classrooms. He was building it in the workshop, then he would transport a short distance to insatll it. He measured accurately. When he was out of the workshop i removed his cutting line on the benchtop and made a new one about 10 millimetres further along. Days later he finished the kitchen and had to install it. I went and had a look a couple of days later, and he had FORCED the kitchen benchtop into the space, and ultimately bowed the walls!! I never told him why it didn't fit properly!! Its amazing how much difference 10 millimetres can make!! LOL!!
Steve i was in the navy and this petty officer who was a real dick injured his foot and had to use a wooden cane for awhile, we took off about an inch a day, after about a week and half a foot later he caught on.
So every home project I've ever done has been a Candid Camera prank?!
LOL!
You beat me to it! It was hard for me to laugh at it. I felt more empathy than anything.
Ikr.
Busted six of my seven bellies laughing 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 greetings from Killyglen, County Antrim 🍻
Hahaha.
That's certainly how I've felt at the time.
As a carpenter myself, I really felt for this guy.
You don't know how much anxiety that would cause me.
As the ole carpenter said,
I cut it off twice,
And it's still to short! Lol!
But wouldn't you notice a 4-5" difference of the shelf by looking at it? I was a great gag though.
One of my favorites is, during lunch break, nailing my co-workers bags to the floor, and hiding their hammer and cats paw!
The first way you can tell that he isn't a carpenter is that he cuts the wood between the two saw horses, not off to one side, causing a pinch on the blade as the wood bows. Plus if that happened to me more than the first time I would have been having a good look at that cabinet to see how rigid it was, and noticing that one side slides into a fake wall and it's not free standing!
A big A+ for his patience.
They wouldn’t be able to air it if it was me….I’d be cussing up a storm
So very patient. What a gentleman!😊
“Thanks a million!”
... The undisguised gratitude of someone who has been given back his sanity!!
Lol
I agree, this guy has the patience of a saint 😂
He didn't. The harm was already done, you can see it on his face.
@@vsemprivet It is the scars that shape us into what we are. This guy never cut a board too short or too long again.
This man was a real gem. Not only did he laugh off the prank but said “Thanks a million” at the end. Speaks volumes of the America I used to know.
Want to see these types of prank except with modern day professional magician? "The Carbonaro Effect " Is astounding and wholesome fun magic.
@@randyorr9443 It wouldn't be "wholesome" at the time this was recorded.
@@annereilley4892
At the time of this was recorded, the United States was embroiled in endless gorilla warfare in Vietnam, Jim Crow laws requiring Blacks to use separate facilities & schools was in effect, and the KKK was having a renaissance. Everybody smoked like a chimney and nobody wore seatbelts. Not sure what your definition of "wholesome" is?
As a Maker and Furniture Restoration expert this episode brought back lots of problems with "I've cut it twice and it's still too short'" LMAO I have tears in my eyes. I loved the old Candid Camera.
Same. My shop is full of pieces of wood that were meant to be the same but turned out to be different.
This is my favorite 😅
The original candid camera always was the best!
It's so awesome to see non-scripted life from back then - the way people genuinely behaved and acted, not just for a camera (since that's the majority of what we have from back then - commercials, movies, scripted stuff). It makes these even more enjoyable.
I know!! That's the main reason why I'm obsessed with these videos
Agree. According to science, the human brain has not changed in at least 37,000 years, so even more amazing how our behavior can change in 60 years.
"Greatest Generation" traits:
They are patriotic
They are driven and motivated
They show a strong work ethic
They live modestly
They are frugal consumers and prudent savers
They are committed and loyal
Yeah, nobody ever made home videos... oh wait, home video cameras have been around since the 19th century. I think what you mean to say is "I personally haven't tried to watch any non-scripted footage from the past".
It is staged, 5:02 it shrinks while he's looking at it.
This is 1960s, they weren't hiding that massive 60s film camera and sound crew.
People back then really had brilliant ideas. The studio audience has been enjoying this.
People were so innocent back then.😂. Allen Funt was perfect for the narration.
When we could laugh at each other and ourselves, such innocent times.
i used to watch this show and it was always funny. No one got "punked" no one got hurt, it was all in good fun. It was one of my favorite shows.
Actually, the carpenter got punk'd.
@@kevindunlap5525 No, The "punked" shows were vicious, mean and nasty with their schemes. Candid Camera was always just for fun and no one got offended. there is a big difference.
What patience he had, most people would have freaked out. Sympathetic dude.
Measure once, cut twice.
This is comedy gold. Bless that man's patience
Wow, I remember seeing this on a rerun as a kid. I'll bet it's been 40 some years since then. Still funny.
Lol! Yeah, I seen it the first time around.
I used to love to watch this show!
Do you remember when they took a VW car and made the body and chassis a gas tank?
They pulled that thing into a gas station and the driver said, fill er up.
The man started to pump the gas and it was okay until he got up to 15 gallon and it kept going and I don't know how many more but it probably went to 30 to 40 gallon and as he was pumping it he'd look around on the ground and the other side to see if it was running out he even held the nozzle out away when they feel spout and he could see gas was coming out in it it was hilarious cuz I think the thing may have held a hundred gallons!
But these are clean fun shows to watch!
Take care!
Yes, I fondly remember this very one seeing it as a kid! I remember the "giant fuel tank" prank too!
Another great car prank was removing the engine of a car and having a lady coast it down the hill into a gas station, stopping next to the pumps - ding ding!
The attendant came outside, the lady asked for a fill up and to have the oil checked! 🤯
@@leeroth5604 they had some great funny pranks,
Something we hardly get these days....
Folding measuring "tape". Manual saw. Wood shelving instead of particle board. Ah, things were so different back then.
Whenever I talk to people about early Candid Camera episodes, this is one episode I always mention.
Yeah, me too. Classic. Alan Funt was a genius.
...60 years later, Im still howling with laughter.. and Im 75!!!
I'm old enough to remember watching this and it is hands down my absolute favorite, as I've stated in the comment section of other videos .
Me too, in norway it was aired early 1970s i think. but its my favorite too, 😁
my other favorite, a norwegian spinoff i guess. was a wooden package that got deliverd to a shop, and the door opening was ADJUSTABLE.
Fun started when the delivery men discoverd they was at the wrong adress and tryed to carry the box out to the car again. 🤣
Watching candid camera in the 70s as a kid i thought it was hilarious and Alan funt was great. But then again so was comedy. It was easy it was fun and everyone had a good laugh.
Such a clever show. Creative and very funny.
Brilliant. That is TRUE reality tv. He had no idea he was on camera. Not like todays supposedly reality tv.
To me it’s amazing that he can do this well with a hand saw.
3 boards and people today would sneak out the dock door at lunch.
quality steel saw, still good i expect, not like most cheap ones today buckle and twist and snap sooner or later
@@yourkiwimate probably bend it in a 180 and not break it, like you said good steel. Spring steel actually
Anyone can buy the c cheapest handsaw they can find and do the same exact shit
They had the same show in the UK in the sixties. It was the highlight of the weekend and it was amazing just what good sports people were in those days.
In the UK version of this one particular show one of the "victims" got suspicious and took a look behind the wall to find a guy sliding the shelf through a slit in the wall.
I still don't understand how it was done.
@@rachelgarcia4301 The boards that represent the top and bottom shelves do not stop at the wall on the left. The wall has a slit at the top and one at the bottom in which the shelves fit through in such a way that this is not detectable. It's through these slits that the shelves are undetectably moved to vary the lengths of the boards.
@@mikethespike7579 Gee thanks!
Start taking turmeric every day see what happens to your body bright side
Classic Gold is Right.
This was hilarious.
I'm so glad I stumbled across these old Candid Camera video clips, and I miss watching with my dad, for these clips brought me back to some great memories.
My grandfather, who had an 8th grade education, was a jack of all trades. I can imagine him in this video.
Been looking for this for YEARS, thank you.
I felt his frustration. But couldn't help myself from laughing. 😂
Can you imagine that happening to you, I’d lose it.
@@deborahchesser7375 Don't know if I'd lose it. But I'd definitely go batshit crazy. Because
I used to build shelves. lol
This is great! I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid back in the early to mid 70's. I hope the episode at a diner where folks would be served a meal and be told they had a phone call waiting, will be posted here. When the customer left to take the call, a stranger would take his seat and start eating the meal. The look on the faces of the pranked when they returned from the fake phone call was funny!
Other diner pranks: bowl of spoon was glued to the stem with water-soluble glue; victim gets coffee with trick spoon, adds sugar, stirs coffee with spoon and viola! the bowl of the spoon is GONE! Strong coffee served there!! EDIT: That one is posted on this channel... look for one called 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻.
Another time, patron is served meal; just as they began to eat the waitress returns and takes half of their peas and apologizes saying "Another customer also just ordered peas, and we are out of them now, so you have to share."
This is funniest thing I've seen for along time, thanks for putting it up.
So great to see clean fun.
Time has changed, if they did this prank now, the person would’ve gone ballistic and tore the whole place apart.
with blue hair
@@yourkiwimate 😂😂
@@yourkiwimate
And would have been shouting the F word over and over!!!
@@yourkiwimate
I have blue hair.... what's your point?
Carbonaro Effect is next level
I remember seeing this episode and it always stayed with me as a brilliant favorite.
First day on the job, was always some smartasses sending you to the tool room to get a thing-ama-jiget... classic fun!
Board stretcher 😂
Back then, people generally had one tv and you watched as a family. All content was family friendly and it was great bonding time, something lacking today as parents and kids are each doing their own thing. This show was a definite family favorite and the cleverness of their pranks was ingenious.
Family friendly for white, heterosexuals.
The "living" room is now dead sadly.
This brings back memories. The first ruler I learned how to use was a folding ruler.
He was still confused.even when he was told. Too funny
As an ex builder I can really feel for this guy.. so much I’m feeling terrible for him
The “thank god I’m not going mad” relief at the end.
Humbling to see how this guy handled the situation and not go berserk. 😂
I remember watching this episode live in Australia when I was eight years old. It cracked me up.
I clearly remember seeing this episode as a kid!! I remember my father could not stop laughing!!
I've been waiting for this one. I laugh so hard I can't breathe.
Great entertainment. Good days of TV. Pure honest humor. That was the big Sunday night family time.
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING 😂😂😂😂😂,---ONE OF THE BEST CANDID CAMERA IDEAS EVER ! ! !
Brilliantly designed stunt.
Such a stoic man, I would've been launching wood across the room by the second attempt😂
This old school candid camera humor cracks me up. People freaking out.
"marking the ruler" I never would have thought of that.😅
How frustrating is that, poor man. Too funny!😅
Saw this one many years ago and it still makes me laugh
I can't believe there was one that I didn't see.
Pure Gold
Thanks so much for this one! i was looking for such a long time to find it...i remember watching it and laughing a lot when i was a kid. Thank you so much!
That guy was a very stable genius
I wonder if in his day there were also people to lazy to capitalize "I".
What a nice guy....I would have walked after shelf No.3 😂😂
I remember seeing this back in the '60s!
When I was a little kid I called this show Captain Camera. 🤣😂
For the first five minutes I thought this was me in my shop.
Then I realized this guy is a better carpenter than I am.
Used to love this show with Alan Funt.
So freaking wholesome … and funny too 😁👍
Bless his heart ....LOL 😂 I was feeling his frustration .....but I never heard one swear word .....I would have had a FEW ! Lol
I thought an exchange would occur. Brilliant fool.
Use to watch this show all the time as a kid. Way better then the 💩 on TV now.
He tried everything 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Such patience!
The best Candid Camera episode I ever saw was one where a woman drove her car into the garage and said she couldn't get it to start.
Obviously all the men in the garage think it's some dumb blonde moment so go out to show her what's wrong.
They'd pushed the car down a hill so it could roll in to the garage so they would think it made it in to the garage under its own steam.
They'd then taken the engine out of the car so it was completely empty.
Cue men looking completely confused as to where the engine was 😂
They were looking in the boot and the back of the car to find it but couldn't.
Hilarious 😂
And the Oscar for funniest candid camera skit goes to
I like the cordless saws they had back then 👍
Absolutely diabolical! He probably went insane even after knowing the prank.
Thanks a million, pointing to his head!
Thought he was going crazy
Imagine the show doesn’t do the reveal, leaving the poor guy being haunted by this event until his dying days. To make matters worse, when told, no one would believe him. It would be a cruel way to torment someone.
Good clean fun. Those were the days.
If that was my grandpa he would have been cussing up a storm!
Cutting multiple pieces for one shelf!!!! Can't miss!!!😂
Bless his heart!! ❤😊
“Thanks a million!” 😂
This video is so funny !
Greetings from France.
I remembering seeing this on TV many years ago😂
This used to be on every Sunday at 9 or 10 in Pittsburgh, right before What's My Line and was something I would make sure to watch every show! It was totally enjoyable, though I thought they should have taken it on the road more and not just be in NYC or LA where people were used to the unusual. Still, it was golden!
I must have been on candid camera a thousand times, but nobody told me🤣
Good one thanks for sharing 👍🙏
I do this all the time....but I've never been on Candid Camera.
He was a good sport. They did something similar over here on the British Candid Camera. Had some men moving large square cardboard boxes around an empty house. Told the men to put them in a particular room. The boxes just about fitted through the doorway. When the men were elsewhere for a moment the boxes were switched for some just very fractionally larger. Then they said, sorry guys, we told you the wrong room. Bring them out and put them in this other room across the hall . . .
The narration is SO Funny!
I have seen this test in my work metal industry where someone was looking for work we had a room with mechanical drawings they had to put the parts together in order just like furniture from IKIA ….remember the parts were 1/8” smaller or bigger. He had to measure twice and cut once 👍🏻 😂
Thanks a million, bub. I thought I was crackin up! 😂
What a good sport he was.
happens to me every time I do a project
Where i worked many years ago, at a school, a friend of mine, a carpenter was making a new kitchen for one of the classrooms. He was building it in the workshop, then he would transport a short distance to insatll it. He measured accurately. When he was out of the workshop i removed his cutting line on the benchtop and made a new one about 10 millimetres further along. Days later he finished the kitchen and had to install it. I went and had a look a couple of days later, and he had FORCED the kitchen benchtop into the space, and ultimately bowed the walls!!
I never told him why it didn't fit properly!!
Its amazing how much difference 10 millimetres can make!! LOL!!
Steve i was in the navy and this petty officer who was a real dick injured his foot and had to use a wooden cane for awhile, we took off about an inch a day, after about a week and half a foot later he caught on.
Nasty people
This was the first candid camera I remember seeing as a kid ...I'm 64 now
Measure twice, cut once! LOL
Those were the days...
Thanks for the laugh, I'm subscribing.
I remember this one watching with my parents. Before there were reruns.
As simple as this is, I’m on the floor 😆
This happens to me even if the book shelve don’t move!
I've had days like that with no camera!
This man must have gotten PTSD from this! 🤣🤣🤣
The guys sawing action is that of a COMPLETE NOVICE
It's tough when you start doubting yourself.