Guitar Factory (1965)
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Romford, Essex.
Various shots of guitars being made at a factory in Romford. Good C/Us of craftsmen at work and of the guitars taking shape. Narrator says that guitar making is enjoying a boom in Britain because of the "Beat Groups". The guitars are electric guitars and a dozen different craftsmen will work on each one - "all this to make a bedlam of adolescent noise" says the narrator. He makes a gag about how expensive the guitars are, leaving musicians with no money to have a haircut.
Some of the guitars are sprayed bright red and hung up to dry. Guitars are strung. They are "Burns" guitars. Man tests the sound quality of a guitar with special equipment. Narrator quips: "Surprising when you consider the noise they make that each and every guitar is scientifically tuned just as if they were REAL musical instruments!" The guitars are then burnished to a high gloss - lovely!
David Michael from the Unit Four Plus Two takes one of the guitars and strums it - cue for a song, see next record for "Unit Four Plus Two".
Cuts exist - see other records.
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The video is about making electric guitars, so of course, being British, the music played on the film has to be saxophone music. Somehow that makes perfect sense if you're british.
"...Scientifically Tuned....Just as if they were real musical instruments"
Now that's Positive Feed-Back!
If it was said of kid's guitars that are often made so poorly that the kids can't get a good foothold in playing (I mean ones aimed towards 3 to 10 year olds,) then it applies. But here? I expect they're much higher in quality than that. I've never played a Burns Guitar, though.
Edit after a thumb up: Retained meaning, re-organized comment near end.
OK, so I looked up the Burns London models that are shown in this video. As of September - October 2022, They go for $1,800 - $2,000, going by 2 recent eBay sales. I also saw an outlier at about $850 shipped. The point is, these aren't cheap trash. The narrator doesn't come across kindly, I'll say that much. I'm not quite sure what he was thinking.
I love how condescending he is
"All this to make some adolescent noise"
I always wondered why I couldn't afford a hair cut.
@@robertraymond9107 A _bedlam_ of adolescent noise, mind. In other words, "a screeching cacophony like the Bedlam Insane Asylum." ... I think the cutting criticism was about 10 years too early to call it that.
Speaking as a guitar boy, I do spend all my money on my instrument and not on haircuts and I do resemble sweetums from the muppets because of it
At-least they had a dress code. I met Jim Burns in the early 80's , happiest Man I ever met. He did a Leo Fender and sold his baby and to Las Vegas and had a blast..pink Cadillac and all that. Hank Marvin and the Shadows used his gear(as you all know), thsnks for posting this gem.
"Just look at all of these young Go Getters, Smithers! Making those beautiful Burns guitars in their little woodshack! Excellent!"
All this to make " a bedlam of adolescent noise" at a time when British groups were topping every Singles and Long Playing music chart in almost every country in the world. No wonder Pathe News folded. :-)
"By jove," imagine their horror when The Sex Pistols showed up. The Beatles and other similar groups looked friendly by comparison, no doubt. Well, perhaps except for the song "Helter Skelter."
Insulting your customer base and possibly undermining their faith in their abilities, how "jolly well" that'll end? Though, perhaps the comment was a pessimistic one about anyone who's only just starting at guitar; they will not sound "very good" at the very beginning, even with a professionally adjusted and easy to play instrument that has thin (low tension) strings on it. Beginners won't know chord shapes, or songs, or even how to hold a guitar neck so their hand won't cramp up.
Couldn't name a British guitar company today now that I think of it
The one shown in this video was Burns. And of course, Marshall Amplification is a British company.
Watkins. Their Rapier guitars and basses were good instruments, widely used by pro musicians.
Just as if they were real musical instruments.....
I love these old films, he's almost beside himself that it's not about making an enormous Church Organ with thousands of hand-made pipes.
"Then it's time for home where the little wife has been patiently waiting for her hard working man to return to enjoy the lovely tea she has obediently prepared for him".
Burns Sonic guitars
That bit at 1:09 where the painter _touched the guitar "after painting"_ is a *BIG* "no." I see the paint had already cured, but it was meant to look as though he just painted it. And why is there no holding stick? Normally, you have a temporary stick screwed to the neck pocket so you may hold a guitar while painting, then you hang it by the stick.
Things were different then..😂
"Guitar Boys" eh!
One day the electric guitar will be considered a real musical instrument. Get off my lawn, you teenagers!
Just like real instruments…😂
Love tri sonics😍😍
VINTAGE GUITARS!!!
Yes, but they were brand new then.
2 miles of wire inside every guitar. Having made wire the old fashioned way by hand before, that hits different
comments 9 on 25-7-2022. love the rhetoric. Very funny. saved it for a laugh.
1:46 ahahah
“Is it an instrument you would even wish your wife or your servants to listen to?”
Does anyone know if burns is still going
As if they were real musical instruments 😂😂. I've never understood the 'long hair' thing of the 60s. If that was long hair, what would they have called the 70s?
My Dad told me that it was "long hair" compared to what people were used to. Up to that point (well, at least for decades beforehand,) men did *not* frequently have hair as long as The Beatles.
Cool
"...would you approve of your young sons, young daughters - because girls can listen as well as boys - listening to this instrument? Is it an instrument that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it an instrument that you would even wish your wife or your servants to listen to?" - Mervyn Griffith-Jones QC (possibly)
"Just as if they were real instruments."
Ha. Tell John Mayer the guitar isn't a real instrument. I bet he'd laugh.
Too short ... Too short ... Too shoooooort ...
I don't think that Burns polished their guitars after fitting all the parts, strings etc. Nor do i believe that the craftsmen wore suits or lab coats. Pathé- tic little film.
No doubt the music was deliberately picked out in addition to all the condescending remarks lmao
“Just in case they were real musical instruments” 😂 @ the disrespect
Honestly though, in hindsight I’m sort of with them, as I get older I like the electric guitar less and less, that’s not to say I don’t enjoy some (I adore the Kinks for example) but by large I don’t care for the instrument.
Guitars in all forms will always be inferior to Gods true instrument; the banjo. 🪕🪕🪕👍