look at all those cars, they look fantastic they had character and style, cars today are unfortunately bland and boring and I love how 90% of them were British cars
totally agree the place had a vibrant life then , today it is just a big TV screen , so many skilled craftsmen and women were employed making and maintaining the neon signs that gave life to the place now sadly gone .
@@bneon I agree. It was a shame when the neon signs were taken down, but at least it still had character. Once the big TV screen was installed though it lost its character completely. RIP Piccadilly Circus.
I was very close to Piccadilly Circus (Lower Regenet Street) every Thursday afternoon between May 1967 to February 1968, for my job, the rest of the time in East London
UA-cam is pretty wonderful. One minute I was wondering..."Man, I'd like to see what Piccadilly Circus looked like in the swinging sixties" - bam. Bingo.
@TheKenfig same here, partly because of van cleef, partly for the soundtrack and most importantly, for the goofy looking yet well upholstered hotel landlady!
@TheKenfig that's what i thought too, so i double checked. turns out it was released in italy in '64 but didn't come out in the uk and the states until '67.
@nakedmambo i just looked them up. they were all released in 1967, so they were still probably seen in chronological order. it must have made people think sergio leone was a fast worker!
@TheKenfig that's how i always understood it too. it's only recently i've seen it listed as '67. maybe the bloke who works for imdb thinks america/britain is the centre of the universe and that an italian release doesn't count!
@TheKenfig same here, til i looked at imdb. from now on, i'll take everything they say with a pinch of salt! you know they offered the part to chas bronson first? that would have been interesting.
hoe you will help me out. I am making a micro budget film (self financed) and I like the images in the uploaded video 'Piccadilly 1967.' Can I ask you where you got it from? Do you own it? I am grateful for any information regards Saj
I believe these are excerpts (not very well put together!) from a film about a day in the life of Piccadilly Circus which I watched on UA-cam a few weeks ago. I think it was made by British Pathe (there should be a French 'acute' accent over the 'e'). Google that name for a contact address.
look at all those cars, they look fantastic
they had character and style, cars today are unfortunately bland and boring
and I love how 90% of them were British cars
this is the real London i know not the one now
Don't worry about it , you contributed nothing towards it but this 1 comment, silly whitey
The old Piccadily circus lights are so much better than today's meagre offering
totally agree the place had a vibrant life then , today it is just a big TV screen , so many skilled craftsmen and women were employed making and maintaining the neon signs that gave life to the place now sadly gone .
@@bneon I agree. It was a shame when the neon signs were taken down, but at least it still had character. Once the big TV screen was installed though it lost its character completely. RIP Piccadilly Circus.
The 1960s was the best decade ever! This is the London I love not the one that's been taken over nowadays.
I was very close to Piccadilly Circus (Lower Regenet Street) every Thursday afternoon between May 1967 to February 1968, for my job, the rest of the time in East London
Went there last night. Nothing like that any more. Just soulless.
UA-cam is pretty wonderful. One minute I was wondering..."Man, I'd like to see what Piccadilly Circus looked like in the swinging sixties" - bam. Bingo.
I wish I could have experienced this time.
Piccadilly Circus my favorite place of London
Love this Video. A Fabulous Decade !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😊
This is great to see. I lived in West London 1965-67, met my wife, got married, drove a Thames van (the Anglia model), had a wonderful time.
Nowadays and back then, the Rolling Stones existed and were damn famous.
lovely times before the problem of terrorism etc
I was 11 then.
Quieter and cleaner then. A lot less traffic too.
June 1967~? wow... i was just a dirty thought in my dad's head at that time...
Nice footage!
Damn you are old
this is brillant!
Beautiful then , not now .
I was born the next month that year the so called summer of love
@TheKenfig
same here, partly because of van cleef, partly for the soundtrack and most importantly, for the goofy looking yet well upholstered hotel landlady!
the month and year I was born!
Excellent footage.
@TheKenfig
that's what i thought too, so i double checked. turns out it was released in italy in '64 but didn't come out in the uk and the states until '67.
@nakedmambo
i just looked them up. they were all released in 1967, so they were still probably seen in chronological order. it must have made people think sergio leone was a fast worker!
@theDeitz Things have got a lot "darker"!
wow looks much better ...moreee better ...now there ir only one screen ONE !!!
Luxus! 16mm 4ever!
I wasn't around then = \ but great video!!
I wish men would still speak so nicely. Now it's just innit like they are all gangsters.
...i wish the women would ...oh wait must not say anything bad about the women ...but nowadays they
Chav generation today.
@nakedmambo
"fistful" wasn't released until a couple of years after it was made.
Groovy baby
Advertisements for cigarettes
@TheKenfig
she was a sort, definitely- and klaus kinski was great as the hunchback (as a contrast to her hunch front!)
@TheKenfig
that's how i always understood it too. it's only recently i've seen it listed as '67. maybe the bloke who works for imdb thinks america/britain is the centre of the universe and that an italian release doesn't count!
I was here at the Piccadilly Circus June 1967. I returned in 2005 and there were fewer light, not as bright as in 1967, what happen??
Thatcher
it looks a lot like london
00:53 I can see Harry Palmer sitting in the third row of that Routemaster
@TheKenfig
same here, til i looked at imdb. from now on, i'll take everything they say with a pinch of salt! you know they offered the part to chas bronson first? that would have been interesting.
can i use this video for my english presentation for my class?
this was the real london before it lost its soul
Its allways good 2 have sound along with the Film!!
@nuitetjuors1 I didn't know that. So did everyone see For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly before Fistful?
@ergos645 FUNNY BECOZ I DNT SEE ANYTHING THAT BRITISH IN THIS VID.. INCLUDING THE CAMERA IT WAS SHOT ON!
mossy jay: The buses were made by AEC in the main, often at Park Royal in North London - and as others have said the cars were mainly British
hoe you will help me out. I am making a micro budget film (self financed) and I like the images in the uploaded video 'Piccadilly 1967.'
Can I ask you where you got it from? Do you own it?
I am grateful for any information
regards Saj
nortecnadno I feel sorry for you that in 6 years you haven't got a reply
I believe these are excerpts (not very well put together!) from a film about a day in the life of Piccadilly Circus which I watched on UA-cam a few weeks ago. I think it was made by British Pathe (there should be a French 'acute' accent over the 'e'). Google that name for a contact address.
'A Fistful of Dollars' was from 1964, so why does it date the footage to 1967?
Next July 1967
An dem Brunnen sass ich mal nachts um halb drei bei 30 grad und war hacke zu.
What happened to society of today gone into decline no care or togetherness people are out for themselves. Society back then was more advance .
@staypress Lolz let's forget that the IRA existed?
Coca cola was on that corner for years and years
From an era when London was a bit further away for us Scots. The music's a bit pretentious and I don't like the voiceover.
No no no. Without burqas, niqabs, hijabs it is not London.