1952: King George VI - Lying in State | Newsreel | BBC Archive
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Thousands of mourners queue overnight to pay their respects, at the lying-in-state of King George VI at Westminster Hall.
Originally broadcast 13 February, 1952.
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Back then most people wore hats,especially women!
Look at the air pollution.
I'm shocked at the bigots in this comment section!!
It was only two hours because most people were actually *working* and wouldn’t prioritise something as irrelevant and mourning a Hanoverian duke.
Oh and we had 25 million less random people from around the globe with zero ties to Britain other than they wanted to take our stuff and get rich. Our middle class also wasn’t made up of remedial pencil pushers but actual professionals with skills and intelligence 👍🏻
"At times it takes more than 2 hours to reach the hall of kings"...
Those waiting in the 2022 version of The Queue™can only wish it was that short!
The footage from inside Westminster Hall in 1952 shows them walking past the coffin at ordinary walking pace. In 2022, they crawled past at the speed of a snail, stopped at the coffin, etc. At least they did not take selfies.
As I type this, the line for his daughter is over 24 hours long! Crazy that they thought 2 hours was long back then.
2 hours is still long now! I'm sure that for most, 2 hours would still be the limit.
But for the people who had this planned as the only part of their day, they were always going to be fine with anything up to around 12 hours.
I don't know how anyone could join with it being 20+ hours now.
Thankfully I was only in it for 12 hours on Friday!
I was there, aged 18, and remember how silent the queue was. No chit chat, we could not leave the queue for anything. The temperature was below freezing on that February day and when I went it was snowing. He was so young and very much loved by all, and his death so sudden. Notice we women always wore hats in those days.
Funny how to day its entertainment...
All those people had seen the WWII...
They also learnt how terrible it was for Hiroshima and Nagasaki..
@@fidelcatsro6948 and London , And Berlin , And for Moscow. Particularly for the Russians
As always, thank you BBC Archive.
70 years years later and people are paying their respects in exactly the same way to King George's beloved daughter. Queen Elizabeth adored her father and it's nice to think they are together again.
she wouldve never dreamt she'd rule for almost 3 quarter of a century..
It's '"nice" how? Is it "not nice" to think they might not be together? Reality is we have no idea what happens so is that nice or not nice to think about? By making everything nice in your own mind you turn away from so many different philosophical ways of thinking. Ignorance is bliss.
@@wailer27 Yes of course we don't know what happens but I like the idea and the reality is that it brings comfort to some people. You obviously disagree and you're perfectly entitled to your opinion, as am I.
@@wailer27 lol not everything has to be cold, emotionless rationality. Like you said yourself, there's many ways of thinking. People like sentimentality, and it's not a horrible thing. Neither is empathy, you know.....
@@wailer27 Thanks for setting the rest of us "straight". Very tactless and unnecessary.
Throughout the whole video, you can hear the traffic, but not a single person speaking. Everyone is quiet, paying their respects. Certainly eerie for that many people.
Nowadays They’d be taking selfies and tic tocking, thinking about the IG post that will give them the biggest dopamine rush / number of likes etc.
Thats the power or editing for ya.
70 years later I went along there to his daughters my mum and her Mum were there in 1952
2 hour wait? The people queueing today for QEII's lying in state today would love such a short wait!
It's because people then didn't need to go through all the security checks that they do today.
And fortunately since it's September the weather is a bit nicer for a longer wait than it likely would have been in February 1952.
We sure would have done!
Fascinating...love history....the only difference between then and today is that people dressed in a more dignified fashion than today....
I would give my hand just to see that old Britain again... Cheers from Croatia
Thank you. Apart from Queen Victoria I find George VI fascinating and dare I say rather handsome. I read a book a few years ago about him. The guy had a tough time with his father and the abdication of his brother practically killed him, but at least he persevered with his pursuit of Elizabeth Bowen-Lyons aka The Queen Mother. She was a rock to him.
she lived to be 100 too🐱👍🏿
His daughters were stunning too. Lovely family, it's too bad they couldn't live the peaceful quiet lives they wanted to live, far from public scrutiny.
0:19 All that’s changed between then and now are the people. I took this exact route this last Friday to pay my respects to the Queen. That hut is still there as is St Thomas’s Hospital and the queue is just as long,if not longer!
I remember....
My mother was heartbroken!.
One of my favorite channels on UA-cam, thank you!
Amazing 🤩
Classy style
Austere
The patriotic town of CHILLINGBOURNE would not forget.
Most of these people in the queue are now dead ??
I saw a child in the footage, and I have heard people in their seventies talk about being in that line, on the radio.
And a young Clive myrie was arse kissing even back then.
He'll get his, OBE,CBE or whatever after his toe curling performance this past 2 weeks.
Can we appreciate they didn't have phones to keep them entertained, no WhatsApp groups, nothing. We had it easy.
Hardly any police and security, says so much about todays England and it's people.
2022 nothing changed same long que for the dead continues... If only people worship life like this... But dead can only bury dead...
One positive things I can say - how respectful que is and organized so that they can do what they want without hindering other people.
What do u mean worship life
@@KD400_ People focused on death and worship it in their minds more than they focused on life and worship it as far more worthy thing to give respect and contribution then to death.
There is less celebration of life than of Death.
@@JessicaSunlight because they were more religious back then. We worship life too much these days. England today is much worse than in the 50s
@@KD400_ This is not what I am talking about 🙂 But I appreciate you sharing your thoughts any way.
@@JessicaSunlight what are u talking about explain
Wonderful and not a mobile phone, nor a pair of trainers or a chavvy designer label in sight.
the ladies were gorgeous and modestly dressed too! Insulin resistance from gmo food was a rare sight!🐱👍🏿
@@fidelcatsro6948 insulin resistance from gmo food ?
Think it more likely that diabetes was rare because. Sugar was rationed
I bet the women's legs were pretty cold, though.
Both your comments are true, some gmo food has been modified to be sweeter, fruit has lots more sugar than it used to. Rationing would most certainly have still been in place but also there was less disposable income around, no fast food and hardly any takeaways and nowhere near (if any) as many manufactured sweet laden breakfast cereals or snack foods.
@@DottyGran247 they probably ate once or twice per day and didnt snack in between 🐱👍🏿
Wow!! From an era where real Kings ruled and bug eyed horseless carriages roamed the streets!!🐱👍🏿
Sheepish servitude back then too… people are bereft of any true self and wish to be lead to slaughter.
Not one black face among them.
Clearly you didn’t pay attention at 2:13
Surely they can colourise it
Well the channel is literally for old classic footage but I know what you mean , black and white looks cooler in a way
@Nicky L There would be for some film.
What a shame London is no longer an English city. Everything was nicer back then. London, the people in it and even the BBC.
What do you mean ?
It’s an English city right now . (Hint : it’s a city in England )
Torrie
Found the racist.
@@claresmith7437 they always turn up in UA-cam comments . They think the country belongs to only them .
Ok bigot
The history of the plebs and the proles all here in a nutshell.😏