It was actually designed by scientists, Irelands best, so that it would become a straight path for the inebriated.
The first and last of its kind, as science decided to move away from enabling alcoholics and move towards educating on healthier lifestyles and intakes.
Some of the things we used to just accept…
and the forum is now telling me that you and I are now intimate aquaintances and we should DM each other. 
This is a film made in 1958, when I was still a child, showing the Liverpool I grew up in. Very accurate picture of the poverty and the bomb damage. I remember those streets, those schools, those clothes.
Any of those kids playing could have been me.
Hope you were the lucky kid who got a bed all to himself.
I was OK most of the time. I was the eldest of five. Some kids I knew came from families with 10 or 11 kids, and I knew one lad who was one of 13. Tough in a two bedroomed house. Bunk beds were very popular.
The newspaper plastering the walls around the kitchen. Now that’s a time bomb.
My uncle Joe’s parents house have the same thing, a council estate much like the ones in this film, the area in the kitchen around the cooker is plastered thick with newspaper clippings.
All of Joe Dolan in his prime 
The BBC film is a bit older than the suburb film, and both appear to be made by people who have half a clue how to frame the image.
Still, the BBC in the 50s could afford the better team and equipment: presumably some extras (actors), more dynamic scenes where they could even move the camera backwards uphill without shaking (maybe on a crane? No passers-by?). Is the audio from real interviews with locals? BBC can even have music and voiceover at the same time, two-track technology! 
The audio of the churchbell is synced with the music for a transition, details like that.
The suburban videographer knew how to do steady pans (by rotating in place?), but it shakes, was he standing without a tripod? Once he kept a clip even though it was blurry (no auto focus), BBC would have retaken that clip. He has either background music or a voice over, the best he can do if you couldn’t mix tracks . He clearly also has a good eye for scenes but maybe worse equipment and is working alone, so the quality looks poorer even though it’s from the 60s.
My grandparents had rented a camera in the late fourties and shot some clips, they were even blurrier than this, with a more random framing, but certainly a tripod.
What I want to say is, it’s interesting to see the differences in quality.
(I am editing a simple video (“how to use this software”) and there are a hundred places where I think we should be doing this better… and how do I explain that to my colleagues?) 
I believe the one from the 60s was a local effort to get funding from the council, so probably “the one lad with the fancy car and the shiny pants who got himself one of them moving cameras when he were on holiday in America.”
He also had zero attempts at special effects and living bears/dolls.
I’m assuming his gender because of the Marriage Bar 
Can’t keep up with the beeb, and to this day we still cannot.
In UK, they pay their TV license and BBC stays ad free, as intended.
We pay our TV license and our government still has to put out adspace on the stations (rte is our BBC) and pretend like it’s purpose was never to have advertisement money stay out of government funded broadcasts.
That doll and that teddy bear… 
To be fair, RTE has come a long way since the days when the best it could offer was the Gay Byrne Show. “Kin” was world-class TV - up there with Breaking Bad.
A friend I went to college with had brief access to the RTE Archives while working on a Documentary.
Before every show he did a warm up with the audience that was filmed but never broadcast.
Lets just say I have clips of the guy being homophobic, antisemetic, racist, sexist, elitest across several decades but I can’t show anyone because I don’t want to get my friend in trouble for breaching the NDA they make you sign XD
Say what you will about the guy, Oprah totally stole his schtick.
I was hoping for a mega compilation of him saying it over the decades, been saying it since the 60’s, these links will have to do for context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_(Irish_talk_show)#cite_note-52
I think you’ll get an even bigger laugh @jedidia when you realise he was known endearingly across the nation as “Gaybo”.
this is WILD, no idea why but RTE went with a very existential dread type Thom Yorke song for his Memorium video '^ _ ^
You can’t even find a single clip of him saying it, and it’s not even used in any of his videos to memorise him.
Sounds like Oprah bought the rights XD XD ;0;
What happens when you’re new to No Mans Sky, and by the will of the Atlas, it’s Friday and suddenly your System has been randomly chosen to be the Weekend Event location…
Back when we used to be able to laugh
I’m on a bus with no headphones and the YouTube play button is covering half her face but I’d know Gilda Radner anywhere 
Ironically, I had headphones and was in a quiet place, and I had no idea who that is or what she is parodying. (I know there was a sitcom called Roseanne, but I watched it dubbed and I have no idea what the characters sounded like originally!) Tragic loss of a laugh.
This was Saturday Night Live when it was just beginning. Rosanne Rosannadanna and Father Guido Sarducci did what comedians did best in those days. They created characters that made fun of themselves while helping us to laugh at our own idiosyncrasies
When comedians were funny. Comedy seemed effortless and no foul language or anger in sight
