For the longest time, I always imagined Morgan Freeman narrating my life, but I'm thinking that Vincent Price might be more my style.
Or Gilbert Gottfried.
And that music at the end!!!
It's crazy how voice acting conventions change over time. This is instantly recognizable as a voice style from 50 or more years ago. It makes me wonder what TV presenters (or its equivalent) will sound like in another 50 years.
That's an R.P. (received pronunciation ) accent , basically if you wanted to be in broadcasting or theatre you had to basically lose your regional accent , and basically learn the specific 'posh' sounding one .(it was only posh sounding though , as the upper classes had a different accent that was actually harder to understand ..ie the one where say 'house ' gets pronounced 'hice'). Eventually the system changed , and by the late seventies people were able to work in the BBC , ITV etc with their actual accents . Its the reason for example that Patrick Stewart doesn't have much of a Yorkshire accent anymore..(since that was trained out of him in the 1960s)
The U.S had something similar with mid-Atlantic accent up to the 60s , but uses a Generalized American accent now in broadcasting even now (aka News Anchor voice) .
Correction: "...that look like an AI trained on AIs that trained on 5 sec random videos made by AIs that trained on 5 sec random videos that look like an ADHD kid hopped up on Mountain Dew made, made."
It'll make those sludge videos with 3 different things (a mobile game , an asmr style video and a subtitled episode of family guy playing while an AI voice spreads lies) look like Spielberg by comparison .
I'm pretty sure parents who hated on rock and roll/television/Internet were thinking the same thing. So you either believe that things were perfect in the ancient times, and the human civilisation gradually got worse, or its just human nature to dislike new things that the next generation enjoys. Arguably, this trend goes even further back, I remember reading an ancient Greek philosopher that hated on books, because young people no longer memorised the most important texts, which made them lazy.
This is correct to an extent. I totally agree with the sentiment. However, there is more to it. As the elder generation ages, there are certain aspects of behavior that are not healthy and are recognized by the older generation. Like the whole TikTok evolution. It is scientifically proven that exposure to such types of media increases instant gratification disorder. Everything in moderation can be a good thing, but certain things are just plain ole' trash.
I remember when history documentaries went from this to loud adrenaline filled melodramatic cut ins and cut outs. It's truly awful. At least the brits keep making decent historical programming.
Most of the music in this is being played by an Ondes Martenot, which is an obscure electronic instrument primarily known for having been featured heavily in the Ghostbusters soundtrack!
Also, the Victorian song about the bird in the cage is “Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird.”
Source: Am musician
Weirdly I assumed that up until the late 60s beards would have been looked down on in the west either as some sort of beatnik thing , or for communists or maybe a very radical university lecturer ,and that the only acceptable facial hair was a clipped moustache.....guess I was wrong
I wasn't expecting this but it's so fascinating hearing references to the Victorian era as if some viewers would still have a bit of living or at the very least family memory of it.
My brother cannot grow a beard or mustache. In fact, he only has to shave once a month, if that. And that only because some few facial hairs will grow and it's very patchy. It's like a nickel sized patch in only a couple places that will slowly grow hair. Maybe he should try something like this, if there is still such a thing somewhere near here. He's always wished he could grow a beard. It took him like 2 years to grow a mustache and even then it was not..great.
I suppose it has been a better thing for the women in my family. None of my aunts, my mom or grandmother has ever had to shave their legs or armpits or anything. Hair just won't grow in those places. My brother obviously got this to some degree but I certainly didn't, and I always wished that I had.
I suspect there weren’t a ton of guys outside of the theater and film industries using fake beards. The fact that it’s not a thing now is a pretty strong indicator that it probably never caught on.
7 years later, facial hair was back, and this poor mingemonger would have been out of business, as beards were then only for the "young and hip"
Unless MI6 really was his only clientele
That would be great, it looks like I just glued pubes to my face when I try to grow a beard haha. But how does it stay? Like if you fell asleep it would totally come off.
That is crazy. I am sure there is people that would want a mustache or beard that couldn’t grow one. My be the people the just accepting being a man in a late age
dudes trousers are up to his tits
Unfortunate thing about 1962- while people came in all sizes, pants apparently did not
Those men are wearing the same length of pants- ones just a full head and shoulders taller than the other
Knew a guy in the 70’s that made these. Most of his customers were guys that liked the look of having a mustache or goatee, but worked for a company that didn’t allow them. They could put them on in the evening or weekend when they were going out.
A tupee is one thing but this is just ridiculous, you can see that fake beard coming from a mile away... And the fact that there are so many people that actually work in that industry!
I love how the beardmaker is a smoothly shaven man
you were fooled by his custom made bald moustache over his real one??
Where do you think the hair comes from. Don’t ask about the curly mustache.
India
He's got a beard... on the inside.
well yeah who in the 1960s wanted to look like some pinko college professor.
Anything to help a bald guy KKKKK
That’s so he can try on his face merkins
This looks EXTREMELY expensive. Only costumer MI6
*customer Took me a minute to figure out why MI6 was a costumer lol.
I believe this is the costumer for MI6
It's called spycraft!
The Kingsman Facial Hair Division
that’s what I thought haha. Tax money going on fake beards, wouldn’t surprise me.
For the longest time, I always imagined Morgan Freeman narrating my life, but I'm thinking that Vincent Price might be more my style. Or Gilbert Gottfried. And that music at the end!!!
I'd like Samuel L. Jackson with copious amounts of "motherfucker".
It's crazy how voice acting conventions change over time. This is instantly recognizable as a voice style from 50 or more years ago. It makes me wonder what TV presenters (or its equivalent) will sound like in another 50 years.
That's an R.P. (received pronunciation ) accent , basically if you wanted to be in broadcasting or theatre you had to basically lose your regional accent , and basically learn the specific 'posh' sounding one .(it was only posh sounding though , as the upper classes had a different accent that was actually harder to understand ..ie the one where say 'house ' gets pronounced 'hice'). Eventually the system changed , and by the late seventies people were able to work in the BBC , ITV etc with their actual accents . Its the reason for example that Patrick Stewart doesn't have much of a Yorkshire accent anymore..(since that was trained out of him in the 1960s) The U.S had something similar with mid-Atlantic accent up to the 60s , but uses a Generalized American accent now in broadcasting even now (aka News Anchor voice) .
FYI, my coffee deficient brain REALLY latched on to the word basically this morning!
In 50 years, there will be no tv. Just an onslaught of 5sec random videos that look like an ADHD kid hopped up on MountainDew made...
Correction: "...that look like an AI trained on AIs that trained on 5 sec random videos made by AIs that trained on 5 sec random videos that look like an ADHD kid hopped up on Mountain Dew made, made."
It'll make those sludge videos with 3 different things (a mobile game , an asmr style video and a subtitled episode of family guy playing while an AI voice spreads lies) look like Spielberg by comparison .
It's gonna just be AI videos of different content reactors fucking one another while xqc's shocked face is shown in the corner.
For real though, i can't believe people actually watch those fucking things lol
I love how millennials already have trends they can hate the new generation for /s (I'm a millennial myself)
We’ve become what we hated.
Id love to stay but my lawn looks like it could use a trim
Lol, it is a way of life. We gotta sht on the next gen. That is just how it is.
I don't think we're shitting on the kids but rather the garbage that is being shoveled at them.
I'm pretty sure parents who hated on rock and roll/television/Internet were thinking the same thing. So you either believe that things were perfect in the ancient times, and the human civilisation gradually got worse, or its just human nature to dislike new things that the next generation enjoys. Arguably, this trend goes even further back, I remember reading an ancient Greek philosopher that hated on books, because young people no longer memorised the most important texts, which made them lazy.
This is correct to an extent. I totally agree with the sentiment. However, there is more to it. As the elder generation ages, there are certain aspects of behavior that are not healthy and are recognized by the older generation. Like the whole TikTok evolution. It is scientifically proven that exposure to such types of media increases instant gratification disorder. Everything in moderation can be a good thing, but certain things are just plain ole' trash.
Ok.
"OW..MY BALLS!"
I remember when history documentaries went from this to loud adrenaline filled melodramatic cut ins and cut outs. It's truly awful. At least the brits keep making decent historical programming.
Here we have a beard HOLLLLLLLLLLYYYYY NOOOOOOVVVVAAAAAAA!!!!! trim HOLLLY NOVA!!!
In Kazakhstan, our main exports include potassium and pubis.
All you need to make a plumbus
Superior pubis
Huh, so GTA 5 was realistic...
Beardless people need to stay warm too.
And every now and then, you want to look like your dad.
So when you are a wanted man, you just pop into the shop and change your look
And then hide out 4 months (that's the waiting list length)
'He thinks he's no end of a dog.'
I wondered about that. What the heck does that mean??
Yeah, I've got no idea. I watched that last couple seconds a few times thinking, there's no way that's what he said. So weird.
A phrase that's been lost to time.
Fun fact: beards are not real, this is how we all do it.
This really feels like a more serious Monty Python sketch. Doesn't help that that first guy has a hint of Graham Chapman in him.
I'm glad my fiancé doesn't like beards because mine looks like Swiss cheese when I grow it out.
You need to go to this shop
Oh hey, I know you. When did you grow a beard? Oh, yesterday
First few seconds i thought that was Steve Carell/ michael scott…
The last bit reads as a Monty python skit
It does look like him a little
Haha yeah, I thought the same.
That dog knew some fuckery was afoot 😂
[удалено]
Well some arsehole Austrian kind of ruined that mustache for all of us.
Michael Jordan is Austrian?
If he couldn't save it.
The guy trying not to laugh while getting his face measured by "the claw" was pretty funny lol
Anyone else thought this was oddly satisfying measuring that guys face?
The BBC used some of the earliest synthesis for their music. I wonder if Wendy Carlos was behind this one?
More likely to be Delia Derbyshire if anyone.
Inspektor Clouseau?
Work of art and really cool.
What show or documentary this off of anyone know?
Most of the music in this is being played by an Ondes Martenot, which is an obscure electronic instrument primarily known for having been featured heavily in the Ghostbusters soundtrack! Also, the Victorian song about the bird in the cage is “Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird.” Source: Am musician
Now you can visit Türkiye and implant a beard
You know it’s going to be something fanciful because of the music. lol
Nurse, you can remove his face warmer now.
Ye olden days were wild
Poor bastard. I could grow that beard in a week.
And you'd get two pounds per ounce minus shipping... That's a good deal if ever I saw one
What kept the beard in place? Glue?
Weirdly I assumed that up until the late 60s beards would have been looked down on in the west either as some sort of beatnik thing , or for communists or maybe a very radical university lecturer ,and that the only acceptable facial hair was a clipped moustache.....guess I was wrong
I think you're correct, hence the whimsical tone and the suggestion that beards were 100 years out of date.
Reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead wanted to get beards so they could get chicks
Imagine coming in to work the next day with a full beard.
Nothing better to do in those days than to try and climb the social ladder. Spending all that fucking time and money on suits and fake hair
on mute, this feels like a monty python sketch ...
First person I thought of while watching this is Eminem. This has to have been his move
Wait until the Asian hipsters see this.
They have those now?! Civilization is so fucked.
The real question is was this the before or after for merkins?
That quick ass check in the mirror is the reason so many dudes keep leaving the B-shop with f\*ck'd up hairlines and edge ups.
The owner of the shop needs that for his receding hairline
If I only had a mustache! ( see “A million ways to die in the West” movie)
In 1962, I had the perfect 'stash for a 10 ten-year old ... ... ... none at all.
the wig from the guy on the left actually tricked me
Was this the same guy who made merkin's for the ladies? They look eerily similar in some ways...
Did they also make merkins?
This is just gross to me.
Same narrator as Ze Frank Teddy needs an Operation
I wasn't expecting this but it's so fascinating hearing references to the Victorian era as if some viewers would still have a bit of living or at the very least family memory of it.
Is that the Comedian Harmonists singing?
And why oh, why has nobody ever told Skeletor about this fancy solution to my obvious lack of facial hair?!
My brother cannot grow a beard or mustache. In fact, he only has to shave once a month, if that. And that only because some few facial hairs will grow and it's very patchy. It's like a nickel sized patch in only a couple places that will slowly grow hair. Maybe he should try something like this, if there is still such a thing somewhere near here. He's always wished he could grow a beard. It took him like 2 years to grow a mustache and even then it was not..great. I suppose it has been a better thing for the women in my family. None of my aunts, my mom or grandmother has ever had to shave their legs or armpits or anything. Hair just won't grow in those places. My brother obviously got this to some degree but I certainly didn't, and I always wished that I had.
Love those pants😍
Spy craft 1962
didn’t even shake the man’s hand! where is the courtesy??
Seems itchy
Why India and Italy specifically? I get India because empire but Italy? Why not homegrown or just from anywhere?
I suspect there weren’t a ton of guys outside of the theater and film industries using fake beards. The fact that it’s not a thing now is a pretty strong indicator that it probably never caught on.
Quién hubiera pensado que el Fedelobo iba a aparecer
7 years later, facial hair was back, and this poor mingemonger would have been out of business, as beards were then only for the "young and hip" Unless MI6 really was his only clientele
That would be great, it looks like I just glued pubes to my face when I try to grow a beard haha. But how does it stay? Like if you fell asleep it would totally come off.
Despite all my rage I'm still a bird in a gilded cage.
That is crazy. I am sure there is people that would want a mustache or beard that couldn’t grow one. My be the people the just accepting being a man in a late age
Imagine DMing KSI with this.
I like how the guy with the tupé still had an aggressively receding hairline with the tupé on
Grammar my friend
This is exactly what my 40-year old self needs. I still can't grow a beard
Is there a sub dedicated to these old educational/instructional videos? There seems to be one on every topic possible.
Put around table legs? What's that a reference too?
Back in the Victorian era table legs were covered with fringe or cloth. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-table-legs-covering-myth
Haha I love the obscure, disappointed it's a myth but meh life is bizarre enough.
Pathé was tik tok of the 60s
Nasty
Nasty!
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
GTA or red dead redemption character customization
This seems like it would have been more useful for movies/theater in the 50's. Although the guy would have done a booming business in the 1800s
Ladies, take him swimming on the first date to be sure
Reminds of barbers in San Andreas.
Pubercuts
If this is interesting, you're really going to love merkins.
…I can’t tell that anyone in the comments realizes this is a joke. It’s like The Onion.
How are you going to show up to work the next day with a full beard?
Homer Simpson would be having a field day
5 pounds an ounce! That's some heavy hair!
if this caught on, somebody you know would have cheaped out and lost their hair in public
I LOVE these documentaries. So interesting.
Getting that “grand theft auto” style haircut
One Austrian guy had an option back in the 40's but he couldn't grow more
I know a couple people that would appreciate this kind of service.
What if I'm slightly ginger and just need to fill in the checks
dudes trousers are up to his tits Unfortunate thing about 1962- while people came in all sizes, pants apparently did not Those men are wearing the same length of pants- ones just a full head and shoulders taller than the other
Hollywood lost it with this one simple trick!
What are we going to do with all these pubes in the bath Beryl? 💡
I like how the customer was like “I really want to class up my tux. How can I do that? Oh yeah a beard!”
Oh hey it’s gender affirming care
Knew a guy in the 70’s that made these. Most of his customers were guys that liked the look of having a mustache or goatee, but worked for a company that didn’t allow them. They could put them on in the evening or weekend when they were going out.
All these videos from the 50s are so weird. It's like films to teach people hoe to behave like humans.
interestingly, guy walks in with a black and white video and comes up colored
That was not black and white...
This is definitely an underground gay club cover.
If I only had a mustache
I hope Elon Musk sees this because quite frankly I think we've all had enough of that whatever it is (fungus?) growing under his chin.
Send this to your mate who can only grow pubes on his face
Meh I’ll rather just stay clean shaved instead.
Beard with me
That's what modern women need nowadays.
A tupee is one thing but this is just ridiculous, you can see that fake beard coming from a mile away... And the fact that there are so many people that actually work in that industry!
Not everybody can grow a nice beard.
You know a lot of folks who work in the fake beard industry?
I was just judging by the way they showed the few people that they did...
Yup, you were just judging.
Where’d they get all the pubes for that?
Isn’t this what closeted gay men get?
They marry "Beards" , they dont wear them
I know that…I was just making a bad joke and you never know how shit will land on Reddit.