1930s London traffic film in colour - must watch...

[Bob Olive]

If you want to escape the gripping political scenes of today(!) and relax in the joys of yesteryear, you could do worse than have a look on YouTube following this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-jb8ydfsqw 
It is only 8 or so minutes long, but the scenes of the people and traffic in Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square, plus a few minutes at a London railway station really are most nostalgic and evocative of the time when our cars were 'current'. Men in boaters and bowlers, and ladies in their cloche hats and heels, taxis and General 'buses on all sides and noone seems to be in a hurry.  Perhaps those really were the days... 
)I hope the link works, I don't know how to 'cut and paste" from YT to the Forum,  If it doesn't work look on YT under A Day in London 1930s, which should bring it up).

[Howard Wright]

Fabulous Bob

I loved the nonchalance of the guy standing in the middle of the traffic.  And Craven A “for your throats sake” 

Cheers

Howard

[John Cornforth]

Astonishing !

How clean everything looks, didn't a single person drop any litter ?

Love the smart dressing and the casual walking pace.

[Rpm]

Just highlights how backward we have gone along with standards and other aspects of life, Interesting to note very few people are overweight. Although I'm sure if he camera turned towards the Eastend of London we would see a very different film of people and daily life.

[Charles Levien]

Fabulous film — just watched this with my fourteen year old grandson who couldn’t believe it at first. Try watching at 1.5 speed, looks strangely  like todays world — even the pigeons get out of the way like todays do!

Charles

[John Mason]

A very interesting film. Something I did learn from it was the number of buses with open stairs to the top deck that were still in use at that time. I thought they had been fazed out by the time of this film. I was obviously wrong.

John Mason.

[Mike Costigan]

A very interesting film. Something I did learn from it was the number of buses with open stairs to the top deck that were still in use at that time. I thought they had been fazed out by the time of this film. I was obviously wrong.

John Mason.

There were even some running on solid tyres (at 0.34 and 0.42, for example)!

[Peter Sweeney]

Conspiracy alert. Is the woman sat by the lion in Trafalgar square on a mobile phone?

[Mike Costigan]

Another one, with Austin Seven vans at 0.29 and 2.17, and an RL or RM right at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-k5giCm2v8

[Hugh Barnes]

I alerted the residents of another forum I frequent to this film and (assuming all the film was taken at the same time) it probably dates from between May 1933 and March 1934...