discussion Interesting job.

[stona]

Here's some Pathe film of the place where they made the models that some of you are definitely old enough to remember in travel agents' windows and airline offices.


http://www.britishpathe.com/video/industrial-models/query/industrial+models


I'm not sure I'd want to make models for a living, and anyway I was barely two years old in 1959


Cheers


Steve

 

[eddiesolo]

That is superb Steve, really enjoyed watching that.


£3 to £1500 in 1959.


£63 to £31650 today.


Not cheap at all and the craftsmanship is amazing.

 

[stona]

Si, I think you've got a decimal place wrong there! £63 in 1959 would be worth between £1,500 and £3,000 today. There are many different ways of calculating relative value and these give widely different answers.


I can imagine BOAC paying the equivalent of £1,500 for a nice model of their latest addition to the fleet, but not ten times that amount


Cheers


Steve

 

[Guest]

I enjoyed that. I also enjoyed the clipped voiceover. I became only recently aware that it wasn't only film commentators and similar people who spoke like that. I have been watching (and listening) to some old cinema films and interviews in the street and I guess that a good proportion of the British people spoke like that routinely.

 

[stona]

I enjoyed that. I also enjoyed the clipped voiceover. I became only recently aware that it wasn't only film commentators and similar people who spoke like that. I have been watching (and listening) to some old cinema films and interviews in the street and I guess that a good proportion of the British people spoke like that routinely.

A lesson in the way accents change, or people alter the accent they use, can be had by listening to how the Queen spoke then (say the 1950s) and now. I mean she still sound posh, which is hardly surprising, but not that ear shredding upper class accent of days gone by.


Cheers


Steve