1963: MOCKUMENTARY PREDICTS the FUTURE of 1988 | Time On Our Hands | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

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Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!
These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth's 1963 BBC 'mockumentary' Time On Our Hands - a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of a century into the future.
Imagine how the futuristic inhabitants of 1988 - a society freed from the shackles of endless hard work - might reflect on the way people live and work in 1963. Its aim is to look back at the extraordinary, almost unbelievable, events of the intervening 25 years - referred to as 'the years of the transformation'.
The opening title music, Time On Our Hands, was written and performed by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
"This Buoyant programme could be repeated a dozen times and still intrigue, delight and disturb me" - Dennis Potter, Daily Herald TV critic, 1963.
This footage is compiled of excerpts from Time On Our Hands, a faux-documentary film by Don Haworth.
Originally broadcast 19 March, 1963.
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@davidhuggins16 Год назад

The electronic incidental music for this programme was created by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was her first TV commission, the second being her work in realising the Doctor Who theme composed by Ron Grainer.

@itemushmush Год назад

Wow! I was getting real Doctor Who vibes from this

@atomictraveller Год назад

my first five years of recordings all feature the mirage dsk-8 oscillator mix set at 50. every drum flops or floops every time. i wish i knew about phasing then.

@duncanpadgett Год назад

Wow! I love Delia. Cheers for the trivia 👍

@hilaryepstein6013 Год назад

This must have been quite scary to watch in 1963 but it's amazing how much they got right. And now here we are 35 years on from 1988 and I wonder what the film makers would think of Britain in 2023.

@Samiby Год назад

I know people are saying that any of this hadn't happened by 1988, but what's amazing to see is that 60 years ago they had such a forward thinking mindset, that it could have been possible if people had progressed faster back then. It's only now that some of the topics raised have finally become relevant - traffic, gentrification, work hours, robots,

@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging Год назад

So much interesting stuff in the BBC archive

@livvy94 Год назад

0:00 I've heard this song on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Retrospective album, Delia Derbyshire wrote it! It's so cool to hear it in the context it was made for! Thank you for uploading this!

@tomosburton1756 Год назад

I wouldn't mind seeing a similar show made now about 2048!

@rosegreensummer 11 месяцев назад

if you're watching this, this channel throws up a lot of gems. There's plenty of dull stuff (if you aren't interested in celebrities of the past) but the gems are unique and incredible. Try the man who retired to fish!

@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 4 месяца назад

Aldous Huxley a celebrity?!

@DavidHembrow Год назад

There were already far too many cars in 1963 and now there are more than ten times as many cars on the UK's roads. The problems caused by them have only got worse. Great to see Aldous Huxley in the film.

@Novusa Год назад

Lots of them are idiots

@leopoldbluesky Год назад

Damnit, where's my 3-day week they predicted?

@utterlee Год назад

The only thing that turned into reality was the gentrification of the inner city suburbs, rich bankers living in smaller terrace houses originally designed for the working classes etc.

@johnloony68 Год назад

I remember watching this when it was repeated in 1988, but I didn't realise it was a "mockumentary".

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Nice to see bowler hat makers still in business!

@TheStevenWhiting Год назад

5:28 "We are the Borg"

@rosegreensummer 11 месяцев назад

they woefully underestimated London house prices, by a multiple of a million (ok that's a zero too many, wait a year), but the gentrification of the east end is spot on

@prd1073 Год назад

I turned 20 in Sept 1988. Utterly "hilarious" considering the mess we are making of the planet.

@itemushmush Год назад

I love that they predicted that the USSR would get to the moon. This was shortly after sputnik went into space, so of course that would be the current zeitgeist at the time!

@r4zi3lgintoro65 Год назад

for all mankind

@louisep4805 Год назад

Wow they should have predicted working in 2023. There would be much fewer people walking on the bridge - life has greatly improved and good that not so many people are required to waste tbeir time travelling in to work when they can work from home.

@NoosaHeads Год назад

Some have commented on how accurate this was. Actually, I'm amazed at how inaccurate this is. We're all working extra hours, we're all going to the outer suburbs and the traffic's worse.

@northernsnow6982 Год назад

Yeah, sarcasm doesn't always translate in text. But I'm sure they are trying to be sarcastic.

@vrclckd-zz3pv Год назад

Some companies are experimenting with 4 day work weeks. Mostly small companies. They've found that for tasks that require thought like accounting or programming it makes the workers more efficient (I guess because they're less stressed) and for mindless manual labour jobs there's no difference in productivity.

@peterodonnell5820 Год назад

As one who started work in 1966 I'm not sure every is working longer hours. When I started offices were open on Saturday morning so the weekend didn't start until lunchtime - maybe that's why sporting fixtures were on Saturday afternoon. People worked overtime too unless you worked on semi-automated machines, then it was too expensive to keep the machines running so the workers had to go home when they were shut down. Though are probably more cars and vans (all those deliveries from Amazon and Ocado) traffic flow is much better than it was in the early 60's. My home town used to be gridlocked regularly in the summer months as long distance traffic was funnelled into the high street. Going on a long journey across country was long and unpredictable before the motorway network and town centre bypasses were put in place. One thing that didn't happen was the leisure revolution. In the early 70's there was a lot of talk about how people would spend their free time in the shorter working week and retirement ages were expected to come down, not go up. No one foresaw the worldwide fall in birthrates in industrialised countries. Who could have imagined China would have to scrap its 'one child per family' limit and countries like Japan, Finland, Hungary, and Greece would pay birth bonuses to families.

@ProvocativeSloth Год назад

The middle class gentrifing working class areas, such as East London causing property prices to skyrocket. Robotics replacing manual labour. People lacking meaning and purpose due to increased leisure time aka underemployment. Synthetic foods. Former commuters (literally) living in their offices. The only thing wrong is that most of us gave up cigarettes.

@itemushmush Год назад

The only thing wrong here is that the workers are going down to 24 hrs per week and people are saying "we want more hours!" technology has 100% improved productivity, but that idealistic opinion from the 60s that people would have a lot of free time is just that: idealistic.

@Keithbarber Год назад

People finally got the idea that snoking is bad news health wise

@morelenmir 7 месяцев назад

The dark humour being that from 1963 onwards everything went downhill, not upwards to a shiny science fiction utopia. They didn't know it but they were living at the very end.

@petergivenbless900 Год назад

A week long traffic jam and workers rebelling against leisure time; did J G Ballard have a hand in writing this?

@pendorran Год назад

That's one handsome young lad walking the beach.

@LPBineli Год назад

My mum born in 1963

@JesseValentine Год назад

Colonizing the stars? That'll be quite warm.

@GiantHaystack Год назад

Colin from Portsmouth is on the line....

@colossusforbin5484 Год назад

I remember 1988 and it was NOT in black and white.

@johnloony68 Год назад

It's a documentary programme from 1963.

@svensvenkill 6 месяцев назад

Realiy only started slowly coming in colour from 1966, first in America, and then a year later in the UK in 1967.

@MikeWhalley Год назад

Well I must say, that aged well 😅

@simonlunt353 Год назад

I was born in 1963 and remember 1988 😂

@ShadowMan66 Год назад

I was born in 1966 and the 1980's were the best time of my life!

@simmadpaul2880 Год назад

If you remember 88 you weren't there man you weren't there 😂

@williamgeorgelopezjunior8533 3 месяца назад

Well it’s more than 60 years and we still have traffic

@MartyOGorman 7 месяцев назад

Soon, tea would be on everyone’s lips

@rosegreensummer 11 месяцев назад

the smoking they didn't realise would die out lol

@wobblybobengland Год назад

9:40 Sir Hubert was aged 36 at the time

@NikHYTWP 3 месяца назад

Damn it 1960s BBC, you can't put such a hot shirtless guy in the first minute and then expect me to pay attention to the rest of the reel

@craigemmett2425 Год назад

For those wondering, the answer was drugs.

@BsktImp Год назад

04:30 Well they got right about hipsters gentrifying run-down inner city areas. 08:26 Huxley talking about AI/LLMs.

@vrclckd-zz3pv Год назад

Kurt Vonnegut predicted very similar things to Huxley in his short story Player Piano. I think it was published in 1963. In the story AI makes everyone jobless and they enact a form of universal basic income where everyone gets any material item they want for free, but because no one has jobs they all feel useless and rebel against the machines destroying them to reclaim their jobs and their sense of purpose. I'm not sure that's how things would go in reality but I guess we're about to find out.

@BsktImp 9 месяцев назад

@@vrclckd-zz3pv Thanks I've not read that. Sounds not a million miles from Forster's _The Machine Stops._

@cjryan4097 Год назад

That moon footage is sus.

@heinkle1 Год назад

A look into how AI will upend our workforce over the next decade

@itemushmush Год назад

almost. we'll still be working 40-60 hours per week unlike the people in this video on 24 hrs p/w

@northernsnow6982 Год назад

Your prediction is just as solid as these BBC predictions.

@rosegreensummer 11 месяцев назад

Man is now controlled by his technology. I work on a supermarket checkout. They control the speed you go through, making you nervous and fast, controlling your behaviour via your emotions via physical prompts (eg queue, to make you feel guilt and hurry up)

@bobdagv8996 10 месяцев назад

Sorry to hear that, that sounds rubbish. Maybe you can get a job somewhere else, only one life after all. All the best. Love these BBC archive footage clips.

@TinLeadHammer Год назад

Funny how they showed endlessy repeating mindless tasks yet stopped short from talking about alienation of workers from product and did not mention Karl Marx.

@FreakyRufus Год назад

So much wrong with every single thing predicted here. Not a single thing predicted has happened, even 25 years beyond the predicted date.

@charlesbridgford254 Год назад

It's not that wrong an a thematic basis. Walking through Paris a few weeks ago felt very much like this. London is only a few years behind. Pushing the motor car put of the city is liberating. Paris no longer smells of diesel and dog sh*t, and you can actually hear each other speak.