1967: JOHNNY MORRIS tours NEW YORK CITY | Don't Walk - Walk | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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On American Independence Day 1967, BBC Two broadcast Johnny Morris's jaunt to NYC, filmed the previous October.
From Coney Island to Central Park, from the tops of skyscrapers to the sidewalk, Johnny takes in plenty of sights while providing his own sounds in a narration complete with terrible 'Noo Yawk' accent and imaginary conversations with squirrels.
Clip taken from Johnny Morris: Don't Walk - Walk, originally broadcast on Tuesday, 4 July 1967.
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@SBAYLISS Год назад

All aboard the RU-vid Time Machine

@brianartillery Год назад

Ah, Johnny Morris. A great TV presenter. His mischievious manner, and way of vocalising animals, was an utter joy when I was a kid. Sitting down to watch 'Animal Magic', with a glass of orange squash and some biscuits, after school. Such happy days. Never seen this lovely little film before. Thank you for sharing. 👍👍👍

@phillipecook3227 Год назад

" Animal Magic". I even remember the theme music.

@TestGearJunkie. 11 месяцев назад

Yep, they were good days, I like it how he walks round in a suit and tie with his hat..!

@andydixon2980 Год назад

I've not heard Johnny Morris since school days in the early 80s. Such a comforting voice in a mad world.

@GeorgeSmith1066 10 месяцев назад

Had the pleasure and privilege to meet Johnny in person - when he paid a special visit to Bristol Zoo. We just happened to be passing around Easter 1995 when I suggested we stop to visit the zoo. As we walked up to the gate, I said “This is where Johnny Morris used to film for ‘Animal Magic’”. We wen in, turned the corner and there he was - and he told it was the first time he had been back in many years! He was an absolute joy and pleasure to have a conversation with and a true gentleman. What a pwonderful person and what a magical day it was! 😊

@yorkyswe Год назад

Johnny Morris! Now that brings back childhood memories. Great little film!

@Seminal_Ideas Год назад

I really enjoyed watching this. There's an impishness and an innocence in Johnny's commentaries. I do miss his voice. New York was broke and declining when he filmed this and it comes across in the slightly faded grandeur.

@user-ej6pp8on8k Месяц назад

I loved the sound of his voice, so comforting and reassuring, and his different voices always made me laugh.

@kevinmurphygames Год назад

I was -1 year old when this aired. I do remember growing up watching Johnny Morris On Animal Magic. Fond memories.

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

I was just born or about too

@crimsonpirate1710 Год назад

Same

@fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

happy 57th burfdae! 🐱👍🏿

@glyph2011 Год назад

You can hear the Newport accent in Johnny more in this clip than ever! :-) wonderful little film. 👍👍

@hilaryepstein6013 Год назад

Oh dear, maybe not the best advert for New York. I was there 21 years later and it was amazing. Happy Independence Day!

@theendofeverything6356 Год назад

What a lovely chap he was!

@sammeredith5983 Год назад

this voice-over is brilliant hahaha!

@animatewithdermot Год назад

99.9% sure that's the Queen Mary at the end. Still can be visited at Long Beach in LA, and finally being repaired after years of neglect. You can book rooms on her (and I did back in the 90s, was a great place to visit).

@bonnetdedouche437 Год назад

Michael Palin stayed overnight on the Queen Mary at Long Beach during Around The World In 80 Days.

@ChrisPollitt Год назад

5:03 Skyscrapers are cenotaphs "erected to the memory of those who gave their lives, from 9 to 5." OUCH!

@CyclingSteve Год назад

That was my favourite bit. How true it is. That being NYC I should point out not in a 9/11 way, but in a I spent 20 years of my life in them way.

@theworldaccordingto4555 Год назад

Great! Next can we have Johnny Morris' Animal Magic, please.

@OlafProt Год назад

That voice. you can just hear those elephants and monkeys chatting away in Animal Magic.

@eduardo0796 Год назад

Imagine if this was filmed a couple of years later. We'd have great footage of the original WTC complex.

@phillipecook3227 Год назад

Didn't the WTC open in 1976?

@nicolepowell5470 6 месяцев назад

Ah love this man and his voice it was like watching animal magic again. 🇬🇧

@emsmac80 11 месяцев назад

Lovely!!! He does a fab squirrel ❤️

@mikebutler3263 Год назад

Yes , Animal Magic, very good. But I can remember Johnny Morris when he was the hot chestnut seller telling short stories, part of a children's tv programme.

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

Loved Johnny morris growing up 👍

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Did you stop loving him AFTER he grew up? (Sorry, couldn’t resist).

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

@@AtheistOrphan haha , let you have that one 👍

@mancavehobbies6213 Год назад

I was 1 year old when this aired

@MichaelBennett1 Год назад

I was -1

@LPBineli Год назад

Who's care?

@mancavehobbies6213 Год назад

@@LPBineli Try using English grammar .

@Ridersonthestorm8899 Год назад

@@LPBineliNo need to be beastly you pilchard, people come here to share memories and yeah i care.

@robinvanags912 Год назад

@@Ridersonthestorm8899 Though indeed partial to a pilchard, I certainly agree with you.

@CHEESYhairyGASH Год назад

Now I love this track, but when it came out I was minus one years old.

@Charlotte66666 Год назад

Loved Johnny in Animal Magic ❤

@MrMann0123 Год назад

There is something both incredibly modern but also hugely old fashioned about these clips in this style. It's easy to forget that irreverence and sarcasm are baked into British character and have been for years and years.

@bonnetdedouche437 Год назад

Interesting to see 1967 Coney Island the way author Sol Yurick would have seen it in 1965 when he wrote The Warriors. It would be 1979 when we saw the majesty of the Wonder Wheel in the opening of the Walter Hill classic.

@CyclingSteve Год назад

I immediately thought of The Warriors when I saw the Wonder Wheel in this clip. Such a classic, I love that film.

@NoosaHeads Год назад

Brilliant.

@skeletalwreck Год назад

Those "windmills" did eventually come off - it killed 4 passengers waiting to board, and another on the ground, all on top of the PAN-AM building... and that spelled the end of that idea lol. It wasn't even New York Airlines first nor last fatal accident. I was also lucky enough to have been in the crown of the Statue Of Liberty, back in the early 90's.

@phillipecook3227 Год назад

Christ. That's hellish.

@skeletalwreck Год назад

@@phillipecook3227 yea. All sorts of gruesome reports on what the aftermath looked like. One of those killed was a successful film director.

@temparalflux914 Год назад

Apparently it rather common for people to die from falling air cons wedged in windows, I also hear its not uncommon for people to be impaled by construction girders and debris occasionally from high rise construction.

@TestGearJunkie. 11 месяцев назад

When I went there in 95 the queue was so long we gave up in the end.

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

A shame he didn’t bring Dottie the ring-tailed lemur along for the ride.

@TheDavidlloydjones Год назад

I think Mad Magaine's "I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk" was about this time, 1967 or so. Sic transit gloria mundi.

@markiliff Год назад

Delightfully unhinged

@McSeahorse Год назад

Warriors. Come out to PLAAAAYYY!!!

@zamiadams4343 Год назад

Sad that 20 years later an American filmmaker called Michael Findlay was decapitated by helicopter blades on top of the Pan-Am building shown at the start.

@GlennJ1881 Год назад

Where are the Warriors of Coney Island?

@johnarnehansen9574 Год назад

Well, isn't it "The American Blackpool"?.. ;)

@Progressive_Canadian Год назад

I live in a major city and I have yet to see a Chinook land on the roof of a building! 😁

@brianartillery Год назад

It's actually a Boeing-Vertol BV- 107 II. A civilian version of the CH-46. The Chinook is the later CH-47.

@johnathandaviddunster38 5 месяцев назад

Theres plenty of animals in NYC to mimic ....

@fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

Wow didnt know it was crime laden at night back then too

@andypalin3287 Год назад

I was 50 when this was aired! 😂

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

Happy 106 birthday, hope you’re health is good 👍

@andypalin3287 Год назад

@@garryleeks4848 Cheers!

@AuntieFan Год назад

I was primary school age; had left NYC for Europe 3 years prior to this airing, and was summering in the USA as this went out on BBC2. It would be two years and two months before my family would move to a verdant isle where I would eventually be introduced to the BBC and the great “edutainer” that was Johnny Morris.

@fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

waaah you must be over a 100yrs old! must be those healthy sardines egg and cabbage meals

@phillipecook3227 Год назад

@@fidelcatsro6948Whiskey and education ....

@davidtexmex1616 Год назад

Bit bleak tbh cmon it’s not that bad!

@davidlittle7182 Год назад

wasn't he Welsh?

@TheBerzerker666 Год назад

I have it on good authority that in the era of ‘animal magic’ he wasn’t the nice person he portrayed,he was in fact a miserable grumpy old git allegedly 😂

@Ridersonthestorm8899 Год назад

Sorry but that actually makes me like him more😂😂

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

Can’t believe that , seems a nice bloke

@sylviekins 2 дня назад

That’s proabably why I like him, I was 8 when this was aired, and I am a miserable grumpy old git😂😂😂

@Ridersonthestorm8899 Год назад

Seems a bit odd not seeing him with a chimp or parrot or something.

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Dottie the ring-tailed lemur!

@Simpaulme Год назад

Incomplete?

@lewis7515 Год назад

Guy visits New York at 5.30 in the morning, in winter, probably on a Sunday - and he's surprised it looks empty.

@brianartillery Год назад

Er... Isn't New York supposed to be 'The City That Never Sleeps'?

@lewis7515 Год назад

@@brianartillery It isn't asleep - it's just wrong to expect it to be busy at 5.30 am on Sunday morning in October... It may not sleep, but even New York gets quiet.

@swaneknoctic9555 Год назад

These old clips always make me laugh. The fact this presenter is 51 here! He looks about 75! And don't say he had a hard life etc etc......He was a TV presenter, probably never did a real days work in his life.

@Seminal_Ideas Год назад

Dear God. 51 !. People just seemed to look older back then.

@johnathandaviddunster38 Год назад

He was a miner from 14 until 17 years old ...