Young People go to WH Smith
The internet. If you ignore all the Nazis, bots and people posting the laughing-weeping emoji it's brilliant.
Well, this clip is, at any rate.
An advert for WHSmith filmed in Croydon Whitgift Centre and outside the Horse and Groom. Judging by the LPs they are so delightedly clutching I'd imagine it was filmed in the late 1960s (Andy Willams' May Each Day was released in 1966, Sinatra's Greatest Hits in 1968). It's colour, so I expect it was made for the cinema rather than TV. The Whitgift Centre opened in stages between 1968-70 so perhaps in that period before it was packed solid with shoppers. [Update: Eagle eyed folk have spotted some 1971 albums in there too]
Croydon WHSmith in the 1970s was the scene of young would-be authors, #CroydonTillIDie co-hosts and not-yet friends Andy Miller and John Grindrod rushing to buy the only copy of latest Doctor Who novels as they were published. True story.
As a film it sits somewhere between Cliff Richard's Birmingham-set musical Take Me High and La-La-Land.
I am desperate to remake this shot by shot. Who's with me?
Thanks to Sarah Wickens for pointing this out to me, and to @CFBClips on Twitter for uploading it in the first place.
You can watch it here.
Or why not watch the whole 8 minute Rank Organisation ad showreel from the 60s and 70s, of which it's a part.
Well, this clip is, at any rate.
An advert for WHSmith filmed in Croydon Whitgift Centre and outside the Horse and Groom. Judging by the LPs they are so delightedly clutching I'd imagine it was filmed in the late 1960s (Andy Willams' May Each Day was released in 1966, Sinatra's Greatest Hits in 1968). It's colour, so I expect it was made for the cinema rather than TV. The Whitgift Centre opened in stages between 1968-70 so perhaps in that period before it was packed solid with shoppers. [Update: Eagle eyed folk have spotted some 1971 albums in there too]
Croydon WHSmith in the 1970s was the scene of young would-be authors, #CroydonTillIDie co-hosts and not-yet friends Andy Miller and John Grindrod rushing to buy the only copy of latest Doctor Who novels as they were published. True story.
As a film it sits somewhere between Cliff Richard's Birmingham-set musical Take Me High and La-La-Land.
I am desperate to remake this shot by shot. Who's with me?
Thanks to Sarah Wickens for pointing this out to me, and to @CFBClips on Twitter for uploading it in the first place.
You can watch it here.
Or why not watch the whole 8 minute Rank Organisation ad showreel from the 60s and 70s, of which it's a part.
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