Isabella reporting,
The British Pathé archives have provided some of our favorite Friday Videos, including
this,
this, and
this. While this one makes old-fashioned sexist jokes about how women like to talk and shop and men sneak out to the pub for a pint, it does seem uncannily prescient about modern cell-phone usage. The post-war walkie-talkie is a little unwieldy, true, but having a cell-phone in case of an emergency is almost always the reason/excuse most people have for first buying one, just as using them to report to friends about what's in stores is, fortunately, much more common. Still, I think I can safely say that very, very few American women today ever call anyone to report a sale on offal.
Video courtesy of the British Pathé archives.
1 comments:
What a great, original blog.
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