General Household Survey

Interesting article from the BBC News magazine charting some of the changes in assumptions and values since the inception of the UK's General Household Survey in 1971. 

Isle of Wight Festival, 1970

More here. Images by Jean-Paul Margnac

The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)

John Martyn: One World (1977)

Watership Down (Martin Rosen,1978)

Nuts in May (Mike Leigh, BBC, 1976)

Dubai 1975

Great bit of archival footage from 1975 about Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, unearthed by Adam Curtis.

Genesis in concert, 1976

This has something of the long, hot summer of '76 about it, and also makes a bridge between 60s psychedelia and their more technological big rock sound of the 80s...

Godard on Tout Va Bien (France, 1972 - 3)

Apaches

Extraordinary public information film made for primary age children - 1977.

The New Schmoo (Hanna Barbera, 1979)

Economically, 2011 - 2020 could be much worse than the '70s

Larry Elliott in the Guardian: 


"In the annals of British postwar history, the 1970s have always had a special place as the awful decade, a time of economic stagnation, industrial unrest and a squeeze on real incomes. It was the decade the postwar boom ended, and the arrival of a hit squad from the International Monetary Fund symbolised that the party was well and truly over.

The analysis on Wednesday of George Osborne's autumn statement by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggested it will soon be time to rewrite the record books, because what Britain is living through now is worse than the decade that gave us the three-day week and winter of discontent".

Read more here...

British public information films

Gil Scott-Heron (1949 - 2011)

The Shining: Trailer

Just about creeps into the '1970s' category as the film was conceived and shot in the late '70s...