Petula Clark - Miser Miser video free download

Mark Magnolia

Lolita vibe

Nicholas Italia

Anyone else think she has an American accent?

Claude Drouhin

Fantastique !

hebneh

Britain had national TV broadcasting from 1936, I believe, way before the US. But when the war started in Europe in 1939, TV stopped in the UK and didn't resume till after the war. This song is part of a film which apparently re-introduced TV there.

Wayne Brasler

The qualities of Pet's voice we know well now are really evident already here. She was a born performer. Amazing to me is how made up she is here, how coiffed, how outfitted. In her early films she is seldom dolled up, presented as fresh and young. By all accounts, she was a pro from the start, always prepared, knowing her lines and lyrics, very focused but not a show biz type kid on the other hand. I think she never became a show biz type person. She was a thinker, a reader and an artist.

wyomingmali

Look at those arms! She looks like a concentration camp survivor.

Paladingrad1992

Back then, they thought 28 was old for a pop star. Most of the rock stars were teenagers or very early 20's. I am glad attitiudes have changed today.

John Smith

cool stuff !! she is a great talent at any age.

STRUGLINGCHILD

forget bout going out of the house now lol for a while anyway, X)

terentii

Wikipedia, I think, has a complete listing of all network TV programming going back to the 1940s, plus a breakdown of the number of sets and areas served (i.e., a market analysis). It includes the defunct DuMont network and makes for fascinating reading. It also lists the shows in order of popularity, as measured by the ratings of the time, and offers other trivia tidbits. The broadcast schedules are presented year-by-year.

terentii

Development of commercial TV was pretty much put on hold during WWII, but it took off very rapidly after 1945. I was born in Minneapolis in 1955, and I can't remember a time when there wasn't full-scale TV broadcasting (though it wasn't round-the-clock until the '70s). My older brother was watching TV in California by the early 50s (at that time, our dad was a TV repairman, having been trained in electronics by the US Army).

Paladingrad1992

That's amazing. I guess it was just in big cities like New York and London. I live in South Carolina. My grandparents didn't get a TV until the early 50's, because of the cost of the sets, and the lack of a local station. Back then, it took a massive outdoor antenna to get a halfway decent signal from the only transmitter, 110 miles away. By the mid 50's, they had several local channels.

terentii

Not that many, but it's interesting to note that regular television programming was first broadcast in the UK and US around 1938---in other words, well before WWII.

terentii

Those ... were .. the days! I was born 50 years too late, and on the wrong continent!

littleshoemaker

Brilliant. Had you not seen it before? The clip is often shown!

Vaughan Dharmamati

Wow ... Amazing to discover my Dad composed the music and he often told me before he died that he composed Petula Clark's first song. To really see this brings part of our family history to life.

Paladingrad1992

I knew she was popular in the 60's, but this must be 20 years before she sang "Downtown". I wonder how many people actually had a TV set to watch this on back in 1946?

vintagerosenz

It is so funny when she comes on stage and she does that thing with her head. Haha, so cute. What a star she became!

vintagerosenz

what a cutie! such thin arms though!

artbeau

OMG... It is so easy to see why she was the sweetheart of Britain... She is incredible

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