Luxury High Tech Bed: A Gadget Lover's Dream (1959) | British Pathé
Check out this £2,500 high tech luxury bed from 1959! It is chock full of gadgets and everyday conveniences from the headboard to the foot of the bed, most importantly a space for your cup of tea.
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M/S of a bedroom. A girl wearing a night gown (Ms Jean Clarke) is getting ready for bed. Another girl (Ms Pat Howdon) is lying in bed. Two girls’ beds are approximately one foot apart. Ms Clarke joins the two beds before lying down. M/S of the two girls in bed. Ms Clarke is holding control box in her hands (little white box with four buttons) and presses one of the buttons. Top of the bed rises so the girls can sit and chat.
C/U shot of the control box with buttons. Girl presses one of the buttons. Cut to a bottom of the bed as it rises up (good for tired legs). C/U shot of Ms Clarke’s face as she watches the bed rise. She, then, reaches to a drawer on her side of the bed and opens it. Top C/U shot of a tape recorder being switched on. Ms Howdon opens the drawer and finds ‘vibro-massage’ machine at her side of the bed. C/U shot of Ms Howdon’s face as she massages her chin – lots of make-up, great eyebrows.
C/U top shot of the bed’s control panel. Several shots demonstrating how, and what for, control panel is used. Just by pressing the button one can open and close curtains, switch the lights on and off, heat a mattress, have intercom connection, telephone line and operate a TV set found at the bottom of the bed. Furthermore, one can have a cup of tea or coffee without leaving the bed.
M/S of Ms Howdon opening a bottom drawer at her side of the bed. High angle C/U shot reveals a tea set. Ms Howdon takes the cups and the teapot out and places them on the little tray on top of the drawer. C/U shot of two cups and the teapot. Ms Howdon pours the tea and gives one cup to Ms Clarke. Girls enjoying tea in bed.
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Nothing is new under that sun 🌞, just perfected and modernized for we are a never ending evolving species ✨
How many people in 2022 have anything like this. Boy what happened to our future. Still no flying cars…ha ha
I get Glen Quagmire vibes
Black haired girl * takes out the _massage machine_ *
Blonde * immediately closes lights and curtains *
Yeppp
I bet they will press buttons all night 🤭
A vibrator that “knows a wrinkle or two” is WILD
Even without the bed I’m still pressing buttons all night.
All I could see in those beds with shelves on the ends where upper shin murderers.
Pictured: BFFs having a sleepover
They had lesbians back in the 50s?
Love these classic old Pathe clips!
In 1959 the suggested cost of £2500 was astronomical!
Amazing! Not sure how it was justified.
Those women are wearing a lot of makeup if they’re planning to go to sleep. I suspect they’re planning to have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night instead.
Guess where I’m watching this 🍵
Want one!!
Gaming bed
Ladies then were too beautiful to be real.
i think this bed cost 1M dollars
“You can have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night”
Yes, yes you can. 😂
LGBTQ 50’s Style!
Me, as soon as she pushed the beds together: not-so-subtle lesbians.
"If you can’t sleep you could have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night" lol I’m sure they could
I want enjoying this bed
"Have a whale of a time pressing buttons all night!" 😮😂
Minute 0:30…what was that in her eyes?😂
Still better than my bed
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Aaah, the good old times when a lesbian couple enjoyed their high tech bed!
esa maquina de masajes es lo unico que veo adelantado para su epoca.
The woman with dark hair is a beauty ❤️
I would even use this bed
0:53 I am sure that’s exactly where she used it.
I thought they were off to pound town.
A massage machine………
this is pre scissoring era …
lesmates
Worst girl on girl scene ever.
The world was a better place in the 50s and 60s
i bet they ironed each others wrinkles out with that vibration tool , such good buddies
just gadget gals bein gadget pals
I lost it at vibro massage machine……
Career and non career girl
It’s 2022 and I don’t even have a bed that futuristic.
and here i thought smart homes were a new invention….
the girl with dark hair just looked like snow white ❤
$2500 in the 50s is insane
Those days people knows morals.Just because two women sleep in the same bed doesnt mean that they are a lesbians.They will not see each other in a sexual way or in a sexual manner at all.Its all because of western perversion and sinful agenda which poisoned people mind into thinking that women will mostly be lesbians. This pornographic industry had ruined our society and mind-set so much now!
Just wondering if the ladies stayed on,after the camera crew left….
Love the idea, but imagine tripping over that little shelf at the foot in the middle of the night during a bathroom trip.
I have a bunk bed now I want this
The Lesbionics of the 50s
Don’t care much, but that bed is divine. Wait…what was the tape recorder for?