Bits of British LE/low cultural tat cropping up in US things

[George White]

Dundalk's Aftons in Raiders

As advertised here in an early Irish cinema ad https://ifi.ie/film/archive-at-lunchtime-double-bill-progs-1-2-sept-2014-free-event/

[Gulftastic]

Neil Kinnock got a mention in The Gilmore Girls.

[monkfromhavana]

JFK outside a Cork TV rental shop

Will he never learn?

[poodlefaker]

There must be some in Don't Look Back, esp. the Newcastle sequence...the Lady Mayor inviting Bob to her home, Alan Price opening a bottle of brown on the piano...

[George White]

Alan Price himself counts. My dad loves Alfie Darling not realising it was a sequel.
Unlike the original, it actually has Cilla Black singing IN the film, a different song, mind.

[George White]

Not American (well, his mam was, and it was shown all over the world), but Churchill's funeral passing by the Beverley Sisters and Brian Rix in Ray Cooney's Whitehall farce Chase Me, Comrade (later adapted as Not Now, Comrade - thus linking Churchill with Don Estelle).

[Glebe]

Or Death's Head in The Rachel Papers (1989)

Had the first issue of that.

Rod Hull and Emu on the Johnny Carson show, with Richard Pryor. It's brilliant but weird to see the collision between US television and cinema, and Emu.

And of course there's Emu attacking Snoop on The Word!:

King of the Hill had Peggy getting Bobby to watch Yes Minister.

That is truly astonishing!

Ah, Andy Capp, you wife beating drunk.

[Glebe]

How does a film have both Frankie Howerd and Alice Cooper in it!?

How does an advert have both Ronnie Corbett and Alice Cooper in it!?:

I'm pretty sure there was another Sky+ ad with Mike Reid and Brad Pitt but I can't find it. Prolly came about because of Snatch.

[George White]

JFK outside Woolworth's in Wexford.
He's going into get a pick 'n' mix and get some ice cream in the caff (Woolworth's were Ireland's largest ice cream manufacturers IIRC).

[Gulftastic]

In later seasons of Glee, some of the characters moved to an unfeasibly large NY apartment and one their bits of furniture was what appeared to be an old British Rail destinations sign for South Yorkshire. It had names like Aston, North Aston, Treeton, Rotherham, Doncaster. I couldn't find a picture, sadly   

[George White]

Charrington's Toby Beers in Munster, Go Home.
That means...
In thirty years time, this pub probably became a Toby Carvery.

[George White]

IPC's Woman and Home magazine cropping up in McCloud (NBC, 1972)

[George White]

Probably the best one so far.
Or the worst.
Murder is Easy (1982, CBS)


Bill Bixby and Helen Hayes, and on a British Rail ad, well, Sir Jinglenonce OBE.

[George White]

Was researching Universal newsreels because one pops up in Tales of the Gold Monkey (ABC, 1982), and found this 1963 one on JFK's visit to Ireland. US product placement for Jacob's Ireland.

Note the Daily Mirror in this Universal Newsreel clip https://youtu.be/adsGSha4uao?t=14

Another Beatles one here at the Variety Club of Great Britain

Product placement for the Mail and the Express in this Universal Newsreel on Brands Hatch stock car racing.

https://youtu.be/qjCFd4GQOds?t=127 God knows why they are using the theme from ITV's the Power Game. The wonder of stock music. DeWolfe, it turns out.

[poodlefaker]

Mel Torme having Thora Hird as a mother-in-law

[Glebe]

Mel Torme having Thora Hird as a mother-in-law

[George White]

Brian Hanrahan (basis for Peter O'Hanraha-hanarahan) in this CBS News report on the Falklands

Also a report from Sheffield. Features a proper Whitbread-sponsored (not flat-roofed) Murder Pub, 'the Shiny Sheff' https://youtu.be/5-6VKlJpwAY?t=546
https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/192dgd3/help_me_find_the_worst_pub_in_the_sheffield_area/ Proper shithole from the comments here.

Apparently, it's just closed.
Lots of Dad's Army-style maps here. {youtube]2JUw0JH0OiU{/youtube]
The likes of Carrington, Pym and Nott. And Milk Snatcher on ITN, 'I'm not talking about failure'.

Also this rather contrived ABC report, full of quotes of Kipling and Churchill over footage of jobcentres and IRA bombings and what appear to be cardboard cutouts of the royals. https://youtu.be/m-_POB5LOHA Footage from ITV's Falklands Tribute Concert, complete with Brian Rogers Dancers. Features Les Dawson, beard-era Tarby, Harry Secombe, Ronnie Corbett, Vera Lynn, Danny Larue, Tommy Steele...

https://youtu.be/JXEQJjWvS1U?t=565 Possibly Les' only US TV appearance, tiny shot of him among the crowd. 

NBC report on the Falklands, interview with Peter Carrington, stuff at Brize Norton, some lovely stuff with a tourist couple in the Falklands.

this too, with some prime old newsstand.

[George White]

This uses interview of a witness from the BBC report of the Lockerbie bombing.
Also used in the CBS report - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idl_PN9LN_E

Lovely IRA feature on the Brighton bomb, 'IRA Bomb' scrawled over a map of the UK, and lots of crabbing and moaning from Garrett Fitzgerald.

[Glebe]

Irish rather than British but there's that bit in Black Mass (which I saw in Spain in English with Spanish subs!) with the US news clip showing the Garda intercepting a shipment of guns for the IRA.

[George White]

ABC news cartoon recreation of Indira Gandhi's death. Also features an RTE connection, as Peter Ustinov is interviewed. Gandhi was assassinated on her way to meet Ustinov, who was due to interview her for Telly Eireann.

[George White]

 

The 1985 CBS Universal-shot George Burns Comedy Week - A Christmas Carol II - The Sequel uses footage from the ITC 1974 Great Expectations, hence a mix of Shepperton's Oliver streets and Universal's Little Europe backlots.

[George White]

Apollo 13 (1995 - Universal) and Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), Zelig (1983) and American Pop (1995) uses footage from Worldwide Television News, formerly UPITN, and still owned partly by ITN.

UPITN/ABC was why ABC and ITN shared footage.
For example - ITN https://youtu.be/bCxXw5ejo3Y
ABC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLM_-VsbFw

[George White]

This wonderful 1971 doc on Scotland Yard from NBC, very much in the mould of London Nobody Knows - 

London Pavilion showing the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, General Accident, MAX Factor, Gordon's Gins, Wrigleys, Ferrero's MonCheri chocs,  ads for Red Bus Rovers,  Commercial Assurance, soundtracked by the original Brotherhood of Man's United We Stand.

The London Pavilion (later Tussaud's Rock Circus) in Spectre (NBC, 1977).

[Snrub]

Wasn't that Happy Hogan in Iron Man 3?

Maybe Angel as well, but the final traces of Dexter's final season were expunged from my brain over a decade ago, so it's hard to be sure.

Downton Abbey was quite big in America so I think it's been mentioned in a fair few places - parodies in How I Met Your Mother and The Simpsons come to mind and am sure there are more.

A little off the topic, but Ant and Dec hosted a prime time version reboot of You Bet  in America in 2008 and always think the Americans must have thought it odd this British duo appeared out of nowhere to appear on that and never heard from again. Not even like they were presenting one of their own formats

[lauraxsynthesis]

Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) starting with Flanagan & Allen singing Run, Rabbit Run was a head-scratcher. I read somewhere that it was a tribute to it being used in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. I'd like to hear Underneath the Arches in the next Gareth Evans or something.

[George White]

YES!
Also, not a UK but an Irish one, Eileen Reid and the Cadets' I Gave My Wedding Dress Away in State of Grace (1990)

[jamiefairlie]

Probably the best one so far.
Or the worst.
Murder is Easy (1982, CBS)


Bill Bixby and Helen Hayes, and on a British Rail ad, well, Sir Jinglenonce OBE.

You wouldn't like me when I'm noncey!

[George White]

Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) starting with Flanagan & Allen singing Run, Rabbit Run was a head-scratcher. I read somewhere that it was a tribute to it being used in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. I'd like to hear Underneath the Arches in the next Gareth Evans or something.

Gareth Evans used Neil Reid's Mother of Mine in Apostle, so...

[Glebe]

Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) starting with Flanagan & Allen singing Run, Rabbit Run was a head-scratcher. I read somewhere that it was a tribute to it being used in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. I'd like to hear Underneath the Arches in the next Gareth Evans or something.

I don't remember it being used in Ho1000C but it's use in Get Out was definitely surprising.

[George White]

Radio Times-Hulton Picture Library are thanked in Jack Le Vien's The Valiant Years, tie in to his ABC/BBC miniseries, plus in Kevin Brownlow's Hollywood
 
The series features stock footage of Boot's at Piccadilly in the final episode, and an ad for Hovis.

A cartoon map too - https://youtu.be/9jrlcTCmTFI?t=337


McCloud - London Bridges (1977) features a plan to kill Denis Healey (well, 'the Chancellor of the Exchequer').

Same stock footage appear in both the first ep of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (1969 - at 9.08 -

) and McCloud - London Bridges (1977 - at 39.05 - https://youtu.be/wD1QAKN_qxw?t=2383).
Nice to see Universal and ITC sharing something.
Counts thanks to the billing of the likes of Barbara Murray and Gerald 'Kamelion' Flood on the billboards.
Saw a Pearl assurance ad in Radio Times, 1961 opposite a Project 20 show and Paul of Tarsus.
Pearl pops up in Midnight Lace (1960), McCloud - London Bridges (NBC - 1977),