Seven Up - Original Version - GB 1963

foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] World in action enters the struggling changing world of the seven-year-old [Applause] thank you [Applause] this is no ordinary outing to the London Zoo it's a very special occasion we brought these 20 children together for the first time they're like any others except that they are children from stuck in their different backgrounds [Applause] thank you guys thank you why do we bring these children together because we want to catch a glimpse of England in the year 2000 the union leader and the business executive of the year 2000 are now seven years old give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man I think the most important thing in the world is everyone should know about God well as become the national laws of Life Today a bride of Sergeants when I go I like find out all about the moon and all that [Music] Jackie yeah from the orchard ales in Northeast England Nicholas he goes to a one-room Village School four miles from his home from a Liverpool suburb in Northwest England we choose Neil and this is Tony his girlfriend calls him a monkey thank you he goes to one of the older schools in London's East End slums yes would everybody please sit around now it's time where they work I don't want to see you back to me next to Tony there's his girlfriend Michelle did you hear as well Tony don't turn off again this doorman fair is in the children's orphanage supported by charity this is Paul and Simon Bruce doesn't live with his parents either but for a different reason he goes to a private boarding school in Surrey in the headmistresses study of a fashionable School for Girls we meet Susie thank you in this classroom walsing Matilda is being recorded in Latin this is an exclusive kindergarten school in Kensington London [Music] [Applause] I think the vehicles are mad because they make too much noise and their hairstyle is so bad as they compose um faster music I wouldn't mind too much um I love the haircut that was John [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is Charles and Andrew [Applause] come on the world of the seven-year-old can be primitive even violent what do the children themselves think about fighting is it important to fly yeah I feel like find the lemon is already cut and it's already a fight oh it's not like that we don't do much fighting in school because because we think it's horrible it has sometimes people are playing nice with the boys and sometimes I got and I'll give it to Bullet Jackie's friends are Susan and Lindsay um all right but um one day when I remember we were all coming to school and let's fly down because they started hitting [Music] we're never gonna play with you again well we've attended got swords and you make the noises they're so exciting and once you've established I just followed him he was in the um chased him in the class but when I was down in the place of Kent there was this little boy who was the Auntie this is younger than me and um my nanny was having a game with him and he was a naughty boy because he slapped me in the tummy some boys can be nice now this could be horrible Nanny and I didn't I didn't like that kind of toy it's really silly to fight because if you fight and Miss comes in the classroom you only gets Hold On Foreign the vast majority of seven-year-olds know little of discipline but a few from the moment they're born are trained to accept it I think discipline is fair enough follow Mr sergeant and his quest Goods when last time he wasn't he had a cold and we didn't want to wear this voice out from shouting foreign [Music] [Music] asked him and and once I had to talk to greville he was in my house and and I also she could put him out of my house because he was always getting minor soon said that he was he he we would see about it this term well I think it's a very good system have you had to speak to anyone I suppose you've got three minuses in the day we need a pass [Music] at Souza's Classical Ballet [Applause] for Neil and his classmates it's free movement the music [Applause] Michelle and her friends are left to amuse themselves thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] this distinction between freedom and discipline is the key to their whole future what about after school what do they do in their spare time when I have go home I have tea then I practice my piano and then I practice my recorder and then I start watching television what time well I have my bath at six o'clock and then go to bed at seven and read to half off when I go home I go and see my mother and I have tea and watch TV and then I um do my homework am I gonna see my father and then what time you go to bed just little seven when I go home I come I come in and let me give me a cup of tea and then I go out and play and um and when it starts to get dark I come in again and put on TV [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign [Applause] except for his one-year-old baby brother he likes living in the country even if it is lonely but Neil from Liverpool said he preferred living in town because in the winter Italy's in a country well it was just all wet and it wouldn't be the only miles around and you get and he gets soaked if he tried to go out and there's no shelter anywhere except in your own house but in the town you can go out on on West win three days because you can always find somewhere to shelter because in lots of places they'd like to come out for a holiday in the country when we like when I like that's all living in the town [Applause] in Julian Michelle's School unlike others boys and girls are brought together Russell and they meet quite naturally in the picture queue on Saturday morning yeah we know sometimes I'm starting the pictures sometimes when my friends sometimes you go to different pictures they um last week I went to the videos how much does mixing or segregating the Sexes matter what effect does it have on what the boys and girls think about each other will it influence their chances of Love and Marriage well not many what do you think about girls I think that's a girl and kiss a girl yeah wow a girl just all screaming yeah we're about to catch them um we kiss them yeah and then it's catching ball kisser boy when the girls capture us like this looks and they say yeah not much much louder than well now he is her and he loves her I don't I love you and me they eat us um well my girlfriend is in Africa and I won't I don't think I left enough a chance to sing her again and there were two in Switzerland which I like to the hotel Park Hotel mom cat once Caroline Thetford said she was good [ __ ] she loved me well I know and I've got here when I grow up I hate her she's always getting bad temper don't cross with me yeah because Neil Hughes move your desk forward and sometimes sometimes um when when she she's supposed to have the chairs back on the desk and when I when I took it and when I got it back she's a real huge take your chair forward and she just gets into girly crosses like that I would like to get married when I grow up but I don't know what sort of buy but I think one the um that's not got a lot of money but um it has got some money not a lot when I get married I don't want to have any children because they're always doing naughty things and making the whole house untidy when I get murdered I'd like to have two children do you want to look after them two girls and two boys and what about you Jackie my mom because she got five girls shared them um seven years back that's why she's got fun go and so but um when my baby was supposed to be born and we all wish it was a Vibe but um we were all waiting my name's eggs and visit either and he came around and said we'll never go again put on what do you think about girlfriends at your age no but I said that when Mars do around the girls they don't pay attention to what they're doing this is an accident because a boyfriend was kissing her his girlfriend in the street the girls never never do what the boys want and they all in a stop playing with dolls when the boys want to play rough and tumble it's not true there were all wrong boring you never get a chance to play with them okay and they always start playing with their dolls like that only only intelligent girls and they always take you away from whatever game you're playing yeah I don't want to play that game do you have a girlfriend I don't want to answer that I don't answer [Music] thank you [Music] all right all right are the children themselves aware of differences between rich and poor what do they think about money I think it's such a bad idea to pay for school because if we didn't schools would be so nasty and crowded yeah so do I think so yeah and and the people in their schools the man in charge of the school would get money because he wouldn't he wouldn't be able to pay all the Masters if he didn't get any money yeah I read the financial times I read Observer Emma times what do you like about it the one I like I usually look at the headlines and then read about what about it I like my newspaper because I got chairs in this and I'm nail every day but on Mondays they don't move up so I don't look at it what do you think about rich people well not much them more children first about themselves and say how clever I am that's not bad yes and the rich children always make fun of them they say oh look at that lovely little sister yeah yeah poor child get scared to death they're pushing oh yes oh yes oh yes enough to start to attachments what do you think of that color people you said to be one of them that you like them the what you really think about them so they're nice really but one thing that it's only because their Skin's Brown and we're White some people from Africa come here but they they when they go they put their clothes off on television places like that I didn't I didn't I didn't know anybody who's colored I don't and I don't want to know anybody who's colored like okay no it sounds like those three colored people do you think of a purple person with a red eyes yeah you can't really think of what it wasn't really what they really look like they're just the same as me aren't they what do these children think about each other and how would they act together to find out if we invited them all to one big party and joined in [Applause] get out of you and you know [Applause] why would I do [Applause] [Applause] thank you [Applause] tell me what did you free think about of the other children that you met today that's what they were a bit too tough for my liking something hit me right in the back and I still got a pain there and well I'm some pool rather dirty I played them with them quite naturally I think they were rather nice really I'm not the boys I'm free and I don't like hold on what about the girl yeah I like that girl uh I've done that before this scarf and he said when we was at that Park he went around punching everybody in terms of America [Music] they lost the caps on the balls down in the show in your office right if some of our children didn't get on with each other does it really matter after all they're not likely to meet in the same classroom at the two private schools all the boys are being prepared for public school places and University whereas of these 30 children getting their milk from Tony only three are likely to win a place at a grammar school indeed the vast majority will leave school and start work at 15. what plans do the children themselves have when I leave the school I'm going to call it Court and then I will be going to work against the boarding school if I pass the exam and then we think I'm going to some Cambridge Infinity Hall well [Music] I'm old enough to get stuff uh I just walk around see what I could find I like to be like okay when I leave school I'm going to my dragon school I might and Mom is and I might go to after I might go to Charter House Marlborough and I can't prefer I can't remember the love places but there's Mommy's got so many but there's something what about University Here Charlie I might go talk to them what did you see Universe to me well I don't I don't think I need to go to university because I'm not going to be a teacher I don't think you want to go to the university if you want to be an astronaut when I grow up I want to be an astronaut but if I can't be an astronaut I think I'll be a coach driver well I'm going to take people to the country and sometimes they come to the seaside and uh I'll have a big loud speaker in the military coach and tell them whereabouts we are and what we're going to do and what's the name of the road it's all about that and I leave the school I'm down for Houston Manor and then maybe I may I may want to go to their own University because I don't know which one is we're going to Africa and try and teach people who are not civilized to be more or less good [Music] [Applause] [Applause] at the end of their very special day in London after their trip to the zoo and their party we take our children to an Adventure Playground where they can do what they like those from the children's orphanage set about building a house [Applause] [Applause] there's Nicholas and Tony thank you Andrew and Brute [Music] [Applause] John and Susie [Music] Jackie and her friend [Music] give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man this has been a glimpse of Britain's future [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]