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They had to wait until 1960 for electricity and when it came... well, they weren’t that bothered really.

This wonderful footage digitised by experts at the National Library of Wales captures the reaction of villagers in rural Powys after they finally joined the National Grid.

But, as reporter John Mead discovers, not everybody in the hamlet of Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons is hugely excited about the new technology at their disposal.

Among the sweet and gloriously simplistic reactions of those interviewed in clip from September 1960 are Dai, the absent minded village handyman who gets his own age wrong by 13 years, and a stick-wielding villager who thinks electricity is “alright” but won’t be buying anything that actually uses it.

The parish vicar says the reaction of the 616 parishioners was “lukewarm, it was not 100%”.

Another member of the 600-strong parish “already has a wonderful iron and kettle and a beautiful gas oven” and is adamant that televisions are “not for people like us”.

The clip has surfaced thanks to a historic partnership announced earlier this year between ITV and the National Library that has seen the broadcaster donating an extensive bilingual film and television archive to the Aberystwyth-based library.

The collection of material is being preserved and made freely available for public viewing.