Everything in the film seems contemporary with 1960 as far as I can see except for one object. Two times there is a sight of a wind-up gramaphone. I find it hard to believe that such an item would still be in use by that date. I believe the original story was written in the 1940s but I can't see why the gramaphone was the only thing not to be modernised in the film's story.
shareIn 1962 a Dansette portable record player sold for about 11 pounds; according to measuringworth.com, that's the equivalent of at least 200 pounds today. So it's not unreasonable that someone might still be using a wind-up gramophone.
shareThat is an interesting conversion of the value of a Dansette record player in today's terms. I've re-run the film and note that it is one of the villagers on his own playing his march tune 78s on his wind-up. It would be interesting to speculate how often the wind-ups were still being used at that time. I would have thought that a number of the under 30s circa 1960 would have owned a Dansette. Some of the older people would perhaps have had a radiogram that incorporated a turntable and storage space in a nice-looking piece of furniture. Those who were prepared to get them on some sort of credit, easy-term payments or whatever those sort of financial plans were called then. But as you point out, even a portable record player wasn't cheap in those days.
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