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Family Portrait, Documentary, 1950 IMDB

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dsl SX

◊ 2014-09-10 19:09

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Fairly pedestrian account of Britain before the 1951 festival; the last film directed by Humphrey Jennings before his death in 1950, so date is correct. Lots of trains and boats and planes, but strangely only one imcdb vehicle.

Lots of atmospheric pictures:

Avebury
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Derelict WW2 radar sttation at Beachy Head - now long gone, probably fallen into the sea
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Other stuff:
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More early Wurzels footage for ingo
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Planes for impdb
1] Comets. G-ALVG was the prototype with those fatal square windows ...
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2] Viscount G-AHRF - the first one made
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3] flying boat factory - see also background in 1st thumb
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And - sadly - this has been the last film from all these 1930-50s documentaries on my DVD box sets. Bit of an anticlimax really, but it was an interesting journey.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2014-09-10 20:08

 Thanks for these, cars from the 30s, similarly ancient buses and trucks, steam trains, cricket, I even recognise Kennington Oval just above.

All I need now is a blonde and a Bentley and life would be complete.

Oops! The blonde [Image: 39yearscropped4.jpg] is in the conservatory phoning a friend, and the Bentley is in the shed.

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sixcyl FR

◊ 2014-09-10 20:23
johnfromstaffs wrote

Oops! The blonde is in the conservatory phoning a friend, and the Bentley is in the shed.


La vie est belle! :sun:

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2014-09-10 20:52
sixcyl wrote

La vie est belle! :sun:


C'est vrai, c'est vrai.

dsl SX

◊ 2014-09-12 01:52

 PS this is another film which talked about turbines as "turbins".

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2014-09-12 15:44

 Engine, Turbine, seems logical.

Corkeyandpals US

◊ 2014-12-14 10:02

 Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Family_Portrait

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