In 1954 they made a film about a train journey called London to Brighton in Four Minutes - I've just watched it on the box and it was magnificent.
Anyone remember why?
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Bryn Mawr;1003054 wrote: In 1954 they made a film about a train journey called London to Brighton in Four Minutes - I've just watched it on the box and it was magnificent.
Anyone remember why?
They got Auden to write the commentary? It was advertising the Post Office?
Anyone remember why?
They got Auden to write the commentary? It was advertising the Post Office?
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When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
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When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003061 wrote: They got Auden to write the commentary? It was advertising the Post Office?
I'm shocked - I nearly asked you not to give the game away too quickly
I'm shocked - I nearly asked you not to give the game away too quickly
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:rolleyes:
Spoilsport spot. :wah:
Spoilsport spot. :wah:
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I was right? I've not seen that film since - I'm trying to work it out - around twelve years after it was made. You mean I remembered the details? I'm horrified.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003073 wrote: I was right? I've not seen that film since - I'm trying to work it out - around twelve years after it was made. You mean I remembered the details? I'm horrified.
Not in the slightest - I am shocked that you didn't remember it :wah:
Wrong line completely.
Not in the slightest - I am shocked that you didn't remember it :wah:
Wrong line completely.
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That's good then.
If it wasn't Auden then it was Betjeman, but it was Auden. I got that bit right at least?
If it wasn't Auden then it was Betjeman, but it was Auden. I got that bit right at least?
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003101 wrote: That's good then.
If it wasn't Auden then it was Betjeman, but it was Auden. I got that bit right at least?
No commentary.
If it wasn't Auden then it was Betjeman, but it was Auden. I got that bit right at least?
No commentary.
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Good lord - you had your sound muted, that's all! Go and try it again.
No commentary... that's a clue.
They were testing something. That's why they strapped a camera on the front of the locomotive.
Time-lapse? They'd just built a Natural History Unit time lapse camera?
No commentary... that's a clue.
They were testing something. That's why they strapped a camera on the front of the locomotive.
Time-lapse? They'd just built a Natural History Unit time lapse camera?
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003106 wrote: Good lord - you had your sound muted, that's all! Go and try it again.
No commentary... that's a clue.
They were testing something. That's why they strapped a camera on the front of the locomotive.
Time-lapse? They'd just built a Natural History Unit time lapse camera?
If two or three frames per second is time lapse then just so but not a special camera.
I will put this thread in the hall of fame in commemoration
No commentary... that's a clue.
They were testing something. That's why they strapped a camera on the front of the locomotive.
Time-lapse? They'd just built a Natural History Unit time lapse camera?
If two or three frames per second is time lapse then just so but not a special camera.
I will put this thread in the hall of fame in commemoration
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Bannister!!!!!!!!!!
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003115 wrote: Bannister!!!!!!!!!!
Bingo :-6
Bingo :-6
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Roger, surely?
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1003148 wrote: Roger, surely?
Whoever it was, it was an exciting ride
Whoever it was, it was an exciting ride
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spot;1003061 wrote: They got Auden to write the commentary? It was advertising the Post Office?
Here's what I had in mind:
Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by English poet W. H. Auden was specially written for it, as was music by Benjamin Britten.
(in three parts)
The Betjeman reference was to a 1963 BBC programme showing the 24 mile S&D line from Evercreech Junction. In this first episode we reach Highbridge - then the end of passenger services.
Here's what I had in mind:
Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by English poet W. H. Auden was specially written for it, as was music by Benjamin Britten.
(in three parts)
The Betjeman reference was to a 1963 BBC programme showing the 24 mile S&D line from Evercreech Junction. In this first episode we reach Highbridge - then the end of passenger services.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1006068 wrote: Here's what I had in mind:
Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by English poet W. H. Auden was specially written for it, as was music by Benjamin Britten.
(in three parts)
The Betjeman reference was to a 1963 BBC programme showing the 24 mile S&D line from Evercreech Junction. In this first episode we reach Highbridge - then the end of passenger services.
Try :-
Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by English poet W. H. Auden was specially written for it, as was music by Benjamin Britten.
(in three parts)
The Betjeman reference was to a 1963 BBC programme showing the 24 mile S&D line from Evercreech Junction. In this first episode we reach Highbridge - then the end of passenger services.
Try :-
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Here, I didn't see this film before but my goodness I remember that fortnight!
Snow, 1963
"Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music."
Snow, 1963
"Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music."
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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"Let's have a look at some headlice and see how they live"....
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
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spot;1008001 wrote: Here, I didn't see this film before but my goodness I remember that fortnight!
Snow, 1963
"Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music."
I remember that winter well, it was fairly solidly frozen for nearly three months without respite. As I recall, 1966 was nearly as bad.
Impressive how great a depth of snow the train could shift once it was up to speed and how hard the men worked to give it a chance to get through.
Snow, 1963
"Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music."
I remember that winter well, it was fairly solidly frozen for nearly three months without respite. As I recall, 1966 was nearly as bad.
Impressive how great a depth of snow the train could shift once it was up to speed and how hard the men worked to give it a chance to get through.
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Bryn Mawr;1008349 wrote: I remember that winter well, it was fairly solidly frozen for nearly three months without respite. As I recall, 1966 was nearly as bad.
Impressive how great a depth of snow the train could shift once it was up to speed and how hard the men worked to give it a chance to get through.
like Back to the future 3!
Impressive how great a depth of snow the train could shift once it was up to speed and how hard the men worked to give it a chance to get through.
like Back to the future 3!