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Louis Li
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From: SG
Registered: Feb 2007

posted May 15, 2007 01:38 PM

boy those pair of shorts were the bomb..

i came across this article in the '76 issue of moviemaker and i'm really keen to know if this film was ever released?
produced on 16mm. i'm kind of thinking (but crossing my fingers) that it was the one and only.

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Hugh McCullough
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From: Old Coulsdon. Surrey. UK
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posted May 15, 2007 05:27 PM

This film is not mentioned in Halliwells Film & Video Guide so I assume that it was never released as a commercial film.
There was, however, a 1933 film called 'Looking Forward' about a shop owner in the depression.

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Stuart Fyvie
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From: Amersham
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 16, 2007 03:14 AM

Its listed here on the Bfi website:
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/267371

But not available seemingly . I remember reading this article
when I was 10 years old!

Stuart

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Graham Ritchie
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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted May 16, 2007 03:27 AM

Hi Louis
With a cast of 400, must be a very big family, [Eek!]

and with the film taken over 50yrs, it would have been a great way to record changes over those years, with our own home movies [Roll Eyes]

everyone takes of at just the thought of it, usually I land up watching them myself [Frown]

Graham.

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Louis Li
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From: SG
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posted May 16, 2007 07:36 AM

hey stuart,
10 years old. aha. i on the other hand was born 10 years after this article was made! =)
and yea graham. i love homemovies. theres something magical about them and i get really excited when i come across little 50ft reels in yellow boxes.
...a little surprise awaits.

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