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Topic: Land of Promise
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Maurice Leakey
Film God
Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted April 18, 2008 11:22 AM
I collect Britsh shorts. If I cannot get them on 16mm or Super 8 then it has to be DVD.
I have just bought the British Film Instute's newly issued "Land of Promise." In the box is a hinging folder which houses four DVDs containing 40 British short films made between 1930 and 1950. There is also an excellent 94 page book.
The shorts are all from the BFIs collection and some have probably not been seen since they were originally issued. A large prize is a recently fully restored 8 minute "Farewell Topsails." This was filmed in Dufaycolor in the brilliant summer sunlight of 1937.
Some famous titles are here, "Housing Problems" (1935), "Listen to Britain" (1942), "A Diary for Timothy" (1946), "Land of Promise" (1946), "The Dim Little Island" (1948), "Family Portrait" (1950). And for the fans of the National Coal Board's Mining Reviews, there's one from 1949 with Paul Robeson singing in a staff canteen.
The films run 720 minutes, plus there's 60 mnutes of extras, John Griersson at the NFT in 1959 and "Close Up:Recollections of British documentary"(2007).
It's Region 2 with copy protection. It cost me £27.99, post free. What a bargain. All I need now is time to sit down and watch them!
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Maurice
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