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Posted by Steve Carter (Member # 4821) on June 17, 2015, 05:57 AM:

Were any of these ever available on any format 'Paint' was one of my favorites, but there were so many, 'Giuseppina' was another favorite...and the ones narrated by John Betjeman...

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on June 17, 2015, 06:17 AM:

You could never walk past a TV showroom in the afternoons of BBC-2 colour test transmissions without seeing "Paint". It was the most obvious choice for the role. The colours were staggering. I believe it was an I.C.I. film.

I never did see a 16mm copy advertised for sale, but I do have an I.B. Technicolor copy of BPs "Giuseppina". It has good colours, but to draw punters into showrooms to order their colour televisions there was nothing better than "Paint."

Posted by Steve Carter (Member # 4821) on June 17, 2015, 07:52 AM:

Maurice I have 'Paint' on DVD, I think it was taken from a VHS recording, also 'BEAUTY IN TRUST', 'CROWN OF GLASS', and 'A JOURNEY INTO THE WEALD OF KENT', by the way 'Paint' was a Shell film...'Beauty' and 'Weald of Kent' have original film leaders showing count down, so they may have been taken from 16mm copies...

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on June 17, 2015, 01:36 PM:

I used to love these one was about power boats

Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on June 17, 2015, 03:06 PM:

Ah the good old days, there was one on light bulbs, could have been Philips maybe, remember the paint one really well, fascinating, educational, can you image kids of our age watching them today, this boring da da da, amazing how none have turned up for sale, surely most must have been on film ?.

Posted by Ken Finch (Member # 2768) on June 23, 2015, 12:51 PM:

I have a 16mm print of the BP film "Guiseppina". Never saw it on T.V. but used to rent sponsored films including the others from the BP library. My print came from a late friend of mine who purchased the KCC educational film library when it closed down. Ken Finch.

Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on June 24, 2015, 06:47 AM:

ARH YES KEN, was that the Nicole and papah style film, I do remember seeing it many times mate on tv.

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