Monday, 28 January 2013
On BBC 4 tonight there was a wonderful program Called Britain on Film This Sceptred Isle. This
episode was all about British customs. (Padstow Mayday in Cornwall, The
Tutti-Men, Helston Furry Dance, Rag Day Pipe Smoking) Worth a look. In
1959, Britain's biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided
to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical
documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain. For the next
ten years, Look at Life chronicled - on high-grade 35mm colour film -
the changing face of British society, industry and culture. Britain on
Film draws upon the 500 films in this unique archive to offer
illuminating and often surprising insights into what became a pivotal
decade. This
episode examines Look at Life's quirky films that documented unusual or
eccentric British customs, rituals and traditions. In an era where many
Britons embraced change as never before, these revealing and highly
entertaining films show that people were determined to preserve the
idiosyncratic aspects of our national life. (BBC4)
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