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Post by Charles Bronson on Aug 20, 2022 18:09:28 GMT
I noticed this appreciation of Get Carter this morning on YouTube and watched the full video. It was only about 16 minutes long as I recall. It was good to watch if only for the clips, and also hearing someone praising Michael's performance in the film. The guy does many other film reviews, and I may watch a few of them.
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Post by Nightfly on Aug 20, 2022 19:32:53 GMT
It was good to watch if only for the clips, and also hearing someone praising Michael's performance in the film. The guy does many other film reviews, and I may watch a few of them. The guy is obviously an enthusiastic fan and totally gets the story/characterisation. I think I might be checking out some of his other reviews too. However, probably not a good idea to devise a drinking game around the number of times he says "you know", though I'd rather hear someone give an off the cuff review like this than some polished scripted speech. Nice find !
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Post by The Saint on Aug 21, 2022 7:18:01 GMT
An interesting analysis of the film, thanks for posting the video Charles.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Aug 21, 2022 17:57:36 GMT
Yes thanks for that Charles, quite a good 16 minute analysis of Get Carter I thought too.
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Post by Del Boy on Aug 30, 2022 21:45:31 GMT
Can't get enough of Get Carter, an enjoyable review vid. cheers Charlie
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Post by Nightfly on Sept 5, 2022 11:53:43 GMT
Motorway File (1975)
Love these Central Office of Information mini films from the 60s/70s. This one follows several drivers as they commit various errors while driving on the motorway and pompous presenter Edgar Lustgarten invites the viewer to guess which driver joins the choir invisible at the end. Derek Martin and Peter Armitage are probably the most famous famous in the cast. Cars from yesteryear and some seriously dated library music played from an 8 track cartridge player in the MG. Need I say more to tempt you ?...
Seems the MG also featured in one of the Steptoe films and in Carry On Behind.
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Post by Nightfly on Sept 26, 2022 20:11:01 GMT
I came across this one today. I'm not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but definitely a TV tech anorak.
It covers behind the scenes of Match of the Day in 1974, the recording of match (with just 5 cameras and none of the Sky Sports type bumfluffery gimmicks of today), editing and a pipe smoking Jimmy Hill preparing for the show. The hairstyles of the fans are straight out of the LOM episode where the squad infiltrated the hooligan gangs.
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Post by The Saint on Sept 29, 2022 20:41:32 GMT
London Street Scenes from 1967
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Post by Nightfly on Oct 12, 2022 22:42:52 GMT
To complement Perfect Pseudonym 's recent excellent TOTP unaired pilot review, I thought I would share this rarity I found on YT today. I remember this edition well as it's probably the first TOTP edition where I actively started to follow the charts closely and Kenny Everett presenting in country yokel costume made it even more memorable. The downside was the Simon Park Orchestra keeping The Sweet off the top slot, but I'm over it now. This version seems to be unedited with some false starts and some alternate takes that didn't make the final edit. Also the audience member at around 46 minutes who is holding up a photo of Kenny looked so familiar. It bugged me for a couple of hours until I clicked that this guy would himself appear on TOTP singing his own no 1 a couple of years later and a few years after that would assist Sarah Brightman to lose her heart to a starship trooper.
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Post by Nightfly on Jan 8, 2023 20:05:11 GMT
Anyone remember Get It Together. a kids' pop show produced by Granada? It ran from 77-81 and was presented by Roy North (minus Basil Brush) and Linda Fletcher. The budget was probably on the low side, so they would have a big name performing their latest song and the rest of the show would be made up of music related games and somewhat dodgy cover versions of hits performed by Roy and Linda.
My main memory of the series was a dubious cover of Tom Robinson's 2,4,6,8 Motorway by Roy, which I was able to relive in the following episode due to some kind soul who seems to have been busy uploading episodes, VT clock intros intact.
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