tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4597199397809670342024-03-21T17:26:54.908-07:00British Transport Films website updatesA register of all the changes and additions to the website www.britishtransportfilms.co.ukBTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-87193351296863544922016-05-23T14:27:00.000-07:002016-05-23T14:27:18.875-07:00<br />
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/16/john-krish-film-director--obituary/" target="_blank">John Krish obituary in the Telegraph</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-88828821092941854632016-03-12T14:59:00.001-08:002016-03-12T15:04:48.702-08:00Inter-City Advert (1977)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEpP8kD1NY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEpP8kD1NY</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-49297344813296745072016-03-12T14:57:00.001-08:002016-03-12T15:04:58.648-08:00Inter-City 1250 (1982)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4tldQOJJ10">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4tldQOJJ10</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-81538361209030541602016-03-12T14:56:00.003-08:002016-03-12T15:05:07.566-08:00A Mug's Game : Or How To Squash a Lemon Head (1967)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dFFVfq3lRc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dFFVfq3lRc</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-59421683748457339052016-03-12T14:55:00.000-08:002016-03-12T15:05:17.166-08:00Solutions ? (1972)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kE7AXC7nM8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kE7AXC7nM8</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-78462997480966819192014-02-24T17:00:00.002-08:002016-03-12T15:04:25.160-08:00The Driving Force - DVD Trailer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-82157780729223074152014-02-11T14:48:00.003-08:002014-02-11T14:48:48.511-08:00Up and coming film shows at Kidderminster Railway Museum<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Saturday</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">April 13th</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Railways</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Remembered with Rob Foxon</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Mallard</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and the Record Breakers</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Rob will be showing some more of his</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">extensive library of 16mm cine films with the theme of speed.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The films and subjects will include the</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Cheltenham Flyer, the LNER Silver Jubilee, the</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">German record-breaker for steam</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and speed, the Coronation Scot, the world record for speed made by Mallard in</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">July 1938, and then the development of high speed rail travel including the</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Advanced Passenger Train.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> The show</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">starts at 7.30pm and finishes about 10pm.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">--</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Saturday May 3rd</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">A Day of Classic Transport Films with Keith Bullock</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We are running 21 films during the course of the day and evening to a set programme, including many from the British Transport Film Archive and many rarely seen films. There will be five shows</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">during the day, each one lasting approximately one hour</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and one show during the evening lasting two and half hours with an interval. All films are 16mm and shown through a traditional projector onto our ten foot screen. You can choose which of the</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">films you want to come and see - all of them if you are really keen! The shows are as below</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">11.00am -12.00 midday - Aspects of railway history</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Work in progress (1951)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Around the clock (1945)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The time of their lives (1950)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">12.30pm – 1.30pm – Railway operations and people</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Farmer moving south (1952)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">This is York (1953)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The third Sam (1962)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">2.00pm – 3.00pm – Weather and railways</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Floods in the north (1948)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">602 must go through (1952)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">3.30pm – 4.30pm – Road, Water and Trams</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Omnibus for all (1963)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Broad waterways (1959)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">London Transport Cine Gazette 12</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">(the elephant will never forget) (1953)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">5.00 – 6.00 – Railway operations and trains</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Elizabethan Express (1954)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Fully fitted freight (1957)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Lets go to Birmingham (1962)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">7.30pm – 10.15pm – a general mix of transport films</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">London Transport Cine Gazette No 5 (1950)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Ocean Terminal (1952)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">St Pancras re-laying (1947)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">30 million acres (1947)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The Phoenix works (1950)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Under the River (1959)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Daytime shows - £2.50 (for each show)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> £2.00 for SVR members (please bring card)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Daytime five-show ticket - £7.50 (five for the price of three)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> £6.00 for SVR members (please bring card)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Evening show - £5.00</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> £4.50 for SVR members (please bring card)</span>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-55677927707047945522013-10-02T13:44:00.002-07:002013-10-02T13:51:31.619-07:00Railways Remembered - Rob Foxon film show dates<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Usual caveats apply - please check details before travelling - OCR isn't perfect!</span><br />
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2013<br />
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2nd October (Wed) 7.45pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Harborough Railway Association, Conservative Club, Fairfield Road, MARKET HARBOROUGH, Leics, LE16<br />
From Wagon Load To Freightliner - Freight Trains. Details: 01858 446300.<br />
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12th October (Sat) 7.30pm. Bygone Britain,<br />
Broughton Astley Village Society, Village Hall, BROUGHTON ASTLEY, Leics, LE9 6PT.<br />
The Highways 0f Yesterday. Details: 01455 282622.<br />
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16th October (Wed) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
The Benn Hall, Newbold Road, RUGBY, Warks, CV21 2LN.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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17th October (Thurs) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Palace Theatre, Appletongate, NEWARK, Notts, N624 lJY.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Box Office: 01636 655755.<br />
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21st October (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Corn Market Hall, London Road, KETTERING, Northants, NNIS<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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24th October (Thurs) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Rolls Royce Pavilion, Moor Lane, DERBY, DE24 9HY.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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7th November (Thurs) 7.30pm. Bygone Britain,<br />
Palace Theatre, Appletongate, NEWARK, Notts, NG24 NY.<br />
The Highways 0f Yesterday (Road Transport Archive). Box Office: 01636 655755.<br />
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11th November (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
The Rothley Centre, Mountsorrel Lane, ROTHLEY, Leics, LE7 7PR.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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14th November (Thurs) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
The Memorial Hall, Grimsby Road, CLEETHORPES, N.E. Lines, DN35 8AH.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers (inc Cleetlmrpes on Film). Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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17th November (Sun) 2.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Phoenix, Midland Street, LEICESTER, LE1 lTG.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Box Office: 0116 242 2800.<br />
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25th November (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Peak Railway Association, Library Theatre, Tudor Square, SHEFFIELD, Sl<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0114 268 0948.<br />
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28th November (Thurs) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Palace Theatre, Appletongate, NEWARK, Notts, NG24 lJY.<br />
Special Xmas Programme. Box Office: 01636 655755.<br />
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10th December (Tues) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Friends Of The NRM, National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, YORK, Y026<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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15th December (Sun) 11.30am & 2.30pm. Leics Film Archive,<br />
Phoenix, Midland Street, LEICESTER, LE1 lTG.<br />
The Bygone Leicester Moving Picture Show. Box Office: 0116 242 2800.<br />
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30th December (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
The Rothley Centre, Mouutsorrel Lane, ROTHLEY, Leics, LE7 7PR.<br />
Special End Of Year Programme. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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2014<br />
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13th January (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Peak Railway Association, Library Theatre, Tudor Square, SHEFFIELD, Sl IXZ.<br />
New Year Programme. Details: 0114 268 0948.<br />
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22nd February (Sat) 7.00pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Trinity Church Hall, Higher Market Street, FARNWORTH, Bolton, Lanes, BL4 SEX.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0161 703 9353.<br />
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26th February (Wed) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
The Benn Hall, Newbold Road, RUGBY, Warks, CV21 2LN.<br />
New Programme. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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lst March (Sat) 2.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Town Hall, Broad Street, CHIPPING SODBURY, S. Glos, B837 6AD.<br />
Mallard & The Record Breakers. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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1st March (Sat) 7.00pm. Aviation Archive,<br />
Town Hall, Broad Street, CHIPPING SODBURY, S. Glos, B837 GAD.<br />
Combat Aircraft Of WWII. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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7th March (Fri) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Kettering & District Locomotive Society, Corn Market Hall, London Road, KETTERING, Northants, NN15 7QA.<br />
The LMS Film Unit. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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17th March (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Corn Market Hall, London Road, KETTERING, Northants, NN15 7QA.<br />
New Programme. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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20th March (Thurs) 7.30pm.<br />
Railways Remembered, Rolls Royce Pavilion, Moor Lane, DERBY, DE24 9HY.<br />
New Programme. Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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17th April (Thurs) 7.30pm. Aviation Archive,<br />
Rolls Royce Pavilion, Moor Lane, DERBY, DE24 9HY.<br />
From Imperial Airways To The Jet Age (New Programme). Details: 0116 289 0531.<br />
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8th May (Thurs) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Palace Theatre, Appletongate, NEWARK, Notts, NG24 lJY.<br />
Diesel Power On British Railways. Box Office: 01636 655755.<br />
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19th May (Mon) 7.30pm. Railways Remembered,<br />
Peak Railway Association, Library Theatre, Tudor Square, SHEFFIELD, Sl<br />
New Programme. Details: 0114 268 0948.<br />
BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-89502714236304967302013-07-11T14:37:00.002-07:002013-07-11T14:37:47.001-07:00<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The British Transport Films Collection</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Volume Eleven</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Experiment Under London</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">On 19 August 2013 a new volume will be added to the BFI’s best-selling </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">series of transport and travel films, The British Transport Films </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Collection.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Marking London Underground’s 150th anniversary, Experiment Under </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">London Volume Eleven in this series of double-DVD sets, presents six </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">films documenting the construction of the Underground’s Victoria Line, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">which were produced by the BTF Unit for London Transport.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">During the Autumn of 1962, engineering work began on the first new </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">underground railway to be built under Central London in over sixty </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">years. Made between 1961 and 1969, the films show, in meticulous </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">detail, the mammoth undertaking of building the Victoria Line, one of</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the most complex civil engineering projects that London had ever seen. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">It was officially opened by the Queen in March 1969.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">After the initial film showing the proposals and the tunnelling </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">technology that will be used, the other five films are Cine-gazette </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">style reports that not only show the technical engineering </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">achievements but also the human endeavour required from the workforce</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and the cooperation of the public.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This digitally mastered double-disc collection, which is accompanied </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">by a booklet of film notes, is a must, not only for the transport </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">enthusiast, transport workers and engineers, but also for documentary </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">aficionados and anyone interested in Britain’s industrial history.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Films</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Experiment Under London (1961): experimental excavations in </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">preparations for the new Victoria Line underground;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• The Victoria Line Report No.1: Over and Under (1965): the chief </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">civil engineer for LT's new underground line from Victoria to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Walthamstow describes the work in progress from early 1963 to mid 1964 </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">at Oxford Circus;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Report No. 2: Down and Along (1965): modern techniques of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">tunnelling, the use of a mechanical digging shield in a running</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> tunnel, and the digging by hand of vast underground caverns for </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">junctions and cross-overs;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Report No. 3: Problems and Progress (1967): the difficulties met by </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">the designers and contractors, particularly at Kings Cross and Oxford </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Circus; the diversion work at Finsbury Park and the problem of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">accurate track laying;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Report No. 4: Equip and Complete (1968): installing model </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">escalators, testing new rolling stock and automatic train control, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">installing power supply and the operation of the Walthamstow-Highbury </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">section;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• Report No. 5: London's Victoria Line (1966): the design, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">construction and completion of the new line showing the various phases </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">and engineering techniques involved.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Special Features</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• A Hundred Years Underground (UK, 1963): the story of London </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Underground from its inception to modern times with contributions from </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">distinguished Londoners including a young John Betjeman, singer Jessie </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Matthews, Lord Morrison of Lambeth and sculptor Henry Moore;</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">• The Queen Opening the Victoria Line (1969): mute rushes of the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">official opening ceremony.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Product Details</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">RRP: £19.99 / cat. no. BFIVD975 / E</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">UK / 1961-1969 / b&w and colour / 167 mins / DVD9 x 2 / Original</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">aspect ratio 1.33:1</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">...and a clip has been published on YouTube, showing how a steel </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">umbrella was erected over Oxford Circus road junction on August bank </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">holiday weekend 1963 (amazing how quiet the streets are!).</span><br />
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Terrestrial TV transmission dates updated with a few corrections and several extra dates of Channel 4 broadcasts, courtesy of Robin Carmody.<br />
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DVD pages updated to include BTF Collections 10 & 11 plus extracts from earlier BFI press releases.<br />
<br />BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-25564231784886251462013-01-28T15:49:00.001-08:002013-01-28T15:49:35.569-08:00<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The next British Transport Film Collection DVD from the BFI - Volume 11: Experiment under London - is due for release on the 17th of June 2013. More details as we learn of them.</span>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-39689612660460574672012-12-17T17:02:00.001-08:002012-12-17T17:02:40.295-08:00Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I'm delighted to pass on the news that the legendary 1969 Tuesday Documentary made by the BBC is now available on BBC iPlayer as an official programme and the poor quality timecoded rip off 'leaked' on to Ebay is now obsolete (though grateful thanks to whoever it was that put it up there at the time!)</span><br />
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The BFI have released an official copy of Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) to Youtube.<br />
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BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-3971049695731048492012-09-22T10:12:00.000-07:002012-09-22T10:12:31.924-07:00London on the Move DVD<a href="http://bfi.org.uk/news/london-move-story-dvd/" target="_blank">An interesting account of how the recent DVD release from the BFI was put together.</a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-25581755140802294902012-09-08T15:53:00.001-07:002012-09-08T16:28:57.797-07:00Automatic Fare Collection and You (1969)To help market the launch of the latest BFI DVD compilation - London on the Move, the BFI have posted Automatic Fare Collection and You (1969) on YouTube....<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">A twenty-three minute visual version of the British Railways Board ('Beeching') Report was recently made by British Transport Films. The film used contemporary and historical scenes, maps, animated diagrams and a series of explanatory statements recorded for the purpose by Dr. Beeching during the final weeks of his work on the report. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The film was first used for briefing senior staff at B.R.B. Headquarters and in Regional Headquarters in a series of showings which took place two days before the publication of the report. On the day of publication it provided the core of the special B.B.C. Television programme, the greater part of the film being shown in sections, each followed by live discussion in the studio - with Dr. Beeching, union leaders and economists taking part. This combined film and television operation was described in The Observer as 'a masterpiece of public relations' and there can be no doubt that it contributed enormously to the number of reasonable and agreeable reactions which followed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A total of 85 16mm. copies and 12 35mm. copies of the film were also prepared for use in a country-wide series of staff screenings </span><span style="background-color: white;">- timed to begin live days after publication of the report. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Since, for maximum topicality, production work continued on the film up to the iast possible moment - and was immediately followed by a crash programme of copy printing in both gauges - a special burden was laid upon George Humphries Ltd. who met all their commitments with time to spare. The 35mm. prints were used in commercial cinemas hired for private staff screenings in the mornings. There was one audience of 1,600 in the cinema at Ashford and a total of 3,000 staff saw the film in the New Oxford A.B.C. in Manchester on 1st and 2nd April. The 16mm. copies were shown by British Transport Films on 123 machines located in various parts of the country together with their two rail borne cinema coaches and three daylight cinema vans which were hired for the job. B.T.F. also hired twelve additional mobile 16mm. units which worked around planned circuits and they used a pair of Moviematic projector cabinets in tours embracing such locations as works' canteens. It was reckoned that by the end of April the film was seen by 100,000 staff, and showings continued into May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey - a founding father of the British documentary movement - it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This, the tenth in a series of double DVD box sets, presents a selection of films covering both bus and underground that The BTF produced for London Transport in the post-war period and includes classic such as All that Mighty Heart, Under Night Streets, Overhaul, as well as rare gems like Power Signal Lineman and Our Canteens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This selection has been digitally remastered for this two-disc set, which is a 'must' not just for the transport enthusiast, but also for the documentary aficionado who will recognise traits and innovations in British non-fiction filmmaking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">All that Mighty Heart (1951)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">One for One (1964)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cine Gazette No.14: Do you Remember? (1955)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Nine Road (1975)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Under Night Streets (1958)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Omnibus 150 (1979)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cine Gazette No.10 (1951)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Moving London (1983)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Moving Millions (1947, 15 mins): A Central Office of Information film made by the Crown Film Unit in 1947 illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive including bus, underground, trams and trolleybuses.</span><br />
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<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TX86reWvrKk?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TX86reWvrKk?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-36443536462506429212011-07-15T01:58:00.000-07:002011-07-15T01:58:51.476-07:00Britain Through A Lens: The Documentary Film Mob<div style="color: #50555c; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Showing soon on BBC4 :</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the most influential movement in the history of British film. They were the British Documentary Movement and they gave Britons a taste for watching films about real life.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They were an odd bunch, as one wit among them later admitted. "A documentary director must be a gentleman... and a socialist." They were inspired by a big idea - that films about real life would change the world. That, if people of all backgrounds saw each other on screen - as they really were - they would get to know and respect each other more. As John Grierson, the former street preacher who founded the Movement said: "Documentary outlines the patterns of interdependence".</div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Documentary Film Mob assembles a collection of captivating film portraits of Britain, during the economic crisis of the 1930s and the Second World War. Featuring classic documentaries about slums and coal mines, about potters and posties, about the bombers and the Blitz, the programme reveals the fascinating story of what was also going on behind the camera. Of how the documentary was born and became part of British culture.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More:-</div><div style="color: #50555c; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.333em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012p53d"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">BBC4 Website</span></a></div>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-38846977959467746562011-02-13T17:43:00.001-08:002011-02-13T17:44:42.584-08:00We also have a group on Facebook!<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9580151139">British Transport Films on Facebook</a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9580151139"></a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-459719939780967034.post-73354581612945561082011-02-13T16:37:00.001-08:002011-02-13T16:37:45.739-08:00Now you can follow our updates on Twitter !<a href="http://www.twitter.com/BTF_Films"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_us-c.png" alt="Follow BTF_Films on Twitter"/></a>BTF Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17894743435876842138noreply@blogger.com0