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Public Service Broadcasting: Late Night Final, Music Video, 2013

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dsl SX

◊ 2013-12-03 02:37

 This video is not (yet?) on youtube, but has just been released on this DVD, and as with all PSB media samples old films. According to the credits, the footage comes from "What A Life", but I can't match it to any of the three contenders in imdb, all of which are 1930s, compared to the footage which looks post-WW2 London. Whatever the film is, it stars this wonderfully miserable face
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and his equally miserable friend
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who decide life's too miserable and to end it all by jumping off a rowing boat with concrete weights around their necks. But they land on a sandbank instead and become happy and cheerful. Hoorah.

Apart from the coach, there's a taxi interior
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and for once I remembered to capture a traffic light:
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The song itselfis excellent (though with different footage there).

-- Last edit: 2016-10-07 21:40:15

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2013-12-03 08:46

 Central Office of Information documentary - What a Life (1948) Duration 11min 09 seconds. Director Michael Law, Mr A - Richard Massingham Mr B - Russell Waters. The "concrete weights" look to be small millstones.

Much better with original soundtrack, and you get a feel of the post-war misery, with the country deeply in debt and nearly everything on ration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Massingham

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/521707/

-- Last edit: 2013-12-03 12:39:31

rjluna2 US

◊ 2013-12-03 13:41
dsl wrote and for once I remembered to capture a traffic light:

Nice, dsl :)

My comments at Traffic Lights in Internet Movie Car Database.

dsl SX

◊ 2013-12-03 15:34

 @ jfs - is the original film easily found? Does it have other vehicles? Is it worth trying to create an entry?

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2013-12-03 16:58

 Film easily found in Youtube under Richard Massingham, no other vehicles clearly shown, but there are other films in the series on driving methods which may contain other vehicles, plus others if, for instance, you are unsure on how to deploy a handkerchief, or how deep your bathwater should be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKQU1cKJ_c

These films used to turn up on BBC TV (the only channel) in the fifties as sort of gap fillers, my Dad always used to say "here he is again, same old bloke, same old car!" by way of a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCc9yBwQkOw

-- Last edit: 2013-12-03 17:05:04

dsl SX

◊ 2013-12-05 22:37

 Thanks - I've created an entry here as it adds some glimpses.

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