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British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:01 am
by Bridie
Done a search - 3 exactly and haven't found this anywhere else here :)

Beautiful digitally restored short films on the BFI channel on youtube

Jamaica Street 1901 - what's there now where the row of houses are shown at the end of the film?




Kelvingrove and Bandstand 1926


Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:23 am
by Dexter St. Clair
Bridie wrote:Done a search - 3 exactly and haven't found this anywhere else here :)

Beautiful digitally restored short films on the BFI channel on youtube

Jamaica Street 1901 - what's there now where the row of houses are shown at the end of the film?






And every gentleman had a hat. Even the cartie with a coal sack as a cape had a bunnet. No Bare headed scoundrels. And the hatless result today

Reams of figures have been published showing the scale of Glasgow’s ills but still the question remains: why are the citizens so unhealthy?
Simple. Going out without headwear.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:50 am
by Bridie
Dexter St. Clair wrote:
Reams of figures have been published showing the scale of Glasgow’s ills but still the question remains: why are the citizens so unhealthy?
Simple. Going out without headwear.



and another reason? This might be the streets of London but it could have been Glasgow or anywhere when I was a wee lassie.




btw the Jamaica St one makes me sad and I don't really know why maybe it's because most of the people are making contact with the camera the wee boys nudging each other and laughing - all long gone. Power of the camera!

Is this where the houses were?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Jamaica ... 33.71,,0,5

Also at 1.36 - looks like corner of Hope Street and Waterloo?? and what were the people looking at or doing in the background?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Jamaica ... 36.76,,0,5

Great channel over 300 short films from all over UK

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:24 am
by HollowHorn
Looks like the guys were just having a wee keek over the bridge at the river. Great film.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:13 am
by duck
The Jamaica Street one is brilliant. Where, though, are all those people going? What was on the South Side that so many people, and apparently rather well to do at that, were heading to?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:56 am
by BrigitDoon
Great short piece, Jamaica Street.

I noticed the hats too. Everyone, and in 1926 too. What happened? I suppose all the hatters went mad and health and safety put them out of business.

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:03 pm
by Bridie
Did boats/ferries leave from the South side of the Clyde in those days?

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4Ta8 ... q=&f=false

I suspect the well to do ones were heading down to various offices/merchants on the Clyde on both sides.
There were some big shops in Jamaica Street like Arnott's

Jamaica Street was the main artery from the city centre to the Clyde. It's like time travel watching all the bustle in 1901 fast forward to the 60's and the same street held only for me the memory of being fitted for my school uniform in Paisley's.

Now the street is like a wilderness, McDonald's, concrete car park - zilch character.
I'm getting obsessed with that film I see a different character each time I watch it :|

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:18 pm
by HollowHorn
Did you notice the woman hiding her face from the camera? I wonder if she was Comanche. :D

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:45 pm
by Josef
GlasgowKen posted this wee BFI-related clip a while ago on this thread.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:15 pm
by HollowHorn
Bridie, there is a cart driver picking his nose and examining the result on his finger at 1:45. ::):

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:04 pm
by cumbo
Pure Magic Bridie, I want a time machine. :cry:

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:16 pm
by Bridie
HollowHorn wrote:Bridie, there is a cart driver picking his nose and examining the result on his finger at 1:45. ::):


::): I know and he does it every time I'm watching him

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:20 pm
by Bridie
cumbo wrote:Pure Magic Bridie, I want a time machine. :cry:


It almost is looking through the lens.

Thing is too the majority of them would be dead from WW1 and the flu epidemic which followed afterwards.

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:34 pm
by Bridie
Josef wrote:GlasgowKen posted this wee BFI-related clip a while ago on this thread.



Thanks Josef another great one too.
I was taken down to Sauchiehall Street on the last few days of the tram to have one last hurly.

Re: British Film Industry Archives

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:33 am
by bullet111
I remember seeing the first clip on Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon and wondered about the wee houses. Then one night looking in an estate agents window I found them. Here they are:

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