Excellent, but rather sad, film about the demise of the Whitby to Scarborough railway filmed between 1965 and 1968…
http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/sentimental-journey-whitby-scarborough?destination=search/apachesolr_search/middlesbrough?page=1&filters=type:yfa_film%20bs_cck_field_videola_video:1&highlight=middlesbrough&mode=quick&solrsort=score%20desc,%20sis_cck_field_film_id%20asc&highlight=middlesbrough
Category Archives: film
More Coke
1953…
and 1961…
The Monkees
For Coca Cola…
The Rolling Stones
for Kellogs Rice Krispies…
Written by Brian Jones in 1963 and performed by the Stones.
Thanks to Sluggo
Dr Feelgood
The late Lee Brilleaux and the great Wilko Johnson…
Hank Williams & Anita Carter
Sixty years since Hank Williams died, vintage tv doesn’t get much better than this…
Hendrix in Stockholm – 1969
Victor Borge with Dean Martin
A musical variation on Borge’s Phonetic Punctuation routine…
Al Bowlly – Melancholy Baby
Boris Karloff
I love this picture, taken on set, of Boris Karloff taking a break during the filming of one of the 1930s Frankenstein films…
Thanks to howtobearetronaut.
8mm film transfer
All those trains on Saturday were so I could take a 50 year old standard 8mm film projector to Ann’s where Adam was to transfer some old home movies to video. Ann took some pictures of the process…
After eventually re-discovering how to thread the film onto the projector (it’s not right in the photos above!) he managed to produce some quite acceptable results…
This was taken around 1964 and contains the only moving pictures I know of my father, he was nearly always the cameraman.
You Bet Your Life Outtakes 1955-56
The genius of Groucho…
Chuck Berry – Roll Over Beethoven
Hammersmith Palais 1919-2012
Having been unused and neglected since 2007 Hammersmith Palais was finally demolished yesterday. A Reggae All-nighter there was the subject of this Clash song (here performed in the film Rude Boy)…
The demolition also saw the loss of this ghost sign, pictured from the underground station by Caroline Derry …
With thanks to Sam Roberts’ Ghost Signs Blog.
Postscript – If someone had operated a pirate radio station from the minibus Ann drove on the Hammersmith flyover in 2005, I could have covered most of my categories in one blog post!
Channel 4 31-10-1984
I found this at the end of a VHS tape I’d recorded for school in 1984. It’s an entire commercial break, a continuity announcement plus the start of Channel 4 News on a day when an important international news event had taken place. More interesting than the preceding programme which I’d recorded on purpose.
Vancouver Ghost Sign
For a 1922 Harold Lloyd movie.
http://www.vancouversun.com/mobile/story.html?id=6198993
There Ain’t No Sanity Clause
The Damned’s 1980 Christmas single…
The Carter Family
Wildwood Flower… I love kinescope!
Chuck Berry
Sweet Little Sixteen. Some great 1950s kinescope…
Radio Geronimo – Monte Carlo & Bust
Rockin' Brian 