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| Bristol In The 1920s |
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Very rare moving pictures of Bristol (UK) filmed
80 years ago. A world in which old cars, buses,
lorries and motorcycles share the roads with trams
and a surprising number of horses and carts. A
charabanc and even a hand-pulled cart are
glimpsed. Policemen direct traffic, women exhibit
the 'flapper' look, men wear hats or caps. Clips
feature The Centre, Corn Street, Bristol Bridge,
Park Street, The Docks, Bedminster Bridge,
Redcliff Hill, and Ashton Swing Bridge.
Tags : Bristol history archive film cine 1920s vintage old vehicles transport trams charabanc horse cart |
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Affichage : 6127
Durée : 205 s |
| Cockington, Devon (1924) |
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Daytrippers from Torquay arrive by charabanc to
visit the picturesque village of Cockington.
Charabancs were large military vehicles converted
for public use after World War I.
This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene's
'The Open Road' - originally filmed in 1925/6 and
now re-edited and digitally restored by the BFI
National Archive. Britain seen in colour for the
first time was heralded as a great technical
advance for the cinema audience - now we can view
a much improved image, but one which still stays
true to the principles of the colour process.
The rather haphazard journey from Land's End to
John O'Groats creates a series of moving picture
postcards. Look out for shots containing the
component colours - red and blue-green - such as
when a little girl in a red coat and hat walks
among peacocks in the grounds of a castle, and
three girls with red curly hair pose by the sea at
Torquay.
The car is a Vauxhall D-type - considered a sporty
model at the time. A long-distance journey by car
was a relatively new concept, with none of the
amenities en route now taken for granted. The
visit to a petrol station shows smoking on the
forecourt: no health and safety issues back then!
The travelogue ends with a series of recognisable
London landmarks. Much remains the same - one
major exception being the volume of traffic on the
roads. (Jan Faull)
For more information about 'The Open Road' see
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/openroad/
To buy the DVD click here -
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmstore
You can watch the whole of 'The Open Road' and
1000 other complete films and TV programmes from
the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new
BFI Mediatheque -
http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque
Tags : BFI 1920s Cockington Devon beauty spot cottages charabanc cows nature travelogue |
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Affichage : 727
Durée : 32 s |
| Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Again |
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Wond'ring Again
(Ian Anderson)
There's the stillness of death on a deathly
unliving sea,
and the motor car magical world long since ceased
to be,
when the Eve-bitten apple returned to destroy the
tree.
Incestuous ancestry's charabanc ride,
spawning new millions throws the world on its
side.
Supporting their far-flung illusion, the national
curse,
and those with no sandwiches please get off the
bus.
The excrement bubbles,
the century's slime decays
and the brainwashing government lackeys
would have us say
it's under control and we'll soon be on our way
to a grand year for babies and quiz panel games
of the hot hungry millions you'll be sure to
remain.
The natural resources are dwindling and no one
grows old,
and those with no homes to go to, please dig
yourself holes.
We wandered through quiet lands, felt the first
breath of snow.
Searched for the last pigeon, slate grey I've been
told.
Stumbled on a daffodil which she crushed in the
rush, heard it sigh,
and left it to die.
At once felt remorse and were touched by the loss
of our own,
held its poor broken head in her hands,
dropped soft tears in the snow,
and it's only the taking that makes you what you
are.
Wond'ring aloud will a son one day be born
to share in our infancy
in the child's path we've worn.
In the aging seclusion of this earth that our
birth did surprise
we'll open his eyes.
Tags : jethro tull wond'ring again |
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Affichage : 11887
Durée : 255 s |
| The Beatles - Flying (HQ) (Stereo) |
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To watch in HQ and listen in stereo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmjAAa0WtM&fmt=18
Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the album and
double EP by the English rock band The Beatles,
first released in late 1967.
It is also a one-hour television film that was
originally aired, in black and white, in the UK in
1967 (see 1967 in television). After critical and
public response to the premiere proved negative,
plans to air the film on ABC Television in the
U.S. were cancelled, and Magical Mystery Tour
didn't appear in the U.S. until 1976, as a
theatrical release on the midnight movies and
college circuits, both of which were mainly
underground.
After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul
McCartney wanted to create a film based upon the
Beatles and their music. The film was to be
unscripted: various "ordinary" people (including
John Lennon's uncle Charlie) were to travel on a
charabanc bus and have unspecified "magical"
adventures, in the manner of Ken Kesey's Merry
Pranksters.
The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made, but the
hoped-for "magical" adventures never happened.
During the filming, an ever greater number of cars
followed the hand-lettered bus, hoping to see what
its passengers were up to, until a running traffic
jam developed. The spectacle ended after Lennon
angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the
bus.
Magical Mystery Tour was the first Beatles film
project following the death of manager Brian
Epstein in August 1967, and there has been much
speculation that the absence of Epstein's judgment
contributed to its undisciplined production, as
seen, for instance, in the absence of a screenplay
and professional direction. The film originally
appeared twice on BBC-TV over the 1967 Christmas
holidays (primarily in black & white), but was
savaged by critics on its release; it was,
however, noted by Steven Spielberg in film school
(according to McCartney in one of the interviews
for The Beatles Anthology: "I've read that people
like him have sort of said, 'When I was in school
that was a film we really took notice of...' like
an art film, you know, rather than a proper film.)
"Flying" is an instrumental song by The Beatles
which first appeared on the 1967 Magical Mystery
Tour release (two EP discs in the United Kingdom,
an LP in the United States).
A rare Beatles instrumental (the first since "Cry
for a Shadow" in 1961), although wordless chanting
is heard at the end, it was the first song to be
credited as being written by all four members of
the band, with the writing credits of
"Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey" (another being
"Dig It" off the Let It Be album). It was recorded
on September 8, 1967 with mellotron, guitar, bass,
maracas, drums, and tape loops overdubbed
September 28.
"Flying" was originally titled "Aerial Tour
Instrumental". The end of the recording originally
included a fast-paced traditional New Orleans
jazz-influenced coda, but this was removed and
replaced with an ending featuring tape loops
created by John Lennon and Ringo Starr during the
September 28 session. The track is likely to have
originally started simply as a jam session — it
is in simple 12-bar blues form in a
straight-forward 4/4 time and the key of C major.
The original recording is 9:38 in duration,
whereas the version used as the official release
is much shorter at 2:16.
On the track as recorded and officially released,
John Lennon plays the main theme on mellotron,
accompanied by Paul McCartney and George Harrison
(both on guitars, plus a later bass overdub) and
Ringo Starr (on maracas and drums). All four
Beatles added the chanting, and the track fades in
an assortment of tape effects created by Lennon
and Starr. This released version is identical to
that heard on the soundtrack of the Magical
Mystery Tour film; the music is accompanied in the
film by colour-altered images of landscape in
Iceland taken from an aeroplane. Those shots are
outtakes of the Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A
Space Odyssey.
A different version can be found on some Beatles
bootleg albums (such as Back-track), and features
added Hammond organ and strange whistling noises
in the early parts of the track. The
jazz-influenced ending is also present on this
version, which is slightly shorter, clocking in at
around 2:08.
Tags : The Beatles Flying Magical Mystery Tour Pop Rock Music 1967 |
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Affichage : 1958
Durée : 251 s |
| 愛子観光バスの仙台空港リムジンバス その1 |
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愛子観光バスが運行する仙台空港リ
ジンバスが、2月末限りで廃止されま
す。
仙台市内から仙台空港に到着したリ
ジンバスです。（平成20年2月9日撮影
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The Sendai airport limousine bus operated by
Ayashi charabanc Ltd. is abolished at the end of
February,2008.
This is the limousine bus that arrived from the
Sendai city at the Sendai airport(Natori
city,Miyagi prefecture,Japan).
I took a picture of this animation on February 9,
2008.
Tags : 愛子観光バス 仙台空港 リムジンバス 名取市 宮城県 airport limousine bus Sendai Natori Miyagi Japan |
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Affichage : 3662
Durée : 43 s |
| 仙台空港発のバスから |
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愛子観光バスエアポートリムジンの
後尾座席から撮影した風景です。
仙台空港ターミナルから相の釜橋（
台空港入口）までです。
This is the scenery of which it takes a picture
from the tail seat of the Ayashi charabanc airport
limousine.
From Sendai airport terminal to Ainogama bridge
(Sendai airport entrance,Iwanuma city).
Tags : 仙台空港 岩沼市 名取市 バス 宮城県 Sendai airport Iwanuma Natori bus Miyagi Japan |
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Affichage : 276
Durée : 123 s |
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