Radio personality Eammon Andrews shows a group of young female volunteers around the attractions of the Festival Of Britain.Radio personality Eammon Andrews shows a group of young female volunteers around the attractions of the Festival Of Britain.Radio personality Eammon Andrews shows a group of young female volunteers around the attractions of the Festival Of Britain.
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Angela Krefeld
- Janine
- (as Angela Kreffeld)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGloria Swanson appears making an escorted tour of the Festival of Britain construction site before its official opening.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Kid from Spain (1932)
- SoundtracksWe'll All Meet Down at the Fair
specially composed by Reg Pickard
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Festival of Britain film has some historical value
It's probably impossible to say for sure at this juncture, but it seems likely that E.J. Fancey wangled money (from a precursor of the London Tourist Board?) for a documentary about the Festival of Britain and then, in his inimitable manner, cobbled together a wrap-around narrative to make the film more appealing to general audiences. The story pretends that young ladies from a Swiss finishing school have formed an agency to conduct foreign visitors around the Festival. For no reason Eamonn Andrews is involved in the scheme. The chief interest today, because everything has now almost entirely been swept away, is footage of the South Bank site both under construction and in operation and the Festival Gardens in Battersea Park. But there's precious little of it. Instead we get night club acts and comedy routines. The clip that has been most often seen is of producer Dennis Main Wilson introducing The (four) Goons prior to a recording of the radio show referred to as "Crazy People". Otherwise there's a lot of library footage. The material purporting to be of a show at the Windmill Theatre seems to be from a pre-war film. Jimmy Grafton's sex-obsessed narration is boring in the extreme. For a similar Fancey production see "Calling All Cars" (1954), which may have developed from a documentary about the cross-channel car ferry. Spike Milligan does the again abysmal narration. It's one of the quirks of history that all The Goons' earliest screen appearances came about through E.J. Fancey. Clearly the boys were so keen on exposure in their early days that they didn't care what they did.
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- davidvmcgillivray-24-905811
- Nov 17, 2015
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- Filming locations
- South Bank, London, Greater London, England, UK(Festival of Britain site)
- Production company
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- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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