Film Fanfare

[Geoffers]

There are some fascinating clips of this series available on British Pathe, http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=66051 is just one example. However, does anybody know how/where these were originally screened? I'm assuming it was a sort of accompanying "short" to the main features at the cinema back in the fifties, but I'm probably a bit too young to have seen them "live". However, bearing in mind there was a quiz in which one was asked to write down the answers on a postcard and sent it in, would cinema audiences have been easily able to do that? So maybe it was shown on TV?

[Geoffers]

Oops, that will teach me to check imdb first - apparently it *was* a TV series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686705/! We did not have a TV set that could receive ITV until the early 60s so there is some excuse for not knowing about this series!

[Ray]

name='Geoffers' timestamp='1283764038' post='471623']

There are some fascinating clips of this series available on British Pathe, http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=66051 is just one example. However, does anybody know how/where these were originally screened? I'm assuming it was a sort of accompanying "short" to the main features at the cinema back in the fifties, but I'm probably a bit too young to have seen them "live". However, bearing in mind there was a quiz in which one was asked to write down the answers on a postcard and sent it in, would cinema audiences have been easily able to do that? So maybe it was shown on TV?

I remember very clearly watching in at the Naafi Club in Catterick Camp in 1956. I am sure that they had guest presenters like Stephen Boyd, but I think that it was usually compered by Peter Noble and Paul Carpenter.

[Moor Larkin]

I remember very clearly watching in at the Naafi Club in Catterick Camp in 1956. I am sure that they had guest presenters like Stephen Boyd, but I think that it was usually compered by Peter Noble and Paul Carpenter.

You are very right..........

FILM FANFARE - NO 11 - British Pathe

[julian_craster]

Other presenters included Lionel Murton and Peter Arne (these presenters took turns when the regulars like Paul Carpenter had 'B' film work.....)

I like the 'Quizzes' with super-smoothie Peter Noble who seems to know everything !

The series survives because it was shot on 35mm film (unusual for a series of this type) at the small Pathe studios in Wardour Street, with musical bits featuring Muir Mathieson, singers and dancers filmed at ABPC Elstree.
There were only 3 ITV companies at the time (London, Midlands, North) so if you lived elsewhere you never saw the series !

[Moor Larkin]

Other presenters included Lionel Murton and Peter Arne (these presenters took turns when the regulars like Paul Carpenter had 'B' film work.....) !

Peter Arne is curiously referred to as Peter Irons................ Was he moonlighting under an alias? I thought it was just a transcription error at first but he himself seems to definitely refer to himself as Peter Irons at the very start of this clip..............

Incidentally, the second half of this clip features a HELLO style tour of his house with Richard Todd.....

FILM FANFARE - NO 10 - SECTION 1, 2 & 3 - British Pathe