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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 26-01-2008, 01:05 PM
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I have very little memory of this film which I saw as a child. I recall it was about a family that went hop picking in the holidays. I recall at one stage there were children who were staying in (I think) a windmill, which caught fire, and I remember there was a china dog in the windmill. This film would have been made in the 50's.

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I recall as a child seeing a film about a family who went hop picking in the holidays, and I think at one stage the children were in a windmill which caught fire, there was a china dog which one of the children wanted to save. My memories are not very clear as it was made in the 50's and I was quite small.
Can anyone help or remember something like that.
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This was a query I had a while ago and it was solved .... but I have forgotten the title again!

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Hello Judylou

This is the film "Adventure in the Hopfields", a Children's Film Foundation film, starring Mandy Miller. See

Adventure in the Hopfields (1958)

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Thanks, I can't believe anyone else in the world would have asked that. It must have been 50 years ago!
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This was a query I had a while ago and it was solved .... but I have forgotten the title again!

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Rob Compton answered it in the other thread where Judy asked. It was "Adventure in the Hopfields", a Children's Film Foundation film, starring Mandy Miller. See Adventure in the Hopfields (1958)

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I am blown away!! I can't believe it! I have only just found this website and within 24 hours I have an answer to something from my dim dark past. I don't suppose it would be possible to get hold of a copy??
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It was thought 'lost but a copy has been found.

There is some interesting 'trivia' about it's re-discovery here ....

Adventure in the Hopfields (1958)

.... and I found this on a Romney Marsh online newsletter.

"The centrepiece of the evening was a showing of the only surviving copy of the film “The Adventures in the Hopfields”, supported wonderfully by a hand-picked selection of films plucked from the Movietone archives, including: films on hop picking and beer-making in Kent and East Sussex in the early twentieth century."

I would love to have a copy.

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So how do we find it? And who is Mostyn?
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So how do we find it? And who is Mostyn?
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I tried but couldn't find out for certain who has the film.

Mostyn is a character in the film The Dark Man.

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I tried but couldn't find out for certain who has the film...
Barry Littlechild, a film historian and retired BBC producer, has the film. Please see: BBC News | FILM | Lost Asher film returns home

He has 'Film Night' screenings of the film to raise money for charity. There was one earlier this month: Demelza House Children's Hospice | Events in the Community
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Thanks FinalCut, but I now have a copy of the film. Thansk also for the link to Demelza House, I will keep an eye out for future screenings by Barry Littlechild. What a really good cause.
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