Children's Film Foundation Films

[Whitegates]

The Malcolm Saville Society has today released a DVD called Treasure and Trouble featuring two films based on Malcolm Saville's stories. The first is Trouble at Townsend (1946) which was a very early Gaumont film for Childrens Film Clubs and which starred the young Petula Clark. The second film is Treasure at the Mill (1957) made by The Children's Film Foundation.



The DVD also contains two short documentaries made at the orginal film locations in Hertfordshire and Essex and has ROM files with background material to the films and the books on which they were based.



The DVD costs £15 plus £1 UK post and packing from The Malcolm Saville Society. 24 Larkswood Rise, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9JU.



I will be happy to answer any enquiries about the DVD and the films.

[Rob Compton]

Thanks for this Whitegates. I'm a rather lazy lapsed member of the Society so I would not have known about this other than for your post.



My cheque will be sent off forthwith!



rgds

Rob

[Rob Compton]

I have now received this DVD and it's a really wonderful achievement - two CFF-type Saville films as Whitegates describes and tons of other interesting material.



For Petula Clark fans, I think it was her first film, and she does a brief song/piano number.



Many thanks, Whitegates and well done to the Malcolm Saville Society - the DVD is recommended.



rgds

Rob

[MrT]

Happy to second everything Rob says. The dvd is great. Also, this is a professionally produced dvd, not a home made dvd-r. Well worth getting if you have not already done so



Mike (MrT)

[Brief Encounter]

So is the quality good?



It may have been the first film Pet made, but not released...

[Rob Compton]

Quality is pretty good, given the age



Rob

[donna]

When I went to the ABC Minors on a Sat. morning I loved the British kids black and white films , never knew who starred in them but most were about finding clues and treasure and of course the baddies chasing after them, has anyone got titles for any of these old films and who did star in them who then became famous.

[CaptainWaggett]

The Children's Film Foundation Catalogue.



My favourite is The Monster of Highgate Ponds in which a small boy createshis very own Jurassic Park in North London.

[donna]

hey where can I get that for the grandkids Captain

[Steve Crook]

name='donna']When I went to the ABC Minors on a Sat. morning I loved the British kids black and white films , never knew who starred in them but most were about finding clues and treasure and of course the baddies chasing after them, has anyone got titles for any of these old films and who did star in them who then became famous.

A few of the children went on to become famous:

Leslie Ash - The Boy with Two Heads (1974)

Dexter Fletcher - 4D Special Agents (1981)

Mandy Miller, Melvyn Hayes - Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)

Linda Robson, Phil Daniels - Anoop and the Elephant (1972)

Phil Collins - Calamity the Cow (1967)

Francesca Annis - The Cat Gang (1958)

Susan George - Cup Fever (1965)



A lot of the adults in the films were also played by established actors



Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

A few are available on dvd. This is a goody for fans of time-travelling scientists.

[SiverSurfer]

Hi CFF Lovers, this is my first post, I'm looking for the title only, of a CFF film made in 1960 or 1961 that was shot, in part, in Richmond park or Ham common, any keen viewers recognise it ?



Thanks in advance John

[Steve Crook]

An article that popped up on my watchlist because it mentions the CFF film by Powell & Pressburger, The Boy Who Turned Yellow.



But it's a nice history of and summary of the Children's Film Foundation



Steve

[Film Man]

Don't forget Jane Asher, Edward Judd and Anthony Valentine in Adventure In The Hopfields. David Coote & Nicky Edmett who starred in The Secret Cave actually came to my house to view the film after 50 years! Meridian TV covered the event...It's being screened to The Thomas Hardy Society on June 6th in Dorchester, Nicky will be in the audience.

Film Man.

[fingermouse]

Also Sadie Frost's first film appearance was in the cff film 'A Horse Named Jester'.

[Bernardo]

Quote from CFTF website:-

Most recently, the CFTF, together with the Film Council and the BBC, have been overseeing a script development fund for 'family friendly' features. Five projects have been developed through this fund, and are now at various stages in their development process. The fund is now closed and currently the Foundation is unable to take on any new projects.



Some things make me sad. The statement above is one of them.

[Film Man]

'Tragic' is the word Bernardo....

Why are the old films not available and making money? Where does money come from today to pay the people who run it? Why should poor copies from E-Bay be the answer? I think legal brains should be taken on to look into the 'Foundation' status...after all the Cinemas paid for them!

Film Man