JamesM

This is going to be shown on TCM in the US on March 10th at 12pm.

HIPPIEDAVE

I got a brilliant dvd copy featuring a homemade docu of the sites circa 2004 but disc jumped at the end.He sent me another copy and I watched it ages after and was the same duh, should have checked it.D

nobbywoods

This is not shown in the schedule I pull up??

nobbywoods

But it is when I look carefully!! Sorry.

PS68060

One of my colleagues thinks the lake scenes might be at Grafham water.

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choice

Hi. Does anyone have a copy of Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and also Three Into Two Won't Go? starring one of my favourites Judy Geeson. Thanks.

crunchie

TCM USA seemed to have dropped this from it's March schedule

Ealingfilmfan

YouTube - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Opening Titles


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oxfam1uk

I've never seen this film - but I have lived in Stevenage !

No, really, I think that "Swinging Sixties" films like this seem quite ludicrous, in retrospect. You have the streets of boring old Stevenage, where nothing ever happens (except people getting drunk and depressed). Then a psychedic montage of bright shimmering colours and sex.

That sequence tends to reinforce my view that the "Swinging Sixties" only really existed in the minds of film producers and pop stars. For most people life went on just as it had in the Fifties, except that drugs and sex had become more readily available as means of escape from dull old Britain.

I reckon this gap between reality and media fantasy is even greater now in the 21st century, than it was then. That's why so many teenagers seem unhappy and dissatisfied with life !

SwingingLondon

The director Clive Donner, chose to set the film in Stevenage, to get away from the 'swinging london' theme & setting of so many films at the time this was made.

Steve Crook

And it was meant to be a film about someone who had heard about the swinging sixties but couldn't seem to get involved.

However, even for people in the middle of London, the swinging sixties probably didn't start to happen until the latter part of the 1960s and quite a lot of the footage you see about people during the swinging sixties was really filmed in the first half of the 1970s

Advertisers and commentators ideas about neatly dividing decades into different styles of behaviour doesn't always fit with the decade boundaries.

Steve

smudge

I've always said that the first two or three years of a decade always reflect the styles and tastes of the previous one. I suppose it's simply people catching up with what were then 'the latest' trends. I know that in our house the 70s certainly dragged on well into the 80s.

This presents one of the problems with contemporary film and TV which takes on recent history. The prop buyer goes off to EBay and obviously buys as much as he or she can within period, and the whole thing ends up looking almost like new.

It's as though the character has picked up a Grattan/Littlewods catalogue of the period and completely done out their home with everything which is up to date. There rarely seems to be that adherence to 'natural' cycles, where old things will remain for quite some time and only a few items will be replaced with new things as they wear out - everything just looks too pristine...

Smudge

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Mr Cosmo

I saw Clive Donner being interviewed in 1968 and he said he wanted it filmed in Stevenage because it was a new town and he wanted to get away from the "grim up north" locales of the 1960s. This is borne out in Hunter Davies's autobiography. The original book takes place in Carlisle although it is never specifically mentioned - but the aim of everyone is to get to Manchester University.

As it happens - some of the scenes (Jamie and Caroline in the boutuque, Jamie on a red bus) look very London and 60s

Steve Crook

There's also the "distance from London" effect

Especially back then, it took longer for new styles to ripple out from the capital

Steve

tellingbone

The fish and chip shop featured in the film is still going. My wife gets her lunch there every Saturday.