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Old 16-09-2008, 12:59 AM
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Here's too the East Surrey's....

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I may have missed something along the line, but in the Movie is the location of the Family's house ever mentioned?

Clapham and Leyton come to mind, but I recall Kay Walsh's character in a scene when she says she's fed up with her lot, such as traveling by Tube to Work, but the Tube didn't go to Leyton before World War II

I have asked the question as to where this movie was filmed previously in this forum. Knowing North London pretty well, I have never seen any similarity between the N.London I know and the locations used. This has put the thought into my mind that South London was used instead. There are also lines spoken by the cast that support this view although I cannot remember any ow, I am afraid. Irrespecive of it's locations, it will always remain one of the British film industrie's finest films.
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Network now have this listed for January:

This Happy Breed: Special Edition: Network DVD
You crazy idiots - my name's McGill!
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Old 26-11-2008, 01:31 PM
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I have asked the question as to where this movie was filmed previously in this forum. Knowing North London pretty well, I have never seen any similarity between the N.London I know and the locations used. This has put the thought into my mind that South London was used instead. There are also lines spoken by the cast that support this view although I cannot remember any ow, I am afraid. Irrespecive of it's locations, it will always remain one of the British film industrie's finest films.
It was filmed in Alderbrook rd South Clapham
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Old 07-12-2008, 12:16 AM
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Default General Strike in 'This Happy Breed'
I was brought with the idea from my father that ... "there was this strike in the 1920s, but fortunately the students from Oxford came out and drove the trains."

During my basic training in the RAF, I was talking like this to the chap in the next bed. He said, "What do you mean? They were only asking for a fair wage!"

I had never thought about it like that before. It was a salutary lesson ... and real eye-opener. National Service was good in that you met people from different backgrounds. Also, as a southerner, I met people from other parts of the UK for the first time.
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The shot of the chest with 'Singapore' on it, set things up nicely.
Yes, we know that Singapore will fall; daughter and son-in-law may well become prisoners of the Japanese; Coward does this in one of his plays ... could it be Private Lives? Two characters are on a liner looking over the rail and ready to sail for New York. They move away to reveal the name of the ship on a life-belt ... 'Titanic'. The same trick was used in the TV series Upstairs Downstairs. At the end of one series of episodes, Lady Margery is about to leave for Southampton. The final shot is of her suitcase bearing the label 'Titanic'.
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Yes, we know that Singapore will fall; daughter and son-in-law may well become prisoners of the Japanese; Coward does this in one of his plays ... could it be Private Lives? Two characters are on a liner looking over the rail and ready to sail for New York. They move away to reveal the name of the ship on a life-belt ... 'Titanic'. The same trick was used in the TV series Upstairs Downstairs. At the end of one series of episodes, Lady Margery is about to leave for Southampton. The final shot is of her suitcase bearing the label 'Titanic'.
Cavalcade. And in Upstairs Downstairs it's actually Mr Bellamy reading out a telegram that lets us know what ship Lady Marjorie is on (the cast apparently all though this was a completely ridiculous cliche - and they have a point - but it works very well, I think, especially for those pre-internet days when Rachel Gurney leaving the series wouldn't have been known to the viewers in advance).
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Cavalcade. And in Upstairs Downstairs it's actually Mr Bellamy reading out a telegram that lets us know what ship Lady Marjorie is on (the cast apparently all though this was a completely ridiculous cliche - and they have a point - but it works very well, I think, especially for those pre-internet days when Rachel Gurney leaving the series wouldn't have been known to the viewers in advance).
Still do it in Australian soaps:-
'Mind that big boat Noreen you never know, there are a lot of icebergs at the moment your ship might hit one and sink and you can not swim.'(Threatening music cut to end titles with Noreen looking worried).
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Still do it in Australian soaps:-
'Mind that big boat Noreen you never know, there are a lot of icebergs at the moment your ship might hit one and sink and you can not swim.'(Threatening music cut to end titles with Noreen looking worried).
Lol . There's no soap like an Aussie soap!
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I love this Film too!........being in Colour makes all the difference, love the bickering scenes and banter between the characters played by Amy Veness and Alison Leggat
Yes the two live-in female relatives (not uncommon in those days) The interplay suggests that Noel had experienced the same problem that I have today as he portrays it exactly as it is.
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Great film. This is the one I nominated as my favourite. Fantastic cast, wonderful acting and what a social commentary.
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