Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham

Espe­cially for Mom and Dad:

The film is one of many ‘quota quick­ies’, B-featurettes shown in cin­e­mas, an unin­tended side-​effect of the Cin­e­mato­graph Film Act of 1927.

Direc­tor Harold Baim seems to have had a real sub­ur­bal­lar­dian fas­ci­na­tion for motor­ways, multi-​storey car parks and tower blocks.

Dis­cov­ered thanks to a won­der­ful doc­u­men­tary by Laurie Taylor, which just fin­ished. (I’ll upload it tomor­row after it appears on Listen Again.)

Update: The good people at Speechi­fi­ca­tion, an excel­lent weblog that posts high­lights from Radio 4 and other ‘intelligent speech’ sta­tions, have archived the doc­u­men­tary.

Posted at 11am on 26/04/08 by Jack Mottram to the art and culture category.
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