Submit Response » birmingham http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog Tue, 10 May 2011 01:19:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/26/telly-savalas-looks-at-birmingham/ http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/26/telly-savalas-looks-at-birmingham/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:19:33 +0000 Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/26/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.

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