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Tuesday, 28 April 2009

A Slice of Unmitigated Nostalgia

Nothing much to do with architecture, but too good not to add. I'm a complete sucker for this sort of socialist realist (ie utterly fictional) film-making (Nightmail, anyone?), so here's "English Harvest" of 1938 in glorious Dufaycolour, courtesy of the British Film Institute and currently doing the rounds as part of a tour entitled "Britain at Bay"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzAIkMwrg&feature=sdig&et=1240649909.72

http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/mediatheque_britainatbay.html