Films set in 1969/1970 London
Discussion
I love films set around this time in London, everything looks so different yet so familiar.
Also the fashion and the music seems to be constant with this particular time, neither '60s or 70s yet really good. Also the cars look so different, with lots of 'old banger' 50s cars still being used by people together with 'modern' ones.
Watched Deep End the other night which is a great example of this type of film, but could have done with more shots of London, but the Cat Stevens music captures that time perfectly.
Bronco Bullfrog is another good example showing the tower blocks of 1970 East London.
I was only 3/4 at that time, but it seems like a completely different era. (Well it was really).
Am I making any sense here, or is it just my imagination?
Any other recommendations, if anybody knows what I'm on about? Think The Double Decklers but less Elstree more London.
Also the fashion and the music seems to be constant with this particular time, neither '60s or 70s yet really good. Also the cars look so different, with lots of 'old banger' 50s cars still being used by people together with 'modern' ones.
Watched Deep End the other night which is a great example of this type of film, but could have done with more shots of London, but the Cat Stevens music captures that time perfectly.
Bronco Bullfrog is another good example showing the tower blocks of 1970 East London.
I was only 3/4 at that time, but it seems like a completely different era. (Well it was really).
Am I making any sense here, or is it just my imagination?
Any other recommendations, if anybody knows what I'm on about? Think The Double Decklers but less Elstree more London.
toasty said:
Withnail and I was set in 1969.
And it does a reasonable job with the beaten up old Jag and spartan boozers. Maybe I shouldn't be so specific about 69/70 and maybe say 69-72, as I'm looking forward to Death Line on the horror channel this week which is st on the tube system and is from 1972.
Seeing the tube from that time is also a great love of mine as I used to be on it quite a bit at that time and it seems so different now.
tigerkoi said:
Frenzy. Hitchcock. 1972 (a touch later that you might be thinking). Not many films better portray London in that era. Multiple scenes shot in and around the original Covent Garden, and Oxford Street.
Hitchcock grew up there, and that's why he spent a lot of time crafting the film to accuracy, and for me is almost the definitive capture.
Cheers, that sounds like a worthwhile £5 punt on Amazon. Hitchcock grew up there, and that's why he spent a lot of time crafting the film to accuracy, and for me is almost the definitive capture.
Ultuous said:
blindswelledrat said:
Laugh
How specific a date do you need!
THis thread reminds me of the sketch from little Britain when the man goes into teh toy shop asking for a Pirate Memory Game including octopuses and space shuttles.
That's exactly what I was reminded of as soon as I saw the thread title! How specific a date do you need!
THis thread reminds me of the sketch from little Britain when the man goes into teh toy shop asking for a Pirate Memory Game including octopuses and space shuttles.
I've been scratching my head all night about one that was set in a London comprehensive school and Google hasn't helped me with what it's called. And it's not To Sir with Love.
I did think about Sunday Bloody Sunday yesterday, but can't remember if there was much in the way of London scenes in it.
Need some more obscure London films from that time.
Looking forward to Frenzy arriving.
I did think about Sunday Bloody Sunday yesterday, but can't remember if there was much in the way of London scenes in it.
Need some more obscure London films from that time.
Looking forward to Frenzy arriving.
gregd said:
Dracula A.D. 1972? Nice Hammer Horror in "Swinging London". "Death Line" also Hammer from this period.
Not strictly London as such but Quadrophenia, McVicar, That'll Be The Day and the sequel Stardust are all favourites of mine.
Twisted Nerve (love that music), Up The Junction, The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold..
I'm recording Death Line tonight, it's on the horror channel. Not strictly London as such but Quadrophenia, McVicar, That'll Be The Day and the sequel Stardust are all favourites of mine.
Twisted Nerve (love that music), Up The Junction, The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold..
Quadrophenia just winds me up, it's supposed to be 1964 and they don't even make the slightest effort, there are '70s cars everywhere.
croyde said:
I was a dispatch rider in 1981, I know a decade out, and I remember delivering to the Isle of Dogs. Loads of warehouses and lock ups each with wild dogs on chains. It was a very grim area and look at it now
Used to go to gigs at the old 'Anarchy Centre' in Wapping around 1981. Got out at Wapping tube station and it was just a load of old derelict buildings and wire fences you had to clamber round to get in.
How it's changed.
SpeedBash said:
The Black Windmill starring Michael Caine, has from the little I have seen, a London setting.
It is regularly shown on ITV4 but I have yet to watch it in its entirety.
Tis also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TtwQ4uzSA
Film location info: http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/film-locations/9...
Not a bad little flick that. It is regularly shown on ITV4 but I have yet to watch it in its entirety.
Tis also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5TtwQ4uzSA
Film location info: http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/film-locations/9...
F i F said:
Anyone looking for TV and film footage second half 1966 Huddersfield, just after World Cup Final, preferably including shots of trolleybuses.
Watched The Mutations from '72 the other week with Tom Baker. Had some interesting London scenes, and I had to freeze frame one scene to have a closer look which had a London street with a beaten up old Facel Vega HK500 parked in it.
Just wish I could remember the one set in the school, it ticked every box, think it even had Cat Stevens or someone doing the music, or was it a kind of 'Lazy Sunday Afternoon' type song.
TimJMS said:
You're thinking of S.W.A.L.K which these days is better known as "Melody", released in 1971 and shot throughout 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_%281971_film%2...
Interesting, cheers for that. Hopefully it's what I was thinking of and is worth an £8 Amazon punt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_%281971_film%2...
Eric Mc said:
Has anybody been watching the Rank "Britain on Film" shorts on BBC 4? Great colour period shots of Britain (including London) between about 1958 and 1970. Some great cars keep cropping up (and the odd aeroplane - like a Hunting Clan Viscount on the episode last week).
Great stuff, although I'm not sure what the BBC are doing with it, it got to episode 5 or so with another 7 to go and now they're running it again from the start. 
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