1966 film Kaleidescope
Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrss9wjgkJM
A lovely old DB5 convertible features at the start and during the film
I wonder what became of it...?
A lovely old DB5 convertible features at the start and during the film
I wonder what became of it...?
mhurley said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrss9wjgkJM
A lovely old DB5 convertible features at the start and during the film
I wonder what became of it...?
Thanks for posting this - last shown on TV c.1986 and still not out on dvd or Blu-ray yet!A lovely old DB5 convertible features at the start and during the film
I wonder what became of it...?
Shocked that I had never heard of or seen this charming film either!
The maroon Aston DB4, was registered in September 64, so it wasn't much more than 12 months old when it was used in this film. A hideously expensive car back then. Wonder whose Aston it was then ??
The colour Does Not do it justice though !!
There is roof down footage of Beatty and York in France, in the Aston.
It is listed as tax expired in October 1984 and marked as " Export " .
No doubt Aston Martin works could shed some light on the History of this car and its Chassis number.
I would love to know where it is now! Bet the current owner doesn't know about its past !
Re the film, some real faces in this one ! Beatty looks so young, Yootha Joyce RIP, John Sewell RIP ( I well recall seeing him @ the school gate ( Normanhurst School in Chingford, waiting for his daughter ) a pal went round to his house in Woodford Green one day and there was a 2+2 E - Type parked on the drive, Sewells own E apparently.
Murray Melvin.
And the Gorgeous Suzanna York.
John Junkin RIP.
The maroon Aston DB4, was registered in September 64, so it wasn't much more than 12 months old when it was used in this film. A hideously expensive car back then. Wonder whose Aston it was then ??
The colour Does Not do it justice though !!
There is roof down footage of Beatty and York in France, in the Aston.
It is listed as tax expired in October 1984 and marked as " Export " .
No doubt Aston Martin works could shed some light on the History of this car and its Chassis number.
I would love to know where it is now! Bet the current owner doesn't know about its past !
Re the film, some real faces in this one ! Beatty looks so young, Yootha Joyce RIP, John Sewell RIP ( I well recall seeing him @ the school gate ( Normanhurst School in Chingford, waiting for his daughter ) a pal went round to his house in Woodford Green one day and there was a 2+2 E - Type parked on the drive, Sewells own E apparently.
Murray Melvin.
And the Gorgeous Suzanna York.
John Junkin RIP.
Edited by neutral 3 on Saturday 28th September 21:52
Edited by neutral 3 on Saturday 28th September 21:56
neutral 3 said:
Shocked that I had never heard of or seen this charming film either!
The maroon Aston DB4, was registered in September 64, so it wasn't much more than 12 months old when it was used in this film. A hideously expensive car back then. Wonder whose Aston it was then ??
The colour Does Not do it justice though !!
There is roof down footage of Beatty and York in France, in the Aston.
I think its shade is Dubonnet Rosso. Its a DB5 not a 4. There was never a convertible DB4 with cowled headlamps - there were some later fixed head DB4s that had cowled headlamps.The maroon Aston DB4, was registered in September 64, so it wasn't much more than 12 months old when it was used in this film. A hideously expensive car back then. Wonder whose Aston it was then ??
The colour Does Not do it justice though !!
There is roof down footage of Beatty and York in France, in the Aston.
Edited by neutral 3 on Saturday 28th September 21:56
mhurley said:
I think its shade is Dubonnet Rosso. Its a DB5 not a 4. There was never a convertible DB4 with cowled headlamps - there were some later fixed head DB4s that had cowled headlamps.
Typo error, i should have put a 5.It could be Dubonet rosso, but a pals Dubonet DB6 is a lighter shade.
Edited by neutral 3 on Monday 30th September 19:22
The film's made around London during this period of the 60s are very strange, no doubt emphasising the London so-called counter culture before the major bands like the Beatles turned all pyschedelic. Paul McCartney is said to have played a big role in the Avant Garde scene in London at the time. There's lots to know about the social engineering that was happening at this time both in London and across the pond in the US regarding the CIAs involvement in pushing LSD into the hippie culture. Some excellent research on this subject by the late Dave McGowen, but that's for an entirely different discussion
I remember watching a typical late 60s London based film (can't remember the title) for a college project years ago, where a photographer goes around in his Rolls Royce or Bentley convertible taking snaps of surrealist scenes. The end scene shows children's swings that are supposed to be be moving, but nothing is there as if it's up to the viewers minds to fill in the gaps. Most of the students in my class thought it was a pile of crap, which it probably was. There's some very wacky films made around that time centred in London.
The values of Aston Martin DB4s, 5s and 6s are just astronomical now. Anything from £300,000 up to a million. I have a copy of C&SC magazine from 2011, and there are a couple of DB5s and 6s for around £150,000. In the late 90s you buy a DB5 for about 30 grand. Shame about the DB5 that got smashed near Manchester Airport a few years ago; I was staying at the Premiere Inn just around the corner about a week before. I wonder what happened to it whether it was rebuilt, I know they said it was a right off. I wonder who owned it.
I remember watching a typical late 60s London based film (can't remember the title) for a college project years ago, where a photographer goes around in his Rolls Royce or Bentley convertible taking snaps of surrealist scenes. The end scene shows children's swings that are supposed to be be moving, but nothing is there as if it's up to the viewers minds to fill in the gaps. Most of the students in my class thought it was a pile of crap, which it probably was. There's some very wacky films made around that time centred in London.
The values of Aston Martin DB4s, 5s and 6s are just astronomical now. Anything from £300,000 up to a million. I have a copy of C&SC magazine from 2011, and there are a couple of DB5s and 6s for around £150,000. In the late 90s you buy a DB5 for about 30 grand. Shame about the DB5 that got smashed near Manchester Airport a few years ago; I was staying at the Premiere Inn just around the corner about a week before. I wonder what happened to it whether it was rebuilt, I know they said it was a right off. I wonder who owned it.
Yes, it was Blow Up. Everyone on my course thought it made no sense and was boring as hell, but then they also thought the same with Hitchcock's Psycho lol, now that's a masterpiece;obviously the attention span is greatly lost with the younger generation.
I much prefer those kitchen sink working class dramas set in a northern town, A Taste of Honey, A Kind of Loving, Saturday Night Sunday Morning etc. Something most people in the country can relate to, not some seedy photographer in London driving around in his expensive Rolls Royce with nothing else better to than take weird photos.
I much prefer those kitchen sink working class dramas set in a northern town, A Taste of Honey, A Kind of Loving, Saturday Night Sunday Morning etc. Something most people in the country can relate to, not some seedy photographer in London driving around in his expensive Rolls Royce with nothing else better to than take weird photos.
I dunno. Living in London in 1967 was fun and gay (in the proper sense of the word). The air vibrated with the changes the 60s brought after the dour period of the 50s. I worked in Cheap Street in 1962 and was sent home for wearing a red, not blue, tie. My boss came to work in pin stripes wearing a bowler and carrying the archetypal brolly. In 1967, by contrast, I had my first, white, rusty, E-type for the grand sum of £330. Parties in Hampstead, the rock concerts and smoking Sobranie Balkan black cigarettes. A stroll through Carnaby Street, White Hart Lane on Saturday, a drive out in the country on Sunday. I can relate to this film and the era!
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