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Re: Children's Film Foundation

#76 Post by MichaelB » Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:09 am

colinr0380 wrote:
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That's what made Aardman's films so unique because they didn't really come out of that children's television block
I'm not sure if "really" is shorthand for "actually, they did", but actually, they did - Aardman's initial commissions were all in connection with "that children's television block", specifically the BBC's Vision On and its spin-off Take Hart. And it was the reputation that they built on the back of Morph, their immortal Take Hart character, that enabled them to move in different directions in the 1980s when more commissioning opportunities opened up thanks to the advent of Channel Four.

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Re: Children's Film Foundation

#77 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:51 pm

My mistake, I had completely forgotten about Morph!

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#78 Post by MichaelB » Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:38 am

The 1968 CFF film The Ghost of a Chance is the supporting feature on the BFI Blu-ray of The Battle of the Sexes.

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Re: Children's Film Foundation

#79 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:50 am

Michael Kerpan wrote:
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MichaelB -- Did anyone ever (successfully) movie-ize any of Enid Blyton's books? If not, why not? They seem to have been ready fodder for decent kid's movies.
Serendipitously, the BBC has apparently just produced a new series based on Malory Towers. Its not Famous Five (or Secret Seven) but is Enid Blyton! Here's the trailer.

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#80 Post by MichaelB » Tue May 04, 2021 9:28 am

Confirmed as a 23 August DVD release.
DVD: Nine more fun-packed adventures made from the 50s to the 80s by the CHILDREN’S FILM FOUNDATION arrive on a 3-disc set in BUMPER BOX: VOLUME 3. As always, the films feature a plethora of familiar faces, including George Cole, Melvyn Hayes, Ronnie Barker, Sheila Reid, Brenda Fricker and the one and only Phil Collins!

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#81 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:30 am

Full specs announced:
Children’s Film Foundation
Bumper Box Vol 3

9 films in a 3-DVD set, released on 23 August 2021


The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
Tim Driscoll’s Donkey (1955)
Runaway Railway (1965)
Calamity the Cow (1967)
Cry Wolf (1968)
Big Wheels and Sailor (1979)
Breakout (1984)
Our Exploits at West Poley (1985)

In urgent need of an escapist afternoon of no-nonsense nostalgic fun? Look no further! You’ve hit the motherlode with this deluxe duvet-ready binge-watch assortment of mini-masterpieces from the Children’s Film Foundation – Britain’s best-loved makers of quality children’s cinema for kids young and old, from the baggy trousered 1950s to the elastane-clad 1980s.

Whatever kind of retrovision sugar-kick you’re craving, you’ll find a sweet spot here, lavishly ladled into CFF Bumper Box Vol 3, a 3-DVD set released on 23 August 2021, serving up nine lovingly crafted full-fat vintage film delicacies with a side order of awesome extras. So go tell your ‘smart home’ to put a sock in it, fetch some tins of Panda Pops and take time out for a riotous old-school gogglebox bonanza!

As always the films feature a plethora of familiar faces, including George Cole, Melvyn Hayes, John Moulder-Brown, Ronnie Barker, Sheila Reid, Brenda Fricker and the one and only Phil Collins!

Disc 1
Catch some rays in Gibraltar with George ‘Minder’ Cole while you consider The Clue of the Missing Ape, head off hop-picking alongside Melvyn ‘Summer Holiday’ Hayes for an Adventure in the Hopfields and make an absolute ass of yourself in the idyllic Irish countryside astride Tim Driscoll’s Donkey!

Disc 2
Ride on the footplate there and back again with Ronnie ‘Porridge’ Barker and Jon ‘Dr Who’ Pertwee in Runaway Railway, remember there’s no jacket required for tousle-haired junior cattleman Phil ‘Sussudio’ Collins as he herds Calamity the Cow, and get shaken, not stirred, as Judy ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ Cornwell stars in Swinging Sixties junior spy caper Cry Wolf!

Disc 3
Copy, copy, good buddy! Watch out for smokeys, bears and bandits as you join the convoy British-style in Big Wheels and Sailor, run from the rozzers with David ‘Blake’s Seven’ Jackson as he blags a Breakout and go caving in Ye Olde England: it’s Exploits at West Poley, starring Brenda ‘My Left Foot’ Fricker!

Special features
Our Magazine No 2 (1952, 10 mins): newsreel aimed at youngsters
• Carry On laughing with Brit-comedy legend Peter Butterworth in three rare slapstick comedy shorts: Watch Out (1953, 18 mins), That’s an Order (1954, 18 mins) and Playground Express (1954, 16 mins)
Before Its Time: The Battle of Billy’s Pond (2021, 13 mins): in this new mini-doc, CFF alumnus Harley Cokeliss revisits his eco-aware film for the Foundation from 1976 (featured on the first Bumper Box)
• Illustrated booklet with an essay and notes on all the films and extras by BFI Video Producer Vic Pratt and a Screen Test quiz.

Product details
RRP: £29.99/ Cat. no. BFIV2132 / Cert PG
UK / 1953 –1985 / black and white, colour / total runtime 505 mins / English language / original aspect ratio 1.33:1 // 3 x DVD9: PAL, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio (192 kbps)

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Re: Children's Film Foundation

#82 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu Nov 03, 2022 3:17 pm

Volume 4 coming out in February 2023:

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For over 30 years, The Children’s Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to out screens.
Had enough of the hideous here and now? Take a moment of me-time, turn off your phone and whizz back to analogue days with this effervescent assortment of retro-cinema corkers from the Children’s Film Foundation – Britain’s best-loved makers of quality children’s cinema for kids young and old, from the boxy blazered 1950s to the synthetic-fibred 1980s.
This very British cinematic rabbit hole leads to a land of eccentric fun, silly scrapes and escapist thrills where you’ll encounter nine marvellous feature-length mini-masterpieces for kids, not to mention a sumptuous sideshow of unusually invigorating extras. So grab your outsize bag of sherbet lemons, crack open a Vimto and settle down for a terrific box-set binge to beat those modern-world blues!

Duff up some 1950s jewel thieves after you hide your pets from the council-estate rent collector in The Dog and the Diamonds, thwart sinister spies then jump out of an aeroplane as you ride The Stolen Airliner, then hope Michael ‘Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em’ Crawford’s trousers stay up as he tootles away in Blow Your Own Trumpet!
Hit the road as Sixties beatniks help you chase an old piano across town in The Missing Note, wrestle salmon straight out of the river in The Big Catch and thwart blundering crook Bernard ‘Carry On’ Bresslaw’s attempts to snaffle a secret formula from a barmy boy-inventor in Blinker’s Spy-Spotter!
Vanquish a time-travelling, fire-breathing dragon with Bob ‘The Benny Hill Show’ Todd in The Flying Sorcerer, stage a fierce Seventies-style eco-protest with a magical seal-man in Mr Selkie, and disappear deep inside your 1980s home computer in Gabrielle and the Doodleman with Matthew ‘Stars in Their Eyes’ Kelly, Lynsey ‘Rock Bottom’ de Paul and Eric ‘The Plank’ Sykes!

Plus sundry smashing shorts! Horsey hi-jinks and sneaky saddle-snappery in Stable Rivals,saggy socked seaside shenanigans in Swift Water, the Chiffy Kids meet Kenny ‘Dr Terror’s House of Horrors’ Lynch and Harry H ‘Steptoe and Son’ Corbett in Pot Luck and The Great Snail Race, reminders of pre-internet pastimes in Our Magazine No 4 , and a brand spanking new documentary revisiting some of the greatest ever CFF film locations.

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