Freeview 81 Film Club Sky 328 newsletter Freesat 306 JULY/AUGUST 2021 Virgin 445 You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, We are excited to announce that our first confirmed guest for Stockport on Sunday October 10th is the lovely Amanda Barrie, Carry On star and TV soap queen, with many film & TV appearances; you may have seen her on TPTV in What a Whopper, I’ve Gotta Horse, Doctor in Distress and A Pair of Briefs among others. We are delighted to tell you that our hosts for the day will be Frazer Hines & Jenny Hanley. The day before, at the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor, our Saturday Morning Pictures show will be great fun for all you kids aged 50+! Tickets include breakfast roll, tea/coffee, free popcorn and a limited edition enamel badge. There will be prizes, a great line up of films & shorts on screen and audience participation. We are also looking forward to meeting our fellow film boffins at the Savoy for a quiz with afternoon tea.To those of you who have booked places for these events, tickets with information packs will be dispatched in August as ‘happy days are here again’ to quote dear Betty Driver! If you haven’t booked yet, grab your tickets quick – more details on page 11 and page 29. We can’t wait to see you all again! This month we are proud to present the latest in our Crime Collection series, Volume 8. This includes 11 rare and previously lost films, such asThe Girl on the Pier with Veronica Hurst; the once lost short, Vacant Possession with Brian Murphy; and Sid James & Bonar Colleano in Escape by Night. Our £20 combined offer this month features Petula Clark CBE, on CD and DVD in Don’t Ever Leave Me, (appearing with Jimmy Hanley). Also in this month’s magazine, music CD Twang covers the ‘golden age’ of British guitar-led bands and Kenny Lynch OBE features in a CD which covers his early career. A book on Sir Tommy Steele OBE showcases one of Britain’s greatest entertainers. West Yorkshire Cinemas & Theatres is a nostalgic book at a bygone age. For fans of action adventure, we have a box set of Doug McClure’s best-loved films. If you are interested in war history, you will enjoy The Blitz, an 80th anniversary box set. WWII nostalgia also to be enjoyed with Tawny Pipit on DVD. Fans of Softly Softly will appreciate Task Force Series 2 7-DVD box set. Volume 4 of Look at Life looks at Sport and for those who remember the Doomwatch series we have a 7-Disc box set. Vintage train enthusiasts will love the box set on famous steam trains. We hope you find something you like; of course, you are under no obligation to buy anything, but printing and posting costs have risen so much that if you don’t buy anything in 12 months, I’m afraid the computer does remove your address from our database of club members. This month’s premieres include Band Waggon with Arthur Askey, The Blind Goddess with Eric Portman; and David Tomlinson & Cecil Parker in The Chiltern Hundreds. We have begun filming two exciting new series with Caroline Munro, (English actress, model & singer); and Mike Read, (disc jockey, writer and television presenter). More details to follow. Our new sponsors Backwaters Tours have made a generous offer of £50 off any booking on one of their small waterways cruises for TPTV viewers, see below. We hope you all saw our article in the Radio Times. We were delighted to receive a visit from them and have printed part of the interview on pages 24-25. Take care & enjoy the summer, (rain or shine!), Best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill Backwaters Tours are a new kind of cruise which target the smaller waterways of France. We are offering £50 off your booking when you mention TPTV! Visit www.backwaters.tours or phone 01303 316116 or email [email protected] 1 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE INCLUDES EVERYTHING ON THESE TWO PAGES. CRIME WITHOUT CLUES CRIME COLLECTION Volume 8 3-DVD Set (1948) Directed by Charles Reisner. Can reporter Mike WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES Kent prevent more deaths 11 CRIME FILMS NEW EXCLUSIVE while he tries to resolve a from 1944 to 1966 RENOWN 3 DVD SET sinister plot to steal a including rare gems such fortune in jewels? Cast: as The Girl on the Pier with Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser Veronica Hurst and the once CRIME COLLECTION and Leslie Brooks. lost short, Vacant Possession, with Brian Murphy and Volume 8 VACANT POSSESSION Daphne Heard. Sid James PRICE (1966) A formerly ‘lost’ and Bonar Colleano star in JUST £20 British short, directed by Escape by Night and Boris Karloff WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Peter Moffatt. investigates as Colonel March. OPTIONAL SUBTITLES Cast: Daphne Heard, Brian THE GIRL ON THE PIER (1953) 3-DVD Box Set Murphy, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Director: Lance Comfort. This British Total Running time: 11 hours John J. Carney, Julie Lynton, crime film shot in 1950s Brighton Elizabeth Wallace, Richard depicts rivalry between a crooner who Gale and Frederick Peisley. has done time for robbery and his THE WAY OUT (1955) AKA Dial 999 Montgomery Tully directed and wrote partner in crime who is being this British crime drama in which a man tells his wife he is being framed for blackmailed for a share of the loot. murder. Cast: John Bentley, Sydney Tafler, Cast: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman & Michael Goodliffe. Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes & Campbell Singer. ESCAPE BY NIGHT (1953) Written & directed by John Gilling. Cast: Bonar Colleano, Sid James, THE SCARLET WEB (1954) British Andrew Ray, Ted Ray, Simone Silva & Patrick Barr. crime film, director Charles Saunders. An insurance investigator agrees to COLONEL MARCH INVESTIGATES (1953) British help a woman who is being crime film made from three pilot episodes of Colonel blackmailed. Cast: Griffith Jones, March of Scotland Yard, directed by Cy Endfield. Hazel Court and Zena Marshall. Cast: Boris Karloff, Richard Wattis & Joan Sims. THE LISTENER (1956) Director: Roy Kellino. An episode from the TV series Four THE CROOKED SKY (1957) This British crime Star Theatre starring: Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody, Walter Coy & Richard Lupino. drama directed by Henry Cass centres on a smuggling racket between London and the US. Cast: Wayne Morris, Karin Booth & Anton Diffring. PICCADILLY THIRD STOP (1960) This fast-paced British thriller is directed by Wolf Rilla. Cast: Yoko Tani, Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling & William Hartnell. SEVEN DOORS TO DEATH (1944) Directed by Elmer Clifton. An architect studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft and double murder. Cast: Chick Chandler, June Clyde & George Meeker. To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 2 OUR PRICE £20 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 3 Memories of a life in films: GREAT BRITISH Adding Subtitles Part 23, by Noel Cronin Our next battle was for subtitles – hundreds of emails and letters arrived daily asking for them, but we had no budgets for these and no software to play them out onto VARIOUS Artists including: the screen. However, I am pleased to say we did launch The Eagles, The Krew Kats, CD our subtitling service three years ago. We can’t provide subtitles for everything just yet – remember that the age of the films and The Fentones, The Hunters, the series we show means that no subtitles or even scripts exist. Everything The Scorpions & The Packabeats. must be created from scratch at great expense and time, but we do create WITH FREE more and more every month. We don’t receive license fees from anyone to UK POSTAGE help towards the cost! £15.99 The process of creating subtitles consists of many stages. Assuming no MUSIC CD 1hr 18min script is available, the first stage is to transcribe the dialogue. This can be 34 Tracks on 1 CD done manually, or by using automated software. Text is produced that matches the dialogue, which is then split into captions, which are only The “Golden Age” of the twangy UK Beat Instrumental occurred between the roughly in sync with the audio. The second stage involves tidying up the late 1950s and the very early 1960s, inspired by The Shadows’ spectacular dialogue. There are numerous ‘rules’ that subtitles must adhere to. Where successes. This compilation presents thirty-four tracks from six guitar-led possible, subtitles are timed to start or end at the same point where the groups, whose sound and style paid homage to The Shadows. The Eagles, camera cuts to a different shot. Generally, anything over 250 words per from Bristol, enjoyed airplay with Bristol Express and Exodus, followed by minute (wpm) is considered too fast for the average viewer to read, so each The Krew Kats, aka Marty Wilde’s former Wildcats (they also recorded as caption must be on-screen long enough to allow at least a 250wpm reading The Tom Cats), who charted with Trambone. The Fentones, who also backed speed. Captions must not be placed where they would cover the speaker’s Shane Fenton, charted with The Mexican and The Breeze And I, while mouth, or other on-screen action. Caption positions may be adjusted both The Hunters weighed in with Teen Scene and The Storm’/‘How’s M’Chicks? vertically and horizontally. However, prior and subsequent captions in the both now collectors’ items. The Scorpions also cut two collectable 45s, (Ghost) scene must remain in the same position to avoid captions jumping all over Riders In The Sky and Rockin’ At The Phil, while The Packabeats charted the screen.