I think you lot might like this...

[Pete-M]

No need for description, but buggrit, here's what they say.

 

A compilation of back

projection plate footage shot in London in the 1950s and 1960s.

It is filmed from the back of a moving vehicle to be projected

behind actors in a studio, thereby giving the impression they are

in a moving car.

 

Catalogue detail:

Long tracking shot looking backwards from moving vehicle in West

London, along the Hammersmith Road heading east, pedestrians and

traffic, great street scenes, past the old King's Theatre. Point

of view from moving vehicle of Kensington, west London, same

route from two different angles. Side view to the rear right of

vehicle Kensington High Street, shops, pedestrians on the

pavement, a Britvic lorry follows, past Boots and Woolworths,

turning into a posh residential street with parked cars and very

grand houses. Past C&A, red Routemaster buses. Round Piccadilly

Circus at night, lots of neon lights visible. View of shopping

street at night. Includes Studio One and Two Cinema. View of

Tottenham Court Road at night. The Strand at night, busy, a rear

view from moving vehicle, a Jaguar MKII follows and a Number 11

Routemaster bus, stopping and starting in the heavy traffic, past

Charing Cross, then into a side street.

[warren t claim]

That's wierd!

 

 

Another one off the list.

[Des]

Who else watched the police vid, and at 17 seconds in thought fuck me that's a big speed camera.

[barrett]

You're right, I do like this. A lot. Cheers for posting!

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Those back projection things are a little weird though(aren't they?). The second one made my eyes go funny (Mum always said it would).

 

I liked the early white van man in the first clip, was that a two fingered salute he gave the camera? Somethings never change eh?

 

I enjoy watching back projection in movies, anyone remember the Police Squad! tv series where Frank Drebin used to be pursued by everything from red indians (on horseback) through to German Stuka dive bombers whilst driving along?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

These are great! I'll have to show the Hammersmith road one to my dad, he grew up round there.

 

Who else watched the police vid, and at 17 seconds in thought fuck me that's a big speed camera.

Who else watched the first one and thought "POLICE SQUAD - IN COLOR!"?

[Polystratus]

Quite some interesting links in there, pulled this one out:

 

[j-j]

Like the Mk2 jag bit - large number of drivers with no lights at night!