Vin's Screen Grabs (Update 30/12/16) - Akenfield (Suffolk, 1974)

[michiel]

Lovely. Why not go rallying in a huge estate...

[Vin]

Hello Shiters, update time…

 

Another ‘Look at Life’ film called ‘Smashing Through’. This one is about stock car racing. There is no date but it is probably about 1961, as the commentary mentions stock car racing being in the UK for seven years – wikipedia and google say it arrived in 1954...

 

Mostly it is a film about the competitors, how they build the cars and footage of a race.

 

 

Down the scrappy, getting a six pot motor and a van chassis, to start a build with…

 

 

[Vin]

Smashing Through – Part 2

 

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Smashing Through – Part 3

 

This is how you shift old shite. WW2 surplus, a chunk of timber and a load of chains…

 

 

 

 

Scrutineering

 

[Vin]

Smashing Through – Part 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Smashing Through – Part 5

 

[Vin]

Smashing Through – Part 6

 

 

 

‘Next Meeting - Sunday 29^th May’   This puts it all in 1960…

 

 

 

 

That’s all for now folks

[garethj]

Excellent work!

 

Wonder if impossibly posh art critic Brian Sewell is in the audience?  He was a fan of stock car racing

[barrett]

Excellent work!

 

Wonder if impossibly posh art critic Brian Sewell is in the audience?  He was a fan of stock car racing

I believe he didn't start going to stock car races until the early 1970s to be precise! His Radio 4 program about the subject is wonderful, comparing the thick exhaust smoke and occasional flash of flame to a a sunset by Turner. Brilliant.

 

Good to see this thread dredged up again Vin, keep going

[Vin]

Well. I recently posted a few pics out my photobucket account into the 'one shite phot per post ' thread. This and the fact our village now has fast fibre broadband which means all my picture uploading is a lot fuggin faster, made me think I ought to revive my screen grabs thread which I used to update regularly. I've still got stuff to 'grab' so to quote Barrett I'm dredging this thread up again...

 

As per usual it's motoring shots and interesting shots of backgrounds and people...

 

This one is a 'Look at Life' film from the Sport DVD called 'Four Men Down' which is all about the Great Britain Bobsleigh team competing at the world championships in Cortina...

 

 

I can't remember his name but this fella is a 'driver'...

 

This bloke is in the team too. He's also a farmer...

 

One of the Bobsleighs and loading up...

 

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what the burnt out wreck is???

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Four Men Down Part 2

 

Setting off for and arrival at Cortina...

 

 

Basically everybody made their own way there but all the gear went by Austin Thrupenny bit and Landrover...

[Vin]

Four Men Down part 3

 

Shots from the practice runs...

 

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Four Men Down Part 4

 

 

Poor weather - melting snow...means the team have to trek over to St Moritz to practice...

 

Children and a Nun. No kittens visible....

 

 

Unfortunately on the way to St Moritz, this happened to the poor old Austin FG...Nobody was hurt!!

 

 

 

Returning to Cortina...

 

 

 

 

[Vin]

Four Men Down Part 6

 

Competing in Cortina...GB finished 10th overall...

 

 

The End. For Now...

 

 

[Pillock]

"Sanka, you dead?

 

"Yeah mon"

[DSdriver]

You see something else each time you go through these, I've just clocked Willie Wanklyn on the back of one of the stock cars - made me snigger like a schoolboy.

Keep em coming Vin, we love 'em.

[Doctormop]

Wonderful stuff from the days of fair play, sportsmanship and trusting British engineering to see you through!!

[Ghosty]

I thought that said 'competing in a Cortina'.

 

I was disappointed.

[MrBiscuits]

You see something else each time you go through these, I've just clocked Willie Wanklyn on the back of one of the stock cars - made me snigger like a schoolboy.

Keep em coming Vin, we love 'em.

Looks like old Willie chopped up an oval window beetle to build his rod

[sheffcortinacentre]

they did take a mk1 Cortina down the bobsleigh run there as a publicity stunt.

[chaseracer]

Wonderful stuff from the days of fair play, sportsmanship and trusting British engineering to see you through!!

 

Unless you were expecting your FG to stay upright... 

[trigger]

That poor old FG, I wouldn't have liked to been in that when it crashed.

[Vin]

Here is another 'Look at Life'...

 

'Racing to the Start' is a film all about the manufacture of race cars looking at one man bands and the likes of Piper and Lotus. It features the 1967 Racing Car Show at Olympia so it dates it to that year...

 

 

This chap is called Brian Hampshire. At the time of the film he'd spent 6 months and £1700 building his own formula 4 car called the 'Briham' with the intention of going into production. His workshop was his mum's spare room...

 

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 2

 

This bit is about Piper...

 

 

This is Bob Gayler, apparently he was the technical whizz...

 

This is the designer Tony Hilder...

 

The chap in the hat is George Henrotte, who established Piper...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start part 3

 

The next chunk of screenshots are all from the Lotus offices and factory...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 4

 

Shots from the 1967 Racing car show

 

 

This is Brian Hampshire again with his partially completed car...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 5

 

These shots are about testing and also a meeting at Brands Hatch...

 

 

This chap testing a Piper at Brands is called Sid Fox...

[Vin]

HOLY FRED RESSURECSHUN!!

 

 

A while since I've added to this...used to do it every week at one point... :shock:

 

Anyway, somewhere back in the pages of this thread I did screen grabs for a BTF film called 'Give your car a holiday'...

 

Well, somebody has uploaded it to youtube, so I thought I would tag it on to here...

 

Enjoy...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WUwdSyl-QI

[Jon]

Excellent stuff Vin, so have a bump from me, as I'm sure uploading all these images wouldn't have been a 5 minute task. I know the glorious tecnhicolor of the film stock has a lot to answer for in terms of wistfullness for how things were done back in the day (along with a lot of grey drudgery also, it must be said) but things really were a simpler, more uncluttered time back then, it seems. For instance, ask yourself which Brands Hatch sign you'd prefer to see:

 

 

Simple, stylised lettering from the less-is-more school of thought.

 

 

 

 

 

Branded nondescript logo which ties in with all the other tracks run by the same company, as words on their own are pretty boring. Bah Humbug.

[Vin]

I was watching a film last night that I got for Christmas and I thought as there was quite abit of 'shite' in it, it was worth giving this thread it's occasional resurrection (is that an oxymoron???...) Whatever. The film is called 'Akenfield' and was made in 1974 and based on the book by Ronald Blythe. It is the history of a Suffolk village through 3 generations of the farm labouring Rouse family...

 

Here is the original trailer for the film...

 

 

And here are the screen grabs I thought might be of interest...

 

Milk Transit

 

Early Maxi

 

 

Escort Van

 

Renault 12 and Transit bus

 

Just the Transit

 

 

Sheep dippin...

 

'Bright' fashions...

 

Escort van again...

 

Funeral cortege...

 

P6

 

Bedford Mobile library

 

Men at work...

 

I didn't spot this when I watched it, it was only when doing these grabs that I noticed it and thought it worth a screenshot...A woman cleaning a gravestone with OMO...

 

Wide load...new Massey Ferguson combine harvester complete with sideburns...

 

And finally an old Minor complete with wheelbarrow...

 

The film is excellent, although sometimes you need the subtitles when those Suffolk old boys are talking...