Classic TV - Windmill Interlude Film

[TheSeventieschick]

love this one but there used to be one that featured a trip round some sort of early technology centre, can't remember if it was on BBC or ITV just that my Grandma would have it on before the main channel started. I remember there were some telephones featured and a frog that said Hicker van Dicker.... I think the programme was called something like epolevon???

[synchrofish1962]

I remember watching this round my Nan's in the Sixties on a Pye TV. Recently fpund this recording on The Golden Age of Light Music - Scenic Grandeur.

[synchrofish1962]

I remember watching this round my Nans in the Sixties on a Pye TV. Recently fpund this recording on The Golden Age of Light Music - Scenic Grandeur.

[jfm8751]

AH YES, IM A YANK THAT LIVED NEAR HERE IN THE 70'S.

[sally12394]

i recall shorts or interludes in the 70's, maybe late 60's, one showing the life in a day at a French Petrol station, vaguely another showing a tropical country where a girl steps on a barbed fish. Do you happen to know anything about these and where they might still be viewed?

[victorialucas38]

@sally12394

It sounds like you're referring to the BBC trade test colour films shown on BBC2 in the 60s & early 70s; the petrol station one was Italian, called 'Giuseppina', and is (or was) available on You Tube, as is the best of the bunch, 'The Home Made Car'. Have a look and see if they're still on. Worth checking out!

[405liner]

All these interludes were atmospheric, with lovely music.

[Poldweia]

My Great Grandfather, Amos Clarke, a Millwright, was instrumental in restoring this mill in 1950. So this is a thrill for me to see it working.

[vidpop]

Brilliant.

[vidpop]

Brill.

[drawlertheband]

they dont make tv like they used to.

[Markgcr]

Look at that hay. It was all cut by hand

[gramule]

@Markgcr yes, so evocative. well spotted

[jamierourketen]

looks like it's going to piss it down...

[teledynepost]

is the music published somewhere?

[rover1404]

sorry to say I don't know ... but very English and rather nice!

[Barndog44]

I believe the music is: Pastoral Montage by Gideon Fagan.

[noahf67]

Oh, NOW I get that Monty Python bit...!

Naturally they were spoofing BBC format...

[bumbleboybee]

england england this is how I remember my beloved england

[jamierourketen]

i thought it was holland....DOH!

[92video29]

Holland has a different kind of winmills They don't have a windmill blade thing at the back.. they turn it by a wheel what is located aswell on the backside...

I live in holland;)

[sgtelzilcho]

I've been there, I'm a windmill fanatic, on holliday I usually travel all around britian going to windmills this is one of the ones I went to, It's so nice the fact that there are so many windmills that have been restored to a workable order.

[davewollacott]

There's something so graceful about a windmill

[benlu123]

I was very young at the time but I can remember this...at the time the BBC simply had nothing else to transmit occasionally! Nowadays everything is rammed down your throat at breakneck speed.

[seftonwallet]

These 1950s BBC TV Interlude films were broadcast while they were getting the studio ready for the next programme at at Alexandre Palace.

[erol4130]

its called pakenham not packenham

[rover1404]

thanks for your info - I'll correct that

[Poldark3]

Hello,i used to live in Woolpit & i miss the old place.Could anybody give me a holiday job in that area again?This video puts a lump in my throat,all that nostalgia.

[albertparsley]

what a wonderfull sight.