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Post by Philip Hindley on Feb 8, 2013 13:21:23 GMT
Anyone know if this is available anywhere ? I t was about the Bethnal Green tube disaster in 1943.
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Post by John Green on Feb 8, 2013 14:49:45 GMT
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Post by Jeff Lewis on Feb 8, 2013 16:36:34 GMT
Having watched "Train of Events" starring Jack Warner on DVD, at Christmas, I realised "Its a Lovely Day Tomorrow" is a total rip off of that movie. I now wonder whether that might be the reason it hasn't been released on DVD.
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Post by John Green on Feb 8, 2013 18:10:23 GMT
I think any plagiarism allegation would have been made at the time it was broadcast.I haven't read it,but isn't 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey,1927,the classic version?
I prefer Jessie Matthews' 'Friday the Thirteenth' where the accident happens newspapers show "6 passengers killed on bus" ,then clocks are literally shown going back 24 hours.After we meet the dramitis personae,they get on the bus,we see the crash again,and find out who survived.
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Post by John Green on Feb 8, 2013 22:25:33 GMT
A group called The Stairway to Heaven Trust has been trying to get the disaster recognised in various ways,one of which is the eventual release of this play on DVD.It was originally broadcast in 1975,not 1978. www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk/node/3906 |
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Post by John Wall on Feb 8, 2013 23:30:32 GMT
Billy Wilder's wonderful "Sunset Boulevard" is, surely, from the same mould ?
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Post by Philip Hindley on Feb 10, 2013 14:00:38 GMT
I think there is a little confusion here, I know the Train of Events film, although not seen it for sometime Im not sure its even remotely anything like Lovely day Tomorrow. The latter was about the Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943 in which a number of people thought there was going to be an air raid andon rushing to the underground tube railway in panic someone tripped which resulted in 100 and odd deaths.
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Post by Jeff Lewis on Feb 10, 2013 15:08:39 GMT
I think there is a little confusion here, I know the Train of Events film, although not seen it for sometime Im not sure its even remotely anything like Lovely day Tomorrow. The latter was about the Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943 in which a number of people thought there was going to be an air raid andon rushing to the underground tube railway in panic someone tripped which resulted in 100 and odd deaths. The opening shots and story are almost identical only the locations had been changed. "Train of Events" starts with the rail crash and then we see the story that led up to the crash. "Its a Lovely Day Tomorrow" as the same opening with a close up shot of the victims lying motionless at the bottom of the escalator. Again like "Train of Events we see how the victims come to be there in the hours before the disaster. No confusion it's the same plot? |
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Post by brianfretwell on Feb 11, 2013 16:44:32 GMT
I haven't seen this, but have some mute unused takes on colour 16mm film.
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Post by Nick Cooper on Mar 19, 2014 11:15:55 GMT
I think there is a little confusion here, I know the Train of Events film, although not seen it for sometime Im not sure its even remotely anything like Lovely day Tomorrow. The latter was about the Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943 in which a number of people thought there was going to be an air raid andon rushing to the underground tube railway in panic someone tripped which resulted in 100 and odd deaths. The opening shots and story are almost identical only the locations had been changed. "Train of Events" starts with the rail crash and then we see the story that led up to the crash. "Its a Lovely Day Tomorrow" as the same opening with a close up shot of the victims lying motionless at the bottom of the escalator. Again like "Train of Events we see how the victims come to be there in the hours before the disaster. No confusion it's the same plot? You seem to be overlooking the fact that It's a Lovely Day is based on actual events during the Second World War (it was, incidentally, a fixed staircase, not an escalator). How can that be "the same plot" as Train of Events? The TV film might use the same narrative device of showing the immediate aftermath of the disaster, then telling the events that led up to it in extended flashback, but that's not the same thing, and ToE is hardly unique in using it. |
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Post by Nick Cooper on Mar 19, 2014 11:16:46 GMT
I haven't seen this, but have some mute unused takes on colour 16mm film. Are any of these of scenes in the Underground/shelter, or just general stuff? |
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Post by RWels on Mar 19, 2014 12:53:28 GMT
I haven't seen this, but have some mute unused takes on colour 16mm film. You should do something with those.  |
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Post by John Green on Nov 13, 2022 23:56:22 GMT
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Post by John Green on Nov 14, 2022 12:52:23 GMT
Talking Pictures call it a documentary, but it's a drama or docudrama.
Liz Smith and Gwnyth Strong are in the cast.
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Post by brianfretwell on Nov 18, 2022 8:30:42 GMT
I haven't seen this, but have some mute unused takes on colour 16mm film. You should do something with those. I lent it to Kal and they now have a copy of this. |
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