An English Village, Short Movie, 1956

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dsl ◊ 2016-09-13 21:45	Taken from BFI/COI Collection Vol 5: Portrait of a People 2-DVD set. DVD booklet says 1956, imdb says 1957. 20 minute portrait of Harting village in West Sussex. Enjoy the thrills of a parish council meeting, the magic of a Women's Institute demonstration of basket-making and a Young Farmers lecture on how to milk a cow from an expert cow-milker. Plus making bricks, a dominoes-and-cards social evening for the coffin-dodgers club and folk-dancing. I just about managed to stay awake until the end, but it was close .. A one-shop village in those days Camp coffee, Atora suet, Tate & Lyles Golden Syrup (couldn't find a smiley with a spoon), Birds custard .... The butcher sharpening his knife - are you really supposed to do that over an uncovered pile of fresh meat?? -- Last edit: 2016-09-13 23:13:12
Ingo ◊ 2016-09-13 22:01	dsl wrote ... The butcher sharpening his knife - are you really supposed to do that over an uncovered pile of fresh meat?? Well, an UK butcher in pre-EU-times... They were very special up to bizarre, as Continental people told, who had been there back then.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2016-09-14 00:07	I worked for the village butcher for a while on Saturdays. Don't ask what went into the black pudding.
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2016-09-14 00:25	As the saying goes, making laws is like making sausages -- you don't want to know what went into them.
tore-40 ◊ 2016-09-14 01:54	^^What didn't?

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