Due for release on 15th April my new short documentary Danger at the CFF.
CFF Bumper Box Volume 5 (3 x DVD)
Directors: Muriel Box, Gerald Thomas, Peter Rogers, Don Chaffey
Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 5 offers up another gorgeous opportunity for a warm wallow in nostalgia, showcasing nine more of the best feature-length Saturday Morning Pictures ever made, from the UK’s best-loved, longest running purveyor of quality cinematic entertainment for kids.
You’ll find escapist fun and vintage thrills galore for all the family in this latest selection of terrific time-capsules and corking old-school classics, unleashed at last from the vaults of the BFI National Archive – from the far-away 1940s, right up to the electric 1980s, alongside a sumptuous array of exciting retro extras and a brand new documentary.
As usual, there are well-known names galore, with featured filmmaking talents including Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers of ‘Carry On’ renown, trailblazing female director Muriel Box and adventure-specialist Don Chaffey all featured behind the cameras; and, in starring roles across this extensive set on the other side of the lens, famous faces like Carol White, Peter Butterworth, Robin Askwith and Keith Chegwin.
The Films:
- The Secret Tunnel (1947)
- Circus Friends (1956)
- The Piper’s Tune (1962)
- The Rescue Squad (1963)
- Daylight Robbery (1964)
- All at Sea (1969)
- The Hostages (1975)
- Robin Hood Junior (1975)
- The Boy Who Never Was (1980)
Extras:
Five short films from the Children’s Film Foundation collection – Bouncer Breaks Up (1953, 9 mins), A Good Pull-Up (1953, 17 mins), The Chiffy Kids (1976, 17 mins), The Magnificent 6 and ½ (1976, 16 mins), Our Magazine No 11 (1955, 10 mins)
Danger at the CFF (2023, 16 mins) : a new documentary by filmmaker and CFF aficionado Jason Gurr as he revisits some of the stunts that featured in the films and how child actors wouldn’t be expected to do such things now!
Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing by CFF expert Vic Pratt and a CFF quiz by the BFI’s Trevona Thomson
Release on 27th Febuary 2023 is a new short documentary about the Children’s Film Foundation London Locations. It is part of the forth CFF Bumper Boxset. Details below.
Had enough of the hideous here and now? Take a moment of me-time, turn off your phone and whizz back to analogue days with this effervescent assortment of retro-cinema corkers from the Children’s Film Foundation – Britain’s best-loved makers of quality children’s cinema for kids young and old, from the boxy blazered 1950s to the synthetic-fibred 1980s.
This very British cinematic rabbit hole leads to a land of eccentric fun, silly scrapes and escapist thrills where you’ll encounter nine marvellous feature-length mini-masterpieces for kids, not to mention a sumptuous sideshow of unusually invigorating extras. So grab your outsize bag of sherbet lemons, crack open a Vimto and settle down for a terrific box-set binge to beat those modern-world blues!
The Films:
- The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
- The Stolen Airliner (1955)
- Blow Your Own Trumpet (1958)
- The Missing Note (1961)
- The Big Catch (1968)
- Blinker’s Spy-Spotter (1972)
- The Flying Sorcerer (1973)
- Mr Selkie (1978)
- Gabrielle and the Doodleman (1984)
- Five short films from the Children’s Film Foundation collection – Horsey hi-jinks and sneaky saddle-snappery in Stable Rivals (1952, 16 mins), saggy socked seaside shenanigans in Swift Water (1952, 16 mins), the Chiffy Kids meet Kenny ‘Dr Terror’s House of Horrors’ Lynch and Harry H ‘Steptoe and Son’ Corbett in Pot Luck and Chimp Mates – The Big Kick (1976, 36 mins total) and reminders of pre-internet pastimes in Our Magazine No 4 (1952, 11 mins)
- A brand spanking new documentary by filmmaker and CFF aficionado Jason Gurr as he revisits some of the greatest ever locations used in the many productions
- Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing by CFF expert Vic Pratt, recollections from Samantha Weysom (The Appointment) on her role in Mr Selkie and a CFF quiz by the BFI’s Trevona Thomson
Box Set 3
