Burns Factory Romford

[Hank2k]

Found this website advertised in the Romford recorder

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1882

Notice the last part with a couple of white marvins and the shadows bass.

[Hank2k]

also the shadows playing dance on and receiving an award for best british instrumental act

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43221

[JimN]

Ah... so the famous footage of the Burns factory was made by Pathé for the ABC cinema chain and not by Top Rank for one of their Gaumont-cinema "Look At Life" films? I had assumed that the colour photography meant it was the Top Rank product. At the same time (1964/65), Pathé's newsreel footage was still shot in black and white.

I missed the first transmission of the BBC4 series - but it's due on again in a few day's time (the first episode, I mean).

JN

[51 Relic]

Having grown up in Romford and pressed my nose on Pioneer Musics window in North Street most evenings after school at St Edwards i loved that video

[s4wgb]

Just looked in the Radio Times and it says its back on Wednesday at 11pm.

[s4wgb]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013g7dm

[s4wgb]

Which episode was the Burns guitars on please? Thanks

[JimN]

Which episode was the Burns guitars on please? Thanks

The first episode was a general history of the company - the Burns factory wasn't included.

The second one mainly dealt with the development of sound and the introduction of the voice-over (oddly, it didn't say anything about the famous library music used). It contained a remembrance of the very well-known Pathé announcer, Bob Danvers-Walker (who moved on to work for Associated Rediffusion Television after 1955) and also dealt with the war years and the way in which the business model for newsreels declined after the reintroduction of television and its slow spread around the UK from the late 1940s onward. Still no Burns factory footage...

Maybe episode three?

Here's what http://www.radiotimes.com has to say about that one:

QUOTE:
The Story of British Pathe
Thursday 01 September; 9:00pm - 10:00pm; BBC4

Entertaining Britain (3/4)

Here's another side of Pathé, not news but the cinematic magazine, full of soft features, household hints and the utterly bizarre. It's thought-provoking social history, starting with the images of so-called "surplus women" after the slaughter of the First World War. Not that this is an earnest study, it's full of entertainment, from the flappers on a boating party in skimpy frocks to outright voyeuristic sauciness. And there are touching moments too, with a Second World War tear-jerker. Much later, when black-and-white TV was the competitor, the fi lms burst with colour and kitsch style. It certainly looks like we never had it so good.
ENDQUOTE

So maybe...

And here's the following episode:

QUOTE:
The Story of British Pathe
Thursday 08 September; 9:00pm - 10:00pm; BBC4

Around the World (4/4)

The company's travelogues and anthropological films, which helped shape British views of life overseas in the years before package holidays made foreign tourism accessible to the majority of the population. The programme also examines what Pathe newsreels reveal about the experiences of British holiday-makers in the 1950s, and looks back at the company's coverage of royal visits to Commonwealth countries. Narrated by Verity Sharp. Last in the series.
ENDQUOTE

So my money's on this Wednesday (1st September).

JN

[s4wgb]

Thanks JIm.It is also repeated at 11pm (approx).

[dave robinson]

Which episode was the Burns guitars on please? Thanks

The first episode was a general history of the company - the Burns factory wasn't included.

The second one mainly dealt with the development of sound and the introduction of the voice-over (oddly, it didn't say anything about the famous library music used). It contained a remembrance of the very well-known Pathé announcer, Bob Danvers-Walker (who moved on to work for Associated Rediffusion Television after 1955) and also dealt with the war years and the way in which the business model for newsreels declined after the reintroduction of television and its slow spread around the UK from the late 1940s onward. Still no Burns factory footage...

Maybe episode three?

Here's what http://www.radiotimes.com has to say about that one:

QUOTE:
The Story of British Pathe
Thursday 01 September; 9:00pm - 10:00pm; BBC4

Entertaining Britain (3/4)

Here's another side of Pathé, not news but the cinematic magazine, full of soft features, household hints and the utterly bizarre. It's thought-provoking social history, starting with the images of so-called "surplus women" after the slaughter of the First World War. Not that this is an earnest study, it's full of entertainment, from the flappers on a boating party in skimpy frocks to outright voyeuristic sauciness. And there are touching moments too, with a Second World War tear-jerker. Much later, when black-and-white TV was the competitor, the fi lms burst with colour and kitsch style. It certainly looks like we never had it so good.
ENDQUOTE

So maybe...

And here's the following episode:

QUOTE:
The Story of British Pathe
Thursday 08 September; 9:00pm - 10:00pm; BBC4

Around the World (4/4)

The company's travelogues and anthropological films, which helped shape British views of life overseas in the years before package holidays made foreign tourism accessible to the majority of the population. The programme also examines what Pathe newsreels reveal about the experiences of British holiday-makers in the 1950s, and looks back at the company's coverage of royal visits to Commonwealth countries. Narrated by Verity Sharp. Last in the series.
ENDQUOTE

So my money's on this Wednesday (1st September).

JN

Isn't this Wednesday 31 August ? . . . . . . . . . . .