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Old 04-10-18, 08:27 AM
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Default 1943 Colonel Blimp Film - Formation Sign

I hope I have posted this in the correct section. If not, please feel free to move it.

This is a screenshot that I have taken from the 1943 Colonel Blimp film.

I am posting it here in case anybody has the flash being worn here in their "unknown" box. I am assuming that the sign was made up just for this film?
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Yes, it's fictional. AOS strip in wrong place, too.
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Clasic film - along with A Matter of Life and Death- also a Powell and Pressburger film. Regards, Paul.
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Clasic film - along with A Matter of Life and Death- also a Powell and Pressburger film. Regards, Paul.
A matter of life and death top film !!! all that original RAF kit they are wearing during the celestial high court scene.
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I hope I have posted this in the correct section. If not, please feel free to move it.

This is a screenshot that I have taken from the 1943 Colonel Blimp film.

I am posting it here in case anybody has the flash being worn here in their "unknown" box. I am assuming that the sign was made up just for this film?
You sire , have way too much time on your hands ...! very good spot not seen that before thank you.
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Clasic film - along with A Matter of Life and Death- also a Powell and Pressburger film. Regards, Paul.
Yes, I saw that, excellent film. I then moved on to Colonel Blimp.

Here is another wartime film starring David Niven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleMaS8yNY8
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You sire , have way too much time on your hands ...! very good spot not seen that before thank you.
Can you have too much spare time on your hands?

I am now re-watching the films I saw when I was young.

Also, catching up on what I had missed before.

Here for example, the Arnhem film from before "A Bridge too Far".

This one used the veterans as extras, and was filmed just after the war in the still ruined Arnhem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFeYxlPYy4
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Can you have too much spare time on your hands?

I am now re-watching the films I saw when I was young.

Also, catching up on what I had missed before.

Here for example, the Arnhem film from before "A Bridge too Far".

This one used the veterans as extras, and was filmed just after the war in the still ruined Arnhem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFeYxlPYy4
Even to day im still astounded by this film , made using actual veterans of the battle at the place it happened using original kit ???? never since as this happened , spoke to a couple of survivors years back and they told me they spent their free time between shoots trying to locate the hastily dug graves of their fallen comrades they had quickly buried during the battle with the vain hope of locating the site and having them re buried properly ......
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One of the officers in that film, Major Gough, later became my MP. However, he had left politics before I was old enough to realise who he was.

He died in 1977 but didn't think too much of "A Bridge Too Far", which he he thought played: "ducks and drakes with historical facts in order to dish up an extravaganza fit for the American massed cinema market".
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"ducks and drakes with historical facts in order to dish up an extravaganza fit for the American massed cinema market".
Seems like a fair assessment to me. Can't hold a candle to Theirs is the Glory.

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The Way to the Stars is a good film with Bill (Compo) Owen as John Mills's Air Gunner and Jean Simmons as 'A Singer'. Rest of the cast top notch also. Regards, Paul.
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The formation sign that Roger Livesey is wearing in the photograph is, of course, a made up one but does have some significance. It is in the form of an archery target and Powell-Pressburger film production company was named the Archers. All of their films had arrows shooting into a target as their opening sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger
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Good deduction- picture though looks to be Johnny and her boyfriend Lt. 'Spud' Wilson. Regards, Paul.
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Good deduction- picture though looks to be Johnny and her boyfriend Lt. 'Spud' Wilson. Regards, Paul.
It is "Johnny" being played by Deborah Kerr.

Deborah Kerr had three roles in the film.

Edith Hunter, Blimps first love, Barbara Wynne, Blimps late wife and Blimps driver "Johnny" Cannon.
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