Advantages: Original unseen footage Disadvantages: Poor quality production
...British team in the 1950s and 1960s is exactly what it says. British Steam in the 1950s and 1960s.
It has to be said that the music chosen is not particularly good library music and that the titles seem to be rather low quality and amateurish. The quality of the sound of the narrator is very poor, being both muddy and rather faint.
However, the programme rather redeems itself by showing uncut amateur footage form all four regions of British Rail during the 1950s and 1960s. Am I biased because the programme starts at Snow Hill Station in Birmingham, the station where my Dad used to take me every Sunday to see the trains? Yes! Of course I am!
The programme then features Clapham Junction (interesting to see a tank engine juxtaposed with a diesel electric locomotive. Whatever happened to the diesel electrics?
Other locomotives seen...
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Advantages: Good Cast, Amazing Scenery Disadvantages: Slow storyline
...December Boys is a light-hearted coming-of-age drama with a touch of humour set in 1950s australia. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465436/)
Four orphan boys - Maps (Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter) so called because he has a birth mark that looks like a map on his chest; Sparks who once nearly blew up a toaster; Spit whose dad flew a spitfire during the war and also so called because he can spit well; and Misty who religiosly believes he is the chosen one.
When their convent in the australian outback receives a sum of money the arch diasis decide to treat the orphans to a holiday on the coast with devout couple Bandy and the Skipper. But the friendship between the December boys (so called because they all share the birth month of december) is put under test when Misty overhears that a childless couple that live next door plan to adopt...
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