Comments on: Under Panchromatic Skies http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/ ----------------------------------musings of a film collector....... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:32:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: John Hodson http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2592 Mon, 12 May 2008 12:07:54 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2592 Thanks for your kind thoughts; the collection is fine, but it's been a bit of a mess otherwise and has put a spanner in the works as far as the blog goes - hopefully I can get my head and my act together soon, once things are sorted. Thanks for your kind thoughts; the collection is fine, but it’s been a bit of a mess otherwise and has put a spanner in the works as far as the blog goes - hopefully I can get my head and my act together soon, once things are sorted.

]]> by: siriami http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2590 Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:07 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2590 John, I do so commiserate with you re your sad loss - hopefully, they left your DVD collection alone? Thanks for the comments re the above post, your blog is always a regular stop on my Internet travels.... Alistair John, I do so commiserate with you re your sad loss - hopefully, they left your DVD collection alone?
Thanks for the comments re the above post, your blog is always a regular stop on my Internet travels….
Alistair

]]> by: John Hodson http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2584 Sun, 11 May 2008 11:24:39 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/siriami/2008/05/11/under-panchromatic-skies/#comment-2584 Before intruders broke into my home and removed the means of watching 'Land of Promise' as part of their haul (though not the DVDs themselves; odd that), I'd watched the first four documentaries and while it can get said that the first two - particularly Rotha's 'Shipyard' - are considerably more lyrical than the next pair, as alluded to in the accompanying book, it's worth watching even workmanlike stuff like 'Housing Problems' having boned up on subsequent events. As the camera pans over a Utopian model of the soon to be built Leeds Quarry Road estate - seemingly the saviour of many living in dreadful slums with it's parks, open spaces, and social centres - it's a sobering thought that those hopes were never realised. Quarry Road was never actually completed, the sports and community centres never built; the estate itself became an open sore and was demolished just four decades after work began. For many working families, it was out of the frying pan... A wonderful, wonderful set and my release of the year; I can't heap enough praise on it. Before intruders broke into my home and removed the means of watching ‘Land of Promise’ as part of their haul (though not the DVDs themselves; odd that), I’d watched the first four documentaries and while it can get said that the first two - particularly Rotha’s ‘Shipyard’ - are considerably more lyrical than the next pair, as alluded to in the accompanying book, it’s worth watching even workmanlike stuff like ‘Housing Problems’ having boned up on subsequent events.

As the camera pans over a Utopian model of the soon to be built Leeds Quarry Road estate - seemingly the saviour of many living in dreadful slums with it’s parks, open spaces, and social centres - it’s a sobering thought that those hopes were never realised. Quarry Road was never actually completed, the sports and community centres never built; the estate itself became an open sore and was demolished just four decades after work began. For many working families, it was out of the frying pan…

A wonderful, wonderful set and my release of the year; I can’t heap enough praise on it.

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