Guys and gals! Needing help , trying to find details about a film from the 1980s , I think, it was set in Keith , an ice factory I remember ! All very 80s arty meaningful stuff. I liked it a lot, but can’t seem to be able to find it !!scott of the Antarctic was what I thought it was but I can’t find it anywhere! All I get is the 1948 adventure thang ! Any help appreciate !!
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(36 posts)- Started 6 years ago by splitshift
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was that the one where near the end they are lost in an arctic blizzard, but its actually a clothes line with white bedsheets blowing about in the wind and they are all off their heads
set in leith, not keith. 80s, was on channel 4 late one evening
maybe not the same film right enough
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Could it be "The Conquest of the South Pole"
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by jove good sir, that's the one
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Goodness, I really need a proof reader !! Leith indeed and exactly the correct film !!
I may be sometime!!Posted 6 years ago # -
I've not come across that before but it sounds like fun.
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It does sound interesting. Any idea how to obtain a copy of this film (or just seeing it)? After a quick search looks like little chance of finding it anywhere.
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It's amazing what having at your disposal The Information Superhighway can really achieve. For the last 25 years I've been trying to remember the name of a film I saw when I was young. It had a plane struck by lightning, a smiley young woman the only survivor, and a jungle scene with maggots.
Then along comes http://www.whatismymovie.com/ and with a bit of judicious keywordery and a little YouTubery my mystery was solved in about ten minutes.
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@bill
i can tell you that it was broadcast on Channel 4 on 26th April 1990.
The British Film Institute hold the broadcast master on 1 inch C tape, so you could possibly view it there.
However you can see it at Kelvin Hall, as the Scottish Moving Image Archive have a VHS NTSC viewing copy on the shelf.
http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/7910
You won't be able to borrow it though, and it hasn't been digitised as yet.
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The National Library Moving Image Archive might have it:
http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/7910
Never used this before, so no idea how it works.
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A long time ago I used to work for the guy that produced it. Gareth Wardell, ex-husband of painter Barbara Rae. His company Jam Jar Films was based in Balerno in their large outbuildings.
He also produced TV thriller Brond (director Michael Caton-Jones).
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Never used this before, so no idea how it works
you have to get a train to Partick, and a spare few hours to watch it in a booth
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@ejstubbs @bax @Morningsider thanks for the tips. Will have a look.
@crowriver That's interesting. I like how Balerno keeps bringing surprises. (Did you know that there is a laser company in Balerno?)
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@bill, all sorts of things - red moss has a lot of history. Bleaching field, medicinal sphagnum moss etc. A hill made of paper, film makers a plenty. Monthly cinema, very active theatre company, Knights Templar, weeds the Tory councillor described as a living hell. Fietsclub Balerno, houses being built on every space, one good pub, one derelict pub, tennis club, bowling green. It is mental.
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Abandoned curling pond in the woods at the entrance to Glenbrook. Easy walk to the quarry pit on top of Hare Hill for teenage campfire sessions. @sheeptoucher tells me there was a man bivvying in the bird hide at Threipmuir the other year. TWO cafes but I'm not allowed to go to the one that isn't The Mill. Tri types swimming in Harlaw (but they wear wetsuits in contravention of natural laws).
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@gembo the pond on the nature trail loop at Red Moss has newts! (I have taken my niece pond dipping a few times. She isn't that enthusiastic, but I love it.)
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Oh, seems Gareth and Barbara are still married. I was sure they were in the middle of breaking up when I was working there, but maybe it's just one of those relationships...
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'unhurt, we go to the pond on xmas morn, famlee trad.
@crowriver, maybe the move to Perth was a fresh start?
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@gembo, could be. Though I think they keep a place in Edinburgh as well as homes in LA, Spain... Nice work if you can get it.
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E@crowriver, do the paintings make money then? The jam jar films was wound up?
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"do the paintings make money then?"
I presume they must sell for a few bob, she has a gallery in that there London as well as
Scottish gallery here ion Dundas StreetOpen Eye gallery here on Abercromby Place. All I can find for Mr Wardell in recent times is a couple of screenwriting credits on minor Hollywood flicks in the early zeroes and essays for his wife's exhibition catalogues/monographs.Think Ms Rae used to have a teaching gig at GSA too. Presume they are both pensioners these days: bought when property was relatively cheap maybe?
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is it true what they say, that Balerno is the new Prague ?
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@bax, maybe. I know for sure Leith Walk is the new Hackney.
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@bax, does Prague have weeds that the torybcouncillor describes as a living hell too?
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@crowriver
ah but you'd have to pick a road in Hackney
maybe Leith Walk is the new Dalston Kingsland High Street
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@gembo
i don't know if Prague has weeds
but it does have pickled cabbage
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@bax, well the whole area round Leith Walk basically. But yeah Dalston is a fair comparison.
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@gembo, lot of military types in Tories: did the Cllr serve in 'Nam or Afghan? Maybe having flashbacks/PTSD?
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@bax, now you is talking. Friends have given me beetroot that is red on outside but yellow inside. Also have apples from markies that are pink outside and pink inside. Unless colours in Balerno have gone all weird
@crow if the Tory councillor was in nam I will pickle my fedora. He did lose a stone in weight by walking all round toryville canvassing. Also wasted fifteen mins at my door in full knowledge of my allegiances. He said, now I know you want give me your first vote, but will you give me your second vote? Nope. Third? Nope. Fourth? Nope.
With the weeds I just went out and pulled them up it was quite easy.
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